Spring Garden Heart Chapter 8

The porridge was millet porridge, made with new rice harvested before the New Year, with finely chopped millet in it, boiled into a thick golden color. The side dishes included pickled radish and stir-fried seasonal vegetables, which were green in color, and aroused Ethan Lin's appetite.

Seeing that Ethan Lin was willing to eat, Emily Hua was overjoyed. She carefully helped Ethan Lin get off the bed and sat at the table. But her eyes fixed, and she noticed something. She half squatted down and looked at the corner of Ethan Lin's clothes: "Why are your clothes dirty, young master?"

A dark stain was particularly eye-catching on Ethan Lin's white clothes. Emily Hua asked doubtfully, "Did the young master go outside the house?" But then she felt that it was not right. After all, Alice Rui was guarding the door when she was cooking. If Ethan Lin had gone out, she would definitely know.

Ethan Lin held the chopsticks and said casually: "Well, I went out for a while, and this side dish is pretty good."

Emily Hua had served Ethan Lin for so many years, so she knew that Ethan Lin didn't want to mention it again. Although she was confused, she still kept silent and said softly: "Sir, would you like to take a bath before going to bed? It's a good opportunity to change into clean clothes..."

Ethan Lin nodded: "Okay."

Floating flowers smile lightly.

Ethan Lin was taken out by the man in red to enjoy the night breeze, and her appetite miraculously improved a lot. She drank a bowl of millet porridge and ate a lot of side dishes.

While Ethan Lin was eating, Emily Hua got up and prepared hot water for Ethan Lin. The hot water was heated with a special charcoal fire, which could perfectly control the temperature so that the water would not be too cold or too hot. However, this charcoal fire had to be stimulated by spiritual power or sword energy, and was not something that ordinary people could use.

Emily Hua boiled some hot water and was about to go back into the house to ask Ethan Lin to come out for a bath. When she passed by the courtyard, she saw the second young master Lin standing quietly in the yard.

He was dressed in green, holding a long sword, neither smiling nor speaking, but staring at the peach tree in the yard with his eyes half-closed.

Emily Hua knows swords, so when he saw Thomas Lin, he sensed a hint of cold murderous intent from him. Murderous intent? On this Yaoguang Continent, the number of people who could arouse Thomas Lin's murderous intent could be counted on one hand. Why was Thomas Lin like this?

Thomas Lin had already noticed the floating flowers behind him. The ice and snow in his eyes melted away, and his thin lips smiled. He became the gentle and graceful second son of Matthew Sword Sect again. He said, "Xiao Jiu is back?"

Come back? Why come back? Emily Hua was slightly stunned and nodded blankly: "I'm back...but when did you go out?"

Thomas Lin did not answer: "Take me in."

Emily Hua could only praise it. She felt that Thomas Lin's current state was a little strange, but she was just a maid after all. She knew that there were some questions that she shouldn't ask, so it was better not to ask.

When they entered the room, they saw Ethan Lin sitting in the candlelight. He was leaning on a chair, his black hair was not tied up, just scattered messily on his shoulders. His face looked a little pale against the candlelight, and his long eyelashes trembled slightly, like a black butterfly about to fly.

Ethan Lin also heard the footsteps, looked up, smiled and called out "Second Brother".

Thomas Lin's expression gradually softened, and Emily Hua clearly felt that the murderous intent had dissipated from him.

"Did Xiaojiu eat well?" Thomas Lin walked forward and sat opposite Ethan Lin.

"Emily Hua cooked a bowl of porridge, and I ate it all." Ethan Lin said, "Second brother came here so late, what's the matter?"

Thomas Lin said: "Nothing, I saw you coughing badly before, so I thought of coming to see you again."

Ethan Lin said: "After drinking the flower dew, I feel much better." He keenly noticed something in Thomas Lin's eyes and called softly: "Second brother?"

"Little leek." Thomas Lin suddenly stood up, walked to the window, and pushed it wide open. Outside the window was the annoying peach tree. He smiled and asked, "This peach tree is crooked and thin, really ugly, and it makes people upset. Should we chop it down with a sword?"

Ethan Lin was slightly startled. Just as he was about to speak, Thomas Lin waved his hand, signaling Emily Hua to leave. Seeing this, Emily Hua bowed, left the room, and quietly closed the door.

Ethan Lin and Thomas Lin looked at each other in silence for a long time.

"Is that peach tree a monster?" Ethan Lin asked.

"No." Thomas Lin said.

"What is that?" Ethan Lin said. He wanted to tell Thomas Lin what had just happened, but when he saw Thomas Lin's expression, he couldn't say the words that were on his lips.

"It's your chance." Thomas Lin said.

Ethan Lin was puzzled: "Chance?"

He noticed the word Thomas Lin used, which was opportunity, not fortune.

Thomas Lin said, "If there are more, the ten thousand yao will not be counted out."

In the art of divination with ten thousand lines, if he is second to none in the entire Matthew Mountains, then there is no one who is first. Things that even he cannot calculate must involve the laws of nature.

Those who try to peek into the way of heaven will have their life shortened, their fortune cut off, their body weakened, they will not be able to eat grains, and they will not be able to enter the cycle of reincarnation. Even a powerful hexagram reader like Wan Yao would not dare to try it lightly.

Thomas Lin's hand was already on Tianxiao's sword handle. He said, "Xiao Jiu, this tree may kill you. No matter what, I can't stand it."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ethan Lin saw a sword light as cold as a white rainbow, and he knew that Thomas Lin had drawn his sword.

