It was drizzling again. Lin Du followed Granny Ma on the mountain path with her Ruo Li in hand.
"Why do you have to follow me? Isn't your face enough to scare them?"
Lin Du took out a gauze scarf that he used to cover his face in winter, and randomly wrapped it around the lower half of his face. The upper part was covered with a bamboo hat, and the lower part was covered with a gauze scarf. He asked in a low voice, "Is it okay now?"
Granny Map was silent for a while, "There is no one in the world who can do things like you. I asked you to look at the stove yesterday, but you insisted on studying some timing formation. My pot of medicine was almost in vain."
"That girl has been crying for most of the night, and her eyes are going blind from crying. I haven't even given her a vision of the future." Lin Du reached out and pinched his ears, "Besides, my consciousness has been released, and Bai is watching. , just practice carving formations casually."
"Then my pot lid almost got scratched and exploded." Granny Mapa said calmly.
Lin Du was wearing a black robe today. Even though the material was of excellent quality, the gold threads were densely woven, and the red treasure on the crane's head was vivid, in the eyes of Granny Ma, he still looked like a bandit.
"That was an accident." Lin Du coughed lightly, "The bone in his right hand was broken. I couldn't hold it back for a while, and it was broken."
Carving formations on utensils requires not only strong spiritual consciousness, but also steady hands.
Granny Ma looked back at her again, "You haven't answered my original question yet."
Lin Du knew he couldn't get around it, so he coughed lightly, "I just want to see if people in captivity still know how to be self-reliant?"
Granny Ma glanced at her little bandit follower and said, "You have a lot to worry about."
Lin Du didn't say anything, but Granny Ma grabbed her right wrist coldly, "Hey, it's not Granny, it hurts..."
A strange force penetrated into the flesh, and Lin Du suddenly stopped speaking, stopped pretending, and let her penetrate into the wrist bone.
The cold force wrapped around her wrist bones like a snake, "Mo Lin didn't say a word when he pinched your wrist. Now you're crying about pain?"
Lin Du could still laugh, and he could hear the carelessness in her words through the gauze scarf, "I can take good care of her."
The Yin Qi suddenly withdrew, "No wonder you've been wearing hard wrist guards these past few days."
A piece of dark plaster was thrown into Lin Du's arms, "Just stick it on, and within five days, it will be back to normal."
It usually takes more than a month for a young person's bone fractures to heal on their own, but it takes ten days and a half for a monk to heal faster with spiritual energy.
Lin Du lowered his head and sniffed the smell of the plaster. It was more chaotic than the medicine she drank. He hesitated again and again, "There... aren't there any insects in this?"
"That's not the case," Granny Mapa said calmly, "but there is something you don't want to know."
Lin Du stopped his curiosity and said, "Then I won't ask anymore."
She felt good about it, so she put the plaster on and then refastened the wristband, just in front of Qinglu Village.
The village is still shrouded in mist and rain.
Lin Du entered the village and found that most of the people were still there. Only four or five underage young people had entered the city. They maintained their original living conditions. They had worked hard to survive these years and still had a lot of food given by the Moon God. .
The well that had its bricks and stones stolen was rebuilt with ordinary bluestones. There was an offering table in front of it, with various blessing snacks on it. Now it has been soaked by the water from the sky, and there seems to be mold on it. I think it has been there for several days. No one is watching anymore.
Lin Du accompanied Granny Ma to deliver medicine to each household, but the excuse he gave was that it was a cold wave in spring, without the protection of the moon god, and the children were young and feared of getting sick.
Some people thanked them profusely, while others were hesitant.
Neither Granny Ma nor Lin Du tried to dissuade her. Lin Du behaved like a corpse puppet throughout the whole process. He didn't speak and was only responsible for distributing medicine.
When the last family had finished delivering, someone cautiously asked Granny Ma, "If you still accept servants, my boy will definitely be stronger and more capable than the one behind you."
Lin Du was recognized as a servant, and Ma Po Po thought that Lin Du should be a mountain bandit no matter how he looked, he was just a servant.
Granny Map shook her head. Seeing the gloom and worry in the family's eyes, she finally pointed the way, "In the past, you couldn't go up the mountain to pick wild products, but now you can. The fields are abandoned and can be cultivated again. How come there is no way to survive."
The man looked at the mother-in-law in front of him blankly, "But... we won't..."
Lin Du lowered her eyes, and the plaster on her wrist penetrated into her bones with a spicy and cold air. The cold and spicy taste was not pleasant.
She mechanically followed Granny Ma out of the last house, and suddenly said, "Just a few hundred years, a dozen generations, is enough to completely cripple a person."
Granny Ma didn't say anything. Lin Du was young, but he was always very empathetic to worldly affairs. Such a person was also gifted in cultivating things. Being sensitive enough was not a bad thing.
"I once thought about a question, what if they don't have their vitality drained out, they don't lack food, clothing, or labor, and they live happily for forty or sixty years, and then their lives are harvested?"
"Now the people in Qinglu Village are secretly cursing the Moon God for abandoning them. They can't get food, but they don't know how to make a living."
"I think there may be many people who are willing to do this, and I have even thought about it. Having their food, clothing, housing, and transportation all arranged by others, and having fun and indolence all day long will be enough food even if I become a human later."
Granny Mapa paused and looked at the thin boy who was still covering his face, "Do you want to be trapped?"
Lin Du paused, "But when I look at it today, I still think that people should always have a choice."
"It's wrong to be raised as a baby without any choice. The predecessors may have agreed to sacrifice and be raised in captivity, but some future generations don't want to be raised in captivity. Those young people who ran away are the answer."
"As the pregnant woman said, people should always have the freedom to choose."
The sky is high and the sea is vast, the desert is solitary, the sun sets over the long river, the south of the Yangtze River is misty and rainy, and thousands of miles are frozen. People who have been raised and lost their freedom will never understand it.
When one loses his labor power, creativity and even his thoughts, is a person really still a person?
After listening to what she said, Granny Map silently took away the curse seal on her hand.
Lin Du had no idea that he was about to be turned into a corpse puppet and kept in captivity. After walking out of the village, the gauze fell off his face, and his dark eyes showed a thoughtful light, "I looked over just now. They were all clean." Many homes in the house have some dust.”
"It's the home of those young people who ran away."
"At least I didn't do something bad. At least I gave them a choice."
Granny Ma hummed, "It's not a good thing if you worry too much."
Lin Du smiled and said nothing.
She doesn't want to be the kind of superhero who picks up someone's car bought with a loan and throws it at the villain in a heroic story, or even accidentally drops a brick and kills someone's family because the fight accidentally affects the house they bought with a mortgage.
Lin Du thought that the butterfly effect, the wind that was blowing up, had better be the wind of hope.
"Mo Lin will be able to eliminate the remaining poison in five days. Then you should hurry up and take him back to your sect to raise him. My yard is a mess every day because of the noise." Granny Ma said in a disgusted tone. She didn't know what she was thinking of, and added, "Your senior brothers are really busy these days."
Lin Du's eyes suddenly became sharp, and the smile on his face deepened, "No, after all, if you want to completely uproot a vine, the roots that are leaning out to draw life must be cut off first."
"Do you want to hear it?"
Granny Map said flatly, "I don't want to."
Lin Du shrugged regretfully. Feng Yi and Ju Yuan should have collected a lot of treasures this time.
Only there is no news about the weapon refining shop.
