Tian Yuan Xian Ji

Chapter 7 Dreamland
Xi Ti took him to a courtyard and pointed to two water buckets in the corner: "These two are yours. There is a river in the south. You can go there to fetch water. Here you can choose an empty tank and fill it up."

Tangning nodded in yes, picked up two buckets, walked out the door and ran towards the south.

Not too far away, I saw a man walking briskly with two buckets of water. Upon closer inspection, it was Gu Chengqian.

"Are you still doing this homework?" Tangning asked, thinking that they had already done this homework. After all, it took him so long to run the mountain, and now seeing them still doing this homework, he was very happy.

"Do you think it's easy to fill that big vat?" Gu Chengqian stopped and said
"How much have you filled now? How many trips will it take to fill it up?"

"I've filled half of it, and your two buckets are almost full and you're almost lying down."

"Is the river near here?"

"You keep walking along this road. You will know when you arrive. If I don't tell you, I have to hurry up."

Tangning walked forward with an empty bucket, and saw many people approaching her along the way.

After a short walk, I finally reached the river, and I filled the two buckets with water and walked back. I couldn't eat halfway.

Since he was a child, he went up to the mountains to chop firewood and carried it home to fetch water. He did many things like this.

But I have never walked such a long way with two buckets of water so heavy. It is at least two miles from the river to the yard.

Moreover, carrying a bucket is more difficult than carrying it on one's shoulders.

After resting for a while, he carried the bucket and continued to walk forward. As time went by, the others finished their homework one after another, and gradually he was the only one left.

At about noon, Xi Ti came over: "Let's eat! It's time, rest for an hour, and continue in the afternoon."

"Oh!" Tangning put down the bucket. It felt like her arms were filled with molten iron, and she couldn't lift them up.

When he walked to the dining hall, there was no one there. He ate some casually, and when he returned to the room, he found that Liu Ruhan was not in the room.

When I was about to go out to look for it, I remembered that Qin Luo seemed to have said yesterday that he would arrange for her to do things today.

Then it should be taken away by Qin Luo, or wait for her to come back.
Tangning fell headfirst on the bed. She was extremely tired and fell asleep immediately.

In a daze, I felt a soft body squeeze in, and a familiar fragrance came from the tip of my nose.

He had a dream, dreaming that he was riding a tall horse, galloping non-stop in the blood-red world. When he looked down, the horse was actually a skeleton horse, and the horse's feet were full of dead bones.

Tangning suddenly opened her eyes and realized that it was just a dream, and now Liu Ruhan was lying in his arms.

Seeing him wake up, Liu Ruhan squeezed his body again, her face pressed against his.

"Ruru, where have you been in the morning?"

Liu Ruhan raised her head and gestured for a while.

"You mean, go out to buy vegetables with someone in the morning, and wash the vegetables after you come back?"

Liu Ruhan nodded.

"Ruru, are those people treating you well? Did they scold you?" Tangning was very worried, she couldn't speak, for fear that others would look down on her and bully her.

Liu Ruhan gestured for a while, to the effect that she didn't know how to buy things, so she just followed people to get things and wash vegetables.

"Ruru, I'll follow them carefully. When we go out, you stay at home and don't go out to work."

The voice fell, and there was a knock on the door outside.

Tangning got out of bed and opened the door, Gu Chengqian walked in from the outside, "I woke up, and I came to play with you when I was bored. What are you doing! Why do you lock the door during the day?"

"I'm sleeping."

"Then did I wake you up?"

"No, I woke up early. By the way, I saw that you walked very fast when carrying the bucket today. You were the first among us to complete our homework. It's amazing!"

"Haha." Gu Chengqian looked quite proud: "Of course, I practiced martial arts with my father since I was a child."

"Did you all practice martial arts since childhood? I think you are all very good."

"Of course not. Most of them are the same as you. When I first came, many people were not as good as you! In fact, I was quite tired on the first day, but I'll get used to it after a while."

"Really? Was it like that when they first came?"

"Or else? Eh, what is your sister doing here?"

"She helps to buy and wash vegetables."

"What's her name?"

"Liu Ruhan."

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The two chatted gossip, and in the afternoon, everyone gathered at the foot of the mountain again, and after Xi Tiao gave an order, they each went to do their own homework.

