Chapter 4 Departure
"Don't sleep, boy, bring me the apples over there. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info "Early in the morning, on crutches at a small fruit stand, the gray-haired old man shouted loudly into the shed behind the stall while loading fruit for the guests.
"Ah, got it." Behind the shed, a young man came up stretching his waist, rubbing his eyes as if he was about to fall asleep.
The boy's hair was pure black, but it didn't look like it was well groomed, and although it didn't stand up, it was very messy on his face and shoulders, and it looked like his hair was very soft.
The boy yawned and walked over to the place where the apples were placed, and the boy grabbed the three boxes of apples with both hands, and seemed to pick up the three boxes of apples with ease.
With a few yawns, he trotted and put it in the place designated by the old man, and in the old man's "Don't run, take it slowly." In the midst of the reprimand, he casually put it on the ground and went to move the remaining apples.
"I said old knife, your kid's strength is really not small, how about it, do you want him to be a mercenary with me, maybe it will be a good material."
Standing beside the old man was a tall mercenary, who looked at the young man with interest in his hands on his chest, and then suggested to the old man who was busy with the apple.
However, looking at his expression, he knew that this was just a simple joke with the old man, although the young man was born with strange powers, but he didn't have the slightest experience, and even if he brought it into the group, it would take a long time to cultivate.
And the boy usually doesn't go out to play, as long as he has a little free time, he can hide at home and sleep, he hasn't exercised his body much, and he doesn't have a few muscles on his body.
However, the appearance of the boy who was given by this gift was more like an elementalist engaged in research than those who did hard work, and it would be better if he could clean it up.
However, all of the above is fine, and the most important thing is that the old man has not noticed any change in his height since he picked it up seven years ago.
The current teenager has just reached 1.6 meters! You must know that the average boy in his early teens is at least 1.7 meters, and individual children who can insist on exercising well can now grow to 1.8 meters.
Even now there are many girls of the same age who are much stronger than him, and the old man has been heartbroken for the first few years for his size and growth.
But no matter how much he tried to find a home remedy, it was useless, even if he found a few friends back then, he didn't find anything wrong, and the old man died and could only go with the flow.
The old man heard that the mercenary was joking, and he didn't stop what he was doing, but he sighed helplessly: "This kid has had this strength since he was a child, mercenary?" Who knows what this kid will be able to do in the future? Maybe this life is at most a moving person, and I'll talk about it later. ”
"Yes......" When the mercenary heard the old man's answer, he also put away his joke, and just looked thoughtfully at a young man who was moving boxes down.
After a while, the mercenary came back to his senses, as if he was in a hurry, and counted out the corresponding money anxiously, threw it on the table, and shouted to the old man who was still busy while picking up the fruit:
"Okay, old knife, it's not too early now, then I'll go back, and I'll come to see you in a few days." After saying that, he took a bag of fruit and strode away to leave.
"yes, all the little cubs under your command are troublemakers...... Ahem," the old man sat on a small stool with his head down, picking up the broken apples, and said goodbye to the mercenary.
However, just as the mercenary came to the corner, he heard the old man's cough, as if he sensed something, turned his head to the old man and said:
"However, if he wants to be a mercenary in the future, he must come to me, and I will definitely take good care of him." The mercenary's words surprised the old man a little, and he looked up at the mercenary.
The two looked at each other in the air, and after a long silence, the old man said to the mercenary with a smile on his wrinkled face, "Is it? That's good. ”
After listening to the old man's answer, the mercenary nodded silently as if he had made a decision, and then walked away without hesitation.
In the constant busyness, the day passed quickly, and when the night came, slowly the sky began to faintly reveal a little starry.
After a while, the golden-red sun slowly climbed and disappeared, replaced by a pale yellow moon, and the old man and the young man put away their stalls.
Before leaving, the young man grabbed an apple and wiped it casually with his sleeve, and then hugged the apple and nibbled it while walking home with the old man.
