[La Shiwu waved his hands repeatedly at the side, saying with a grin, "Great! Grandpa came up with a wonderful name!"]
["As the saying goes, 'You may dodge the first day, but you can't dodge the fifteenth.'"]
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["Grandpa, why not let First Day acknowledge me as his big brother? I'll watch over him from now on!"]
[Elder Fei raised his hand and struck at him with his pipe. "How old are you? How old is he?"]
["Hehe, you missed~" La Shiwu nimbly dodged aside.]
[Elder Fei turned to the empty-eyed First Day and sighed softly. "You child... your fate is no good either."]
[Though the He Family employed many hired hands and slaves who had sold themselves, this Mountain Opening House was no charity hall.]
[Without some cleverness or someone to look after you here, you would likely be gnawed clean to the bone.]
[As though he had read the look on Grandpa's face, La Shiwu leaned closer and whispered, "Grandpa, now that we've gotten the money from before..."]
["We should go our separate ways. Don't you always say it? Such are the rules of the jianghu: you take your broad sunlit road, and I'll cross my single-plank bridge."]
[Elder Fei silently took a puff from his pipe. After pondering for a moment, he finally waved his hand. "Go on, go on!"]
[Only then did La Shiwu relax. What he feared most was Grandpa's soft heart being stirred; the one who would suffer for it was Grandpa.]
[The two left.]
[As he departed, the child turned back for one last look. The youth seated on the bed seemed to react, lifting his head to look over.]
[Slanting daylight shone into