Tang Sanzang was truly bewildered…
"Daddy, will Mommy really co back?" Just at that mont, Tang Caiyi, nestled in Tang Sanzang’s arms, murmured.
Tang Sanzang looked down and saw that Caiyi was not awake, but speaking in her sleep, with tears at the corner of her eyes: "They all say that Mommy has gone, left us, and will never return. But you said, when the Southwind Desert turns back into an oasis, Mommy will sll the fragrance of the flowers and co back, and all the uncles and aunties from the village will return too… But all the saplings we planted have withered, the uncles and the aunties have given up, they’ve left.
Recently, so bad n ca to beat people up and destroyed our saplings…"
Caiyi is so scared…
Daddy, you won’t leave Caiyi, will you?"
After speaking, Caiyi tightened her hold on Tang Sanzang’s arm and whispered, "I’m afraid you won’t co back either."
Looking at this fragile little girl, Tang Sanzang’s brow furrowed tightly, and he eventually curled his lip and said, "Do you think this poor monk, with a heart of iron and stone, the three-thousand demon god, would have sympathy for you? Look down on who?"
Then Tang Sanzang looked towards the bamboo house and said, "I’m just, nostalgic. Yes, nostalgic.
There’s a bamboo house here, and maybe there’s sothing else."
So, Tang Sanzang decided to settle down.
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Just then, a voice ca from the sand: "Luo Zi, how’s it going over there? Respond, will you!"
Tang Sanzang walked over, lifted his leg and with a kick, sand scattered to reveal a walkie-talkie.
Tang Sanzang squatted down, staring intently at the walkie-talkie.
Although he had visited the Kingdom of Sufeng years ago, he had rely been passing through at the ti and had not stayed in this small tribe, so he was utterly confused about so-called technological products.
However, fortunately, Tang Sanzang wasn’t foolish, and he understood right away what this thing was used for.
Still, Tang Sanzang remained silent.
The walkie-talkie transmitted another voice: "Luo Zi, if you’ve finished over there, co on over. We’re waiting for you at the oasis to your northwest. There’s good food here, haha…"
After that, the walkie-talkie fell silent, clearly the other party had never imagined that Luo Zi and the others would encounter any misfortune.
Upon hearing this, Tang Sanzang laughed, picked up the walkie-talkie and tucked it into his chest.
Just at that mont, Caiyi also awoke.
Looking at the bald head in front of her, Caiyi said with a happy smile, "Daddy… I’m hungry."
Tang Sanzang really wanted to explain, I’m truly not your father.
But thinking about it, she was still calling him Daddy. He recalled when he was on Mount Putuo, those kids would call him all sorts of things, and there was no shortage of those who maliciously bad-mouthed him to his face.
With this comparison, Tang Sanzang suddenly felt that Caiyi wasn’t so bad.
Moreover, being new in town, Tang Sanzang indeed needed soone familiar with the place to ask about the situation.
Therefore, Tang Sanzang accepted this role.
Anyway, this wasn’t his first ti impersonating soone else; he knew the drill!
Tang Sanzang cleared his throat and said, "Caiyi ah... I’ve lost my mory. I can’t rember a lot of things, but when you just called , I suddenly rembered, indeed, you are my daughter. But for everything else, I can’t seem to recall. How about you introduce your old man to them?"
Frowning, Tang Caiyi looked at Tang Sanzang and said, "Dad, why has your speech beco so crude? And your hair, where is it? Why are you wearing Monk’s clothes? Weren’t you hospitalized for your hand before?"
Tang Caiyi also had a barrage of questions.
Tang Sanzang knew that without answering this girl’s questions, she wouldn’t answer his own.
So, Tang Sanzang casually made up a story, "Er, I was indeed hospitalized, but I dreamt of an old monk who claid to be the Buddha. That curly hair... cough cough, that fatso... um, that monk cured my illness and insisted that I had a fate with Buddhism, so he shaved my head and took in. The upside is, along with curing my illness, he also taught a few boxing techniques for self-defense."
Tang Caiyi obviously trusted her father a great deal. Despite Tang Sanzang’s tall tale, she didn’t doubt him but instead excitedly said, "Dad, your injuries are all healed? That’s great!"
The lass had no mory of her own, completely forgetting that this father had fallen from the sky and along with that, had punched to death several ruffians.
Of course, she couldn’t be blad; she had been too heartbroken before to notice what was happening around her.
After Tang Sanzang answered Tang Caiyi’s questions, she began to answer his.
The Kingdom of Sufeng was a large country on the eastern side of the Northwind Continent. The country had vast land but average power, a large population, and simple customs.
The Southern Wind Desert was not the largest desert in the Kingdom of Sufeng; it simply bordered the desert. Although this place was also plagued by sandstorms all year round, the people were extrely resilient.
Day in and day out, they planted trees and built forests, successfully controlling the spread of the sandstorms. But just as Luo Zi said, oil was discovered beneath the South Wind, and a big tycoon set his sights on this place, willing to spend money to buy the land of South Wind Village. The villagers of South Feng, however, were too attached to their holand and, under the leadership of Tang Caiyi’s father, Tang Sanzang, they flatly refused the big tycoon.
The result was that when the tycoon couldn’t achieve his goal by legitimate ans, he resorted to underhanded tactics.
The tycoon bought up a piece of treated sand land to the west of South Wind and chopped down all the wind-breaking forests and grasslands, letting the sand blow towards South Feng Village.
At the sa ti, the tycoon built a heavily polluting chemical plant, recklessly discharging waste, which resulted in the contamination of the underground water in South Feng Village. Over the past two years, many villagers had contracted various strange illnesses. So died, so were injured, and in the end, they had no choice but to compromise.
However, the tycoon was no longer willing to offer more money, only willing to provide a little in resettlent fees.
The villagers were displeased, so he hired a bunch of thugs from the streets who would co into the village to cause trouble, getting into fights and brawls.
Tang Caiyi’s father, Tang Sanzang, ended up hospitalized because of this...
After retelling what Luo Zi and the others had said, Tang Sanzang surmised that Tang Caiyi’s biological father was most likely truly dead.
But he just couldn’t understand how each ti he traveled through the river of ti, he could just happen to replace soone? The other person was either a homophone or had the sa na as him, and the key point was, they even looked alike!
Tang Sanzang paused there and looked at Tang Caiyi, feeling that this coincidence was a bit off.
Just then, Tang Caiyi slapped her little head and said, "Right, dad, the thing you asked to keep safe for you, I’ll give it back to you now."
After speaking, Tang Caiyi hopped out of Tang Sanzang’s arms and ran to the bamboo house. She asured the distance and then began to dig, uncovering an iron box.
Opening the iron box, inside were stacks of books!
Tang Sanzang leaned over to look and saw it was clearly written on them: "Tang Family Records!"
Tang Sanzang picked one up at random, flipped it open, and was imdiately dumbfounded!
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