We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real? Chapter 468: Twins

After Gui Ning and Madam Tushan left, Xiao Mo, who had stayed in the woodshed all day, also walked out of the woodshed courtyard to get some fresh air.

The Tushan residence did not actually have many harsh rules.

Aside from important courtyards such as the First Madam’s quarters, the Young Lady’s quarters, and places like the storeroom, servants could go to most areas.

As he walked, Xiao Mo unknowingly arrived at Bright Moon Courtyard.

Bright Moon Courtyard was the very place where Xiao Mo and Tushan Jingci had been attacked the night before.

But after only one day, Bright Moon Courtyard had already been repaired.

The moment he stepped into the courtyard, Xiao Mo saw a little girl sitting by Bright Moon Lake.

The little girl was holding a thin bamboo fishing rod. A fishing line hung from it, and she sat by the lake fishing with great seriousness.

“Sister Yueshi, why won’t the fish bite?”

Tushan Jingci propped up her little chin, her tone full of distress.

“Well...” Yueshi did not know how to explain it either, but she still comforted her. “Young Lady, perhaps the fish in the lake simply do not know what is good for them. If Young Lady wants to eat fish, we can just have the kitchen courtyard make some.”

“That’s not it at all!” Tushan Jingci puffed out her little mouth. “Xiao Mo said that as long as I caught one fish, he would give me my birthday gift... but even now, I still haven’t caught a single one...”

“...”

Yueshi very much wanted to say, “Young Lady, if you want it, then what does it matter whether you catch a fish or not? Could he possibly refuse to give it to you?”

But looking at how serious her young lady was, Yueshi also knew that the Young Lady truly regarded that human little boy as a friend, not as a servant.

“How about this? I’ll buy Young Lady a fish. Young Lady can just say that you caught it yourself. Xiao Mo would not know anyway,” Yueshi suggested.

“No, no!” Tushan Jingci shook her cute little head. “How could I lie to him? Absolutely not! What if he finds out and stops being friends with me?”

“But...” The little girl’s round eyes turned and turned. “Sister Yueshi, if a fish hooks itself, does that count as me catching it?”

“...”

Yueshi froze for a moment, then immediately understood what her young lady was thinking. Covering her mouth, she gave a small laugh.

“That naturally counts. Please wait a moment, Young Lady.”

As soon as her words fell, Yueshi bent in a respectful bow, reverted to her true form, and leaped into the lake.

In the lake, Yueshi caught a large fish, then slowly swam over, hooked the fish onto the line, and gave it a tug with her claws.

“It bit!”

Tushan Jingci cried out happily and pulled up the bamboo rod.

Under the moonlight, a burst of water splashed up from the lake’s surface, and the fish’s tail whipped back and forth without stop.

Cradling the fish in her arms, Tushan Jingci took the hook out, then happily ran toward the woodshed courtyard where Xiao Mo lived.

But after only a few steps, when she turned her head, Tushan Jingci, still hugging the big fish, saw Xiao Mo standing right at the courtyard gate.

Seeing this scene, even Yueshi, who had just climbed out of the water, could not help but go still.

There was no other reason.

Yueshi was shocked that she had not sensed his aura at all.

But Yueshi glanced toward Xiao Mo’s waist, noticed that jade pendant, and quickly understood why.

Yet that only made her even more astonished.

She had not expected that senior to actually give Xiao Mo this treasure.

Why were Madam and that senior placing such importance on this little boy?

Was it truly only because he had saved the Young Lady?

“Xiao Mo, when... when did you get here?” Tushan Jingci walked forward, her little face flushed red as she asked.

“Hm?” Xiao Mo blinked, then answered, “I just walked over here, and then I saw Young Lady running over with a fish in your arms. Is that a fish Young Lady caught?”

“Yes, yes.” Thinking Xiao Mo had noticed nothing, Tushan Jingci nodded happily. “Well? Is it big?”

“Yes, it really is quite big,” Xiao Mo answered.

“Then Xiao Mo, where is my birthday gift? I already caught a fish.” Tushan Jingci looked at Xiao Mo expectantly, bright moonlight shining in her eyes. “You didn’t forget, did you?”

“I would not dare forget. Young Lady, would you come with me to the kitchen courtyard?” Xiao Mo asked with a smile.

“Of course I will. Hurry up. This fish is very strong.”

Tushan Jingci hugged the fish with both hands and even her tail, then happily followed Xiao Mo toward the kitchen courtyard.

Watching the two children walk so closely together, their little arms brushing against each other from time to time, Yueshi frowned.

Although Yueshi was indeed grateful to Xiao Mo, and although without Xiao Mo the Young Lady might truly have been in danger,

she was still not used to the Young Lady having such a good relationship with a human.

But she quickly remembered what Madam had told her. Madam had said she need not concern herself with anything more and only had to ensure the Young Lady’s safety, so Yueshi shook her head and followed behind as well.

