"Xiao Min'er!"
Alan blurted out, even though Wei Min was just a five-year-old girl when she left, and now, over three hundred years later, she has grown into a graceful and beautiful young woman, like a fairy. But Alan still recognized at a glance that this maiden was her daughter whom she had been missing day and night.
Wei Min came from her womb, a piece of flesh that fell from her body. This kind of bloodline connection is absolutely unmistakable.
"Mother!"
Wei Min trotted over and threw herself into the arms of the person she often saw in her dreams. Wei Min, who had never cried since the moment she was born, now had tears swirling in her eyes.
"Mother, your daughter is unfilial, only returning to see you after more than three hundred years."
Alan felt a warm, moist sensation on her chest, and a gentle smile appeared on her face. She gently patted her daughter's back and said, "Don't cry, don't cry, it's good that you're back, it's good that you're back."
"Waaah…"
A burst of crying rang out, not from Wei Min, not from Alan, and certainly not from Gu Changsheng and Yao Xian, but from Sun Zhongshu.
"Waaah… I'm so touched." Sun Zhongshu covered his face and cried, sobbing uncontrollably, almost with tears and snot flowing down his face.
It's hard to imagine how… affected a tall man of eight feet crying with his face covered would look.
"What are you crying about?"
Gu Changsheng couldn't help but give him a kick. The mother and daughter reunited after hundreds of years, and you're crying even harder than them. Moreover, the original touching and warm atmosphere was completely ruined by you.
"Waaah, Teacher, I miss my mother too!" Sun Zhongshu reached out and rubbed his butt, tears flowing even more fiercely, this time from the pain.
"Didn't you say that you've been alone since you can remember, and you've never even seen your parents?" Gu Changsheng asked.
Sun Zhongshu was the little brother that Li Beifei had taken in. Although that kid was a rebellious disciple, he still had to figure out the identity and background of the little brother he took in.
Sun Zhongshu was also an orphan without parents.
"Is there a rule that you can't miss your parents if you haven't seen them?" Sun Zhongshu said aggrievedly.
"You kid… what you said actually makes sense." Gu Changsheng laughed.
Sun Zhongshu curled his lips. It made sense, but he still got kicked? As expected, what the boss said was right, the teacher is really a fickle person, he likes to beat people at the slightest disagreement, no wonder the boss used to get beaten often.
"Pfft!"
Alan and Wei Min couldn't help but laugh when they saw Sun Zhongshu's aggrieved little expression with a hint of dissatisfaction. Even Yao Xian was amused by Sun Zhongshu.
"Alright, alright, I misunderstood you, my bad."
Gu Changsheng was also amused. How could a tall man of eight feet show such an affected little expression without feeling embarrassed?
"Teacher, that's not how you apologize!" Sun Zhongshu said.
"Oh? You want me to pour tea and apologize to you?" Gu Changsheng narrowed his eyes.
"Disciple wouldn't dare." Sun Zhongshu lowered his head.
"Wouldn't dare? So you're thinking about it? You're just like your boss, both of you deserve a beating."
Gu Changsheng laughed in anger. This kid was simply a replica of his rebellious disciple, daring to think about him pouring tea and apologizing, not much different from that rebellious disciple wanting him to kneel down and sing 'Conquest'.
Sun Zhongshu thought Gu Changsheng was going to hit him again, so he couldn't help but shrink back, but he said, "That's not how you apologize, at least… at least…"
"At least what?" Gu Changsheng asked.
"At least you have to give a small gift." Sun Zhongshu said.
The boss once told him that the teacher's leg hair was an absolute treasure. If he could pluck some wool, it would definitely benefit him in the future.
Now that he had such a good opportunity, he couldn't let it go.
And after Gu Changsheng heard this, his eyes narrowed, and he said, "You brat, you're quite bold, daring to set your sights on me?"
"Did your boss teach you this?"
"No, the boss didn't teach me to pluck wool…"
Sun Zhongshu immediately denied it, but he said a little too much.
He realized he had said too much, looked up at Gu Changsheng's expression, and then immediately lowered his head.
"Teacher, I don't want the small gift, please don't hit me, okay?" he muttered.
That look, that's right, the teacher had that look when the boss was beaten up.
Remembering the screams of the boss when he was beaten up, which could be heard for miles around, Sun Zhongshu immediately chickened out.
It was too scary, he couldn't be beaten up. If Xiao Cui found out, his brilliant and mighty image in her heart would collapse.
"…" Gu Changsheng.
"Go away, you're ruining the atmosphere."
Gu Changsheng scolded with a smile.
"Okay!"
Sun Zhongshu was relieved and quickly ran away, disappearing in a flash. It seemed he was going to find his Xiao Cui.
