After hearing the child's shout, Mu Jingchen felt that he was really lucky, and walked towards the outside of the abandoned house with his legs that were already a little stiff when he walked.

Before he could walk out of the abandoned house, the child who had left before had already walked to the door of the abandoned house with a small bundle of firewood with hay, and Mu Jingchen saw it and hurriedly moved the firewood on his back for him and placed it in the center of the abandoned house.

"Grandpa beggar, let's make a fire when the firewood comes, it took a lot of effort to get this fire fold."

The child took out a fire fold from his arms, shook it at Mu Jingchen, and said with a smile and sunshine.

Mu Jingchen asked the child to sit down on the side, took the fire fold and skillfully broke the slender wood into small pieces, lit the hay to ignite the dry wood, and continuously added wood to it, raising a simple small fire.

This simple small fire made this cold abandoned house have a trace of temperature, and also made Mu Jingchen's perennial heart like a calm lake ripple.

The child sat by the fire, rubbing his little hands, panting for breath, as if he had trotted all the way, his little face was blown red by the wind and snow blowing outside, and his little hands were also red from the cold.

"Grandpa Beggar, the fire has risen, didn't you say before that you came from heaven? Then what everyone should call is an immortal, right? There must be a lot of stories about the immortals. Now you can tell me your story, I love to hear stories. ”

The child looked at Mu Jingchen with anticipation, Mu Jingchen looked at the child's expectant expression and eyes that seemed to be shining, swallowed his saliva, paused and then said, "Where to start?" By the way, let's start when I was 10 years old and went into the mountains alone......

In this way, Mu Jingchen told the children stories for an afternoon, from the exploration into the mountains and being rescued by the old Tao, to being taken to the Taoist temple in the mountains to practice, how he tried thousands of ways to escape although it was fruitless, to his determination to practice and step into the forging realm to cultivate all the way in, and then to how strange it was to practice spells......

The timber brought by the children was slowly consumed by the passage of time, and in a blink of an eye it was dusk, and the wood was less than half of its original quantity.

"Beggar grandpa, it's time for me to go, my mother will be worried if I'm late when I go back." Looking at the gradually darkening sky outside the house, the child stood up, patted the dust on his pants, and politely said goodbye to Mu Jingchen.

"Okay, goodbye." Looking at the child who was about to leave the broken temple and return home, Mu Jingchen's eyes showed a trace of loss, to be honest, he really didn't want the child to leave, he hadn't chatted with others like this for a long time, and this time he said goodbye to the child When he traveled around, it was likely that there would be no chance to meet.

Although he was still a forty-year-old middle-aged man before today, don't forget that he was taken up the mountain to concentrate on cultivation when he was ten years old, and he rarely had contact with people after coming down the mountain.

Mu Jingchen just watched the little boy walk to the door of the abandoned house.

When he was about to leave the house, the child paused, turned around, and Mu Jingchen actually had a trace of joy when the child turned around, oh my God, am I crazy, cultivation breakthroughs can't make me feel happy, such a small thing can actually make me feel happy in my heart, Mu Jingchen thought so.

"Grandpa beggar, my name is Bai Ning, and my family lives in a small town called Ping'an Town in that direction." The child reached out and pointed in one direction.

In the southeast, although Mu Jingchen did not have any words, Mu Jingchen firmly kept this direction in mind.

"When you enter the town and keep walking, you will see a house with two jujube trees at the door, that is my home, as long as there are no special circumstances, I am usually at home, and I rarely go out, so remember to come to me to play." Bai Ning continued, telling Mu Jingchen his home address and telling him to remember to come to him when he was free.

"Why are you at home all the time? Don't have a buddy to play with? Hearing what Bai Ning said, Mu Jingchen asked with concern.

"Yes." Hearing this question, Bai Ning's pupils dilated suddenly, his face instantly turned pale, his eyelashes trembled slightly, and his body trembled, as if he had been greatly impacted, he put his hand on his forehead, his expression was a little painful, I was afraid that he remembered some painful memories that should not be remembered.

"Are you alright, did I say the wrong thing, and if so, I apologize to you." Seeing that Bai Ning, who was cheerful and sunny before, showed such a slightly painful expression, Mu Jingchen hurriedly stepped forward and squatted in front of Bai Ning and asked him with concern.

"Damn, there's no need to say this, this matter shouldn't be investigated, I just need to make peace and find a chance to play with him, how could I be so stupid." Mu Jingchen secretly scolded himself in his heart for why he became so stupid and talked a lot, there must be a reason why no one went to play with him, where did he run away when he never asked about the world before.

