Chapter 3 Going home

She and the doctor departed to her home. When she arrived home, she saw her grandfather begging some people. Suddenly one of them kicks her grandfather. Her grandfather falls to the ground. She rushed after her grandfather. When those people saw her, they said, "Look your granddaughter came."

One of them looked at her and said to her, "I told you to come to me for three nights. I will give you money to save your grandfather. But you didn't come to me. Where were you yesterday? With whom did you spend the night yesterday?"

She gets annoyed and threateningly looks at him as if she is going to kill him right now. But she kept her anger under control and harshly told him, "I don't want to talk with your filthy mouth. If another word came out of your dirty mouth, your head would no longer be with your body."

He suddenly got goosebumps at her words. He talks to her with a dirty smirk, "You will come to my bed one day. Then I will see what you can do to me?"

Saying this to her, he ordered the rest to go with him. They all left her houseyard. She sighs in relief and tells the doctor to come with her. The three of them went inside the house. She asked the doctor to examine her grandfather. The doctor examined her grandfather, then gave medicine to her hand and said to her, "he needs rest and gives this medicine three times a day. He will be fine for three months."

"For three months. What do you mean?"

She asked him worriedly.

"His disease is severe. He can't live a long time if he didn't get proper treatment."

The doctor told her with a sigh.

Saying this, the doctor was not taking the fee for examining her grandfather. She stopped him from going and gave him three gold coins.

"Miss, this amount is much from the fee. I can't take more."

The doctor said and wanted to return the money to her.

"I want to give you this amount because you came to see my grandfather. I didn't have to beg you to come and see my grandfather. When I asked you to see my grandfather, you didn't expect the fee from me and agreed to come with me. I just want to repay you for saving my grandfather's life for now. Thank you, doctor."

She said to the doctor gratefully.

The doctor says in his mind, "This girl is kind and good. Alas, the people around her are not good."

The doctor is gone. She went to prepare the food and medicine for her grandfather. It was evening while preparing the food. She called her grandfather to eat dinner. Her grandfather came to the yard. They started to eat food.

"Lan, where do you get the gold coin?"

He said while eating.

"Grandfather, I went to the mountain and brought some medicinal herbs. I sold them to the market and brought you a doctor. Why? You doubt me that I will lie to you or do something bad."

She answered.

"No, no, don't get me wrong. I just worry about you. I believe you didn't do any immoral thing. I know I won't live for too long. But don't worry, I will not be a burden to you. I will go to work from tomorrow."

He told her with a concerned look.

She talked in her mind, "Mo Lan, you have a good grandfather. He trusts you. You can rest assured. From now on, I will see him as my grandfather. He will be our grandfather."

Now she came back to reality and started to talk with her grandfather, "Don't say like that grandfather. You are not a burden to me. You are my responsibility. You have nurtured me for so long. Now it's my turn. From now on, I will take care of you. You will get healthy. I will work hard and you only need to care of your health. If you say one more time, you are a burden to me. Then I will assume I am not your granddaughter and you don't love me."

When Mo Lan And her grandfather finished eating their dinner, she went to her room. She gets ready for the bath. After taking a bath, she feels fresh. She lies in her bed and thinks about what will she do from now on. She is thinking about how to get stronger.

She spoke to herself, "From the memory of this body, I know this is the spiritual world. If one doesn't have spiritual power and strength one can't live well. So I need to get stronger. So that no one can step on me. Today, I will get rest. From tomorrow, I will practice martial arts to get stronger. I need to go to an academy to learn martial arts. But here in this village has no academy. Tomorrow I will ask Grandpa to teach me martial arts."

To thinking so much about what happened to her and what will she do from now on. She doesn't remember when she fell asleep. When she wakes up, she sees it's morning. She said to herself, "Oh my, it is morning. When I fall asleep, I don't remember. Now I need to learn martial arts. I have a pretty face. Many lecherous people want to molest me in this damn village. Now I will go to the kitchen and then Grandpa's room."

She first went to the kitchen and cooked for them. Then she went to her grandpa's room with breakfast and medicine. She asked her grandpa how to learn martial arts and how to gather spiritual power. Her grandpa explained to her everything about how to gather qi. If anyone wants to gather qi inside the body, then they need to open the body's channel. when she finished talking with her grandfather she went to her room. She counts how many gold coins she has now.

"I have now hundred and forty-seven gold coins. This much will be enough for five months for me and Grandpa. Now I have a hundred spirit stones. What will I do with these hundred spiritual stones? I will ask Grandpa about this. This body is so weak. First, I will run a hundred laps from now on. Then I will ask Grandpa for advice."

She said to herself.

She started running a hundred rounds and practiced every day her previously known self-defense martial art technique. When she fully practiced in fifty days, her self-defending martial art and running a hundred rounds gave her results. She has some energy in her body. Her body now is not weak but not too strong. She thought she needed some real experience. Now she wants to go to the forest. So she went to ask her grandpa's permission. Her grandpa does not want to allow it.

"My good grandpa, I know you are worried about me all the time. But if I don't get stronger then bad people will be stepping on us. They will do what they want with us. Can you tolerate that? You can see, they just want to play with our lives and dignity. Do we deserve that kind of pathetic life?"

She said to her grandpa.

Her grandpa told her, "No, you don't deserve that kind of pathetic life. What you said is correct. But your strength is not enough to fight the fierce animal in the forest. You need to practice more. I will teach you from tomorrow."

She said to her grandpa, "thank you, grandpa."

Her grandpa said to her, "You've changed. But this is not bad."

Suddenly she remembers she has the spirit stone. She wants to know, what is the use of these? So she asked her grandfather, "Oh, grandfather, how to use spirit stone?"

Her grandfather asked her, "Why do you ask? You have a spirit stone. Why didn't you tell me? Where do you get spirit stone? It costs a lot of gold to get one spirit stone."

She said in her mind, "If I say, I have a hundred spirit stones. He will get suspicious. I won't tell him. Now, I just want to know its use."

Her grandpa asked her, "Lan, why are you stopping talking? Did you do something wrong?"

She said with an innocent look, "No, Grandpa, I didn't do anything wrong. And I don't have a spirit stone. When I came back to the medicine store with the doctor, at that time, I heard some people talking about spirit stones. They said the spirit stone was too expensive. So I want to know its usefulness and why it is so expensive."

Her grandfather told her, "Spirit stone gives power to the soul. Spirit stone helps spirit user to channel their soul energy and helps them focus to get spiritual power. Those who have qi can use spirit stone to absorb spirit power to gather qi energy. Now you understand why spirit stone is so expensive."

She replied to her grandpa, "Yes, all clear. Now I know."

Saying this, she started to talk with herself, "Now I understand clearly, what use have these spirit stones. If I have qi energy, I can absorb the spirit stone's power. When I absorb the spirit power, I will be stronger than now. But he didn't recognize that I was not his granddaughter. I am happy that I don't have to go anywhere from here. I have a place to stay now. I have a grandfather who likes and loves me. I will become stronger than anyone so that no one can harm me and grandfather."