Chapter 224: Is Your Junior Brother a Mute?
Li Junzi picked up the teapot, took two teacups from the side, poured tea, and placed them on the table.
"Sit down first." Li Junzi pointed to the only two chairs by the table.
Lin Luoyu looked at the only two chairs left. There were currently three people in the room. If she and her junior brother sat down...
Wouldn't that mean Li Junzi would be the only one standing?
There was no reason for a disciple to sit leisurely and speak while the teacher stood.
Lin Luoyu was just about to open her mouth to refuse, intending to let herself and Cui Hao stand for a while.
She was just planning to give Cui Hao a look or signal him, but the moment she turned her head, she discovered that Cui Hao had very obediently taken a seat on one of the chairs.
No hesitation, and no waiting afterwards.
It gave the visual impression of "I listen to whatever either of you two say."
Cui Hao was not polite either; he lifted the teacup. The scent of some inferior tea wafted over; after smelling it, a look of slight regret appeared on his face, and he even shook his head gently.
This tea was not only inferior, but the brewing method was very casual—just throwing the tea leaves into the teapot, with no technique to speak of.
But lifting the tea and not drinking it was considered a bit rude.
Cui Hao still reluctantly took a sip. After putting down the teacup, he looked towards his senior sister.
This was already obedient enough and giving enough face, right?
It was just a pity that Lin Luoyu's gaze was not so gentle; it looked like she wanted to give him two sword strikes.
Cui Hao cast a look of grievance and confusion.
Lin Luoyu narrowed her eyes slightly.
Cui Hao stood up somewhat hesitantly and slowly. As Lin Luoyu's gaze began to be less dangerous, he understood.
He did not need to listen to Li Junzi's words; he just needed to listen to Fourth Senior Sister's words.
Cui Hao's movement to stand up quickened, and then he walked straight behind Lin Luoyu and stood there honestly.
Since he had promised his senior sister when entering, Cui Hao naturally would not break his promise.
After all, she was his own senior sister; suffering a little grievance didn't matter.
"You've already sat down, why stand up again?" Li Junzi reached out to continue signaling Cui Hao to sit. "Naturally, mortal tea cannot compare to immortal tea; please don't take offense."
Cui Hao stood honestly behind Lin Luoyu, lowering his head without saying a word.
He turned a deaf ear to Li Junzi's words.
At this moment, the scene was slightly quiet.
Lin Luoyu could only look at Cui Hao and say: "Sir is speaking to you."
Upon hearing this, Cui Hao quickly raised his head and revealed a brilliant smile towards Li Junzi.
Li Junzi looked at Cui Hao a couple more times, then looked towards Lin Luoyu with some suspicion:
"You haven't bullied your junior brother, have you?"
This junior brother's obedient appearance was even more obedient than the dogs in the village.
In the letter Lin Luoyu sent her, she wrote that everyone in the sect was very good, not only not bullying her but also caring for her very much.
Looking at these clothes now, and looking at this junior brother, it indeed didn't look like she was bullied.
It looked more like she was the one bullying others.
Is this immortal sect this exaggerated? I educated her painstakingly for so many years, yet it wasn't as effective as the days she spent with the immortal cultivators?
Lin Luoyu hurriedly opened her mouth to explain: "How is that possible? My junior brother just has a personality that is a bit jumpy."
Li Junzi's inquiring gaze looked towards Cui Hao. Only to see that facing this inquiring gaze, Cui Hao directly and forcefully nodded his head a few times.
Indicating that his own senior sister was absolutely right.
...This?
However, she was her own student, and they had interacted for so many years; Li Junzi still had confidence. It was also possible that this person was just like this.
Li Junzi's gaze looked towards Lin Luoyu: "Since you are back, you shouldn't be in such a hurry to leave, right?"
"Not in a hurry." Lin Luoyu answered hurriedly.
Li Junzi nodded lightly: "Then I will go cook first; we can chat after eating."
Lin Luoyu originally wanted to answer that she had already established her foundation and didn't need to eat anymore, but the words were swallowed back down just as they reached her lips.
