Chapter Forty-Eight: The Deceased
After the reunion, Asher lived with us all the time, and he never told me why he came to me, and every day, like us, obeyed the mortal three meals a day. I promised to go back to Xifeng, so I decided to take Dream and Asher to the elven realm first.
To reach the realm of the elves, you have to pass through many places in the mortal world, and the town where Hope is located is one of them.
I didn't think of him by chance, it's just that whenever I encountered difficulties, I would always take out the peace charm he gave me, I remember clearly, he said, peace charm can bless me with peace in my life, I thought it was funny in my heart at the time, I didn't tell hope, I have a thousand years of life.
When we left the inn, we met the two demon hunters, they were still in the original costume, but there was a little more hollowness in their eyes, seeing me and Meng, gently smoothed their eyes, as if they had never seen before, I watched them walk into the inn, and the shop guy still greeted them warmly. I know that their legend will continue, and that I will be back in my own world ...... a breeze in the blink of an eye.
This time, Dream has always taken the demon with him, and I also remember the habit of hoping for their town, where there is probably no demon hunter. Along the way, Asher didn't speak, just followed me quietly, and the three of us kept walking towards the town where Hope was.
However, we were greeted by the first snow of the mortal world.
The town is still not much different from before leaving, but some more buildings have been added, for example, there was a statue of Xifeng before, which was enshrined in the center of the town, and now, it has been placed in a small pavilion, and the original clay Xifeng has been replaced by a bronze statue, and the first snow cannot fall on him.
"They kept the ......." I stood outside the pavilion and let the snow elves sway one by one.
"Xiu has been here for a long time?"
Asher shielded me from the first snow with a spiritual spell and looked at the statue of the stream.
"Well, in terms of mortal days, we've been here for two years."
I withdrew Asher's spiritual arts, remembering that when I first came here, at that time, I didn't know the name "Hope", and the young man with red lips and white teeth didn't know my name, and he kept calling me "Brother Xiu!" At any time, this is just an ordinary mortal town, but it is the happiest place I live in after leaving the Liuli Palace.......
"I don't know if there is hope!" Dream chained the demon to the pavilion and walked to my side.
"yes, I don't know if hope is still there......."
I looked at the intersection of Hope's House with her, and I couldn't take a step for a long time.
"Ahem..., may I ask where you came from, I saw you standing here for a long time, or go in and sit down."
I turned to the voice and was a young man about hope, tall, handsome, and courteous, and a little surprised when he saw my pale blue eyes.
"Your home?" I looked at him, and he pointed to the house closest to the little pavilion. It turned out that we were standing in front of his house.
He told me that his name was nostalgia, which was the second name I knew in the mortal world, and he said that this was the name his father gave him, and his father knew a few friends when he was young, and then separated for some reason, and after he was born, his father gave him this name, which probably represents the meaning of missing friends.
I smiled and said that his father should cherish those memories very much, otherwise how could he have given him this name, he nodded in agreement, and in the middle of chatting, we were invited into the nostalgic home, and as soon as we entered the house, a child of two or three years old ran over.
"Daddy, Daddy is back!"
"Hehehe, come, daddy hug."
It turned out that this was a nostalgic child. After a while, a woman's voice came from inside the room:
"Little Bean, is your daddy back?"
"Well, Auntie, it's Daddy back!"
Nostalgia introduced that this is his wife, and she should have cooked a meal for the family at this hour. He warmly invited us to dinner.
"Nostalgic, didn't my father-in-law come back together?"
"Well, I'll be home soon, and my father is worried that the snow will wet the cow grass, so he told me to go quickly, so that I can cover the cow grass properly before the snow gets heavy."
"Who are these?" The woman looked at the three of us and took a step back timidly.
"Don't be afraid, when I come back, I see them standing in front of my house, the first snow of this year came early, don't be wet by the snow."
I comforted my wife intimately and smiled at us, and suddenly, I felt like he was very hopeful.
"Hehehe, please don't be surprised, women's family, it's inevitable that your heart will be smaller."
"No, we're bothering, we'll leave when the snow stops."
I politely replied to my nostalgia, sat at their table, looked at the food on the table, suddenly, envied the life of the mortal world, a few families, three meals a day, counting the years together, although there were no luxurious clothes, exquisite tableware, but the smile on their faces, I had never seen in the Liuli Palace.
Asher still didn't speak.
After a while, Huainian and his wife and children also gathered around the dinner table, he said, if we are hungry, we will drink hot tea first, his father went out, and when he came back, we would move chopsticks together.
