Chapter 718 Yesterday And Tomorrow

Of course, the world was big, but the boy couldn't tell how big it was.

But Great Zhou was a big, big place for a boy, because he had never walked out of Great Zhou, um… in fact, he hadn't even walked out of Xuzhou, which was located in the east of Great Zhou. This made him realize just how big the world was.

However, unlike many teenagers of his age, the boy did not have any desire to fight with the Sword Horizon or the Liquor White Horse. He lived in a small town less than a hundred miles away from Heavenly Battle City. His father had gone early, and it was all thanks to his mother that he had been raised. Although Great Zhou was not a chaotic era, there was still a big gap between them. It was not easy for a woman to bring up a child by herself.

Therefore, it is the most important thing for a boy to survive. He doesn't have that kind of ambition, but if he really has any wishes…

Perhaps it was about the pastry shop on the busiest street in the town.

Seven pennies wasn't considered an expensive sum. This was the case for most people. Even ordinary families could take out such a sum of money to give to their juniors or to satisfy their occasional desire to speak.

But boys obviously don't belong to that majority.

He was well aware of his mother's hard work. He was also well aware that seven pennies was nothing to most people, but to his mother, it was something that could only be exchanged for by stooping down and washing three or four buckets of clothes.

Therefore, he would not make such a request to his mother, but deep down, he wanted to taste the sweet osmanthus cake.

For from some unknown time he had often seen a girl at the door of the shop, who always came in the evening, bought an osmanthus cake, and ate it while walking, and always had a beautiful smile on her face. The boy thought that it must be the most delicious thing in the world, so he could make such a girl smile so beautifully.

From then on, the boy would come to the shop every night and hide in an unremarkable corner, waiting for the girl to arrive. He would watch her enter the shop and eat the osmanthus cake with a satisfied smile. It seemed that the boy could also share some of this happiness from the girl's smile. This was the thing he looked forward to the most every day.

Life went on. The boy hoped that he could grow up early, share the burden on his mother, and walk into the pastry shop with his own ability to buy an osmanthus cake like that.

He was sensible and confident, In the triennial recruitment of Heavenly Battle City, There were still three months left before the boy reached the age of sixteen. The nobles in Heavenly Battle City valued him and recruited him into Heavenly Battle City. If he could receive three months of training, he could officially become a member of the Heavenly Battle Army Reserve. That was a job that could earn at least eight taels of silver a month. This was enough to change the fate of the boy and his mother.

The boy naturally had no reason to refuse, so he put down the osmanthus cake and the girl and happily went to Heavenly Battle City.

During these three months, he had had a hard time. It was not easy for a child who had never cultivated the sword dao to stand out among countless people of extraordinary origins in three months. However, the boy still managed to do it. Three months later, he was successfully selected into the reserve of the Heavenly Dipper Army. Apart from his mother, who worked hard every day at home, he was also supported by the girl and the sweet osmanthus cake that he had never eaten before.

After waiting for the cost of the first relocation, The boy also had a five-day holiday, He brought the heavy silver back to the town without stopping. The first thing he did was to go to the shop and buy an osmanthus cake. He wanted to bring the osmanthus cake home and share it with his mother. He wanted to tell his mother, "Your son is good. You don't have to be so tired anymore."

With this in mind, He rushed to buy the last osmanthus cake before the shop closed, Then he thought about buying more food, After so many years of poverty, the food in his family is usually noodle steamed bun, Or perhaps the porridge was accompanied by pickles. Only during the New Year would his mother buy some meat. Now that he had money, he naturally had to prepare a large table of delicious food for his mother. As he thought about it, he was about to take a step forward with the osmanthus cake when a figure suddenly appeared in front of him.

She raised her head, revealing a white jade-like neck. Her purple pupils were filled with arrogance and unintentional arrogance. She looked at him and said, "Give me the osmanthus cake. This money is yours."

This was a good opportunity. For the boy, he had silver in his arms that could change his mother's fate. In his hand was the sweet osmanthus cake that he longed for so much. He was standing in front of the girl that he had been secretly looking at for several years. It was as if all his luck had fallen on him at that time, and he was in a daze as if he had fallen into a dream.

He could finally look at the girl in front of him, so he looked at her very seriously. The corner of his mouth unconsciously hooked into a smile.

"If it's not enough, I still have more." The girl's voice sounded again.

The boy finally came to his senses. He could probably guess what had happened and understand why the girl had found him. Over the years, she had come here every day to buy an osmanthus cake, but for some reason, she was late today. However, it was clear that an osmanthus cake every day was an extremely important thing for a girl, just like a boy would secretly watch as he finished eating the osmanthus cake every day.

He understood her feelings, so he did not want to lift the osmanthus cake and put it into the girl's embrace. He said, "Here you are."

Then the boy left contentedly in the girl's stunned eyes.

…

Of course he wanted to say something more to the girl, However, in his long life, he had never had such contact with a girl. He couldn't help but feel a beat in his heart. In addition, he was eager to go home and share all of this with his mother. Therefore, he temporarily put aside the thought that girls would come here every day after all. He had plenty of time to prepare for the next encounter.

But in fact, there were many things in this world that were unexpected. When he returned to his shabby but warm home, he called out to his mother, holding all kinds of meat in his hands, but there was no one in the room who answered his shouts. He frowned, thinking that perhaps his mother was still working as a maid somewhere. After all, this was not a strange thing for a boy. A woman who wanted to raise a child alone would have to expend much more effort than an ordinary person.

So even though he was a little disappointed, He couldn't share his joy with his mother immediately, but he didn't think too much about it. He was about to push open the door and wait for his mother to come back, but his previous voice clearly attracted the attention of the surrounding neighbors. An old woman walked out of the room trembling and looked at the boy in front of her and said, "Ah Chen is back?"