Tangning continued to pick up the bucket. He was the only one who had yet to complete this task.

About an hour later, when he poured two buckets of water into the water tank one by one, the water tank was finally full and overflowed a lot.

He lay on the ground, gasping for breath.

After a long rest, I walked towards the next homework location.

These new disciples have five homework every day, which are running hills, carrying buckets, squatting, high kicking and punching.

In a busy day, Tangning only completed three.

After returning to the room after dinner in the evening, Gu Chengqian came here again.

At that time, Liu Ruhan was kneeling on the edge of the bed and kneading his shoulders and arms.

Seeing this, Gu Chengqian's eyes were full of envy, and he took a stool and sat beside him: "How are you, bring your sister here, there will be someone to serve you when you are tired, I would have known that I asked my father to buy a maid."

Tangning lay on the bed and didn't turn her head back. He was really too lazy to move. Behind him, Liu Ruhan's little hand landed on his back, feeling very comfortable, "When did you finish your homework today? I think you finished it very early. Yes, have been playing there."

"It's not very early. It's half an hour before eating! It's mainly because the homework in the morning is a bit tiring, and the homework in the afternoon is fine. I only finished it in an hour and a half."

"You said last time that there is an assessment every year. Do you know when the assessment is?"

"I'm not sure about this. It should be after we have practiced for a full year."

Tangning sat up, "Didn't you practice martial arts? Could you give me a call here?"

"I'm practicing outside Kung Fu, but I've never practiced the internal method."

"Nei Gong Xin Fa? What is it?" Tangning asked curiously when she heard about this for the first time.

"The inner strength method is to practice inner strength. The stronger the inner strength, the more powerful the moves will be. If a person's inner strength is not deep, no matter how powerful the moves are, the power will not be too strong."

"Then can you show me the foreign kung fu you practiced first?"

"Yes, yes, but it's too small here, so let's play a set of our Gu family's boxing techniques!" Gu Chengqian stood up, set up his posture, and punched out one punch at a time, every punch was full of momentum and momentum.

"Can you teach me how to fight?"

"Yes." Gu Chengqian replied readily.

"Then teach me now! Let's go, let's find an open place."

"Now?" Gu Chengqian looked embarrassed: "It's still tomorrow! I'll have to wash my clothes later. I haven't washed my clothes for many days."

"Well, you can teach me again tomorrow."

The two chatted for a while, Gu Chengqian left, Tangning lay down on the bed after fetching water and washing, Liu Ruhan pulled the door closed, turned off the lights and got into his arms.

In the hazy, he felt a whirl of the sky and the earth, and his body kept sinking and sinking.

After a long time, he opened his eyes and saw a gray world in front of him.

It was as if a thick fog surrounded the sky and the earth, making it impossible to see anything clearly, and there was no sound at all.

"It's a dream!" Tangning thought to herself.

I pinched my thigh with my hands, it hurts a bit.

No way!How can you feel pain in a dream?

Tangning was a little stunned, she raised her hand with a loud "snack", and there was a burst of pain on her face.

It's not a dream, it's real.

Tangning opened her eyes wide and her pupils shrank suddenly. She looked at everything here in disbelief, even though she couldn't see anything.

He was frightened, raised his hand and slapped it hard, still the sound, the pain.

Impossible, impossible, how could he be here even though he was lying on the bed.

He didn't believe it, couldn't believe it.

Crack, crack, crack.There was a loud sound, and his face was burning with pain.

Why don't you wake up, why don't you wake up.

Tangning kept slapping herself with her hands.

He sat down on the ground with a bang, his face was already swollen.

"Ruru, Ruru." Suddenly he stood up and shouted loudly towards the surroundings.

Shouted for a long time, but he was the only voice in the world.

He looked around, and suddenly started running forward.

The gray world was like a thick fog that always entangled him.

After running for an unknown amount of time, he was exhausted and fell down. Looking up at the sky, he couldn't see anything because of the grayness, as if everything was an illusion just now. He hadn't moved at all, and was always here.

He was desperate, his body was so tired that he didn't even have the strength to move his hands, so he closed his eyes.

Get some sleep!Sleep, maybe when you wake up, you will return to the world of birds and flowers.

Most importantly, get back to her.

(End of this chapter)