Wenqing saw the little girl in the main room.
She wore a pale yellow dress and had her hair tied in two ponytails. Her eyebrows and eyes bore a striking resemblance to Luo Xin'er's.
Over the years, although Wen Qing was in Lingzhou, she would occasionally exchange letters with Luo Xin'er.
Two years ago, Luo Xin'er wrote back saying that in two years, she and her husband would bring their daughter to Lingzhou for a trip and visit Sister Wen.
Warmth and affection are naturally expressed in the letter.
She never expected that when she learned of Luo Xin'er's whereabouts again, it would be in this state.
Before coming here, she made a special trip to Luoshui Sect, which had been reduced to scorched earth and was unlikely to see any life for another hundred years.
"Is this Xin'er's daughter?" Wen Qing looked at her master.
Qin Shou nodded. "Yes."
Wen Qing withdrew her gaze, slowly walked to the little girl, squatted down, and gently stroked her head, saying:
"Yunyan, I'm Aunt Wen, a good friend of your mother."
Luo Xin'er had told Wen Qing the name of her daughter in a letter.
Luo Yunyan stopped eating, slowly moved her face away from the bowl, raised her beautiful almond-shaped eyes, and stared blankly at the woman in front of her who was both beautiful and noble.
Then he nodded slowly.
Her mother had mentioned it, so she knew that she had an "Aunt Wen".
"Good child, don't be sad. Aunt Wen will get justice for your mother."
Her gentle, jade-like hands caressed the little girl's face, her voice soft and her eyes red-rimmed.
She lost Luo Qianqian, but she also failed to protect her sect.
This moment of tenderness is heartbreaking.
Looking at the little girl in front of her, she couldn't help but think of herself. After her parents passed away, she gritted her teeth, held back her tears, and endured the pain for many years, traveling hundreds of thousands of miles to finally come here and meet her master.
I was only about ten years old back then.
God knows how much hardship I endured along the way.
Beside the cliff, a sea of clouds surges.
Qin Shou, Wen Qing, and Xiao Xuan, the master and his disciples, stood here.
"Master, Yunyan...can't she speak?"
He asked with warmth.
She had talked to the girl for a long time, but the girl either shook her head or nodded, or her eyes were red and filled with tears, trying not to cry.
"I examined her, and she's physically fine. Perhaps this experience has traumatized her, making it difficult or unpleasant for her to speak."
Qin Shou said calmly, his hands behind his back.
Wen Qing nodded, concealing the sorrow in her eyes, but her gaze immediately turned serious, flashing with a hint of coldness.
"Junior brother, do you know anything about the forces involved in this attack on the Luoshui Sect?"
Wen Qing asked Xiao Xuan.
Xiao Xuan immediately took out the previous list and said, "Second Senior Sister, all the forces that can be identified so far are listed here."
"Yes, thank you for your hard work, junior brother." Wen Qing nodded.
"It's not hard work," Xiao Xuan quickly replied.
Wenqing then took the list and carefully read it.
With each name she read, a touch of frost appeared on her brow.
Qin Shou looked at his disciple and asked, "What are your plans to do regarding the Luoshui Sect matter?"
Wen Qing replied without hesitation, "Of course, kill them all."
"Um. "
Qin Shou nodded, seemingly unsurprised by his disciple's answer, or perhaps he had expected it.
Because he knew that Luo Qianqian held a very deep place in Wen Qing's heart, so deep that it had become an indelible scar.
Wenqing had made countless promises in her heart about the passing of that little girl, that she would protect the sect and her master that the girl had wanted to protect all her life.
But now, it's all gone.
Luo Lingsu is dead, the Luoshui Sect has been destroyed, and her beloved junior sister, whom she raised with such care, also perished because of a bad relationship...
The gears of fate may extinguish countless acts of kindness, but they will not extinguish the overwhelming hatred that arises from love.
At this moment, a surge of rage welled up within Wenqing's heart.
She was just suppressing herself, because she was no longer the little girl who easily showed her emotions.
However, Qin Shou, as the master, naturally noticed the change in his disciple's mood.
Xiao Xuan was also a clever man; with just a pair of eyes, he could see his senior sister's anger, and so he immediately expressed his opinion:
"Senior sister, should I take action and eliminate these people?"
"No."
Wen Qing shook her head and said softly:
"I'm grateful for your help, Junior Brother. I hope to use your intelligence network to locate these people later. I'd like to go there myself and bring back the spiritual treasures that Master gave me."
“Alright.” Xiao Xuan cupped his hands and said, “Second Senior Sister, before we came, I had already instructed people to closely monitor the information of these people on the list. Please feel free to use them if needed.”
