Chapter 66: The Growing Pains of a Girl

"Senior Brother Li." Changning greeted He Wanran to do whatever he wanted, but he was much more polite and cautious to Li Cheng, and invited him to go into the cave with He Wanran to watch tea.

Li Cheng didn't want to trouble too much, but he was worried that she had been wronged, so he deliberately followed her into the cave to see if she was neglected. Why don't you understand anything about him like this? can't help but be secretly funny, this person has been a chaotic child for a hundred years, and once he is enlightened, he is still confused, and he doesn't want to think about who Master He'er is? They are here, who dares to wronged the crane?

The snow mountain is cold and windy, Changning's temporary residence in the cave house because of the formation set up, it looks dry and warm, the stone cave is spacious, she did not modify the stone cave much, just use a few screens to separate the stone cave, the furnishings are all made of stone and wood, simple and elegant.

Changning let the two sit on a stone couch against the wall, the couch was covered with a straw mat woven with fine grass, the workmanship was exquisite, smooth and clean, Changning re-served tea to the two, and from the back of the screen on one side of the end of a number of delicate vegetarian points, both salty and sweet, He Wanran saw these vegetarian spots, raised his eyebrows and asked: "You don't live here alone?" She has been a classmate of Changning for five years, and she is very clear about her hobbies and temperament, and she is willing to spend time making tea, but she is definitely not happy to make dim sum.

Changning nodded, "I brought two spirit pets to live here, this snack was made by Toad, she should go out to collect medicine now." "Jade Toad was locked up by Cangfeng in Gengjin Cave for several years, and it was only three months ago that she broke through the pass, and when she came out, her original shape did not become bigger, but the gold thread on her forehead was thicker, and she came to serve Changning after she came out of the customs. said that she was serving, but in fact, there was nothing to do, she had climbed all over the snowy mountains during this time to find delicious snacks to make, Changning as long as she cultivated seriously, everything else was left to her free development.

At this time, He Wanran suddenly felt that someone was secretly spying on her, but she swept her senses, but she couldn't detect the trace of the comer, and she couldn't help but be secretly vigilant. Li Cheng's hand rested silently on the hilt of the sword.

Changning noticed the actions of the two, put down the teacup and said, "Don't be naughty, baby, come out to meet your uncle and aunt." ”

The two were stunned, I don't know who Changning is talking to, I saw a fluffy little head emerging from behind the screen, the two looked at it and saw that it was actually a two- or three-year-old little doll, the little doll bit its thumb, and looked at the two of them with big black grape-like eyes, hearing Changning's words, the little doll stumbled towards Changning with two small short legs, and the small gold bracelet on the small hands and feet clanged directly, and the trembling appearance seemed to fall down at any time.

He Wanran and Li Cheng felt that she had a kind face when they first saw this little doll, and then looked at Changning, and the two suddenly realized that this child was actually a little similar to Changning when he was young, He Wanran asked: "He'er, who is this child?" "Could it be the descendant of the Shen family? But she didn't listen to the master that Changning was an orphan raised by Ancestor Shen, and he had no blood relationship with the Shen family.

Li Cheng could see that this little doll was a ginseng incarnation, but how did the ginseng doll look so similar to Senior Sister Shen? Could it be that the junior sister's natal spirit can't be planted? Is it too much of a loss for my sister to raise a ginseng plant as a natal spiritual plant?

Changning hugged the little doll that threw herself into her arms, "It's a ginseng doll, I used to sleep under my house, and I only woke up a few months ago, so you haven't seen it before." She patted the little doll on the back, "Why doesn't the baby call people?" ”

The ginseng doll of the daimyo Shen Baobao slipped around the two of them timidly, and buried her fat little face in Changning's arms, aunt, they are so terrible, the baby is afraid!

