Why is my master always lost and swollen? !

Ah Ning has never understood why Mr. Baohe accepted Liu Zian as his apprentice, obviously that guy is stupid, lazy and likes to cause trouble.

"Without him, the trip should be more complete." She always thought so.

However, although he always said that Liu Zian was troublesome, when the other party really fell into a coma, Mr. Baohe didn't seem to be happy at all, and he didn't look like he had let go of a big burden.

"Sir, why on earth did you accept that guy Liu Zian as your apprentice?" Finally one day, Aning couldn't help asking, "Obviously he is not suitable for traveling at all!"

"Because I promised him." Mr. Baohe said softly, "One must always be honest."

"But he doesn't look like a traveler at first glance." Aning whispered, "You shouldn't have promised him back then."

Mr. Baohe sighed when he heard the words, and said: "So, I did harm this child..."

Aning was a little strange and didn't understand why Mr. Baohe said that.

Mr. Baohe shook his head, looked absently at the barn in the distance, and told Aning a story about his childhood.

According to him, he has been lost since he was a child.When he was a baby, the adults put him naked on the quilt, but he would get caught in the folds of the quilt, disappear, and then suddenly appear in the corner of the room, crying loudly.There are many such things, even though he couldn't even turn over at that time.

Later, when he grew up, his stray syndrome became more and more serious. Even if he stayed quietly in his own room, he might get lost to unknown places.

Once when he was writing, he accidentally dropped the pen on the ground, bent down to pick it up, and when he looked up again, he went to an unknown place.

"Where did you go?" Aning asked, holding his chin.This is the first time that Mr. Baohe told the story of his childhood!

"When I arrived in a large warehouse, there were piles of sundries everywhere." Mr. Baohe recalled, "At that time, I was used to getting lost, so I didn't panic. I found quite a collection of books."

"You just swaggered into someone's warehouse without being noticed?" Ah Ning covered her mouth and smiled, "Maybe they still have to treat you as a thief!"

"When I was a child, the world was not as peaceful as it is now. Every family had weapons. Looking back now, I was really lucky at that time. I met the adopted son of the master's family."

"You were discovered by the adopted son?"

"Yes, but instead of arresting me, he asked me kindly how I got in."

"It should be that the adopted son is lucky to have met you!" Ah Ning clapped his hands and laughed, "It's really stupid! If he is a villain, wouldn't he be killed?"

"So both of us should be glad that we met each other. One is stupid, the other is stupid." Mr. Baohe laughed at himself.

"And then? How did you answer him?"

"I'm that stupid, I don't know how to tell a lie, just tell him honestly that I was passing by."

"Can you go to someone's warehouse when you pass by?" Ah Ning thought it was funny when he thought about their conversation, "Does that guy believe it?"

"I didn't believe it, but I didn't make things difficult for me. They quietly took me to the entrance of the village to let me go home, and gave me a sum of travel expenses." Mr. Baohe sighed, "This is the first trip in my life."

"You got lost again on the way back?"

"This is the place where I got lost. How can I find it so easily... At first, I thought I picked up a pen and got lost. If I want to go back, I should rely on that pen. So, every time I come to a fork, Just throw the pen up, and I will walk in whichever direction the pen points to." Mr. Baohe couldn't help but twitched his lips when he thought of that incident, "Just walking aimlessly like this, it's going backwards. Not a very strange place."

"For example?" Aning said that she likes to hear about Mr. Baohe getting lost.

"Sometimes when walking in the corridor of the lodging place, in the blink of an eye, the feet suddenly become uneven, as if standing on a jagged rock; the wet cold wind blows, and there seem to be countless rats in the ears. Squeak."

"You are in a cave!" Ah Ning guessed, "That cry is probably a bat."

"I didn't wear shoes on my feet at the time, and it hurt terribly when I stepped on the ground. At that time, I was also very scared, thinking about what to do if I walked on like this forever and couldn't go home again." Mr. Baohe continued, "When I was terrified, I suddenly felt the soft touch of stepping on dead leaves under my feet. Although the surrounding area was still dark, I could see the twinkling stars above my head when I looked up. It was the most beautiful I have ever seen The starry sky! The trees are in abundance, and the outlines of the branches and leaves frame the night sky."

"You ran into the forest again?" Ah Ning found it very interesting.

"Yes." Mr. Baohe said, "But I didn't have such a good mentality as you at that time. I was afraid that there would be beasts in the woods, so I hurried towards the direction of the North Star, hoping to get to a safe place soon. "

"and after?"

