Uh...
Lu Xiaoxiao smiled wryly.
All right.
That did make sense.
"Mm."
She nodded.
"So if you put it that way..."
"I've gotten lucky."
"After we left the temple..."
"Ah!"
Yang Jialing's eyes lit up.
"Do you understand now?"
Yu Yuer looked at Lu Xiaoxiao.
"Those two monks at the temple this morning—"
"Ahem."
Yu Yuer corrected herself.
"Those two masters were the real deal."
"Doesn't that mean Master Xiao is even more amazing?"
Yang Jialing blurted out.
"Huh?"
Yu Yuer looked at Yang Jialing.
Yang Jialing tilted her head.
"Weren't those two monks unable to solve the problem? Isn't that why they had Little Deer call Master Xiao over?"
"...Oh, right."
Yu Yuer nodded.
"Master Xiao is the real master."
Back at the temple...
Lu Xiaoxiao hadn't really heard Yu Yuer and Yang Jialing talking.
She was lost in her own thoughts.
She remembered...
They'd suddenly been locked inside the main hall.
They'd been frightened.
Then the white-bearded monk had said something much like what Sister Dongfang had told her.
But he hadn't given her as good an impression as Sister Dongfang.
Anyone suddenly locked in an unfamiliar place wouldn't think much of the person responsible.
She, Yu'er, and Lingling had all been extremely wary of the two monks who'd appeared before them.
That wariness had lasted until the very end.
Now that she thought about it...
The two monks hadn't been fakes.
They'd just gone about things too directly.
It wasn't easy to accept.
And besides...
Lingling was right.
In the end, Master Xiao had been the one to solve everything.
She thought back to Master Xiao's conversation with the two monks at the end.
At the time, she hadn't understood a word, but looking back now, she felt like