37. New Mandate
Bang!
The chocolate milk carton in Jinli's hand fell to the ground suddenly, and the light brown milk spilled all over him, but he didn't seem to realize it.
His face was pale, his lips trembled unconsciously, and his facial features were completely entangled, adding a bit of vicissitudes to his already wrinkled face.
Patriarch, Sasha, Fruit of Resurrection...... Oh my God, what's going on!
Seeing this, Oliver, who was sitting next to him, quickly picked up the milk carton for him, pulled out a few more tissues and handed them to him, frowned, and said, "Oh Jinli, be careful, this brand of chocolate milk is very dark in color, and it is difficult to wash off when it gets on your body." โ
Jin Li held the tissue blankly, looked at Ella in a daze, and only after a while did he hold back a sentence in a trembling voice: "Sasha...... What's wrong? โ
Ella sighed, did not answer immediately, but adjusted her light brain to projection mode and shone it on the white wall, and said, "I can't say it either, you can see for yourself." โ
Morton's commission was written in three pages, a small part of which gave a rough explanation of Sasha's situation, and the vast majority of the rest was devoted to imploring the Black Commune to take the commission and save his daughter's life, and that he would be willing to pay for all the treasure he had accumulated as long as Sasha recovered.
"Heh, this is going to go bankrupt?" Ian wasn't so sleepy now, got up from Aki's shoulder, sat down, and said, "But what he said was very vague." You see, the commission says that Sasha just got a disease, because she didn't get treated in time and is still in a coma, but he mentions the fruit of resurrection...... Aki, if I'm not mistaken, the fruit of resurrection seems to be for people who are terminally ill and have only one breath left, right? โ
Hearing this, Aki nodded and said, "Well, yes." The Fruit of Resurrection is the fruit of Arisno, the sacred tree of our elves, and it only matures once every ten years, which is very precious. Arisno is the origin of the elven healing magic, and its fruit has extremely healing powers, even the dying can be saved. โ
"Can you get it?" Jin Li asked eagerly, "Can you get the fruit of resurrection?" He saw that Yaxi frowned hesitantly, and his heart became even more anxious, and he couldn't help but beg: "Please, Yahi, can you save Sasha, you are an elf, you must have a way, right?" Save her, Aki, as long as you can heal her, let me do whatever I want!" โ
Facing Jinli's bitter pleading, Yaxi was very embarrassed, he pursed his lips, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry Jinli, I really don't have the fruit of resurrection on my hands." You must know that the growth of the Resurrection Fruit is very difficult, and the storage conditions are also very harsh, plus the loss of the original battle of light and darkness...... I estimate that the entire elven race now has no more than ten intact fruits. โ
"Can you ...... then?"
"Jinli." This time it was Ian who interrupted him, and Ian frowned, "Have you forgotten?" Ahi is no longer a spirit of light. โ
With Ian finished, Kinley fell silent. He was right, Ashie was not an Elf of Light, and even though he had grown up with the Elven Queen and was loved by the Queen and the Elders, it could not change the fact that he had fallen into a Dark Elf.
After the War of Light and Darkness, the Elves of Light seized the rule of the Elves with a crushing force, and they deeply hated the Dark Elves who brought darkness and slaughter, and expelled all the Dark Elves from the Moonlight Forest, not allowing them to set foot in this holy land again.
Becoming a dark elf means that he is on the opposite side of the entire elven race, he is no longer accepted by the clan, and he has lost his shelter forever, if it weren't for the Black Commune to take him in, I'm afraid he still doesn't know where to wander in the stars.
Want Aki to return to the Moonlight Forest to come to the elven clan's holy treasure - the fruit of resurrection? It's a fantasy.
Jin Li collapsed in frustration, hugged his head in pain with both hands, and sighed deeply.
"Don't give up so early, maybe there's something else you can do." Seeing his dejected appearance that his soul was almost gone, Ian shook his head, and said in a low voice to comfort him: "It is also possible that he is not so sick, but your patriarch is exaggerating." โฆโฆ But Jinli, what is your relationship with that Sasha, so concerned about her life or death? It shouldn't be a childhood sweetheart, two little guesses, right? โ
Ian was joking to liven up the atmosphere, but Jinli looked at him deeply and sighed heavily.
Ian:??! Isn't it, is he really right? Are Jinli and Sasha really childhood sweethearts?
Ian felt as if he had discovered something terrible! He tried hard to conceive of the scene of two dwarfs who had not grown up, with two identical bun faces, affectionately promising each other for life, and sure enough, he had goosebumps......
