After Descending the Mountain, Seven Big Brothers Spoil Me-Chapter 1120: The Letter

Li Yuanming hadn’t finished laughing when, in the middle of messing with Zhouzhou, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his stomach and was sent flying through the air. Zhouzhou, finally realizing what had happened, instantly widened her eyes.

She saw Li Yuanming heading straight for the wall, and without hesitation, she leaped forward and grabbed him.

"Master, are you alright?" she asked, her voice filled with concern.

Li Yuanming’s feet had barely touched the ground when his legs went weak, and he almost tripped. Zhouzhou quickly supported him, saving him from falling flat on his face. Seeing him in such a state, Zhouzhou’s worry only deepened.

Li Yuanming, biting his teeth, groaned, "What do you think?"

What kind of situation was this? He had come to bring her good news, yet she almost sent him flying into the wall, as if he were an unimportant object.

Zhouzhou looked at him with a tinge of guilt. She thought for a moment, then defended herself confidently, "It’s not my fault. You were laughing so crazily at night. My reflexes just kicked in, that’s all."

After all these years of going on missions, her body had long learned to react before her brain could even process the situation. Otherwise, she would have been dead countless times by now. Who would have thought that the person coming at her was Master?

"Master, if it’s not something urgent, can we talk about it tomorrow?" Zhouzhou asked.

"No!" Li Yuanming grunted heavily, then began coughing. Upon seeing this, Zhouzhou immediately helped him sit down in a chair.

She turned on the light, took out a bottle of medicine, and handed it to him. "Master, put some medicine on it."

She knew the strength of that kick—though it wasn’t enough to cause internal injuries, there would definitely be some external bruising. At his age, if he really had been hurt, what would she do? He would definitely blame her for it!

Sure enough, Li Yuanming didn’t take the medicine. Instead, he slapped his thighs and cried out dramatically, "Why bother with medicine? I’m just an old man now. Don’t waste your precious medicine on me."

"Just let me die already. Woe is me! How could a disciple hurt her master like this? Is there no justice in this world?"

"I knew it. You don’t care about me at all. Raising a disciple is worse than raising a piece of roasted pork!"

Zhouzhou: "..."

At first, she wanted to ignore him, but seeing him getting more and more outrageous, her lips involuntarily twitched. "Master!"

Li Yuanming paused for a second, and then suddenly raised his voice by an octave. "What attitude is that? Are you getting impatient with me? You think I’m just an old fool now? Fine, fine, I’ll go. You don’t want to see your old master, do you?"

With that, he started to stomp off angrily.

Zhouzhou, flustered, quickly grabbed him. "Master, I was wrong! If you want roasted pork, I’ll buy it for you. What else do you want? I’ll get it for you."

"Anything except food? What about that little toy car you wanted? I’ll get you a big one!"

"And a skateboard! I’ll buy you the best one!"

Hearing this, Li Yuanming’s lips almost curled into a grin, but he managed to suppress it. With a stern face, he coldly responded, "No!" He wasn’t that easily bribed with such trivial things!

Moreover, these toys couldn’t be played with in public; they had to be kept secret. If others found out, he would surely be ridiculed, and it would tarnish his image as the head of the Sanqing Temple.

Zhouzhou thought for a moment, then tried again. "Then I’ll get you a hundred talismans. You can have anything you want."

Li Yuanming snorted lightly. "A hundred talismans? Don’t you know how prosperous the incense offerings at the temple are these days?"

Hearing this, Zhouzhou gritted her teeth. "Then a thousand talismans!"

Li Yuanming still didn’t react, maintaining his sulky demeanor.

Zhouzhou gritted her teeth and said, "Ten thousand talismans!"

"Deal!" Li Yuanming’s mood instantly brightened.

Zhouzhou: "..."

This scene felt so familiar. She remembered!

This was exactly the trick she used to play when she was little.

Master had learned all her bad habits!

She puffed out her cheeks, fuming with frustration.

Li Yuanming looked at her smugly. "Who doesn’t know this trick?"

Seeing him so pleased with himself, Zhouzhou couldn’t help but pinch the bridge of her nose. Her master really was becoming more and more like a child as he got older. He wasn’t even ashamed to act like a four-year-old!

But she couldn’t do anything about it.

Her master was her master. She couldn’t really hit him, so what else could she do? She could only pamper him.

She helped him sit back down in the chair. "Alright, Master. You better put on the medicine. Whatever number of talismans you want, I’ll get them for you."

She sighed. She’d already given him so many talismans over the years. Did he really need so many?

Seemingly seeing through her thoughts, Li Yuanming grunted. "Don’t you see how busy you are? In two months, you’ll be starting university, and then you’ll have no time to make talismans for me."

"Once you graduate and start working, you’ll barely have time to see me for a whole year."

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"I need to stock up on talismans now!"

After saying that, he sighed deeply, his tone tinged with loneliness and melancholy.

Zhouzhou’s heart ached when she heard this. She took his hand and said seriously, "That won’t happen."

"Master, whenever you want to see me, I’ll definitely appear right away."

Li Yuanming looked at her and smiled again.

His little disciple wasn’t bad. She hadn’t been a waste of his time.

After making a fuss for a while, he finally stopped bothering her. Thinking about the matter at hand, he quickly took out a book and said, "I’ve found a way to change your fate of lacking money and to help Ancestral Master recover his golden form!"

Zhouzhou’s eyes lit up when she heard this.

"Whoosh!" Ancestral Master also floated out, his eyes shining with excitement. "What method?"

Li Yuanming pointed at the book. "I found this book in a corner. I don’t know who used it to prop up a table. I only saw it after all these years, but thankfully, it’s not too late."

"This is a travelogue. It’s one of the five flaws and three deficiencies. The flaw this person had was lack of life, more severe than Zhouzhou’s lack of money."

Hearing this, Zhouzhou nodded. This made sense. She only lacked money, so it was only a matter of not being able to enjoy luxurious things. But lack of life could lead to an early death.

However, Li Yuanming continued, "But this person lived to 108 years old."

Zhouzhou was stunned. How was that possible? 108 years old? Normal people didn’t even live to that age, let alone someone with a deficiency in life.

Li Yuanming, seeing her surprised expression, smiled with satisfaction. "I went through this person’s history and checked the family records. Sanqing Temple indeed had such a person five hundred years ago, and the general information matches."

"This travelogue was written by that person himself. In it, he mentions that before he was about to die, he killed an evil ghost, which saved his life."

"From then on, whenever a life-threatening situation approached, he would go and eliminate an evil ghost. He continued this until he lived to 108 years."

"I believe that those evil ghosts were the key to prolonging his life."

Though one was lacking money and the other lacking life, the principle behind both was quite similar.

Zhouzhou rubbed her chin, thinking hard, but then her brows furrowed. "But those evil ghosts have all been eradicated. Where am I supposed to find evil ghosts now?"

The evil ghosts that could prolong life must have been incredibly powerful.

Ancestral Master, staring at the travelogue, seemed to grow more and more excited. "Wait, leave this to me!"