That night, two people were lying on the spacious stone bed. The time under house arrest was really hard to bear. They practiced their skills and ate food. There was nothing else to do.

Walking around, it was just a cave that was so big. Chu Wanning was calm and it was okay. But Mo Ran was different. He really felt like he was living like a year.

"Oh, it's boring, boring, what are you playing? What are you playing?"

Chu Wanning closed his eyes and said, "Sleep."

"It's still early." Mo Ran looked at the drip and shook his head, "It's very early."

Chu Wanning ignored him.

Mo Ran rolled on the bed a few times, and suddenly came to pull his face.

"Junior brother."

“…”

"Junior brother~"

“…”

"Junior brother!!"

Chu Wanning suddenly opened his eyes and said angrily: "What are you doing!"

Mo Ran shamelessly held his hand and shook it back and forth: "Play with me."

"...Are you a junior brother or I a junior brother?" Chu Wanning was furious and shook his hand away, "Who is with you to mess around!"

Mo Ran smiled sweetly, really shamelessly, and said, "Of course you are just playing around with me. Otherwise, who else can there be?"

Chu Wanning: “…”

The hairband was removed from Mo Ran's head. A narrow red thread was tied to both ends and stretched between Mo Ran's fingers, twisting into a unique knot.

Chu Wanning sat up from the bed and asked with no good temper: "What is this? How to play?"

"This is a flower rope. Girls play a lot, and boys usually don't play this, but didn't I grow up in Lefang before? There are many girls there, so I learned it."

“…”

"Actually it's quite interesting. Look, you hook this thread on your finger... No, it's not this one, it's the little finger, well, that's it. Then hook the thumb and index finger on the two threads over there..." Mo Ran said in a whisper, very patient and peaceful.

The candlelight crackled, and the warm yellow halo reflected their figures, one big and one small, bowing their heads and walking around the red line wrapped by the hair rope. Their expressions could not resist each other's gentleness.

Chu Wanning's hand was tense with the line. He was walking around with the tricks under Mo Ran's guidance, and he was not afraid of turning the wrong way. When the red line turned around, he pulled it, but did not pull out a new style as expected. Instead, he pulled it into the original form, two simple lines.

He stared blankly, his hand still raised in the air, but murmured with confusion: "Why did it go away? How could it be like this..."

"Haha, you've gotten wrong again."

“…come again.”

"I won't come, I won't come." Mo Ran smiled, "It's boring to play with one, change to something else."

"No." This time, Chu Wanning was unhappy and said solemnly, "Do it again."

“…”

The two stayed in the cave for three days. On the fourth night, Mo Ran was preparing to make some delicious food for Chu Wanning as usual. In the past few days, he had figured out some tricks. His junior brother and his master were indeed fellow villagers, and his diet was exactly the same.

Tonight, Yumin sent a hen and a few mushrooms. Mo Ran planned to cook a pot of fresh mushroom chicken soup and add some noodles that he rolled into himself. The taste would not be too bad.

"Drink chicken soup tonight?"

"Yeah." Mo Ran responded and looked sideways at Chu Wanning. Although this child is talented in martial arts, he is completely unable to find the way to turn the rope. But he is very stubborn. He just takes a rope in his hand and thinks about it with no problem. His stubborn look is also hilarious.

Mo Ran smiled and said, "You sit next to you and play slowly, but I'm afraid that the soup has been stewed, but you haven't studied the rope thoroughly."

Chu Wanning snorted coldly, paused, and said lightly: "Does there be slices of ginger in the leftover ingredients?"

"Let me see... Oh, there are a lot of them, I gave me a bunch of ginger yesterday."

Chu Wanning said with satisfaction: "Put in more to get rid of the fishy smell."

Mo Ran touched his chin: "Oh...why would you like to put some wolfberry?"

Chu Wanning's eyes lit up: "Is there any?"

"Puff. Of course not, I just think you taste like Master. He likes to put ginger and wolfberry when drinking soup."

“…What do you remember he likes to eat?”

"Haha, yes, I'm good-behaved." Mo Ran was too lazy to explain more. He couldn't tell his junior brother about his past and present life, right? So he followed the pole and replied, "I am a twenty-four good disciples. Unfortunately, my master couldn't see my innocent heart and admired her sincerely."

Mo Ran said casually and began to deal with poultry meat, so he missed Chu Wanning's expression perfectly. He quickly plucked his hair and removed the organs, and was about to boil water to remove the blood. At this time, he suddenly heard the junior brother whisper: "He may not know."

"What?"

When Chu Wanning saw Mo Ran raise his head, his ears suddenly turned red. He turned his head and coughed a few times, saying, "I said you may not know how good you treat Elder Yuheng."

"Oh, this is not a big deal. Anyway, I'm used to it. Although I sometimes have delusions to say something to me like other people's masters, or occasionally I can know what I like like like like, just know what I like. But that's all in the past. When I first started, I was deceived by his beautiful skin and thought he was a gentle person. Now I think about it... Alas, he is unattainable, and I dare not catch his eyes, hahahahahaha."

