Emily sighed after looking in the direction of Hermit village. She had thought that her death was certain after that encounter with wolves, but Kong yue had saved her. She finally felt secure. She turned towards yue with a look of gratification, but then cried out.

“Ah! Shit I forgot to take care of that wound on your head!”

“It is not hurting so no problem.”

“Bullshit! There is so much blood! I will treat right away.”

Her face had become red with embarrassment. Earlier she had forgot to treat yue’s injury due to the fear of the wolves and had just now remembered it. There was copious amount of blood still oozing out from the back of his head. Emily took out her towel and tore a piece of cloth from it and after cleaning the wound she gave him a piece of cloth to cover it.

There was still a mile or 2 before they reach the village. Instantly her expression changed once again. She had remembered her mother’s warning and started to search excludes for going to forest. Earlier her mother had warned her about wild beasts in deeper parts of forest, which could sometimes be found even in the outer regions of forest. She had completely ignored it and was sure that she would be grounded.

An idea came in her mind and she started searching for beautiful flowers nearby. After a few minutes of searching and collecting, she had a bag full of it. She then turned to yue.

“You pervert, listen well! Once we reach the village you are to stay quiet and if my mother asks anything you just tell her that we were searching for flowers in outer regions.”

Yue was curious and thus asked her, “Why do I have to say that?”

“You! If you want to be my friend and want me to help you out do as I tell you. Idiot!”

She was a bit anxious. She didn’t have faith in yue. What if he blurted out the truth? But she had no choice.

“Let’s go. Everyone must be anxious as I am late.”

It was evening. The time wild beasts were most active so it was natural that she would want to leave forest as soon as possible. After a few minutes of walking they reached the outskirts of village.

The village was quite big in size. Yue could estimate it to be 10 km wide and 7 or 8 km long. It had a few hundred houses. The houses were all built with stones and looked to be sturdy. The roads were also in good shape.

They quickly approached the village gate where an elder from the village opened that gate.as the entered they were greeted by a crowd of youngsters same age as their own. All bout 12 to 15 years old. A kid with a huge built came forward in front of Emily and told her, “Why did you take so much time to return. Did you know all of us have been inquired by your mother about your whereabouts? You know we can’t lie to aunt. Just go back a.s.a.p.”

“You don’t have to tell me that asshole!”

She quickly went towards a certain house in the village with yue following her silently. She opened that dear as lightly as possible, so that almost no noise was produced.

“You scoundrel, you dare to ignore my warning and went off to the forest again. I told you if you went there you will be grounded for a month. ”

“But I! I was collecting flowers in the outer regions only!”

“Yes aunty we were collecting flowers in the outer regions only.”

“Who the hell are you now? I haven’t ever seen you here.”

“He is Kong Yue. He is my new friend and helped me in forest. He was injured so I brought him back. He is strong!”

“You little brat! Don’t change the topic. Give me you explanation now! If you tell the truth I will not ground you for a month. Ok”

“Ok then, I did go to the forest lake. When I was retuning I met with yue….”

“You are GROUNDED for 3 months!”

“But you….?”

“I said I won’t for a month. Ha-ha!”

“You brat. Your name is yue? Loll it is so strange. ”

“My name is Kong Yue.”

“Hmm you have a last name? It is a rare site”

Emily told her mother about yue’s circumstances and then asked her for her permission to let him stay in their house for a period of time.

“Hmm. alright yue, you can stay here, but you have to help me out in selling my wares at the shop! I will let you stay in living room and provide you with food. Is it ok?”

“Thank you for helping me.”

With a roof over his shoulders and food to eat, yue’s worries had been removed for now. At night, yue was sitting on the roof of Emily’s house gazing at the moon thinking about someone. He was thinking about the image of the young woman in the pendant.

He said in his heart, “Are you rally my mother? Are you well? Where are you?”

A new chapter was about to begin in yue’s life. The next morning yue woke up from his bed early. He ate the breakfast provided to him and looked around the house. The house had 3 bed rooms, 1 living room, and a small kitchen cum dining hall. He sat in the living room and was staring at the wall. The wall was light pink in color but what was eye catching was the pair of swords hung there.

Emily’s mother looked at yue staring at swords for a few minutes and asked, “Do you like swords? Do you want to check them out?”

“Ah! Yes, please. ”

He went towards the lady and grabbed the sword she presented to him. As he grabbed it with both hands he used his left hand to feel the blade. The blade was smooth and sharp, glittering with brilliance as he swung it down. Suddenly yue’s expression changed noticeably.

He abruptly said, “I remember something!”

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