"Father..."
Even as Wei Tu's thoughts raced, the scene before him began to shift at high speed.
From a sea of Flower of the Other Shore resembling fiery clouds, he arrived in a rather plain courtyard paved with blue bricks.
Within the courtyard stood weapon racks bearing all eighteen varieties of weapons, along with stone locks of varying sizes for training strength.
Farther away, a young woman in plain blue clothes, her sleeves rolled up, was lowering the bucket in her hand into the well before her.
With a splashing sound, the water it struck up spattered against the old stone well curb and splashed onto the young woman drawing water as well.
Yet just as Wei Tu's heart stirred and he prepared to focus his gaze for a closer look, his body suddenly dipped slightly. A half-grown little girl with twin buns had wrapped herself around his belt, grinning mischievously as her tiny hand reached toward the pouch at his waist.
As though she wanted to secretly take the silver inside.
"Father, Father, you promised Yanyan that you'd buy green melon candy when we went to the market today." Seeing Wei Tu's gaze sweep over, the twin-bunned girl pursed her lips, immediately putting on a pitiful expression.
"Green melon candy, green melon candy..."
At that moment, a bald little child riding a wooden horse on the ground, wiping his snot, also stupidly repeated the twin-bunned girl's words.
"Father, look, even Xiu Wen said he wants green melon candy. Just give Yanyan the money..." The twin-bunned girl wore a miserable expression as she frantically shook Wei Tu's hand.
"Yan'er! Still eating candy? Keep eating it, and all your teeth will get stuck and fall out. Your father has proper business to attend to. Your grandmaster said that morning training cannot