Hearing Matron Zhou from the West-End Poor Orphanage gasp that Lin Fan had dumped leftover Corpse-Rot Poison. Slag into the orphans’ drinking well just to create a distraction and steal their twenty-silver winter charity jar. Every single person in the south herb fields froze in outrage!
Even Poison-Hand Wu—who had spent thirty years in the Five-Venom Scorpion Gang—slammed his hoe into the dirt so hard the wooden handle cracked, his scarred face purple with disgust.
“That purple-headed rat Lin Fan isn’t even human!” Poison-Hand Wu roared, clenching his newly healed fists over his pink honeybee apron. “When I brought the poison drums to Frost-Pine Town four nights ago.
He secretly scraped half a sack of unrefined Corpse-Rot Slag out of the bottom of a broken.
Drum—and he dumped it into a poor orphanage’s well just to rob twenty silver of winter porridge money?!”
Standing beside the herb basket in her fluffy pink rabbit dress, six-year-old Su Nuannuan gripped eight-year-old Gu Nian’s hand tightly.
Four days ago, she had been an orphan locked in a dark cage herself. The forty children they had rescued from the Black-Sand Slave Market whose families hadn’t been found yet were staying right at the West-End Orphanage!
“Dad!” six-year-old Su Nuannuan looked up at Gu Changsheng with her big black-grape eyes wide and earnest. “The little brothers and sisters at the orphanage drank the bad green water!
Can Nuannuan go pat their heads so their tummies don’t hurt?”
“Not only is Nuannuan going to pat their heads,” Gu Changsheng said warmly. Scooping his six-year-old daughter up onto his left arm. Holding Gu Nian’s hand with his right, “Dad is going to make our Little Fairy Boss her very own magic watering can so she can clean the whole well in one pour!”
As Gu Changsheng, Auntie Qin, Grandpa Fu, Gu Nian, Nuannuan. Twenty pink-aproned helpers led by Poison-Hand Wu hurried toward the West-End Orphanage at full Rank 2 speed, Gu Changsheng tapped open the three-slot interface of [Dad’s Care-Package Upgrade Box].
Over the past four days of daily midnight settlements [+12,500, +14,000, +15,000, +16,000 DP], his account balance had climbed to a massive 74,710 DP!
Into Slot 1, Gu Changsheng placed [A Small Tin Children’s Garden Watering Can] from the herb-field tool shed, painted bright pink with a flared rose-sprinkler spout.
Into Slot 2, he loaded [A Piece of Rank 2 Sweet-Dew Purifying Jade] from the Central Street Pill Hall treasury plus [Ten Golden Jade-Dew Healing Gummies].
Into Slot 3, he added [One Drop of Su Nuannuan’s Rank 2 Honey-Candy Spiritual Dew] condensed on the tip of her tiny finger!
“System, fuse a permanent signature healing & purifying tool for Child #2!” Gu Changsheng commanded silently. “Cost: two thousand Dad Points!”
[ DAD’S CARE-PACKAGE UPGRADE BOX — SIGNATURE KID ARTIFACT! ]
* Target Owner : Child #2 (Su Nuannuan, Age 6)
* Input 1 : [Small Pink Tin Garden Watering Can]
* Input 2 : [Rank 2 Sweet-Dew Purifying Jade + 10 Gummies]
* Input 3 : [Drop of Nuannuan’s Honey-Candy Empress Dew]
* Cost : 2,000 DP (Remaining Balance: 72,710 DP)
[ DING! 100% FLAW-FREE ARTIFACT FUSION COMPLETE! ]
* Output : [Rank 2 Perfection: Little Fairy Pink Watering Can]
* Appearance : Adorable child-sized pink porcelain-and-jade.
watering can painted with smiling honeybees and.
strawberries! Weightless in Nuannuan’s hands!
* Effects :.
1. Infinite Honey-Spring Refill: Automatically condenses Nuannuan’s.
passive [Sweet Honey-Candy Aroma] into liquid [Rank 2 Golden.
Honey-Dew Healing Water]!
2. Area Purification: Sprinkling one can into any well, river, or.
field purifies 10,000 gallons of poisoned water or soil into.
sweet, meridian-nourishing spring water in 10 seconds!
