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【Open and honest conversation】

"Teacher, you really worry too much." Affected, Li Huan's voice trembled a little.

He raised his head to meet Qi Jingyu's gaze, those dark eyes were condensed with mist, like the most lustrous jade, with a faint bitter but gentle smile, he said: "Being a teacher for a day, being a father for a lifetime, this The fate is given by you, the disciple will always remember your kindness of nurturing, and will never, ever betray you."

Qi Jingyu frowned slightly, his handsome face was as cold as usual.

But under the skin, the heart that belonged to the nine-tailed demon fox, which has been silent for a long time, experienced the feeling of "hard to let go" for the first time in his life.

He suddenly felt a little ridiculous - he is a demon who has lived for thousands of years, he has long been exiled out of time, and he has seen through the transformation of this world.He thought that the long years of loneliness could build a wall to seal all the past events that touched the heart.

From the innocent little spirit fox at the foot of Qingqiu Mountain, to the bloodthirsty monster Nine Tails, and now to the tea house owner who has retired from the world... the more experiences, the colder Qi Jingyu's heart becomes , the less he will be swayed by everything, but it was not until the night before, when he realized that the demon soul occupying the demon subduing master's body was actually Qinglong Zhongye, which was concerned with the safety of his lover, that he realized that his blood hadn't completely cooled down.

Qi Jingyu sighed a long time in his heart, patted the soft cushion of the sofa with his palm, and said to Li Huan: "Come here, teacher, don't kneel down, you haven't done anything wrong."

Li Huan got up and sat down next to the teacher according to his words. Qi Jingyu patted his head, then embraced him like he did to little Li Huan when he was a child, and added: "In the future, even if you do something wrong, The teacher won't punish you anymore, everyone in the world says that closed disciples are the most favored, you are the teacher's little apprentice, the teacher will pamper you well from now on."

Li Huan put his arms around Qi Jingyu's waist and leaned his head on the man's chest. He folded his arms a little, but felt that the teacher's body was really thin, which made people feel distressed. Li Huan closed his eyes and forcibly suppressed the feeling of soreness. He whispered: "In my mind, no one in this world is more important than you."

Jing Yu laughed immediately when he heard the words, and scratched the bridge of Li Huan's nose lovingly: "Silly boy, when you have someone you admire, no matter whether he is a human, a demon or a demon, you will put him in the most important position. This position must be more important than the teacher."

"The teacher is right," Li Huan said, "I can die for the person I admire, but before I die, I must ensure that the teacher is alive."

At that moment, Qi Jingyu felt mixed feelings.

Silence is like a drop of ink falling into clear water, spreading slowly and rendering everything extremely heavy.

In the end, the nine-tailed demon fox raised its arms and extinguished the lights in the room by itself.

The moment he fell into the darkness, Li Huan felt his heart beating chaotically, and some warm liquid fell on his forehead and quietly slid down between his brows.

"teacher?"

He subconsciously wanted to raise his head, but was hugged again by the other party.

"Hush, don't talk, just for a while..." Qi Jingyu's voice sounded in the darkness, "Sometimes the teacher also wants to be a mortal with seven emotions and six desires, but after going out this door, the fox is still a fox, and you stand at the top of the food chain , take too much responsibility, you are not qualified to show vulnerability to those who need to be protected by you."

"Xiao Huan, if given time, you subdue the three souls of Qingluan and be reborn from the ashes as the new Qingluan——by then, the responsibility will fall on you."

……

Heavy snow was flying outside the window, and the space between the sky and the earth was a chaotic dark gray.

Li Huan couldn't help shivering when he went out, Qi Jingyu pulled off his cloak to wrap him in, and the two walked through the courtyard through the snow.

Lagrange has been cleaned up by Ahri, and he drank a lot of ginseng tea, and now he has regained his energy and returned to his human form. He is lying on the sofa booth with a big bath towel on, pinching all kinds of snacks on the plate eat.Ari was squatting in the aisle on the other side of the coffee table, his green eyes following the little meringue in this guy's hand, swallowing so greedily.

Standing in front of the main entrance of the tea house with his hands behind his back, Xing Yi's cold eyes fell on the pair of black and silver bells. He frowned thoughtfully, and tentatively took two steps closer to the copper bells.As the distance approached, the bell remained motionless, and Xing Yi was suspicious, wondering if he had admitted his mistake?

At this moment, the back door of the tea house creaked open, and then a slightly cold male voice sounded, and someone came and said, "Mr. Xing knows this thing?"

Xing Yi stared at the pair of bells, and said indifferently without turning his head: "The Yin-Yang copper bells are said to be a pair of gadgets obtained by Yan Moluo after 500 years of refining with hell fire. It is used to identify ghosts and demons."

