"Daddy, you're back?" A girl ran to the door, two long ponytails on her head swaying softly, like two lines drawn in ink.

The wooden door was opened, and a middle-aged man appeared, only in his early fifties, with deep wrinkles on his face, a little rickety on his back, gray hair, and much older than his actual age. He didn't have much expression on his face, but when he saw the girl running towards him, he smiled gently.

The smile looked warm, and the deep wrinkles seemed to have been melted away, much lighter.

"Mu Wan stayed home alone last night, are you afraid?" The man reached out and touched the girl's head, half-jokingly.

"Daddy, I'm fifteen! And it's not the first time you've traveled far away. The girl pouted.

"Haha, then when Mu Wan is older, Daddy will take you to Lintao City with me." As he spoke, the man put down the salute from his shoulder, took out a wooden mask painted with gold dust from his bosom, and hung it on the wall.

The girl raised her head and looked at the mask on the wall, which Daddy brought back at this time of year and hung it on the wall, and now it was in a row.

"Mu Wan, get the leakage ready, and we'll start work immediately. The weather is better today, so you have to work hard! The man said, his sore hands and feet, and he rushed back from Lintao City by carriage overnight, just to be able to start work as soon as possible.

"Daddy has been on the road all night, so let's go and get some rest. It's good for Mu Wan to come alone. The girl said, stepping forward and taking the man's big rough hand.

"Hahaha, it doesn't matter, I'm fine. Mu Wan, you think, we will save a lot of money this year, and by this time next year, it will be enough to send you to Xinghai Pavilion. At that time, our Mu Wan will no longer be a little girl, she will become the most powerful and beautiful fairy in the city! The man laughed and happily touched the girl's pink face.

"Daddy, actually...... Actually, I thought about it later, and it would be good to stay with my father all the time if I didn't cultivate any immortals. That way, we don't have to work hard to save money, and we can live a better life. Daddy could have made a good living, but for my sake ......," the girl said, her voice getting lower and lower.

"Hey, Mu Wan, listen to me," the man gently grabbed the girl's shoulder and looked her in the eye, "Didn't your father write it in the letter back then?" He said, you must become an excellent immortal cultivator. He said that only then can you go back and save him. You've heard the news from the dust island recently, and the ...... in the present world."

The girl's eyes were a little moist, and the shiny things were so soft that if she said a few more words, her eye sockets would not be able to control them anymore. It's not a good thing to let them out, the man knows it, and he stops talking in time.

"In short, you must go to Xinghai Pavilion! Your father has worked so hard to give you the ability to cultivate immortals, shouldn't you cherish it? The man said, his hand gripping the girl's shoulder with a gentle force, as if to cheer her up.

"Hmm!" The girl nodded vigorously, her teeth biting her lip, oozing a hint of bright red.

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this, we can't miss the hour! I just looked outside, and the river is not fast, so it is very suitable for salvage! "The man's back is a little rickety, but he looks very great at the moment.

The girl came to her senses and patted her chest, her breasts were very full, not at all like a poor child, and this figure seemed to be somewhat out of her age. Turning around, she pulled out two very intricate-looking silver tools from the storage cabinet in the back room.

This silver tool is called a "leaky tool" and is specially used to salvage the vicissitudes. The drain is mainly composed of two parts, a metal box with two leather straps, and a trapezoidal metal membrane. Between these two parts is a long wrist-thick metal tube that connects them. When using, put the metal box on your back, grab the metal pipe with one hand, and control the direction of the trapezoidal metal film, so as to align the direction of the river flow and salvage.

The trapezoidal metal film is specially made, with very fine pores on it, when the river water has flowed, the catkins will be blocked by the metal film and remain on the surface, while the remaining river water will be further filtered along the metal pipes and finally flow into the metal box behind it. The water stored in the metal box also has water attribute spiritual power, which is also valuable, but it is inconvenient to handle and transport, and the price is much worse than the catacom, so the person who salvages the catkins will pull an iron ring next to the metal box after working for a period of time to drain the water in the box.

The river water in these boxes is called "Canglang Water".

Generally, after working for about half an hour, it is necessary to come out of the river water and filter the membrane once. The so-called "filter membrane" work is to scrape off the vicissitudes on the metal membrane. The trapezoidal metal film of the leakage is very cleverly designed, there is a small mechanism behind the metal film, only by pulling this mechanism, the metal film can be immediately tightened in a short time, and a thin layer of white flocculent will fall off the metal film.

At the end of the day's salvage, the layers of white flocculent are taken out to dry in the sun. When they are dried, they become sheets of rice paper. In January, people will fold these piles and take them to the material shops in the big cities to sell.

The leak is almost made of sterling silver, so it is expensive, and it is not something that ordinary people can afford to buy if they want to. The man used to farm and raise livestock, but later he sold all the fields and cattle in order to buy these two missing tools. But now he makes a lot more money a year than he used to.

The girl handed the slightly larger one to the man, and put on the other smaller one herself. Don't look at her not tall, but she is very neat in doing things, she has lived a life of starvation if she doesn't work hard since she was a child, and she has long been used to it.

The two chatted as they walked outside the house. It's a small wooden hut, with only four small rooms, but it's very cozy. There is a locust tree planted outside the house, with dense branches, but because in winter, there is not a single green leaf left, and it looks a little lonely.

The wooden house is located in a small valley, less than 100 meters from the house, the Canglang River crashes against the rocks, stirring up beautiful snow-white waves. It was only a tributary of the valley that flowed through it, but it brought wealth at this time of year, and the plain white of the waves was gold in the eyes of father and daughter.

The girl and the man walked to the river, took off their shoes and stood barefoot in the river. The crevices in the rocks act like slots designed specifically for them, preventing them from being washed away by the river. In this way, they held the metal pipe of the leaking tool in one hand and the trapezoidal metal film in the other, and began today's salvage work.

Lowering her head, the girl smiled happily as she watched the turbid river water flow into the tiny holes in the metal membrane, and the white flocculents slowly accumulated on the membrane. A lot of splashes splashed on her body, wetting her clothes, but she didn't feel cold at all, the Canglang River was warm, just like she was standing next to the fire.

The drops of water condensed on her face into tiny pearls, shimmering in the sunlight. She didn't have the dazzling jewels of the girls in the city, but nature embraced her and dressed her up in jewels.

"Huh?" The girl was suddenly stunned for a moment, and a piece of paper soaked in the river water sucked on the metal film of the leak.

This is? The girl carefully peeled off the piece of paper and found some strange lines drawn on it. The entire sheet of paper was wet, but the lines still shimmered. Could this be the common spell used by immortal cultivators?

A shadow floated down from the river and hit the girl's feet, getting stuck in the rock.

That's a person! The girl almost screamed in surprise. She bent down and gently brushed the man's messy, wet hair away, revealing a pale face.

"Daddy! He's alive! The girl put down the leak in her hand, hugged the man who had drifted downstream, and shouted to the man behind her.