21. Go to the Elven Forest

When Minna heard this, she felt that this kind of thing was a little familiar, and if she thought about it carefully, wasn't this similar to her own situation? He said, "It sounds like my father...... If that's the case, Grandpa should go and check it out. But "she" soon thought that after the grandfather arrived at his house, he stayed for a long time, and if he went to find that son and stayed for so long, what would he do? So he hurriedly added: "I'm going with my grandfather!" You can't leave me behind! ”

Xiao Tianjian was very embarrassed: "But...... That's not very convenient...... "The elf treats feelings very single-mindedly, and he didn't have any worries because he divorced his ex-wife, but let the elf wife see her and her lover's offspring, I don't know what she thinks."

But Minna didn't understand the worry in his heart: "What's the inconvenience? I'll listen to you and won't run around. You promised not to leave me, are you going to lie to me again?! You also said that you would accompany me to find my mother and live with us, and you promised! ”

Xiao Tianjian was speechless for a while, and he didn't know how to explain it, but it was really not very kind to leave his granddaughter here, but it took too much time to send her home, he hesitated for a moment, and looked at Keith who was leaning against the door, I don't know if I can let this half-elf give my granddaughter a ride, anyway, it's not far.

Keith seemed to see through his mind and flatly refused: "I will never return to the human world, humans are all filthy and despicable creatures!" After that, he glared at Xiao Tianjian fiercely.

Sennett interjected, "Oh, Keith, I'm sad to hear you say that. Minna also chimed in: "Pretty uncle, I'm not dirty." ”

Keith replied dryly, "I'm not talking about you. He turned and left, only the other three could faintly see a suspicious flush behind his ears.

Xiao Tianjian shot his eyes at Sennet again, thinking that if he sent his granddaughter away through the "crooked room", it shouldn't be very troublesome for an old friend, right? As long as it is entrusted to the Xiao family caravans stationed in various places......

The old magician saw his gaze and scratched his head: "Huh...... In fact, it would be better for the children to stay here for a few more days...... I could teach her more......" but Minna flatly rejected the proposal: "No! I'm going with my grandfather! I will do whatever Grandpa says, but Grandpa can't leave me! ”

Seeing Minna's attitude so resolute, Sennet couldn't say anything more. Xiao Tianjian looked at the three people in front of him, reluctantly agreed, and immediately went to pack his luggage.

Minna watched him leave and looked back at the old magician: "Grandpa Sennet, I am very reluctant to you, but ......" Sennett smiled: "Silly boy, I am also reluctant to you, but as your grandfather said, every party has an end, and we can't be together for the rest of our lives." Besides, you can still come and see me, can't you? ”

Minna nodded vigorously, thinking of the green algae that her grandfather had shown her, and wondering when she would ask him for a few so that she could see the old magician through the woods next May.

After all, she didn't have the guts to jump from the top of the mountain alone.

"She" made up her mind and couldn't help but smile secretly, and then the old magician patted "her" on the shoulder, and when "she" turned around, he saw a strange look on his face: "Minna, that ...... Can you tell me how it is convenient for women? I seem to have drunk too much broth. ”

Minna was stunned for a moment, and soon smiled and told the old "grandmother" the trick of being a woman for the first time, and in return, "she" also knew some of the boy's secrets. Honestly, "she" thought that feeling was really weird.

Just as the old man and the young man were snickering at each other, Xiao Tianjian appeared again, and seeing that his little granddaughter was completely unprepared, he couldn't help but be a little angry: "Why don't you pack up your things?!" What are you procrastinating?! ”

"Even if you pack up now, you won't be able to leave until tomorrow morning, and if you leave now, are you going to spend the night in the water?" Xiao Tianjian changed his mind at this time, but he finally found that something was wrong with his old friend, his eyes widened, and he pointed to the greatness of the other party's chest: "What's going on?" ”

Minna grinned and said, "Grandpa! Grandpa Sennett has become a grandmother! I've become a boy too, and it's fun, but it hurts. ”

Xiao Tianjian listened to nonsense, and after the two of them explained in detail, they knew the truth of the matter, and also understood the reason why his granddaughter behaved differently than usual just now, and couldn't help complaining about his old friend: "What are you doing with these things when you are full?" If you have time, you can also get some healing potions, potions that replenish mana, poisons, and so on, useful things. Sex reassignment potions, as well as those that change the color of your hair and eyes...... What's the use? ”

Sennett was upset and glared, "What kind of things have I never done?" Not new at all! Potions that can change a person's appearance and inner life are truly great inventions, and you don't even know it! He turned around to leave, and muttered again: "Men are stupid!" Xiao Tianjian and Minna were stunned.