After he finished speaking, he waved his long arm, and immediately threw out two lead wires. A certain fox spirit who was sticking out his tongue at Dim Sum was caught off guard. He was tied upright by the pair of lead wires. .

As soon as the fox spirit approached, the black bell in the yin-yang copper bell immediately jingled and shook.

There was a big dazed look on Ari's face, he swallowed his saliva resentfully, licked his nose and said, "Hey! We don't seem to know each other very well! You need to ask the owner's permission to use Lao Tzu as a prop, you know meow?!" After finishing speaking , it looked expectantly at Qi Jingyu, and its nine tails shook together.

"It's okay." Qi Jingyu pretended not to see, pulled up his coat, and sat down on the sofa in the booth.

Ali: "..."

Fat Fox's fragile glass heart instantly shattered into pieces.

Xing Yi put the soft fat man back into the aisle intact, retracted the lead wire, and then turned to look at Qi Jingyu: "I have admired the name of Nine Tails for a long time."

"Don't dare," Qi Jingyu said, "You saved Xiao Huan last night, this favor is mine."

"Saved?" Xing Yi calmly stared at the man on the sofa drinking tea with his head down, raised his eyebrows slightly, "I thought this step was in your calculation."

Qi Jingyu paused when he heard the words, he stared down at a floating leaf in the teacup, and then said quietly: "Mr. Demons have always been very stingy with words of praise."

"Don't dare to do it." Xing Yi replied back with exactly the same tone.

Li Huan, who was standing next to him, hadn't recovered from the low temperature yet, when he first heard it, he suddenly realized that these two guys who met for the first time had already been tempted to come and go, and for some reason, they were a little bit sticky , The feeling of gunpowder gradually rising?Since he was a child, Li Huan has heard a lot of those ghosts with a mind more subtle than a hornet's nest going around in circles. It seems that they can't show that they are the scourge of a thousand years without a word.

Right now there is no foreshadowing, just start directly, silently thinking about how to confess to the teacher all the way that I have left the order, and the object is the young master of the demon master in front of you, and I feel very confused.

"Sit." Qi Jingyu gestured to Xing Yi for the vacant seat next to Lagrange, then patted her side, and said to Li Huan, "Xiao Huan also don't stand."

The two people who were invited to sit down looked at each other very tacitly, Xing Yi raised his eyebrows, Li Huan shook his head calmly, and then they sat down without any communication, but changed their positions slightly.

Qi Jingyu: "..."

Lord Kyuubi frowned slightly. As a monster with a lot of life experience, he vaguely noticed something wrong in the subtle atmosphere at this moment.

"If you want to ask anything, you can say it directly." Qi Jingyu decided not to think about that unpleasant guess for the time being, and asked directly and honestly.

Xing Yi picked up the walnuts in the fruit plate and squeezed them open with bare hands, then carefully pulled out the nuts, handed them to Li Huan who was opposite, and said casually: "You already knew that the ray of demon soul in my body came from the spirit beast Suzaku. ?”

Qi Jingyu was rarely restless, and stared blankly at Li Huan taking the walnut kernels.

Li Huan's scalp was numb from the sight, and he thought that this bastard Xing Yi was too territorial, so he couldn't make a good impression on the teacher when they met for the first time?What the hell is this feeling that the boyfriend and the old man are destined to be at odds? ! ! !

"Nine tails?" Xing Yi reminded calmly.

Qi Jingyu came back to his senses, took a sip of tea pretending to be calm, and said, "I don't know. At that time, the demon soul in your body was affected by the phoenix blood, and the sense of existence was diluted to the lowest level. I vaguely noticed that its demon rank might not be low. But in the final analysis, after all, I didn't expect Chong Ye to dare to touch the spirit beasts of the same level."

Xing Yi said: "Then why haven't you dealt with me for so long?"

"I'm waiting," Qi Jingyu said, "The semi-demonized demon-subduing master, this clue is too important to me, even if I know who the opponent is, I can tell who the enemy is, and I have been unable to track it down for thousands of years." The whereabouts of Qinglong. Your appearance must not be a coincidence, and the demon spirit in your body must have something to say, I used Xiaohuan's safety to fight once, just to see if anyone can't resist showing up when we are alone."

"I didn't expect that Chong Ye's method this time would be so direct. He actually took a strand of his own soul and put it into the body of the demon-subduing master he hates the most." Having said that, Qi Jingyu calmly put down the teacup, He also picked up a walnut. The man's slender fingers were white and well-proportioned. Even peeling the nuts could reveal an unearthly elegance. In a short while, all the shells of the walnuts were peeled off, leaving only a whole fruit. Ren lay in the palm of his hand.

