Chapter 3: The Water Hunters
At dawn, with the help of the doctor and the villagers, Scarlet took the old man Jiang back to the brookside hut, and after thanking them, Scarlet sat on the edge of the bed, she was at a loss for the sudden accident, looking at the gray face of her loved ones, Scarlet once again burst into tears.
Sadness is sadness, the follow-up treatment still has to continue, Scarlet took a deep breath, slapped her face suddenly, and she put a white handkerchief on Old Man Jiang's face and went out.
In addition to the old man Jiang, the village that the old man is familiar with is often sold after fishing. She approached the village chief for help, and the ten-year-old scarlet did not have the ability to bury the old man Jiang alone, and after explaining the accident to him, she promised to help the village chief's family work in the future to make up for the coffin and the labor cost of helping to bury him.
The village chief felt sorry for the child, and said that he should do his acquaintance a favor without compensation, but the scarlet still insisted on repaying it, after all, Old Man Jiang had always taught her to be a person who must repay debts and not always accept the generosity of others.
Several young people in the village came to help bury and mourn the old man Jiang, and when the sunset climbed into the clouds, a stone monument was also erected under a jujube tree dozens of meters away from the house, and the scarlet man bowed deeply to their departing backs. Scarlet knelt in front of the stele, she didn't know what to do next, at this time, the old man should be cooking dinner, and Scarlet should also be helping with the ingredients.
Unconsciously, the frogs and crickets in the grass are chirping, the moon is shining, the cool breeze is blowing, and the scarlet is shivering.
"Let's go back to the house, if I catch a cold, my grandfather will discipline me again." Then, Scarlet smiled bitterly, how can there be anyone who can train people?
Suddenly, Scarlet remembered the trident that the old man Jiang said before she died, she ran back to the house in small steps, took out a teak box from under the bed, and wiped away the dust deposited on it with her hand, and instantly choked on the fly ash and coughed. When the dust cleared, she gently opened the metal buckle and pushed the lid, only to see a trident with a fine iron gilded pattern lying flat on the mane wolf skin, and there was a steel card the size of half a palm on the side of its long handle, with a big water character on it, and below the water word was the name of the old man Jiang of Xiaoxing and the year of the Qianxing Continent, and at the bottom was a raised semicircle.
The scarlet didn't know what it was, but it must be a valuable thing to Old Man Jiang. Scarlet closed the box, wrapped the long box in a cloth, and decided to leave tomorrow to find the old man Jiang Lian from Yuji City that the old man said about it.
At noon, Yuji City was very lively, and a child was shuttling through the crowd with a burden that was a few feet longer than herself, which was naturally eye-catching, and she didn't care, she just wanted to find Jiang Lian as soon as possible.
She walked into a hotel and asked the middle-aged man who was settling accounts, "Uncle, do you know where the weapons shop is?"
"Weapon shops, there are dozens of large and small in this Yuji City, and you can come across them casually. The man glanced up at the scarlet man, then lowered his head and began to settle the score.
"No, I'm looking for a weapon shop for a guy named Jiang Lian. ”
"Old man Jiang Lian?" the man put down the ledger and looked at the child in front of him, "The main street keeps going forward, and when you get to the end, ask any person from a nearby shop, he is walking around, and you can't remember what I told you now." ”
“...... Okay, thank you, uncle. Scarlet walked out of the hotel and thought, could Jiang Lian be a celebrity?
Sure enough, as the man at the inn said, Scarlet asked several people who knew where his shop was. After turning a few streets and alleys, she saw Jiang Lian's weapons shop at a glance, after all, in this alley, there were many shops standing outside the door with a different atmosphere from ordinary people, just that one.
Scarlet plucked up the courage to walk in, there were many people in the store, and she didn't know who was the person, so she said loudly: "Is Jiang Lian there?"
Everyone else looked at the scarlet in unison. The next second, the door to the inner room was pushed open, and an old man with a scruffy beard poked his head out, "Huh? ”
"This is what my grandfather asked me to sell to you. Scarlet said as he handed the long wooden box to Jiang Lian.
"Yo, you're selling me something. After that, Jiang Lian took the wooden box, removed the cloth, and opened the wooden box, "This! Your grandfather asked you to bring it! Isn't it Old Man Jiang?"
Jiang Lian frowned, closed the wooden box, and after driving the people in the store out and asking them to come back another day, he closed the door of the store. He took the scarlet into the inner room, sat her on a chair at a small square table, put down the wooden box, and walked away. Scarlet looked at the paper on the table, which was full of words and weapon patterns.
"Since Old Man Jiang asked you to sell his treasure, something big must have happened. Jiang Lian poured a cup of hot tea and put it in front of Scarlet, moved a stool and sat down.
"Grandpa he, he passed away the other day. Scarlet put down the teacup and put his hands into fists on his lap.
Jiang Lian's pupils dilated slightly, and he smiled softly, "Heh, they haven't contacted me for decades, and now that everyone is gone, they don't think of me." Saying that, Jiang Lian's eyes were red. The air was quiet for a while, Jiang Lian exhaled and looked at the scarlet man, "Of course I will want this trident, are you sure you sold it to me?"
"Wait, before I do that I want to ask where the trident came from, and what the steel plaque with Grandpa's name on it is. ”
"Your grandfather, didn't he tell you?"
“...... Not. ”
"............" Jiang Lian knew the reason, since Old Man Jiang didn't say it, it meant that he didn't want the child to know about the past, but he still handed this thing to the child on his deathbed, "I can only tell you that this trident is the weapon that your grandfather carried with him when he was young." ”
"Grandpa's weapons?"
"Well, it's the exclusive weapon used to hunt the North Sea Kraken, the Water Hunter. Jiang Lian picked up the steel plate in the box and handed it to Scarlet, "And this thing is the proof of what type and level of hunter you are - hunting card."
Scarlet looked at the hunting card in his hand that no longer had a metallic luster, and asked, "Then my grandfather is a hunter?"
"In the past, as long as people are old, the attributes in their bodies are like leaky balls. When the hair is all white, he is no longer a hunter, and the hunting card stays in that year and is not renewed, just as a memorial to the past. That's all I can tell you. ”
After hearing this, the scarlet man clenched the hunting card, was silent, thought for a while, and looked at Jiang Lian as if he had made up his mind: "Trident, I want to mortgage it to you first, although it may take a long time to pay it off, but I will definitely redeem it, do you think this is okay?"
Jiang Lian was stunned and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, as long as my shop is still there, I can do it for as long as I want, but I have to pay the interest." ”
"That's nature. After chatting with Jiang Lian a few more words, he said goodbye to Dao Xie.
In the following days, Scarlet began to be busy making money, waiting for the arrival of the 16-year-old.