As soon as he finished speaking, a coughing sound sounded outside the house.
"It's Grandpa back." The child blinked his round eyes and looked out expectantly.
"I'll pick it up." Nostalgia got up and walked outside the house. I am also ready to greet the head of this family, which is the rite of the mortal world.
"Daddy, you see if you bring an umbrella or not." The voice of nostalgia complained very clearly, and when the voice landed, he helped an old man into the house.
I got up, looked at him with a smile, and thought about getting closer and saying hello again.
"...... you?"
"Does Daddy know each other?" Missful looked at me in amazement, and then at his father.
"Brother Xiu!"
Immediately after that, these three words came out of the old man's mouth.
When it reached my ears, I was completely stunned, I looked at the body in front of me, and I was not sure that "Brother Xiu" would be recognized from such old eyes. It was as if I was frozen and couldn't move.
"Brother Xiu, is it really you? And Sister Dream! The old man's voice recognized the dream, and I heard him come to me step by step, holding his voice trembling with coughing.
"Are you...... Wish? "I confess that at this point, I was still doubting my eyes, doubting everything, and I remember that I had left not long ago, and I hoped that I should still be a young man, how could I have become so old.
"I am! Before Brother Xiu left, I told you that my name is hope, and it is a ...... of hope that there is hope everywhere in the world. ”
At this moment, I believed, and I held on to Hope, touching his hands, which were rough from age, and wishing to say that the day I left, it was also such a heavy snowfall, and he secretly followed us until we were out of town.
I asked if I hope that all mortals are aging so fast? Hope smiled, turned the child aside, and said to me, birth, old age, sickness and death, this is the normal state in the world. His wife had been dead for several years, and he had gone to weed her grave with paper.
When I heard these words of hope, I was speechless for a long time...... I thought that I had only been gone for a few years, but I never thought that this time for hope was a lifetime. He moved his home to the statue where the townspeople sang the praises of the brook, and named his son "Remembrance", and the bride who had been rescued from the bear demon had .......
Hope and I have been sitting on the threshold for a long, long time, and the snow has been falling for a long, long time.
I wanted to ask about Xifeng, and I told him that Xifeng was a god in another world and had the duty to protect that world. Hopefully, no matter what world you're in, Brook Breeze has always been a patron saint, including in this town.
"I remember that before, that statue was made of clay, how did it change to a bronze statue?" I looked at Hope's gray hair, and I hated that all these years had worn away his youth.
"Soon after you left, my father died, so I transferred his inn and moved my family here, and once there was a flood in the town, and overnight the clay stream was gone, and I felt that something was always missing, so I sold some of my money and exchanged it for some copper, and cast a new one, which is strange to say, and since then, I have felt much more at ease."
I listened to the simple voice of hope, and I was extremely moved, and I clenched my right hand.
"Hopefully, if you are given some more life, do you want it?"
"Hehehe, no, no, a lot of things have passed with time, those youth, vitality, thoughts, are all in the past moment, just like when I was young, I liked to watch my wife apply rouge, at that time, I thought rouge was very magical, it can make women more beautiful, but gradually, as I get older, my wife doesn't like to apply rouge anymore, she likes to sew, to I still like to watch her sew clothes for me and nostalgia. Now that she's gone, my heart is old, and my heart is old, what's the use of having a long life? ”
"I can do it if you want to!" I looked at Hope seriously, wanting to regain his lost youth.
"I know that Brother Xiu is from the world of gods, and I always remember the scene when you and Xifeng defeated the bear demon, the snow that day should be even heavier than today, Brother Xiu's long sword glowed blue, and stabbed straight at the bear demon, until the bear demon was buried by the heavy snow, that day, I also saw a different Brother Xiu, and it was from then on that that Brother Xiu became the god in my heart."
"Hopefully, you really don't want to?"
"Hmm,"
……
It was said to be the first snow, but it fell until dark.
The next day, a thick carpet has been laid outside, in fact, I still want to use spiritual magic to make hope the same as before, I don't understand, what's wrong with that, is it really like hope said, the reason why people are old is because their hearts are old first?
Nostalgia had been around me, and he said that he had never seen blue eyes, and that I had made a small wooden horse with spiritual magic and gave it to his child. The little one loved it.
When I left, I put the peace charm that I had given me with my longing son, and I injected spiritual magic to keep him safe and happy for ...... rest of his life.