The little girl felt relieved when she saw Lin Dongjiu snoring. She sat next to Lin Dongjiu and wanted to keep vigil for her elder brother.
But the little girl was too young and tired from all the hard work. After a while, she became sleepy and curled up next to Lin Dongjiu's arm and fell asleep.
Early the next morning, a ray of early morning sunlight shone into the cave. Lin Dongjiu opened his eyes quietly. The wounds on his body had scabbed over, but the Dantian in his abdomen felt like it was split open. There was a burning pain, probably due to overdraft of spiritual power.
The sequelae left behind.
Lin Dongjiu looked around and saw that there was nothing else in the cave except the corpse of the big bear.
Hey...why is the little girl missing?
Lin Dongjiu's expression changed. Did something happen to the little girl while he was sleeping?
He was about to get up and go out to look for her, but suddenly he breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that the little girl was not missing and was outside the cave.
Lin Dongjiu's consciousness saw the little girl holding a big leaf, standing motionless under a big tree, apparently catching the dew dripping from the tree.
Under her feet, there was a large leaf with a few small red wild fruits on it. She didn't know where she found it.
The forest in the early morning was foggy and steamy, and the little girl's shabby linen clothes were soaked through. Just a breeze blew by, and she kept shivering, and her lips turned purple from the cold.
What makes Lin Dongjiu even more distressed is that the little girl had one bare foot, and now the other shoe is missing. Both feet are covered with mud, and she doesn't know where she walked, and her feet were scratched.
Got several wounds.
Lin Dongjiu hurriedly walked out, came behind the little girl, snatched the big leaf from her head, put a blanket on her, and asked rather distressedly:
"Rourou, what are you doing out here so early in the morning? How long have you been standing here?"
When the little girl saw it was Lin Dongjiu, her eyes suddenly turned into crescent moons, and she said in great surprise:
"Brother, you're awake!"
There was an innocent radiance in her eyes, and her baby-fat little face turned red.
The little girl smiled sweetly and said:
"I'm catching dew for big brother to drink. I also picked some fruits. Big brother, please try it. It's so sweet!"
Lin Dongjiu took a piece of fruit and stuffed it into the little girl's mouth:
"You haven't eaten anything since yesterday. Brother, you are not hungry. You should eat these fruits soon. When you finish eating the fruits, brother will take you to eat meat."
"I'm not hungry. I ate a lot when I was picking fruits just now. Big brother, please eat quickly."
The little girl had a stubborn face and the fruit in her mouth made her words a little unclear, but her tone could also be heard to be very certain.
However, her stomach growled for a while, which still gave her away.
The little girl's face flushed, and she quickly ate the fruit in her mouth, and handed another one to Lin Dongjiu. She stared at him with a firm look, as if to say, if I eat one, you must eat one too.
Lin Dongjiu had no choice but to accept it with a smile, and while eating, he stretched out his hand. A ball of spiritual fire burst out from the palm of his hand, roasting the little girl's whole body clean, and took her back to the cave.
Lin Dongjiu processed the black bear, peeled off the fur and made a pair of simple shoes for the little girl, and cut off some pieces of bear meat and roasted it for the little girl to eat.
The two brothers and sister chatted while eating. The little girl said that Lin Dongjiu was an immortal and asked him a lot of wild questions. Lin Dongjiu told her many interesting fairy tales. For a while, the cave was filled with the little girl's silver bell-like laughter.
Lin Dongjiu also asked the little girl where her home was so he could send her back.
When asked, the little girl actually said that she was from Luo'an Village. Lin Dongjiu secretly thought that it was a coincidence that he was also going to Luo'an Village to look for the large army. He was afraid that he would be late and the two groups would be separated, so he took the little girl with him after eating.
The girl left.
Lin Dongjiu put the little girl on his neck and jumped up on the wind.
The little girl rode on Lin Dongjiu's neck and saw how small the forest beneath her feet was. It turned out that the white clouds floating in the sky could be within reach. She danced excitedly and kept shouting:
"My eldest brother is an immortal! My eldest brother is an immortal..."
Lin Dongjiu was afraid that she would fall if she got excited, so he quickly held her tightly. Infected by the little girl's emotions, he couldn't help but feel comfortable.
Looking down from above the forest, you can see a village located at the foot of the mountains. Through the sunlight, you can vaguely see a magic circle like a large bowl lying upside down above the village.
That was probably Luo'an Village, because the closest place to the Zhanlong Mountain Range was Luo'an Village. Lin Dongjiu looked at the direction and flew over there with the little girl.
He landed not far from the village entrance, and told the little girl not to tell others that he could fly.
The little girl nodded ignorantly, then took Lin Dongjiu's hand and ran into the village with excitement.
There are more than 300 households in this village. There is no traffic in the village, and chickens and dogs hear each other. It is somewhat like the paradise described in Peach Blossom Spring.
Lin Dongjiu thought that if one day he got tired of staying in the world of immortality, it would be a pleasure to come to a small village like the secular world to retire.
As soon as they entered the village, they saw an old woman tampering with clothes. The old woman was surprised when she saw them. She quickly put down the clothes in her hands and walked over, saying with tears in her eyes:
"My poor baby, where have you been these days? Your grandpa is so anxious that he falls ill!"
