Can One Rest Easy on a High Pillow?

Tian Buyi went with Su Ru as usual today to supervise their young disciple's studies.

He Dazhi explained some poetry, weaving in a few interesting little stories along the way. When he came to the phrase "rest easy on a high pillow," Luo Yunji wore a look of thought and yearning.

Seeing this, Tian Buyi raised a hand and interrupted He Dazhi's lesson. The onlookers followed his gaze toward their little junior brother.

"Do you have a question?" Tian Buyi looked at his young disciple and asked, trying to soften his voice.

Tian Buyi had been enduring it all this time. These past few days, his hands had been itching, always wanting to find something to smack a few times.

"Ah! I know!" Luo Yunji suddenly shouted, then grabbed Zhang Xiaofan's hand beside him and dragged him as he ran outside.

Everyone in the room was left with heads full of confusion.

Before long, the two little ones darted back in again.

"Put it here!" Luo Yunji directed Zhang Xiaofan, having him set the bamboo basket on his back beside the soft couch against the wall.

He Dazhi and the others then watched as that little monster took one familiar item after another out of the bamboo basket.

"That... is that my pillow?" Old Six looked somewhat doubtfully at the several pillows stacked together, piled high.

"Looks like mine's there too!" Old Three and Old Five also spoke up in confusion.

Before anyone could react, the little fatty lay straight down on the soft couch.

That pile of pillows was stacked so high that with the little fatty's short, squat build, he could not possibly rest his head on it and lie flat.

Everyone then saw Luo Yunji lie down with his head on the pile of pillows, his head and neck nearly bent into a ninety-degree angle.

Only then did everyone in the room realize what this little fellow Luo Yunji was up to.

"Pfft!"

No one knew who failed to hold it in first and laughed out loud.

Then, one disciple after another could be seen struggling to endure it, constantly letting out "pfft, pfft" bursts of laughter.

Old Six even turned around to face the wall, continuously making "pfft, pfft" sounds, his shoulders heaving violently.

Tian Linger was already stunned senseless by the scene before her!

"Whose family's fool is this?" A child's words carried no taboo.

"Hahaha!" Tian Linger's unthinking, blunt remark made the other disciples unable to bear it any longer, and they all burst out laughing!

Tian Buyi slowly buried his face in his hand and sighed deeply. "Sigh!"

Su Ru, for her part, was laughing along with her daughter until they swayed from side to side.

Finding that sleeping like this was uncomfortable, Luo Yunji's temper rose. "It's not comfortable at all! How can they call it 'rest easy on a high pillow'? My neck's killing me!"

"Hahahahaha!" The disciples were laughing so hard they could not stand it.

Old Six had already crouched down, facing the wall, and the sounds he made could no longer be distinguished as laughter or crying; his body only kept shaking nonstop.

Seeing that everyone was laughing, even Zhang Xiaofan turning his face away with his shoulders twitching, Luo Yunji realized that it seemed to be because of him!

"Yaaah!" Feeling the not particularly friendly laughter from everyone, Luo Yunji angrily dragged over a pillow at random and hurled it at He Dazhi opposite him.

He Dazhi raised a hand and caught it lightly. His face showed a conflicted expression of both wanting to laugh and feeling very troubled.

Seeing that he had not hit anyone, the little fatty grabbed another pillow and casually picked someone to throw it at.

Before long, several of the senior brothers had almost all been hit by a pillow.

Everyone felt that it was not good of them to laugh at their little junior brother like this, so none of them minded Luo Yunji's shame-turned-anger actions.

Seeing that everyone was still laughing, Luo Yunji threw whatever he could get his hands on.

Tian Buyi saw Luo Yunji bullying his senior brothers one-sidedly and found it a little hard to keep watching.

"You're all just going to dote on him and give way like this? Give way until this brat runs wild without fear of heaven or earth, is that it? Huh?"

Tian Buyi's questioning instantly perked up the senior brothers, and they all picked up the pillows by their feet and threw them back.