"Later, as I was walking, the feeling under my feet changed again. Every time I took a step, my feet got stuck in the sand and itched. I heard a rustling sound coming from my ears, and I didn't realize it at first. It was the sound of the tide. No way, I hadn’t seen the sea at that time. Later, the back of the clouds lit up, and a red sun rose from the sea level. In the early morning mist, I experienced the vastness of the sea for the first time Magnificent."

"Then you made up your mind to be a traveler from that time on?"

Mr. Baohe shook his head.

"No. On the contrary, I suddenly became uneasy. The world is too vast, no matter which direction I go, it seems to have no end. If I am left alone in this place, can I survive? Or should I go back quickly? Home is good."

"What a coward." Ah Ning scoffed at Mr. Baohe's opinion at that time.

"That can't be helped, that's what I thought at the time." Mr. Baohe spread his hands and said, "Later, I continued to walk in the direction pointed by the pen, and soon lost my way to a town. The people in the town He is a very nice person. It is very pitiful to see me a child wandering on the street. He not only gave me food, but also gave me a pair of straw sandals. Although it didn’t fit my feet, it was much easier to walk after all. Next, and then non-stop Lost, sometimes ran into a crater, sometimes lingered in a place surrounded by fleshy walls, as if in some giant animal body. Turned a corner and suddenly broke into a stable; walked across a bridge, but inexplicably got into a latrine in the middle; I climbed up some steps, and finally came to a box just made by a carpenter... In just one day, I saw the scenery that I had never seen in my life, and occasionally I even felt that this kind of getting lost seemed to be lost when I was free. Not bad."

"Then did you find it later?"

"I found it back. At that time, I was walking on the embankment, slipped, and accidentally fell into a large wheat field. I was so scared that I hugged my head tightly. When I opened my eyes again , already home. I don't even know how I got back..."

"and after?"

"What else can I do? After running out for a day and a night, and coming back dirty, I must have been scolded! I told them what I had experienced, but they didn't believe it. They just thought I was sneaking out to play for myself. Excuse."

"It's really hard for people who haven't experienced it to believe it."

"But even if they don't believe it, the stray syndrome still exists. Within two days, I lost my way to the big warehouse last time."

"You have a predestined relationship with that place." Ah Ning said with a smile.

"It's not exactly lost this time. I consciously wanted to go there." Mr. Baohe said, "There are really a lot of books there."

"Then you met that adopted son again?"

"No, I avoided him on purpose. After all, it's not good to go to someone's house casually." Mr. Baohe said, "But he seems to know that I will go, every time he doesn't see me the last time The finished book is on the bright side."

"I'm afraid he thought you were some kind of mountain ghost who loves to read!" Ah Ning laughed.

"Isn't that right, once I was fascinated by reading and accidentally bumped into him, the first thing he said was 'Are you a fairy?'" Mr. Baohe said helplessly.

Ah Ning originally just said it casually, but unexpectedly guessed it right, and burst out laughing.

"I just said that I am an ordinary person like him, but I am a little lost. He didn't believe me, so I picked out some things I experienced on the road and told him. I didn't expect him to be fascinated when he heard it. Don't let me go."

"It's a rare commodity to live in. It's good that he didn't put you in a cage and sell it." Ah Ning said maliciously.

"He just wanted to listen to stories. I was so haunted by him that I asked him to read books by himself. They have so many books in their family, and there are thousands of stories if not tens of thousands. But he told me that he couldn't read." Mr. Baohe road.

"Isn't it normal to be illiterate?" Ah Ning didn't understand why Mr. Baohe was so surprised.

"It's quite normal, but I didn't know it at the time... I just thought his family treated him badly." Mr. Baohe recalled, "After all, the grandfather who raised me at that time kept telling me that 'the book contains The Golden House, there are words like Yan Ruyu in the book."

"But not everyone can learn to read and write." Ah Ning said.Thinking of the days when Dr. Cao taught her to read, I still have lingering fears.

Mr. Baohe shook his head.

"That's what he said at the time. But I think that as long as he is willing to learn, everyone can do it." Mr. Baohe smiled. I'm here to invite you."

"and after?"

"Afterwards, every night after grandpa fell asleep, I would quietly go to that warehouse to teach him how to read and write..."

"You are serious and responsible."

"What seriousness and responsibility!" Mr. Baohe laughed at himself. "At that time, I always got lost for no reason. Grandpa was afraid that I would scare others, so he never let me play with the children around me. So some fun things I encountered when I got lost, We can only wait for the night to go to the big warehouse and talk to that person."

"Isn't he afraid?"

"I also asked him. He told me that it was not the first time he met someone like me. When he was a child, he once met a traveler in the fields. He also loved getting lost. He always felt strange. but he is a very nice person and even brought him presents.”

"Could this guy have met Mr. Baohe's two lifetimes at the same time?" Ah Ning thought.

