Chapter 156: You Fell From the Sky (Part 2)

He saw the wolves moving… running in the direction of him and Baima… Lu Shan subconsciously tightened his grip on the horse’s belly, wanting to ride away from here… If he didn’t bother with the sheep, with this not-so-strong old horse, he might have a chance to escape the wolves’ encirclement.

If not, he felt that he would jump off the horse without hesitation, lighten the burden on the horse, and let the girl, like a goddess, and the baby she was holding escape from the wolves.

At this moment, Lu Shan felt a sense of tragic heroism, but also a sense of no regrets… He even imagined himself fighting the wolves with his bare hands, and then being torn apart by the wolves.

But if that happened, the little goddess would remember him for the rest of her life, wouldn’t she? Lu Shan thought to himself, and he felt that the last bit of fear had gone.

The horse was stamping its feet in agitation… and Lushan was about to gallop on, but at this moment the girl grabbed his wrist. Lushan was struck by lightning, and subconsciously wanted to pull back his arm. He was afraid of tarnishing the goddess in his heart, but didn’t want the girl to hold him a little tighter. He looked back again, and her eyes were so clear. She said, “Didn’t you say you would trust me?”

“Yes,” Lu Shan nodded, and at this time the wolves had already run up to them.

“I used to think that there was nothing in this world that could make me feel more at ease than Baima’s eyes. Do you know? Chengyi, I used to think that I had lost my peace of mind… until I met you guys, and I regained my peace of mind. Let’s go back to that time… in such a dangerous situation, I actually forgot to run. It was Baima’s eyes that made me feel so at ease. It was like there was a cliff ahead, and as long as Baima told me that it was safe, I would go out without hesitation. Lushan’s tone was resolute.

At this moment, I felt that his feelings for Baima were more than love, they were even faith.

Because in such a dangerous situation, surrounded by wolves, and facing them head-on… I was shocked to hear this, and that a child as young as Lushan that year would choose not to run away, but to believe in a girl who might be even younger than he was.

At such a young age, he probably didn’t understand love… I can only say that Baima gave him faith first, and she was the faith in his heart.

“What happened next?” The night wind blew, as if bringing a sense of ease to the tension in the story.

“Then, ha ha…” Lushan suddenly laughed.

Later, it was really unimaginable… The wolves ran past them, but they didn’t attack them at all, but ran away in another direction. Especially the wolf leader, when he passed by Lushan’s old horse, he stopped.

The little girl suddenly handed the baby in her arms to Lu Shan to hold… and then jumped off the horse and walked towards the wolf.

Lushan glanced at the baby in his arms. It had the same fair and delicate face as the little girl, with delicate features, but it was not as stunning as the little girl. It was not known whether it was a coincidence, but when Lushan looked at the baby, it suddenly smiled at him.

Lu Shan was stunned. In his heart, didn’t children cry all day long? How could there be such a quiet child, who hadn’t heard him cry… and who was smiling at him when he was looking at him?

“Heh heh heh…” A sudden burst of silver bell-like laughter interrupted Lu Shan’s thoughts. Lu Shan turned his head… and saw a picture carved into his soul… in the sunlight, in the breeze, rolling grass from the inside… a noble girl like a goddess, with the most innocent and pure smile, hugging the neck of a huge head wolf.

The wolf, which should have been fierce, was now showing a gentle expression like a dog, snuggling up to the little girl and rubbing his furry head against her face. This image was engraved deep in his soul because it was a pure conquest of ferocity.

At that moment, Lushan froze again, and the little girl looked at him and said, “My brother likes you.”

“Your brother?” Lu Shan was puzzled.

“My brother is in your arms. Why do you always like to daydream?” At this time, the little girl let go of the wolf and stood up… The wolf looked back three times as it walked reluctantly for a short distance, and finally ran towards the wolves that had already run away. A crisis was resolved in the lightheartedness of such a little girl.

“Are you a fairy?” At this time, Lushan summoned up the courage to ask such a question.

“Haha… I’m not a fairy, I’m Baima, my name is Baima! What’s your name?” She looked at Lushan with a kind look in her eyes, because her brother liked Lushan.

“I… my name is Zeren.” Lu Shan also reported his name.

From this moment on, it was their encounter, their first meeting…

“Do you want to know who that little baby is?” At this point, Lushan suddenly stopped talking and turned to me.

“Actually, I can guess who it is, but you tell me.” In fact, in my time with Lushan, watching him protect, love, and care for Taobai, how could I not guess? That baby was most likely Taobai.

That encounter was not just between Lushan and Baima, but also between Lushan and Taobo… And that smile from Taobo, did it also mean that from now on, they would be bound by fate? That they would be bound by fate, living and dying together?

Fate is truly something that is hard to fathom.

“Actually, I’m not going to keep you in suspense. Chengyi, you should have guessed it, right? That baby is Tao Bai, or to be more precise, he is Baima’s younger brother… They are the holy man and holy woman of that temple… And that temple, you should also know which temple it is, is the one that once chased us—the Lagan Temple.” Lushan finally said it… this time, he also revealed the secret of Tao Bai’s birth.

“Then you? How could you be Jiang Yi’s men? And how… and Baima’s father, he?” At this time, many mysteries suddenly appeared in my heart, and I could not connect these lines to form the trajectory of Lushan and Taobao’s lives.

“Listen to me slowly,” said Lushan, not in a hurry. This time, he didn’t take out a cigarette, but instead took out a flask of wine from his breast pocket and took a sip.

“Lagang Temple is actually a sacred temple where the most benevolent and greatest lama in the circle of practitioners was born… Don’t think that lama refers to monks in Tibet. In fact, there are not many monks who can be called lamas! But all this changed later… and the change came from the previous abbot of the mysterious temple of Lagang Temple. I said that the abbot is a little bit understandable.” Lushan said this.

I listened carefully… I felt that Lushan was also revealing a great secret to me, and it might even have a huge connection with our future, because the master once said that we had to find Penglai here, and to open the door to Penglai, we had to find a sacred object in a certain temple.

“Let’s not talk about Lagan Temple, let’s talk about Baima… To this day, I have never asked Baima why she happened to appear behind the Mani stone that day. I just believe that fate brought us together. Because that time, her brother, Tao Bai, smiled at me… Baima immediately drew close to me. It was also on that day, after she had relieved me of my crisis, that she did not hurry to leave, but instead she went with me to tend the sheep.” Lu Shan’s voice became distant again.

The goddess, who was originally aloof and had a benevolent smile for everyone, had a more intimate quality for Lushan… and that aura of holiness became less pronounced, more like that of a little girl.

Shepherding is hard work, but for Baima it is so fresh… During the happy process of shepherding, Lushan gradually let go of his fear of Baima and became more willing to talk.

They talked, and they talked a lot… Lushan also talked about the feeling of wanting to bravely save Baima when the wolves came, and this unintentional remark made Baima feel more affectionate towards Lushan.

“Then I’ll come and help you with the sheep every few days,” said Baima to Lushan as he was leaving.

“Is that true?” There was nothing that could have given Lu Shan more of a surprise than this. He was already immersed in the melancholy of separation.

“Yes,” Baima nodded solemnly.

At that moment, the grassland under the setting sun… all the fate that was to come began at that moment.

The girl who fell from the sky landed in Lushan’s suffering life.