MDZS Characters Watching the Future

79. Song of Lucidity

The QingheNie Sect's residence, the Unclean Realm-

"Oh, we're on our home." said Nie Huaisang.

"Of course we will be on your home, it was Nie Mingjue's memories we are watching." said Jaing Cheng and Nie Huaisang pouted at him.

Nie MingJue was sitting on a mat seat. A guqin lay horizontally before Lan XiChen as he brushed his fingers over the strings. When the song finished, Jin GuangYao laughed, "Well, now that I've heard Brother's guqin skills, I might as well smash my guqin the moment I get home."

"Do it, no one is stopping you." said Jingyi which he received a smack from his mother.

"Have some respect." said Jiang Cheng.

Lan XiChen, "Your skills are also considered quite fine outside of Gusu. Were they taught by your mother?"

Jin GuangYao, "No. I taught myself by watching others. She never taught me such things. She only taught me reading and writing, and bought a handful of expensive sword and cultivation guides for me to practice."

Lan XiChen seemed surprised, "Sword and cultivation guides?"

"What's that?" asked Jin Zixun.

"Isn't it obvious?" asked Wei Wuxian.

"I'm not asking you, disgusting cut-sleeve." said Jin Zixun.

"Well, I am asking you, brainless Jin pig." said Wei Wuxian.

The juniors laughed hearing that.

Jin GuangYao, "Brother, you haven't seen them before, have you? Those small booklets sold by the common folk. First jumbled sketches of human figures, then deliberately mystified captions."

Lan XiChen shook his head, smiling. Jin GuangYao shook his head as well, "All of them are scams, especially to fool women like my mother and ignorant children. You won't lose anything by practicing them, but you definitely won't gain anything either."

He sighed in a rueful way, "But how could my mother have known this? She bought them no matter how expensive they were, saying that if I returned to see my father in the future, I had to see him with as much competence as possible so that I don't fall behind. All of the money was spent on this."

"Well, it payed off. Your father finally acknowledged you." said Nie Mingjue.

"But, why is it showing this?" he asked.

"Don't ask us, da-ge. We also don't know." said Nie Huaisang.

Lan XiChen strummed the strings of the guqin, "You are very talented, having achieved so much from simply watching others. If a master could offer you advice, you would make rapid progress."

Jin GuangYao grinned, "The master is right before my eyes, but I'd never dare to trouble him."

Lan XiChen, "Why not? Young Master, sit, please."

Jiang Cheng raised his brow at that.

"It's getting interesting." Wei Wuxian said with a grin.

"Hiw is it interesting?" asked Jiang Cheng.

"You'll know." said Nie Huaisang.

And Jin GuangYao sat down in front of him, his back straight and still. He pretended as though he was a student humbly listening to advice, "Teacher Lan, what will you be teaching?"

Jiang Cheng rolled his eyes making Wei Wuxian and Nie Huaisang snickered at him.

"Don't tell me you're really going to teach him." said Jiang Cheng.