"Greetings, Senior Gu, greetings, Fairy Yaochi!"
Alan came to Gu Changsheng and Yao Xian and gracefully bowed in greeting.
She wasn't familiar with Yao Xian, only catching a glimpse of her at her coming-of-age ceremony, so she addressed Yao Xian by her respected title on the Rouge List.
Now that Yao Xian had attained the Supreme Realm, she had become the leader of the Saint Realm榜 on the Rouge List. In the Taixu Realm, she was even more famous than True Immortal experts, comparable to a Immortal King.
"You don't have to be so polite, just call me Yao Xian." Yao Xian smiled.
Alan just smiled and said, "Then I'll call you Fairy Yao Xian, etiquette cannot be abandoned."
Yao Xian didn't say anything more when she heard this. She knew what Alan meant, she was Wei Min's teacher's wife, and her seniority was higher than Alan's.
Moreover, Alan often mingled with low-level cultivators, and some worldly things were inevitable. These things accumulated over the years could not be changed in just a few words.
Because this was already one of her survival skills.
"Mother, let's go inside first, I have so many things to tell you!"
Although Wei Min didn't have much life experience, she could sense that her mother was a little restrained when facing her teacher's wife. At this time, she could only use her own way to ease her mother's restraint.
Sure enough, after Alan heard Wei Min's words, she quickly invited Gu Changsheng and Yao Xian into the house.
After entering the house, Alan brewed tea and poured tea, being extremely enthusiastic. Seeing this, Wei Min couldn't help but say with heartache, "Mother, let me do it!"
"No need, you just sit there, these mundane things can be done by your mother."
Alan smiled.
"But…"
"Xiao Min'er, listen to your mother."
Wei Min wanted to say something, but Gu Changsheng interrupted her.
"Oh!" Although Wei Min was puzzled, "listen to your mother" obviously touched her.
And Alan's expression became even happier when she saw this.
"I planted some spiritual fruits in the back of the yard. Although they are not immortal-grade, they taste good. I'll pick some for you to try."
Saying that, Alan walked towards the yard.
After Alan left, Wei Min finally couldn't help but ask the doubts in her heart.
"Grandmaster, why doesn't mother let me help her?" she asked.
Gu Changsheng didn't answer, but instead asked, "Did you see those spiritual herbs on the shelves in the yard?"
"I saw them, they are all some low-level spiritual herbs, not worth…"
She didn't say the word "money", and stopped talking.
She was silent, her expression gloomy.
In the mortal world, Tuoba Beier had been protecting her all the time, and she didn't have much life experience. But she wasn't stupid. After thinking about it carefully, she knew why her mother didn't let her help.
Her mother felt that she owed her, both materially and spiritually.
Materially, as a Chaos Body, the resources she needed for cultivation were a hundred times, a thousand times, or even ten thousand times that of ordinary people. Her mother was just a rogue cultivator who hadn't even reached the Carefree Realm, how could she shoulder such a huge amount of resources?
As for the spiritual aspect…
Perhaps her mother could give her all her love, but another kind of love, she could never give, that was fatherly love.
Wei Min didn't think her mother owed her anything, but the key was her mother's inner thoughts.
Her mother felt that she owed her, so she could only do everything she could to make up for it.
Perhaps doing so could make her feel more at ease. Grandmaster had already seen through this, so he told her to listen to her mother.
Yes, what she could do now was to listen to her mother, make her happy, and make her feel happy, so that she would feel that everything she did was worthwhile.
But… mother, you really don't owe me anything, on the contrary, it's me, I only came back to see you after more than three hundred years, I owe you.
Thinking about it, Wei Min's eyes were hazy and moist.
"Sorry to keep you waiting." Alan's voice came into the house.
Wei Min instantly came back to her senses. She immediately wiped away the tears in her eyes and tried her best to squeeze out a happy smile on her face. She couldn't let her mother see her so useless, she had to be strong and reassure her mother.
Alan held a basket in her hand, filled with several kinds of spiritual fruits, with water stains on the surface, obviously having been washed.
"Senior Gu, Fairy Yao Xian, this is a small place, and the care is not thorough, please forgive me." Alan said apologetically.
"Hehe, dragon meat in the sky and pork on the ground are both food to me. Since they are food, there is no difference, so how can there be any saying of not being thorough?"
Gu Changsheng said with a smile.
Alan was stunned, then nodded and said, "Senior Gu is right."
"Mother, I want to eat the biggest one."
At this time, Wei Min pointed to the biggest and roundest spiritual fruit in the basket.
"You can't do that, your grandmaster and teacher's wife are here, the elders should pick first." Alan said.