"He also said that the traveler had promised him that he would take him on a trip when he grew up."

"Afterwards he never waited for that traveler again." Ah Ning interjected.

"Yes." Mr. Baohe sighed, "He looked so sad at the time. So I promised him that when I was older, I would take him on a trip together to see the world."

"But you broke your promise." Aning said quietly.

"I haven't." Mr. Baohe said softly.

Aning was taken aback for a moment, then as if trying to understand something, he opened his eyes wide.

"You mean, Liu Zian..."

Mr. Baohe nodded.

"What's going on?" Anin asked.

"As I said before, he is the adopted son of that family. At the beginning, the family treated him very well, but after they had their own children, they gradually treated him less."

"This is also human nature."

"He often sneaked out in the middle of the night, and everyone paid attention to him, followed him to the warehouse secretly, and finally caught me." Mr. Baohe recalled, "They thought I was a thief and caught me to death. beat."

"Did that guy just watch you get beaten?" Ah Ning said angrily.

"What can he do? People think he is my internal agent... The more I explain, the harder he beats me, and finally knocked me unconscious." Mr. Baohe said, "I will wake up later. By that time, they had already left. I tried to run, but I couldn't move my legs."

Aning covered her ears and dared not listen any more.

She knew that kind of helplessness. Once she was injured and changed back to her original shape, she was accidentally caught by someone, and almost became someone's dinner...

"What happened next?" After waiting for a while, seeing that Mr. Baohe didn't say any more, Ah Ning pursed her lips and asked in a low voice.

"It's lucky. They wanted to sell me for money, but they spared my life." Mr. Baohe said, "At that time, I was terrified, so I moved to the corner little by little, and waited until I got to the corner. When I saw a narrow gap between the two cabinets, I couldn't hold on anymore and passed out again. When I woke up again, I was already at home."

"Thanks to getting lost..."

"Yes. According to my grandfather, at that time he heard a 'boom' sound coming from my room, as if something had fallen, and I didn't respond, so he went to check, and when he opened the door, he saw me dying. I fell down in the room." Mr. Baohe paused, and then continued, "The injury was really serious at the time, and it took me a long time to recuperate before I recovered to my original state. I was worried about my friend, so I ran away secretly again Went to find him, but he was no longer in the warehouse."

"If something like this happens, he will definitely not be able to come here again!"

"At that time, the door of the warehouse was closed, so I piled up the sundries inside layer by layer, and looked for him through the window. After all, the family's house is really big, with winding corridors, and I often run to Went to an unknown place."

"Did you find him afterwards? No, were you found?"

"Maybe someone saw me, but I've been here for a while, and I've been there for a while. I guess people probably think they saw a ghost." Mr. Baohe spread his hands and said, "Later, after going around for a long time, I finally found it in a room. killed him."

"Is he still alive?"

"Alive, but it's almost dead. The whole person is thin and skinny, with white hair growing at a young age, and various wounds on his body..." As he spoke, Mr. Baohe's voice unexpectedly Some choked up.

Ah Ning doesn't know how to comfort people, seeing Mr. Baohe depressed, he turned into a prototype, fell into his arms, and gently rubbed his head against his hand.

While smoothing Ah Ning's hair, Mr. Baohe talked about what happened next.

"He couldn't see his eyes at the time, but he seemed to know that I was here, and he seemed very happy. I said to take him away, but he refused. He said that he might not be able to travel around with me in his life."

"I said there is an afterlife. In the next life, he will definitely be reborn into a good family, and everyone will love him."

"He laughed, and I realized that he even lost several teeth. He said he remembered what I said, and if he didn't reincarnate into a good family in his next life, he would ask me to settle the score."

"I told him that in the next life, no matter what kind of family he is reincarnated into, even if he is disabled or a waste, I will take him on a trip and protect him."

"This is an agreement between us... My best friend is also my first friend."

"The first time I saw Zi'an, I knew he was the one I was looking for, especially the foolishness, he was exactly the same... His birthday also happened to be the anniversary of the death of that person."

"But, I still broke my promise. I promised to protect him well, but in the end, she was still in danger one after another."

"What qualifications does a person like me have to be someone else's master? He can't even protect his own apprentice..."

Mr. Baohe spoke softly there, and Ah Ning listened quietly there.

She knew where she had lost.But she still couldn't help but want to ask: If Liu Zian wasn't the reincarnation of that person, would Mr. Baohe still accept him as his apprentice?

Aning felt that was impossible.

That being the case, is it Liu Zian or Liu Zian's past life that Mr. Baohe cares about?

Although he knew that the two were in the same line, Ah Ning couldn't help but get entangled.