Even though Tong Nuonuo was a person with poor sense of direction, he still had self-esteem. When he heard someone calling him a fool, his first reaction was anger. He raised his head and searched with his eyes, and immediately caught sight of a petite girl sitting on a branch. He said in surprise, "It's you!"
Surprise overwhelmed anger. After all, the other party had helped him out of trouble. Tong Nuonuo's anger due to the damage to his face dissipated a lot. He turned his anger into joy and raised his hand to greet him: "Why are you here too? What a coincidence."
The girl said angrily, "It's not a coincidence! I have been here for a long time, you just came later."
Tong Nuonuo suddenly understood and immediately said with full conviction: "Oh, so that's how it is."
How could he be more gullible than me? Seeing that he believed her, the girl, who was actually just passing by and stopped to observe him because of his strange behavior, felt a little uncomfortable. She sat on the tree branch and asked, "Why aren't you with your companions?"
Tong Nuonuo hugged a pile of leaves and said embarrassedly, "I accidentally got separated from them. I was just planning to light a cigarette and let them come find me." The place where he slept last night was a flat ground that he had finally found. There were few trees around. He saw that the branches were too dense in this area, and the smoke would be easily dispersed if he lit it here. It would be better to have a concentrated burning effect in the place he had chosen before.
If it was a stranger in front of him, Tong Nuonuo would not tell the embarrassing thing. Anyway, the other party saw him turning around just now. In order to get help as soon as possible, Tong Nuonuo was willing to risk his face. He asked the girl: "Daoyou, can you tell me where the fire pit is? I can't find the fire pit I just dug." Tong Nuonuo was sure that she knew. Otherwise, she would not have said "this short distance".
The girl said, "We have met twice. There is no need to be polite. My name is Tang Ru, you can call me Ah Rou."
It is allowed to call someone by their first name, which is a sign of goodwill between practitioners. Tong Nonuo smiled and said, "So you are Miss Tang Ru. My name is Tong Nonuo, and you can call me by my first name, too."
The girl emphasized, "Just call me Ah Rou." Then she jumped down from the tree and pointed in a direction, "It's over there."
Tong Nuonuo thought about it, and in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he decided to ask the barbarian girl to help him. He said, "If possible, could you please lead the way?"
Tang Ru looked at him in surprise: "It's over there, not far away." Even standing on the treetop, she could see the other party's campsite last night.
Tong Nonuo said frustratedly: "My sense of direction is not very good, and it is easy for me to deviate from the planned route."
Tang Ru glanced at him. It seemed that this was the reason why he got separated from his companions. It was really pitiful that he could get lost in such a short distance.
Meeting Tong Nuonuo, who was easier to deceive and dumber than herself, made the dwarf girl feel superior. She no longer thought that all the people in the Middle Realm were cunning villains. Her compassionate heart broke out, and she led Tong Nuonuo to the fire pit and successfully lit a fire.
When Chen Xiao and Xi Yunting followed the rising column of smoke, they found that the girl who seemed very cold before was actually sitting and chatting with Tong Nuonuo, and they seemed to be very familiar with each other.
"Yes." Chen Xiao looked at the two of them in surprise and asked curiously, "Who is this immortal master?"
"You are finally here!" Tong Nuonuo was a little excited, as if he had seen a relative. He waved his hand and asked Chen Xiao to come over to him: "Chen Xiao, let me introduce you, this is fellow Taoist Tang Ru. Thanks to her help, I was able to light this incense stick successfully just now."
Chen Xiao bowed to Tang Ru in a friendly manner: "Hello, fellow Daoist Tang Ru, thank you for taking care of my companion. My name is Chen Xiao."
Chen Xiao's kindness softened Tang Ru's attitude, who was originally planning to keep a cold face. She thought that since he didn't despise his companion for being so stupid and having a poor sense of direction, he must be a good person, right?
Based on this logic, Tang Ru, who labeled Chen Xiao as a "good guy", said straightforwardly: "Hello Chen Xiao, you can call me Ah Rou."
Ah Rou? Is that the meat he was thinking of? This nickname is very strange, which makes Chen Xiao curl his lips: "Okay, Miss Ah Rou."
Tang Ru emphasized again: "It's just Ah Rou." Then she looked at Xi Yunting behind Chen Xiao. The other party's presence was too strong, and the power on his body was very compelling, which made Tang Ru frowned, "Who is this?" Such a powerful cultivator was unforgettable at first sight. She was sure that she had not seen him yesterday.
Chen Xiao smiled and said, "This is my elder brother, Master Xi Yunting."
Xi Yunting nodded to Tang Ru indifferently, as a greeting. Tang Ru's frown did not relax, and he said in a non-enthusiastic way: "So it's Master Xi."
After greeting each other, Chen Xiao asked Tong Nuonuo how he got lost. Tong Nuonuo said aggrievedly: "They were all busy over there, and I couldn't just stand there and watch. So I kindly helped to look through the haystack to find the flute that had fallen. But I don't know what happened. When I looked up, there was no one around. When I wanted to go back to where I was before, I was getting farther and farther away." It was also dark at the time, and I couldn't see even with the cigarette. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been alone outside for a night.
