Chapter 756 World 34
Chapter 756 World 34
Shen Ruyin cleared her throat and spoke in a gentle, boyish voice: "How could I be exposed? When it's time to speak, just let me say it."
Su Wan'er pulled Shen Ruyin around, looking her up and down, and even tried to get her to open her mouth.
Shen Ruyin's good temper and cooperation convinced Su Wan'er that Shen Ruyin was born with a storyteller's voice.
Su Wan'er didn't delay any longer and changed into men's clothes with Shen Ruyin, but she didn't throw away her women's clothes.
These days, clothes can be used as money.
Su Wan'er didn't have much savings, and she relied heavily on Shen Ruyin. She thought she should do whatever she could, so she couldn't bear to leave the clothes lying around.
I dressed myself up, and the night grew even deeper.
Shen Ruyin bowed three times to her parents, lit an incense stick, and was about to get up when she saw Su Wan'er also kneeling down with an incense stick in her hand.
Su Wan'er placed the incense sticks into the incense burner and looked at the memorial tablets of the Shen family couple above, saying, "Yinyin, I want to change my name. How about taking your surname?"
Shen Ruyin turned her head to look at her.
Su Wan'er got more and more excited as she spoke: "Whether I take the surname Su or the surname Wei from that family, it's not what I want. Now I'm going to fight for myself, and I should decide what my surname is."
“I used to receive a lot of care from Uncle Shen and Aunt Shen. They were very generous in sharing their knowledge and taught me to read and write with you. They also taught me to understand principles. Now, you are showing me a new path.”
"So I want to take your surname. From now on, we'll be friends, and also like sisters, okay?"
Before she brought it up, Shen Ruyin really hadn't expected things to develop this way.
She quickly noticed the expectation and trepidation in Su Wan'er's eyes and nodded firmly: "From now on, I have an older sister. What name do you want for her?"
Su Wan'er was stunned by the overwhelming surprise and said in a daze, "The character 'Wan' was originally given to me by Uncle Shen. I want to keep this character and then use it in your name, Shen Ruwan. What do you think?"
After saying that, she felt it wasn't right: "Let's change this character to 莞 (guan). 莞草 (guan cao) sounds like we're sisters."
"Moreover, this word happens to have two pronunciations. If you call me Wan'er as usual, I can respond."
Shen Ruwan?
Seeing that she liked it, Shen Ruyin lit two more incense sticks, keeping one in her own hand and giving the other to her.
"Father and Mother, Wan'er has changed her name to Shen Ruwan. From now on, we are sisters. Remember that you have a daughter!"
The newly born Shen Ruwan couldn't contain her excitement: "Father, Mother, I will definitely take good care of my sister from now on, and we will support each other as we walk together!"
After offering the incense stick, Shen Ruwan hugged Shen Ruyin like a new toy, grinning foolishly and saying, "Yinyin, you're my little sister now."
Shen Ruyin smiled helplessly: "Sister, if we don't leave now, it will be dawn soon. If we are discovered then, we won't be able to leave."
“Yes, we need to hurry up,” Shen Ruwan said. She had always taken good care of Shen Ruyin, and now she was acting like an older sister, putting her first in everything.
Shen Ruyin roughly knew the location of that immortal sect, so instead of going to the nearest city, the two of them exchanged the fine grains they had brought for a lot of coarse flour cakes to make dry rations.
After that, they rarely went into the city.
At first, Shen Ruwan was a little scared walking in the mountains, but after discovering that Shen Ruyin could use mountain herbs to repel insects and was very sensitive to danger, able to tell from the slightest clues which mountains she could enter and which she couldn't, she was no longer afraid.
Later, Shen Ruwan even felt that the biggest burden she had been in following Shen Ruyin was herself.
But Shen Ruyin felt that Shen Ruwan's ability to persevere, without regret, without fear of hardship, and without complaining of fatigue was already quite remarkable.
The two little girls trekked over mountains and valleys, but the village was already in complete chaos.
