Ranger's Insights

Among the lush greenery, a small village is located here, with the mountains and the water, just like that desirable paradise. During the day, villagers go up to the mountains to collect firewood, go to the river to fetch water, go to the fields to serve the rice, and occasionally enjoy the pleasure of taking a break from their busy lives. The passing breeze can only carry the sound of children playing and laughing into the distance.

Following the sound of laughter, two travelers - one man and one dog to be exact - came towards the village. The young girl, Median, calls herself a "wanderer", a wanderer and a wanderer and a tourist, and unbeknownst to her, her other name, "Spirits and Demons", is also spreading widely.

At this moment, our Ming Cun is riding on the back of a giant white dog, not to stage a "Ming Cun dog fight", but the giant dog is willingly serving as the young girl's mount. Regardless of the real body of the giant dog, which is the legendary culprit that can devour the moon and cause a lunar eclipse, it is easy to guess its true nature as "alien" just by looking at the way it communicates with Ming Cun in human language.

The term "alien", or "non-human", is a generic term for "demons and monsters". The one who could domesticate a foreigner into a mount was not an ordinary girl as she appeared to be.

"Khung, I'm hungry, so let's take a break and eat something in this village. I hope I can eat a delicious special snack - well don't stare at me, I'll eat well and then eat the snack."

Akira is not the ordinary girl who gave her name to a ferocious alien tengu, Akira, as she appears.

Walking comfortably through the busy farmland, Akua slowly entered the village and met a farmer's wife. After understanding the purpose of the two visitors, the farmer was only surprised by the age of the young girl and led them to the pergola.

The pergola was furnished with several square tables and several benches, simple but not rudimentary, set up by the villagers who were happy to share their happiness, especially for people outside the village, whether they were merchants or Yun monks, to rest and have tea and snacks.

"Dim sum? What kind of dim sum is it?" The gluttonous Ming Cun, who had long ago thrown Xiaokong's thousands of instructions into the farmland outside the village, said that if any of the rice bushes listened to them, they would surely be able to harvest more than the others in autumn.

The woman immediately brought a plate of snacks to the table. The dessert was made from the village's glutinous rice, wrapped in brown sugar and steamed in bamboo leaves, and called "yellow cake" because of its earthy yellow color.

In terms of food, the most important thing to Ming Cai is the "flavor" of the "color and aroma". After finishing the yellow cake in three or two bites, he asked, "Can I have another one?", which is probably the most simple compliment.

The farmer's wife, who had been stroking the small hollow, readily took out another piece of yellow cake from the steamer and handed it to Mingentian, winking and saying, "Don't tell anyone."

There was a burst of laughter from outside, and children were running around the pergola, playing hide-and-seek or catching thieves. But she noticed that the peasant woman added a little uneasiness and worry to her eyes when she looked into the child's eyes.

Median asked, "Are you worried that the children will fall and hit themselves if they play too much?"

"Hey, which of the children in the village are not running around in the hills and fields." The peasant woman waved her hand, trying to wipe away the lingering clouds of sorrow, "It's just that ......"

"Go ahead, maybe only we can help you with that kind of thing." Little Air, who had been resting on the ground before, suddenly spoke up.

Ming Diao immediately realized a small empty must have noticed some traces, to say that. So she also looked at the peasant woman with a serious expression, but due to her young age and childish face, this only added to the cuteness.

A few days ago, the farmer's wife happened to notice that the number of children playing together seemed to have increased by one. During this period, there were no outsiders with children in the village, to rest or stay overnight, and the farmer's wife was worried that something bad might have gotten mixed in and had some ulterior motive.

The farmer's wife also asked her children, but the children are still young, and just play happily, which cares and their play, in the end, is a ghost. Even when asked, one moment said it seems to be one more, one moment said it feels like there is no more, one moment was asked to be bored will yell do not remember.

After listening to the peasant woman's plight, Median and Xiaokong both said they would help solve the problem. The peasant woman thanked her profusely and went back to her chores.

To confirm the number of children, it is easy to say that the number of children corresponds to the number of families, that is to say, each family goes to its mother, so the next thing to do is - "Go play!

"Let's go play!"

It was only natural for Mei Mei to join the children's group. At first, the children were a little timid about this strange sister, but the barrier was soon broken down, and Ming-guan herself was the one having the most fun.

After playing until the sun was about to set, she suddenly remembered that she was not just here to play and hastily called out, "It's about time, we have to get ready to go home."

