Chapter 30: Oriole's Cry
Widow Li laughed: "Looking at Xiao A Zi's attitude, it seems that she doesn't know about these things."
Tao Zi opened her mouth, suppressed her absurd mood, and asked, "You used a knife to chop Master?"
It is truly unheard of that an ordinary person would use a knife to chop a cultivator.
She snorted and said, "Cultivators are also human beings, why can't they be chopped off? Besides, a cultivator who abandons his disciples and goes on a long journey by himself is worse than ordinary people! If it weren't for the kindness of me and the sisters in the building, Yueshan and his men would have either starved to death or been captured."
I have to say that the relationship between ordinary people and cultivators in this place is really different from that in other places.
Tao Zi looked at her angry face and soothed her: "Master is still treating them well now."
Widow Li didn't continue the conversation. Instead, she pointed to a small forest on the right and said, "Xi Jing is over there. Let's go over there."
When Xi Jing was found, she was carrying four bags of peaches in her hands and a large bag on her back.
Tao Zi hurried over to help, but she dodged him: "Senior Sister, your injuries haven't healed yet, don't lift heavy objects."
"It has already healed."
Xi Jing refused: "That won't work either. What if the wound opens? I'll have to rest for a while."
She smiled helplessly, and suddenly a shrill cry of an oriole came from a distance.
It's almost winter now, how could there be orioles singing? She frowned in confusion, but Xi Jing's face changed drastically and she quickly said, "Sister Li, I'm going to pick up Grandpa Chen. I'll leave Grandma's place to you."
"Don't worry." Sister Li ran back quickly.
"Big Sister, there's no time to explain. Run to the village house, quickly!"
Xi Jing put down the peach and rushed directly into the grove. Although Tao Zi didn't know why, she still did as she said.
She hurried back, and just as the house was approaching, she heard a second, even more shrill cry. This time, it carried a hint of aggressive spiritual energy. She subconsciously tried to mobilize her own spiritual energy for protection, but all she got was a sharp pain in her spiritual veins.
She didn't know if it was due to the cry of the oriole or the pain in her spiritual vein, but her vision went dark and she fell straight to the ground. She quickly regained consciousness and stumbled into the house.
She had already guessed Yingti's origin. Who else could it be except that damn Xujiamen who would do such a thing?
At this moment, Tao Zi suddenly heard a faint crying sound. She looked in the direction of the sound and saw a child of three or four years old lying in front of another house far away and crying. It seemed that he had no strength to get up.
She thought quickly in her mind, then remembered Xi Jing who was going to pick someone up. She gritted her teeth and rushed over.
When she picked up the child, she could hardly walk anymore and secretly prayed in her heart that the third cry of the oriole would come later.
But things did not go as planned. When he was still a few steps away from the house, the oriole's cry, which was filled with pain and grief, still fell into his ears.
She couldn't hold on any longer and half-knelt on the ground.
If she left the child behind now, maybe she could stand up. Her eyes began to darken as she looked at the child in her arms.
She had already done her best by rushing over. She couldn't risk her own life for such a child.
The child seemed to sense her thoughts, grabbed her sleeve, and called out tremblingly, "Sister."
Damn it!
Tao Zi's mind flashed back to an event that happened more than a hundred years ago. At that time, Xing Zhan, who was only five years old, had grabbed her sleeve in the same way, calling her sister and begging her to save him.
She was originally a little hesitant, but immediately decided to abandon the child.
Just as her hands loosened and the child dropped to the ground, someone rushed over from behind: "Big Sister!"
It’s Zhao Xue!
Her eyes darkened and she immediately pretended to faint and fell to the ground.
Zhao Xue didn't suspect anything. He carried the eldest sister in one hand and picked up the child in the other and rushed into the house. Then he closed the door and finally blocked the chirping sound outside.
After settling them down, she heard Zhao Xue gently instruct the child, "Brother Zhao still has to go rescue other people. You stay in the house and watch over your sister, okay?"
The child's weak but firm voice rang out: "Okay."
The sound of a door opening and closing was heard, and she slowly opened her eyes and turned to look at the child beside her.
The child blinked and asked cautiously, "Sister, do you want some water? I don't have the energy right now, so I might have to wait a while."
She didn't answer and closed her eyes again. Judging from her current physical condition, she might need to rest for a while.
Yi'er was obviously very weak, but her mouth was as if nothing had happened, and it kept moving like a little trumpet.
"Sister, all that happened was because I saved Yi'er. Grandma said that a life-saving favor should be repaid with gratitude. Don't worry, sister, Yi'er will definitely find many gratitudes to repay you in the future."
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He kept on talking for a long time. Tao Zi couldn't stand it anymore and opened her eyes to look over: "Yier?"
Seeing that her sister was finally willing to pay attention to her, Yier happily waved her hands and said, "Yier is here."
"Aren't you in pain?"
Yier nodded: "It hurts, but I'm used to it! It will be fine in a while."
Tao Zi originally wanted to ask him why he still had the energy to speak, but after hearing this answer, her question became: "Do you often hear this kind of sound?"
"Yes, yes, it keeps ringing, it hurts." Yi'er looked very sad when she said this, "Grandma said that Daddy and Mommy went to a very far place because of these noises, and they will never come back."
She fell silent. They were so alike, even their past was similar to Xing Zhan's.
She no longer wanted to talk, not because she was angry at Xing Zhan - he had been loyal to her before that, at least much better than those three ungrateful people. She just couldn't understand it.
The entire Minglan Sect knew that apart from his three junior brothers and sisters, Yue Qiran was most concerned about Xing Zhan, the head of the Punishment Hall. He had been furious several times because of this person, and Xing Zhan had also risked his life for the eldest sister. He was fierce and ferocious outside, but gentle and humble in front of the eldest sister.
There was a rumor within the sect that they had an improper relationship, and even Xu Qianjia secretly tried to test it out, which made her helpless for a long time.
Thinking of those past events, Tao Zi's eyes flashed with confusion. To be honest, although she couldn't accept and forgive the decision of her master and others, she could understand it - it was just the difference between her own people and outsiders.
But she couldn't accept Xing Zhan's actions. She valued him so much and tried every way to prolong his life. She even thought about taking him in as her direct disciple after he became a Nascent Soul in the future. He obviously knew all this, but he still did it in the end.
To be honest, the blow to her from him giving up on her was definitely no less than the biased accusations made by her master and the others. After all, she really treated him as her own disciple and was teaching him.
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