Skipping aside all the interesting things that happened to Minna in order to experience the "boy's lifestyle" that night, the next morning, the grandparents and grandchildren packed their bags and left the magician's house.

Accompanied by Sennett and Keith, they first entered the basement of the wizard's house, opened several doors with magic locks, that is, the soft and transparent compartments, and finally came to the exit after turning around in the tunnels. It was the mouth of a cave covered with stones and thorns. When you come out, it's a rugged mountain road.

Minna's transformation potion still works, so "she" is still an energetic and competitive little boy, and refuses her grandfather's proposal to carry "her" away, insisting on relying on the strength of her feet that she has been training for months. Fortunately, before she was too tired to walk, "she" could already hear the sound of water not far away, which was the way they left on this trip.

Dozens of water dragons drilled out of the towering mountain wall, flying straight down the pool, forming a deep water rapid, rushing to the east.

When she came to the stream, Minna sat on the rocks on the side of the road and gasped, only to see Xiao Tianjian touch the ring, and a strange-looking "boat" appeared on the ground, four or five feet long, but the bottom was round and thick. Minna reached out and poked the bottom of the boat, and found that it was actually soft.

Sennett took the wand and went around, dotted it everywhere, and complained: "Old Xiao, you don't take good care of it, there are so many scars on my masterpiece." ”

Xiao Tianjian rolled his eyes at the sky: "Lao Sen, I found out that after you became a woman, you were a lot more verbose. This thing is running on the waterway, so it's going to be a little rubbing, what's the big deal? ”

Sennett muttered a few words, said "no problem", and asked Keith to help push the boat into the water. Xiao Tianjian picked up Minna, sat down on the only seat in the boat, and turned back to Sennet: "Okay, thank you, old friend, I will come to see you again." ”

Minna struggled not to be hugged by her grandfather, but he knocked her head hard: "Don't move!" Don't you want to go with me?! He had been so annoyed by the boy last night that he had no patience to coax her, and with a wave of his hand at the old magician and the half-elf, he flicked the switch and let the boat float straight down the current.

Minna only hurriedly shouted, "Grandpa Sennet, beautiful uncle, goodbye, I'll come to see your ......," and rushed out with the boat.

Seeing their figures disappear, the old magician and the half-elf looked at each other and sighed. The latter stared at the former and said, "Master, this appearance is really not suitable for you. The latter nodded: "It's really weird, I always pounce forward when I walk." I said, how about you try it next time? I dare say you must be beautiful when you become a woman. ”

He was answered by the back of the half-elf who turned around angrily and left.

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Minna sat in her grandfather's arms, rushing down the rapids, and couldn't help but scream. The splash hit her face and body, and was quickly thrown away, and then the next splash came again, and she could barely breathe, so she had to shut up.

The speed of the boat is very fast, occasionally encountering a whirlpool, it will spin in a circle, Xiao Tianjian used his sword to support the stones at the water's edge to move hard, only to use his strength to let the boat get out of the whirlpool, and go down the river again, sometimes the direction is not right, they even rush down backwards. It's an indescribable feeling.

They set out early in the morning, and the boat was on board as the sun rose, and it was after noon that they reached a slow stream, with a small shoal between the water and the mountain wall. Xiao Tianjian obviously didn't pass by here for the first time, and quickly stabilized the boat and pulled his granddaughter to that small piece of land.

At this time, Minna's hands and feet were weak, her head was dizzy, and she felt even more sick and sick in her chest. However, the child is very adaptable, and after drinking the hot water handed by her grandfather and eating dry food, she quickly regained her vitality and began to talk excitedly about her thoughts on the morning's trip. The rafting experience added to her experience of the word thrill, and she began to look forward to something more "fun" on the trip.

