18 [Monster Retreat (M)]
"Tea, two of you, please."
"Thank you." The young man took a sip of tea.
"I really didn't expect that the Porie witch would also accept apprentices, and it was a man." The mother shook her head helplessly as she recalled the look on her face when she had just heard the teenager introduce herself.
"Actually, it's also the reason." Lin Meng looked at the house and said, "The place where you live is really far from the village, don't you have any companions?" β
"Yes, it's just me and my daughter."
Lin Meng took a sip of tea and said, "It's very inconvenient, in this kind of mountain where monsters are rampant." β
The woman's expression flashed a little dim, but it disappeared in a blink of an eye, and said, "Well, it's okay, it's not so..."
When the young man heard this, he felt that the old woman seemed to be hiding something, but after a little thought, he didn't say anything in line with the principle that the master should not intervene when the apprentice spoke.
βΒ·Β·Β· In order to prevent the yokai from coming back, I will spread an enchantment around the house, there is no moon tonight, I hope you don't leave the house. Lin Meng took out a stack of talismans from his sleeve and said, "Xiaolin, come and help." β
"Hi~~"
At this time, the girl on the side said with some hesitation: "That, Miss Miko, I originally wanted to go to fetch water before, but I encountered this kind of thing, so can you accompany me to go for a while?" β
Lin Meng looked at the girl, a little difficult.
"Sister Lin Meng, leave this matter to me!" The boy laughed, "I won't set up the enchantment anyway, and staying here will only help." β
βΒ·Β·Β· Alright then, Xiaolin, you have to be careful. β
"Leave it to me." The young man gave a thumbs up, "I'm no longer the original Wuxia Ameng." β
"Who is Wuxia Amon? Xiaolin always said something that people couldn't understand. β
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"Alright, this young lady, is there nothing you want to say?" The boy stood next to the girl and asked unceremoniously, "Your mother seems to be hiding something." β
The girl sighed and said, "I can't imagine how it is possible for a witch girl to be so quiet as you have an apprentice like you. β
"I'm sorry for not being quiet." The young man smiled indifferently, "What do you think of me as your business, anyway, I think what you are going to say now is related to the monster we are tracking, it should be very important, otherwise I wouldn't have asked Sister Lin Meng to accompany you out." β
The girl sighed, not hiding the disgust in her eyes, and said, "Do you think that two women far away from the village can survive with only a small field of flowers?" β
The boy didn't think about it and said, "I don't think so, so all I can think of is someone helping you, or a monster helping you." β
The girl obviously did not expect that this seemingly foolish fellow could see it, and was first taken aback, and then calmed down and continued: "You are right, in fact, whenever such a moonless night comes, as it is today, wild beasts or birds from nowhere will be placed in the courtyard. β
"I heard from my mother that my father suddenly went crazy at night like this, and then disappeared, and it was because of this that my mother and I left the village to look for our father, and we kept hearing similar rumors during the journey, but every time we were disappointed, and finally my mother and I were tired of it, so we simply stayed away from the village and lived here, and that is from that time on, wild beasts and other things were placed in the yard."
"So when you see me and Sister Lin Meng chasing that monster, you naturally think, 'Could that be my father?' Something like that. The boy sarcastically said, "Don't be stupid, in the previous tracking, oh~, it's not that I'm boasting, with my dynamic vision, I almost looked at that monster from head to toe, and I didn't see any resemblance between that monster and humans." β
"But..."
"No, miss, see the facts, that's just your fantasy, it's impossible for humans to become monsters!" The boy said ruthlessly.
"However, since my mother and I have lived here, we have never been disturbed by monsters, and every new moon day, beasts and birds appear, how do you explain why... Why... To put it this way... I just want to... I just want to find my father, but wow..." As she spoke, the girl squatted on the ground and cried, and her tears wet the ground under the girl's feet.
Faced with this situation, the young man who was originally just pretending to be cold panicked, and kept comforting the girl, saying: "Don't cry first, it's okay, it's my mistake, so let's beg Sister Lin Meng for a while, let her take a look, maybe it's really your father, and let's see if it can be recovered." β
"Getting hemp? (Really?) The girl asked vaguely.
"Really, really, so can you please stop crying." The boy took out a piece of paper from his pocket, put it on the girl's hand and said, "Wipe your nose first, what kind of body does it take for a girl to cry like this." β
"Thank you."
"Go back when you're clean, I'll help you carry water."
"Oh~" The boy handed the bucket to the boy who was floating in the air (the boy was not tall enough to lift the bucket), and said, "You are obviously very gentle, why did you deliberately say these words?" β
"I have my reasons, you take what I said earlier as if I was going crazy." The young man carried the bucket in one hand and carried the girl on his back with the other, "Hold on to me, because of you, Sister Lin Meng is already tired of waiting." β
"What do you mean?"
"It meansββ, I'm going to speed up." The boy carried the girl on his back and directly raised his speed to the highest, drawing a beautiful landscape in the air.
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"OK, it's here, huh? What's wrong with you? Feeling unwell? Wasn't it okay just now? The boy asked, confused.
"It's an overestimate of you to say you're gentle, do you think it's normal to fly in the air with a girl on your back?" The girl's legs were a little weak.
"What are you talking about, can't you fly?" The young man said angrily, "Don't be kidding, this is Gensokyo, it's a place where my common sense is wiped out." β
"Why do people in Gensokyo have to be able to fly! Isn't that weird? Gensokyo also has ordinary people's lines. The girl mercilessly retorted to the young man's statement, "And you look like you're only about ten years old, where is the common sense, you stinky little ghost." β
hit the bull's-eye, and the young man said speechlessly: "Why do you ββ, why I should be scolded by you when I send you home, I am so wronged." β
"How can you send a girl home like this, don't think of everyone as the same standard as you."
"Hey, hey, hey, the two of you just went out and became so familiar, I was really moved, don't you say no, little ~~Lin~~!!" Lin Meng appeared behind the boy like a ghost, "Throw the master aside and go pick up the girl by yourself, you are so bold." β
The young man's expression now is not to mention how ugly it is, and he said stiffly: "Sister Lin Meng, believe me, I have a reason. β
"Oh~~, what's the reason, I'm interested." Lin Meng's hand on the boy's shoulder became tighter and tighter, and the boy could even hear his shoulder screaming.
The young man looked at the girl in embarrassment and said, "Sister Lin Meng, here..." Not quite fit. β
"Oh, is it? Then let's talk as we go, we're going to find that youkai anyway. After speaking, he grabbed the young man from his shirt and flew into the distance, adding a sentence before leaving: "That little girl over there, the enchantment has been laid out, if there is nothing serious, it is best not to leave the house, that's itββγ β