Lin Waner had adopted many orphans like Saito Masahira in her lifetime.
Besides doing her utmost to nurture and educate them, Lin Waner had also provided guidance and help for many people’s life paths.
She was rich in life experience and erudite, undoubtedly the best teacher in the world, and when educating these children, she never skimped on her knowledge and experience, so the children she raised, though each one came from humble or even hardship-stricken origins, most gradually became talents in various fields.
Over so many years, Lin Waner had also earned a fortune, but she distributed most of it to these children, without seeking any return, only hoping their lives could shine brightly.
If one were to sum up what Lin Waner had mainly done in the past three hundred plus years, apart from the eternal theme of fleeing for her life, almost everything else was sowing seeds of love in the world.
And those children she had raised to adulthood also deeply knew that her life, besides fleeing, was all about constantly giving to others.
With different identities, in different places, she had raised generation after generation of people, and with different identities, in different places, she had helped generation after generation of people, just like the Miss Saito in Kyoto back then, like the Virgin Mary in the eyes of the poor, whoever was kind-hearted and encountered difficulties, Miss Saito would lend a hand.
In those years, the children of poor families in Kyoto envied not the sons and daughters of officials and wealthy merchants, but those orphans who could be adopted by Miss Saito.
Later, Miss Saito left Japan, no one knew where she went, but her story was passed down from generation to generation among the older generation in Kyoto.
Lin Waner had poured countless efforts into these children, yet she never sought any return, except for someone like Old Zhang who had no ambitions and only wanted to serve the lady by her side for life, Lin Waner rarely interfered in these people’s lives.
Not interfering was not just because she did not want to trouble them, the greater reason was that Lin Waner had always been desperately avoiding the pain of parting with life and death.
Those adopted sons and daughters would eventually grow old before her, she did not want to face that eternal farewell, so she simply scattered her wealth to them, let them pursue their own splendours, and she disappeared from their lives in their best years, never contacting these children thereafter, so she did not have to watch with her own eyes the children she raised die before her.
Coming to see Kong Yin today was out of urgent investigation, yet she never expected to unintentionally accompany Kong Yin through the last leg of his life.
Looking at Kong Yin’s extremely aged and lifeless face before her, Lin Waner’s emotions somewhat collapsed, holding the Rejuvenation Pill in her palm, she cried uncontrollably, murmuring, “Masahira, why be so foolish, there is no such thing as the Western Paradise in this world, I told you all from childhood that when people die it’s like a lamp going out, how can a withered lamp that has burned out in this world reignite in another…”
To gain twenty years of lifespan out of thin air, how many would go mad for it, yet Kong Yin gave up this chance, and part of the reason was for her, Lin Waner truly felt exceptionally saddened in her heart.
An Chengxi, seeing her heartbroken beside her, could not help but step forward and gently hold her in his arms, comforting, “People all have to die, it’s just that you have lived too long, making them seem as if they did not live long enough, actually even without accepting these extra twenty years of life, Master Kong Yin was already one of the rare long-lived people in the world, moreover he is a monk, he probably saw through worldly life and death long ago.”
