Mia and Lulu soon disappeared from sight, leaving Baiyi with a burst of joyful laughter. He hesitated at the door for a while, but in the end, he did not dare to push it open. After all, there was still a celebration going on outside.
Mia did not come back until it was almost dark. Even her ponytails were a little messy. One could imagine how crazy she had been playing. Even the exhaustion on her face could not hide the excitement in her heart. She even made an appointment with Lulu to continue playing at other places tomorrow …
"It's so nice here!" Mia said contentedly. "Everyone is so warm and kind, and they gave me so much to eat. The town is so warm and lively. It's like I'm back home."
"Come to think of it, you're not that young anymore. Why are you still acting like a child?" He handed her a hot towel and gestured for her to wipe her face, but Mia did not seem to have any intention of taking it. Instead, she placed her hands behind her back and raised her pretty little face at Baiyi. "Daddy, help me wipe it." She said in a sweet voice.
Baiyi shook his head helplessly and gently wiped her soft cheeks. With a wry smile, he said, "They don't know that you're a sorcerer, do they?"
"Hmm … No, they don't. I didn't reveal my magic, just as you told me," Mia said, her eyes narrowing in enjoyment.
Baiyi did not know why, but he felt a warm feeling in his heart. Maybe this Mia is even cuter?
'Come to think of it, if I travel back in time, Mia's age should be younger, right? 'Hmm … That's not right. I'm afraid I'm going to be minus six thousand years old!' Baiyi shook his head, dispelling the ridiculous thoughts in his mind.
Just like that, the nominal father and daughter, but in reality, master and apprentice, settled down in a small town at the edge of the Ancient Rohlserlian Empire. Baiyi was concerned that the celebration went on for three days, but the disaster that he had been watching out for never came. It was as if his constitution as a festival destroyer had been completely cured.
Could it be that traveling back in time could change one's constitution? So, Mia became cuter and more obedient, and Baiyi was no longer bothered by the festival? That was good news, right?
Even so, Baiyi was not in the mood to go out for a stroll. Being trapped in such a strange place, he had been having a headache trying to figure out how to get back. At that moment, he did not have a single thought in his head. Naturally, he did not have the mood to accompany Mia.
Mia, on the other hand, did not lose any of her enthusiasm. Instead, she went out with Lulu every day like a fish in water. Sometimes, she would return home dirty like a muddy monkey. Baiyi could not help but wonder if she had really gotten younger. 'Or … Has he been infected by Lulu?'
However, the more he stayed out of the house, the more curious the townspeople became about him. By then, the whole town knew that there was a wounded sorcerer's apprentice who had just moved into the town with a beautiful angelic daughter. Everyone had seen how cute Mia was but they had no idea about Baiyi at all. In a short period of time, the number of visitors to the Baiyi's house started to increase. However, he strictly adhered to the image that he had set for himself and coldly rejected all of them, maintaining his mysterious image of being cold and eccentric.
Except for Lulu, who barged in without waiting for anyone to open the door.
Just like that, the days passed, and soon, Baiyi and Mia had spent a week in the town. Everything was peaceful, as usual. Nothing happened. There was no disaster, and the army that the townspeople had been waiting for did not come. They must have changed their route, right?
Baiyi, on the other hand, had run out of money. Mia stood in front of him, her little hands spread out pitifully. There were only a few coppers left in them, and it was not even enough for tomorrow's meal.
The father and daughter were not in need of money, but they did not have the Ancient Rohlserlian gold coins with them. Naturally, they did not dare to use them. Their living expenses were all left behind by the previous owner of the house. The poor young man had been working as a stonemason for a living, so he did not have much money left. Soon, Mia had run out of money.
"What should we do now?" Mia asked, a little worried.
"Ever since you met me, have you ever worried about money?" Baiyi retorted nonchalantly. He took out a handful of modern gold coins from his storage pouch and wrapped them in a high-temperature flame, melting them into a liquid. Then, he molded them into the shape of the Ancient Rohlserlian gold coins. After a short while, a handful of slightly hot Ancient Rohlserlian gold coins were placed in Mia's hands.
"Wow! I hope... Oh no! Daddy is awesome! " Mia held the gold coins in her hands and beamed with joy. Suddenly, a thought came to her mind and she asked worriedly, "But... Does this count as secretly minting money? What if someone finds out about this? "
In any dynasty, secretly minting money was a felony punishable by death. Even the ancient Rohlserlian Empire was not an exception.
