The little mallet looked at him quietly, her heart may not be as calm as her face, and the heart in her chest was beating hard.

She never knew what it was like to have a father and mother, since she was a child, she ran around with her master, and when she saw that other children had parents by her side, she occasionally remembered why she didn't, and now when she learned that she was floating down the river, her parents might soon have a fall, and she didn't know what it felt in her heart.

Did she abandon it on purpose, or did she have to abandon it? She couldn't guess the answer, and she had a vague rejection in her heart, and she didn't want to know the truth.

"I ...... Could my own father and mother be upstream of the river?" she asked, hesitantly.

The master shook his head and sighed: "I have been looking for you for more than two years, and every family on the riverside has asked, but I have never found it. I guess your own parents were passing by here and left you behind......"

Speaking of which, he suddenly felt that he was talking too much, being abandoned by his biological father or something, it was never a pleasant thing for a child, glancing at the little mallet, her expression was still not moving, she couldn't see the clue, but her eyes were a little gloomy, she must still care, after all, she was still a ten-year-old child.

The master patted her with a grin: "In the future, when you are older, you can be on your own, you can find your father and mother by yourself, and you have time." Speaking of which, the teacher is also old, and it can't help you to find your parents, so it's better to ask your senior brother for help in the future. ”

Huh, why did a big brother pop up again?

The zombie face of the little mallet finally collapsed, and there was a crack. What's going on today? Is the secret of her heart revealed? Where did she come from?

“...... Senior brother, have you ever accepted disciples before?"

The master proudly showed off: "Of course, Master is so old and has a lot of ability, how can he only accept you as an apprentice! In the early years, when you didn't come, I accepted a very powerful apprentice, and your senior brother is much smarter than you, and he can teach the magic once he is taught, and he never needs to teach it a second time." ”

"And where is he now?"

Did she go out and go out on her own because she had learned all the magic techniques? She had never seen this senior brother once, and even the master himself had never mentioned it.

"Your senior brother is a genius of Tianzhong, when he was ten years old, I had nothing to teach him, he had his own fate, met an immortal, and now he should have joined another teacher. ”

Genius ...... Another Mentor ...... It sounds like some kind of legendary biography, and it doesn't feel real at all. The little mallet looked at the master suspiciously, in fact, compared to these things she had heard for the first time, the master was more suspicious today, he would never say so much.

"After saying so much, my mouth is dry. Master knocked the finished tobacco leaves on the stone, got up and stretched, "Little mallet, let's cook, Master is hungry." ”

She nodded, plucked a few more turnips, and if there was nothing else, let's make radish soup and braised radish......

"Put more salt in the braised radish, Master has a heavy mouth. The master commanded slowly from behind.

"Hmm. ”

The little mallet pushed open the wood door of the kitchen, and Master Leng Buding suddenly called her from behind: "Little mallet." ”

"What?" she turned around, and the master stood in front of the chai door and looked at herself with a smile, I don't know if it was her dazzled or something else, the master's eyes seemed to flash a flash of reluctance very quickly.

"Oh...... It's nothing. Master smiled, "Be careful when cooking, don't stain your new clothes." ”

In this braised radish, three handfuls of salt are put on the small mallet, and the salty ones can be directly used as pickles. She filled a bowl, took it to Master's room first, and knocked on the door gently: "Master, it's time to eat." ”

I called three times in a row, but there was no movement in the room, and I fell asleep? Every time I called for dinner, Master immediately ran out regardless of whether he was asleep or not.

The foreboding in her heart gradually spread, although she had this feeling just now, today's master was very wrong, suddenly bought her clothes, and suddenly said so many things that she had never said before, she didn't think much about it before, but ......

The little mallet was secretly frightened in her heart, and opened the firewood door, the green smoke in the house was full of smoke, and the door was blown out by the mountain wind as soon as it opened, and she rushed into the green smoke pile unexpectedly, and her eyes were smoked so painful that she choked and coughed again and again.

After a long time, the smoke was blown away, and the little mallet slowly walked into the house, which was empty, except for one bed, and the master, who was still before the meal, was no longer visible.

“...... Master?" she called in a low voice, but no one answered.