As soon as she said that, the children scattered and disappeared. Mingentian shouted, "Wait a minute," but the children thought it was their last game of chase and ran even more happily.

The exhaustion of the game doubled in a flash, all weighing on Mingdian's shoulders and heart, and she dragged her deflated body back to Khung's side.

"I was thinking, "I'll just take them and hand them over to their parents one by one, and then we'll know if there are any extra children. "

"Now you can understand how hard I've been working all these years."

Ming Chuan couldn't even muster the strength to argue, so he reluctantly conceded defeat.

The next day, Mingdian also played with the children, and this time she was very confident.

"Finally, let's play a new game!"

As soon as they heard this, the children gathered around her and obediently listened to her orders.

"The name of the game is 'Ming's Convoy'. I am the leader of the caravan, and you are the treasures the caravan is carrying. My mission is to get you home safely, so you must listen to my orders!"

"Good!" The children, as always, casually answered the promise.

At the beginning of the game, the children's curiosity was still there, and it was still going well, and the two nearest children, had confirmed that they were delivered to their parents. But when the children realized that all they had to do in this game was simply to line up to go home, they couldn't stand it anymore.

First, one child said, "I remember, I have to go to the field to look for mommy and daddy," and ran outside the village; then two children said, "I have to go pee," and never came back; and then three children said, "I Mom and Dad are right over there", and they left the team. ...... So many things fell into place, and once again, the plan of Mingoulou fell through.

"It's time to show professional skills!"

On the morning of the third day, the unconvinced Ming Chan resisted the urge to play and prepared for the evening's work. She first ran through the entire village, noting the number of houses and their respective locations. After that, she drew a map of the village, using not a pen and paper, but a tree branch to make a map on a piece of mud in the village.

"Preparations are complete, so you can go play!"

Playing is an important part of the work and cannot be left unplayed. During the process of playing, Ming Mei left traces of his spiritual power on each child. In this way, several dots of light appeared on the map to record the trajectory of each child's activities in the village.

"Bye, keep playing tomorrow!"

After saying goodbye to the children, Mingdian quickly went to the map, and Xiaokong, who stayed here, reported that no abnormalities were found for the time being.

The dots of light on the map were scattered everywhere and would eventually return to their respective homes, so even if there were children who would be staying outside, for the time being, they could be quickly confirmed. At sunset, wisps of smoke rose from the village, and only one of the points of light that had not yet returned home by this time remained, heading for the hills outside the village.

So, that's it! With a glance at each other, MingDiou and XiaoKong set off. Xiao Kong carried Mingdian and appeared unexpectedly from the air so that the boy could not put away his pointed ears and big tail in time.

"So, it's a fox demon." Khung recognized its true form, "A fox demon that has just become a foreigner, what is the purpose of mixing with a human village?"

The fox demon was stunned by the unanticipated scene, it sat down paralyzed on the ground, stunned by Little Air's intimidation, completely forgetting to run away or shout.

"Little Khong, there's no need to be like this." Ming Diao got off Xiaokong's back, walked to the fox demon, and squatted down beside it, soothing it while saying, "I remember, your name is Little Child, isn't it?"

Little Child nodded.

"Although you were in the village, you didn't talk much, but when you were playing, you were the happiest child." Ming Duan turned back to Xiao Kong and said, "So I think that this child, who is just eager to play with other children, doesn't have any malicious intent. Otherwise, in the village, there would have been bad rumors."

"Forgive it would not dare to do anything out of the ordinary in the future! "Saying that Xiaokong also deliberately glared at the little child, scaring it to hide behind Ming Duan.

Ming Epiguan stroked the fox demon's head and thought about how this matter would finally be resolved successfully.

After spending the night outside the village, Ming Dao took the child with him early in the morning and found the village elders to explain the cause and effect of the incident. It was the first time some of them had heard about the incident, but since the boy's presence did not have any impact, it sounded like an anecdote from a neighboring village.

Ming proposed that the village could build a small earthen temple for the fox demon child and worship the child as a fox fairy, and the fox demon could use its power to bless the village with peace.

Finally, Mingdian added, "In this way, Little Child can continue to play with the children of the village."

The village approved of Mingdian's proposal to set up the earthen temple next to the pergola, and the tribute was, of course, the village's special yellow cake.

Hearing that there was a delicious snack as a tribute, MingDiun immediately came to life: "That's great, I want to be a guardian god of the village too."

"What kind of guardian god keeps drooling over the tributes? You're still a few hundred years too early to be offered up, you girl!"

Xiao Kong sighed and continued on his journey with the unconscious Median.