"Hah! Are you doubting my ability?" Pinching Mia's cheeks, Baiyi took out another gold coin from his storage pouch. That gold coin looked very old, full of marks left behind by the passage of time. However, the overall design was exactly the same as the gold coin that Mia was holding in her hand.
Baiyi had found this gold coin in a river when he was retrieving the Book of Servitude. After polishing it, he kept it as a collector's item. This was a genuine Ancient Rohlserlian gold coin; it was a genuine antique.
"Here, compare it for yourself," Baiyi said as he handed the coin to Mia.
"Whoa! It's really the same!" After comparing the two, Mia exclaimed in surprise, "Daddy, your control over your magic has already reached such a level? You don't even need a mold to make a coin like this! "
"What else could I do?" Baiyi snapped. He took back the real gold coin and put it away. "So, just go ahead and use it. No one will be able to tell. Most importantly, even if they do, it won't matter. We didn't mix sand into our coins; they were made from real gold. It's just that it's a little troublesome to use gold bars or nuggets. So, we made them into coins for your convenience."
"Heehee! Daddy is the best!" Mia smiled happily. She stood on her tiptoes and planted a kiss on Baiyi's face. Then, she left the house with the money. Baiyi could vaguely hear her shouting from outside, "Lulu, come out now! I'll treat you to something delicious …"
Baiyi shook his head helplessly. 'If my little girl wants to do this, then let her be.'
Mia, on the other hand, was holding Lulu's hand as they dashed through the streets of the town. They soon arrived at a pastry shop in the north, where Mia bought the high-class cake that Lulu had been longing for but never had the pocket money to buy. After that, the two girls sat on the crisp grass outside the town, back to back, and savored the most expensive delicacy in town.
"Thank you, Mia," Lulu said earnestly. "I can't believe you're treating me to something so expensive …"
"Heehee. It's okay. It's not that expensive, is it?" Mia said nonchalantly as she sucked on the cream on her fingers.
"Huh? This cake costs one silver coin a piece! So, Mia's father is a rich man? "Lulu asked curiously.
"That? Probably, "Mia said casually. She thought to herself, 'There's an even richer Emperor Grandpa.'
The two little fellows enjoyed the cake and drank a cup of freshly squeezed oranges. They lay on the soft grass, shoulder to shoulder, looking at the clear sky and the flawless clouds together.
Lulu looked at the clouds in the sky and then turned to look at Mia's delicate and beautiful side profile. Suddenly, she said without thinking, "Mia, I don't know why, but when I first saw you, I felt that you were very close. It's like you're my long-lost twin sister …"
"Huh?" Mia turned her head in surprise and happened to meet Lulu's eyes. She changed into her soft voice and said softly, "Actually, I have the same feeling …"
"It's so nice to meet you here," Lulu said from the bottom of her heart, holding Mia's hand gently.
"Yeah, me too," Mia replied with a nod. At that moment, she seemed to have forgotten all about Baiyi's fear of the butterfly effect. All she wanted to do was to respond to the girl in front of her with her most sincere emotions.
Baiyi, of course, did not know that. He was having a headache, and he did not know how to deal with the situation before him.
At this time, there was an elderly couple kneeling in front of him. Both of them were crying and begging him. It turned out that their youngest son had gone hunting yesterday morning and had yet to return. Their other sons had all joined the army and died on the battlefield. The whole family depended on their youngest son to hunt for a living. If their youngest son did not return, the couple would not be able to survive.
They had asked for help from other townspeople, and the townspeople had organized a team to search for the missing child, but there was no news. In despair, the two old men saw Mia, who was dragging Lulu to buy pastries, and they remembered that there was a new sorcerer's apprentice in town. Although he was just an apprentice, he was still someone who had peered into the secrets of magic, which was why he was called an apprentice. He was much more powerful than ordinary people like them.
It was not just the two old men. Many townspeople had gathered in front of Baiyi's house, looking at him with pleading eyes. For a moment, no one cared about how suspicious the armored man was.
Baiyi was put in a difficult position. His rational mind told him that it was best to stay out of this. He had to reject them coldly, lest he attract endless trouble in the future. Today, he was helping someone find their lost son. Tomorrow, he would have to help someone find their eloped daughter. The day after that, all sorts of nobodies would show up.
However, when he saw the old couple kneeling in front of him, he could not bring himself to say those cold words. In the end, he said stiffly, "Tell me the general direction, and what he looks like."
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