When they arrived at the kitchen courtyard, Xiao Mo took the large carp from Tushan Jingci’s hands and knocked it unconscious with a single blow.

“Young Lady, please wait a moment. It will be ready very soon.”

Xiao Mo pulled over a stool, stood before the stove, picked up a kitchen knife, and began skillfully cleaning the fish.

“Xiao Mo, are you going to cook something?”

Seeing Xiao Mo like this, Tushan Jingci asked curiously.

“Yes.” Xiao Mo nodded, focused on scoring the fish. “On my birthdays before, my family would always make me a sweet-and-sour carp. I asked Master Niu about it before, and Master Niu helped me restore the recipe. I’ll try making it for Young Lady to eat.”

“Sweet-and-sour carp? Then Xiao Mo, how about I help you light the fire?”

Tushan Jingci did not know what kind of dish sweet-and-sour carp was, but she thought cooking looked very fun, so she skipped forward happily and wanted to help Xiao Mo.

“Well...” Xiao Mo hesitated. “How could I let Young Lady do such rough work?”

“That’s right, Young Lady.” At this moment, Yueshi also hurried forward to persuade her. “This servant can handle lighting the fire. Young Lady only needs to stand to one side and wait for the dish to be ready.”

“No! What’s wrong with lighting a fire? I can do it too. I watched Xiao Mo light fires so many times before. I want to help Xiao Mo!”

Tushan Jingci pouted, with that small stubbornness of hers.

Looking at how determined Tushan Jingci was, both Xiao Mo and Yueshi knew her little stubborn temper well, and neither could say anything more. They could only let her do as she wished.

The moment Tushan Jingci saw them yield, she hurried to the stove to busy herself, while Yueshi helped beside her.

Very soon, flames rose in the stove mouth, reflecting the little girl’s soft white face.

The little girl watched the fire in the stove, poking at it from time to time and finding it endlessly amusing.

Although the carp in Bright Moon Lake was not any precious spirit fish, it also was not an ordinary carp. It had almost no fishy smell at all, so Xiao Mo did not even need to remove any odor.

After scoring the fish, dusting it, and mixing the batter, Xiao Mo poured oil directly into the wok.

With one hand gripping the fish’s mouth and the other its tail, Xiao Mo first lowered the body into the oil for a few seconds to set the turned-up cuts, then slowly bent the fish into an arched shape.

He lowered the head and tail into the wok, lifted them upward, and continuously ladled hot oil over the body, taking extreme care to open the mouth, gills, and belly so everything fried through completely.

Standing at one side, Yueshi watched Xiao Mo cook with full curiosity.

It was the first time she had ever seen this kind of dish.

Xiao Mo set the fried fish onto a plate and poured the sweet-and-sour sauce over it. It looked very beautiful.

“Wow, Xiao Mo, this fish looks so pretty.”

Tushan Jingci stretched out a little hand and rubbed at the carp that had now become a dish.

“Not bad, not bad. This time it seems I succeeded quite well.” Xiao Mo also let out a sigh of relief. At least judging from its appearance, the taste should be fairly good. “Would Young Lady like to try it?”

“Yes!”

Tushan Jingci nodded hard.

Xiao Mo broke the fish apart and mixed it with the sauce. Tushan Jingci picked up a piece with her chopsticks and ate it.

The moment the fish entered her mouth, Tushan Jingci’s beautiful eyes curved shut happily.

“Is it good?” Xiao Mo asked.

“Yes, it’s good!”

Tushan Jingci said happily.

“I’ve never eaten fish this delicious before!”

“It’s good as long as Young Lady likes it.”

Xiao Mo also took a bite.

He thought he had made it quite well, but not to the exaggerated degree Jingci was describing.

But after all, this was a fish Jingci had “caught” herself, and she had helped light the fire too. With that added sense of participation, it naturally tasted better.

Just as Tushan Jingci was eating happily, Xiao Mo took a bracelet out from his robe.

Tushan Jingci blinked and blinked as she looked at the green bracelet, then asked curiously, “Xiao Mo, this is...?”

“This is also the birthday gift I’m giving Young Lady.”

Xiao Mo scratched his head somewhat awkwardly.

“Over this period of time, I also saved a little of my wages, then asked Master Niu to help me buy a bracelet blank. There just happened to be a polishing wheel in the kitchen courtyard, so I used it to grind and polish it every day.”

“It’s just that I may not have done a very good job... and the jade itself is extremely ordinary. If Young Lady doesn’t like it, that’s all right. If there is a chance later, I’ll give Young Lady a better one.”

“No, it’s very pretty!”

Afraid Xiao Mo would put the bracelet away again, Tushan Jingci hurriedly snatched it over, cradled it in her palm, and examined it seriously. The more she looked, the more she liked it.