"It's all right, Grandpa Beggar, I have a secret to tell you, though it's not a secret in this town." Bai Ning saw Mu Jingchen squatting in front of him, asking about his condition with a little anxious concern on his face, slowly put down the hand holding his forehead, showed a smile with difficulty, and then said slowly to Mu Jingchen, speaking of this, he paused, took a deep breath, and slowly took off the padded jacket on his body.

Seeing the skin wrapped under the padded jacket, Mu Jingchen's pupils dilated suddenly, and tears flowed down unconsciously, oh my God, what kind of skin is this, tan, wrinkled like old tree bark, where is the skin that a seven- or eight-year-old child should have, such skin is completely the scar left after being burned, and all he sees is a small piece of bare skin that is wrapped in the clothes inside and exposed in his sight.

"This, is this a burn? Why is there such a large area. Such a large burn, how painful it must be. Mu Jingchen saw that this was only a small part of the burn that was exposed, and slowly stretched out his right hand to touch it, but he suddenly realized something and pulled his hand back suddenly.

"I don't know exactly, but I heard from my parents that when I was three years old, there was a fire in the town and the surrounding houses were burning. At that time, my parents were doing farm work in the field, I was put in the small bed at home to sleep, when my parents found out, desperately rushed home, but it was too late, the fire in my house was already very big, my father wanted to break away from the people who rushed into the fire to save me, my mother knelt on the ground and cried loudly, the fire had been burning for a long time, and everyone around me thought that I should have died in the fire, I ran out of the burning house with the flames, and the upper body was burned in a large area, Although he survived by luck, he also left indelible scars on his body. Bai Ning smiled brightly and continued, "Originally, I was supposed to be called Bai Yan, but since that lucky escape, I have been renamed Bai Ning, which is also what my parents told me. ”

It seemed that he felt a little cold, Bai Ning buttoned up the padded jacket, jumped on the ground a few times, and when his body gradually warmed up, he continued to say to Mu Jingchen, "Grandpa beggar, do you know? In fact, I came out this time to find a place where no one slept silently, the wound was really painful after being burned, and now it will be a faint pain when pressed, not to mention walking in the first few months, even if I turn over in bed, the wound may be cracked, so I have always been lively and active before, I learned to keep to myself at that time, at the age of four, I was slightly able to get out of bed and walk, but at that time the whole body was wrapped with a cloth strip of dressing, and all the children of my age regarded me as a monster, and they didn't dare to approach me, let alone play with me, It's the same now, so I didn't have a partner at that time, and I had to endure loneliness, but it wasn't without its benefits, because of loneliness at that time, I was more precocious psychologically than other children my age. Speaking of this, there were faint tears flashing in Bai Ning's eyes.

"It wasn't until last year, when I was seven years old, that I removed the bandage." Bai Ning paused and continued, "Although I don't need to wrap the bandage anymore, the bandage on the outside is gone, but the bandage on the inside is still there, and the fire left a more terrifying mark on my body, which is a mark that will accompany me for the rest of my life - scars." "Because this scar will make other children feel scared, so I can't fit into their group, even if I wear long clothes, these scars will still be inadvertently revealed, making them feel frightened." Not only that, but I also found that I couldn't run as fast as other children, and I found that the burned areas didn't sweat like normal skin, and I would become red and hot after exercise, and I would also become very uncomfortable, and I only dared to run for a short time in winter. ”

Hearing this, Mu Jingchen suddenly seemed to understand, why Bai Ning did not run away but begged for mercy in the face of the sudden appearance, why he had been used to lead the way to the abandoned house, why it took so long to go home to get a small bundle of firewood, most of the time he couldn't run, otherwise he would be very uncomfortable if he couldn't dissipate heat normally like a normal child after running, and it was because of this that he had been using it all the way.

"If it's just something like this, I'm used to it, but, but, yesterday, last night..."

"Woooooo Last night... Woo..."

When he said this, Bai Ning couldn't cry, just switching back and forth between last night and the sound of whining crying.

Looking at Bai Ning, who had been very strong when he spoke before, and talked about the experience of being lonely, excluded, and isolated all the time, it was only Bai Ning with tears in the corners of his eyes, and Bai Ning who did not pause at all, actually cried out after only saying a small sentence when he said this, which shows how hard this incident hit him.

