Chapter Seven Warm Fire in the Dark Night
Yorkshire, City South Inn.
The Gaia Town Chorus has returned to the hotel. They have just washed off the makeup on their faces and are gathering in the dining room to discuss the performance happily. Everyone has an extremely excited smile on their face.
Wei En smiled and watched Carmen holding Fanny's hand, singing softly and dancing at the same time. Ruola sat near the window, looking at the crescent moon outside the window with blurred eyes, not knowing what she was thinking.
Flami took a sip of water and muttered: "I did it, mom, I did it."
Sitting in the distance, Wei En saw Flami's pious expression and asked strangely: "Flamy, what's wrong?"
Everyone turned to look at Flammy.
Flammy's face turned red and he said sheepishly: "I was telling my mother that I went to the Earl's Palace to sing, and I sang pretty well."
Everyone laughed, but it was not a mockery, but an expression of understanding. Everyone's heart was filled with the joy and pride of success at this moment, and they wished they could fly back to the small town of Gaia and tell their relatives at home about this wonderful experience.
The innkeeper walked into the dining room and said with a smile: "Would you like some food?"
Wei En looked at everyone and said, "Are you hungry?"
Carmen said softly: "We still wait for the mayor uncle."
Everyone nodded: "Yes, we should wait for him."
Wei En said to the boss: "Then wait a moment. Oh, by the way, prepare some wine when the meal is served."
The boss nodded in agreement. After the boss left, Carmen said worriedly: "Wei En, the wine in the city is very expensive, I'm afraid we can't afford it."
Wei En smiled and said, "Don't be afraid. You sang so well just now. If the earl doesn't express your gratitude, wouldn't it be unreasonable?"
Carmen rolled her dark eyes, understood what Wei En meant, smiled and stopped talking. The boys in the chorus suddenly became more lively when they heard that they would be able to taste the good wine in the city later.
Wei En sat aside and let them play and joke. After working hard for so long, he naturally wanted to relax. Vaguely, he always felt that being with them was like returning to a certain period in his memory, although the impression was not the same.
It's not clear, but it feels very natural and comfortable.
While they were making a fuss, Flami suddenly said: "Stop! Someone is coming."
Everyone was quiet, and sure enough, they heard footsteps coming from outside the dining room. Everyone quickly sat back down. Wei En was a peaceful man, of similar age, and didn't care much about their quarrels, but the old mayor was different.
The door of the dining room opened gently, and a figure appeared at the door. Wei En took a look and stood up with a sigh.
The person who came was not the old mayor Toole, but Fanny's father, Vincent.
Vincent was dressed in green clothes, which were stained and stained, and it could be seen that he had been wearing them for a long time. He stood upright, his face as pale as snow, and his eyes kept scanning the crowd.
When Fanny saw Vincent, she jumped down from the chair and quickly threw herself into Vincent's arms, shouting: "Daddy, daddy."
Vincent's eyes were focused on Fanny, and a smile appeared on his lips, but instead of picking up Fanny as usual, he bowed slightly and gently held her with his arms.
Wei En walked over and said with a smile: "Hey, Vincent, how did you know we live here?"
Vincent raised his head and glanced at Wei En, but the smile on his face became very complicated. He seemed to be apologetic, grateful, and even more entrusted.
Wei En's heart sank, and suddenly he felt something was wrong. Just as he was about to speak, Vincent's eyes gradually lost their luster.
Vincent breathed out: "Fanny...", his body swayed, and he fell back.
Tour got off the carriage in a happy mood and walked into the inn. Seeing that the candlelight in the dining room was still on, knowing that the girls and boys must be waiting for his dinner, he felt happy in his heart and felt sincerely proud of this group of young people.
Quickly walking to the door of the dining room, he saw the people sitting around the dining table. Tour stepped into the room and extended his hands exaggeratedly: "I'm back, young man! Thank you for your efforts, thank you for your hard work."
Song, the earl has agreed that in his lifetime, the tax of the town of Gaia will be one hundred pounds of wheat and ten animal skins! Come, let us cheer!"