She is no stranger to these green smokes, it is the master's escape method, summoning a large amount of smoke to obscure the vision, and the human body can escape thousands of miles in an instant, one of the master's real techniques, relying on this magic to deceive many people into believing that he is really a living immortal, but I didn't think that he would use it at home, where are the others now?

Little Stick's heart slowly sank, and for the first time, the panic of being overwhelmed suddenly grabbed her.

She threw down her job and ran out wildly, looking around the yard, and even peering into the dirt well, where of course no one would be there.

What about Master? Suddenly gone?

The little mallet panted and searched around the woods again, and finally returned to the wooden house where the master lived, and looked around blankly—there was nothing in the master's room except a bed, and the coarse cloth sheets had been washed and laid out by her only the previous night, and they were flat and neat, and there was no sign that no one had slept on them.

There was a green cloth bag at the head of the bed, which she recognized as what the master used to go out. The baggage was round and seemed to be full of things.

All the sounds around her suddenly stopped, and the little mallet had a feeling of a sudden dream, and she slowly unwrapped the baggage, and a few ingots of silver rolled out of it, and under the silver was an old jade-colored cloth with blood stains that had not been washed, and a letter was pressed under the cloth.

When I opened the letter, the dragon and phoenix danced on it, it was the master's handwriting, and the ink had not yet dried, and it was smudged through the back of the paper.

"Little mallet, you eat the radish yourself, eat more, and only when you are full will you have the strength to hurry." The silver has been secretly accumulated by the master over the years, and a few of your dollars will be used as travel expenses, you are so stupid that you have not learned what the master has taught, which is really worrying. Master has some things to leave, I can't take you with me, take the money with me, go to your senior brother. Attached to the letter is a portrait of your senior brother, he should now be apprenticed to the Wuyue Court, and his ability seems to be quite great, so it is right to look for him. The blood-stained cloth was wrapped in your swaddling clothes back then, and the blood stains can't be washed away no matter what, so leave it to you as a thought, don't be in a hurry to find your father, it's still a long time. Little mallet, although you are a female doll, Master believes that you can take care of yourself alone, and you will treat yourself as a man when you are alone, but don't really think that you are a man, female dolls should laugh more, you never laugh, Master is really worried about whether you can't laugh. 」

The handwriting stopped abruptly, and he even wrote a farewell letter so carelessly, and the place where he stopped made people's hearts empty.

The little mallet felt that her wrist was trembling, and she thought about it in the morning, she didn't learn the magic well, if the master went to the immortal, how would she live alone, but she didn't expect this day to come so quickly, the master was not an immortal, he didn't say goodbye, leaving her alone.

She threw away the letter and pulled out another piece of paper from the envelope, on which was painted a crooked portrait with crooked eyes and mouth, which was very funny, and the master also deliberately added a sentence, "Senior brother probably looks like this."

She "sneered" and laughed angrily, who said she couldn't laugh?

After laughing, she suddenly felt like waking up from a dream, a tingling pain in her eyes, she couldn't hold back it no matter what, big tears fell, blurred the ink, and the portrait became more and more funny.

Why? Even if he has something important, she can go with Master, even if she is so stupid that she can't learn the arts, she can wait at home. He wants to leave, why don't he just go as if he was nothing? What clothes he buys for her in a flawed way, and he explains his life history and his senior brother, and the pig can find out that something is wrong! Why do you want to leave her a letter again? Since she was a child, he has never given her a penny, so why should he give her money now? He has been a baby for 10 years, and he has never said anything about his father, so why should he give her the baby back at this time?

She remembered the days she had spent together in the past ten years, this unscrupulous, stingy, eccentric, moody, annoying and willful old man, who was so willful and outrageous when he left.

The little mallet threw out the green cloth burden, and the silver smashed on her feet, which made her gasp in pain, and she couldn't get up for a long time holding her legs. The Luo skirt on her body is still new, the master just bought it for her, and the corners of the skirt are embroidered with bluegrass. She was so pained that she couldn't stop her tears, and her tears wet the newly bought Luo skirt. Crying and crying, I don't know why it turned into a howling cry, and I couldn't breathe.

She didn't even want to know what she was crying for, was it a sharp pain in her feet? Perhaps, it was the ten years she spent with Master, which was long and fast, and it turned into water rushing out of her eyes.