Demon King's Repayment - chapter 59
Yuan Xiang walked into the room carefully and knocked on the bamboo door.
“Is anyone home?”
“Coming, who is it?” A familiar voice answered with a smile and the glamorous face of Hui Teng turned out from the courtyard.
“Ah Xiang, why are you here? Come in quickly!” With surprise and joy, Hui Teng let Yuan Xiang into the house.
Yuan Xiang looked around curiously after entering.
Although the house was small, it was exquisite. The beds, screens, tables and chairs and bronze mirrors were all placed in a simple and elegant manner and they were spotlessly clean. There was also a jade pot spring bottle with a pine and bamboo pattern on the table, with a blooming red plum inserted in the mouth of the bottle.
“You are really living a good life here,” Yuan Xiang sat down at the wooden table in the house.
“You know, us snakes are very lazy in winter and don’t want to move, how could I toss these?” She coughed a little embarrassedly, “I am raising a human cub, isn’t it? I just thought about somehow bringing some furniture over. After that, I would just pile them up casually. Who knew that little thing was very diligent, it’s all him…cough.”
Just as she was talking, an eight or nine-year-old boy opened the curtain and entered the room with a tea tray. He was wearing a moon-white robe with black hair neatly combed on the top of his head and a moon-white hat. He was obviously in filial piety. (Mourning)
He had a pale face, wounds on his body, a piece of gauze on his forehead and obvious claw marks on his wrist and neck, but his expression was calm.
Yuan Xiang’s heart shook. This might be Dr. Han’s son, Han Yuzhi. After he appeared, Yuan Xiang’s basket on her back swayed slightly. Yuan Xiang took out the ceramic doll and placed it on the table so that it could see the boy’s face.
The young guy silently placed a cup of steaming tea in front of Yuan Xiang and Hui Teng, and put two plates of various dried fruits on the table. He even thoughtfully placed a plate of dried fish in front of Wu Yuan and put a small cup of tea. Obviously he was very used to some non-human guests. At a young age, he sensibly bowed and retired.
The ceramic doll on the table still had a smooth face, slightly bowed appearance. But almost without Wu Yuan’s explanation, Yuan Xiang could see a strong emotion from the thin eyebrows, as if the little porcelain doll was about to fall from the corner of the table, and chase the teenager who had left the house.
“What did you bring?” Hui Teng sat opposite Yuan Xiang and looked at Han Rui on the table. “It looks like a ghost that is more common in the human world.”
“This one is a friend of mine,” Yuan Xiang avoided the topic. She was planning to figure out the situation first, “Ah, what about that human boy?”
“You are talking about Xiao Yu.” Hui Teng glanced at the curtain of the door, “His human parents are dead. He was bullied by the same kind, that is, humans every day. The place where he lived was taken and he could only live with his relatives. Those relatives were not very kind to him. He was beaten or scolded everyday. He was not given food. In the snowy days, they sent him to the mountain to chop wood. When the boy was rolling down the mountain, I happened to pick him up. So he is living with me.”
Hearing these words, the little porcelain man on the table, whose body was shaking slightly, gradually became quiet. He stood silently on the table like that, which made Yuan Xiang sad.
“But this child is an ordinary human being after all, not suitable for living in the world of demons for a lifetime.” Yuan Xiang said, “Furthermore, we discussed last time, are you really ready to adopt a human child? “
Han Rui was Han Yuzhi’s father. From the perspective of a father, he definitely didn’t want his son to have no partner in his life or to always live in the world of demons.
At the same time, for a demon whose life was infinitely long, it would take energy and emotion to raise a human child and watch him grow old and die in a very short period of time. It was not necessarily a pleasant thing.
It was like asking humans to adopt a cute pet sincerely, but watching him grow from childhood to old age within a few days. Presumably no one would be willing to take the initiative to accept this kind of breeding experience.
“Yes, at first I listened to your suggestion and I felt that it is really not suitable for him to stay here for a long time. I wanted to send him back to the human world.” Hui Teng avoided Yuan Xiang’s eyes, then turned her head back in frustration, “I promise, I tried many times. Unfortunately, they all failed.”
She took a sip of tea and concealed her embarrassment, “Did you know? He is really cute. He is so small, has smooth hair and is very well-behaved. He can clean the house and make good food. I just thought about raising him for a few more days, but it had been delayed until today… Well, you can help me take him back tomorrow.”
There was a clanging noise outside the door. It was the sound of the pot falling down and a string of small footsteps running away.
Sitting at the table, Hui Teng’s legs quickly turned into snake tails. As soon as she moved to the door, she raised the curtain and went out.
Yuan Xiang took Han Rui to the door together, raised a corner of the curtain and saw that in the distance of the yard, the little boy dressed in white, with his eyes downcast, was wiping his tears.
Yuan Xiang guessed that the words that Hui Teng said were already beyond count.
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