The sunlight gently penetrated the window paper and shone into the room. Chu Zhou woke up from his sleep, rubbed his eyes, and stretched out a small hand to pat his face.

His hands stopped, and when he turned his head to see Xiaotuanzi staring at him with bright black eyes, he remembered that he picked up a child last night.

It was really late yesterday, and when they came back, everyone in the village had rested.Fortunately, the child was fine, and the priest said that it would be fine as long as he was fed, so after Chu Zhou cooked and chopped some vegetables left in the kitchen and fed him, he hugged him and slept together.

Xiaotuanzi was crawling towards him humming and humming, and managed to climb up to his chest, wobbly. He was worried that the lump would fall, so he stretched out his hand to hug him gently.Tuanzi hugged his neck as hard as he could with his two short arms, leaned closer, looked at him for a while, and kissed him on the face with a "ba chi".

It was this human being who saved him. This human being is different.

Chu Zhou was startled by the wet and soft touch, and stretched out his hand to wipe the drool on his face. Looking at Xiao Douding who was grinning and looking happy, he couldn't help but smiled, and kissed his forehead back.

——This kid is unexpectedly cute.

After covering Tuanzi who was starting to feel sleepy again, Chu Zhou was going to go to the priest to discuss how to raise the child.

The most important thing is not to let the villagers find the child. They are afraid of this so-called "devil". If they know that this abandoned child has been picked up by him again, who knows what will happen. He doesn't want to experience this group of people. Things to do when you're scared.

So in the future, should I continue to live here, or use an excuse to settle down near the back mountain?He lived here with the priest for the reason of recuperating his injuries, but in fact he didn't feel the wound, so he just needed to remember to apply the medicine in the future.And the villagers don't seem to go to the back mountain very much, the path is overgrown with weeds, and even this child was thrown on the road just entering the mountain...

"Continue to live with me," the priest answered his question while watering the flowers. "You can let them come to me when they have something to do in the future. It won't be safe to live in the back mountain."

"I..." Chu Zhou wanted to say that he found something wrong with the back mountain. No one in the village dared to go up the mountain, but would it be dangerous to live down the mountain?

At this time, there was a sudden "bang", and someone pushed the door hard.

"Master Priest," the person who came was the gambler who came to ask for herbs last time. He panted heavily, as if he had gone through a violent run, and was looking at the priest earnestly. "Please teach me how to make herbs!"

The priest put down the kettle, looked at him in embarrassment and said, "But, I don't need an apprentice."

"Master Priest, please! Please teach me!" The gambler begged loudly.He has already spent all his money, the herbal medicine of the priest is so powerful, if he learns how to make it, he won't have to come here every time to get it and then sell it for money, and he won't have to worry about gambling debts.

The priest looked at each other silently.

The gambler still begged him earnestly: "My lord, I will definitely study hard and never gamble again."

Finally, the priest let go: "Help me gather evening primrose first."

The gambler hesitated for a moment, looked at his smiling face, and agreed.

After he left, Chu Zhou looked at the priest with admiration: "You are so kind."

The priest shook his head: "This is what I should do."

There was still a smile on his face, and his black eyes looked at him gently: "Let's discuss the children."

Oh yes, children, children are more important.

Chu Zhou asked: "Is the village self-sufficient?" He had noticed before that besides the fields, there were special places for growing vegetables and fruits in the village, as well as the traps he stepped on in the mountains and forests when he came, which should be from the village. People placed it.

"Yes, some villagers have their own land, some have orchards, and some are hunters. They usually buy food from each other, and occasionally go out to buy some other items."

Chu Zhou noticed that he used "they" and asked curiously, "What about you?"

The person opposite said embarrassedly: "Priests can't have these. Usually, I see a doctor or do a fortune-telling, and they send things over."

"What about those who have no land?"

"They'll help out in the fields or orchards, or they'll try to hunt in the woods, and the game can be exchanged for food."

"Oh, then I'll go out and have a look later."

The priest looked at him in surprise: "You...how?"

Chu Zhou said helplessly: "You don't want to support the three of us alone, do you? You took us in, so I should go out to work."

Seeing what the priest was about to say, he quickly turned around and walked into the house: "I'm going to see the child. By the way, do you know his name?"

"Ibaraki Doji."

"What!?" Chu Zhou stopped abruptly and looked at the priest in shock.

The priest looked at him suspiciously: "His name is Ibaraki Doji, is there a problem?"

"No, no problem."

Big problem.The little dumpling he picked up turned out to be Ibaraki Doji, an SSR-level monster!An SSR that no one has successfully summoned yet!And according to the information he found before, Ibaraki Doji is powerful, hates humans, and has a great reputation among monsters.It seems that this task is very challenging.