"Um. "
Wen Qing nodded gently, then looked at Qin Shou, slowly took two steps back, clasped her hands in a bow, and said, "Then, Master, I will take my leave now."
Seeing this, Qin Shou said, "This matter is already settled, so there's no need to rush. However, I notice your energy is slightly disordered, perhaps due to the rapid travel. Why don't we rest on this mountaintop for a while, recuperate, and continue tomorrow?"
"No, Master, some things, whether done sooner or later, may yield the same result, but the meaning will ultimately be different."
Wen Qing shook her head, paused, and said, "And I can't even be bothered to wait a moment longer."
"Alright, then you may go."
Qin Shou raised his hand, but ultimately said nothing.
Seeing this, Xiao Xuan spoke up to remind her, "Senior Sister, you are currently only at the Nascent Soul stage. Why don't I go with you in my true form?"
"It's alright, junior brother."
Wen Qing replied, then added, "Oh, right, Master, these are pastries I brought from the Imperial Kitchen. You can give them to Junior Sister and the others later."
With a gentle wave of her sleeve, boxes of pastries were already piled up on the cliffside.
"Because I came in a hurry, I only had time to grab these few pastries from the imperial kitchen."
Wen Qing explained, "When Junior Sister was in the palace, besides meat, her favorite food was these various kinds of pastries."
Qin Shou chuckled, "It's kind of you to remember to bring Yi Cheng some food even in this situation."
"Hehe, that's right."
Wen Qing shook her head, her phoenix eyes curving into crescents.
At this moment, she truly resembled the girl who first arrived at the mountain.
But time flies, and people eventually grow up.
As we grow up, we face many things in the world, all kinds of causes and effects, the so-called seven emotions and six desires, laughter and joy, and they will change and transform behind those colored masks, eventually settling on one or a few colors on our faces.
Qin Shou, however, is already over two hundred years old; his path to immortality has only just begun...
......
"Master, Master, why did Senior Sister leave!"
In the distance, Yi Cheng ran over and saw Wen Qing's disappearing figure. She immediately panicked and jumped around the yard.
"Master, Senior Sister just arrived, why did you let her leave?"
"Wow!??(?′(00)`?)?? I just saw my senior sister, why is she already gone...?"
"Master, does Senior Sister not like geese anymore?"
Yi Cheng lay on the ground, throwing a tantrum and rolling around, her little belly rolling back and forth under Qin Shou's feet.
Seeing this, Qin Shou helplessly relaxed his brows.
Sure enough, he had just asked Wen Qing to tell Yi Cheng that I was leaving, but Wen Qing said, "If I tell my junior sister I'm leaving now, she'll throw a tantrum and cling to me, not letting me go."
"Alright, Yicheng, get up now."
Qin Shou squatted down, tugged at Yi Cheng's little arm, and tried to pull her up.
"No, no, I won't."
Yi Cheng shook her little arms, pushed Qin Shou's arm away, and cried out, "I want Senior Sister! I want Senior Sister! Why did she leave after only being here for such a short time?"
"Master, the goose just went inside and ate a couple more pieces of braised pork while you and Senior Sister were talking."
"Waaah~, I won't eat braised pork next time, okay? Can you let my senior sister come back? I'll tell her a story tonight."
Qin Shou looked at the chubby little girl with her face covered in dust and looking pitiful, and he was both angry and amused.
"Your senior sister just has some urgent business to attend to. She'll come back to see you once she's done."
"Really! "
Sure enough, Yi Cheng's little eyes lit up immediately.
Kids are so easy to coax, especially silly ones like this.
"Really, look, your senior sister brought you a lot of pastries."
Qin Shou pointed to the stacks of pastry boxes in the distance and said, "Your senior sister said that you and Little Fatty and the others can eat together, as well as that new girl who came to our mountain."
She added, "I came in a hurry this time and didn't bring enough pastries. Next time I come, I'll definitely bring you more delicious treats."
>▽< "Wow! Senior sister is so nice!"
Yi Cheng rolled over and quickly got up from the ground, carrying a stack of pastries, and ran towards the bamboo house with a "tap tap tap" sound.
"Master, don't worry, I'll definitely share it with the little mute. Next time you come, you must tell your senior sister."
Watching Yi Cheng's departing figure, Xiao Xuan turned back to Qin Shou and asked, "Master, is it really alright for Senior Sister to go alone?"
I saw that my senior sister brought two other people with her this time, who were guarding outside the Great Wilderness, but they were both only at the Nascent Soul stage.
Xiao Xuan knew that Wen Qing possessed a celestial sword containing a wisp of his master's soul imprint, capable of slaying Void Realm cultivators. However, celestial swords were for self-preservation and could not be easily shown to others.