Changning was helpless and patted it on the back, "The baby can't be rude, call the uncle and aunt, otherwise the aunt will be angry." ”

As soon as Shen Baobao heard Changning say that her aunt was angry, she immediately straightened up, raised her little hand to Li Cheng and He Wanran, and called "uncle, aunt" in a milky voice, she didn't speak very clearly, and her speech was a little out of voice, the two looked at this little face similar to Changning, loved the house and Wu, and each gave it a bottle of spiritual dew with rich aura, the baby got a good baby, and hurriedly threw himself into Changning's arms to share the delicious food with his aunt. Changning coaxed it a few words, and it went underground with Linglu in its arms.

He Wanran looked interesting, "Where did you get this ginseng doll?" Why don't you give it to your fellow clansmen to raise? "It's very hard to raise a grass and tree spirit that has just been transformed, the grass and trees have sex and no life, and the spirit is not complete after the transformation, don't look at it can talk and walk, but in fact, it is not much different from the human baby. Terran children can be sensible at the age of five or six, but grass and tree elves will not grow up to be sensible until at least one or two hundred years old. After the transformation of the grass and tree elves in the sect, they are all taught by the elders of the same clan before they come out on duty after hundreds of years.

Changning told him how he saved this doll, and I don't know if it was because it was taken away and fed to Gu because it became a shape, Shen Baobao was extremely timid, and there were no unafraid creatures except Changning, and the ginseng essence of the clan was afraid, and he couldn't maintain his human form if he was afraid. It still looks like when he was a child, Changning looks soft-hearted, and simply takes it with him to raise it. Shen Baobao is timid, but well-behaved, and very easy to raise, as long as it is planted in the ground and fed some spiritual dew regularly, it can eat it by itself, and it is not difficult to raise it in Changning.

He Wanran heard the words and said, "Raised like this, you are still willing to take blood to refine medicine in the future?" ”

As soon as He Wanran's voice fell, he felt that the little thing under his feet was scared out of his original form, a white and fat ginseng shrunk into a ball, and the ginseng leaves trembled together, and the small appearance was very pitiful, He Wanran and Li Cheng couldn't help but laugh secretly, this little ginseng is really timid enough.

Changning glared at them angrily, she said that the baby was timid, they were still so bad at scaring it, she was angry and drove people away, "The tea has also been drunk, you should go." ”

Li Cheng was very aggrieved, he didn't say anything from beginning to end, "Senior sister, I didn't scare it." "If you want to drive people, you can't drive them with me.

He Wanran smiled and apologized, "I didn't mean to. "She really did it on purpose, there are few monks in the door who will personally raise grass and tree elves, especially ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum and other natural treasures, the human race is affectionate, once they get along day and night for hundreds of years, what is the difference between raising their own children? Where is it willing to be collected for blood refining? Even if the blood collection in the door will not hurt its roots, it will take more than ten years of cultivation to recover.

But the sect protects the grass and wood elves, just so that they can use their essence blood to refine medicine to save people, and this ginseng will not be an exception in the future. It's still so small, and when it turns around to collect blood, it is scared back to its original form and can't hide, what should the crane do? Is it still for the sake of it to disobey the orders of the sect? She saw that Changning was raising this doll, and she was nothing more than this to her own sister.

Changning knew that Ah Ying intended to mention herself, she sighed secretly, anyway, the baby is still young, and the transformation has only been a few years, and the sect still can't look down on it, so let's talk about it when the time comes, "Senior brother, how did you think of coming here?" ”

Li Cheng said: "Senior sister, I am going to take a few junior brothers and sisters to Liuli Island recently, the scenery of Liuli Island is excellent, this time I will go to the Liuli Island Hundred Flowers Festival once every ten years, do you want to go with us?" ”

Changning said apologetically: "It's really unfortunate, I just promised Ah Ying to catch a stiff hair with her, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up." ”

He Wanran put down the teacup quietly, when did she say that she was going to scratch the stiffness with herself?

