Captain Wang was even more irritable. "These damned child abductors! Theyâre making me lose several times more hair than usual. When I catch them, Iâll definitely skin them and pull out their tendons!"
Huo XingâEr stopped and silently glanced at Captain Wang.
What did the little girl say back in the Mountain Cave?
Right, it seemed he was about to lose it all!
When they met up with Ji Youzhi, the little girl was enjoying a fragrant dinner, her mouth smeared with oil.
"Eat slowly, no one is snatching it from you!" Huo XingâEr gently wiped the girlâs mouth.
The little girl looked up, grinned at Huo XingâEr, and chirped, "Xiangxiang, Second Aunt, eat!" Her eyes curved into happy crescents.
Huo XingâEr dotingly stroked her small head. "Alright! Second Aunt will eat too."
After eating, the little girl fell asleep before she could wash up. Huo XingâEr felt helpless; she didnât have the heart to wake her for a bath, so she just wiped her down with warm water. Then she sat cross-legged beside her, watching over her.
In fact, the little girl wasnât truly asleep; she had entered her Dream Space.
"Ah Ling, can we start now?"
Ah Ling looked at the few strands of hair before her, somewhat troubled. "Master, these hairs obviously donât belong to the same person!"
Xiaosuisui poked her little head out of the Lotus Pond. Every time she entered, she had to swim a lap in it. Did she think she was a little fish?
"What should I do then? I donât know which strand of hair is Brother Yanchenâs." Xiaosuisui was quite disheartened.
"Do you still want to pull the person in?"
Xiaosuisui tilted her head, thinking. "If we donât pull him in, we wonât know where Brother Yanchen is."
"What if the person you pull in isnât your Brother Yanchen?"
"Then weâll ask that person where Brother Yanchen is!"
"Alright." Ah Ling had accepted Xiaosuisui as her master, so naturally, she wouldnât go against her wishes. "Master, please prepare. Ah Ling is going to pull the person in now."
"Iâm ready, Ah Ling. Iâll hide in the Lotus Pond. If the person who comes in isnât Brother Yanchen, I wonât come out. Iâll only come out if itâs Brother Yanchen."
The little girl didnât quite understand her own thoughts; she simply didnât want to meet anyone she didnât know. This was likely related to Old Granny Li keeping her locked up at home for years. She was afraid of meeting strangers alone. The last time sheâd clamored to go to the Zhou Familyâs home, it was because her Third Aunt was with her. Moreover, she instinctively wanted to visit the family that had willingly given her delicious duck meat to eat.
"Where is this?"
A tender, childish voice sounded, and the little girl, hiding in the Lotus Pond, froze.
It wasnât her Brother Yanchen!
The little girl hid beneath the lotus leaves, peeking her small head out to look.
The person Ah Ling had pulled in was a little boy, as exquisitely carved as jade. He was about her age and wore very fine clothes.
"Who are you?" Seeing that the person who had entered was indeed not Zhou Yanchen, Ah Ling floated in the air and demanded.
Huh! How can someone fly in the air?
The little boy who had entered tilted his head, muttering to himself in confusion. He stared with great curiosity at the plump, doll-like child floating in the air. "You can actually fly! Are you an immortal?"
The little fellow who had come in mistook Ah Ling for an immortal.
"Thatâs right, I am an immortal. You have to call me Immortal Sister, understand?" Ah Ling chimed in quickly.
An older child wouldnât have believed such words, but alas, the one pulled in was a little tyke not yet five years old.
"Great Immortal, my name is Fu Xian, and Iâm from Capital City. Great Immortal, where is this place? How can I get home?"
Xiaosuisui peeked out quietly from beneath a lotus leaf.
So heâs the Fu Xian that Seventh Uncle mentioned?
"This is the Taixu Illusory Realm, the place where my Master cultivates. You were summoned here this time solely to ask you: where did those child abductors take you?"