I just want to repair a flute [Martial Arts]

Yun Chuxiu sat at one side of a table, holding his chin with one hand, looking across.

On the other side of the table sat a fat man with an unremarkable appearance. He was writing something on the paper in front of him with a pen. After a while, he finally raised his head with shining eyes and said, "It's true!"

Yun Chuxiu, who was sitting opposite him, was dressed as a girl, wearing a golden crown with colorful necklaces on her head and a pink dress that looked like peach blossoms. She was so charming and lovely that she looked like a fairy. However, the fat man opposite him looked at his face and was not moved at all by his nearly perfect facial features.

Beauty can impress many people, but it can also impress many people. Because the fat man in front of him is not an ordinary person. His name is Zhu Ting, and he is the world's leading master of machinery. Although he has never done business, his nickname is Boss.

After Yun Chuxiu spent fifty taels of gold to buy his residence, he immediately came over. At that time, Zhu Ting was thinking about making a big kite that could take people to the sky, and was writing and drawing on paper. When Yun Chuxiu heard what he said, he immediately grabbed the pen and drew a complete diagram of the glider structure on the paper in front of him.

It seems that not only the medical skills in this world are not as good as theirs, but also the mechanical technology. He thought to himself, but said, "This is not something I made, I just happened to know the blueprint." He saw it when he was looking through his master's collection of books.

"Oh?" Zhu Ting asked with great interest. "Who is the master who created it, and where is he?"

Yun Chuxiu thought for a long time and finally said: "...I don't know either. This thing existed before I was born. Maybe that master has already passed away?" After all, even if he is still alive, he is not in this world!
Zhu Ting was slightly disappointed, but he didn't ask further questions. Instead, he continued to discuss the structure of the hang glider with him, as if he also regarded him as a master of mechanisms. They talked for a while, and Yun Chuxiu's maid Yaoyao came to them with a large tray of food and quickly rearranged a table. "Boss, Miss, come and have something to eat!"

She looked only fourteen or fifteen years old, very thin, but surprisingly strong. After Yun Chuxiu sat down, he took a sip of the wine. The wine was just the right temperature, and it seemed that he would be drunk with just this sip: "This is really good wine."

He drank three glasses of wine in a row, his cheeks flushed, and he lazily turned the white porcelain wine glass in his hand, his slightly drunken look became more and more beautiful. Yaoyao took the chopsticks, cut the meat from the braised fish in the middle of the table, piled it in the bowl, and then handed the chopsticks to him with both hands: "Miss, eat the food!"

"Good girl, go and invite the boss lady over." Yun Chuxiu picked up the chopsticks and realized that there was one person missing from the table. "Oh, how rude! We sat down before the host even came to the table."

He put down his chopsticks again and smiled at the proprietress sitting next to him. A beauty like him naturally looked much better when he smiled than others, but the proprietress looked at him viciously, as if he was a wolf or a tiger, in short, something that could eat people and destroy people.

In fact, the boss lady was also very beautiful and charming, and she didn't seem to match the plain-looking boss in front of him. But when he saw the jealous and hateful emotions in her eyes, Yun Chuxiu couldn't help but chuckle.

"Sir." He called Zhu Ting. "It seems that I have caused some misunderstandings for the couple."

Zhu Ting was very calm: "The misunderstanding was not caused by you, and you didn't do anything." Did Yun Chuxiu deliberately seduced him?
But then again, a beautiful woman like her, just sitting there, is already a sight to behold, so why should she do more?
Yun Chuxiu was a little embarrassed: "Actually, I came here to ask you to fix something." He took out a flute that was broken into two pieces from his sleeve and handed it to Zhu Ting. "This flute has broken once before, and I asked someone to fix it. This is the second time it has broken. So, I think only your skillful hands can solve this problem for me."

Since it was a business opportunity, Zhu Ting would not refuse. He took the flute and looked at it, and couldn't help but sigh, "What a nice jade." He felt along the cracks in the flute and glanced at Yun Chuxiu. "It looks like someone broke it with internal force."

Yun Chuxiu: "..."

Yun Chuxiu looked up at the sky silently and stopped talking.

*
To understand what exactly happened, we have to go back to the deep valley half a month ago.

Before the sun set over the mountain, Yun Wuxin and Yun Chuxiu worked together to carry Xiao Donglou onto the carriage. It was so tragic that a person had to rely on others to move around, but Xiao Donglou was used to it, and when Yun Wuxin bent down to cover him with a blanket, he gently patted his shoulder.

"Don't drive the carriage today. Stay in the carriage and talk to me and A-Tu."

"I'm afraid that Ah Tu will talk too much and won't be able to stop, and then I won't have any chance to speak." Yun Wuxin raised his head and smiled at him, then obediently pulled over a chair and sat down. Yun Chuxiu stood in front of a cabinet on the side, checking the various things placed in the secret compartment.

