When she woke up, there was no one in the room. There was only a light blue light film outside the window, and a few colorful fish swimming around.
She climbed out of bed, stood on the floor with bare feet and walked a few steps, then turned around and ran back, touched the cold soles of her feet, found socks from the complicated mattress, and put them on herself. p>
Lu Qingling ran to the next room, only to see that the bed was empty, and the quilts were neatly folded into tofu blocks, as if no one had ever slept here.
She was in a daze for a while, then heard footsteps coming from outside. Someone pushed open the door, ran to her room, took a look, and then let out an exclamation:
"Where did the little princess go?!"
Lu Qingling recognized that the sound was from someone playing the piano. Who are they looking for? The little princess? I don’t know.
So, Gu Qingling just stood there obediently, without saying a word, and watched the musical instrument go back and forth several times before remembering to look into this room.
Mingqin was stunned for a moment: "Little princess, what are you doing standing here? You scared me to death. I thought you got lost."
Lu Qingling finally spoke: "I am not a little princess, I am Gu Qingling. You were not looking for me just now, so I have been standing here."
Mingqin was a little speechless. It was the first time that he felt that the child in front of him was so arrogant.
"You are the little princess. From today on, you will always be the little princess of our Shark tribe." Mingqin came over and picked her up, stretched out his hand to touch her feet: "You are only wearing a pair of socks, aren't you cold?
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Gu Qingling looked down at the socks on her calves, her eyes a little numb. Suddenly, she saw a shining shell on the table.
"What is that?"
Mingqin stopped, picked up the shell and handed it to Gu Qingling, with a complicated tone: "This is a rainbow shell. It is extremely rare. You can't even find a few pieces of it in the entire Shark clan. It's...a gift left to you by the clan leader." p>
Gu Qingling held the rainbow shell in one hand, put it on the tip of her nose and smelled it. There was a faint smell of sea waves, mixed with a fragrance.
She suddenly asked: "Daddy is gone, right?"
Mingqin was stunned on the spot, with a lump in his throat, and he didn't know how to answer.
At this time, he suddenly heard a small whistling sound, like the whimpering of a milk cat. Along with Gu Qingling's sobbing body, he lowered his eyes slightly.
Gu Qingling is crying.
Her dark and round deer eyes were filled with tears, and large teardrops rolled down her cheeks and landed on the rainbow shell in her hand.
"I'm not dreaming, daddy is really gone." She said aggrievedly: "I don't want shells, and I don't want to be a little princess. I want daddy, and I can give you anything. Can you give me daddy back?"<
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Ming Qin finally understood why Gu Qingling seemed so ignorant from the beginning.
Because she felt that she was dreaming.
But now, a rainbow shell broke her dream. The thing she least wanted to accept became reality, and Lu Qingling collapsed emotionally and cried again.
Ming Qin held her in his arms, and then her furry head was pressed against his neck, which soon became wet. He could only pat Gu Qingling's back gently, and could not even say anything to comfort the child.
After all, the patriarch did leave. The elders said that the person who took the patriarch away was an envoy sent by the fairy world.
The patriarch is good at waking up from his slumber, and even intervenes in the abyss of sin. Now one more sin has to be added to the already unsolved guilt.
"Who took dad away? Did dad do something wrong? I can ask dad to apologize." Lu Qingling racked her brains to help.
Ming Qin's heart felt even more bitter. He didn't dare to speak at all now, for fear that he would break Gu Qingling's beautiful and childish fantasy.
"Ling'er, what's wrong with you?" Pei Hongdu opened the door and walked in. A thin layer of sweat broke out on his forehead. He also carried a special aqua blue long sword behind him, which was made by the best weapon master of the Shark tribe.
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"Pei Hongdu!" Gu Qingling jumped out of Mingqin's arms and ran towards him quickly.
Pei Hongdu stopped and stood on the spot, his arms slightly opened. The moment Gu Qingling rushed over, he hugged her gently and patted her head.
"You're crying? Are you unhappy? Tell me." He stared at Gu Qingling seriously, his eyes full of worry.
Seeing this, Mingqin quietly retreated.
Tears welled up in Gu Qingling's eyes again, and she told the story with choked sobs.
Most of these things happened while Pei Hongdu was in a coma, so he only knew that Gong Yuan left and didn't know what actually happened.
"Dad and I hadn't even exchanged a few words before he was taken away. Pei Hongdu, tell me, how big of a mistake did Daddy make to deserve to be imprisoned for so long?" Lu Qingling's eyes were as red as a little rabbit's, aggrieved.
Sitting in front of him, whispering in a low voice.
Pei Hongdu thought for a while: "Perhaps, your father did not do anything wrong. I heard the elders of the Shark tribe mentioned before that they were wronged. Ling'er, we can help him clear his grievances."
"Didn't you say before that he asked you to find the giant tree that reaches the sky in Yaoshan Mountain? Then let's go find it, and I will accompany you to find it."
Gu Qingling was very moved: "Pei Hongdu, you are so kind. Your father must like you very much."
Pei Hongdu was stunned for a moment, then pursed his lips slightly: "Dad is actually very strict with me...but it doesn't matter now."
His family had already been annihilated in that fire. And he was the culprit that caused all of this - those people killed his family precisely because of the Emperor Demon Mark on his body.
Pei Hongdu only knew that one of them had treacherous and changeable sword skills, and he had firmly engraved it in his heart that one day he would make the other party pay with blood.
But currently, what he wants to do most is to stay with Gu Qingling, which is his only "home" in the vast Three Realms.
Under Pei Hongdu's persuasion, Gu Qingling quickly stopped crying and temporarily had a goal for the next step.
"How is the Emperor Demon Mark on your body? Has it really been removed?" Gu Qingling asked.
"Well, it has been removed. The shark elders specially looked at it for me. However, the power brought by the marks has not disappeared. They have been integrated into my soul... which is also a good thing for me."
Gu Qingling was worried: "How can this be a good thing?"
"Because this can better protect you. Moreover, although the power is still there, it will no longer easily control my thoughts." Pei Hongdu said: "Like you, I am also practicing martial arts. But I use a knife.
The sword that cuts the horse."
He took off his sword and showed it to Gu Qingling: "This was given to me by the shark elder. He asked me to give it a name, so I chose the word 'Gu Ling'."
Gu Qingling poked the blade of the knife with her finger. It was cold and hard, and there were two words engraved near the handle.
She looked at it and suddenly asked: "Is the bell protecting the bell the bell of the bell?"
Pei Hongdu looked up at her and smiled: "It's Gu Qingling's bell."