3. Rapid Growth & Healing: Sprinkling on herbs triples growth.
speed; sprinkling on injured allies cures all Rank 2 poisons!
When they arrived at the courtyard of the West-End Poor Orphanage three minutes later, the scene inside broke everyone’s heart.
Around the central stone well—where foul, greenish-black foam was bubbling up across the wet cobblestones—thirty small orphan children between the ages of four. Ten were lying on straw mats under quilted blankets. Their cheeks burning with dark-green poison fever and their lips cracked.
Three elderly matrons wept and tried to wipe their foreheads with snow.
“Doctor Qin! Patriarch Gu! Thank the heavens you’re here!”
Head Matron Zhou cried, pointing at the bubbling black well and an empty broken clay charity jar by the door.
“Half an hour ago, we smelled rotten cabbage by the back wall and found our twenty-silver winter charity jar smashed open! Before we knew he had thrown poison slag down the well, the children drank the afternoon tea boiled from the well water!”
Auntie Qin immediately knelt beside the nearest sick child to check his pulse. Gu Changsheng set six-year-old Su Nuannuan gently down beside the stone rim of the poisoned well and placed the gleaming [Rank 2 Perfection: Little Fairy Pink Watering Can] into her small hands.
“Nuannuan,” Gu Changsheng said softly, pointing at the bubbling greenish-black well water, “hold your new pink watering can over the well with both hands, and pour the sweet honey water inside.”
Six-year-old Su Nuannuan held the lightweight pink watering can painted with smiling honeybees and strawberries.
Feeling how naturally the handle fit her small fingers and how the golden water inside hummed in harmony with her own heart. She stood on her tiptoes beside Big Brother Gu Nian and tilted the sprinkler spout over the mouth of the stone well!
Tinkle... splash... shimmer!
A shower of sparkling, golden-pink droplets—smelling of fresh strawberries, wildflower honey, and morning dew—rained down from the rose spout of the pink watering can into the pitch-black, poisoned well!
The moment the first golden droplet touched the foul green surface of the well water—.
HUMMMMM—WHOOSH!
A ring of warm, rose-gold spiritual light rippled downward from the mouth of the well all the way into the underground water table beneath the West End of Frost-Pine Town!
In front of Matron Zhou’s, Auntie Qin’s, Poison-Hand Wu’s. A hundred gathered West-End neighbors’ wide, unblinking eyes, the bubbling greenish-black Corpse-Rot Slag in the well didn’t just vanish—it was neutralized and transmuted by the [Little Fairy Pink Watering Can] into pure. Crystal-clear, sweet-smelling spiritual spring water in ten seconds flat!
Fresh, warm white mist rose from the stone well, carrying the soothing aroma of hundred-flower honey across the entire courtyard!
“The well water turned crystal clear!” Matron Zhou gasped, lowering a wooden bucket and drawing up a scoop of sparkling water that smelled like sweet spring nectar. “The poison stench is completely gone!”
“And now let our Little Doctor Nuannuan help Auntie Qin treat the children,” Gu Changsheng said with a gentle smile. Handing Auntie Qin thirty clean porcelain cups filled with the newly purified honey-spring water from the well.
While Auntie Qin helped each feverish child take a sip of the warm honey-spring water, six-year-old Su Nuannuan walked carefully down the row of straw mats in her fluffy pink rabbit dress. Kneeling beside each sick boy and girl to pat their burning foreheads with her tiny, warm hands.
Pat, pat.
“Don’t be scared,” six-year-old Nuannuan whispered softly to a four-year-old boy who was crying from stomach cramps, patting his cheek the exact way her dad had patted hers in the cave. “Nuannuan’s hands have sweet honey candy in them. One pat and the tummy-ache goes away.”
Every single time Nuannuan’s tiny hand touched a sick child’s forehead, a visible halo of warm pink honey-light sank into their skin!
Within three breaths, the dark-green poison fever faded from the child’s cheeks, their breathing turned smooth and deep, and the agonizing cramps vanished without a trace!
One child, five children, ten children, thirty children!
In less than ten minutes, all thirty poisoned orphans were sitting up on their mats rosy-cheeked, energetic, and giggling as they hugged Nuannuan’s pink rabbit dress!