When Chu Wanning heard this, he was a little angry, but after thinking about it carefully, although he cared about Mo Ran, he always acted in a distant manner. He couldn't help but become embarrassed again, so he lowered his head silently. After a while, he jumped out of the bed and walked to Mo Ran silently.

"do what?"

"You have been cooking for several days. Today's simple ones, I'll make it for you."

Mo Ran was stunned and then smiled and said, "Why did you suddenly have this idea? You are a small person, how can you cook? You can't even reach the stove. What's more, I am your senior brother. Since you have called me like this, what's the point of a few meals?"

Chu Wanning moved a bench over, stood on the stool without making a sound, and looked at him stubbornly.

Mo Ran: "...why are you glaring at me?"

"See if I can get the stove."

“…”

"Elder Yuheng doesn't know what you like to eat, but I'm not as unconscience as him." Chu Wanning said with a blank expression, "You go to rest, I'll cook for you."

After busy for a long time, Chu Wanning did not let Mo Ran intervene, but instead held the corpse of the hen with a fierce look on his face, with a fierce look on his face, his expression was focused, his technique was stiff, and the scene was unbearable to look at him.

Mo Ran originally wanted to help, but his junior brother's bad temper was very similar to his master. When he was focusing on doing things, he hated others to disturb him. So after making trouble for himself for a few times, Mo Ran had to scratch his head and lay on the bed in a daze and rest.

The chicken was finally put into the pot. Chu Wanning covered the mud cover of the soup pot and turned around and was about to say something to Mo Ran when he suddenly heard a soft sound from the door of the prison.

"Aran, Junior Brother Xia, are you here?"

When Mo Ran heard this voice, he suddenly jumped out of bed as if struck by lightning. He rushed to the door and through the gap, he first saw a Yu Min standing outside coldly. But his eyes turned a little and saw behind her, Shi Mei standing with a plain white body and a sad face. He couldn't help but feel overjoyed: "Shi Mei! You... Why are you here?"

"I have something to tell you." The master said, "The Lord has received the report and has arrived at the Peach Blossom Land. He is negotiating with the people of Yu. How are you? Have you suffered these days?"

"I'm very good, I can eat, drink and jump." Mo Ran paused and asked again, "Where is Master? Where are the others?"

"It is said that he is still in seclusion and recuperation and has never come."

"Oh..." Mo Ran's eyes flashed, he sighed randomly, and muttered to himself, "It's better if he doesn't come... it's better if he doesn't come."

"But Elder Xuan Ji has arrived and said he is here to guarantee Junior Brother Xia." Shi Mei asked, "Junior Brother Xia is sleeping?"

Mo Ran said, "No, he is stewing soup. Junior brother-come here quickly!"

Chu Wanning put down the little bamboo fan that was stirring up the fire, walked to the door, looked at the two people outside, without any surprise expressions, and said lightly: "What's wrong?"

Before Shi Mei could speak, Yu Min snorted first and asked, "It's not your people from the top of life and death. Your master said he wanted to protect you, and he was planning with our Immortal Lord."

“…My Master?”

"Elder Xuan Ji."

"Oh." Chu Wanning paused, expressionless, "Very good."

The Yumin curled his lips and said, "You two come out. All the nobles have gathered in Yinlu Pavilion, waiting to hear your explanation."

Chu Wanning looked back at the stewed chicken soup and said, "I won't go anymore. I'm half boiling the soup, I can't leave. Mo Ran, you tell me to go."

When Yumin heard this, he thought that he was indeed a child who was still not dry and his speech was so unreliable. So he sneered and scared him: "If you don't go, you will miss the opportunity to defend yourself. If you are sentenced to kill the eighteen girls, you will have to kill someone and lose your life."

Unexpectedly, Chu Wanning was not afraid at all when he heard this. Instead, he looked indifferent, looked at him coldly, turned around and left.

Shi Meizhi was about to call him, but Mo Ran smiled and shook his head: "Let him, I'll go."

"But Elder Xuan Ji came from afar, and he would lose his courtesy if he didn't go to greet him..."

Before Mo Ran could speak, he heard Chu Wanning say far away: "Senior Brother Mo, say hello to my master on my behalf."

"..." He could not help but feel embarrassed when he heard him. Shi Mei cleared his throat. When Yumin opened the thorn bush outside the prison, he pulled Mo Ran to leave.

Unexpectedly, Chu Wanning turned around and called him: "Senior Brother."

"Have you changed your mind and wanted to go with me?" Mo Ran asked with a smile.

Chu Wanning waved his sleeves with a short hand and said, "I won't go. I'm here to remind you, remember to come back earlier, the soup will be cold if it's late, and it won't be delicious."

Mo Ran was stunned for a moment and laughed: "Okay, then wait for me."

"Yes." Chu Wanning stopped talking, but when Mo Ran walked far away and disappeared from the corner, he turned around and went to make soup.

Yinlu Pavilion is not far from the prison hole. On the way I walked over, Shi Mei asked intentionally or unintentionally: "Aran, you seem to be familiar with Junior Brother Xia these days?"

Mo Ran smiled and said, "Yes, I and him are sharing weal and woe. Why? Shi Mei is jealous of children, right?"

"……nonsense."
To be continued...