"You're going to scratch the stiff?" Li Cheng frowned, "What kind of cultivation is stiff?" You two are still young, isn't it too dangerous to scratch the stiffness? ”

He Wanran said: "Senior brother, don't worry, not only me and He'er will go, but also several senior brothers will go together." ”

Li Cheng was even more uneasy when he heard it, and there are senior brothers? What if those junior brothers see that their junior sister is beautiful and are entangled with junior sisters? Those wild bees and butterflies are the most annoying! He almost said that I would go with you, but thinking that the task of Liuli Island was given to him by the master, he didn't dare to act rashly, he looked at Changning expectantly, junior sister should go to Liuli Island with me, Liuli Island is not dangerous at all.

Changning was not moved by Li Cheng's wet eyes, it was rare that Li Cheng was sent to Liuli Island by his master, and she was stupid to go with him. After Changning politely sent Li Cheng away, he turned back to He Wanran, who was not leaving, and said, "Why don't you leave?" She half-knelt on the ground and called softly, "Baby, come out quickly, auntie hug you." ”

He Wanran was a little sad, this girl was too fond of the new and tired of the old, didn't it just scare her Lingzhi? Just be so rude to yourself, "You really want to."

Changning didn't bother to pay attention to her, she was usually very particular, but when did she complain about her misery when she was on a mission in the sect? In terms of exquisiteness, this person is no less than her. Changning waited patiently on the ground for a while, and a ginseng that looked like a radish came out of the ground, with two slumpy green leaves on its head, and threw itself into Changning's arms, and pale green droplets continued to emerge from his eyes, and the stone cave was suddenly filled with the smell of ginseng. Even if it is frightened out of its original form, this ginseng doll looks like a human, and it looks like a little human baby, except that it has green leaves on its head and some ginseng whiskers on its hands and feet.

When He Wanran saw these spiritual dews, he immediately sent a voice to remind Changning, "Quickly collect its essence, this is a high-grade healing medicine, don't waste it." She looked at the fat little ginseng, if it weren't for the ginseng smell on it, she would have suspected that it was radish essence, "What did you feed it?" How can you be so fat? "It's so fat, if you let the people in the alchemy room see it, you can pay it back? I must not say a word, and I will talk about taking a few drops of essence blood.

She didn't transmit this sentence, the baby trembled with fright, and rubbed desperately into Changning's arms, Changning pinched a law and collected all its tears, ginseng has no blood, tears, and the liquid that flows out is ginseng essence, but there is a difference in concentration, Changning secretly wondered if it would not cry once a day, save it and purify it, it is no different from drawing blood. Of course, the premise is that it has to cry a few tons of tears, and it should be able to purify a few drops of essence blood.

She was not angry and said to He Wanran, who had a bad taste: "Are you finished? I've really turned my face when I talk nonsense! "She doesn't scare the baby to death, she doesn't give up, does she? He Wanran has a bad taste that loves to bully children, and the more cute the child, the more she loves to bully.

When the child cries, she will hold the child and gently coax her, give candy and toys. Because of this, the children in the sect were both loving and afraid when they saw He Wanran. Changning doesn't bully children, but she doesn't like to tease these children, she only loves well-behaved and cute fat Lori, but it's a pity that ninety percent of the little dolls in the sect are Zhengtai, and most of them are standard with bear child attributes, so it's bad to look at.

He Wanran saw that Changning was really annoyed, and she didn't dare to tease anymore, who made this little doll a little like a crane when she was a child, and her timid appearance was very cute, she squatted down, smiled kindly and said to the little fat baby, "The baby doesn't cry, my aunt just teased you." Is it okay for your aunt to apologize to you? He shook his hand and took out a bottle of spiritual liquid with a tempting taste.

Changning glanced at the bottle of spiritual liquid, which was actually diluted Wanzai Kongqing, which was the greatest delicacy for ginseng essence. It's a pity that Shen Baobao was already frightened by this strange aunt, for fear that if he took her spiritual liquid, he would be taken by her to refine medicine, lying in Changning's arms, and ignoring He Wanran.

