As Xiaosuisui spoke, she couldn’t help but fiercely ruffle her hair. She was hesitating whether to try and voice the ideas of His Majesty, her foster father.
"But what?" Uncle Niu asked eagerly.
Others, even more surprised, hurriedly chid in.
"Is it true, benefactor? Is our ho still there? Can we return to both banks of Yunhang and continue our previous lives?"
At these words, Xiaosuisui grimaced and said with difficulty, "Actually, what I wanted to say is that you probably can’t go back to living on the shores of Yunhang."
"Ah? Why?" everyone exclaid in unison.
Xiaosuisui helplessly ran her fingers through her hair again and then said, "It’s nothing much, really. It’s just that I feel the two shores of Yunhang are very unsafe. Tornadoes occur there every few years, which is very detrintal to your lives. So, I was wondering if you would consider the court’s suggestion to relocate?"
"Ah!"
"Relocate?"
"What does this an?"
Most of the people in the crowd were between their thirties and fifties. Upon hearing this, they began to whisper amongst themselves.
"Benefactor! What exactly is this relocation all about? How co we’ve never heard of it before?"
Xiaosuisui looked puzzled at their words. She was only a child of four or five, her face soft, pink, and chubby. Being one of their saviors, and seeing such a childish expression on her face, everyone instantly found her adorable. For a mont, no one pursued the topic of relocation anymore.
One middle-aged woman reached out and gently touched her little cheek, saying, "Our benefactor is just a five-year-old child; how much can she know about the matters of the court? In my opinion, we should stop asking. With so many of us returning, we should first go to the County Yan and find the County Magistrate. Let the County Magistrate decide for us. Wherever the Governnt Office tells us to build our hos and live, that’s where we’ll build and live."
This woman was older, in her fifties. For now, among those who had been awakened, she was the oldest and most senior—Granny Niu.
"Granny Niu is right," a woman in her thirties spoke up. "Our benefactor has great abilities; she managed to awaken all of us. I’ve heard my father say since I was little that capable people are not like us. They all live in deep mountains and old forests and don’t deal with the Governnt Office at all. Therefore, how could our little benefactor, who’s just a child, know about the affairs of the court? Let’s stop asking these things; it’ll only trouble our benefactor!"
Xiaosuisui observed that this woman didn’t seem ordinary. Seeing her refined speech and extraordinary deanor, a term ca to Xiaosuisui’s mind. The kind her third and second maternal aunts always hoped she would grow up to be—a well-bred young lady!
"Mistress Li is correct. She is a scholar’s daughter who later married a scholar. She’s knowledgeable, so what she says must be right."
Xiaosuisui was taken aback.
Yun Kuo, who was ditating on the side, couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his mouth. These common folk from the shores of Yunhang are really easy to fool! he thought. When we awakened the first person, he asked who Xiaosuisui and I were. At the ti, Xiaosuisui didn’t reveal her identity. I, on the other hand, said, "I’m from Yunzhou Island, three hundred miles away. I ca here today with my niece and found that you all seed to have been turned into Puppets by Witch Power. So, I took the liberty of dispersing your Power and restoring your consciousness!" Just like that, with only those words, they actually believed ! They didn’t ask any further questions, nor did they doubt our identities at all! On the contrary, when Xiaosuisui and I asked about their own affairs, they would answer everything in detail.
Yun Kuo was determined to be a good person, to perform good deeds and accumulate rit. Thus, being the kind-hearted man he was, he felt compelled to see this through.
"Actually! I suggest you listen to her," he said. "Perhaps after hearing her out, you’ll be able to solve the problems you’ve never managed to resolve."
Indeed, both he and Xiaosuisui felt that these inhabitants of Yunhang’s shores, likely because the Witch Power had turned them into Puppets, had suffered a decline in intelligence and were now quite gullible.
"Ah! Can it solve our problem? But the little benefactor is only four or five years old! How can she help us solve it? Is she an Immortal? Can she perform magic to make the Yunhang Sea vanish, allowing us to cultivate fertile land and build our hos there from now on?"
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