Chapter 59: Mount Xumi (VI)
Finally, with everyone's efforts, the Yaksha girl who intentionally hurt people was successfully captured, and the Yaksha's wounds were properly treated. Fortunately, the Yaksha race is born with thick skin and flesh, and has a first-class recovery speed, so these flesh wounds heal very quickly, which can more or less reduce Lu Ren's guilt.
But just because the wound has healed, it doesn't mean it never existed. The wound should not be ignored, just like one's mistakes should not be ignored. Lu Ren also decided to face his mistakes.
By the way, this Yaksha had once drunk in the tavern where Lu Ren worked, and Lu Ren even served him food. Unexpectedly, Lu Ren ended up hurting him. Thinking of this, Lu Ren felt more and more guilty, and stood aside dejectedly watching the doctor's actions.
Then he bowed deeply to Yasha and apologized sincerely: "I am really sorry, I thought you were going to harm that girl, so I didn't think too much about it. Who knew I would hurt you."
Unexpectedly, this seemingly ferocious Yaksha actually had a good temper. He laughed and said, "It's okay, it's okay. It's a good thing to want to help others. You don't have to blame yourself."
Lu Ren shook his head: "But I was indeed a little too reckless this time."
Yaksha frowned, expressing his displeasure at the fact that Lu Ren was still taking the responsibility on himself: "It's not your fault, and you shouldn't be blamed. It's a good thing that you are willing to stand up." Yaksha said to Lu Ren solemnly, "If you are blamed, then everyone will be afraid of making mistakes and no one will dare to lend a helping hand. What will happen to the people who really need help then?"
Finally, Yaksha's tone became cheerful again. He winked at Lu Ren and said, "Who can guarantee that they will not make a few mistakes in their life, right?" But to be honest, his scary face with a grimace made him look like he was not comforting people at all, but more like he wanted to eat people alive.
But as Yasha said, a society that cannot tolerate mistakes will eventually become numb.
I don’t know why, although it was Yaksha who was injured, Lu Ren seemed to be even sadder than him. In the end, it was Yaksha who comforted Lu Ren for a long time, who was full of guilt after doing something wrong.
Yasha was still preaching, but suddenly he seemed to remember something and finally realized something. He scanned Lu Ren from head to toe and rubbed his eyes in disbelief: "That's not right! Aren't you a waitress in the tavern? You can actually speak! And you're a man!"
Yasha's originally lively expression froze in an instant. You know, the waitress in the tavern has been his dream lover for some time. Who would have thought that the originally beautiful and proud young lady would suddenly be exposed as a real man, and even hit him with a club, causing him to be injured?
Yaksha's face turned ugly in an instant. He said nothing more, but just cried and yelled at Lu Ren: "I will never forgive you in my life! You bastard!" Then he drove Lu Ren out of the house.
Lu Ren looked at the closed door in front of him, confused. He didn't understand why the Yaksha, who had just been comforting him in a gentle voice, suddenly went berserk.
He might never know in his life that he had inadvertently toyed with the feelings of an ugly but kind-hearted Yaksha.
Some mistakes are indeed hard to tolerate.
Despite being rejected, Lu Ren still insisted on leaving his salary for the past few days to Yasha as compensation, and asked the boss's wife to pass it on.
The proprietress, who had been watching all night, did not refuse.
Lu Ren looked at the proprietress who was speaking to him for the first time, and recalled Yaksha's surprised expression just now. Then he realized that when he was exposed in front of the proprietress, the proprietress seemed to have said nothing.
Originally, Lu Ren disguised himself as a woman in order to conceal the fact that he was a visitor from another world. Now that he was arrested on the spot, there was naturally no need for him to disguise himself anymore.
But it would be better not to accidentally hurt ordinary people when taking off the vest. After all, judging from Yasha's expression just now, he seemed to be really scared by him: "Boss lady, did I scare you by suddenly being able to speak?"
The lady boss couldn't help laughing when she heard this: "With your disguise skills, you may be able to fool those idiots, but you are still a little naive to fool me."
The proprietress was young and had come out to make a living, so she had a sharp eye. Moreover, Lu Ren was not professional at all when he was dressed as a girl, so perhaps only the group of older bachelors in the tavern would make a mistake.
After hearing this, Lu Ren realized that he had been exposed a long time ago. He said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I have caused you trouble."
The proprietress curled her lips and said, "It's okay, I'm used to it. In the past few years, Maitreya would appear in front of me every once in a while and stuff some desperate people into my tavern. It's always like this, no need to ask more."
After hearing what the boss lady said, Lu Ren couldn't help but say, "She is causing you too much trouble."
The proprietress stretched herself and said nonchalantly, "If it weren't for her, I would have died a long time ago. How dare I find the beautiful Maitreya troublesome?"
Lu Ren had never seen the people the boss lady was talking about, so he asked in confusion: "Where did they go later?"
