Spring Garden Heart Chapter 5

Time went back to just now, Ethan Lin was sitting in the attic, watching his brother and Daniel Gu Feiyu standing on a messy sword platform chatting. Seeing that Daniel Gu Feiyu seemed to be planning to take off the heavy sword on his back, Ethan Lin felt a little bored, so he picked up a piece of mung bean cake and put it to his lips, gently taking a bite. The taste of this mung bean cake was known to be made by Emily Hua himself, with a moderate sweetness and a faint fragrance.

But before he could completely swallow the mung bean cake, Ethan Lin heard a sharp whistle of a weapon breaking through the air, and then a residual shadow rushed straight in front of him. With a dull sound of puffing, the bluestone slab under Ethan Lin's feet was pierced by the sharp weapon. In the golden sunlight, fine dust swirled into the air. Ethan Lin looked closely and saw a huge black sword, which was inserted diagonally only an inch away from his feet. The sword body was as black as ink and was making a buzzing sound.

Then Daniel Gu Feiyu, who was originally standing on the sword platform, rushed over, but was stopped by Emily Hua.

"What do you mean my young master seduced your sword!" Emily Hua scolded, "You are so rude."

Daniel Gu Feiyu muttered, "How would I know there was a master sitting here...Besides, your young master is so powerful, how could he be injured by a sword?" He said, looking at Ethan Lin who was sitting in a wheelchair with a calm face, and bowed, "My name is Daniel Gu Feiyu, may I know the name of this senior?"

Although Daniel Gu Feiyu was a straight-forward person, he was not without tact. Not just anyone could get up to the attic on the Lin family's sword platform. Although Ethan Lin looked young and not in good spirits, she had a noble aura that not just any small family could have. Although Daniel Gu Feiyu could tell that Emily Hua was a sixth-level cultivator, he could not tell how deep Ethan Lin was. However, he thought that someone who could use a sixth-level sword cultivator as a maid... it would be best not to provoke him.

"This is my younger brother Ethan Lin." Thomas Lin said calmly, "He has been in poor health since childhood and rarely sees people. Master Daniel Gu, you should quickly take your sword and leave here as soon as possible."

Although Daniel Gu Feiyu was innocent, Thomas Lin's face still revealed a hint of unhappiness. How could he not know Ethan Lin's physical condition? Now that Daniel Gu Feiyu's sword had an accident, he still called Ethan Lin "senior" all the time, which made people feel that he was very rude.

"So this is the legendary Third Young Master Lin." Daniel Gu Feiyu showed a look of understanding.

He noticed that Thomas Lin seemed a little unhappy, so he said no more. He walked a few steps to his sword and shouted, "Zhongfeng, let's go!" After that, he stretched out his hand to grasp the hilt, wanting to swing the sword. Unexpectedly, Daniel Gu Feiyu exerted force with his hand, but the black heavy sword did not move at all, and even hummed from time to time, as if it was mocking him.

Daniel Gu Feiyu tried to pull it out for a while but failed. His face became more and more ugly and he started to curse. He was originally from the countryside and only returned to the Daniel Gu family in recent years. He was used to the dirty words used by shrews in scolding on the streets. They would call him a Sl*t and a B!tch.

Emily Hua's eyes widened as he listened to what he heard. He probably had never heard such down-to-earth swearing in his life.

However, the big sword remained unmoved, which made Daniel Gu Feiyu so angry that he stomped his feet. Finally, Thomas Lin couldn't bear it anymore, so he took a few steps forward and grasped the hilt of the sword, wanting to end this farce.

Daniel Gu Feiyu did not try to persuade him, but just stood there and howled, "This is so unfair. I have raised you for so many years, and you fell in love with me after just one glance. You B@st@ard..."

Ethan Lin sat in a wheelchair, the mung bean cake in her hand was almost melting. She felt it was not right to put it down, nor was it right to eat it.

Thomas Lin gripped the hilt of the sword, and after exerting force, his face became increasingly gloomy. He had already reached the eighth realm of cultivation and had the strength to move mountains, but this seemingly ordinary heavy sword did not move at all in his hand, as if thousands of mountains were hidden inside it.

"I can't pull it out, I can't pull it out." Daniel Gu Feiyu was not surprised by Thomas Lin's defeat. He squatted on the ground and pulled hard at the messy black long hair, saying painfully, "People are not as good as new, and clothes are not as good as old---"

Then he looked up at Ethan Lin pitifully and begged, "Mr. Lin San, it is said that a gentleman should not take away someone's love. Please help him and let him give up this idea."

Ethan Lin sighed, put down the mung bean cake in her hand, and said softly: "Mr. Daniel Gu, it's not that I don't want to help, but I am weak and have never practiced swordsmanship. Even my second brother can't pull the sword, so I'm afraid I can't help much."

