Taking care of a child who can't walk yet and can only nurse is more troublesome than Zhuzhu imagined.
Fortunately, my father was experienced and specially caught a second-level green-tailed ewe that was still lactating from the mountains and kept it in the demon pet bag.
From time to time, you can put it out to express some fresh goat milk to feed the children.
Huahua, on the other hand, specializes in coaxing children to sleep and playing, and she never gets tired of it.
Only Zhuzhu was afraid of developing feelings for the child and would be reluctant to give it away, so she always had a cold attitude towards the child.
But when the child started talking at seven or eight months old, the first word he shouted was "Zhuzhu".
Even Zhuzhu, who had never shown a smile to her child, couldn't help but feel a little soft in her heart. In the end, she hardened her heart and pretended not to hear the child's calls to her, and refused the child's desire for her embrace.
She clearly knew that she could not give her child the maternal love and care he expected. She could not accompany him to grow up. It would be better for her to remain hard-hearted, which would be the best for her child.
At least when the time comes to separate, it won't cause any emotional harm to him.
Because he ate the milk of the monster that contained a touch of spiritual energy, the child had a rosy complexion and a healthy body. He never got sick until he was about one year old.
And he can already speak some simple words and run on the ground.
At this moment, he was chasing Huahua, who was jumping up and down, trying to catch Huahua's tail that was wagging gently here and there on purpose: "Huahua - don't - run away -"
Because they had a child with them, it took them half a year to get out of the Dragon Kingdom.
During this period, I passed through several towns and thought about giving the child away.
But after meeting her several times, Ni Xinzhi and Huahua were worried.
Either I dislike their poor conditions, or I dislike them for not really liking their children.
It took a lot of effort to settle on one, it was good in every aspect.
After putting the child down and leaving, the father and Huahua were worried and hid around the house for two more days to observe.
I found the child crying every day at their home. I thought they were abusing the child, so I snatched the child back.
Only then did I realize that the child had not been abused, but was just uncomfortable with unfamiliar people and environments.
In this way, the child was not sent out until he was about one year old.
Zhuzhu was helpless. With her father and Huahua's attitude of not trusting anyone, they would not be relieved even if they found a dignitary to raise her as a foster child.
Since he couldn't give it away, Ni Xinzhi decided to adopt it himself.
Seeing that the child didn't have a name when he was one year old, we decided to name him after Ni Si. Because he was rescued from the lake, he was named Ni Size.
Zhuzhu, who had gained a younger brother inexplicably, sighed. Having more younger brothers is better than having multiple sons.
If you raise Ni Size, you must be responsible for him and let him grow up healthy and happy.
After he is five years old and is found to have spiritual roots, he still has to worry about his cultivation.
If you don’t have spiritual roots, you have to be mentally prepared that Ni Size will leave this world in a hundred years.
All in all, this was a big burden to Zhuzhu who only wanted to practice, so she didn't want to get too close to this child.
Now that he has become her younger brother, Zhuzhu slowly relaxes and accepts him.
In the end, Zhuzhu asked for the demon elixir from the fifth-level piebald giant snake. Because it had a water attribute, for her water spirit root, it could increase the water attribute from only four levels to five or six levels.
And it contains pure water aura, which should help her reach the middle stage of foundation building.
Zhuzhu was afraid that her mind would not be able to keep up with her cultivation too quickly, so she planned to take it after a period of time when her mind would become more peaceful.
And I gave the green marrow grass to my father Ni Xinzhi. My father is already in his nineties. If he can enter the golden elixir within a hundred years old, he may still have hope of reaching the Nascent Soul in the future.
Even if he can't, the golden elixir has a lifespan of five hundred years, so he doesn't have to face the separation of life and death from his father early.
Ni Xinzhi couldn't resist Zhuzhu's firm attitude, and finally took the green marrow grass, which washed away the earth root and turned it into a single fire root.
And the fire attribute has increased to the ninth level.
Although it does not reach the Tianlinggen qualification, it is still considered an excellent qualification in a single spiritual root.
And with this, he also touched the threshold of the Golden Elixir stage, and planned to attack the Golden Elixir stage on the spot.