Mu Jingchen saw Bai Ning crying so sadly, he hadn't experienced such a thing, so he didn't know what to do now, in the end, he gritted his teeth and made a decision, he opened his hands and hugged Bai Ning in his arms, patted his back gently, and said at the same time, "It's okay, cry out, just cry out, just cry out, continue to talk after crying, you say I'll listen, you know, some things can't be hidden in the heart alone, too many secrets will break the little heart." ”

"I can still endure the cold eyes of others, until yesterday, last night, ......", Bai Ning cried for a while before gradually recovering her crying, "Until yesterday, last night, when I was sleeping at night, my father thought I was asleep, so he whispered something to my mother, I heard, woo wow, I heard it." When he said this, Bai Ning spoke vaguely, and at the same time, his cry was about to rise again, but he quickly suppressed it, "I heard my father say to my mother in a negotiating tone, do you want to send me out to have another healthy child, woo, and my mother said, the child is still too young to grow up." When I heard it, I instantly collapsed, woo, they don't want me anymore, woo, but I can't cry out loud to be heard by them, so I can only hide in the quilt alone and cover my head with the quilt and cry silently. Speaking of this, Bai Ning's tears poured out uncontrollably again.

"Today I wanted to walk to the end of the path alone, find a good forest and sleep silently, woo wow..."

"If, if, without your presence, if, if you hadn't stopped me just now, I might have just left and gone back to that path to sleep, whew..."

"As for the agreement or something, suck and slip, it's all something that bluffs children, and the things agreed upon in the adult world are generally not done."

"I'll tell you my name and address, just hoping that whether you're a monster or a real immortal, you'll remember that there's a kid named Bai Ning who helped you after I'm gone, and now that everything has been said, I'm scared again, and I don't dare to go back to the trail to fall asleep."

"It's useless to say I'm very cowardly, why do I have to tell you so much, anyway, people always have to be forgotten when they die, what's the point of remembering, woo wow..."

"And why did you stop me, can't you just let me go? Why? Why? Why is this?,Why did I retreat when I decided to sleep forever?,Why am I afraid?,I'm afraid I'm going to die.,Isn't it obviously decided? But I still have a lot of things to do, I don't want to die, why? Why? This misfortune will happen to me, why? Why? I've already endured the pain of my wounds, and I've endured cold eyes and isolation from other people, why? Why? Why, when I'm sensible enough, my parents are still discussing abandoning me, why is that? ”

Bai Ning said with tears streaming down her eyes, her face was flushed, and throughout the whole process, Mu Jingchen didn't say a word, just kept silent and listened to his words, just hugged Bai Ning in her arms and gently patted his back, quietly listening to his own words.

For Bai Ning, Mu Jingchen at this time is his current salvation.

His salvation is simple, it just needs a listener.

In order not to cause trouble to his family, he hid many things in his little heart, just like Mu Jingchen said, some things can't be hidden in his heart alone, too many secrets will break his little heart.

He endured it for a long time.

To this day, he wants to sleep with these secrets.

But suddenly, a listener appeared, a listener named Mu Jingchen, although Bai Ning didn't know his name yet.

However, Bai Ning, the suppressed emotions he had accumulated for a long time completely exploded in the arms of a stranger who had just met and could listen to his story, a stranger who had just met but would embrace him in his arms, and a stranger who had just met but saw his scars without the slightest fear.

Crying loudly when you are hurt, this is what an eight-year-old child should look like, you should laugh when you are happy, you should cry if you are unhappy, and you should force yourself to laugh in the face of unhappy things It is something that adults will do, and children should be children. Mu Jingchen thought so in his heart.

After holding Mu Jingchen and crying unbridledly, Bai Ning's face was flushed, and he felt like he had a terrible headache, but even so, his emotions were well released.

He stopped crying, wiped his tears with his cuffs, and then patted Mu Jingchen's back, "I don't want to die now, let me go." Although Bai Ning had stabilized his emotions, his voice was still a little crying.

After hearing this, Mu Jingchen let go of Bai Ning in his arms.

"Hey, old beggar, my secret has been told to you, you should tell me the secret about you, and tell me the truth whether you are a fairy or not." After being let go by Mu Jingchen, Bai Ning said to Mu Jingchen unceremoniously.

"Old, old beggar." Mu Jingchen was choked by the first sentence of Bai Ning, who had recovered.

"yes, aren't you an old beggar now?" Bai Ning asked rhetorically.

"That's right, but why don't you call Grandpa Beggar before, Grandpa Beggar's sweet name." Mu Jingchen's mouth was open, and he looked at Bai Ning in surprise.

"I was determined to die before, so I wanted to find someone in this world to leave a thought, and now I decided not to die, so this thought is not needed, in a sense, this is the real character of me, but I have not shown it." Bai Ning still said so bluntly.