Changning looked at its little chubby face and cried red, and wondered in his heart, not that even if the grass and tree goblins have spiritual intelligence, they are not very different from the emotional human race, and rarely cry, is it because the baby was raised by others, so he is very much like a human? How can you still anthropomorphize your face and cry red? She didn't coax it, she held it and let it cry, anyway, it would stop when it was tired of crying.

He Wanran smiled when he saw the little doll lured, and smiled and gave the diluted Wanzai Kongqing to Changning, "Did you refine the essence of the sun and the moon to feed it?" If it goes on like this, this little chubby baby will have hundreds of years of skill in a few years, so if you really can't bear it, pay attention. She knew that Changning was very talented in the essence of the sun and the moon, and she was envious of others.

Changning nodded silently.

"What's the matter with you and Li Cheng?" He Wanran has been friends with Changning for so many years, and he can see at a glance that Changning is indifferent to Li Cheng, "Did he offend you?" ”

Changning said lightly: "No." ”

As soon as He Wanran heard this, she knew that Li Cheng must have offended Changning, but she didn't continue to ask, "I'm going to leave the day after tomorrow, when will you return to the sect?" "She came back to the sect this time to find a weapon, and she couldn't delay, Changning was willing to remove the stiffness with her, and she was relieved.

"I'll go back with you." Changning raised his hand and was about to transmit the sound to Yu Toad, when he heard Yu Toad'er's cheerful voice sound, "Girl, I picked a lot of snow lotus back, do you want to eat snow lotus sauce?" ”

He Wanran saw that the eyebrows of the little girl who came in were quite open, and he probably guessed its original body.

Yu Chan'er had never seen He Wanran, but she had seen He Wanran's image, and she stepped forward to salute He Wanran, "Yu Chan'er has seen Uncle He." "Yu Chan'er has been cultivating in Gengjin Cave for many years, and her timid temperament has gone a lot, and she has begun to be generous in dealing with people.

She knows that her qualifications and comprehension are extremely inconspicuous among the disciples of the demon clan of the Taishang Sect, and the only thing that can be praised is that she is the first spirit beast to follow Changning, and she only asks Changning to accept herself as a registered disciple after entering the Jindan period in the future.

He Wanran smiled and said, "You spirit beast is very well-behaved. She thought about it and took out a few gold pills refined from her arms, "I came in a hurry this time, and I didn't prepare anything good, you can eat these gold pills as snacks." ”

Yu Chan'er hurriedly took the golden pill with both hands, kowtowed to He Wanran to thank him, and said to Changning: "Girl, you catch up with your uncle, I will take care of the baby." ”

Changning handed the baby to Yu Toad, "We'll leave in a while, you clean up the cave mansion." ”

Yu Toad bowed down and hugged the baby. The baby's body stiffened but did not resist, after all, it and Yu Toad also got along day and night during this time. The jade toad also takes good care of the baby, the body of the grass and tree elves is soft, and the spiritual intelligence is opened late, and the monks raise them mostly just to relieve boredom, or to take care of the garden, which is different from other demons.

For a spirit like ginseng essence, there is no other requirement for monks to raise it, as long as they can regularly extract essence blood. In Yu Toad'er's opinion, this is a matter of course, just like many monks raise carp essence for pleasing to the eye, so many carp essence spend a lot of energy to clean up their appearance more beautifully.

Yu Toad'er quickly cleaned up the cave mansion with her hands and feet, all kinds of snacks and food in the cave mansion, mountain vine and grass mats were made by her, she swept it away, leaving a few stone furniture, she asked Changning, "Girl, do you want to remove the pine tree and tea case outside the house?" ”

Changning said, "No need. She saw that Yu Toad'er had packed up, and as soon as the sword light was rolled, she took her and Shen Baobao away. Changning Imperial Sword is extremely fast, even with the two of them, it is faster than He Wanran.