Everyone stared at him blankly, and no one responded to his call.
The enthusiastic smile on Tu'er's face gradually dulled. He slowly lowered his arms and said awkwardly: "What's wrong with you? Isn't what I brought good news?"
Ruola stood up and said, "Dad, this is good news. But I also have bad news for you."
"Bad news? What bad news?" Tour said in surprise.
After listening to Ruola's narration, Tour said seriously: "What about the Vincentians?"
Ruola pouted outside the room and said, "In Wei'en's room."
Tu'er turned around and left: "I'll check the situation first before talking."
Quietly walking into Wei En's room, Tour saw Vincent lying quietly on the bed, covered in mud and with hair like a pile of withered hay. Wei En was sitting on the edge of the bed with a gloomy look on his face. Carmen hugged him behind him.
He was holding the little girl Fanny, who was sobbing softly.
Tu'er walked behind Wei'en, and Wei'en realized that just as he was about to stand up, Tu'er held his shoulders: "No need."
Wei En nodded and said, "Uncle, is there any way to save him?"
Tour did not speak, and stared at Vincent Wei'en carefully, watching his face become more and more ugly, and felt a chill in his heart.
After a long while, Tour said in a deep voice: "Weien, please come out."
The two left the room, Tu'er looked up at the moon, and Wei En looked at him quietly.
After a while, Tour sighed: "Weien, don't be sad, Vincent is dying."
Wei En said: "Uncle, I have some knowledge of medical and nursing skills, but why can't I see where his injury is?"
Turdao: "This is not a problem that medical skills can solve. Vincent was injured by a high-level magic."
"Advanced magic?" Wei En was a little confused.
"That's right. Vincent's face is pale, but there is a faint trace of black energy swimming between his eyebrows. It is most likely that he has been cursed."
Wei En took a breath of cold air and said anxiously: "Curse? What is a curse? Uncle, do you have any way to save it?"
"The magic of the curse is very mysterious. I can't explain it to you for a while. However, the caster is very skilled. I only know a little about the curse. How can I save it?" Tour said with a bitter smile.
Wei En felt sad and slowly sat on the front steps. Tuer said: "Wei En, I will take care of Fanny. You go and spend more time with him. If I am not wrong, Vincent will definitely not see it.
The sun will come tomorrow."
After a long time, Wei En climbed up from the ground numbly and staggered into the room. Looking at Vincent's haggard face, his heart twisted. In the next room, Fanny's miserable cry could be vaguely heard.
The night passed by silently, and the courtyard that should have been full of laughter and laughter was silent at the moment. The candlelight in the room had long been extinguished, and Wei En was always sitting there, sitting in the darkness.
The weak moonlight shone into the room, and Vincent suddenly opened his eyes, his blank eyes seeming to wander around.
Wei En said hurriedly: "Brother, are you awake?"
Vincent said: "Wei En?"
"It's me. Do you want a drink of water?"
Vincent shook his head slightly: "Brother Wei'en. I'm glad I got to see you and Fanny."
Wei'en heard his clear voice and realized that it was coming back to him. He felt uncomfortable and could not speak.
Vincent continued: "Brother, I'm done with it this time. From now on, Fanny can only be entrusted to you. I hope you can treat her well."
"Your child is my child, what is there to say?"
Vincent smiled happily: "There is a key under the pillow. It is the key to the wooden box under the bed. My story has been written on the paper. You can read it first. When Fanny grows up, you... you can tell her.
"At this point, Vincent's breathing began to quicken and his voice gradually became weaker.
Wei En grabbed Vincent's hand, and two lines of tears finally rolled down uncontrollably.
A cold voice suddenly sounded in the darkness: "Idiot!"
Wei En was startled, and a familiar feeling came over him. He looked up and around, but saw no trace of anyone. Wei En tried hard to search his memory and made sure that he had never heard this cold and sweet voice, but why did he do it?
Does it feel so familiar?
At this moment, a change occurred.
Wei En suddenly felt a warm fire welling up in his chest. Although the energy was not large, it was gurgling, continuous, and very comfortable. While he was surprised, with the appearance of this warm fire, the blood in his body suddenly accelerated, and his heartbeat suddenly accelerated.