Xiao Tianjian speechlessly scolded his old friend's potion, making his originally well-behaved and cute granddaughter change her personality, but he was also secretly glad that the effect of the potion was almost over, and when they arrived in the wasteland, the child would not run around.

After an hour's rest, they were on the road again, this time without pause, and by the time they finally reached the end of the rapids, a large lake, it was already evening. The lake was next to a high mountain peak, and it was gloomy all around, and the shore was scattered with white bones, both animal and human, and Minna was a little creepy to see.

At this moment, a wolf howl came from the nearby mountains, and Minna was so frightened that she threw herself into her grandfather's arms. She has unknowingly turned back into a girl.

Xiao Tianjian put away the boat and whispered, "Follow me quietly, don't make a sound." Minna hurriedly tugged at the corner of her grandfather's clothes, and walked forward step by step on the wet mud on the shore. I didn't know how far I walked in the darkness, only to see a few houses standing quietly in front of me.

When I got closer, I found that it was an abandoned farmhouse, with axes, baskets, and a few haystacks scattered on the ground in the front yard, and the door panels were half-connected next to the door frame. In one of the rooms, the table, chairs and beds were fairly complete, and there was a simple stove built in the corner, and everything was covered with dust.

Xiao Tianjian lit the oil lamp on the table, alarmed the two rats on the roof beam, and ran away with a squeak.

Minna asked in a whisper, "Grandpa, are we going to spend the night here tonight?" Xiao Tianjian nodded: "I've been here for the night before, although it's a little simple, it's no problem to shelter from the wind and rain, and when I light a torch outside, those wolves won't dare to come." He walked over to the half-broken cabinet by the wall and rummaged through it, "It seems that someone else has been here since I left, and everything that was originally placed here is gone." ”

He quickly cleaned the stove, took out pots and pans from the storage ring, drew water from the well behind the house, and began to cook, and at the same time beckoned to the little granddaughter: "Don't be in a daze, go around to see if there is anything that can be used, and then wipe the bed, table and chair with water." ”

Minna surveyed the whole dilapidated house, and then looked at the other rooms while it was still light, and gathered a few handfuls of hay, a broken barrel, and a rag that was still in good condition. She remembered that Marshall had used hay as firewood, so she gave it to her grandfather, and then, as he had said, went to the back of the house to draw water from the wooden bucket, and swept the tables, chairs, and beds in the house.

Xiao Tianjian looked at his granddaughter's busy figure and smiled with satisfaction.

In the evening they ate simple jerky soup and bread, and Minna was so hungry that she almost devoured it. After the meal, Xiao Tianjian lit four torches outside the house with the hay, firewood and oilcloth he had collected, and inserted them in the front and back of the house to prevent the wolves from approaching. Then he pulled the futon pillow out of the ring and laid it on Minna's clean bed.

Minna had seen her grandfather take something from that ring many times, but she didn't expect it to be so rich in stock, and she was very envious and wanted to have one for herself.

When Xiao Tianjian heard this, he smiled and said, "This is what I got from Dragon Island, and it is almost enough to be at the level of an artifact, so I can't give it to people." But I have an alchemist friend who makes this kind of thing, but not as well as this. Your lobby brother has a ring that he made to hold only a sword and a few clothes. If you really want it, I'll ask him to make one for you in the future. ”

Minna nodded violently, even if she couldn't hold so many things, it would be good to be able to hold a little, she was very excited, and she couldn't wait to get such a ring right away.

Xiao Tianjian smiled and coaxed her to chuang, and said, "Then you remember to listen to grandpa, if you are not obedient, I will not ask others to do it for you." ”

Minna immediately took the initiative to lie down on the bed and cover the quilt: "I will be obedient." ”

Xiao Tianjian touched her head with a smile, and suddenly remembered something: "Minna, how about Grandpa discuss it with you?" From tomorrow onwards, when there are outsiders, you will stop calling me grandpa, call me ...... How is the uncle? ”

Minna blinked: "Why?" ”

"Because...... Grandpa looks so young, more like your uncle. It's very strange for others to hear you call me grandpa, it's too annoying to explain to people all the time, so it's better to change it. Of course Xiao Tianjian wouldn't say it, this was to prevent that elf princess from being too distracted.

