The enormous and terrifying sky-reaching python stared at Tang Xin with its strange golden pupils for a while, then looked at the frightened siblings. After a long time, it slowly retreated.
After it completely disappeared behind the railing, the girl named Tang Xin heaved a great sigh of relief. Then she turned around angrily and glared at Lin Xiaolu and Xiao Yu'er. Her beautiful eyes swept over the embroidery on their clothes and she said coldly:
"How could you two little ones be so reckless? What if Senior Zijinghua had hurt you?"
Xiao Yu'er was frightened by the girl's anger and hid in Lin Xiaolu's arms, with tears welling up in her eyes. Lin Xiaolu, however, argued defiantly: "We got lost and came in here by accident."
Tang Xin glared at him and then, seeing that the five or six-year-old little girl in front of her was scared to tears, her heart softened. She asked in a slightly gentler tone: "Are you the new disciples of the Star-Plucking Branch?"
"Yes." Lin Xiaolu asked curiously: "Who are you? What place is this?"
"This is the Spirit Beast Valley of the Spirit-Communication Peak. It's a place specially for raising spirit beasts. I'm Tang Xin, the chief disciple of the Spirit-Communication Branch."
After saying that, seeing that there were still some tears in the eyes of the five-year-old little sister, Tang Xin stretched out her jade-like hand with several strings of purple beads.
In the next second, a miraculous scene appeared. A few beads of light dispersed from her slightly raised fingers and gathered into a little butterfly dancing above her fingers.
"Wow ~" Xiao Yu'er was immediately attracted by the purple butterfly in front of her. She wiped her tears and looked at the butterfly flying in front of her in surprise.
The cute butterfly stopped on Xiao Yu'er's nose, as if playing a game with her. And Xiao Yu'er's two big eyes became cross-eyed, looking at the little butterfly on the tip of her nose.
Seeing that the little sister had stopped crying, Tang Xin asked: "What are your names?"
"I'm Lin Xiaolu."
"I'm... Lin Xiaoyu..."
Tang Xin nodded upon hearing this and then asked curiously: "At your age, why aren't you studying in the Literacy Hall? Won't the teacher scold you?"
"The teacher didn't scold me. I scolded him and then was driven out." Lin Xiaolu said bluntly, with a little pride in his tone.
Tang Xin was stunned when she heard this and stared at Lin Xiaolu in disbelief:
"You actually scolded Mr. Yang?"
"Yes." The boy raised his head and continued arrogantly: "A classmate called me names. I beat him up. Then Mr. Yang blamed me. I was not convinced and called him an old geezer. It's reasonable, right?"
Tang Xin:...
Reasonable my foot!
Don't you understand respecting teachers?
She stuck out her little tongue in surprise and thought in her heart, looking at Lin Xiaolu in front of her. This is too arrogant.
Truly worthy of being the new disciples of the Star-Plucking Branch that hadn't been recruited for twenty years.
She said helplessly to Lin Xiaolu: "Little one, what you did is wrong. Later, your senior sister Li Miaoxin of the Star-Plucking Branch will surely scold you severely."
After saying that, she stretched out her hand to Lin Xiaolu: "Senior sister, I'll send you back to the Literacy Hall. You go and apologize to Mr. Yang sincerely. Mr. Yang will forgive you."
"No." Lin Xiaolu turned his head angrily and said: "I didn't do anything wrong. Why should I apologize?
That big idiot named Chen Nianyun called my sister and me little brats. I should have beaten him to death.
That Mr. Yang is still a scholar. He didn't distinguish right from wrong and said I was cruel. Obviously, Chen Nianyun's words were more cruel. How could I respect such a person? I won't respect him even if I die!"
Tang Xin looked at the cynical boy in front of her and didn't know what to do. She just felt that this little one was really... too arrogant.
She smiled helplessly and persuaded: "Little one, stop being angry. Now if you take your sister back to the Star-Plucking Peak, Miaoxin will surely scold you and then take you to apologize to Mr. Yang in person."
After saying that, she smiled at the siblings: "So, do you want senior sister to send you back to the Literacy Hall, or after you go back to the Star-Plucking Peak, your senior sister scolds you and then sends you back?"
Lin Xiaolu and Xiao Yu'er were a bit at a loss when they heard this. They really hadn't thought about this. They only reacted now when Tang Xin said this.
Lin Xiaolu held his small chin and thought for a while. Then he looked at Tang Xin and said: "Then we won't go back."
"Ah?" Tang Xin was startled.
Lin Xiaolu chattered: "My sister and I will play here. We'll go back at Shen Shi."
Xiao Yu'er beside him also nodded excitedly and said in a childish voice: "Tomorrow morning we'll go to play on other peaks for a day and then go back at Shen Shi without telling our senior sister."
Lin Xiaolu put his hands on his hips and laughed loudly: "We'll go out to play every day. Our senior sister will think we're going to school. It's really exciting to think about it. Hahaha ~"
Xiao Yu'er also learned from him, put her hands on her hips, raised her head and laughed "Hahaha ~"
Looking at the two little ones laughing wildly in front of her, Tang Xin didn't know what to say for a moment.
She felt that since she saw this Lin Xiaolu, her values had been broken time and time again.
These new disciples of the Star-Plucking Branch are really rare in Emei in a hundred years.
After feeling helpless in her heart, she said to the two angrily: "You two little ones are really lawless. Although I'm not from your Star-Plucking Branch, I can be regarded as your senior sister in Emei. Today I'll discipline you well on behalf of your senior sister Miaoxin."
After saying that, she raised her fingers as slender as jade shoots and was about to teach them a lesson. Lin Xiaolu saw this and quickly pulled Xiao Yu'er and ran away, shouting while running: "The Rakshasa witch is going to eat children!"
Tang Xin was startled. I'm a Rakshasa witch?
The 17-year-old girl was so angry that her nose was crooked. She thought that today she must teach this naughty child a lesson. She wanted to spank his bottom hard.
Lin Xiaolu pulled Xiao Yu'er and ran all the way into the dense forest. Soon the two came to a small garden full of strange rocks and forests.
Tang Xin, who was following them unhurriedly, walked to the side of the small garden and looked at the six big characters carved on the rockery in the garden. A beautiful sneer appeared at the corner of her mouth.
The six characters were "Four-Handed Spirit Monkey Garden" in bold.
At this moment, in the garden, among the strange rocks, rockeries and various tall banana trees, Lin Xiaolu and Xiao Yu'er, two little ones in Taoist robes, were running fast. Although their legs were short, they were quick-tongued. Soon they came to the depths of the garden.
"Xiao Yu'er, there's a small cave here. Let's quickly hide in it." Lin Xiaolu pointed at a small cave in the rockery and said.
"Okay, brother."
Xiao Yu'er immediately climbed into the slightly crowded cave after receiving the order. Then Lin Xiaolu also crawled in with his small butt pouted.
The cave was not big, just enough for the bodies of the two children to squeeze in.
After the siblings squeezed in, they both lay on the grass, staring outside with wide eyes.
Lin Xiaolu stared outside the cave and whispered: "Xiao Yu'er, don't be afraid. The Rakshasa witch can't get in. Let's just play hide-and-seek with her."
"Uh-huh, okay, brother."
After the two talked to each other, they began to hold their breath and waited nervously.