Zhuzhu and Huahua protected him, and it took Ni Xinzhi two months to enter the early stage of Jindan and become the real Jindan.
Looking at her father who was ten years younger, Zhuzhu was very happy.
Although they were delayed for a long time on the road, the father and daughter gained a lot.
Moreover, Zhuzhu finally cultivated a third-level spiritual Gu.
It's the second-level ice silkworm from before.
After devouring hundreds of poisonous insects, the second-level ice silkworm became the final winner, and also successfully advanced to become a third-level ice silkworm.
Zhuzhu would feed it some of her own spiritual energy and blood from her fingertips every day.
Now this ice silkworm has no intention of attacking her. On the contrary, it still obeys her every word.
When it reaches the fourth level, Zhuzhu can collect it in the Dantian and feed it with spiritual energy in the body.
It can also be safely kept inside to raise the sub-gu. When the sub-gu grows up, it can be released to find spiritual plants or poisonous insects to eat. It can also be used to inquire for information or attack enemies.
Therefore, Zhuzhu feels that the role of spiritual Gu is not small. The current attack power of the third-level ice silkworm alone is already comparable to that of the previous foundation-building monk.
By the time he arrived in Wusu Country, Ni Size was almost two years old.
The little guy is now very articulate and eloquent. Not only can he call Ni Xinzhi "Dad" and Zhuzhu "Sister", he also likes to watch them practice. Sometimes he will use a wooden stick to make gestures beside him.
Ni Xinzhi loved him even more and would take him flying with his sword from time to time.
But in comparison, Ni Size's favorite is Huahua, and he even squeezes in with Huahua when sleeping.
Zhuzhu was afraid that he would be particularly attached to Huahua, so she would sometimes put Huahua in the demon pet bag to let Ni Size adapt to the days without Huahua.
As she got closer to Lingfeng City, Zhuzhu rarely let Huahua out of the demon pet bag.
The little one would cry at first, but he found that Zhuzhu was not the same as him, and gradually got used to the days without Huahua.
When they were approaching Shuiyue City, Zhuzhu admitted that she had some things she wanted to handle alone and asked her father to take Ni Size back first.
Ni Xinzhi is now a Jindan master after all, and can already fly with a sword. If he hadn't been worried about Zhuzhu, he would have taken Ni Size back to Lingfeng City long ago.
But he knew that his daughter had grown up and no longer needed his careful care by his side.
They nodded in agreement, and the father and daughter separated.
Ni Xinzhi carried Ni Size back to Lingfeng City first, while Zhuzhu entered Shuiyue City as a young man.
Both Shuiyue City and Lingfeng City are small border towns, but Shuiyue City is not surrounded by mountains and has well-connected roads, so its development is stronger than that of Lingfeng City.
After entering the city, Zhuzhu did not rush to Zhu's house, but went to inquire about the news first.
After so many years of experience, she acts much more cautiously than when she first arrived.
Zhuzhu soon walked into a teahouse full of guests. After drinking a few cups of tea in the lobby, she learned everything about the recent situation of the Zhu family.
Without him, it's just because the Zhu family has been developing rapidly recently. The head of the family, Zhu Wenshan, entered the foundation building period in the past two years and became a foundation building monk.
From a low-ranking small family, it became a second-class family in the city.
His eldest grandson also married the daughter of the city lord of Shuiyue City at the beginning of this year and became the city lord's son-in-law.
The city lord Fang Zihao is the only foundation-building Dzogchen monk in Shuiyue City, and he is only over 120 years old. He is expected to enter the golden elixir stage in the next two years.
After marrying into the first-class families in Shuiyue City, such as the Fang family, which holds real power, the Zhu family has developed faster this year, and there is a faint tendency to squeeze into the first-class families.
Therefore, these tea guests always mentioned the Zhu family in five out of ten sentences, saying that they were just lucky enough to allow Zhu Wenshan, who knew his destiny, to suddenly advance to the foundation building stage.
Very good, Zhuzhu smiled coldly, and Zhu Wenshan became a foundation-building monk by eating the foundation-building pills he got in exchange for betraying her, and then lived a proud life.
He would come back and personally abolish his cultivation, and bring the Zhu family back to its original shape.
I wonder if Zhu Wenshan can accept this huge gap?
