We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real?

Early the next morning.

When Xiao Mo walked out of his room, he saw Jiang Xin carrying out a basin of water.

“Xiao Mo, time to wash up and eat,” Jiang Xin said when she saw him.

She still looked dirty as she had the night before.

Originally, Xiao Mo had asked her to take a bath and put on his relatively clean clothes, but she had refused.

Seeing her nervous appearance, Xiao Mo didn’t insist.

After a simple wash, Jiang Xin brought out breakfast from the kitchen.

The two sat in the courtyard eating breakfast together.

The breakfast was just simple porridge with quite a bit of mixed grains and beans added, along with some pickled vegetables. But for two wandering children, having something to eat was already quite good.

After finishing breakfast, Jiang Xin cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks, looking very skilled at it.

Watching Jiang Xin bustling about, Xiao Mo couldn’t help but think of that girl in the white dress.

He wondered what Ruxue’s ending was in that story.

Although it was just a fictional tale, Xiao Mo felt he truly couldn’t let it go…

When Xiao Mo came back to his senses, he found Jiang Xin sitting across from him, her clear eyes looking at him curiously.

“Why do you keep staring at me?” Xiao Mo asked with a smile.

“What are you thinking about?” Jiang Xin blinked her eyes.

“Thinking about a girl.”

Xiao Mo collected his thoughts without explaining further.

“By the way, you said you used to live with Sister Zi. What about your parents?”

Xiao Mo asked Jiang Xin, wanting to know what her previous life had been like.

Hearing Xiao Mo’s question, Jiang Xin lowered her head, her small hands unconsciously gripping her skirt, “My mother abandoned me. She didn’t want me anymore.”

“Hm?” Xiao Mo was stunned.

Jiang Xin rubbed her small hands together and slowly began to speak, “When I was five years old, my mother fled with me as refugees. At first, mother took good care of me, but as time went on, I could feel mother becoming increasingly impatient with me.

Finally, one day when I woke up, there was some dried food beside my head, but I could never find mother again.”

“How did you meet your Sister Zi afterward?” Xiao Mo continued asking.

“I walked in the mountains for several days, and all the dried food was gone. Just when I was starving, I met Sister Zi.”

Jiang Xin answered earnestly.

“After Sister Zi heard about my experience, she took me in. Besides me, Sister Zi also adopted four other children.

Sister Zi taught us to read and write, taught us how to grow vegetables and farm, and also taught us how to hunt.

Moreover, Sister Zi knew swordplay. Her swordsmanship was very impressive.

It’s just that I was too stupid and could never learn it.”

“You always lived in the mountains?” Xiao Mo wondered if this Sister Zi might be a sword cultivator or a female warrior.

“Mm-hm.” Jiang Xin nodded, “Sister Zi said these times were too chaotic. Only when we grew up and had some ability to protect ourselves could we come down from the mountain. Usually, only the older children would go down the mountain with Sister Zi to sell animal pelts and medicinal herbs, trading them for other things.”

“So did something happen to your Sister Zi?”

Xiao Mo stroked his chin.

From Jiang Xin’s description, her Sister Zi seemed like a good person, unlikely to abandon her voluntarily.

“I don’t know either.”

Jiang Xin shook her head.

“One day I went into the mountains to gather herbs. When I came back, everyone was gone.

I waited for two days, then kept searching and searching in the forest.

I searched farther and farther until finally my dried food ran out. After being hungry for two days, I found this place.”

After speaking, Jiang Xin raised her eyes to look at Xiao Mo, “Thank you for giving me food.”

“That’s nothing. After all, we’re both without anyone to depend on. It’s only right to take care of each other.” Xiao Mo said in a half-joking tone, “It’s just that, Ah Xin, if you keep searching like this, what if your Sister Zi actually doesn’t want you anymore?”

“That would be even better,” Jiang Xin’s eyes flashed with joy.

“Hm?” Xiao Mo looked at Jiang Xin with confusion.

Jiang Xin lowered her small head and slowly spoke, “Although I would indeed be sad if Sister Zi didn’t want me but if that were the case, at least it would mean Sister Zi and everyone else were safe.

As long as they can be well, abandoning me doesn’t matter.”

As she spoke, Jiang Xin lowered her head, her long eyelashes trembling gently, “Besides, I really am very stupid and can’t do anything well. It would be natural for Sister Zi to abandon me. I’ve already caused Sister Zi a lot of trouble…”

“…” Hearing Jiang Xin’s words, Xiao Mo didn’t know what to say for a moment.