The pulse rate is also a bit faster than usual, and the energy that is usually hidden somewhere seems to have heard the sacred call, and spurts out from the limbs and five internal organs, rushing to the chest like a river flowing into the ocean.
The warm fire also became hotter with the continuous integration of energy throughout the body. If it were not for fear of startling Vincent, Wei En would have screamed and jumped up from the chair.
In the blink of an eye, the energy of the warm fire was astonishingly strong. If it was just a snow cube that could be pinched in the hand, now it has turned into a snowball that can roar in the valley. Wei En felt as if his body had become a snowball.
The furnace, and the flame in the furnace does not just take away, but shines light on every corner of the furnace wall, so that the furnace is indescribably reinforced and strengthened by the tempering of the flame.
Finally, the warm fire cracked everywhere with a "bang" sound, and flowed back to the body along the meridians at an alarming speed. The energy was so huge that it overturned the river and was everywhere. Wei En felt that a wave of energy quickly gathered in his body.
A huge wave, a wild storm, the power contained in it is enough to break him to pieces and make the world collapse.
He must vent this energy storm.
Suddenly, a mantra appeared in Wei En's mind, a strange text that he had never seen before. However, for some unknown reason, he could read their pronunciation and understand their meaning!!
Wei En recited the strange words naturally, and while his body was running wild, the lawless energy seemed to understand his reading, and suddenly became more honest. Wei En was overjoyed and continued to recite the mantra.
Slowly direct the energy toward an outlet in your body.
The exit was the palms he and Vincent held each other.
Under the guidance of the mantra, the energy surged toward the exit. When it first entered Vincent's body, there seemed to be a cold force resisting it. However, as Wei En stepped up his chanting of the mantra, the cold force was like a blanket of ice and snow.
The sun shone brightly, and the darkness met the light, which quickly dissolved into the surrounding fields and disappeared. As a result, Wei En's energy spread out and formed a backflow in the bodies of the two men.
Wei En did not dare to be careless and continued to recite the mantra. Gradually, the aftermath of the bursting of the warm fire merged with the body's meridians and blood, becoming a part of the two people's lives.
The next day, at dawn, Tour came to the yard, looked at the door of Wei En's room, and was hesitating whether to go in. Behind him, all the young people in Gaia Town stood together quietly,
Carmen hugged Fanny, whose eyes were red.
"Squeak", the door opened, and Wei En walked out of the room, his face full of exhaustion.
"Are you all here?" Wei En forced a smile.
Fanny broke away from Carmen and ran to Wei En, crying: "Uncle, what happened to my dad?"
Wei En picked up Fanny and said, "Fanny, your father is asleep. He is too tired and hasn't woken up yet."
Fanny said: "My father is asleep? Then he will not die."
Wei En wiped his smile with his eyes, gently scratched Fanny's little nose with his right hand, and said: "Of course he won't die."
Fanny clapped her little hands and smiled happily with her pretty face: "That's great! Dad is not dead. Uncle, you are so kind!"
Ruola frowned, feeling that Wei En should not lie to Fanny.
Wei En raised his head and looked at everyone. Seeing everyone's different expressions, he smiled and said, "Vincent slept well and will probably recover soon."
Tu'er was startled, then walked forward and whispered: "Weien, are you too tired?"
Wei En looked at Tuer and said, "Uncle, don't you believe me? Then go and see for yourself." With that, he opened the door.
Tuer sighed and shook his head and walked into the house. Ruola stepped forward, looked at Wei En's tired face, and said softly: "You, you are okay."
Wei En smiled and shook his head to indicate that nothing was wrong.
After a while, footsteps sounded in the room, and Old Tour reappeared in front of everyone. Everyone looked at him, waiting for his conclusion.
Tu'er's face turned paler than Wei'en at this moment, and he said in a trembling voice: "Wei'en, Wei'en, how did you revive him?"
After hearing this, everyone looked at each other in confusion. After a while, they burst into cheers.
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Chapter completed!