Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 189 — Male and Female
Besides being in the form of an explanation when teaching Bailian, Zhou Yuan also practiced some sword moves on the shoulder-haired girl so that she could quickly understand it.
Bailian watched as he occasionally asked when there was something incomprehensible, Zhou Yuan replied patiently until the girl could understand him.
"Miss Yun, how long have you been learning swords?" Ask Zhou Yuan.
"About three months ago, Brother Yuan..."
Zhou Yuan smiled faintly, he had already guessed that the absorbency of the girl would be very good.
Although only three months Bailian held a sword but his achievements are said to be talented in the martial world.
According to Bailian, before learning the sword he first learned archery to the stage of an expert. Yun Feiyu apparently wanted Bailian to be able to use various types of weapons to strengthen his martial arts.
In the martial world it was not strange for a teacher to teach his students the way Yun Feiyu did, there were some of them who wanted their students to be able to do a lot of expertise compared to just being talented in one of the fields.
It was getting dark and four suns had already set in each direction. Zhou Yuan finally decided to end the training today.
"If you are tired you can go to the back of this house, there is a pool of warm water to relieve fatigue..." Bailian.
Zhou Yuan felt excited, the warm bath was one he liked the most when living his first life even until now. Zhou Yuan thanked Bailian before going to the pool of warm water.
When he arrived at the back of the house, Zhou Yuan found the warm water pool Bailian was referring to, the size of which was quite decent for some people to use, the warm water pool seemed to be formed by nature naturally.
Zhou Yuan frowned when there was no fence or barrier covering the hot spring so that people from outside could see it clearly.
'In case only Auntie and Miss Yun lived here, of course they didn't need any barriers or worry about anyone peeking.' Zhou Yuan scratched his nose.
Not long after that Zhou Yuan started to take off all his clothes and immediately soaked in the pool of warm water.
Zhou Yuan sat by the pool while leaning comfortably, he sighed softly as his body felt relaxed.
Zhou Yuan really enjoyed the warm water, for a long time he did not soak like this even though at his residence in the Zhou Family, he almost every day soaked in warm water.
"How are you doing with them, I hope they're not sad when they hear that I'm dead..." Zhou Yuan suddenly remembered his family, he could not imagine his mother's sobs when told that his son had died in the attack of the academy.
Zhou Yuan sighed softly, he did nothing now other than wish he could quickly return to his world.
"A thousand days yes..." Zhou Yuan smiled faintly as he recalled the conditions needed for him to return.
Perhaps due to being too comfortable to soak, Zhou Yuan closed his eyes for too long until he fell asleep there. Zhou Yuan opened his eyes again when he saw that the sky was already night.
"Buckoo..." Zhou Yuan was stunned from his sleep, he did not think he would fall asleep in the hot spring.
Someone's voice rang out after Zhou Yuan regained his senses, because the hot water gave rise to fog he had not seen it. It took a few seconds for Zhou Yuan to realize that the voice was Bailian who was soaking not far from him.
"Miss Yun, what are you doing here?!" Zhou Yuan immediately turned his face when he realized Bailian was soaking without using clothes.
"I was soaking, my body was too tired after training all day." Bailian answered him casually.
"That's not what I mean Miss Yun, why are you soaking when I'm here?" Zhou Yuan cursed inwardly, he could not just leave because he was also naked. Zhou Yuan continued to turn his face away from Bailian.
"Indeed why? I also often soak with Grandma even a few days ago I took a dip with Miss Linxia."
Zhou Yuan almost patted his eel. "Miss Yun is clearly different, I am a man while you are a woman, you should not equate with me."
Bailian looked puzzled to the point of tilting his head. "Grandmother always said that in this world there are creatures called men, what is a man like?"
Zhou Yuan's panic instantly disappeared upon hearing the question, he pegged and his mouth felt locked.
Zhou Yuan recalled that Yun Feiyu had previously told him that Bailian had been raised in the woods since he was a baby, considering that there was no one here.
Zhou Yuan cursed a thousand times in his heart, he guessed that Yun Feiyu had not told the girl about human gender even Bailian did not know that he was also a woman.
Rather than teaching the sword, Zhou Yuan should have taught the girl about the knowledge of the basics of this life including the existence of two genders male and female.
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For the next three days, Zhou Yuan did not train Bailian on swordsmanship, the young man further emphasized his lessons to the insight of the outside world that the girl should know.
Not only did he not know gender, in fact Bailian's knowledge was minimal than Zhou Yuan had guessed. Linxia who helped Zhou Yuan also shook his head knowing Bailian's knowledge was no different from a 3-year-old child.
"I don't understand, why would someone say something that isn't in reality?" Bailian asked confusedly in one of his lessons.
Bailian just found out that humans have the nature of lying, for the girl who as a child always honestly felt did not understand such human behavior.
Zhou Yuan and Linxia looked at each other before Linxia who spoke, "Sometimes reality is not always pleasant and siding with us, lies have a masking nature, lies have a masking nature, although lying is a false trait, in certain cases lying can be a necessary action."
There are many things Bailian asks such as why humans can fall in love, why humans marry, why can have children, he also asks why humans can cheat on their partners.
Zhou Yuan and Linxia were at a loss to answer what she looked like but patiently answered all of the girl's questions until she understood everything including gender differences.
On the fourth day Bailian could be said to have understood some things and understood the reason why Zhou Yuan and himself should not soak in the same place and time.
Zhou Yuan exhaled a sigh of relief after all, he had not expected educating someone to be so exhausting that it would be like this.