She had said last night that he was kind.

Actually, the truly kind person was her.

“Alright, tomorrow we’ll go to town and see if we can find out news about your Sister Zi. Today, come with me to catch fish first.”

Xiao Mo stood up.

“Although I have some money, I can’t use that money recently. For food these next few days, we’ll have to rely on ourselves.”

“Oh, okay, I’ll go with you.”

Jiang Xin quickly nodded and followed Xiao Mo’s steps.

The two came to a small stream in the mountains, rolled up their pants, and began catching fish but catching fish wasn’t easy work. Moreover, usually Third Brother did the fish-catching, while Xiao Mo, being the youngest, was generally responsible for cooking and helping his big brothers.

Jiang Xin similarly had no experience with fishing, as she was also the youngest in her small group, usually responsible for tasks similar to Xiao Mo’s.

So for a full hour, neither Xiao Mo nor Jiang Xin caught a single fish.

In the blazing summer sun, trying to catch fish for an hour and coming up empty-handed left Xiao Mo feeling somewhat irritated.

Just when Xiao Mo was beginning to despair.

Suddenly, a large catfish swam toward Xiao Mo. With quick reflexes, he grabbed the big catfish!

“Ah Xin! The fish basket!” Xiao Mo shouted joyfully to Jiang Xin.

“Coming… coming…”

Jiang Xin quickly picked up the fish basket, stepping through the stream water with her fair little feet as she ran over.

Although Jiang Xin’s face was smeared with thick charcoal ash and her whole body was covered in mud, after her little feet were washed by the stream water, they revealed their truly fair complexion.

Jiang Xin quickly opened the fish basket.

Xiao Mo put the large catfish inside, and saliva uncontrollably flowed from his mouth.

These past few days, Xiao Mo had been eating the grain his big brothers left behind, and hadn’t had meat for a long time.

In Xiao Mo’s mind, he was already imagining the tender smoothness of fish meat.

“Let’s go back,” Xiao Mo said with satisfaction, “Tonight we’ll have fish porridge.”

“Mm-hm.” Jiang Xin also nodded happily but just as Jiang Xin was about to step onto the shore, she lost her footing and fell into the stream with a splash.

The fish basket was knocked open.

The large catfish, grateful for nature’s salvation, quickly escaped to freedom. Xiao Mo tried to remedy the situation but was too late.

The catfish disappeared in an instant, and Xiao Mo could only watch it swim away…

“Sorry… sorry… Xiao Mo, I… I didn’t do it on purpose…”

Knowing she had done something wrong, Jiang Xin’s small face turned pale with guilt and self-reproach.

Knowing the fish porridge was gone, Xiao Mo swallowed hard and looked at Jiang Xin.

It would be impossible to say there was no blame or anger in Xiao Mo’s eyes.

He really did want to eat meat, especially fresh fish but what was done was done. What could be done about it?

The fish was already gone. What use was blaming her?

“Forget it, if the fish is gone, it’s gone.” Xiao Mo waved his hand and turned to walk back, “The sun is getting stronger too. Let’s go back first.”

“Okay… okay…”

Jiang Xin quickly came ashore and followed beside Xiao Mo.

Jiang Xin looked up at Xiao Mo’s profile several times, her expression increasingly guilty.

She didn’t know if Xiao Mo truly didn’t blame her.

If it were other people, Jiang Xin could easily read their thoughts but Xiao Mo was different.

Xiao Mo’s inner thoughts were like being covered by a thick fog to Jiang Xin.

She couldn’t see through them at all.

After Jiang Xin and Xiao Mo gathered some wild vegetables, they returned to the courtyard.

Xiao Mo sat on a stone stool, thinking about how he could buy some meat.

Otherwise, during his growth period, not eating meat all the time wouldn’t work.

It’s just that for a small beggar like himself to buy things with gold, even broken gold pieces, would be too outrageous and could easily lead to being tracked down.

While Xiao Mo was thinking of solutions, Jiang Xin suddenly stood in front of him.

“What’s wrong?” Looking at the girl before him, Xiao Mo asked with confusion.

“Xiao Mo, do you… do you want to hit me a few times…” Jiang Xin held her small hands to her chest, looking at Xiao Mo timidly.

“What?” Xiao Mo was stunned, “Why would I hit you?”

“Because I lost that big fish,” Jiang Xin lowered her head.

“I said it’s fine. You didn’t do it on purpose. I won’t hit you.” Xiao Mo said with a smile, not expecting her to still be thinking about this matter.