Ella glanced at Ian like an idiot, and said to herself, why doesn't this guy open a pot! Although he didn't know much about Jinli and Sasha's past, he knew that Jinli had an antique gold pocket watch that he carried closely, and there was a small photo hidden in the dark compartment on the back of the pocket watch.
The photograph is very old, the negatives are all yellowed, and there is a dwarven girl in a floral dress, sitting on the grass with her knees crossed, smiling sweetly and cutely. โOf course, this is in the case of the dwarves.
Kinley was quickly approached, and Ella returned the watch to Kinley as it was, not mentioning the picture - everyone had their own secrets, and Ella had no interest in asking Kinley's secrets.
Originally, this matter was in the past, and after so many years, Ella had almost forgotten the pocket watch and the photo inside, but today, when she saw the name Sasha mentioned in the commission of the dwarven patriarch Morton, Ella couldn't help but look awk-
He clearly remembered that there was a small line of neat writing in charcoal on the back of the original photo, and although the handwriting had become a little blurry due to excessive wear and tear over the years, it was still not difficult to distinguish that it was a girl's name - Sasha.
It is not difficult to deduce that Sasha must be a very important person to Jinli. So Ella took this commission very seriously, and immediately called everyone downstairs, and even called Jinli, who had never participated in the commissioned task, over, because this matter involved Sasha, an acquaintance of the dwarves and Jinli, and he thought that Jinli would definitely want to participate.
As Ella expected, Kinley lost his temper as soon as he heard that Sasha was sick. Ella's eyes glazed out, and if he was not mistaken, Jinli and Sasha...... I'm afraid it's lovers.
Sure enough, after being silent for a moment, Jinli said quietly: "She is the girl I like, since she was a child, even now I still can't forget her." โ
Ian: Nima, my unobstructed crow's mouth......
Ella: Haha, I'll just say it's lovers!
Jinli didn't know what was going on in their hearts, and recalled in a hoarse voice: "Sasha is eight years younger than me, the daughter of the patriarch, she is very beautiful, and most of the young men in the tribe liked her at that time. My grandfather used to be the high priest of the dwarf clan, so I have known her since I was a child and grew up together. โ
Recalling the carefree days when he was with Sasha in the past, a faint smile rarely appeared on Jinli's face full of vicissitudes, and his voice became softer and softer, and he continued: "I like Sasha, and she likes me too, and this is what she told me personally. She said that she wanted to marry me in the future, so I planned to wait until the year she was an adult to go and beg the Patriarch of Morton to marry Sasha to me. โ
The promise made by the two children when they were young is always so beautiful, but this beauty often does not last long, because the reality is far from so simple.
Sure enough, soon the smile on Jinli's face disappeared, and a deep worry and sadness followed.
"But then my grandfather died. My father was a very mediocre man, unable to inherit my grandfather's position as a high priest, not even an ordinary priest, so he could only earn a small income by planting tatam, barely supporting our family. โ
Suddenly falling from a high-ranking and admired high priest family to an ordinary low-class grower, Jinli's early years were indeed very bumpy.
Ian shook his head regretfully and said, "Then your patriarch will definitely not be willing to marry his daughter to you, right?" โ
"Hmm." Jin Li lowered his eyes and replied sullenly: "Sasha is the only daughter of the Morton patriarch, and the patriarch has always hoped to marry her to Cather, the first warrior of our dwarf clan, and it just so happened that Cather was also interested in Sasha, so the patriarch took it upon himself to make a marriage contract for the two of them." โ
"What? You made a marriage contract without even asking? Oh Jinli, your patriarch is so โกโก! On the opposite sofa, Oliver shouted dissatisfiedly: "Since Sasha likes you, he should marry Sasha to you, how can she be happy if she marries that Cather!" โ
In Oliver's cognition, two people who like each other should be together, even if the Jinli family is poor, Sasha may have a harder life after marrying, but this is better than letting her marry someone she doesn't like and then be unhappy for the rest of her life!
Oliver smacked his lips angrily, I really don't know what the patriarch thinks, what's wrong with Jinli? is smart and down-to-earth, isn't it that the family is a little poorer, but poverty is only temporary, Jinli is so capable, and he is worried that he will not be able to make money in the future?
Besides, he is a dignified patriarch, and he must have a lot of gold coins hoarded in his hands, so he still cares about Jinli's little dowry? This Morton is such an out-and-out old stubborn, old stubborn! ruined a good marriage for her daughter in vain!