"It seems okay to say that, after all, according to what you said before, the whole world seems to be targeting you, and it stands to reason that it should be this character, according to the old logic, it is most normal for you to say this and talk like this, but it is indeed quite a big blow to me to say such uncute words in a milky tone." Mu Jingchen said with a shocked look.

"Aren't you angry?" Bai Ning felt a little surprised.

"What's there to be angry about, entering the world and training needs to see all kinds of people to sharpen your mind, not to mention that you also saved my life, although you don't really have good intentions, but it will always be wrong to save me, although it has just been flattened, but I am not the kind of person who turns his face when he says "turn his face" Mu Jingchen said sincerely.

"Yes, you have my approval, if you are a real immortal, you tell me what you are going to do when you enter the WTO, I will do my best to assist you, if I don't die prematurely on the way until you complete your accession, if possible, I mean it's possible, of course, I don't believe in the so-called promise of the adults, that is, can you go back and come back to help me heal the burns on my body, if you are not an immortal, then I didn't say it." Bai Ning's eyes flashed, pretending to be old-fashioned, and began to negotiate with Mu Jingchen.

"I'm not an immortal." Mu Jingchen replied.

"Cut, I know you're a liar, and I expect you to help me heal my injuries." The light flickering in Bai Ning's eyes was extinguished in an instant, and it could be seen from his expression that the glimmer of hope he had originally had was dashed, and he dropped a word of disdain and turned around to leave.

"However, if I succeed in joining the WTO, I will be able to ascend to the rank of immortal." After Bai Ning turned around, before he could take the first step, Mu Jingchen's voice came from behind.

"What if the accession to the WTO fails?" Bai Ning was still facing away from Mu Jingchen, but at this moment, a smile had begun to appear on her face, "There is a play", Bai Ning thought so.

"As long as I return to my original form, I can be cured." Mu Jingchen saw Bai Ning stop and said unhurriedly, and at the same time secretly thought in his heart that although Bai Ning's psychological age is relatively mature, a child is still a child after all.

"How long will it take to return?" Bai Ning smiled even more and continued to ask.

"It can be as short as 10 years, but as long as 30 years." Mu Jingchen still replied unhurriedly.

When he heard the return time, Bai Ning's originally smiling face collapsed, and he walked away without hesitation.

"Hey, don't go, Bai Ning boy, ten years, is ten years a long time? It will take me decades to break the realm casually. Seeing that the original talk was good, and then looking at the scene now when Bai Ning turned around and left without the slightest hesitation after saying the return time, Mu Jingchen was anxious.

Now he is an old beggar's body transformed by a rune paper that cannot condense his vitality for the time being, and it is the kind of body that cannot be replaced once selected, if no one assists, he can barely survive tomorrow at most in such a cold weather, and the day after tomorrow will definitely return to the sky, so Mu Jingchen is in a hurry.

"There's nothing to talk about, ten years, it's a question of whether my body can last another five years, and it will take ten or thirty years for you to enter the WTO to have results, you are joking with me." Facing Mu Jingchen who was chasing after him, Bai Ning didn't pay any attention to it.

"Bai Ning boy, do you want me to pass on your body forging method first, you can practice it first, and survive my entry into the WTO." Mu Jingchen said anxiously.

"I can't even run, and you let me exercise?" Bai Ning glanced at Mu Jingchen and looked at him with an idiot face.

"I was actually looked down upon by children." , Mu Jingchen felt very embarrassed for a while, and thought so in his heart.

"Then let's do it, before I return, I'll give you the qi into the body, and the qi into the body will not work." After a moment of silence, Mu Jingchen thought of a new method.

"Induction of air into the body, what is that?" Bai Ning turned his head to Mu Jingchen, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he seemed to be interested in this new term, but the pace of progress still did not stop.

"Introducing qi into the body, as the name suggests, is to guide the vitality of heaven and earth into the body, which is an indispensable part of the cultivation period and the cultivation period, and only when the qi is introduced into the body can you be regarded as a real monk." Mu Jingchen explained to Bai Ning.

"But I don't cultivate immortals, what's the use of inducing qi into the body, besides, if you have the ability to induce qi into the body now, you would be shivering in the snow before, and now you will run over to chase me?" Bai Ning pointed out that what Mu Jingchen said did not have any credibility.

