"Excuse me?"
"Are you Xue, Grandma Wujiu's disciple?"
A daring farmer walked to the other side of the stream and asked Lin Xue on this side.
While ostensibly asking a question, his gaze kept drifting towards the unicorn beside him.
That's a sacred unicorn!
Is it really something that mischievous little witch could possess?
"Uncle John, it's been a long time. You're still working so hard."
"It's been so many years, how are you doing?"
Lin Xue ignored the other person's gaze toward the unicorn and greeted Uncle John instead.
In the original owner's memories, he had often teased this hardworking uncle.
Whenever the uncle was digging in the ground, the original owner would conjure up some small snakes to scare him.
Despite his tall stature, Uncle John is actually terrified of slippery things like snakes and earthworms.
Each time, it would scare the other person so much that they would drop their hoe and run away.
"It really is you?"
“Grandma Chinese tallow tree is too lonely living alone in the forest. We often invite her to come and live in the village, but she always refuses.”
"Grandma Wujiu always says that a witch's destiny is loneliness, but we don't think so..."
The two stood on opposite sides of the river and talked for a long time. Lin Xue also learned from John that her master had not been doing well in recent years.
In particular, the illnesses that I had in my early years have become increasingly serious in recent years because I live alone and have no one to take care of me.
Sometimes they can't even walk on their own, and when the village needs them, they have to be carried over on a stretcher for treatment.
“Uncle John, it was a pleasure chatting with you. After I go back to visit my master, I’ll come to the village to catch up with you again when I have time.”
Having gathered most of the necessary information, Lin Xue led the unicorn and the little parrot toward the forest.
"Xue, please give my regards to Grandma Wujiu."
When Uncle John saw Lin Xue leave, he quickly shouted after their retreating figures.
"Okay, see you next time!"
Lin Xue waved to Uncle John and quickened her pace.
If she had been hesitant to approach him before due to a sense of unease, after chatting with Uncle John for a while, Lin Xue felt a sense of relief and her previous awkwardness disappeared.
Although the vast majority of these emotions stemmed from the original owner's feelings, Lin Xue couldn't completely ignore them.
After all, her every word and action now represents the original owner of this body. Only by fulfilling the original owner's wishes can she obtain more points.
Arriving at the small courtyard where the tallow tree lived, one could see a hunched figure carrying a heavy bucket of water, slowly moving towards the kitchen.
The tallow tree witch lived in a small courtyard with three main rooms, two kitchens, a woodshed, and a storage room.
Apart from the relatively low ceiling, the layout of the room was exactly the same as the farmhouse courtyard in Lin Xue's previous life.
"Teacher Wujiu!"
Upon hearing the long-lost voice, Wujiu thought she was hallucinating.
She put down the bucket and wiped the sweat from her forehead.
"Sure enough, as people get older, they are more prone to auditory hallucinations!"
"I'll need to get some medication to treat my hearing loss later. Sigh, I'm getting less and less useful as I get older!"
Wujiu sighed and decided to prepare some medicine to take later.
Thinking of his mischievous disciple, Wu Jiu felt a deep longing in his heart.
I don't know if I'll ever see that little girl again in my lifetime.
"Teacher Wujiu!"
When the sound appeared again, Wujiu could no longer deceive herself that it was a hallucination.
I felt the bucket of water I was carrying suddenly loosen, and when I looked up, I saw a beautiful person.
"Snow?"
"Snow!"
How did you end up back?
When she forced her disciple to leave, she said many heartless things, thinking she would never see him again in this lifetime.
Seeing the person she had been longing for appear before her now, Wu Jiu felt as if she were dreaming.
"Teacher Wujiu, it's been so many years! You've aged so much!"
"Look at you, you're already so old, why are you so stubborn? Wouldn't it be better to let your disciple keep you company?"
He carried the bucket to the kitchen, poured the water into the water tank, and then placed the bucket aside.
This tank only has a little over half full of water.
It seems like it's been a long time since they went to fetch water.
Occasionally, when villagers come over, they will help fill the water tank.
Perhaps no one in the village was sick during this period, so no one came to visit her master for a long time.
Having no other choice, the tallow tree went to fetch water himself.
"well!"
"Our destiny as witches is to endure loneliness; that's how we've all lived since ancient times!"
Wu Jiu didn't say anything more about driving Lin Xue away, after all, she was already very, very old, and she really wouldn't be able to survive without someone by her side.
Moreover, Wu Jiu could sense that her life was nearing its end. If her disciple did not wish to leave, he could stay here and take over her large business in the future.
They can continue to watch over the villagers on the other side of the river. With the villagers' offerings, they should be able to live quite well.
Wu Jiu thought that Lin Xue had run out of options outside, which was why she had come back to find her.
Although I was somewhat annoyed by my disciple's lack of ambition, I was also relieved.
"Who says witches have to endure loneliness?"
"Witches aren't something anyone created; no one can control our fate!"
I will live my life however I want, and no one has the right to interfere with my freedom!
“Teacher Wujiu, I went to many, many places this time and met other witches.”
"Not all witches live alone; some witches have disciples by their side."
“Some witches even had children and lived with their husbands and children, and the villagers accepted this outcome.”
"Why can others live a lively and exciting life, while we have to accept that damned loneliness?"
In order to dissuade Wu Jiu from driving her away, Lin Xue had no choice but to tell a small lie.
She helped her master to a corner of the courtyard to sit down, a place where the two of them used to rest and chat in earlier years.
She still remembers the original owner sitting on a small stool, carrying the task given by the teacher.
Whenever she couldn't recite it, Teacher Wujiu would tap her palm with a small bamboo stick.
Even though the tallow tree always hit very lightly, the original owner cried exceptionally loudly.
This forced the soft-hearted Wujiu to abandon his punishment of his disciple.
"You're trying to fool me with lies again!"
"Where would a witch live with someone, get married and have children? Why don't you say she has a house full of children and grandchildren?"
Wu Jiu didn't believe Lin Xue's words, but smiled and tapped her forehead, pondering what to cook for dinner.
Her disciple had finally returned from afar, so she had to prepare a sumptuous dinner, and she had to make the dishes that her disciple used to love the most.
But she hadn't gone out to find ingredients for a long time, and no one from the village had brought offerings during this period, so there really weren't any decent dishes at home.
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