While poking the face of Ibaraki who just woke up, Chu Zhou thought, this is his mission goal this time, and he is still a soft little dumpling.

Xiao Ibaraki pulled his hand down, squeezed his fingers tightly, and said something "babbling".

He tried to pull out his fingers, but Xiao Ibaraki's grip was too tight and he couldn't pull it out.Squeezing the opponent's little hand, it was so soft that his heart softened into a ball.Forget it, forget it, I'm not willing to take it out.

It took a while for Ibaraki to let go of his hand, stood up reluctantly, swayed on his short legs and plunged into his arms, wrapping his arms around his neck.

Chu Zhou picked up the small dumpling full of milk fragrance and kissed it, and the other party imitated him and smeared his face with saliva.

After playing with Ibaraki for a while, after he fell asleep again, Chu Zhou was going to find out if there was any work he could do.

Speaking of which, he is completely an ordinary person now, and it is still very scary to continue to contact this group of villagers.It's just that this village is surrounded by mountains, he doesn't know where to go, and the priest has never been out of here.Moreover, those villagers seemed to be wary of him. If it was found that he not only knew about their murders, but also secretly picked up Ibaraki back when he went out, he would definitely die a miserable death.

Let's investigate the terrain as much as possible first.

As Chu Zhou was walking on the road, some people looked at him hesitantly from a distance, and some people came forward to greet him warmly.

He pretended not to know anything, and asked the people who came to say hello: "Is there anything in the village that needs help?"

The man didn't expect him to ask this, hesitantly said: "Maybe the orchard in front is recruiting people."

He smiled: "Thank you."

Seeing that his attitude hadn't changed much, the man turned around and left in peace.

Orchards are in need of people picking fruit by hand.

The owner of the garden was a little surprised to see him, and soon agreed after hearing his explanation of his intention.

It's easy to get started, but Chu Zhou never thought that he would pick fruit in the mission world.

After finally persevering until the end, he saw a sheep running from nowhere.Speaking of which, Ibaraki needs to drink more milk at this age.

Thinking of this, he asked the farm owner who was chasing after the sheep: "How long does it usually take to exchange a sheep?"

The owner of the garden smiled honestly: "Since you want it, you can take it back first, and just do a few more days of work."

Chu Zhou thanked him and went back with the sheep.He originally wanted to try hunting, but now he should pick the fruit honestly.

When he returned to the room, he saw that Ibaraki was already awake, neither crying nor fussing, just quietly opening his eyes, motionless.

"Little Ibaraki?" He called softly.

Ibaraki turned his head when he heard the voice, and finally became lively when he saw Chu Zhou.

"Yi Ya" stretched out his arms towards Chu Zhou, trying to get close to him.He thought he was abandoned again.

Chu Zhou hurried forward to hug him, and kissed his face distressedly: "Good boy."

After feeding little Ibaraki some food and warm milk, he took off his clothes and lay on the bed.During this time, Ibaraki kept looking at him obediently, and when he went to bed, he hugged him tightly and rubbed his face.

Chu Zhou patted Xiaotuanzi's back lightly, and told him a story: "Once upon a time, there was a little Ibaraki..."

Listening to Chu Zhou's unrestrained story with him as the main character, Ibaraki gradually fell asleep in his gentle voice.

Chu Zhou saw that the dumpling in his arms closed his eyes, smiled lightly, and followed suit.

The next day Chu Zhou asked the priest to look after Ibaraki, and hurried to the orchard.

On his way home after finishing his work, he heard the villagers talking about something.

"Oh, he died so badly."

"Yeah, I don't know how he made it to the entrance of the village."

"Fortunately, we didn't go to Houshan back then, but you said, how dare he go alone at night."

"..."

When he returned, the priest was standing in the yard watering the flowers with a smile. He walked over and asked softly, "Do you remember the gambler who said he wanted to learn how to make herbal medicine last time?"

The priest responded mildly: "Well, I remember."

Chu Zhou looked at him: "He is dead."

"Well, how did you die?"

"He went to the back mountain alone at night, maybe he was bitten by a wild animal."

"It's miserable."

Chu Zhou heard him say these two words in a gentle voice, but there was still a gentle smile on his face.

He couldn't help asking: "When you asked him to find evening primrose, did you know that he would die?"

Evening primrose, which is unique to the back mountain, was found on the gambler's body, and the back mountain at night is the most dangerous place.

The priest smiled slightly, his black eyes were gentle, and he was still watering the flowers leisurely. "Well, as I said, I don't need an apprentice."

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