Yu Rong Sui’s effect was super effective, the majority of the wounds on Xiao Gu Shan Xan’s body had healed, only a few scars remained. As for the areas where there were only bruises, they had completely disappeared, it’d even made the child’s skin look a bit like the white, soft skin of a newborn baby.
Gu Bai saw the effects and felt really satisfied, so he held Xiao Gu Shan in his arms with a smile on his face, as he started to talk to him about random topics.
Xiao Gu Shan’s personality was quite pure and naive, it didn’t take long for Gu Bai to get the answers he wanted from him.
“Well…the place where I live has a really big house…I live together with my Aunty…”
“I’m five years old this year… I don’t do any kind of work at all… my Aunty said I’m really useless… my daddy and mummy don’t want me anymore…”
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“The ones that bully me… I don’t know them… and it’s not like I got beaten up everyday…”
“I can’t win against them…”
After Gu Bai finished listening, he immediately ran imaginary scenarios through his mind.
This child was probably a servant born under his lord’s roof, which was likely to be one of the big families within the town. Based on the level of domestic abuse he’d suffered, it’s possible that the child may even be the illegitimate child of a low-level female servant. The wounds on his body were probably the work of his “Aunty”. And the child had been suffering from abuse since he was little, he also lacked courage because no one had ever taught him how to practice martial arts, and he couldn’t even eat until he was full, so he became even weaker and scraggly.
One could say that he was indeed one of the world’s lowest class people, suffering from abuse now and even after he grows up, he still needs to continue working as a slave for those who are bullying him. It’s even possible that he’d die before he even had a chance to grow up due to his poor bodily conditions in his early childhood.
After he’s finished simulating imaginary scenarios, Gu Bai felt really uneasy.
There were too many of this type of people in the world. They were nothing but the most ordinary NPC (non-player control character) to Gu Bai, who had written this novel, and to the readers of this novel. Most of the time they won’t even have an opportunity to expose themselves because they’ll become cannon fodder due to all sort of causes from the protagonist and sub characters.
If he didn’t see them, then just let things be the way they should. Gu Bai isn’t a hypocritical type of person, and he’s not planning on being a savior. The truth was, it was already hard for him to save his own life, but now that he has met Xiao Gu Shan, and felt pity for him, he suddenly felt that he could no longer withstand watching Xiao Gu Shan becoming one of the many cannon fodders in the world.
It was at this moment that Gu Bai also felt his luck wasn’t too bad after all.
At least the body of Zi Che Shu Bai, which he’d transmigrated into, was Tian Du Cheng’s young master, he doesn’t need to worry about food and clothing, he even has the opportunity to learn martial arts. But if he had transmigrated into the body of a low-class human, like Xiao Gu Shan, then he probably wouldn’t even think about planning for the future. The only decent thing for him to do would be dying as quickly as possible and see if he can transmigrate back into his own world!
But right now, taking Xiao Gu Shan back to Tian Du Cheng was as unreliable and unrealistic as trying to find the protagonist and reform his behavior. However, this doesn’t stop him from teaching Xiao Gu Shan some simple kung fu! At least… he should make him learn how to fight. At the very least, allowing Xiao Gu Shan to be able to protect himself a little.
As he thought about this idea, Gu Bai looked at Xiao Gu Shan’s soft, cute little face. He couldn’t hold back any longer, he lowered his head and kissed him on his cheek, “I know some kung fu that would strengthen your body, do you want to learn it?”
Xiao Gu Shan covered his left cheek, startled. After he confirmed what he’d just heard wasn’t a joke, his eyes suddenly brightened up!
“I want to learn! I want to learn how to train with Xiao Gege!”
Instead of thinking about it with just your mind, it’s better off to start acting. Gu Bai knew that he wouldn’t be staying at this place for too long, so he immediately began teaching.
Of course, Zi Che Family’s heirloom martial art can’t be taught to outsiders, even Gu Bai himself only knew the most fundamental citta [1], so he gave up on teaching him the heirloom martial art without any hesitation. Having said that, as long as they were the basic arts for building one’s fundamental skills, there would be nothing to worry about. So, Gu Bai decided to teach those basic arts to Xiao Gu Shan.
He believed as long as Xiao Gu Shan was willing to commit, although he wouldn’t be able to conquer a realm by learning those arts, at least he could prevent himself from getting bullied among the House’s slaves and servants.
Gu Bai sat on a tall mountain rock with his chin resting on his hand, and sighed. Maybe it’s because he’s still way too young, Mr. [2] Xiao Gu Shan wasn’t very familiar with the basic arts. Although he’d been trying really hard, many days had already passed, he could still only barely outline the art’s movements, there wasn’t any outward appearance of power, even his postures weren’t accurate enough.
But… as Gu Bai looked down at Xiao Gu Shan who’d tightened his face and was firmly practicing fist movement, he squinted and began smiling. This little child’s current look was way too adorable!
After looking at him for a while, Gu Bai leaped down from the rock and embraced Xiao Gu Shan’s shoulder from behind.
Xiao Gu Shan shrank his shoulder, “Xiao Gege, I always perform this movement wrong…”
Gu Bai suddenly felt a trace of heroic spirit raising within his heart, he pinched the child’s cheek with a proud expression on his face and spoke with pride, “Here, Gege will correct it for you!” As soon as he finished talking, he began teaching Xiao Gu Shan step by step, it was like he’d spent all of his patience on typing characters for his novels in his previous life from all the teaching.
They continued for roughly about an hour, then Gu Bai patted Xiao Gu Shan’s head, “Hard work combined with resting, go rest in the cave without any nasty thoughts.”
Xiao Gu Shan lifted up his little face, his eyes were blinking, “Xiao Gege is gonna head out to look for the little grass again?
