Volume 1 Chapter 2 (2/2)

Unfortunately, the downpour ca-neck pheasant to escape fro a soaked pheasant

Muchun stripped off his drenched robe, and covered the little boy in his boso ”Oh, daot to find a shelter” He exclaimed as he ran

Throughout his life, Cheng Qian would ridein the future — but this was the bumpiest and most talkative one, without a doubt

The sounds of wind, rain and thunder mixed up with hisQian could hardly see anything, but he smelled an indescribable scent of wood from it

His master held him before the chest with one hand and covered his head with the other This old man was all skins and bones, thus hurt him a lot Whereas, his bosom and protection were by no means false display of affection

Soet close to hi and playing tricks on hio

Draped in Muchun’s robe, Cheng Qian tih the chink in the cloth at his h in the rain For the first time in his life, he had enjoyed the treatment that a kid deserved He soared for a short while and recognized this unreliable ly He even ive him even if he had a mouthful of nonsense and heresies

Riding his skinnyQian finally arrived at a dilapidated temple

The ed many unauthorized sects, but some temples of those sects survived and becaars and travelers who s

Cheng Qian popped his head out of Muchun’s robe, and iht of a clay joss enshrined in the temple, by which he was startled — it had a hard-featured look, with a round face and no neck, blusher applied to both cheeks, hair drawn into double tight buns, a fierce-lookingits uneven teeth

Master saw it too He hurried to cover Cheng Qian's eyes with his hand, and criticized furiously, ”How could you have the cheek to enjoy offerings when dressing in such a lewd and vicious manner! The nerve of you!”

Due to his young age and very liot stunned as well as confused

”To cultivate, one is ought to purify his spirit, reduce his desires, and be prudent in his words and deeds How disgraceful it is to dress up as an opera actor!” Said Muchun sternly

He should know the word ”disgraceful” … Cheng Qian was considering reassessing him now

At the very moment, a smell of meat wafted over from the back of the temple, and interrupted the ”pure-spirited” mater's tirade

Muchun sed involuntarily and failed to continue his words With an expression of confusion, he took Cheng Qian to the back of that joss, and a beggar who looked a little older than Cheng Qian showed up there

It turned out that the beggar so a hole at the back of the tear's Chicken [5] in it He s the chicken, and the whole te with the scent

Muchun sed once more

Things would be quite inconvenient when one was as scrawny as hier struck, it’s uneasy to conceal his instincts as the craning thin neck would give him away

Muchun laid Cheng Qian down, and then showed his little apprentice what ”cultivators must be prudent in his words and deeds” meant

He wiped off the water on his face first, and put on a graceful senuine iar unhurriedly taking tottering lily steps, then he started his lengthy luring speech in Cheng Qian’s presence He sketched an iold and silver jewelries with no worries about food and clothes Unbelievably, it worked! His sords stiar's interest

Facing the beggar who had a big head and s hireat endowments You can soar up to the sky and dive deep to the sea one day, and I see great fortune in you — boy, what’s your name?”

Cheng Qian felt that his words sounded strangely familiar

Sly though the little beggar was since he had lived a vagabond life, he was ulti that he was easily lured With a snotty nose, he answered innocently, ”Xiaohu I don’t have a surname”

”Well then, I'll surna his mustache, Muchun confirmed their master-apprentice relationshi+p very naturally, ”As to the nale character — Yuan?”

Cheng Qian, ”…”

Han Yuan [6], suffering an injustice… that was indeed an auspicious and joyous name

Masterhis words in face of the well toasted Beggar's Chicken

Notes:

[1] Heavenly Gate: the entrance from the Mortal Realm to the Heavens

[2]: A Chinese proverb which means ”one should not demand absolute purity”

[3] Fuyao: a ind froe Xiaoyao You

[4]: A quote from Xiaoyao You

[5] Beggar's Chicken: a whole chicken roasted in caked mud

[6] Han Yuan: the pronunciation of this na an injustice” in Chinese