Chen Xiao was convinced, and he said, "Don't walk with your head down in the future, pay more attention to your surroundings." However, he knew that it was useless to say this. If Tong Nuonuo could remember where he had been, he wouldn't have a problem called road deafness.
Tong Nuonuo nodded obediently: "Then let's go back. I won't help them find things, I'll just pick the white spirit fruit honestly."
"Is this the piccolo instrument you're talking about?"
A voice sounded, and the three people turned around to look. In Tang Ru's open and delicate palm lay a flute as long as an adult's palm.
Chen Xiao looked at the piccolo in Tang Ru's hand in surprise, then looked at her and asked, "A Rou, what is this piccolo?" It can't be such a coincidence, right?
Tang Ru said, "After I separated from you, I went to wander around somewhere else and found a few black-tailed bat monkeys fighting for this piccolo, so I snatched it away."
Tong Nuonuo was stunned by this development. He clapped his hands and said, "No wonder we couldn't find it even after searching the forest till it was turned upside down! It turned out to be a bat monkey that picked it up!"
Chen Xiao was distracted for a moment, not knowing what to say. Tong Nuonuo's luck is simply amazing! The last time he got lost, he not only avoided Wu Yanqing's pursuit, but also picked up Wu Qing who was on the verge of death and learned that Li Xianshi was a barbarian. In the end, he also found a Feng Shui treasure land. And this time it was magical again. Although he got lost in an unknown place, he found the lost piccolo that everyone couldn't find even after searching the orchard.
"This is a coincidence." Xi Yunting, who had been silent all the time, said.
Tang Ru glanced at him, then turned to Chen Xiao and said, "Since it's their stuff, let's return it to the original owner. Here you are—" She handed the piccolo to Chen Xiao.
Chen Xiao raised his hand and pushed it, saying, "This is Ah Rou's credit, they should know who to thank."
Tang Ru curled her lips and said, "I don't want to deal with them." Yesterday, Brother Li used her to deal with the Bat Monkey King. The girl was not stupid and couldn't see it. After knowing the nature of such a cunning person, Tang Ru didn't want to associate with him. If she hadn't happened to meet Tong Nuonuo and the others, and thought that these two people were good guys, Tang Ru wouldn't care whether they were worried about losing the piccolo.
Tang Ru didn't wait for Chen Xiao to say anything else before she stuffed the piccolo into his hands. She said bluntly, "If I hadn't met you, I wouldn't have returned it to them."
Seeing this, Chen Xiao had no choice but to put away his flute. He said, "Then I will thank Ah Rou on their behalf."
Tang Ru raised the corners of his lips, smiled slyly, and said, "Aren't you going back? I'll go with you to get my reward. If they refuse to pay, remember to help me."
Chen Xiao laughed and said, "Shi Ming will never default on his debt." He glanced at Xi Yunting. After all, with this Jindan-stage person around, Shi Ming wouldn't dare to break his promise.
Seeing Chen Xiao looking at him, Xi Yunting also said in a low voice: "I also guarantee that I will deliver the demon pills and white spirit fruits in full."
Tang Ru wanted to snort, but after looking at Tong Nuonuo and Chen Xiao, he just curled his lips and said, "That's the best. Otherwise, I will make sure they know that dwarfs are not easy to bully!"
Tong Nuonuo asked curiously, "Why? Did someone bully Ah Rou before?"
Tang Ru shut up immediately. Even if she didn't say anything, people could tell that she had been badly cheated. She didn't want to talk, and Tong Nuonuo didn't force her. She just sighed and said, "This world is really full of evil people. No matter who you are, you have to be on guard and be careful. I was not careful before, and was tricked into a black mine by a mortal. In the end, although I killed the black-hearted boss and didn't suffer any loss, the winding mine inside hurt me terribly, and I almost starved to death in it."
When Tang Ru heard that Tong Nuonuo had such a bad experience, she immediately felt sympathy for him. She nodded her head: "Yes, yes. Whether it is a mortal or a cultivator, we must be careful to guard against bad people. For people like us dwarfs, there are always people who treat us as half-grown children, take advantage of us, and laugh at us behind our backs. It's even more hateful and abominable!" Not only did she say this, she also clenched her fists in anger and swung them hard as if to hit someone.
During the journey, Tang Ru and Tong Nuonuo shared their experiences of how they were on guard and vigilant. Chen Xiao felt amused and a little uncomfortable when he heard this. He remembered that after being taken back by his master in his previous life, he was also taught how to guard against bad guys and how to save himself when encountering problems. Sometimes he even thought, if he had learned these things earlier, would he not have been separated from his parents at a young age and wandered around?
Xi Yunting could sense that Chen Xiao was in a heavy mood. But he didn't know what had caused Xiaodi to be so silent, and he didn't know how to comfort him. He frowned, not liking this.
He was not Brother Yin, who was eloquent and could make people laugh with just words. At this time, although he felt that silence was unbearable, he was at a loss and could not break it.
Fortunately, they were fast and the Bailing Fruit Forest was just around the corner. Xi Yunting whispered in Chen Xiao's ear, "Brother Xiao, we are almost there." This immediately broke Chen Xiao's mind from his own world. Seeing his figure appear in the other's eyes again, Xi Yunting felt happy from the bottom of his heart.
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