"Mr. Lin San, please stop teasing me." Daniel Gu Feiyu screamed, "If you haven't even learned swordsmanship, how could he be interested in you---"

After hearing this, Ethan Lin looked at her second brother who was still struggling with the sword, coughed lightly, wiped off the debris on her hands, stood up and said, "Okay, I'll try it."

When Thomas Lin heard Ethan Lin's voice, his face darkened. Just as he was about to speak, Ethan Lin spoke first: "Second brother, since Master Daniel Gu said so, I will give it a try. It would be good to make him give up."

Thomas Lin frowned, but seeing that Ethan Lin looked calm and didn't seem unhappy, he let go and said, "Then let's try it."

The gauze curtain was torn, and the attic was high up, so the spring wind blew in. Ethan Lin slowly stood up, and her originally neat black hair was blown a little messy. Chongfeng was still buzzing, and as Ethan Lin approached, his buzzing became more and more excited, as if he was about to fly up from the ground and rub against the corner of Ethan Lin's clothes.

Ethan Lin coughed softly a few times, raised her hand to gather the fox fur, then stretched out her slender but pale hand and tightly grasped the hilt of Chongfeng's sword.

The hilt of the sword was cool and very smooth to the touch. The moment Ethan Lin gripped it, he felt as if he was holding a piece of frozen ice. However, the next moment, a strange heat flowed out from the palm of his hand, and this heat flowed through his whole body in an instant. The buzzing sound of the heavy sword became louder, and obvious cracks began to appear on the hard bluestone ground.

Ethan Lin frowned and raised her hand to draw her sword.

Daniel Gu Feiyu, who was standing aside, took a breath of cold air and watched Ethan Lin easily pull up the motionless heavy sword from the ground. The heavy sword, which should have been heavier than a mountain, turned into a falling feather in Ethan Lin's hand, drawing a gentle arc in the air.

No one present had expected this scene, even Ethan Lin herself showed a slightly surprised expression.

Daniel Gu Feiyu burst into tears and almost rolled on the ground, saying: "Second Master Lin---you really screwed me over!"

Thomas Lin had a complicated expression and wanted to say something to Ethan Lin, but swallowed his words back.

It has to be said that the heavy black sword body of Chongfeng looks completely incompatible with the thin Ethan Lin. The way Ethan Lin holds the sword is just like a weak scholar holding a long fire stick, but her handsome face still has an innocent look.

Daniel Gu Feiyu almost wanted to cry out loud after seeing this scene.

"Mr. Daniel Gu---" Ethan Lin was a little at a loss and wanted to hand the sword to Daniel Gu Feiyu.

Seeing this, Daniel Gu Feiyu quickly reached out to take it, but the sword fell straight to the ground as soon as it reached his hand, leaving a huge hole in the ground. No matter how hard Daniel Gu Feiyu tried, he refused to get up.

"I'm dead, I'm dead! Chongfeng, you heartless B@st@ard---" Daniel Gu Feiyu sat on the ground, hugging Chongfeng like he was hugging his cheating wife, "You conscienceless B!tch---"

Ethan Lin looked helpless and even had the illusion that she had stolen someone else's wife.

In the attic, the atmosphere was eerily quiet. Only Daniel Gu Feiyu's crying could be heard. Thomas Lin asked helplessly, "Is there no other way?"

Daniel Gu Feiyu wiped her tears and said, "Yes, there are."

"What method?" Thomas Lin asked.

"I have to trouble Mr. Lin San." Daniel Gu Feiyu said, "You have to tell him clearly that you don't love him and there is no future with him---"

Ethan Lin: ...

Thomas Lin: ...

Floating flowers: ...

The master and the servant were all speechless by Daniel Gu Feiyu's unconventional words. Emily Hua was the first to react, with a very strange expression: "Can he understand human language? Will my young master's words work for him?"

"I don't know either. It was all told to me by my ancestors." Daniel Gu Feiyu sat on the ground, with no intention of getting up. "It's just that my ancestor was almost senile when he gave me this sword. I don't know if he was talking nonsense." As he spoke, he lay completely on the ground, muttering to himself, "But speaking of this, it was also the fate of Mr. Lin San." He turned his head and looked at Ethan Lin eagerly, "Mr. Lin San, can you swing the sword with a heavy blade to make me give up completely?"

Ethan Lin looked at Thomas Lin, seeking his opinion. Thomas Lin thought for a moment, nodded slightly and said, "It's okay to try." Ethan Lin had no cultivation in her body, so being able to lift the heavy blade could be considered an opportunity, but if she could really use the heavy blade to swing a sword, it would not be something that could be easily explained by the word opportunity.

Ethan Lin reached out and grasped the hilt of Chongfeng's sword again.

Just like before, the heavy sword in his hand was as light as a feather, and he lifted it up from the bluestone effortlessly. Everyone's eyes fell on him. Ethan Lin felt a little itchy in his throat again, and he couldn't hold it back. He coughed heavily a few times, and a sickly blush appeared on his pale cheeks.