She also hadn't eaten the food cooked by Sir for a very long time.
"Okay..." Lin Luoyu nodded lightly.
"What do you want to eat?"
"Whatever Sir makes, I love to eat."
The smile Lin Luoyu was familiar with appeared on Li Junzi's face again. She looked at Cui Hao and asked:
"Then is there anything you want to eat? As long as the ingredients aren't too picky, we should have them."
Cui Hao more or less understood the most basic relationship between the two.
Facing Li Junzi's question, he shook his head slightly, indicating that he didn't need anything.
Li Junzi looked at him a few times with some hesitation. Could this be a mute person?
From entering until now, he hadn't said a single word, reacting entirely by nodding and shaking his head.
However, this couldn't be asked directly; perhaps there was some sad matter. Li Junzi nodded lightly, then stood up and walked towards the door.
"You sit here honestly for a while." Lin Luoyu gave an order, then stood up and followed Li Junzi.
Coming back this time, she definitely had to spend more time with Sir. If she really continued sitting there, perhaps Sir would truly think they had become estranged.
Cui Hao nodded again. His gaze began to look around, and then locked onto the bookshelf.
He had read quite a few of the books inside. Although he hadn't read them thoroughly, he still had a basic impression.
These books were somewhat inclined towards Confucianism.
Could this Fourth Senior Sister's teacher be a Confucian scholar?
No wonder when he first saw Fourth Senior Sister, she looked a bit like a dull wooden board.
Outside.
Facing the following Lin Luoyu, Li Junzi didn't say anything.
The kitchen was in the lower right corner of the house, close to the vegetable garden.
Li Junzi walked into the vegetable garden and skillfully picked some vegetables. Lin Luoyu, on the other hand, fetched a basin of water to wash the vegetables.
Just like in the past, it seemed as if they had never been separated.
Lin Luoyu took the vegetables from Li Junzi and started washing them. At the same time, she asked softly:
"Was that letter something Sir asked them to write? If Sir wanted me to come back, why didn't you write one to me personally?"
Li Junzi picked up a fire striker and started lighting the fire: "I didn't ask them to write letters. It's just that when the news of you joining the immortal sect spread back here, people often came carrying things to visit."
"Later I got angry, and only then did they restrain themselves a bit."
"It's just that recently there seem to be monsters causing trouble. The Black Tortoise Country has also been somewhat chaotic recently. The Demon Suppression Division has no time to manage these little monsters that aren't very dangerous."
"A few days ago, someone asked me if I missed you. I said naturally I missed you."
"Presumably, they wanted you to come back and look, but were afraid of angering you, so they came to my place to get a sentence out of me."
"What did the letter say? Did it say I wanted you to come back?"
Lin Luoyu shook her head slightly: "They didn't dare write that. They wrote honestly, saying that recently there has been a monster in Lin Family Gully, but they didn't mention Sir."
"After receiving the letter, I went to ask the Demon Suppression Division. They said there was news of resentment, but the Demon Suppression Division couldn't spare manpower for the time being as there were more urgent matters to attend to. They just said that as long as the people of Lin Family Gully collectively left the village, they would be safe."
"I sent so many letters to Sir without any reply. Hearing this news, I thought Sir..."
Li Junzi looked at Lin Luoyu with a smile and said: "Thought Sir had left and didn't want you anymore?"
Lin Luoyu nodded seriously.
Li Junzi seemed quite gratified: "Joining the immortal sect, you are actually more cheerful than before. In the past, you would have blushed saying these words, but now your face doesn't change color."
Lin Luoyu did not refute; after all, her cheekiness had indeed received quite a bit of tempering in the sect.
In the eyes of others in the sect, her current cheekiness should probably still be considered a joke.
Lin Luoyu asked somewhat confusedly: "Since Sir is here, why not deal with that resentment?"
Li Junzi did not answer upon hearing this question. She looked at the stove fire and asked back:
"Is your junior brother a mute? He hasn't said a single word since entering the door."
"He is not..."
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