Outside the orphanage gate, dozens of poor West-End mothers and grandmothers who had run over when they heard the well was poisoned dropped to their knees in tears of gratitude. Kissing six-year-old Su Nuannuan’s tiny hands and pressing red winter apples into her basket:.
“Thank you, Little Fairy Miss! You have the hands of a living Bodhisattva!”
“When our West-End well water turned sweet just now, even my old mother’s asthma in the house next door got better! Little Miss Nuannuan is Frost-Pine Town’s lucky star!”
Standing in the center of the cheering mothers and healthy children, six-year-old Su Nuannuan stared down at her own two tiny pink hands in wonder.
Four days ago, her own village had thrown stones at those hands and called them cursed poison claws that killed her grandma.
Today, thirty children were smiling because she touched them, and the mothers of the town were kissing her fingertips and calling her their lucky star!
Nuannuan turned around, buried her beaming, tear-streaked little face against eight-year-old Gu Nian’s yellow bunny smock, and whispered in the happiest voice in the world:.
“Big Brother Nian! Did you see?! Nuannuan’s hands didn’t hurt anybody—my hands can save people now!”
“Of course they can,” eight-year-old Gu Nian said proudly, patting her back while holding her pink watering can for her. “You’re my little sister and Dad’s second kid!”
[ DING! CHILD #2 PUBLIC REDEMPTION — “LITTLE FAIRY DOCTOR”! ]
* Achievement : Purified the West-End water table & healed 30.
poisoned orphans! Town-wide adoration unlocked!
* Nuannuan Stats: Warmth/Happiness: 96 -> 97/100!
Darkening Meter : 18% -> 16% (-2% DROP!)
* Immediate DP : +500 DP Savior Bonus (Balance: 73,210 DP)
* Daily Income : +16,000 DP/day -> +17,000 DP/day!
Moreover, Gu Changsheng didn’t just leave the orphanage with clean water: he had Grandpa Fu hand Matron Zhou five hundred silver taels from the clan treasury to rebuild the orphanage roof. Install a sub-branch of the [Ever-Warm Dragon-Stove Floor Array] so the orphans would never shiver in winter again!
Before they left the West-End courtyard, six-year-old Su Nuannuan also walked around the garden with her [Rank 2 Perfection: Little Fairy Pink Watering Can]. Sprinkled the bare, frozen vegetable patches behind the orphanage kitchen.
Right before the cheering children’s and mothers’ eyes. The residual honey-dew essence soaked into the thawed earth and caused twenty rows of sweet winter cabbages and red radishes to sprout plump and green in a single quarter-hour. Guaranteeing that the orphanage kitchen would have fresh vegetables all winter long!
“Look, Big Brother Nian! The little cabbages popped right out of the dirt when I watered them!” Nuannuan clapped her hands in delight, her pink rabbit ears bouncing.
The thirty orphan children cheered and danced around her in a circle.
“Wait until we get back to the mansion,” eight-year-old Gu Nian said with a warm grin. Holding his little sister’s hand as they walked out the orphanage gate to the sound of a hundred neighbors waving and blessing the Gu Clan. “Dad told Grandpa Fu to hang up red lanterns in the Ancestral Hall tonight so the whole clan can celebrate your adoption banquet!”
Yet when Gu Changsheng returned to the Gu Clan Mansion at dusk with the two smiling children, First Grand Elder Gu Song hurried out to the gate with a solemn expression:.
“Patriarch! Half an hour ago, our patrolling guards near the West Slums detected a faint. Furious Rank 6 Golden Core Soul Fluctuation leaking out of the leaky woodshed inn where that fugitive Lin Fan is hiding!”
First Grand Elder Gu Song wiped a bead of cold sweat from his white eyebrows as he lowered his voice:.
“According to our two scouts who were watching the alley from the tavern across the street. Lin Fan ran back to his woodshed room with twenty silver taels he stole from the orphanage charity jar. Right after he bolted the door, a blinding white light flashed inside his room.
An old man’s voice roared from inside his black thumb-ring loud enough to shake the snow. Off the roof tiles: ‘You poisoned thirty four-year-old orphans just to steal twenty silver of porridge money?! Even the beasts of the abyss have more morals than you!’ Patriarch, could there really be a Golden Core old monster hiding inside Lin Fan’s ring?!”