Seeing this, Thomas Lin was about to say something, but Ethan Lin had already swung the heavy sword in her hand towards the side outside the attic.

Daniel Gu Feiyu held his breath and waited, but when the heavy sword was swung down, there was silence. Even if he pricked up his ears, he could only hear the faint sound of the wind outside.

Nothing happened.

Daniel Gu Feiyu felt relieved but also a little disappointed.

When the ancestor passed the heavy sword to Daniel Gu Feiyu, he told him that the heavy sword contained the power of creation, which could break mountains and cut through yin and yang. However, now the first person who could be recognized by the heavy sword swung the sword, but nothing happened.

Ethan Lin didn't know what Daniel Gu Feiyu was thinking. He just lowered his eyes and stared at the heavy sword in his hand.

The last time he held a sword was more than ten years ago, on the night of his tenth birthday party.

He would always remember that it was a clear night when he and his second brother sat on the tallest pine tree on Mount Matthew. He acted like a spoiled child and begged his second brother to let him touch Tianxiao.

Thomas Lin has always been the one who doted on Ethan Lin the most. How could he resist his brother's pleading? He handed the sword in his hand to Ethan Lin.

Ethan Lin happily took it, but as soon as Tianxiao got it, Ethan Lin found that the sword was as heavy as a thousand pounds. He didn't hold it firmly and fell off the tree. Fortunately, Thomas Lin rescued him in time, but he was also scared and sweating.

"The better the sword, the heavier it is." Later, Ethan Lin's mother said to him, "Xiao Jiu, let's not touch the sword anymore, okay?"

"Okay." Ethan Lin heard herself answer like this when she was young.

Ethan Lin can only lift the lightest sword, but in the eyes of a true swordsman, the lightest sword in Matthew Mountain is not even worthy of being a toy for a child.

"I'm not a swordsman." The pale and handsome young man stared at the black heavy sword in his hand. His voice was as gentle as a lover's whisper. He said, "I... am not suitable for you."

The sound of heavy spears roared loudly.

"Look, he has been waiting for you for so long." The young man stroked the sword blade, calming the restless sword. His fingers were white and slender, and as they brushed across the black sword blade inch by inch, a strange beauty inexplicably emerged. Daniel Gu Feiyu saw it and his cheeks suddenly turned red, and he looked away in panic.

"If you go with me, he will be very sad." Ethan Lin said softly. He used to think that what Daniel Gu Feiyu said to him was a little unreasonable, but now, he clearly realized that Chongfeng could understand what he said, "I am so weak and I can't use you. It would be too unfair for you to follow me." He smiled, his eyes were lighter than those of ordinary people, and they curved softly, "Thank you for pleasing me. You are the first sword that pleases me..."

As Ethan Lin spoke, she opened her arms and gently embraced Chongfeng: "I am very happy."

The heavy sword shook violently, and seemed to understand Ethan Lin's thoughts, and the buzzing sound gradually subsided.

Daniel Gu Feiyu stood by and stared at him eagerly, like a child waiting for candy.

Ethan Lin turned her head to look at him and blinked: "Is it ok?"

"I don't know." Daniel Gu Feiyu rolled up his sleeves and took a deep breath. "Baby, come back with me. I promise I won't scold you anymore. I'll treat you better than my wife!" After he said this, he kept muttering to himself for a long time, mostly nonsense asking for peace.

Only after Thomas Lin's eyebrows were twisted up did Daniel Gu Feiyu stretch out his hand tremblingly and reverently grasp the hilt of the sword handed to him by Ethan Lin.

Ethan Lin let go.

This time, Chongfeng did not fall to the ground.

Daniel Gu Feiyu hugged Chongfeng and cried with joy. The three people present all breathed a sigh of relief.

Ethan Lin couldn't help coughing again. Thomas Lin raised his chin to Emily Hua with a cold face. Emily Hua quickly pushed the wheelchair over and helped Ethan Lin sit down.

"It seems that we can't fight today. In that case, let's fight again tomorrow." Thomas Lin said calmly, "My brother is feeling a little unwell, so I will send him back first."

Daniel Gu Feiyu said yes repeatedly, feeling somewhat embarrassed. He had caused so much trouble to others for nothing. Although he still had doubts in his heart, he did not dare to ask any more questions.

Thomas Lin pushed Ethan Lin into the air, while Daniel Gu Feiyu was holding Chongfeng and was in a daze in the attic.

The spectators below the sword stage gradually dispersed, and everything seemed to be returning to calm.

However, at this moment, a huge noise suddenly rang out in the sky, like rolling thunder, or like a sudden surge of waves, continuous, from far to near.

Daniel Gu Feiyu listened to the thunder in broad daylight and looked towards the source of the sound, with a look of astonishment in his eyes - the northern peak of Matthew Mountain had collapsed in half.

He was shocked at first, then suddenly came to his senses, and a terrifying feeling arose in his heart...The location of Beifeng was exactly the direction where Ethan Lin had just swung the sword.