“Xiao Mo, put it on for me.”

Tushan Jingci stretched out an arm as white and tender as a lotus root.

“All right.”

Xiao Mo picked up the jade bracelet and gently slipped it onto her wrist.

“Well? Does it look nice?”

Tushan Jingci happily raised her wrist. The green jade bracelet and Tushan Jingci’s fair white wrist set each other off, both touched with a faint glow of moonlight.

“It looks nice.” Xiao Mo nodded.

“Hee hee hee...”

Tushan Jingci happily ran over to the maid Yueshi again and asked in delight, “Sister Yueshi, look, this is the birthday gift Xiao Mo gave me. Does it look nice?”

“Yes.” Yueshi smiled slightly. “Anything Young Lady wears looks nice.”

Tushan Jingci then happily ran back to Xiao Mo and said in a bright, cheerful voice, “See, Xiao Mo? You think it looks nice, Sister Yueshi thinks it looks nice, and I think it looks nice too, so this bracelet is not ugly at all. It is prettier than every bracelet in the world! I will definitely take very good care of it!”

“Young Lady praises it too much. Even if this bracelet breaks, it won’t matter. It is only an ordinary bracelet, after all,” Xiao Mo said with a smile.

“It is not ordinary at all! I won’t allow you to ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) say that!”

Tushan Jingci puffed out her pink cheeks, looking a little angry.

“But it really is only a bracelet you can commonly find on the market,” Xiao Mo said.

“So what?”

Tushan Jingci lifted her little chin and hugged the wrist wearing the bracelet to her chest.

“You made it!”

“So it is not ordinary at all!”

In the northern part of the demon-race world, there was a region.

Within this region were more than ten thousand peaks, large and small, stretching for ten thousand li.

And among those ten thousand peaks, there was one mountain located in the middle of those towering ranges, as though it had been completely cut off from the world.

The mountain was called Seeking Immortality Mountain.

At the summit stood a Daoist temple.

The temple was called Seeking Immortality Temple.

There were not many disciples in the temple.

Including the Temple Master, there were only fifty people in total.

As for the temple’s incense offerings, to say they were especially good would not be true.

But to say they were especially poor would not be right either. During festivals and the turning of the seasons, some villagers would go up the mountain to offer worship in gratitude for the temple’s usual good deeds. They would bring rice and meat and leave a little incense money.

But most of the time, it was the disciples of the temple who went down the mountain to drive away evil, deliver babies, and practice medicine for the villagers.

The villagers did not know how powerful those Daoists on the mountain actually were.

They only knew that the Temple Master in that temple had already been there since the generation of their grandfather’s grandfather’s grandfather...

That night, just as the villagers had already gone back into their own courtyards to rest,

a streak of radiance suddenly shot up from Seeking Immortality Mountain and plunged into the clouds.

“Old man, look, quick, what is that?”

In the village, a woman hurriedly shook awake the husband sleeping beside her.

“Dear Heaven above!”

Her husband drowsily opened his eyes, looked out the window, and felt as though he were dreaming.

Bands of many-colored radiance spread like ripples, circle after circle, through the clouds before slowly fading away.

Inside the main hall of the temple, a woman dressed in Daoist robes slowly opened her eyes and looked in the direction where the radiance had appeared.

“Master, could something have happened on Junior Sister’s side?”

The First Disciple ran into the great hall and spoke worriedly to his master.

“It is nothing. Just attend to your own duties.”

The female Temple Master shook her head, slowly rose to her feet, and took one step forward.

With only that single step, the woman vanished from the hall and arrived before a courtyard halfway up the mountain.

Inside the courtyard, a little girl who had just turned six was sitting cross-legged on the ground.

Around the little girl, all kinds of spell formations had been arranged, both to protect her on her path and to gather spiritual power for her.

As the spiritual power in the courtyard gradually settled, the little girl slowly opened her eyes.

“Master.”

Seeing her master arrive, the little girl hurried forward and bowed with cupped hands.

“Not bad. You have only just turned six, yet you have already reached the tenth layer of the Qi Refining Realm, and you even caused such a phenomenon. This talent is truly rare even across the whole demon-race world.”

The Temple Master nodded in satisfaction.

“It is all because Master has taught me well in daily life,” the little girl said.

“It is because you yourself have worked hard enough every day.”

As soon as she finished speaking, the Temple Master took a mirror from her robe and handed it to the little girl.

“Today is your birthday. As your master, I have nothing much to give you. This mirror may perhaps be of some help to you in understanding your dao heart.”

“Thank you, Master.”

The little girl accepted the gift and happily looked at herself in the mirror her master had given her.

In the mirror, the girl had delicate brows, white teeth, and red lips. She was absolutely the making of a peerless beauty.

Only, the girl in the mirror looked exactly the same as a certain little girl of the same age in Immortal Fox City.