His Rui

Chapter 631 Mi Luan Was Leaving

　　Inside the forest, Mi Luan and Gu Li were sitting on a big stone beside each other as the latter ate fruits.

”Are you not angry at me, Xiao Luan?”

Gu Li asked Mi Luan suddenly the question that had been bothering him a lot.

”Why?’

Mi Luan asked Gu Li with confusion-filled eyes. Gu Li smiled in because of the amazement he was feeling at his question. Did he need to know what he should be getting angry at?

”I didn’t believe you when you said that you could treat Master.”

Gu Li explained calmly. At the same time, his fists clenched. He was angry at himself and he didn’t even know why but his anger increased more when Mi Luan said

”I am not angry at all. It is normal. No one would believe a child when he will say something like this. No one had ever believed.”

Mi Luan spoke his last few words in a daze.

Gu Li looked at him swiftly and his expression told him very well that this was not the first time he had faced something like this.

But he was angry and ashamed that he was also one of those people now.

”I am thankful to you.”

Gu Li spoke sincerely. He would always feel guilty and grateful towards Mi Luan for whatever happened today. He saw Mi Luan shaking his head but Gu Li continued

”Master is very important to me, Xiao Luan. He is the person who had taken me in when I didn’t have any shelter. He has made me capable enough of protecting myself. If it meant giving my life for him, then I would so without any hesitation. If today something had happened to him, then perhaps I would have left Youxio because I would have never been able to forgive myself.”

Mi Luan stayed silent and Gu Li also didn’t say anything after that.

It was after a few moments, that they left the forest and went to the tents.

Despite Master Wong’s persistent efforts, Gu Li still took Mi Luan to his tent to sleep. Now that he knew that the little fella got nightmares, he wanted to be there to comfort him whenever he would get one.

However, that night Mi Luan didn’t get any nightmares.

Gu Li was happy. He had noticed that Mi Luan’s nightmares were not frequent. However, he still couldn’t help but wonder if he had them frequently once.

There must have been a time when they were so horrible that he would get up from his sleep otherwise why would he be so hesitant to sleep with him?

The thought made him feel distressed for the young boy. He wished that one day he would be able to talk to Mi Luan about this so that he would teach a lesson to every person who had hurt his Xiao Luan to this point. 

The next morning, as the old master had said Mi Luan stayed back.

Gu Li was worried that the old master would get tired so he requested him to rest for a few days and start to train Mi Luan after a few days. In fact, he also wanted to ready Mi Luan’s body for his master’s hard training in these few days.

But the old master waved his suggestion in dismissal saying that he was completely fine.

Master Wong who also heard from the other shadow guards last night that the old master could teach these things in a very short time also said that the old master was now fine.

And he had said true. The poison was out. The only thing the old master needed to do was to have a good and healthy diet now.

So Gu Li could only leave Mi Luan behind with his master.

He also wanted to leave one of the shadow guards behind as he was worried after the snake’s bite accident but the old master didn’t let him say that yesterday’s incident was his carelessness as he had a mild fever.

Gu Li knew this since the night before last night so he felt more guilty that he didn’t care for his master nicely despite knowing that he had a fever. Even if the old master had said that he was fine. He should have stayed back and taken care of him. 

The old master felt helpless as he knew very well what was going on inside Gu Li’s mind. Without saying anything else, he just ordered him to leave and train the shadow guards instead of wasting time.

So Gi Li left.

The next few days were perhaps the best days for Mi Luan in his life.

In these few days, he gained much more than he had ever thought.

Though every night, he had been asleep before Gu Li would come because of the exhaustion, and then every morning he would leave to train with the old master without spending much time with Gu Li, the latter could see the changes in him.

His ears were sharper now as he would move a little whenever he (Gu Li) would step inside the tent. He used to do the same before but now Mi Luan would not open his eyes as if he knew from the steps themselves that there was nothing to worry about and it was Gu Li and no one else.

This much sharpness could only come from a trained shadow guard.

In ten days, Mi Luan was fighting with the old master. Though he would be defeated, he would learn a lot with every fight. The moves that the old master taught him were very different…something that he never observed even when he had seen soldiers in Imperial City training with each other.

So he knew that he was learning something that perhaps even those soldiers didn’t know.

By the fourteenth day, Mi Luan was quite satisfied with his swordsmanship. However, when the old master said 

”From tomorrow, we shall start learning qingong.”

Mi Luan’s face fell immediately. That was perhaps the most important thing he wanted to learn but it was already the fourteenth day.

Though he didn’t show much expression on his face and his eyes were still very calm, the old master had started to understand Mi Luan enough to know from his body language what he was feeling.

And he could also feel his sadness.

”What happened, Mi Luan?”

The old master asked Mi Luan calmly. Mi Luan was startled to hear his question or perhaps surprised to see that he knew that something was wrong. 

”Master, I am leaving tomorrow.”