He Wanran smiled, and the sword light also accelerated, and the two of them had the heart to make more progress than during this time, and they galloped all the way, almost rushing into the cave at the same time. It seems that the two of them are evenly matched, but in fact, Changning won, because she brought two oil bottles, He Wanran waved to Changning: "See you the day after tomorrow." ”

"Okay." Changning instructed Jade Toad to bring the little ginseng back to Liuxia Peak, and she summoned a spirit bird to Taishang Peak to find the senior brother to hand over the task.

The guards of Taishang Peak are familiar with Changning, the two female guards smiled and stepped forward to laugh with Changning, and looked at the storage bags on her body, this is a procedure that everyone who enters Taishang Peak must take, Changning put the storage bag of private belongings and let Yu Toad take it away.

Mu Linyuan received a summons from Changning, and came down to pick him up, he wore a royal blue crane today, his long hair was tied up by a jade crown, and his temperament was like jade, so handsome that people almost dared not force him, he looked at the little girl who walked towards him with a smile, "Are you back?" ”

"Big brother." Changning raised her head and called him, Changning was very fast, already about one meter six and five, she hoped that she could be three or five centimeters taller.

"Didn't you say that it had been refined early? Why didn't you come back earlier? Mu Linyuan asked, he didn't want her to go to the snow mountain from the beginning.

Changning said: "I think the scenery there is quite beautiful, so I stayed longer." She loved the seemingly calm but actually rushing glaciers, the mighty avalanches...... Every time I look at it, I am more and more in awe of nature, and in front of nature, human beings are too small.

"What do you like? Don't you think it's lonely there? "Many monks don't like to go to the North Ridge Snow Mountain, not because of the cold there, but because they can't stand the loneliness.

"It's fine." Changning didn't feel much, in fact, for her, no matter where she was, she was always alone, and the memories of her previous life were deeply imprinted in her mind.

Mu Linyuan rubbed her little head, "If you want to go out for a walk, you can go to Middle-earth." Although monks have to get used to loneliness, this girl is so withdrawn at such a young age, which makes Mu Linyuan start to worry about whether she was stimulated by the previous incident, he hesitated, "Li Cheng went to find you today?" ”

"Hmm." When Changning heard the words "Li Cheng", his eyebrows were slightly raised, and his slightly raised phoenix eyes showed a little dissatisfaction, as if he was very puzzled why the senior brother wanted to mention him. It is said that Changning has changed the most in recent years is a pair of eyes, her young eyes are clear and round apricot eyes, the corners of her eyes have been slightly raised in recent years, becoming more like phoenix eyes, and she has added a bit of charming demeanor. Fortunately, she is still young, she is still a little girl, and when she is older, she doesn't know how charming she will be.

Mu Linyuan coaxed the little girl, "Don't take his master's words to heart, they are unreasonable." ”

Changning was stunned for a moment, then remembered the past, she glared at her senior brother, "Senior brother, I obviously forgot!" ”

Changning was angry when he thought about this, Li Cheng's Jinwudong lineage was not compatible with Qingxu Palace, Li Cheng didn't know what nerve he was wrong with last year, he suddenly grew up and didn't say anything, and he followed her all day long and her junior sister was short, which made Changning annoyed. Changning seems to have a good temper, but in fact, she is a little withdrawn, she likes to practice and read books alone, and she only likes to travel alone when she plays. What she hates the most is that someone or something interrupts her regular life for a long time, and Li Cheng happened to commit her biggest taboo.

His master Tiansui Daojun was quite unreasonable, and he actually thought that Changning intended to seduce his apprentice and destroy the good future of his apprentice, so he came to the door and unceremoniously asked Cangfeng to let Changning stay away from Li Cheng. What kind of temper is Cangfeng? Don't say that this time it was Li Cheng's own affection, that is, the disciples really fell in love with Li Cheng, and it was also a blessing that they had cultivated for eight lifetimes! She didn't say a word, and fought with Tiansui.