He had the same problem as his master, he loved to enjoy himself and was very picky. When he heard the two people making fun of him, he snorted and said angrily, "Then I won't say a word to you. See if you still find me noisy!"

But having said that, by the time the carriage was pulled by four Ferghana horses, he had completely forgotten what he had said and started chattering around his senior brother. Yun Wuxin looked at him with a smile and couldn't help but exchange a "as expected" look with Xiao Donglou.

The moon was already high in the sky when they arrived at their destination. When Yun Chuxiu jumped off the carriage, he was greeted by a bustling night market scene. Countless vendors came to the open space with their loads on their shoulders, put them down, shouted loudly, and competed with each other. The lanterns hanging on the poles emitted a dazzling river of light. If this place was not a dark forest and there were no customers around, it would be very fascinating.

Yun Chuxiu didn't care about that, and happily went to the nearest stall to pick out the snacks he liked. Yun Wuxin pushed the couch where Xiao Donglou was lying towards the door, took the food bowls handed over by the vendors one by one, and fed them to his master with a spoon.

These foods were all very small and exquisite, and the containers they were placed in were even more exquisite—either made of gold or inlaid with various precious gems. Xiao Donglou only took a bite, but the vendor smiled as if his lifelong wish had come true, and he arched his hands towards him, then stepped on his toes and suddenly disappeared from the spot, leaving his stall behind.

The thick and long shoulder pole faced the moonlight, emitting a layer of dim golden light, and it was actually made of pure gold!
It turns out that these people who are dressed as hawkers and look like ordinary country folk are actually martial artists with extraordinary martial arts skills!

They all came here from afar, without any prior agreement, just to offer such a food box and gold, just like tenants who, after a year of hard work, would offer their master the best harvest. A satisfied look from the master would be enough.

"Master, have some!" Yun Chuxiu held a small jade bowl and flew back from the end of the light river like a butterfly, stuffing a spoonful of soup into Xiao Donglou's mouth. The latter knew that this bowl of soup had a lot of precious medicinal materials added to it, and couldn't help but smile and said, "You are still young, eat less tonics, be careful of nosebleeds."

"They're not giving me any filial piety, so have another bite." Yun Chuxiu coaxed him to take another bite, threw the jade bowl with only the soup base left to Yun Wuxin, and jumped out of the car again.

Standing beside the carriage and offering food was a hunched-backed, white-haired old lady. Seeing this, she couldn't help but grin, revealing two or three dark teeth: "After not seeing you for a year, the young master is still as lively as ever."

"I'm sorry to make you laugh, but he's just unstable. He's still like a child even though he's this old." Xiao Donglou was humble, but his tone was totally different. He then reflected on himself: "I used to hear people say that parents always favor their youngest son. I thought I could be different from the crowd, but who knew that I was just an ordinary person after all."

The white-haired old lady smiled and said, "If you say you are a vulgar person, I'm afraid there are no unvulgar people in this world. But sometimes, what's wrong with being a vulgar person? Besides, the young master is lively and intelligent, and we all like him."

Xiao Donglou coughed twice: "...That's true. It's just a pity for my Wuxin, he has such a good temper, I don't know how much he suffered at the hands of Junior Brother."

Yun Wuxin laughed: "Master, what are you talking about? My junior brother is younger than me, so I should be the one taking care of him."

Xiao Donglou sighed and said, "You are still calm after all..." His eyes swept across Yun Wuxin's gentle eyebrows, and he suddenly said something meaningful.

"But sometimes, you don't have to think too much. Even if the sky falls, I will always stand in front of you."

Yun Wuxin's movements faltered slightly. After a moment, he scratched his head a little embarrassedly and whispered to his master: "Master, listen to me tell you a story after we go back. Although it may be a little bizarre, it is indeed true."

"Okay." Xiao Donglou winked at him and replied happily. "Let your junior brother have a taste too. We can talk in private and not tell him how it tastes."

The corners of his mouth held a spring-like smile, which made Yun Wuxin feel warm in his heart - if he had known that such an answer would make the master so happy, he should have told the matter earlier! He couldn't help but smile gently and took the other bowl of food handed to him.

Then, just a moment later, he saw the smile on Xiao Donglou's lips melt away like ice and snow. His eyes were fixed on his side, and that complex, unexpected, and indescribable look was the first time Yun Wuxin saw it on the face of his master who was confident of everything.

He suddenly turned around and subconsciously stood in front of his master, then met a pair of eyes full of nostalgia——

A young man in red stood beside him, holding a big red umbrella. He was not the guest booked for tonight. Although he felt that he had no ill intentions, Yun Wuxin immediately put his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist. "Who are you?!"

"That's a stupid question." The other party replied calmly. "——Junior brother."

(End of this chapter)