Seeing that his little junior brother's two fists were no match for four hands and that he had been hit several times, Zhang Xiaofan hurriedly stood in front of Luo Yunji.

Seeing Zhang Xiaofan standing in front of him, the little fatty was no longer getting hit, but he also could not catch any pillows to throw back. He shoved him aside and flailed about trying to catch the pillows flying over, then hurled them back with all his might!

Seeing that his little junior brother was outnumbered, yet not daring to offend the senior brothers himself, Zhang Xiaofan only helped Luo Yunji catch as many incoming pillows as he could and placed them where Luo Yunji's hand could reach.

After Old Six and Old Five noticed, they shouted at the tops of their lungs, "Seventh Junior Brother! You should be on our side! We're all the ones being bullied by Little Junior Brother! You little traitor!"

Zhang Xiaofan chose to become temporarily deaf, pretending he had not heard, and continued silently catching pillows for Luo Yunji.

Finding it fun, Tian Linger also ran over to the senior brothers' side and helped smash Luo Yunji, who had stirred up everyone's anger.

Seeing the disciples making such a happy ruckus, Su Ru felt that such a scene was not suitable for elders like them to be present at, so she rose and prepared to leave.

Because it had been a single remark of his that had turned things into the current scene, Tian Buyi was too embarrassed to speak up and stop them again. He prepared to leave with Su Ru and leave this place to the disciples to make a mess of.

Who would have thought that at the very instant he was about to rise, a black shadow came hurtling over?

Tian Buyi reached out and caught it. A strange odor drilled into his nose. He frowned and looked closely. "Damn it!" What he was pinching in his hand was actually a shoe. No wonder the smell...

Tian Buyi saw the disciples making such a fierce ruckus that no one at all had noticed he had been offended, and the fire in his heart surged upward in billowing waves.

Taiji Mystic Purity Dao, activate!

Cultivation—fully unleashed!

A wave of pressure made everyone in the room shudder, and one after another, they stopped what they were doing.

When they saw what Tian Buyi was holding, all the disciples dropped to their knees with a series of thuds.

Only Luo Yunji seized the chance to smash everything within reach, smug delight written all over his face.

"Whose is it?" Tian Buyi's broad, round face was dark as he swept his furious gaze over the disciples.

Because they were all kneeling, he couldn't see who was missing a shoe.

"Every one of you, get outside and kneel!"

The disciples all obeyed. Luo Yunji was dragged out by Zhang Xiaofan. Song Daren, who was the last to rise, edged timidly toward the door.

Oh, well now! Tian Buyi discovered in astonishment that his eldest disciple actually thought he could walk with an ordinary gait while standing like a golden rooster on one leg!

Did he really think Tian Buyi was blind?!

Tian Buyi had guessed it might be the fourth, suspected the second, felt the fifth and sixth were the most likely, with the third a bit less so. Judging from the shoe's size and style, the three little ones could be ruled out completely. The one person he alone had never considered was his honest eldest disciple!

One truly couldn't judge a man by his face!

Tian Buyi clenched his back teeth hard and hurled the shoe in his hand at Song Daren, who was still pretending.

Pain flared across Song Daren's back. Seeing the shoe that had fallen by his foot, he hurriedly bent to pick it up, lowered his head, and scurried out.

Outside, his junior brothers were already kneeling in a row. Seeing their eldest senior brother hopping out in fits and starts while lifting his foot to put on his shoe, they all cast him looks filled with worship—and the gloating certainty that he was done for.

Then, as if thinking of something, they all lowered their heads and their shoulders began to shake.

"All these years, and I never realized Eldest Senior Brother was this kind of amusing fellow!" the sixth murmured in heartfelt amazement.

Beside him, the fifth stretched out a finger and covertly poked him. The sixth saw Tian Buyi slowly walking out while dragging a chair with one hand, and hurriedly clamped his mouth shut.