"Grandpa Hong, I need to speak to you something." Chao Li's voice turned solemn as he was.
"What is it, Little Li?" Yang Hong was now slightly better, so his voice was then slightly free from the past worries.
"Grandpa Hong, I need to leave the Ping Village to save Sister Ning." Chao Li firmly said.
Only when Chao Li mentioned Chao Ning did Yang Hong remember that Chao Ning was then locked somewhere.
"Sigh! I forget about the little swan. I really don't know how she is now. That immortal is really cruel to punish Little Ning, But Little Li, How will you find her?" Yang Hong asked doubtfully.
"That, I also don't know. Maybe, If I know about immortals and their stuff, I can find her." Chao Li replied with determination.
"Then, will it take so much time?" Yang Hong asked as he despaired.
Chao Li didn't know how to reply, but Yang Hong sadly said,
"Maybe, when the next time you came here, this grandpa Hong would have been a pile of bones then."
"Grandpa Hong," Chao Li abruptly yelled and added, "Grandpa Hong, I can also turn you young."
"Don't waste your energy, Little Li. Longevity may be a blessing for the immortals, but for a mortal like me, it's a curse, and I have to follow nature." Yang Hong said reminiscently.
"Grandpa Hong," Chao Li almost cried.
"Don't be like that, Little Li. I will allow you to go on one condition that you must return with Little Ning to pay homage to this Grandpa, and until your return, my soul won't leave this world." Yang Hong strictly said.
"I will, Grandpa Hong. I will definitely return one day with Sister Ning." Chao Li sniffed as he cried unknowingly.
"Grandpa Hong, I need to go." Chao Li slowly said because he had to do some other things before the sunrise.
"You are going like that! You have forgotten to ask one thing." Yang Hong teased.
"What is it?" Chao Li was perplexed.
"Wait a minute." Yang Hong said and went into his room, and after a minute, He came while his hands behind his back.
"What is it, Grandpa Hong?" Chao Li was doubtful.
"This is grandpa's last gift," As he spoke, he extended his hand forward with a glass jar.
When Chao Li saw that jar, he couldn't control his tears as those were his favorite things, the candies, for which he daily used to visit Hong, and Hong's wife used to scold Hong and Chao Li.
"These are the last candies I might be giving, and there are two hundred of them, hundred for you and hundred for little Ning." Yang Hong had gifted as he smiled satisfactorily.
"Thank You, Grandpa Hong. I will cherish them forever as I lived." Chao Li received those candy with misty eyes, but then he got a problem,
How to store them, but suddenly he realized the space inside the book, so he closed his eyes to feel that space, and when he felt that space, he wanted to move that jar into it, and suddenly it went in as he wished.
'It really works.' He delighted inside.
Yang Hong thought it was some immortal trick.
After that, Chao Li stiffly said, "Grandpa Hong, I am going."
"Ok, Go on, but remember to come back after saving the little Ning, and be careful outside." Yang Hong seriously said while hiding tears beneath his old eyes.
"I will." These were the last words of Chao Li to Yang Hong, and after that, didn't he turn his head back, fearing that he couldn't control himself.
Yang Hong, with hazy eyes, looked at Chao Li's disappearing silhouette.
After leaving Yang Hong, Chao Li went back to their house with staggering steps, and when he went there, he carefully felt their house, as there wasn't much light at that time.
After that, he moved everything into the space of the samsara book then dejectedly lay on his bed for some time before leaving from there forever.
Before leaving, he wore black robes and covered his face with some wooden mask.
Along the way, he remembered every person on the road, his uncle Shan who used to tease him every day, and uncle Chen, who chased him for stealing his chicken.
He remembered everyone, his friends, who he used to play, and his little foes, with who he used to have some clashes.
'So many of them suffered because of me. Although I didn't do anything intentionally, I still owe myself to repay.' Chao Li thought inside,
'For them, I need to do something, as I indirectly a cause of for their misfortune.' Chao Li firmly thought inside.
Immediately after, he went in a certain direction, and when he had walked for some time, he saw some shadowy person was stealthily moving in front of him, so he sneakily followed that person.
After moving for some time, he was shocked because that person's destination and his both were the same.
"Who is it? What is this person doing at Feng Dai's house?" Chao Li doubtfully muttered and followed that person.
That person calmly entered Feng Dai's house, and his house hadn't been locked at all in the first place as if it was opened for that person.
Chao Li also crept in after that person, then that person slowly entered a particular room.
When that person went in didn't lock the door properly, so Chao Li slightly opened that door, and from the gap, tried to see what was happening inside.
That person slowly unveiled the black cloth revealing a charming lady's face.
"She is aunt, Shi Lan," For a second, Tian Jian stood rooted to the ground.
Tian Jian remembered a married lady named Shi Lan, who used to tease him, and he never imagined himself seeing her in that house.
While he was in shock, a lewd voice was heard, "Shi Lan, You never know how long I have waited for this day."
By hearing that voice, Chao Li jerked out from the shock before hatefully muttering, "Feng Han,"