My Daily Cultivation Life with a Clumsy Female Disciple

Chapter 317

Apart from pestering her master for kisses and indulging in thrill-seeking when she had nothing else to do, Li Shiyin was also learning what a wife and mother needed to know.

Of course, she definitely could not look to Tushan Youyou and Long Qiqi to learn how to be a wife and mother. After the last big reveal of everyone's hand, those two's performance was extremely unreliable.

But learning how to be a mother and wife in the cultivation world was a bit weird, so she found some books to read and learn textbook knowledge, combined with remembering what her mother did.

Putting the two together, she did gain some understanding after all.

And when she looked back on what her mother did from this perspective, she discovered some more of the great details in their past life that she hadn't appreciated before.

When does one truly understand filial duty? When he has children of his own.

And Li Shiyin was also surprised to discover that she could actually calm down and read books now.

Here one has to applaud hormones.

On an afternoon in late spring, Chasing the Wind came back from outside. From afar he saw someone sitting in the rocking chair under the old spiritual pagoda tree reading a book with their back facing outwards. He couldn't see their front and subconsciously assumed it was Qin Ran. He yelled, "Dad, what are we eating for dinner tonight? We haven't had barbecue in a long time, let's have that tonight, okay?"

But when he drew closer and walked around the back of the chair, he was shocked to see that the person sitting there wasn't Qin Ran but Li Shiyin!

Li Shiyin was properly leaning against the backrest and reading a book, a tranquil maiden under the tree shade reading...

"Shi...Shiyin?" Chasing the Wind exclaimed in surprise, "How can it be you?!"

Li Shiyin raised her head and looked at the fierce Chasing the Wind. She asked doubtfully, "What's wrong?"

"You, you, you..." Chasing the Wind felt like the sun had risen from the west. "Have you really been possessed?!"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Li Shiyin reproachfully glanced at him. "Master said books contain beauties like jade and golden houses. There's a lot of knowledge in books. I never used to be able to calm my heart and settle down before, but now that I've calmed down and read books, I've gained quite a few unusual insights."

She also advised, "Chasing the Wind, you should read books too."

"I'll pass!" Chasing the Wind shook his head again and again.

The way Li Shiyin spoke now was increasingly similar to Qin Ran. From this point, Chasing the Wind knew that Li Shiyin probably hadn't been possessed.

When he heard Li Shiyin say she had new understanding, he hurriedly said, "You've gained new comprehension? What a coincidence, I just learned a new divine ability technique these past few days. Come, come quickly, let's fight!"

"Fight?!" Li Shiyin shook her head and gently sighed, "Chasing the Wind, why do you only know how to fight all day? When will you be able to mature like me? Alas......"

Chasing the Wind looked at Li Shiyin again and again. He raised his big paw, clenched it into a fist and relaxed it. Finally he stuck it in his mouth and licked it.

He vaguely felt something was moving farther and farther away from him... If he were in modern society, he would know that the youthful bird calling "master" would never come back. Unfortunately he wasn't, he just felt strangely sad for no reason.

When someone becomes mature, should you be happy? Or should you feel sad?

Seeing Chasing the Wind licking his paw, Li Shiyin felt helpless. She gently admonished, "You've been traipsing around with that dirty paw on the ground and you can still put it in your mouth!

"It's just that when you were little I didn't teach you carefully enough... and you developed this terrible habit... Alas...... From now on, don't lick your dirty paws anymore. Master said diseases come through the mouth......"

The way she nagged on and on already bore quite a bit of resemblance to a mother's manner. With skill level already comparable to Yang Yanqi's. And this level of power was already more than Chasing the Wind could take. He only felt several mosquitoes buzzing around his ears...

"Huh?" He wondered strangely, "It's just the beginning of summer, how can there be mosquitoes already?!"

Puzzled, he searched around, gradually wandering away from under the old spiritual pagoda tree, away from Li Shiyin.

"Phew..." Seeing Chasing the Wind walk far away, Li Shiyin also breathed a sigh of relief.

She placed the book in her hand over her face and lay down directly on the reclining chair. Reading books and such really wasn't her, Li Shiyin's style!

Qin Ran stood at the second floor study window watching Li Shiyin loaf around as usual. He shook his head and smiled, gently sipping awakening tea, but did not say anything.

On a summer evening, after Long Qiqi finished up the things she had to do, she walked out of the research building. She enjoyed the cool summer breeze on the mountain and by the stream. Slowly she strolled along the little river.

Not too long later, she arrived at the place between the river and the Sword Washing Lake. By the cat climbing frame there she stretched lazily.

She gazed towards the peach blossom forest on the other side of the lake. It was the season for peach blossoms to fall, but also the height of their bloom. Amidst the peach blossom forest, the evening breeze blew and the peach blossoms were like butterflies dancing and fluttering as they fell to the ground, painting an extremely beautiful scene.

Amidst the flurry of falling petals...

And in that peach rain of blossoms, she saw a graceful maiden sitting under a peach tree with her back towards this side, head lowered, doing something unknown.

Long Qiqi recognized that was Li Shiyin's back, but she truly didn't know what Li Shiyin was doing. Driven by curiosity, she circled around the lake and came up to Li Shiyin's front.

