The Return of the Greatest Sect Leader
Chapter 47 ~ Romantic Fairy Tales
Leaning in front of the window, Ren Shun solemnly stared at the sky with his blind eyeballs. Although only able to see dark, Ren Shun had always liked to look at the sky.
I don't know what the reason is, nobody knows. Even the closest people and people who were always with Ren Shun also did not know the reason. Every time he was asked, the young man never answered seriously.
Currently Ren Shun was still in Rongrong Inn. He should not have been in this city, his initial intention was to visit Blue Cloud City then go to the capital. Ren Shun had not expected to meet someone so attractive in this place.
"Sir, when will you be in this town?" ask someone, his form is completely invisible.
"I want to observe this city in a moment," Ren Shun casually replied.
"If you may know, why did you come to visit this city? I see nothing special in this place other than the collapse of the Heavenly Road Sect."
"There's a relic of someone I want to see" Ren Shun told me.
"But it turns out I met the guy directly."
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The boy's screams woke an old woman from her sleep. The woman quickly got up and walked towards the direction of crying. The door opened, the old woman saw a boy crying.
Slowly the old woman approached the child, then sat on the bed right next to her. The boy continued to cry, seemingly indifferent to the old woman's presence.
The old woman silently accompanied the child. Sometimes he stroked the child's hair, so that the boy could feel calm.
The old woman's face was soft. He did not feel disturbed by the cry of the child, even though the child had interrupted his rest.
Five minutes later, the boy was calm. The crying had already stopped, the boy was just silent with no intention to start the conversation.
Now is a good time to talk to the child.
"Son, do you want to hear a fairy tale?" the old woman asked softly.
The boy turned his head, then looked at the old woman who had been taking care of him all this time. Ever since both his parents died in the monster slaughter, the boy had been taken care of by the old woman.
Almost every night the boy had a bad dream. However, the old woman never got upset or even scolded him. As of this moment, the old woman was just silently accompanying him.
When the child is quite calm, the woman will begin to tell a fairy tale. He did it over and over again, so that the child could sleep well.
Why was the old woman so kind to the child? Maybe because the old woman was living alone. He had a son who was a swordsman, but his son never came home to visit him.
When the boy nodded, the old woman began her story.
"In ancient times, there lived a simple man who was very kind... "
The boy wiped the rest of his tears and listened carefully. 5 Minutes later, for a moment the woman adjusted her breathing and continued to tell stories.
"Then, the very beautiful goddess chose an ordinary human. Not a god or a very extraordinary swordsman, but a simple man who was kind-hearted. The beautiful goddess came down from heaven and met the man."
"They live together. Of course the gods could not accept that fact, their pride as gods as if trampled."
"It didn't take long that the kind-hearted man also fell in love with the goddess. Their marriage was in sight, but the gods and goddesses suddenly agreed to curse them. A curse from the sky."
"On the day of their wedding, the gods and goddesses came and killed the man. The extremely beautiful goddess felt helpless, she could only see her lover being killed right before her eyes."
After seeing the look on the child's face, the old woman suddenly stopped her story. It seems that the story made the child remember bad memories.
"Why stop? What happened after that?" said the boy was sad, he was curious about the fate of the goddess who had been abandoned.
"The gods and goddesses left the beautiful goddess with the corpse of her lover. In the midst of her grief, the beautiful goddess tried to revive the man."
"Did the goddess succeed?" ask the boy very curious.
"Of course the attempt failed. The dead man could not live again" explained the woman slowly, the boy was immediately disappointed.
"A very beautiful pink flower grew from the blood of her lover's corpse. From then on, the goddess kept waiting for her lover to come while taking care of the flower." The old woman continued her story.
"Wait and wait, keep waiting. The beautiful goddess never stopped waiting for the arrival of the man. Hence this fairy tale is called The Flower Waiter."
"Is he not lonely?" ask the boy who is sad.
"Of course" answered the woman.
"Son, don't be like the goddess! He could not accept the reality and never stepped away. Pahahal she was free, but she kept herself in that place forever. What's happened, it's something we can't change." The old woman warned, her eyes blank as she stared at the ceiling of the room.
Silent moment.
"So, what curse did the gods give them?" ask the boy after being silent for a while. He remembered the gods and goddesses cursing the couple, but there was no mention of what curse had befallen them.
The old woman did not immediately reply, her head thinking of finding an answer to the question of the child. After the kind-hearted man was killed by the gods, the curse that befell them was never mentioned again.
"Perhaps the curse is the heart of the goddess that has already been broken, causing her to never leave that place," the old woman replied after thinking for a moment.
The sound of bells ringing suddenly rang out, indicating that someone was entering his inn. The old woman was indeed running a small lodging business in the suburb of Blue Cloud City.
Since there were dangerous monsters roaming his territory, for the past few months he had been very difficult to earn an income. That was the reason the boy stole in the middle of the city.
After telling the boy to rest, the old woman came to the front room to greet her guests. How surprised the woman, when she saw her guests were three small children who looked very suspicious.
Who else would they be if not Li Yao, Tao Yuhan, and Huli.