After being reborn, all I want to do is run away.

Chapter 104 With a Watch in My Heart

“Since you’ve made up your mind to become a true cultivator, I have a gift for you. Come with me!” After saying that, Shen Xu walked to the Yunying tree in the courtyard.

"A gift?" Although Wushang was a little confused, she followed him to the Yunying Tree.

Shen Xu looked up at the lush and dense Yunying tree in front of him, spotted a suitable branch, drew his long sword and a flash of light appeared. The branch, carrying a huge amount of leaves, poured down and finally landed on the bluestone ground.

He picked up the branch and quickly removed the excess parts, then sat on the stone slab and began to carefully carve the branch.

Wu Shang squatted down beside him, watching intently. Wu You also immediately broke free from Wang Bo's embrace and squatted down on the other side, curiously watching what Shen Xu was going to do.

As Shen Xu's longsword danced across the branches like paper, the object hidden within them soon revealed itself: a wooden sword that looked exactly like the longsword in Shen Xu's hand, but scaled down.

Upon seeing this, Wuyou's eyes widened in surprise, while Wushang could hardly hide his excitement.

After some time, Shen Xu finally managed to pull the wooden sword out of the branch intact. He couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead. "I almost messed it up. Being a carpenter is not easy!"

Just as he was about to hand the sword to Wushang, Wuyou tugged at his sleeve and pointed to the ground, where the words "Wuyou's Sword" were written in yellow earth, which greatly surprised Shen Xu.

Wang Bo was right after all. Wu You's intelligence probably exceeded his imagination. You know, Wu You had only been learning to read for five or six days at most, yet he had already learned to write sentences.

Wu Shang quickly leaned over to look, but he clearly didn't recognize that many characters, and in the end he could only scratch his head helplessly.

"Does Wuyou also want a wooden sword?" Shen Xu asked Wuyou.

Wuyou nodded happily, and then Wushang looked at the words at his feet and suddenly realized what was going on.

"So this character is 'sword'. Why does it sound so familiar?" Wu Shang murmured.

"Study hard and make progress every day!" Shen Xu flicked Wu Shang on the forehead, and then used the remaining wood to make a small sword for Wu You.

Holding the wooden sword, Shen Xu stood up and said to Wu Shang, "A wooden sword has no edge. I also hope that in the next few years you can temper your sharpness, slowly learn to see and understand this world. You will find that this world may not be what you thought it was." After Shen Xu finished speaking, he handed the wooden sword to Wu Shang.

After receiving the wooden sword with both hands, Wu Shang solemnly said, "Brother Xu, I will!"

"Don't worry, once you take this sword, you can't always hide behind your brother anymore, because you also have the power to protect yourself," Shen Xu said seriously, turning to Wu You.

Seeing the little girl nod earnestly, Shen Xu smiled and handed another small sword to Wu You. The little girl, like Wu Shang, took the small wooden sword from his hand with both hands.

"Alright, go play!" Shen Xu said with a smile. After the two little ones ran off with their swords, he went back to Uncle Wang's side, only to find that Uncle Wang was already sleeping peacefully in the sunlight on the recliner.

……

As the sun set, the sound of swords being wielded echoed through the courtyard.

"You're not applying force correctly. It should be like this." Under the Yunying Tree, Shen Xu was demonstrating the correct sword techniques to Wu Shang.

Shen Xu originally intended to have Uncle Wang teach Wu Shang swordsmanship, but Uncle Wang used the excuse that "he's too old to lift a sword" to hand over the task to him, while he himself lay down and had Wu You peel grapes for him to eat.

"Let's practice swinging the sword a hundred times according to this standard." Shen Xu had no interest in teaching children how to use a sword.

"Alright!" Judging from Wu Shang's strong voice, he was quite interested in practicing swordsmanship.

"How many characters does Wuyou know?" Shen Xu squatted down and asked Wuyou, who was secretly eating grapes.

Wuyou stretched out his two little hands, but immediately realized that they were not enough, so he planned to find something to write down, but Shen Xu stopped him.

"I know there are many, right?"

Upon hearing this, Wuyou nodded vigorously.

A few days ago, Shen Xu took Wuyou to see a doctor. The doctor said that there was nothing wrong with Wuyou's throat. He was also puzzled as to why she couldn't speak, and could only attribute it to a cause he didn't know. Since he didn't know the cause, he naturally couldn't treat her.

After learning that Wu You's muteness was incurable for the time being, Shen Xu kept trying to recall the sign language he had learned on Blue Star. He had a classmate who also suffered from muteness, so he could understand some simple gestures, but since the memories were from so long ago, the gestures he recalled were probably only vague and inaccurate.

However, no one in this world would point out his mistakes, and as long as the three of them could understand Wuyou's gestures, that would be enough, since writing was still too troublesome.

"Don't get hurt. Come over after you finish practicing your swordsmanship. I have something to teach you."

"Okay~" Wu Shang's voice was clearly not as strong anymore.

“Uncle Wang, you should learn too!” Shen Xu said to Uncle Wang.

"I'm going to teach you a gesture that can express your inner thoughts, like nodding to mean agreeing and waving your hand to mean refusing. I will teach you more gestures that represent other meanings," Shen Xu said slowly, looking at the old man and two young men surrounding him.

“For example, to say ‘why?’ you can spread your hands, to say ‘thank you’ you can bend your thumbs a few times, to say ‘praise’ you can raise your thumbs, and to say ‘terrible’ you can raise your thumbs down…” Shen Xu demonstrated how to make the corresponding gestures after saying each word.

Wuyou was clearly interested in these gestures. She was also very clever and quickly mastered all the gestures that Shen Xu had taught her. Then she tentatively gave Shen Xu a thank you gesture.

"You're welcome!" Shen Xu smiled and patted Wu You's hair.

Wuyou was immediately amazed, as if she had discovered a new world. She began to try all the gestures that Shen Xu had taught her, and Shen Xu responded to each of them. Each of Shen Xu's responses made her happy for a long time.

After demonstrating the hand gestures with Shen Xu, Wu You couldn't wait to demonstrate the gestures she had just learned to Wu Shang and Uncle Wang. However, when she saw that the two of them didn't react to her gestures at all, the smile on her face instantly disappeared.

Shen Xu walked to Wu You's side and comforted her, "Not everyone is as smart as Wu You. If you want Wu Shang and Grandpa to understand your gestures, you have to keep teaching them, just like Grandpa taught you to read."

And don't worry, you can also translate what you often want to express into various different gestures and then teach them to us, but don't make it too complicated!

"I never thought I'd have to learn a new language at my age, but it seems pretty simple," Uncle Wang remarked.

"I want to learn too! Wuyou, you must teach me!" Wushang ran to Wuyou's side and said earnestly.

Wu You smiled sweetly and gave the two of them a thank you gesture.

Shen Xu quickly translated, "Don't worry, this is to thank you!"