The old man didn't say anything when he saw the white wolf like this, just sighed, walked back to their house with the boy, and when he walked into the house, the boy went to bed without getting home as usual.
Instead, he leaned back in his chair a little anxiously and didn't know what he was thinking, this situation has been going on for a few days, you must know that usually the teenager will happily throw himself on the bed and roll around as long as he is fine.
This hesitant look made the old man wonder if he was sick or cursed by something bad.
However, the old man now doesn't care about this, but lies on the side of the bed and pulls under the bed with a cane for a long time, pulling out a pile of dust and paper bags.
There were also a few bugs running away in panic, the old man opened the paper bag, he took out a flat wooden box from the paper bag, and the old man took the wooden box and moved it to the bed and sat down.
The old man slowly wiped the dust and spider silk from the wooden box with the palm of his hand, his face was full of memories, and the old man's actions attracted the attention of the young man.
The young man didn't make a sound, but squatted on the chair with some curiosity and looked at the old man and the wooden box, and the old man saw that he noticed the young man, and gently opened the wooden box with a few loud coughs.
There was a short weapon with a sheath and a pitch-black glove, and the old man did not touch the glove, but after hesitating for a few seconds, he gently pulled the sheath and pulled out the weapon.
The old man pulled out a narrow dagger from the sheath, and the old man touched the dagger, looking a little reluctant but slowly retracted it.
Although the dagger only showed up for a moment, the young man could not look like it, the old man coughed a few times and put the dagger back into the wooden box, picked up the wooden box and threw it into the young man's hand.
Then the old man didn't look at the wooden box and the boy, but looked at the starry sky facing the window, and said seemingly casually: "Tomorrow you will go to the Black Tiger Mercenary Group to find Oster." ”
"Why?" The young man asked with some confusion, "I just have this little thing, and I don't have a wife and children who don't give you mold?" ”
The old man's nails pinched his palms, and he replied mockingly, "Why did you let me go to that Ao?" The old man's answer to the question made the teenager, who was already feeling uncomfortable, feel a little irritable.
"It's Oster!" The old man corrected loudly, and then asked back unceremoniously: "You're already so old, don't you still want me to raise you?" Besides, haven't you been clamoring to be a mercenary? ”
"yes, the world is so big, I want to see it." Without the slightest hesitation, the young man replied to the old man, "It's time for you to go and see it, then don't go tomorrow, you can go to Oster now." ”
The old man was talking to the boy vaguely as he lay on the bed and covered the quilt, looking like he was about to go to bed: "Don't forget to close the door when you go out......
"Old man, are you dying?" Seeing this, the young man did not hesitate and asked the old man. "What nonsense are you talking about, I won't necessarily die if your kid dies, don't look at me old, but this body is still hard......"
The old man's body did stiffen after hearing the young man's question. "Old man, you're dying!" This time, the boy no longer had doubts, but said with great certainty.
After the old man heard the white wolf's questioning, his stiff body suddenly relaxed for some reason, and he lay down on the bed and looked at the dark ceiling and said:
"yes, I'm going to die, you're satisfied now." The young man walked to the old man's bed with some hesitation and said uncertainly: "Old man, I think ......"
"Needless to say, I don't have anything to be nostalgic about now." When the young man heard the old man's answer, it was as if he had let go of something.
The young man picked up the wooden box and walked gently to the door, but in the end he couldn't help but turn around and ask the old man lying on the bed, "Is it?" Then I'll go? ”
"Let's go, let's go, or you'll die with me?" This was just a slightly mocking answer from the old man.
The boy finally did not hesitate this time, walked out of the house and closed the door, and in a moment there was no sound inside and outside the house in the night.
"It's really a white-eyed wolf, but it's a wolf, it's a good ......," the old man in the house smiled, but two lines of tears slowly shed from the corners of his eyes.
The young man leaning against the door outside the house didn't know what to think, so he gently pulled out the old man's dagger and slowly put it back.
The young man wiped his face twice with force, and then took a firm step forward, slowly walking towards the base of the black tiger......