The boy recognized the woman. She was a kind old man, and he had helped them a lot over the years. He faintly smiled and took out some silver from his bosom and handed it to the woman. He said, "Granny Luo, I'm back."

The woman who was stuffed into a heavy silver liang was stunned. She was a little confused, but she was even more flustered. The boy did not notice him and thought that the other party was surprised by the huge amount of money. After all, when he had that money, he had also fallen into this kind of shock. Therefore, he smiled slightly and said, "Thank you for your help all these years. This money is considered filial to you by Ah Chen. I reckon that I will have to bring Ah Niang to Heavenly Battle City in the next few days. Granny, you must take care of yourself. If you are free, Ah Chen will definitely come back to see you."

The news that the boy had been selected to the Heavenly Battle City was not a secret among the neighbors, and his consciousness at this moment was clearly that he had passed the Heavenly Battle City test and become a member of the Heavenly Battle Army Reserve. To these ordinary citizens, such an achievement was already a step into the heavens. At that time, the old woman's body trembled slightly. She sighed, "That's good, A-Chen has a future, a future."

At first, these words were filled with excitement and joy, but at the end, they turned into a sigh. Her eyes were actually a little red, as if tears were rolling in her cloudy eyes.

The boy was a little slow and did not notice the old man's strange state. He only thought that he was happy for himself. He was about to say something, but the old woman's next sentence left him standing in place.

"This way, Ah Lian's spirit in heaven can rest in peace."

…

Allen is his mother's name. His mother is dead.

Truth be told, on the eighth day of his journey to Heavenly Battle City, her mother had died, Actually, this was not a sudden thing. Long-term labor had already become a disease in her mother's body. However, she concealed it from her son. She struggled to hold on until his son was recruited into the Heavenly Battle City. The breath that had been held in her heart suddenly relaxed and her entire body fell.

But when she was dying, she pulled the old woman's men to plead with her not to tell her son about it. She knew that she could not take much longer, and that her son still had a long way to go. He needed to seize this opportunity, otherwise she would not be able to let her son, who still had a few months before coming of age, live alone in this world.

The old woman had children and grandchildren of her own. She understood the woman's mood and could only comply with her request. She used her small sum of money to buy a coffin that was not too good and buried the woman next to the grave of her long-dead man.

The boy took a night to accept the sudden bad news. The next day, he went out alone and knelt in front of the old woman's door 16 times. After all, she helped him take care of his mother's affairs. In the boy's opinion, the old woman's kindness deserved such a reward. Then he took out the money he had earned to settle down, secretly left half of it in the old woman's house, went to the city to find the best craftsmen to carve tombstones for his mother and his father, and did something to placate the dead.

These were the best things he had chosen in the city. Although he did not believe in the underworld, his mother had never enjoyed a day of happiness before. He did not do anything. He was truly uneasy in the bottom of his heart.

Just like that, he spent the five-day holiday given to him by Tian Dou City in front of his parents' tomb. Then, he bid farewell to his parents and returned to Tian Dou City again. He knew that if his mother wanted him to live well, he had to live up to his mother's wishes, and he had to live up to his mother's painstaking efforts over the past sixteen years.

Therefore, he worked even harder during the year he returned to Heavenly Battle City. He believed that if there really was a soul, his mother would definitely be able to see it. And he did receive the reward he deserved. Sword Immortal Yue Fu Yao of Heavenly Battle City valued him and accepted him as a closed door disciple. For a time, he was in the limelight. On the same day of the second year, he received permission from his master to return to the small town and worship his parents.

Before leaving, he went to the best pastry shop in Heavenly Battle City and bought an osmanthus cake.

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"He said he thought he might meet me again, so it was a gift specially prepared for me."

The campfire in the tent burned. Gui Puti stopped talking about the story. She turned to Xu Han and asked, "This is the story that he told me after I passed me the osmanthus cake the second time I met your bastard Senior Martial Uncle."

"Do you really think there is such a fool in this world? Watching a girl eat osmanthus cake secretly, it took ten years…"

Facing Gui Puti's question, Xu Han shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't think Martial Uncle is someone who can make up such a story."

"Is that so?" Gui Puti gave Xu Han a meaningful glance and said, "But you can't judge a person by their appearance. Perhaps your Senior Martial Uncle is such an honest-looking bastard who is full of thoughts in his heart."

Xu Han shrugged his shoulders again and casually said, "But I think Master Niang at that time believed me."

Ghost Subhuti rolled his eyes at Xu Han, "Nonsense. Otherwise, how could I have fallen for that bastard?"

Xu Han was accustomed to the word'bastard 'when his mother mentioned Mo Chen Zi. He was about to say something else.

However, Ghost Subhuti's expression suddenly froze as he sighed, "But I don't know if that story is true or not, so…"

"I want to see him again. Listen to him give me an answer. Do you think it's possible?"

At that moment, Gui Puti's tone became deep and gloomy. A cold aura suddenly spread out and circled around the tent.

Xu Han raised his head vigilantly. At this moment, Gui Puti's gaze landed on him. Her gaze was filled with a cold and ferocious smell. Under such a thing, there was a resolute determination. She had probably already guessed Xu Han's intentions. She wanted to tell him that it was useless. She had already made such a decision. She could only continue walking like this. Even if there was an endless abyss in front of her, she could only continue walking.

Xu Han also read out the determination in her eyes and sighed deeply.

"This disciple understands Martial Niang's thoughts…"

"The promises of the Heavenly Man are not trustworthy. Master Niang probably also knows, but she is unwilling to give up that last hope."

"Mother will fight for yesterday, and I will fight for tomorrow."

"I don't know if I will lose, but I know that those who lived yesterday will never win."

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