"It's alright, your senior sister has two soul puppets at the Void Realm level, that's enough to handle it."
Qin Shou explained.
When Xiao Xuan entered the Nascent Soul stage, Qin Shou went to protect him and captured two Soul Captors who claimed to be from the Soul Domain. Qin Shou observed that their souls were special and refined them into two Soul Puppets, which he gave to Wen Qing for self-defense.
Moreover, Wen Qing also possesses the Heaven-Changing Umbrella and many other protective magical treasures, so dealing with the people on the list shouldn't be too much of a problem.
"Um. "
Xiao Xuan nodded and said, "Master, I think I should go there myself?"
Qin Shou thought for a moment and said, "An extra layer of protection is always good."
He then took out a jade slip and handed it to Xiao Xuan, instructing him to crush it if he encountered a problem he couldn't solve.
"Understood, Master."
Xiao Xuan nodded, then bowed and withdrew.
......
Main room.
After powerful CPU processing, Yi Cheng finally distributed the pastries evenly.
For some reason, even though the pastry boxes were all the same size, my pastries stacked up were taller than Little Fatty's, Black Rabbit's, and Luo Yunyan's.
Little Fatty and Black Rabbit strongly protested this, but it was naturally vetoed by Orange.
"Smack! Smack!"
Then Yicheng took a pastry from her pastry box and slowly licked it.
"Yi Cheng, you don't lick pastries, why don't you just eat them?"
Little Fatty grabbed a pastry from his box, stuffed it into his mouth with a "wow," and then his big eyes narrowed into crescent moons.
They eat meat every day on the mountain, and when they occasionally eat pastries, they think they taste countless times better than the pastries themselves.
"You don't understand, this was given to us by Senior Sister Goose. The goose has to eat slowly, licking one piece a day. By the time it's all gone, Senior Sister Goose will have brought more. Goose, goose, goose... the goose is so clever."
Yi Cheng chuckled foolishly.
Then he looked at the little girl sitting on the stool, lost in thought.
"Little mute, why aren't you eating?"
"The goose told you that this was brought by Senior Sister Goose, and it's delicious."
Yi Cheng lay sprawled on the chair, her large belly protruding, licking a small pastry while shaking her head and proudly boasting:
"And Senior Sister Goose's kitchen is huge; even a goose could get lost in it."
"Yeah, I got lost last time too, hehehe."
"Squeak, squeak, it can get so big, so many delicious things!"
Black Rabbit and Little Fatty were gesturing.
Seeing that the little mute boy still wouldn't eat the pastries, Yi Cheng blinked her small eyes and asked, "Little mute boy, do you not like pastries?"
"Then can you eat just a little bit of the goose meat?"
Seeing that the little mute girl didn't speak, Yi Cheng took it as a tacit agreement. So she reached out her little hand, grabbed a corner of the pastry box, and slowly dragged it toward her, while glancing at Luo Yunyan with her little eyes, just in case she changed her mind. Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to eat the pastry.
"Little mute, Master Goose said that food is precious and should not be wasted. Since you don't like to eat it, then Master Goose will help you a little. Master Goose also said that helping others is a joy, but don't tell Senior Sister Goose."
When Senior Sister Goose comes next time and asks you, you have to say that she shared it with you, okay?
"Huh? If you're not saying anything, then I'll take that as a yes."
"Goose, goose, goose, little mute, so tender and delicious!"
"If you ever get bullied in the future, just tell me, and I'll bring Da Bao to fight for you."
Yi Cheng patted her chest and made a solemn promise.
"And us too, share some of your pastries with us, and Black Rabbit and I will go fight for you."
The chubby boy clenched his little fists and roared fiercely.
"Squeak, squeak."
Black Rabbit pulled out the axe from its waist, jumped up, and swiftly split the chair it was sitting on in two. Then, it proudly displayed its round black belly.
Then Qin Shou dragged him out and beat him up.
Luo Yunyan watched this scene, and a slight smile seemed to appear on her small lips, but it vanished instantly as if it had never happened.
She clenched her small hands, clutching a small piece of paper torn from Xiao Xuan's list, on which were written the three characters "Nangong Zheng".
"Caw—Caw—"
"Sister Yicheng, Sister Yicheng, I'm back!"
As Yi Cheng and his friends were enjoying their meal inside the house, several loud croaking sounds suddenly rang out from the foot of Turtle Mountain.
"Hey! It's Zhuha back from his exams in the mortal realm!"
Yi Cheng blinked her little eyes, then led Xiao Pang and the others out of the room.
Because Zhu Ha said that he would bring him something delicious when he came back.
Goose, goose, goose, what a happy day! My senior sister just brought me some delicious food, and now someone else is bringing me delicious food again.
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