Next, they made a fire and placed the big fat fish on it. There were no seasonings, yet it still roasted with a rich aroma.
The two little ones ate until their bellies were round, lying on the grass and looking up at the sky because the sky was so peaceful.
Meanwhile, Ling Yun and his daughter also watched quietly from the side, taking in this peace and listening to the joyous laughter, yet Little one felt a touch of sentimentality.
The two of them carved words into a certain birch tree saying "so-and-so protects so-and-so for a lifetime."
Then the two carved the same words into two other trees, only stopping after they had carved five or six trees in total.
The scene shifted. In a rural field, the little girl had grown quite a bit a, though her situation was not exactly ideal. She had just been shoved to the ground by a chubby little boy who snatched a pack of spicy strips from her hand, leaving her crying bitterly in distress.
Right at that moment, that boy appeared. He casually grabbed a lump of mud and charged forward, getting into a brawl with the chubby kid.
The chubby kid was tall and burly; how could that boy possibly win?
Yet the boy exuded an aura of fearless grit. In the end, the chubby kid lost, the spicy strips were retrieved, and both the boy and the girl exchanged smiles.
The scene shifted again. The girl had grown up into a graceful young woman, and she was no longer in the village, having entered the bustling city.
It was still that boy, grown even taller.
The two of them walked down the street. A poster hung on the wall bearing the portrait of a woman wearing a beautiful