"Xiao Huan," he raised his eyes to look at Li Huan, "it's because the teacher didn't think carefully about this matter, so I'll pay you for it."

There was a thin layer of sweat on Li Huan's forehead, and he took the walnut with trepidation, and now he had a handful of walnuts in each of his left and right hands, and he didn't want to eat it or not.

Lagrange, who was sitting next to him, finished finishing a plate of dim sum, patted his stomach and burped, saw that Li Huan had walnuts, leaned over and said weakly, "Aren't you going to eat it?"

"Mouth ulcers, eating nuts will hurt." Li Huan said tiredly, "Do you want to eat?"

Lagrange said: "Okay!"

After weighing for a second, Li Huan stuffed the one peeled by the teacher into his mouth, and then invited Ah Li, who was shrinking into a corner of the wall after eating all the snacks, to feed him another handful of walnuts.

The Nine-Tails-sama who is inconvenient to beat up the rat monster due to his identity problem: "..."

Mr. Demon Subduing Master, who is also inconvenient to violently beat up the Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit: "..."

Li Huan dusted off the walnut dregs in his palm, his beautiful peach eyes curled up in a smile, and he asked cheerfully, "Where are we talking about?"

"Nine Tails plotted against you."

"The teacher will compensate you."

The two voices sounded and stopped at the same time. Qi Jingyu took a breath, but the voice was still very polite: "Mr. Xing, you are so hostile to this deity, but there is something that you didn't take good care of, did you neglect?"

Xing Yi said: "That's not true, it's just that I'm not used to being full of calculations, and being able to let Li Huan coax me into a fish and meat at your mercy."

Qi Jingyu sneered: "Unexpectedly, Mr. Xing wanted to take care of my affairs in the teahouse after entering the teahouse?"

"I dare not, but it's not too much to meddle in one's own affairs." Xing Yi said.

Qi Jingyu narrowed his eyes: "What do you mean?"

"Cough..." Before Xing Yi could speak again, Li Huan quickly cleared his throat and interjected, "Teacher, do you still remember what I said just now, no matter what I do wrong, I will not punish you again? "

Qi Jingyu: "..."

Li Huan: "I also said two days ago that you will not interfere with the disciple's personal problems, as long as you appreciate the --" He stopped speaking abruptly, and glanced at Lagrange who was silently watching.

Lagrange blinked in confusion: "???"

Qi Jingyu raised his forehead, he really couldn't understand when he dug himself such a series of holes in front of him.

"So - when did you two happen?" Master Nine Tails had no choice but to temporarily accept the little apprentice's mate selection criteria of deceiving teachers and destroying ancestors.

"Last night," Li Huan said weakly, "what do you think, teacher?"

Qi Jingyu said: "If I say no, is there still time?"

"Lord Nine Tails really misunderstood," Xing Yi said, "This has nothing to do with whether it's too late, but whether you have the right to intervene."

"Mr. Xing!" Qi Jingyu couldn't help raising his voice.

Xing Yi responded leisurely, "What's the matter?"

At that moment, the fox's mighty spiritual power dissipated at the same time, and Lagrange couldn't hold back and was frightened back to his original shape with a squeak, and hid in a corner and hugged Ahri who lowered his sense of existence in order to protect himself.

"You guys are enough!" Li Huan slapped the table unbearably, gave Xing Yi a hard look, and said angrily, "That bastard Chongye just knocked down a pedestrian street last night, why, he wants to destroy Shichahai today?!"

After finishing speaking, he quickly got up and walked around to Qi Jingyu's side, filled the teacup with water very filially, and held it to the teacher's mouth respectfully, and said obediently: "I said I'm not angry, teacher, why did you break your promise? ?”

"The little apprentice of the nine-tailed demon fox fell in love with a demon subduing master. This kind of news will probably cause a sensation?" Qi Jingyu took the teacup, and couldn't bear to get angry with Li Huan. He lowered his head and took a sip of the boiling tea. After walking down the steps given by Li Huan, after a while, he warned again, "Even if he has a demon soul in his body, he can be regarded as a half-demon, but his previous identity is too sensitive. Monsters are most concerned about this. You should keep a low profile when you go out." ,remember?"

Li Huan nodded and asked tentatively, "You agree?"

Qi Jingyu smiled at Li Huan, and when he looked at Xing Yi, his face darkened again, and said: "Mr. Xing, I trouble you to treat my little apprentice well. If one day let me know that he has suffered a little bit, I will I must draw out your three souls with my own hands, and make the flesh body into your best puppet."

"Lord Nine-Tailed is worrying too much," Xing Yi raised his eyes to meet him, and said calmly, "But if one day I know that you have something wrong with him, I don't mind adding another Nine-Tailed Demon Fox to the collection."

- To Be Continued