"In my current state, of course there is no permanent qi induction into the body, but I do have a one-time method of qi induction and quenching the body, this is a good way to temper the muscles and bones, even if your current body has been tempered, you can barely reach the realm of quenching the body, and with the support of this realm, you can ensure that you can live for at least ten years, the price you pay is to practice the breathing technique, as long as you learn to breathe in the vitality of these few times, as for the condensation of the vitality between heaven and earth and guide them to refine your body, I will leave it all to me, You just need to make sure that the tuna operation runs during this period, how about this deal. Mu Jingchen said to Bai Ning in an almost flattering tone, and at the same time gritted his teeth in his heart and made a decision, "If we can't negotiate it again, then I can only promise him the right to use a spell in exchange for the future when I use this body to return to the Qi cultivation period." ”

"Can you guarantee that I will survive ten years of quenching the body? It's a good deal, but I'd like to know when you'll be able to make good on that promise. Bai Ning looked at Mu Jingchen and smiled a little evilly.

"A month, give me a month to prepare, and after a month, if you can practice the Breathing Technique to the realm of Breathing Vitality, then you can come to me at any time to quench your body. If what I said is true, you have been given a chance to live for ten years, and if what I said is false, then you have only lost one month's subsidy to me, and the value of the Pranayama Dharma is worth that month's subsidy. Mu Jingchen only used this body in the afternoon to try to condense the vitality and a failed qi induction into the body, and he didn't have a good understanding of the current body cultivation speed, so he couldn't guarantee how long it would take to quench the body to the point where he could guide the quenching vitality, so he promised a month to excuse the time.

After listening to what Mu Jingchen said about the January period, Bai Ning stopped and carefully weighed the pros and cons, then squinted his eyes and thought for a long time, and finally gave an answer, "Well, okay." Lord Xianzun, you can make your conditions, I'll think about it. ”。

"You are responsible for providing me with three meals a day, plus a quilt and some daily necessities." Mu Jingchen made his conditions.

"Three meals a day plus a quilt? Still need daily necessities? Don't go too far, old beggar, you're a beggar! Beggar! Don't forget that you're a beggar! The beggar has someone to provide you with three meals a day, when you are the rich man, no, one meal a day, a blanket, plus three loads of firewood and a fire fold. After listening to Mu Jingchen's conditions, Bai Ning felt that he was simply a lion's mouth, and the whole person was stunned, as a child, where did he get so many supplies for him, and after being surprised, he prescribed the conditions he could give.

"Although what you said is true, but according to the conditions you gave, I will not survive for a month and be frozen to death or starved to death." Mu Jingchen felt a little reasonable when he heard his words, but the supply he gave was too little, and it was not enough to support his daily consumption.

"I said that you are a beggar, you can go to beg, why are you so stupid, and said that you are an immortal, if you didn't suddenly appear on the snow and kill me, I wouldn't believe that you, a fool, are an immortal who has entered the world." Bai Ning really didn't expect that there would be such a stupid immortal, he rubbed his temples that had become swollen and painful because of his previous venting and his anger now, and said to Mu Jingchen angrily.

"But I'm not going to beg." Mu Jingchen said this sentence in a low voice with a red face, he would not beg When he said this, Mu Jingchen himself felt very faceless, a forty-year-old strong man at the peak of the divine refining period could walk sideways in nearly half of the cultivation world.

"Can't beg? That's right, you don't have to worry about food and clothing when you go up the mountain at the age of ten, how can you know so much, asking for food is also a science, you go back first, I also want to go home tonight, you first rely on this half bundle of firewood to spend the night, tomorrow I will take you to the Taiping Town next door to beg. After hearing that Mu Jingchen would not beg, Bai Ning surprisingly did not laugh at him this time but told the reason directly, and then he was going home, after walking a few steps, he stopped again, turned to look at the back of Mu Jingchen who was walking towards the abandoned house, and shouted at him, "By the way, Xianzun, I don't know what your name is?" ”

"Mu Jingchen, my name is Mu Jingchen." Mu Jingchen also stopped, turned around, one tall and one short in the snow, the two looked at each other face to face, and finally smiled at each other, and the two turned around at the same time and walked towards their respective homes.

"By the way, although I haven't cultivated to the immortal fetus yet, if you can, you can try to call me Immortal Venerable." After looking at each other and smiling, Bai Ning walked in the direction of home, and before he had taken a dozen steps, Mu Jingchen's voice came from behind him again.

"Okay, stupid Immortal Venerable, hahahaha." The corners of Bai Ning's mouth raised a beautiful arc, and he said to Mu Jingchen who was walking with his back behind him a little wilted, he didn't know how long he hadn't laughed, and he hadn't laughed sincerely, but this time the hearty laughter was more real than real gold.