The two Yuanying Daojun shot out angrily, and for a while the entire Taishang Cave Heaven was starry and moonless, and in the end, it was the ancestor of Jiuhua Palace who came forward to stop the two of them with kind words, and it happened that Canghong Daojun had also come out of the customs, and finally there was someone who could control Cangfeng a little, and the two of them did not break the Taishang Cave Heaven.

However, after that, the Qingxu Palace did not allow any disciples of the Golden Crow Cave to enter and leave from now on. For this reason, Li Cheng also apologized to Changning several times in private, and Changning comforted him with a good voice, but in fact, he was annoyed to death. Otherwise, the master said that peace is precious, she wants to beat people, and she will be patient to comfort him, but she really doesn't want to listen to his chatter anymore.

Mu Linyuan listened to the little girl's soft complaints, and couldn't stop the smile on his face, "Okay, it's all senior brother's bad, it reminds you of bad things, senior brother apologizes to you, okay?" ”

Changning pursed his lips and nodded, "Senior brother, you don't have to worry about me being affected, they are not my anyone." In the end, Changning's chin was slightly raised, and her expression was a little arrogant, she knew that the master and the master were worried that she would be affected, she really didn't care at all, who was Tiansui Daojun? She doesn't know! He's just pretending to be older than himself, and when she's the same age as him, she'll be higher than him!

She does have arrogant capital, among the 100,000 Dao children in Taishangzong, she deserves to be the first in both swordsmanship and schoolwork. If she hadn't worshiped Cangfeng as a teacher early, the sect didn't know how many Yuanying Daojun wanted to accept her as an apprentice. Cangfeng doesn't know how happy he is, Changning is also very happy, the elders in the world are the same, everyone wants their children to be the first. She is not capable of filial piety to her elders now, so she uses her grades to make them happy.

Mu Linyuan fell in love with the little girl's proud appearance, her face was shining at this time, she was very beautiful and cute, and he said softly, "Yes, they are not you at all." He took Changning's hand and walked inside, "I heard that you want to follow He Wanran to catch the stiffness?" ”

"Yes." Changning nodded, and she asked Mu Linyuan, "Senior brother, can you help me refine a veil?" ”

Before she cultivated the first phoenix seed, she was not going to leave the sect for a long time, but during the period, she could take on some small tasks to hone her swordsmanship, and Ah Ying's mission was very good. Changning was influenced by novels before, and always thought that the sect had a lot of tasks for disciples to experience, but in fact, the so-called task of Taishang Sect was to go to various branches of Taishang Sect to do things, this kind of task took a long time and the pay was enough for cultivation, so it was a job.

As for the task of hunting demon beasts, it is extremely rare, unless the demon beast is the evil side, otherwise the sect will never offer a reward in the open. Of course, the disciple is willing to kill the demon beast in private, and the sect will not care. He Wanran was able to find so many tasks because he had traveled abroad all year round and met a large group of casual cultivators.

Changning is reluctant to change her appearance in the sect, but it is more convenient to change her appearance when she goes out, but Changning is not willing to pretend to be ugly, why is she so beautiful to pretend to be ugly every day? If she continues like this, she will be psychologically unhealthy sooner or later, so she chooses to wear a veil, and when she gets married one day, she will definitely dress herself up beautifully every day!

When Mu Linyuan heard that the little girl chose to use a veil, he couldn't help but smile, "I've prepared what you want for you." "I really love beautiful girls, but he doesn't approve of his sister making herself ugly, as a person has been a villain for a long time, even if he was a gentleman before, he has become a villain, and the same is true for pretending to be an ugly person. He loves to see the little girl's proud appearance, and he doesn't like her to be depressed, so his little girl should be happy every day.