"What are you doing?" She saw Li Shiyin holding a long rectangular piece of wood carving it carefully and earnestly, even more unclear about what was happening, she curiously asked.

Li Shiyin raised her head and smiled gently, "Qiqi? I'm making a guzheng!"

"Guzheng?" Long Qiqi looked at that long strip of wood whose material she wasn't clear on. It did seem to resemble the shape of a zither or qin, but...

"Why are you randomly making a guzheng?"

She still remembered when Qin Ran started learning the flute. Every evening the entire Danding Peak echoed with groans and wails. If you didn't know better, you'd think someone was dying on Danding Peak every night. Was she going to have to experience another round of Li Shiyin's guzheng torture?

"My father wanted me to learn guzheng so I could have some of a young lady from a cultured family's graceful bearing. Recently I felt my father was right, girls who can play guzheng are indeed very gentle." Li Shiyin said, "Master also once said it would be great if I could play guzheng, then we could play 'Smiling Proud Wanderer' together."

Long Qiqi looked Li Shiyin up and down, her expression tinged slightly with disdain as she asked, "Can you play guzheng?"

"I can!" Li Shiyin mysteriously smiled, "I learned guzheng since I was little, just shy of grandmaster level."

Long Qiqi didn't believe her, but she still asked, "Shy by what point?'

"I didn't like guzheng at that time..." said Li Shiyin.

Long Qiqi wanted to say more but decided against it in the end. For affairs between the disciples, she would still keep out of them more.

Although, recently Li Shiyin did seem a little different... At least she hadn't bickered with her or caused her trouble for a long time.

"She really changed her sex/gender?" she wondered to herself inwardly. She also sighed feelingly, "The power of love really is formidable."

Sensing Long Qiqi walk away, Li Shiyin sighed. Her beautiful little face squeezed into a bitter gourd expression as her brows furrowed too.

She wasn't lying about being able to play guzheng. But... she didn't know how to make a guzheng!

She had originally thought that since Master could play the flute terribly but still figure out how to make one that could produce sound, then with her Li Shiyin's grandmaster guzheng skills, putting together a guzheng would be no problem.

Who could expect...

The guzheng was too difficult!

She raised her head bathed amidst the fluttering peach blossoms, silently screaming... She had to maintain a graceful demeanor so she didn't actually scream out loud.

Holding a red bayberry branch, Qin Ran walked out of the greenhouse. With one glance he immediately saw Li Shiyin tilting her head back to gaze at the heavens on the other shore of Sword Washing Lake. He couldn't help the smile that crept onto the corners of his lips.

The silly apprentice was still the same silly looking one, unchanged.

As autumn was approaching, it was going to be the so-called Mid-Autumn Festival of Qin Ran again. Tushan Youyou had finally made great progress in her comprehension of array techniques. She walked out from the back mountain and found Qin Ran under the old spiritual pagoda tree.

"I have grasped the basics of foundational arrays." She said to Qin Ran, "I want to find a place to practice."

"Okay..." Qin Ran sat at the table. There was a plate of pastries in front of him. He was holding one in his hand and said to Tushan Youyou, "Make a list of the materials you need. I'll get them for you tomorrow. Also, where are you going to experiment?"

After speaking, he frowned and opened his mouth wide to shove the entire pastry into his mouth. Then he quickly rinsed it down with tea.

Tushan Youyou looked at Qin Ran's strange actions and said, "How about the peach forest over there? I'll plant some more to fill up that area and connect it to the protective mountain grand array. I'll practice inside the peach forest, mainly illusion arrays and trapping arrays."

"The peach forest?" Qin Ran looked over at the peach blossom forest. He had planted those peach trees himself. They had grown over the past two years and were now bearing peaches and flowers. He nodded, "That works too. But if you start planting now, you won't see any results until next year."

After speaking, he picked up another pastry with a bitter expression.

"That's fine, time is what I have the most of." Said Tushan Youyou. Seeing Qin Ran's actions and expression, she really could not refrain from asking, "What are you doing...? Who made these pastries?"

Before Qin Ran could reply, a clear voice rang out from the room, sounding slightly proud, "I made them!"

She looked over to see that it was Li Shiyin. Li Shiyin came out from the living room door carrying another plate of strangely shaped pastries and walked over with a smile. "It's almost Mid-Autumn festival, so master is teaching me how to make osmanthus pastries."

"Osmanthus pastries?" Tushan Youyou looked at the pastries on Li Shiyin's plate dubiously and simply nodded without comment.

"Well? Master, is it delicious?" Li Shiyin set the new plate of pastries on the table. "Freshly baked! Master, have a taste!"

"Mm! Delicious!" A look of approval naturally surfaced on Qin Ran's face. He gave Li Shiyin a thumbs up and said, "Shiyin is getting better and better with each batch. Other than some issues with appearance, this batch has already reached eighty percent of my standard!"

Tushan Youyou silently watched Qin Ran's performance, having long since figuratively prostrated in admiration.

"Hehe..." Li Shiyin bashfully stuck out her tongue, then enthusiastically offered the platter to Tushan Youyou again. "They're still hot! Youyou, come, have a piece."

Unable to refuse, Tushan Youyou took a piece and bit off a small portion...

Then she swiftly made an excuse about needing to collect peach seeds and fled.