Gu Bai caressed his face, “Yeah, that thing’s really beneficial to Gege, so I must find it.”
Xiao Gu Shan pouted, looking as if he’d made a really big decision, “…I’ll help Xiao Gege by looking for the grass together!”
Gu Bai’s heart was filled with pure joy, he held up the child, Mua! [3]Gu Bai kissed Xiao Gu Shan’s face with great force, “Okay, you help Gege by finding the grass together…’
Xiao Gu Shan touched his face, he blushed and smiled with Gu Bai. After all these days, he’d already gotten used to being suddenly kissed by Xiao Gege…
And so, a big child and a little child began climbing up and down the mountain full of barren lands. Maybe it was due to bad luck, while Gu Bai taught Xiao Gu Shan hand to hand martial arts, and searching for the Blood Essence Lingzhi Mushroom with Xiao Gu Shan’s accompaniment, even after a few days, they still couldn’t find the mushroom. However, their relationship had become much smoother, and Xiao Gu Shan even became dependent on him, no matter what the problem he encountered was, it was always Xiao Gege this and Xiao Gege that. This feeling of cuteness had become the only relief for Gu Bai, who had been really stressed all this time. At the same time, Gu Bai began to put more and more effort into teaching Xiao Gu Shan.
As days went by, Gu Bai became more nervous and anxious, he’d explored almost the entire mountain, why hadn’t he found the mushroom yet? Was it because he wasn’t the protagonist, so even a “golden finger” as useless as this one couldn’t be in his possession?
As long as he couldn’t find the mushroom, his Hun Yuan Wu Ti’s defects couldn’t be fixed, the highest tier of Wu Zhe he could reach in his entire life would only be Wu Jun. Also, it was possible that one day, his body would become a punctured balloon, leaking all the air in an instant. If he could die straight away when the time came, then it’d be the best, but if he had to endure pain for seven days and seven nights before blood surged out of his body… what kind of bullshit is this?!
He kneeled before himself. I should’ve controlled my hand from the very beginning, instead of writing such a bloody and fatal setting! As he was imagining things, he was also searching around the area thoroughly. Even though Gu Bai’s eyes looked very lost, he was actually concentrating. He remembered it clearly, the Blood Essence Lingzhi Mushroom is red, so he only needed to focus on finding red objects in the oceans of green scattered across the mountain.
Xiao Gu Shan was running fast, like an energetic child in front of him, suddenly, he exclaimed, “Xiao Gege, come here quickly!”
Gu Bai heard Xiao Gu Shan cry-out and thought he’d encountered a problem, he quickly asked, “Xiao Shan, what’s the problem?” as Gu Bai asked, Xiao Gu Shan was already standing in front of him, he looked in the direction Gu Shan’s finger was pointing and in an instant, he was surprised.
Down there, in the middle of a steep mountain wall, was a hole in an area that was covered in tilted pinewoods. Faint rays of red light were coming out of the hole, it had to be what he was looking for.
After he took a good look at it, he suddenly felt tricked. The mushroom freaking grows inside of a hole, there was nothing else other than a few stripes of vine growing near the hole, this place was totally irrelevant and unnoticeable. How the hell did the protagonist randomly grab this thing to fill his hunger?! Was he walking and tripping over at the same time, and then eventually fell off the cliff? …Whatever. Regardless of how the protagonist found it, the mushroom belonged to him now.
Gu Bai crossed his hands, and prayed silently, “My dear son, please don’t blame your father. This thing is useless to you anyway, so just think of it as a present for your father, amen!”
After he repented in a non-Chinese, non-Western, non-Buddhism and non-Taoism way, he opened his eyes with a bright smile on his face. What he saw in front of him was the innocently pure face of Mr. Xiao Gu Shan. With overflowing happiness inside him, he grabbed the child’s head, then tightly hugged and kissed him, “You really are my lucky star, Xiao Shan’er! Thank you so much!”
Xiao Gu Shan blushed, “there’s… there’s no need to thank me…” although half of his face was covered in the saliva of this excited Xiao Gege, he still felt happy for being able to help, which also made him feel warmth raising from the inside of his heart.
Without further ado, Gu Bai began thinking after he expressed his gratitude towards the little child. As he saw just then, although the mountain’s wall was quite steep but first, it wasn’t very high, second, there are seven or eight strips of vines as thick as a human’s arm. So if they carefully tied the vines around them, then it shouldn’t be a big problem. He’s still a ten-year-old child, so he thought the vines would be able to bear his weight.
It was time to carry out the plan, Gu Bai briefly told Xiao Gu Shan about his plan, then he kneeled down to pull one of the vines and, straight away, he wrapped the vine around his waist. Then he grabbed another vine that was closest to him and tied it around his waist from the other end, both with a fast knot. And then, he finally grabbed the middle vine and began carefully climbing downwards.
There were plenty of pointy rocks on the side of the mountain wall, some were far away from him, so it was a bit bothersome to step on them. Being an otaku that never left the house, Gu Bai always only heard words about rock climbing skills, he’d never once tried rock climbing. So it was quite normal if he looked ugly when he climbed down the mountain wall. For example, when he accidentally missed stepping onto a stone, the vine would continuously swing him from one side of the mountain wall to the other side…
He didn’t think the act was a dangerous one, but the sight made Xiao Gu Shan panic. When Xiao Gu Shan couldn’t hold his fear to himself any longer, he yelled, “Xiao Gege, please be careful!”
Hehe! Gu Bai laughed, he even released one of his hand to wave at Xiao Gu Shan, “I’m fine!”
Xiao Gu Shan immediately shut his mouth, he was never going to speak again without thinking about his words. Sometimes this Xiao Gege really wasn’t reliable…
After a few twist and turns, he finally heard Gu Bai’s loud cry from the bottom, “ I finally found it!”