Chapter 99 – Leaving
In the end, Han Li walked into the village step by step.
As soon as he stepped into the entrance of the village, he heard a burst of joyful musical instruments, and as he walked along the path in the village, he didn’t see a single silhouette of the villagers.
Han Li’s heart moved, this kind of scene and sound, he was most familiar with when he was a child, this is clearly a family in the wedding ceremony, the village people have gone to celebrate or to join in the fun.
Han Li raised his spirit and slowly released his spiritual sense. As a result, he found that the village’s old and young were indeed gathered in a certain place. It was just that the location where they gathered, Han Li felt so familiar, wasn’t it the place where his own family lived? Han Li was surprised in a non-trivial way!
”Could it be ……,” Han Li vaguely guessed something.
He quickened his pace, quickly bypassing a few houses and turning a few corners, when his eyes suddenly lit up.
Only to see hundreds of villagers, all gathered in front of an earthen courtyard.
Inside the courtyard were several tiled rooms that looked much better than the nearby houses, and on both sides of the courtyard and the doors of the tiled rooms, a large happy word had been posted. There was also a small group of musicians in front of the courtyard’s door, blowing and playing in a lively manner.
And these villagers either stood, squatted or even some of them, who were not very conscientious, simply sat on the ground. They are in groups of three or five, some talking to each other, some arguing at the top of their voices, and some people with envious eyes keep looking into the courtyard.
Next to the villagers were many children, who were chasing and playing around the adults.
Seeing this familiar scene, Han Li’s heart was in a trance. It seemed that in this instant, he had returned to the past and had transformed into one of the children, chasing and playing with them.
”Tsk! The Han family’s fourth girl is really lucky, I heard that the man is a scholar in the city, that’s a family of learned readers.”
”That’s right, in the past, she was still the main wife, but now she’s become the wife of a scholar!”
”I heard that the dowry brought by the Han family is so much that it’s scary, there are tens of taels of snowflake silver!”
”That’s a lot of money!”
……
The noisy gossiping of the village women woke Han Li up from his loss of concentration.
”Han family’s fourth girl, isn’t that the little sister! Could it really be the day of my little sister’s release?” A rush of indescribable emotions surged up and tumbled over Han Li.
Not knowing out of what mentality, Han Li took a few steps to hide behind a large tree nearby, and stared deathly at the courtyard door without letting go.
Suddenly, a shout came out from the distance:
”The float is here! The groomer has come to fetch the bride!”
Upon hearing this, the villagers were in an uproar! In an instant there was a great deal of noise!
”The bride is coming out!”
”The new bride is coming out! Come and see!”
……
The children were not shy to yell as well, and Han Li’s spirits lifted as he looked towards the courtyard door with eager eyes.
”Creak” The wooden courtyard door opened, and a dozen men and women came out from inside. In the middle of them, there was a young girl clad in a flowery red wedding dress.
This young girl has a sharp chin, clean-cut appearance, about sixteen or seventeen years old, and at this time has a shy face.
Han Li opened his eyes wide and carefully observed the young girl’s face, wanting to find some shadow of his little sister in his memory.
In addition to finding a trace of familiarity from yesteryear between the corners of the young girl’s brows, the rest of it could no longer be associated with Han Li’s impression of his little sister.
”Ahem! A woman’s age has changed, this saying really makes sense!” Han Li laughed bitterly, then began to sweep his gaze toward the people around her.
”This fat guy is Third Uncle, I can tell at a glance that he’s still just as fat as before!”
”The big black guy over here, is big brother Han Tiezhu, and the woman right next to him, should be sister-in-law!”
……
Han Li muttered up under his breath as he named them one by one, as if this would make it easier for him.
When his eyes landed on two white-haired old men and women, a man and a woman, Han Li stopped speaking.
He stood dumbfounded behind the tree, not moving a muscle, his expression becoming complicated. There was happiness, cowardice, and a bit of bewilderment among them.
The extent to which his parents had aged was far beyond Han Li’s expectations. He remembered that when he had gone up the mountain, his mother still had dark hair, but now she was gray at the temples, while his father’s originally straight waist was now bowed.
Han Li was silent, his mind dizzy as a mass of mush. Everything that happened below was lost on him.
By the time he came to his senses, his little sister was already on a colorful car draped in red silk, far away. Next to the colorful car, a scholar riding a large green horse followed closely behind.
Han Li glanced hard at the faraway colorful car, then gazed back at his parents in the crowd before closing his eyes.
Upon engraving the faces of his parents and a few of his closest relatives deeply in his heart, Han Li turned around with a fierce look of determination on his face, and then took a large step towards the village entrance.
Han Li knew that when he walked out of the village entrance again, his interactions with these people in this life might end here.
He was well aware that ever since learning the Everlasting Spring Technique and learning of the existence of Immortal Cultivators, he would be walking a completely different path from ordinary people.
Regardless of whether it would be a disaster or a blessing, a blessing or a curse in the future, he would not regret his choice!