Demon King's Repayment - chapter 71

The man followed them for several days. The weather on the road was always sunny and the team moved very fast.

Why was the weather so good and the journey so smooth? She really hoped that it would rain heavily and she could never reach Jingdu.

As if someone had heard her prayers, it rained heavily and the rain was getting bigger. While the team looked for shelter from the rain on the slippery mountain road, the sedan carrier slipped and threw the bride out of the sedan chair.

Ru Shi rolled a long way along the mountain road, but miraculously she was not injured at all and even the corner of her clothes were not even wet.

It was the man who found her.

The man was more at ease in the rain than usual. He was exposed to heavy rain, but there was no trace of him getting wet.

He parted the rain curtain and stretched out his hand to Ru Shi, with a look of embarrassment and guilt, “Sorry, it’s all my fault. I’ll send you back.”

“I’m not going back.” Ru Shi looked straight into his eyes, “Take me away.”

Yuan Xiang opened her mouth, “So this person is Shifu? It turns out that since then, Shifu and Shiniang have always been together.”

“Although he was completely different from the fish, I don’t know why, but I knew very well that he was the fish.” Ru Shi smiled, rubbing the pattern embroidered on the handkerchief with her white fingers, “He was with me. After being together, he had been trying very hard to live like a human. He asked me to teach him to read and write, and teach him everything about humans. I accompanied him to travel around the world, visit famous teachers, learn human spells and help those in need.”

“So romantic,” Yuan Xiang said.

Even Nan He sat up straight, looking at Ru Shi with bright eyes.

“It sounds beautiful, but after all, it violated the laws of the world. It was taboo and out of place.” Ru Shi sighed and looked at Yuan Xiang, “As time went by, I began to age every day. For my husband, the years passing were only a trivial moment.”

Yuan Xiang got sad. She felt sad for her. It was cruel that she was getting old while the one she loved was still young.

Her hair grayed day by day, staggering with old age, but the person who should have walked side by side with her was still staying in place, so young.

“Do you think it’s more pitiful to get old first?” Ru Shi shook her head, “In fact, the one who leaves first is relieved. The one with the longest life is left alone.”

Yuan Xiang was stunned.

“One day, your Shifu made a divination and said that there is a little girl who will take him as her Shifu for several years. He was very happy and walked a long way on purpose to bring that little girl home.” Ru Shi looked at Yuan Xiang with kindness in her eyes, “At that time, you were so little. Every day, you bounced into the room and called Shiniang. But I was dying and had a decayed body, I couldn’t even walk.”

“But Shiniang, you were…”You looked so young at that time.

“Your Shifu has always been a casual person. Only this matter was the one he couldn’t bear. I don’t know how he kept my appearance, but in fact everything inside me was old and decayed. To the extreme, life was extremely painful. He refused to let me go, but I was already discouraged and just wanted to persuade him to give up. He was very stubborn and insisted on trying various methods. For this, we quarreled with each other. I even ignored him for a long time, just hoping he could figure it out by himself.”

Yuan Xiang stood up. Shiniang had recovered, but Shifu had disappeared?

“Even an ordinary person like me knows how unnatural it is to allow a mortal to live for a long time.” Ru Shi cast her gaze to the distant horizon, “I don’t know what he paid for it, but since he insisted on doing this, I will cherish all the hard-won things and have a good life, waiting for him happily. I think I can always wait until he comes back.”

Ru Shi stretched out her hand and pinned a strand of loose hair from Yuan Xiang’s temple behind her ears, “Xiang’er, now I am telling you this because I hope you can know the reasons for all this early.  The heavens will determine the future. Shifu had expectations. It’s better to take your own path.”

Yuan Xiang reached out and held Ru Shi’s hand, but didn’t say what was in her heart.

Shifu left without telling her anything back then, probably because he hoped that she could grow up carefree in this small town and live her own life without pressure.

The father-like man with a gentle smile found her, held her hand and led her all the way there, giving her a warm home.

She became an adult and had her own abilities and ideas. So she hoped to be able to figure out what happened that year, find Shifu and bring him back. Although the world was vast, just like Shifu said, as long as one was still alive, they could do it slowly. There were always opportunities and hopes.