He opened the door and saw Granny Ma standing in the yard and nodded at her.
"Fellow Daoist Shen, today you not only saved the village, but also rescued Ying Luo. Thinking back to my previous attitude towards you, I feel ashamed!" Granny Ma breathed a sigh of relief, and then a mixture of gratitude and guilt flashed in her eyes, and she said to Shen Luo.
"There's no need to talk about the past. I'm still a member of the village now, and I have a clear conscience for what I've done." Shen Luo waved his hand and said calmly.
"When those monsters surrounded the village before, they said that when you went to Shangcun Mountain this time, you visited a place called Xieyue Sanxing Cave. I wonder if it is true?" Granny Ma looked hesitant, but finally spoke.
"Not bad." Shen Luo glanced at Grandma Ma and said.
"According to the elders in the village, the Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave is where the founder of Fangcun Mountain taught his disciples in seclusion. I wonder... what the situation is in there now?" Granny Ma asked anxiously with a hint of excitement on her face.
"Granny Ma, I know what you want to ask, but knowing too much may not be a good thing. Of course, if you really want to know, I won't hide it." Shen Luo said slowly.
Granny Ma trembled when she heard this, and the excitement on her face slowly disappeared. She seemed to have guessed something, and her face turned pale and she fell silent.
Shen Luo just closed the door silently, walked slowly to the center of the yard, looked up at the starry sky, and seemed to be thinking about something.
"Fellow Daoist Shen, at my age now, besides protecting the village, my only obsession is to know the situation on the mountain. Please... please help me solve this puzzle." After a moment of silence, Granny Ma sighed and spoke again.
Shen Luo nodded, and immediately told Granny Ma everything he had seen in the Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave, hiding only the things related to the Huangting Sutra.
As Granny Ma listened to Shen Luo's narration, the hint of expectation in her cloudy eyes finally faded away along with the blood color on her face, and she looked much older.
"Our ancestors in Changshou Village have been waiting for this for hundreds of years, haha, it is all an empty dream in the end, fate plays tricks on us, fate plays tricks on us!" She laughed bitterly and murmured, two lines of turbid tears streaming down her face.
Shen Luo stood quietly by the side without saying a word, feeling a little disappointed.
Although the situation of Changshou Village is bleak now, it has at least managed to survive to this day. As the saying goes, no eggs are left unbroken when the nest is overturned, and when the devil destroys the world, there are probably many cases where families are broken up and even entire villages are destroyed in all parts of the four continents.
After saying this with self-mockery, Granny Ma lowered her head and stood there silently. Her lonely figure seemed to be abandoned by heaven and earth.
But she didn't stand there for too long. She soon raised her head, and her expression seemed to have returned to her former calm.
"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Shen, for telling me the truth. However, please do not tell anyone else about this matter, so as not to affect the villagers' will to survive." She said seriously.
Seeing that Granny Ma adjusted her mindset so quickly, Shen Luo couldn't help but admire her secretly and nodded in agreement.
"I have no way to repay my fellow Daoist's kindness. Please accept my greeting!" Granny Ma bowed to Shen Luo.
"Mother-in-law, there's no need to be like this! By the way, although Ying Luo has escaped danger, she still hasn't woken up and needs someone to take care of her. I, Shen, still have things to do and can't be distracted. Please, Mother-in-law Ma, send someone over to take care of her." Shen Luo quickly moved aside to avoid Mother-in-law Ma's gift and changed the subject.