Tianxiao drew his sword, and the sharp sword burst out, mixed with strong killing intent, and stabbed the thin peach tree. The peach tree stood in the cool spring breeze, without leaves or flowers, and the thin branches were about to fall, innocent like a pitiful child.

Ethan Lin actually saw Thomas Lin's movements clearly. Thomas Lin raised his hand, drew his sword, and swung it. The sharp blade of Tianxiao turned into a stream of light. Ethan Lin even saw a mark engraved on the blade of Tianxiao. The mark had the words "Tian Jue" written on it, which were exactly Thomas Lin's words.

At this moment, Ethan Lin thought of the peach forest at the foot of the mountain, the monkey king with golden hair in the peach forest, and the man in the peach forest who was more beautiful than the fox fairy.

His mind was still there, but his body had already moved. His originally heavy body was now as light as a feather, and in an instant, he had stretched out his hand to block Thomas Lin and the peach tree.

"Second brother, don't..." Ethan Lin said, breathing rapidly, his hair scattered on his shoulders, his pale cheeks without a trace of blood, but there was an abnormal blush in the corners of his eyes, he shouted, "Second brother..."

Thomas Lin's Tianxiao did not fall, not because he stopped the attack in time, but because Tianxiao was caught by a pair of hands.

Blood dripped from Ethan Lin's palm bit by bit, dyeing Tianxiao's snow-white sword blade red.

Thomas Lin's eyes were bloodshot, his chest was heaving heavily, he suppressed his turbulent emotions and said in a hoarse voice: "Xiao Jiu, let go."

Ethan Lin let go of his hand in a daze. He didn't know how he appeared in front of Thomas Lin, nor did he know how he took over Tianxiao. The only thing he knew was that he didn't want to see the thin peach tree being chopped into several pieces by Thomas Lin's sword.

So I moved involuntarily.

Thomas Lin lowered his head to check the wound on Ethan Lin's hand. Although a lot of blood was flowing, it was only a flesh wound. He sighed, opened his mouth, sighed again, and finally said nothing. He asked Yu Rui, who was silent outside the door, to bring some medicine.

"Second brother..." Ethan Lin felt a little uneasy.

Thomas Lin motioned for Ethan Lin to sit down, stretched out his hand to pinch Ethan Lin's wrist, and helped him stop the bleeding. Because of his weak body, Ethan Lin's healing ability was also very poor, like a porcelain doll. Even a slight touch on weekdays could leave purple marks on his skin, not to mention the sharp wounds like this one.

Yu Rui quickly took the medicine and pushed the door open. Seeing the mess in the room, she didn't dare to say anything. She put down her things and quietly retreated.

Thomas Lin lowered his head, sprinkled medicine on Ethan Lin's hand, bandaged it with a clean white cloth, and told him not to let the wound see water for the next few days.

Ethan Lin said: "Second brother...I..." He wanted to apologize.

Thomas Lin sighed, stretched out his hand and patted Ethan Lin on the head, with a helpless look on his face, "Little Leek has finally grown up."

"I don't know why I moved and took over Tianxiao..." Ethan Lin murmured.

"This is probably the opportunity that Wan Yao mentioned." Thomas Lin said, "I am a little crazy." He lowered his head for a long time, and when he raised his eyes again, there was only the warmth of his brother in his eyes. He said, "Second brother is just a little worried, worried that the opportunity is not a good thing for Xiao Jue."

The peach tree appeared inexplicably, the northern peak of Kunshan was split in half by a sword, and Ethan Lin had been sucked into the center of the vortex, but she was completely unaware.

Thomas Lin raised his hand and swung his sword, wanting to cut off the cause and effect this time, but the moment the sword fell, he suddenly realized that some things Tianxiao could not break. This time, it was Ethan Lin's hands that blocked his sword. If he still persisted, perhaps the next sword would fall on Ethan Lin's neck.

This was Ethan Lin's fate, and he was powerless to change it.

Ethan Lin was injured and bled a lot, with a strong sense of fatigue between his brows. He tried to comfort his second brother, but seeing that he just smiled and said nothing, he realized that some words were just a drop in the bucket, so he shut up obediently.

"You should rest first." Thomas Lin stood up, "I will come to see you tomorrow with my elder brother."

Ethan Lin nodded and watched Thomas Lin turn around and leave.

Thomas Lin went out of the door, but did not leave in a hurry. He stood in the yard and stared at the peach tree for a long time. Until the lights in Ethan Lin's room dimmed, he sneered coldly: "I want to see how powerful you are." Then he raised his hand and fiercely broke off a branch of the peach tree.

The peach tree showed no reaction, as if it was just a poor, innocent little tree.

Thomas Lin sneered and threw the peach branch to the ground: "Nothing more than that." He strode towards the gate of the yard, but at the moment when he was about to cross the yard, he was suddenly tripped by something. After staggering a few steps, he fell into a mud pit beside the road.

"You---" The moment Thomas Lin fell, his dantian was empty and he couldn't even raise a trace of sword energy. It was obviously the peach tree that caused trouble.

"Just wait for me." Thomas Lin's face turned pale and he said angrily, "One day, I will chop you into pieces and use you as firewood!"

The branches of the peach tree tilted upwards slightly. If it had an expression, it would definitely be one of provocation.