The Legend of Zhu San
002: Fate of Meeting
I do not know how long he fell unconscious and how far he is now from the abyss where he was thrown by people he did not recognize.
One thing is certain is that he was on the edge of a large river around which there were large and lush trees.
He inched from the shallow, muddy waters of the river, and sat on the bank to clean some of his body parts and robes that looked very dirty.
When he was finished, he rose with a body that was very painful and a hungry stomach. Then he walked through the bushes in search of a tree whose fruit he could eat.
He had not found a tree that had fruit, his ears first heard a loud thundering sound not far from where he was.
With slow footsteps he finally reached the place where the voice came from and found the figures of two grandfathers lying covered in blood.
He then sat down because he felt weak and then sighed long while looking at the Pendant in his hand.
“Who Are Both Grandpa's? Who is he and why is he in this foreign place?”
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“Who are these two? Is he alive or dead?”
The young man asked back to himself, taking his eyes off the Pendant in his hand towards a blue-robed grandfather and approaching that figure who was none other than Lin Kai.
Lin Kai's condition was very sad, his right hand was stupefied as an elbow with the sleeves of a robe that was also crushed like a fire. Blood was still flowing unceasingly from that part.
The young man immediately turned Lin Kai's body and made the old figure in a half-sitting position.
He put his finger together to see if he was breathing or not.
“Still alive, I have to help him immediately.”
He rushed to pull Grandpa's body to lean on a big tree not far from the two of them.
With great difficulty, he managed to bring Lin Kai's body and make him lean on a tree whose size he could not measure even by hugging his trunk.
His gaze also turned to the figure of the other Grandfather who was still lying either dead or unconscious.
He put his finger back in front of the white-robed grandfather's nose, shortly after arriving nearby.
“This grandfather is still alive, I will take him to a different place so that after realizing later, the two do not attack each other again.”
The white-robed grandfather with the sword motif was Fu Kuan. With a flickering step the handsome young man, immediately led Fu Kuan to another tree by holding the two armpits of the grandfather.
On another large tree and five meters away from Lin Kai, Fu Kuan's body was propped up by the handsome young man.
The tree that Lin Kai and Fu Kuan were leaning against now were two trees that had survived the impact of their second battle due to their enormous trunk.
The Handsome youth immediately circulated his gaze looking for something he could use to make a drinking container out of the many bamboo pieces lying around the place.
He smiled when he found a blue-bladed sword not far from where Lin Kai was lying earlier.
He immediately rushed to retrieve the blue-bladed sword and made a roof to hold water.
After he finished making four water roofs, the young man immediately walked towards the river where he had awakened from his stupor.
Five minutes later he returned with four roofs full of water.
When he was near Fu Kuan and Lin Kai, the fifteen-year-old smiled happily to find the two grandfathers he helped had regained consciousness and was seen sitting in meditation.
Fu Kuan first opened his eyes and ended his meditation when he felt the presence of another person between them.
After a few seconds, Lin Kai opened his eyes and looked in wonder at the handsome young man who looked dirty and robed, standing between himself and Fu Kuan.
“Such like you helped us both to sit down, really?”
Fu Kuan first greeted the young man, and thanked him after the young man nodded his head.
“Thank you for helping us, boy what is your name and how can you come to a place where warriors are reluctant to come to this place!”
The forehead of the two Grandpa shriveled not because of holding back pain or holding back pee, it was because of astonishment to find the young man looked confused just to say his name.
“Why do you look like you're confused, don't you remember what your name is? Is your head hurt?”
Fu Kuan voiced his conjecture, then observed the young man's body, and he finally understood what was happening with his helper.
“Why are you nodding the head of Old Bangka Wrinkles? What did you find?”
The curious Lin Kai immediately asked Fu Kuan whose face had turned to be irritated because what he thought was instantly caved in by Lin Kai's shout.
“Tua Bangka Peot, are your eyes myopic? look behind the left ear of this boy, there is a wound that is still draining a little blood, maybe that is what caused his memory to be disturbed.”
Although annoyed at being called Grandpa Peot, Lin Kai directed his gaze towards the young man's left ear.
But because he was to the right of the young man, he could not see what Fu Kuan had mentioned.
“Not my my my my myopic eyes, but you are senile, Old Bangka Wrinkles! I was on his right, of course I saw the right ear, the time of his left ear, really senile you this.”
Lin Kai chuckled after saying so, it was because he found Fu kuan stunned to hear the words from him.
Just as he was about to quibble and reply to the ridicule of Lin Kai who was still chuckling happily, a loud and angry voice sounded from the young man who was a dozen years old, making Fu Kuan swallow his saliva and Lin Kai's laughter stopped instantly.
“Grandfather, are you both tired of living? Still fighting like a child fighting over candy even though grandfather's body has been injured this badly. What's the point of me helping Grandpa both if you still want to fight again, I'd better get out of here.”
If only he could still exert his profound strength to move, maybe Lin Kai would slap the young man's mouth for daring to speak sharply to him like that.
But a moment later he realized the truth of the firm words of the young man whom he did not know his name.
Admiration also appeared in Lin Kai's heart, a taste he rarely had when meeting someone. Moreover, one as young as this, who has had an incredible courage to tell a truth.
Recalling that his right arm was destroyed and his body was severely injured Lin Kai realized that he was only able to survive for no more than a year.
He looked at the young man and and appeared in his heart intent to make him a disciple who would inherit his entire martial arts and his Destruction Weapon, the Blue Cloud Sword.
Unlike Lin Kai, Fu Kuan actually looked happy to hear the strong words of Handsome Youth that he did not know his identity.
From the words of the mysterious handsome young man, Fu Kuan realized that the young man was a smart and educated young man and had a good character.
Although in his anger he can still say words that have the value of politeness when the interlocutor is a person who deserves to be his Grandfather.
With a severe deep wound on his body, Fu Kuan felt unsure that he could live for more than a year.
Because of that, the intention in his heart was to bequeath all the martial arts he had and his deadly weapon, the Red Star Sword to the Youth.
Meanwhile the young man who had just said firmly to the two Swordsman Grandfathers, also looked stunned.
He then realized that his words had offended the two grandfather who was seriously injured.
At first he did not want to apologize for his words, because he thought the two Grandfathers really did not appreciate him who had worked hard to help them both.
But because he did not know what the reason for the two fighting, he tried to neutralize the irritation in his heart.
“Kakek ..”
“Bocah ..”
“Young ..”
The silent atmosphere between the three of them who were cool with their respective thoughts, immediately disappeared to change their laughter, as the three said almost simultaneously.
Even Lin Kai felt the warmth in that laughter, the warmth of a family he had not felt for a long time.
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