That year, I was ten years old.

Early in the morning, the rain forest had just woken up, and I crawled out of the bathtub filled with medicine. Before I could change my clothes, I heard some children running and shouting, saying that the clan leader’s grandfather picked up a child from the river.

This is a strange thing. Only the corpses of monsters floated in the river, and no children had ever appeared.

"Where did the kid come from?" I asked by grabbing one of the kids.

The child immediately said, "I don't know, it just floated from the river! It seemed like a baby, I don't know if it was a man or a woman."

I let him go.

The children in the clan are all naughty and naive, but they are very afraid of me. No matter how naughty they are, they are always very careful in front of me. I know all these and have no intention of changing the status quo, because I don’t like the excitement.

I stood up and walked towards the clan leader's wooden house, not because I wanted to see the child I picked up, but because the clan leader asked me yesterday.

The patriarch asked him if he would be a shadow.

Shadow is a special existence of the Baiyi tribe. They have undergone special training to protect the Baiyi tribe. From the moment they devote themselves to the shadow, they can no longer show themselves to their true faces, cannot get married, have no friends, and will always be a shadow until the day of their death, and are ignored by everyone.

If I agree, I will leave the crowd and live in the darkness.

I don't think this is a cruel thing. The shadow of the Baiyu tribe has always existed, that is, people have always been doing this. I think their ideas may be similar to mine.

Those so-called lively things are optional to me.

I went to see the patriarch today and wanted to tell him my decision. Maybe... I should advise the patriarch again to let him not feel guilty because I don’t feel forced at all.

Thinking of this, I had already walked to the patriarch's wooden house.

There were many children blocking outside his door, and their curious heads squeezed into a pile. They looked inside the door with great force, as if they were looking at the child picked up by the patriarch.

"Stop watching, go to have dinner," I said.

The children turned around and laughed, "Brother Jing Xiao, are you going in to find the grandfather of the patriarch? Can you help me see if the child is a boy or a girl?"

I smiled and said, "You have to see it yourself."

I didn't give orders, but they still scratched their heads, shrank their necks, and then scattered.

Anyway, I made way for me, and I don't mind what they were thinking.

When I walked into the door, I heard a crisp cry. An old man, who was so steady in the patriarch, was spinning around a bamboo basket, as if he was helpless.

I couldn't help but walk over, stood beside the basket and looked at it, and saw a very small baby, stomping on both hands and feet, and his face was red with tears in his face.

I don’t know what I was thinking at that time, so I reached out to pick her up, and just as I hugged her, she stopped crying.

He opened a pair of washed eyes, looking at him like black grapes, innocently, without any warning.

"Oh, my little ancestor, finally stopped crying!" The patriarch said as if he had won a battle.

The baby just rolled his eyes and looked around curiously.

And I just looked at her, and at that time I felt that the small ball in my arms was the cutest person in the world.

But after a while, she was crying again.

The patriarch said in a hurry: "She must be hungry. I don't know how many days she has been floating in the river. Why hasn't Li Shan come back yet..."

I had long forgotten what I came to do and clumsyly patted the little man in my arms.

She cried for a while, rested for a while, and then continued to cry, but the crying was not very strong.

"She's hungry," I said.

Such a small baby naturally couldn't eat ordinary things. I wanted to put her down and go to the forest to find a monster that can breastfeed, but when he leaned over, she cried again. Her little hand held his clothes tightly, crying to the top of her lungs, as if she was about to get angry.

I stood up quickly and patted her back gently. After a while, she stopped crying.

"I have asked Li Shan and the others..."

The patriarch was talking, and hurried footsteps came. Uncle Lishan pushed the door and walked in. He carried a white fox that was knocked out.

This is a high-level spirit beast, and it is a spirit beast that is breastfeeding.

The white fox is very small, so it doesn't take up any space if it is carried in like this.

After a long period of busyness, the little guy finally got something to eat. When she was full, she fell asleep and slept very peacefully.

In the next few days, the white fox was left in the clan. Later, Uncle Lishan also found its child. The white fox, who was quite irritable at the beginning, became settled and fed its child while providing food for Shui'er.

Oh by the way, Shui'er, it's the name I gave to the baby.

Uncle Lishan said that day, "This child... has the blood of our Baiyi tribe. Master, please give her a name."

"Jiang Yuechu." said the clan leader.

I listened aside and silently gave her a name, Shui'er, she came from the water, her eyes were like water, her small body was as soft as water, and she giggled when she smiled, and like a ding fountain water.

