His Rui

Chapter 613 How Does Gu Li Know Mi Luan (10)

　　It was Mi Luan who was shivering because of the cold and his teeth constantly cluttered against each other. 

Gu Li moved almost immediately and picked his small body from the ground.

He then took Mi Luan near the fire.

Making him stand near there, he gathered a few leaves from the corner of the cave and laid it on the ground.

He made Mi Luan sit there. Seeing that, he was still shivering, Gu Li’s face looked tense and he couldn’t help but take Mi Luan in his arms.

Mi Luan’s eyes widened as he felt himself seated in Gu Li’s lap. It was Gu Li now who was seated on those leaves as he rubbed his palms with his own.

He instantly tried to free his hands from Gu Li’s as he wanted to get up from his lap. However, Gu Li frowned deeply and sat strictly and coldly.

”Don’t move.”

After that, without any other word, he continued to rub Mi Luan’s palms. When he felt that they were not cold anymore, he surrounded Mi Luan’s small body with his arms such that his head was lying on his chest.

He was trying to transfer some of his internal heat to Mi Luan.

When he felt that the boy in his arms was as stiff as wood, helplessness flashed across Gu Li’s eyes and he couldn’t help but say

”I am just trying to warm up your body. Why are you behaving like a girl?”

Mi Luan merely blinked his large eyelashes at these words.

However, when he saw Gu Li’s hand approaching his veil, he immediately put his small hand on Gu LI’s wrist to stop him.

The frown again marred Gu Li’s forehead as he said strictly

”Your veil is wet now. Remove it from your face.”

However, this time even his strict voice doesn’t seem to work as Mi Luan shook his head indicating that he would not let him remove the veil.

Gu Li had wanted to say more when he heard loud thunder and immediately felt Mi Luan trembling in his arms because of the sudden sound.

He immediately forgot about the veil and patted Mi Luan’s back gently.

As he did that, a memory from his childhood flashed in Gu Li’s mind. His younger brother also used to get afraid like this sometimes and at such times, he would hug him like this and pat his back constantly until he would fall asleep or the rain would stop. 

Gu Li’s adam apple wobbled unconsciously and he never raised his head all this while as he patted Mi Luan’s back who was hiding in his embrace silently.

At this moment, he seemed to have forgotten about everyone else inside the cave. The only thing that mattered to him right now was to comfort Mi Luan. 

The cave was deathly silent. Except for Gu Li’s whispers who was comforting Mi Luan, nothing else could be heard.

All other shadow guards looked at each other and then at their senior brother. But this time, their lips had a smile.

They respected Gu Li very much and if their senior brother liked this boy a little, then they would never disappoint their senior brother by giving this boy a difficult time.

However, the old master had a very solemn expression on his face as he stared at Gu Li’s back.

No one could guess what was going on inside his mind.

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It rained for a long time.

The sky had gone dark and now the only source of light in the huge cave was the fire that had been lit from the firewood and leaves.

Gu Li stared at the boy who was fast asleep in his arms.

He stopped patting Mi Luan’s back and looked at the fire that was about to soon vanish as all the woods and leaves were already burnt out.

And they needed to arrange for some food as well.

Even if they could spend a night without having any food, what about his master and his little Mi Luan! Gu Li’s lips were pressed in a thin line as his eyes went to the little fella again!   

He was already very weak. To ensure that he would not give up on his training, he first needs to ensure that he ate enough. 

He sighed.

He looked over at the shadow guards and signed Rong Ting to step forward.

Rong Ting was the same shadow guard who was mocked in the group for having always an expressionless face. However, he was also the shadow guard Gu Li would always give responsibilities whenever he needed to give one to any one of them.

And others knew the reason behind it very well.

They had already witnessed that the level of intelligence in Rong Ting was very high. He had been the highest scorer when they had been performing tasks to get selected by Youxio. 

Gu Li signed Rong Ting to bend down. The latter did the same. He saw his senior brother first covering Mi Luan’s ears.

At this moment, if anyone would have noticed carefully then they would have been able to see an expression of bafflement on the always expressionless face of this man named Rong Ting.

Rong Ting was indeed baffled.

He was baffled by the level of care Gu Li showed to the little boy in his arms. Perhaps because he had never seen anyone caring for some other person this much.

He was afraid to wake up Mi Luan and hence Gu Li spoke in a very low voice though Mi Luan’s ears were already covered.

”Go outside and get some fruits from the trees. Also try to find some dry firewood or maybe something else that can help us light the fire for the whole night.”

Rong Ting nodded his head and immediately left to gather the thing his master had asked him to.

While Gu Li ordered other shadow guards to make a place for the master to lie down.

The shadow guards who had intelligently picked a few blankets while leaving the tent laid it down on the cold ground.

The old master sat on the blanket but he asked others to sit with him as well. The shadow guards hesitated but when the old master looked strict, they didn’t dare to argue.

There were almost six to seven long, thick and wide blankets.

A shadow guard gave one of the blankets to Gu Li.

Gu Li didn’t refuse and took it from him silently. He covered himself and Mi Luan’s body with the blanket.

He was actually worried for the little boy because Mi Luan’s clothes seemed to be slightly wet. But this should not harm him, right?

Gu Li who always had a very strong immunity thought that Mi Luan was just like him.

Perhaps that’s why when almost half a shichen later, he was full of panic on feeling the increase of warmth in Mi Luan’s body.