"Who knows? After staying for a while, they will disappear one morning." After saying that, the proprietress paused, then looked at the moon in the sky and added in a low voice, "Just like Maitreya."
"Miroku, what does she do?"
"Who knows? She said she is busy changing the world." The proprietress who was originally looking at the moon retracted her gaze and looked at Lu Ren and said, "And I am exhausted just by not wanting to be changed by this world."
There were many emotions in the boss lady's eyes that Lu Ren could not understand. He could only nod as if he understood, but he didn't know whether the boss lady needed comfort at this moment.
Fortunately, the lady boss quickly came out of this mood. After she cheered herself up, she asked Lu Ren, "What about you? Why did you come here?"
So Lu Ren told the whole story of how he was kidnapped by Maitreya and then stranded on Mount Sumeru.
After hearing this, the proprietress looked very strange, and she seemed to be hesitant to speak.
Finally, she couldn't help but ask Lu Ren, "Since you were a victim, why didn't you ask for help directly from the Jiesi of Shanjian City? The one who committed the crime was Maitreya, what does it have to do with you? There is no need for you to hide your identity." She looked at Lu Ren, whose face gradually turned into shock, and said word by word, "Besides, if you asked for help from the Jiesi, as the person being kidnapped, you should be able to be sent back soon."
Lu Ren:!!!
Madam boss, you found a blind spot.
However, the murderous lady boss gave Lu Ren a fatal blow: "Besides, why would you trust someone who kidnapped you? It is still unknown whether Maitreya will send you back."
Lu Ren: “…”
As it turns out, Lu Ren’s brain isn’t working very well either.
The next morning, in an unknown pub.
Lu Ren had already carried his bag and was sitting obediently in a seat in the hall, waiting for the soldiers to come and pick him up.
He did not wear the women's clothes that Maitreya gave him today, but changed back into his own clothes, but added a hooded cloak given to him by the proprietress. The proprietress said that the road to Shanjian City was not easy to walk, and the merchants who came and went had to have a cloak, so she also prepared one for Lu Ren as a farewell. Lu Ren also put it on with gratitude, firstly to block the wind and sand along the way, and secondly to cover the chaos fragments on his head that still refused to be low-key.
Lu Ren's slow brain finally understood one thing under the guidance of the boss lady: he was a victim who was forced to come here, so why did he disguise himself? Wouldn't it be better to directly explain the situation to the Shanjian City Realm Bureau and ask to return to the human world?
The first thing I need to correct is the way I shrink back when I see Jie Si, like a mouse seeing a cat.
So today Lu Ren seemed particularly graceful and elegant.
The soldiers who came to pick him up were not the ones that Emperor Shitian brought out yesterday. When they saw Lu Ren in men's clothing, their expressions froze: the order they received was clearly to pick up a beautiful female slave...
But how come he has become a man now? Is this a mistake?
But the man in front of them seemed to have a look on his face that said "Let's go! What are you waiting for!" His matter-of-fact expression made the soldiers feel more like slaves who did not show up in front of their master on time, and they even inexplicably felt a sense of guilt.
After confirming that Lu Ren indeed smelled of the vajra and that his feet were indeed shackled with the prisoner chains of Shanjian City, the soldiers finally put their minds at ease. It turned out that this person was the alien that Indra ordered to be arrested.
So several people dutifully brought Lu Ren to Indra's residence in the realm of the voice-hearers.
Before leaving, Emperor Shitian seemed to have something to tell Lu Ren.
After several soldiers informed Lu Ren to go in alone, they stood guard at the door, standing straight and motionless like a sculpture.
Although Lu Ren didn't know what Emperor Shitian was going to say, since he had already said yesterday that he would take him back to Shanjian City Boundary Division, he naturally wouldn't make things difficult for him, so he walked in with peace of mind.
When Lu Ren entered the door, the soldiers who had been standing guard at the door in an exemplary manner suddenly changed their expressions, and they gathered together and began to whisper.
The first soldier looked not very smart, and he could not help asking, "Didn't those people who came back yesterday say that the boss had robbed a mute bride this time? How come the bride was not seen, and the person who was robbed turned out to be a grown man?"
The second soldier didn't seem very smart either. He scratched his head and said blankly, "I don't know. A magical resurrection?"
The third soldier, however, had an expression that showed he had everything under control. He knocked hard on the heads of the first two soldiers and said to them in a mysterious tone, "Fools! Can't a man be a mute bride?"
After hearing this, the first and second soldiers' mouths instantly formed an "o" shape, and the expressions on their faces were like the sun finally appearing after the clouds had cleared.
The third soldier did not forget to show off his "intelligence". He put his finger on his lips, made a "hush" gesture, and then had a proud look on his face as if to say "I know too much".
It turns out that the most terrifying thing in this world is not that your colleague is a fool, but that your colleague is a fool and still thinks he is very smart.