After many days, everyone in the clan accepted this extra baby girl.

However, children like her who have no parents are few in the White Medicine clan, and the children are still very curious and always like to gather together to discuss where she came from.

Shui'er is taken care of by the clan leader. If there is an inconvenience, women from several clans take turns to take care of them.

And every day, in addition to practicing and practicing, I have another activity, which is to play with Shui'er.

I don't know what other children are playing, but the Baiyi tribe is in the arms of the rainforest, so when the water is able to crawl and walk, it is already pulling the vines while the little arms and legs are swaying.

Maybe she wanted to fly around the woods like older children.

Later one day, the patriarch asked me if I had thought clearly whether I was a shadow or not... I told him that I would not be a shadow.

The patriarch did not force me. If he didn't want to, he wouldn't become a good shadow. He just asked me why I changed my mind.

I think the patriarch is worthy of being the patriarch. He knew I would agree, but I did change my mind.

I said, "Shui'er is still young, I want to watch over her and grow up."

The patriarch seemed to sigh, "Oh, Jing Xiao, Xiao Yuechu doesn't belong here. If you guard her and grow up, she won't guard you."

I didn't quite understand the patriarch's words at that time, but I said, "That's what happened in the future."

Shui'er is very naughty and has a very high talent for cultivation. The patriarch is very fond of her. Other children can only practice exercises after the age of six, while Shui'er was taught many exercises by the patriarch when she was three.

Her small body could already catch the vines in the forest and fly around. Moreover, relying on her little skills, she often teased older brothers and sisters. Those children could not beat Shui'er, so they ran back to complain to their parents.

When Shui'er was six years old, she had a fight with a boy two years older than her. The boy was seriously injured because he was backfired by using a spell that he could not bear.

The boy's mother pointed at Shui'er and scolded him, asking the patriarch why he kept leaving this outsider in the clan, saying that this was a bad rule.

Because of this incident, Shui'er hid for several days and didn't see anyone, and even me.

Later, I found her in the small dark room she often went to, and she asked me: "Brother Jingxiao, where did I come from?"

I said, "Shui'er fell from the sky and is unique."

I know, she doesn't like this answer.

Two more days later, Shui'er came out of the small dark room herself. She was still troubled and practiced much faster than others.

Until the day when the totem was inherited at the age of twelve, Shui'er once again made the clan mess, because that day the clan's white light was dazzling and spread throughout the world! She actually inherited all the totems.

Everyone in the clan thinks that this is not a good thing. The power of totem is too strong, and they think that Shui'er is a person of unknown origin.

I understand their thoughts. The white doctors are isolated from the world. Everyone is like plants and trees in the rainforest. They don’t like the smell of foreigners.

In fact, they are very good to Shui'er, teaching her skills and keeping her for dinner, all of them are their simple nature, but the inheritance of all the totems is still unsettling! The two are not contradictory.

However, the patriarch said that this was not Shui'er's choice, but totem's choice.

The tribe members then gave up.

Shui'er has a good control ability, and she doesn't use the power of totem indiscriminately, so the clan members will be so relieved later.

When Shui'er was fifteen years old, she was about to go to bed. She was looking forward to that day, and I was looking forward to it too.

I wanted to sing a sacrificial song for Shui'er, and I wanted to marry her. In that case, Shui'er would be a member of the Baiyi tribe, so she would not have to worry about where she came from and whether she would be driven away.

I know she can't let go of this matter. I have grown up with her, but I still want to continue to guard her. When?

When she doesn't need me.

No, not, I will always be guarding her. Maybe she has never been indispensable to me, and I don’t know when it will be impossible to become without her.

I am the one who cannot live without her.

It was raining heavily that night.

I remembered that many water vines picked back by the water during the day were all stored in the jar and buried under the tree behind the house. However, the jar was buried shallowly, and such heavy rain would probably be washed out.

I ran over and saw the edge of some jars. I dug the pit deep and buried it again.

A year later, these jars will be filled with fine wine.

Shui'er always thought she could hide the wine, but every year, I would just bury it again, and I couldn't tell her, because Shui'er always thought that the place where she buried the wine was a secret.

"Shui'er, waiting for you and the hairpin, can you wish to marry Brother Jing Xiao?"

When I went back, I couldn't help knocking on Shui'er's door and asked her nervously, "I was a little worried. If Shui'er didn't want to, I wouldn't mention it at the festival. I didn't want to see Shui'er in a dilemma."

However, before I waited for her answer, she was called away by the patriarch.

That night, I was in a state of uneasiness.
To be continued...