Aunt Su was already unhappy when she got up early and didn't see her adopted daughter get up to cook, but thinking about how much money she had earned from her daughter, she reluctantly went to cook, complaining all the while.
After I finished cooking, I went to call people, but no one answered after I knocked on the door for a long time. So I just stopped calling and let them eat or not.
So the Su family waited until noon when no one came to deliver lunch. Aunt Su, exhausted and hungry, came back and threw a tantrum, only to find that her adopted daughter was missing.
The Su family immediately became anxious and asked around if anyone had seen their Wan'er.
Everyone in the village said they didn't know, but the village chief thought of Shen Ruyin, though he was still somewhat incredulous.
After all, although Su Wan'er and Shen Ruyin had a good relationship, their personalities were different in public.
Besides, Su Wan'er has just been found by her wealthy parents and is only waiting to be taken back to enjoy a life of luxury in a few days. Why would she go with Shen Ruyin at this time?
Not to mention the village chief, no one else in the village believed it.
Finally, it was only when the Su family themselves thought of Shen Ruyin that they learned she had gone out to seek immortality.
Although Shen Ruyin and Su Wan'er did not leave any letters, the Su family remained convinced that it was Shen Ruyin who had abducted Su Wan'er.
They had no other choice and were afraid of angering the Ninghou Mansion, so they didn't dare to go to their door until the next day, only to be chased away by their poor relatives who were trying to freeload off them.
Therefore, the Ninghou family only learned about the disappearance of their beloved daughter, whom they were supposed to reunite with, several days later.
The Ninghou family didn't believe that ordinary farmers could have the destiny to seek immortality. They were angry that Su Wan'er wasn't raised by their side and that she was just brainless, but they still sent people to look for her.
After so many days of delay, no matter how capable the Ninghou family is, they won't be able to find the person in the mountains.
The fake heiress could ask her master and senior brothers for help in finding the person, but since she was in the sect and not at home, she didn't receive the message until several months later.
At this moment, Shen Ruyin and Shen Ruwan could already see the town at the foot of the Immortal Gate.
The two had a smooth journey, encountering not only no bad people, but also very few wild animals that could threaten their lives.
Looking at the town across the way, Shen Ruwan said to her younger sister, "Yinyin, you really do have a destiny with immortals."
"If it were anyone else, let alone reaching the Immortal Gate, they would encounter many villains even if they just left the city and went to other cities."
Shen Ruwan was very happy: "I think this town is protected by the immortal sect and is very prosperous. In the future, you will live in the immortal sect and I will live in the town. We will be close to you and we sisters can still see each other often."
Shen Ruyin never expected that, even though they were already right in front of the Immortal Sect, Shen Ruwan only wanted the worst possible outcome.
“Sister,” Shen Ruyin said affirmatively, “you are my sister now. I have a destiny with immortals, and you definitely have one too, so don’t always think the worst. We will always be together.”
Shen Ruwan was very touched. Although she didn't believe it, she still comforted her, "Okay, we'll always be together and never separate."
Shen Ruyin didn't say anything more. She pulled her to wash the dirt off her face and change her into clean clothes before entering the town and walking all the way to the place where the immortal sect registered.
When the people from the immortal sect saw them, they didn't even remember their names; they just made them line up to have their spiritual roots tested.
"Our sect only accepts applications and examines those with spiritual roots. If you don't have spiritual roots, you'd better go home as soon as possible."
Shen Ruwan became nervous again after hearing what the immortal sect disciple said, and she held onto Shen Ruyin tightly.
When it was their turn, Shen Ruyin gently squeezed her hand, and the two of them walked to a disciple in charge of the test.
The disciple conducting the test, without even looking up, said, "Put your hand on the spirit stone."
The two sisters placed their hands on it almost simultaneously, and the inside of the spirit stone quickly changed.
"Hmm?" The disciple in charge stared intently at the spirit stone used for the test, and the elder in charge of this area also came over.
As he approached, he heard the two test disciples shout in unison.
"A top-grade ice spirit root!"
"A mutated fire elemental root!"
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