“If you won’t hit me, scolding me would be fine too.” Jiang Xin seemed somewhat stubborn, “That way I’d feel better, and whenever I did something wrong, after mother hit and scolded me, she would feel much less angry.”

“It’s not necessary.” Xiao Mo waved his hand, “I won’t hit you or scold you. Don’t overthink it. Go cook quickly, I’m starving.”

“Oh…”

Hearing Xiao Mo say this, Jiang Xin walked toward the kitchen with her head down, but the little girl kept looking back at Xiao Mo every few steps.

Jiang Xin felt that Xiao Mo was really angry, just not saying it out loud.

In the afternoon, Xiao Mo continued sitting in the courtyard in a daze, thinking about how to deal with the dirty gold in his hands.

Meanwhile, Jiang Xin kept glancing at Xiao Mo.

The more she looked, the more Jiang Xin felt that Xiao Mo was still sulking.

Sister Zi used to act like this when she was sulking too.

Otherwise, why would Xiao Mo not say a word?

Soon, night fell. After a simple dinner, Xiao Mo bathed in the courtyard and returned to his room to sleep but in the middle of the night, Xiao Mo got up for a bathroom break and walked out of the courtyard, only to discover that Jiang Xin’s door was half-open.

Xiao Mo walked curiously to her door and glanced inside, only to find that Jiang Xin was gone.

“This girl couldn’t have run away from home out of guilt over one fish, could she?”

Xiao Mo’s heart jumped with fright.

He had waited so hard for her arrival.

If she left, he didn’t know when he could find her again.

Xiao Mo quickly ran out of the courtyard, hoping she hadn’t gone far.

“Ah Xin! Where are you?”

“Ah Xin, come back, I really don’t blame you!”

“Ah Xin… that fish has already swum back by itself. If you don’t believe me, come out quickly and I’ll take you to see…”

“Ah Xin…”

In the forest, Xiao Mo kept calling out but there was no response at all.

Just when Xiao Mo pushed through the bushes and came to that small stream again.

What met Xiao Mo’s eyes was a little girl with her sleeves and pants rolled up, her little feet standing in the stream.

Clean moonlight fell on her body, outlining her with a faint halo.

The stream water had soaked her clothes, and the original mud on her body was washed away by the stream water. The black charcoal ash on her face had also been mostly washed clean.

Under the moonlight, a fair-skinned, delicately carved girl appeared in Xiao Mo’s sight.

Xiao Mo thought it must be her Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart nourishing her, making her look like a young lady from a wealthy family.

Otherwise, how could someone who was exposed to wind and sun daily, often going without proper meals, still be so fair and delicate?

At this moment, the stream’s water level was a bit higher than during the day, reaching up to the little girl’s thighs.

Although it was summer, the bone-chilling cold of the stream water at night was freezing but the little girl didn’t seem to care at all.

Her eyes were fixed intently on the stream water, those beautiful eyes reflecting the moonlight, full of determination.

Under the moonlight, the little girl repeatedly pounced toward the stream, splashing wave after wave of water.

Just from what Xiao Mo could see, the little girl had already missed four times, her clothes completely soaked and clinging to her small frame.

Just as Xiao Mo stepped forward to see what Jiang Xin was doing.

The little girl suddenly pounced into the stream water again.

This time, when the little girl stood up, she was holding a fat catfish in her arms!

The large catfish kept thrashing its tail, but the little girl held on desperately with all her might!

Finally, the little girl carefully placed the catfish in the fish basket beside her, then quickly covered it!

Only then did the little girl wipe the stream water from her forehead and breathe a sigh of relief.

“Ah Xin.”

Xiao Mo called out.

Hearing Xiao Mo’s voice, Jiang Xin raised her head.

When the little girl saw Xiao Mo, her eyes suddenly brightened.

She first carefully placed the fish basket containing the catfish on the shore, then climbed up herself. Holding the fish basket, she quickly ran to Xiao Mo.

“Xiao Mo, why aren’t you sleeping? What are you doing by the stream?” Jiang Xin asked with confusion, tilting her head.

“You’re asking why I’m not sleeping? What about you? What are you doing in the mountains in the middle of the night?” Xiao Mo asked back.

“Catching fish,” Jiang Xin said matter-of-factly.

Then, Jiang Xin held up the fish basket containing the catfish high, “Look, Xiao Mo, I caught that fish back for you…”

“So…”

The girl’s eyes sparkled like the starry river.

“Please don’t be angry anymore, okay?”