"I don't care, I want this biggest one." Wei Min was quick-witted, and with a "swish", she held the biggest and roundest spiritual fruit in her hand. Alan wanted to say something when she saw this, but it was too late.
She saw Wei Min open her mouth and take a heavy bite, and a crisp chewing sound rang out.
"You girl, why are you still so rude like when you were a kid?" Alan scolded with a smile.
"Hehe, in front of you, I will always be Xiao Min'er." Wei Min smiled, her eyes narrowed into crescent shapes, which was very cute.
"You!" Alan shook her head helplessly and was about to turn around and apologize to Gu Changsheng and Yao Xian, but found that the two of them were also taking a spiritual fruit and eating it with relish.
"Alan, we won't wait." Yao Xian smiled.
"No need to wait, no need to wait, just treat it as your own home." Alan said quickly with a smile.
Yao Xian's kind of unceremoniousness made Alan feel much less restrained towards her.
Alan sat down and picked up a spiritual fruit to eat.
Looking at Xiao Min'er eating heartily, she suddenly felt that the spiritual fruit she picked today was particularly fragrant and sweet.
"Mother, I want more!" Wei Min was like a gluttonous little cat, finishing the spiritual fruit in her hand in no time, not even letting go of the core, and then looked at Alan.
"There are some on the table, take them yourself." Alan said.
"No, I want to eat the one in your hand." Wei Min said.
Alan was stunned, then smiled and scolded, "You girl, I've already eaten this, there's saliva on it, you still want it?"
"I don't care, I want it, I don't mind anyway."
After Wei Min finished speaking, she reached out and grabbed the spiritual fruit in Alan's hand, with a momentum of snatching it if she didn't give it to her.
"Here you go, here you go, you're already so old, and you're still grabbing things from your mother like when you were a kid." Alan seemed to be blaming her, but the smile on her face never stopped.
Perhaps today's smile was more than she had in the past three hundred years combined.
"I've said it all, I'll always be Xiao Min'er…" Wei Min took the spiritual fruit and took another bite at the spot where Alan had bitten, and she couldn't speak clearly with something in her mouth.
Gu Changsheng and Yao Xian looked at the mother and daughter who had reunited after hundreds of years, and both had smiles on their faces.
Especially Gu Changsheng, after seeing the interaction between Xiao Min'er and Alan, the idea of having a daughter became stronger and stronger.
Although Yunshuang was also his daughter, Yunshuang was already able to stand alone. Although he could still spoil her, there was always something missing.
For example, companionship, for example, witnessing growth.
(Gu Sheng: Why don't you accompany me? Why don't you witness my growth? Gu Changsheng: Accompanying in secret, witnessing in secret. Gu Sheng: …)
Yao Xian understood Gu Changsheng's eyes and immediately rolled her eyes at him.
But she was also thinking, was her next child with him a boy or a girl?
If it was a boy, what should she name him? If it was a girl, what should she name her?
"Rumble!"
Just then, a loud noise like a bell rang, instantly breaking the warm atmosphere in the house.
"Not good, it's the sand bandits!"
Alan's face changed slightly.
"What are sand bandits?" Wei Min was puzzled, she had never heard of sand bandits here when she was a child.
"The sand bandits are a force that has risen in the Northwest Desert in the past twenty years. It's called the Sand Star Gate. It's powerful and can be called the first force in the Northwest Desert. However, because the Sand Star Gate acts extremely domineering, it forcibly collects protection fees from all the cities, large and small, in the Northwest Desert every year. If they don't obey, they will destroy the entire city, leaving no one alive."
"So privately, they are called sand bandits."
Alan said with a solemn expression.
"They are so domineering, why don't they unite to resist?" Wei Min asked.
But Alan smiled bitterly: "It's useless, the master of the Sand Star Gate is a Supreme expert, no one in the Northwest Desert is his opponent."
"Actually, as long as they pay the protection fee on time every year, the Sand Star Gate will not do anything. But for some reason, in recent years, the protection fees collected by the Sand Star Gate have become more and more, and some small cities simply cannot afford to pay, so they destroy these small cities."
"This has led to many living beings leaving the Northwest Desert one after another."
"Perhaps if you had come back a few years later, I would have left too."
At the end, Alan's face was full of anger.
This is her home, the home she shares with Wei Suo and her other brothers. Back then, she could have stayed in the Yao family, but she refused and returned to this place known as the desert of the strong.
She is very attached to this place and would not leave it easily.
Wei Min's face darkened when she heard this, and she said, "Mother, you don't have to worry, Master and Mistress are here."
"Can Master take action to destroy the Sand Star Gate?"
Wei Min looked at Gu Changsheng with eager eyes.
