Si Qing Ya was speechless, then silently added, "Since that's the case, I should also be glad that Master and I are not of the same age, but that you are much older than me, otherwise that sentence would become 'Once a master, forever a younger brother.'"
An Nuo burst into laughter.
Shao Feng turned back and glared at Si Qing, "You really are one to join in on the fun no matter what."
Yan Hua joked for a while, feeling the atmosphere had eased considerably, and slowly stood up, "One soul and one spirit out of the three souls and seven spirits have been integrated with the remaining two souls and six spirits. They are likely in other directions. Let's find a place to rest for the night and go to Yue Zhi Yin's side tomorrow. Perhaps we can get some news."
Si Qing nodded.
An Nuo, holding the three-year-old Qi Yu, walked over, "Where are Yue Zhi Yin and the others now? Are they also separated?"
"It seems they are looking in pairs, separated. Yue Zhi Yin is with Ming Lou, the two of them are in the west." Yan Hua said this calmly, but was not entirely sure. After answering, he casually summoned a small monster from the ground to go and gather information.
He then took out a piece of cloth from his storage bag and spread it on the ground, letting everyone sit on the ground to make do for the night.
Chen Xi, worried about rain in the middle of the night, set up a barrier around them.
Si Qing used his magic to build a bonfire, with the three-year-old Qi Yu sitting beside him.
The three-year-old Qi Yu's face was plump and seemed to be always smiling. He was also mischievous, often poking the campfire with a branch.
Si Qing sat beside him, secretly glancing at him, and suddenly asked the three-year-old Qi Yu, "Do you still have no memories at all? Do you have any memories in your mind? Do you remember what your name is?"
Normally, as the souls and spirits were reassembled and more and more of them coalesced, memories would be recovered faster.
The three-year-old Qi Yu thought for a moment, "I remember I have a younger brother."
Si Qing's movements paused, and then, as if casually, he continued to press, "Really? Do you remember what your brother's name is? Do you remember the experiences you had playing with him?"
"I remember I always called him something like 'Qing', as for other memories, my mind is very chaotic," the three-year-old Qi Yu said in a muffled voice, "But I remember he went to a festival with me, and we bought a lot of snacks."
"The only pity is that I can never see his face clearly."
The three-year-old Qi Yu's face was filled with disappointment as he said this.
Si Qing comforted him with the excitement in his heart, "You are like this now because your memories are incomplete. We are helping you find your memories now. Once your memories are complete, you will be able to see his face."
The three-year-old Qi Yu seemed to understand but not understand, and then asked a very fatal question, "But, what are you to me?"
Si Qing pursed his lips and tentatively asked back, "Don't you remember who I am to you?"
He nervously rubbed his hands together.
Would his elder sister remember that he had just bullied her...
"Didn't you say you were my brother?" the three-year-old Qi Yu asked with a look of pure innocence and grievance, "You hit me before too."
Rumble!
Little Qi Yu's words struck Si Qing like a muffled thunderclap, causing his face to change drastically, "You actually remember these memories!?"
The three-year-old Qi Yu nodded, looking confused. Seeing his reaction, he thought he had done something wrong again, "So, you're not my brother?" kuAiδugg
Si Qing panicked.
He forced a smile and turned to run towards An Nuo. He hugged An Nuo and whispered in a flustered voice, "Mother, something big has happened. Come with me alone quickly, I have something very important to tell you."
An Nuo looked at him with confusion. Seeing his serious expression, she nodded involuntarily.
After walking to a secluded spot and hearing the whole story, An Nuo almost burst into laughter, "So, Little Qi Yu remembers everything that happened before, not a single thing forgotten?"
"But normally, she shouldn't remember. This is really bad."
An Nuo said this, but in reality, she wasn't particularly flustered. As a mother, a few spanks on Qi Yu were nothing.
The one who was truly troubled was clearly Si Qing in front of her.
"What should I do, Mother?" Si Qing felt like he was finished. "Didn't you say she didn't remember anything? I was sure that was the case, that's why I did that back then. What should I do now?"
When Qi Yu's three souls and seven spirits returned, wouldn't he be dead?
Si Qing's heart grew more panicked the more he thought about it, pacing anxiously.
An Nuo watched with amusement, "Who told you to be so arrogant earlier? You deliberately did that when things were not fully confirmed. Aren't you just waiting for Qi Yu to deal with you?"
Si Qing had the expression of being doomed.
Shao Feng had been observing from not far away for a while. Seeing the mother and son, one smug and the other with a long face, he became curious. While they were chatting animatedly, he quietly approached and asked,
"What are you two mother and son talking about? Why are you chatting so lively? Don't leave me out."
"Pfft." An Nuo was already chuckling. Hearing Shao Feng's question now, she couldn't help but laugh even harder. She quickly beckoned and told him Si Qing's troubles from beginning to end.
After hearing it, Shao Feng was stunned for a moment, then amused.
He looked at Si Qing, "So, the fact that you made Qi Yu call you brother, and that you deliberately hit her, will be exposed soon?"
Si Qing: "..."
He felt like his father was gloating. He had proof!
"Qi Yu, this child, loves you and holds grudges, they don't interfere with each other," Shao Feng said, still wanting to laugh. "Si Qing, listen to me. When your elder sister recovers, don't ask anything else, just hug her and cry."
Si Qing pursed his lips.
Shao Feng said earnestly, "I'm serious, not joking. Don't give her a chance to speak then. As soon as she speaks, you cry. Make her soft-hearted. Perhaps the matter of you taking advantage of her vulnerability and hitting her while making her call you brother can be overlooked."
Si Qing felt his father was unreliable no matter how he looked at it. "Can you hide from the first day of the month, but can you hide from the fifteenth day... What if my elder sister remembers it later after she recovers, and feels more and more wronged, and beats me up in the middle of the night?"
Shao Feng and An Nuo both gave him a look of helplessness.
Si Qing hugged himself with heartache.
Just then, an arrow suddenly flew from not far away, whistling, and shot directly towards Chen Xi. It stopped beside his hand, hovering there.
Chen Xi reached out and grabbed the arrow, taking a sachet from it.
There was a note inside the sachet.
Chen Xi examined it carefully for a while, then looked up and said to Si Qing and Yan Hua in a serious tone,
"Something big has happened. This is a message from Qi Nian, saying that Sui You has gone missing while looking for Qi Yu's soul!"