Not Intruders

"This is a public place, we are not intruders," said Er Yuen back. Tai Yang smiled, approached Er Yuen, and reached the boy's long hair that was sticking out from behind his ear, very soft and shiny hair, and it smelled good.

"Hmm, yeah that's right, how can an intruder be this beautiful? Tell me what's your name, sweetie"

Tai Yang moved close to Er Yuen, almost touching his chin, but again Mei Lan stopped him.

"Hey don't come closer."

Tai Yang shifted the young girl's from his sight.

He grabbed Er Yuen's chin and stared at his deep sweet face and beautiful pair of eyes. The young king got so close and pushed him to the tree, he had nowhere to go. The huge man scared him.

"Gleuk" Yuen swallows his saliva.

Tai Yang smiles, showing his white neatly arranged teeth with sharp fangs as he is another beast. He did enjoy grabbing the young man who was so small on him. Yuen's eyes widened to see the gaze of the foreign youth who had saved him earlier. He didn't seem like a bad person, but he looked at him as if he was about to swallow him whole.

"Eh, Young Master, please.." Just as Er Yuen was about to push the young man's chest, someone shouted from the top of the cliff.

"King! We've caught them!" cried Pai.

Tai Yang straightened his body and smirked, looking at the young man without blinking. He loses control and enjoys teasing the young man he just met. This is not what he used to be.

"Hey, you're not a gang of intruders? Aren't you?"

"Move away from him!"

Mei Lan pulled Er Yuen out of the man's custody.

That man was scary, and while she could only master light body spiritual energy. She could run, but what about Yuen?

"Don't come near" she threatened with her big eyes on the scary man. Whatever it is, she has to protect Yuen from the beast.

Tai Yang waved his hand and neatly put his long bluish hair behind his back. His broad and majestic clothes were gently blown by the wind.

"Well, never mind, my sweet child, we will meet again another time, okay."

After talking like that, Tai Yang stomped his foot slowly and floated up to the cliff. Pai and his men had already detained several people suspected of being intruders. Some of the ugly, unkempt men surrender with lots of bruises on their faces.

"Please spare our life, we are just passersby," said one of the men in front.

"Take them to the mayor's residence, let them take care of them."

"Yes, my king," said Pai.

Tai Yang hopped on his horse. Before leaving, he was still looking at Er Yuen and Mei Lan, who were leaving in a hurry after he let them go.

"I told you not to cross the border. Luckily for us the man doesn't have any bad intentions," whispered Mei Lan, pulling Yuen's hand as fast as they could.

"Well, what can we do, Mei? We needed the flowers, and it happened to be there."

"Yeah lucky you did not fall and hurt yourself. Don't do that again"

....

Moon Lotus Clan.

The clan that focuses on martial arts and its medicine stands proudly on the cliffs of the Lotus Valley. The clan itself is far from the Martial World's struggles and chooses to be a party for body development and treatment that is neutral regardless of anyone.

The great school has its building complex far from the hills and mountains around the Lotus Valley. The magnificent building complex is so pleasant to the eye.

In front of the main building in the open field, some clan's disciples, in white and blue-sky-color outfits were training vigorously under the guidance of Gao Pu. The old martial arts and internal practitioner Master with almost white hair and beard. But don't doubt his abilities, his stamina was still like that of a valiant thirty-year-old youth. The old man trained the disciples almost every morning, his voice booming throughout the entire area up to the front yard of the Moon Lotus main house.

"This old He Tao is irresponsible, play around here and there, then where is that kid?" The man is Hua Yang, the tenth Moon Lotus clan leader. On his left, was his favorite disciple, Lo Yi. On his right was his deputy, Pang, who was more and less around his age. Hua Yang, an old man in his sixties, with black and white dominant clothes and black hair that partly turned white, dominated on the side of the field and looked around.

Lo Yi held a sword in a scabbard that he always carried with him everywhere.

"Where could she be, Master? At this time, sister Mei must be busy sticking on Er Yuen everywhere, that brat"

Pang approached.

"Chairman, tonight is the full moon, exactly a month. Old man Oei will be busy like every other full moon. I think Miss Mei is busy there too."

Hua Yang sighed. Stroked his beard.

"Heh, sixteen years, time does pass so fast, and during these years the child has grown bigger. At first, no one thought he would be able to make it through the sixth year, but it's been his six-teen already."

.....

Evening at Elder Oei's hut.

Hot smoke was rising in the large tub that was already filled with water-soaked all kinds of medicinal leaves and flowers.

Mei Lan helped by lifting the bucket to fill the half-full tub with a He, the young man who helped Elder Oei's daily life. He had been Er Yuen's playmate since a kid and treated him like his little brother and always protected him.

"Master Gu, is this enough?" a He has always been like that since a kid. He has a tall posture and quite an attractive face, but his stuttering speech makes him not confident.

Elder Oei glanced at the bucket with his small narrow eyes.

"Two more buckets. Mei Lan, let a He the one who does it, call Er Yuen to get ready," said the old man.

Mei Lan nodded.

"Yes, elder!"

Before long, in Er Yuen's room. The young man took off his clothes layer by layer. His plain and smooth white body in the front is visible under the dim oil lamp of his room. Right on his back, a long scar stretched from his left shoulder to his right waist.

Er Yuen looked frantically palpated around his neck and couldn't find what was supposed to be there.

"Where is it?" he looked around him. Did it fall on the floor?

Mei Lan, who was peeking from the door, stopped for a moment. She saw the scar on Yuen's back and remembered her father's story about Er Yuen as a baby.

Yuen almost died from being attacked by robbers who invaded his village. Tiny baby Er Yuen would almost die were it not for the greatness of Elder Oei's medicinal valley healer. However, the wound was not fully healed. Once every thirty days, all the poison in Er Yuen's body would be forced out, to the point of causing excruciating pain that could make him die because all his organs were paralyzed. He had to soak in the medicinal boiled water for the night to suppress the poison, so he could survive.

Mei Lan clenched her fists, even the medicinal valley magic healers couldn't cure the poison. What could they do? That's what made the girl determined to learn harder with Elder Oei, but she didn't have the talent like Er Yuen. Could a healer heal himself?

Mei Lan put on a cheerful face before widening the bedroom door.

Hearing the door's squeaky sound, Er Yuen put his clothes back on quickly.

"Yuen! Come on, are you ready yet? Elder says it's time to take a bath. Let's go"

Er Yuen stuttered, Mei Lan was a girl. How could she enter the boys' room carelessly? Er Yuen preceded Mei Lan out of the room.

"Mei Lan, next time please knock on the door, what if I'm not wearing anything?"

Mei Lan caught up with Er Yuen.

"Well, I don't mind, I've seen it a lot since we were kids. What's the difference now?"

Er Yuen's cheeks reddened at the sound of Mei Lan's shrill voice, which was quite loud.

"Of course it does. Now we're all grown up, it's different."

Mei Lan held back her amusement, Er Yuen's face was adorable when he was embarrassed.

"Hehehe Yuen is shy, it's so cute"

"Stop it, Mei"

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