Minna thought about it, and felt that what Grandpa said made sense, Grandpa Marshall and Grandpa Sennett were like grandpa, and when she was at the Maiton Inn, several people asked her why she called such a young man "grandpa". So she nodded and agreed.

Xiao Tianjian breathed a sigh of relief and smiled and coaxed his granddaughter to sleep.

The next day they started on their way again. Bypassing the peak, there is an endless wasteland, looking around, I only feel that the eyes are full of reddish-brown, not even a single tree or grass, there are scattered white bones on the ground, and the air is filled with a faint mist, faintly exuding a fishy smell.

Xiao Tianjian introduced to his granddaughter softly, this is the place where East borders the border with Nuojia, more than two hundred years ago, a great war broke out between the two countries, and there were countless casualties on both sides, it is said that the flesh and blood have dyed the land on this plain red, and since then there is no grass, and the blood mist is filled, and any creature who wants to pass through here will have to die for a lifetime. Except for the occasional adventurer, it's almost a no-man's land.

Minna shuddered, "Shall we walk over from here?" Xiao Tianjian shook his head: "There are hundreds of kilometers around here, and it is too troublesome to walk, so let's go buy horses first." After a pause, he smiled and comforted his granddaughter: "Don't be afraid, there is me." Even if there was a poisonous fog here more than 200 years ago, it is almost dispersed now. ”

Only then did Minna put her mind at ease, followed Xiao Tianjian to turn south, and walked dozens of kilometers before coming to the location of the Easter border garrison. Although it was only a small village, they still bought a horse with good foot strength and replenished the water.

When leaving, a squad leader of the local garrison learned that they were going to cross the wasteland, so he reminded: "Go early and return early, and if you enter September, the fog there will become thicker, and people will not be able to see the direction clearly, and they will be trapped inside." If you want to go to Noga, you have to be more careful, it is not peaceful over there now. ”

Xiao Tianjian thanked the other party, then hugged his granddaughter and got on the horse, and returned to the wasteland.

They walked all the way to the northeast, and at night they set up tents next to their horses, and there was no water source and no fire in the humid air, so they had to eat dry food and drink cold water from water bags.

Minna was a little excited and nervous at first, but when she saw that the scenery she saw every day was much the same, except for the reddish-brown and reddish-brown, her mood began to become anxious. At the same time, as the fog became thicker and thicker, they could only rely on the sun in the sky and their own shadows in the sun to determine their direction. Minna began to feel irritable, dizzy, chest tightness, breathlessness, and became increasingly sleepy.

Xiao Tianjian had to keep an eye on his granddaughter's situation at all times, he knew that this was the toxin in the fog that was causing trouble, so he immediately took out the antidote he carried with him and gave it to his granddaughter, and then sent true qi into her body to make her sober up.

But psychological irritability and fear cannot be cured by medicine, seeing that Minna is becoming more and more uneasy, Xiao Tianjian began to reflect, should he have been tougher and refused to allow his granddaughter to follow him?

In this way, until the eighth day, Minna finally couldn't help crying, Xiao Tianjian continued to walk forward while manipulating the horse, and coaxed her: "Don't cry, don't cry, we're about to ......"

But Minna just cried non-stop, and felt that her eyes were getting more and more blurry, I wonder if it was because of the inhalation of the fog. Just as Xiao Tianjian was about to find the antidote, he inadvertently noticed a little light not far ahead.

"It's here! We're really here, look! Xiao Tianjian pointed forward in surprise.

Minna wiped away her tears and looked over, and sure enough, she saw a point of light moving, and was about to rejoice, but she saw another point of light appear next to it, and then, four, six, eight...... Soon, the points of light turned into a row, quickly approaching them.

Xiao Tianjian's face changed and he grabbed the handle of the sword tightly.

(With the help of a few friends, I recognized many deficiencies in this article, in order to make it better, I plan to fix a revised article, the next two or three days of updates may be affected, but I will do it as soon as possible, for the inconvenience to everyone, I'm really sorry, I hope the revised article can be liked by everyone, and I hope you can continue to support me, thank you~~~) ^_^