Demon King's Repayment - chapter 86
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Although she was a legendary woman in Dingzhou City, she hadn’t been treated with pity as her youth years were taken without mercy.
She was standing under the hanging painting, in which the girl kicked the golden ball, time stopped forever. Her hair was white, with thin hands clutching the deformed golden ball tightly.
The old lady stared at Yuan Xiang for a long while. Her old palm leaned on a cane, trembling. It took a long time before she showed a disappointed look, “No, you’re not her, where did you get this golden ball? “
She obviously accumulated a lot of power in her daily life and everyone followed up into the room. All were curious, but no one dared to make a noise. They were only quietly looking at Yuan Xiang.
Yuan Xiang stood up, facing the burning eyes of a group of women and didn’t know where to start.
It was the lady who took the lead to calm down. She sent back the crowd, leaving only her eldest son and daughter-in-law to accompany the guests.
She leaned on the armrest of the chair, sat down slowly and took a second breath. The wrinkles on her face stretched out, trying to make her stern-looking face appear gentler and she spoke carefully to the young girl in front of her, “Little lady, can you tell me from where did you get this golden ball? Don’t be vigilant, I will never steal your things. As long as you tell me, I can just get ten golden balls for you.”
The great treasurer, Mrs. Tai’s eldest son, Lou Xian, was a little bit sour at that moment. He was raised by his mother alone. He followed his mother in and out of the shop since he was a child. It had been a long time since he saw his mother like that, worrying about gains and losses. She always did things carefully. The negotiation hadn’t started yet and she already showed a timid appearance.
For him, his mother’s life was the most important thing in his heart. Not to mention ten golden balls, he was willing to buy or even a hundred balls so as to make his mother happy.
His mother took the lead in introducing herself, “My surname is Lou and name is Chun. This ball is a gift I gave to a friend when I was young. I really want to know where she is. Is she well now?”
“So you are Ah Chun that Yan Nu mentioned,” Yuan Xiang remembered the name that the demon had mentioned.
“Ah!” Mrs. Lou sat up straight, firmly grasping the handle of the chair.
Her daughter-in-law supported her on the side and gently stroked her back, “Mother, don’t be excited. Now that we have news, let’s listen to what the little lady says.”
So Yuan Xiang roughly retold the selective events of her meeting with Yan Nu.
“It turns out that she is still waiting for me in the same place,” Mrs. Lou slumped back to her position. The woman played the exquisite ball for fifty years. After a long time, she calmed down and talked about the past, “When I saw Ah Nu for the first time, I was a ten-year-old kid…”
At that time, Lou Chun, who was only ten years old, followed her mother back to her natal house.
Her grandma’s house was at the foot of Celestial Wolf Mountain and her cousins took her to play in the mountain all day long. Lou Chun found a pure white snow rabbit in the jungle that day. She was surprised and chased it all the way.
She clearly remembered that she hadn’t run far, but when she turned around, she found that the road behind her had disappeared.
The laughter and joy of her cousins also had disappeared and there was silence all around. There were countless eyes peeping at the little girl in the dim woods.
Lou Chun walked a long way in the forest with trembling feet and a face full of tears. The traces of human activities became more invisible. The sky became dim and some weird sounds from the deep mountain were faintly heard in the distance. The most terrible thing was that it was snowing.
The various horror stories about spirits, ghosts and demons that adults used to frighten children appeared more vividly in the little girl’s mind.
Am I going to die here? Maybe a tiger, a black bear, or some headless ghost will come out soon. They will grab the poor me and swallow my fingers one by one into their stomach. Woohoo.
Ten-year-old Lou Chun hugged her little shoulders and walked while crying. For the first time in her life, she had a real understanding of death.
“Stop crying. You are too noisy,” a little girl about her age appeared from behind a locust tree.
She was wearing a short brown robe. Her feet were bare with snow-white arms resting on the tree trunk. She looked at Lou Chun extremely impatiently.
Finally meeting a fellow of her own kind, Lou Chun found her emotional catharsis. She hugged the little girl regardless and cried louder. She refused to let go of her and cried with tears and snot on the child’s clothes.
“In fact, it didn’t take long for me to know that Ah Nu was not a human being like me.” Mrs. Lou, who was recalling everything, showed a nostalgic smile, “But I was not afraid of her. Ah Nu looks very fierce, and just said she wanted to eat me but her heart was actually softer than anyone else.”
“She was so powerful that no one could hold her back in anything. But I just have to pull her sleeves and show a pitiful expression, say I’m hungry, say I’m cold and she would jump on her feet and curse while looking for delicious food for me. She took me to a sheltered cave to rest and also made a bed warm in the cold with soft fur.”
“At that time, I was still proud of myself for being clever.”Â
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