"Grandma!"
The little girl cried and threw herself into the old woman's arms. After a long time, she raised her head and said to the old woman:
"Grandma, I lost my way in the mountains. It was the immortal brother who saved me and sent me back."
Lin Dongjiu saw the old woman glance over with a slightly confused look and said hurriedly:
"Hello, grandma, I am a disciple of Luoxia Sect. I happened to meet Rourou who was lost in the forest, so I sent her back."
"Oh, it turns out they are the disciples of those immortal masters. When people get old, their eyesight gets blurred. Don't blame the old woman for being lazy."
The old woman's attitude became respectful and she spoke very politely.
Lin Dongjiu was a little helpless about the old woman's awe. To mortals, especially those in the mountains, monks were indeed as far away and out of reach as immortals. The concept of awe had been deeply ingrained in his bones, and it was impossible to say that it could be changed by changing it.
He had no choice but to say: "Grandma, don't be polite to me. I heard that Rourou's grandpa is ill. Please take me to see him quickly. I may be able to cure him."
The old woman brought Lin Dongjiu to the little girl's home. He heard her grandma say that the little girl's grandfather was the head of Luo'an Village.
Lin Dongjiu met her grandfather, and at a glance she knew that he was suffering from a sudden attack of rage, which caused him to have a high fever and fall into a coma in bed.
Mortal diseases are easy to treat for monks. Lin Dongjiu took out a few pills, diluted the pills, and gave them to the old man.
After a while, the old man opened his eyes. When he saw the little girl coming back, he thought he was dreaming. It wasn't until the little girl called him that he finally realized that it was his granddaughter who was back!
The grandfather and grandson hugged each other and cried bitterly. Lin Dongjiu was very moved by the scene of reunion.
The little girl told her grandfather what she had experienced in the past few days. When the old man heard that Lin Dongjiu had saved his granddaughter, and that Lin Dongjiu was still a disciple of the Immortal Sect, the old man had to kneel down and kowtow to express his gratitude.
Lin Dongjiu quickly stopped the old man and asked him to rest more, thanking him and so on.
He asked the old man if the people from the Luoxia Sect who came to collect grains had come yet?
But the old man had been ill in bed and didn't know much about these things, so he called a man over.
The man said that the people from the Immortal Sect had not arrived yet, but news came that they would arrive before noon today.
Lin Dongjiu felt that the raid on the Demon Palace had delayed their trip, otherwise they would have arrived last night.
In this case, he was not in a hurry to return to the clan alone, so he started chatting with the old man in the room.
Lin Dongjiu looked at the little girl chasing butterflies outside the house and asked:
"Old man, why don't you see Rourou's parents?"
The old man sighed and said:
"Alas! This baby has a hard life. She is an abandoned baby I picked up at the entrance of the village. I raised her all by myself, but I have wronged her over the years."
Lin Dongjiu did not expect that the little girl had not seen her parents since she was a child. When she thought of the little girl's sensible and strong appearance, she felt a little sad.
He was silent for a moment, organized his words and said:
"It's not easy for you to raise a little girl by yourself, and the little girl is sensible. She, thank you from the bottom of my heart. How can she feel wronged."
The old man smiled, with wrinkles all over his face. He looked at the little girl playing alone outside the house with some cloudy eyes, and took a few puffs of dry cigarette, as if he was lost in long-lasting memories.
After a while, the old man came back to his senses and said to Lin Dongjiu:
"You saved the baby's life. This baby is destined to you...Old man, I want to ask you something."
Lin Dongjiu said respectfully: "Please tell me, I will definitely help you if I can help you."
"Old man, I won't live for more than a few years, but I can't rest assured if I leave my baby alone in a ravine, even if I die!"
The old man's tone suddenly became excited:
"My child, the old man has bad eyesight, but I can see that you are a kind-hearted person. Moreover, the baby is close to you and trusts you very much. I think... I want to hand the baby over to you."
Lin Dongjiu was stunned for a moment and asked: "Old man, what do you mean..."
The old man's eyes were pleading, and he said: "I want to ask you to intercede with those immortals and bring the baby to the immortal gate so that she can become an immortal too.
I know that those immortal masters only accept disciples who have immortal roots. They told me that you can't become an immortal without immortal roots. I don't know if my baby has immortal roots, but even if she can't become an immortal, I really can't leave her to do odd jobs in the immortal gate.
It works.
It's better than...it's better than hanging your head on your waistband and going hunting in the mountains and forests!"
As the old man spoke, he was about to kneel down again. Lin Dongjiu saw this and quickly stopped him:
"Old man, what are you doing? Why don't I agree to what you said?"
Lin Dongjiu smiled and said: "Actually, what you said is not difficult. Even if this girl Xinrou doesn't have immortal roots, I can still let her stay in the Luoxia Sect, and I can also let her join my master and become my junior sister.
She will definitely not be aggrieved at all by then."
"Really...really?"
The old man burst into tears with excitement and said in a trembling voice:
"My child, you may think this matter is nothing, but you are the one who changes my child's destiny!"