Slayer of Gods: I lied; I became the agent of the Nine Gods.

"Hurry up! Why is it so hot this Mid-Autumn Festival?"

The mother deer strode ahead carrying large and small shopping bags, seemingly without getting tired at all, while the father deer followed behind, also carrying various things, looking like he was about to collapse.

"If you ask me, it's because you've been spending too much time in the office and can't do anything else..."

Grandpa Lu walked with his granddaughter, all smiles and relaxed.

The little girl was eating the cookies she had just bought when some crumbs fell to the ground, attracting the attention of the temple's kittens.

"Grandpa, if you say that, Dad will go on strike!" Lu Yu said, her mouth full of food, her words slightly slurred.

"Then... it'll be just the two of us doing the work..."

"He dares! He's defying the Heavenly Order!" The old man snorted, completely unconcerned.

"If he dared to order me around, I might think more highly of him. But with his henpecked nature, it's impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"whee……"

Hearing the crickets chirping behind him, Lu's father was overcome with grief: "Dad! Aren't I your son? Why do you love your granddaughter more than your son?"

"What's wrong with my son? He's all grown up now, it's time for him to do some work!"

Grandpa glared at his son, who was in his forties, with displeasure. "As a father, you should be protecting your daughter. Why are you always competing with Xiaoyu for her affection?"

As he spoke, he turned to look at Lu Yu, his voice suddenly softening: "Little Yu... when you're studying away from home... if you encounter any difficulties, just call Grandpa! Grandpa will rush to the school to help you!"

Dad: "Does she need you to do this? She's never lost a fight since she was little... Ouch! Dad! Stop pulling my ear!!"

"How can you talk to your daughter like that? Huh? Can't you even show some concern?"

"...To be honest...Little Fish can handle it herself..."

The girl skipped ahead and took her mother's arm, smiling at those behind her: "Grandpa, Dad, I'm all grown up now... why do I still fight like I did when I was little..."

There weren't many people in the temple, but the unique scent of incense filled her nostrils, and after a while, Lu Yu felt a little sleepy.

"Master... I would like to draw a fortune stick for my daughter..."

The mother deer's voice still murmured in her ears, carrying the gentle whispers unique to a mother, making the deer kneeling on the prayer mat even more eager to drift off to sleep.

She didn't pay attention to what the master said, but she heard the sound of bamboo sticks clashing in the divination tube, followed by a bamboo stick falling to the ground.

Lu woke up with a start and instinctively picked up the bamboo skewer on the ground in front of him.

The slip of paper had three short sentences written on it, arranged vertically on a bamboo stick.

"Hey... let me see... what kind of fortune slip is it?"

The mother walked over and took the fortune slip from the girl's hand, but she didn't expect that the girl's eyes on the ground were a little red.

"Mom... let's go back..."

Lu Yu stood up, wanting to grab her mother's sleeve, but her feet were blocked by the prayer mat, and she stumbled and knelt down on it again.

Mother Deer gave her a reproachful look: "Don't be in such a hurry... Once the master has finished looking at this, we'll go buy your favorite cake."

Lu Yu didn't say anything more, but just smiled at her mother: "...Okay..."

The master standing behind took the fortune stick, looked at its contents, and was somewhat surprised.

"This……"

"Master, is there a problem? My little fish's fortune slip..."

The master shook his head, his eyes filled with doubt: "I'm just a little surprised..." He had never seen this fortune slip before... Could it be that a new fortune slip was put in today?

"Little girl, what is this...?"

The Guanyin divination slips...

Mother Deer: "Aren't they all Guanyin divination slips? How do you interpret the text of these slips?"

The master smiled bitterly to himself: But this divination slip doesn't look like something from a Guanyin divination slip!

"...Misfortune and fortune have no fixed gate; they are summoned by oneself. The retribution for good and evil follows like a shadow."

The master looked at Lu Yu, who had stood up. The girl, contrary to her previous ease, fell silent, unlike a child of her age.

"Good fortune and misfortune have no fixed path or source; they are all brought about by one's own actions."

Good deeds bring good rewards, and evil deeds bring evil consequences; this retribution is like a shadow following the body, never separating.

Mother Deer frowned: "What bad things has my daughter done? She wouldn't even dare to kill a fish!"

The master quickly stopped the mother from continuing to defend her daughter, somewhat helplessly:

"This fortune slip can usually only be interpreted in half. For the child himself, the one that is more important is the best fortune slip."

The deer mother finally calmed down, but the fortune slip had ruined half of her good mood. She put down the incense money and fortune slip money, and pulled Lu Yu away from the temple.

All the way, Mother Deer kept telling Deer, "Little Fish, don't pay attention to that fortune slip. It doesn't sound like anything Buddhist. It seems to be just some kind of hoax..."

Lu Yu smiled and said, "I'll listen to you, I'll listen to you..."

Could that be something Buddhist...?

That's clearly a Taoist divination slip...

To truly understand this divination slip, the real meaning behind it isn't just the two lines the master saw...

"We're here... Let me see... This cake that Little Fish likes... And there's more!"

Once the mother deer got excited, she forgot about the unpleasantness from earlier.

The two men left the two burly men behind them and went into the store:

"Boss, pack up this soufflé from the counter! And that tiramisu, and..."

"Mom... I can't finish it..."

Lu Yu stopped her mother from continuing to buy more.

The mother deer patted Lu Yu's head, and a slightly reluctant smile appeared on Lu Yu's face, which had inherited all her good qualities: "After you go to university... Mom won't be able to pick you up from school anytime anymore..."

"I..." will apply to a university nearby...

Lu Yu wanted to speak, but the second half of her sentence got stuck in her throat, as if she had swallowed a thousand needles, and her eyes stung with pain.

There were other customers in the store, making it a bit noisy, and the staff's voices were intermittent...

How lucky we are to have them among so many people in this world.

There are so many people in this world, how unfortunate that there is only one person.

……

Dad and Grandpa went into the store, carrying the pears they had bought when they passed by the fruit shop earlier.

Seeing Lu Yu's aggrieved look, Lu's father chuckled and gently rubbed her cheek.

"Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival... Being together as a family is always a joyful occasion... I hope Little Fish will continue to be this happy and joyful in the future..."

After a long while, the girl held back her tears and smiled brightly, like the Mid-Autumn Festival moon.

"……Um……"

Will do.

She has always been the luckiest and happiest child.

Whether it was twelve years ago or now...

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These chapters all have foreshadowing, which is actually quite obvious. For those of you who have already seen it, get ready for the ending of "The Dream of the Yellow Springs" in the next chapter!