Chapter 186 Envy
"What's wrong with you?" The little boy asked weakly as he hadn't recovered his strength immediately after eating the snack.
Tie Hongyan sat on the ground without saying anything, just continued to cry. She didn't know where to go anymore. If she continued along the same path, she would starve to death, but if she turned back, she would have to continue living a life where she was forced to do things she didn't like. She didn't want to go back not only because someone there was forcing her, but also because she hated the people of the Tiecang tribe in her heart. Therefore, it would be torture for her to go back there.
The surroundings were quiet, and the two children sat there without saying a word. After a while, the little boy's strength recovered a lot. He saw Tie Hongyan was still crying, and thought: What is the reason? How can she cry for so long?
"Why are you crying? Is it because I ate your food?" asked the little boy.
Tie Hongyan was still sobbing, with his head lowered and not saying a word.
"If you hadn't given me food, I would have starved to death. Thank you for saving me!" said the little boy gratefully.
After hearing this, Tie Hongyan looked up at the little boy, and once again saw that he was dirty and looked very miserable. She felt that he was indeed very pitiful, but she immediately remembered that she didn't know where to go at this moment, and it was all because of the poor little boy in front of her who ate all her food.
"It's all your fault! You're so annoying!" Tie Hongyan finally spoke.
"I was so hungry, I didn't mean to eat all your food!" the little boy explained.
Tie Hongyan cried and said, "I have no food left, how can I escape?"
"Are you going to run away?" the little boy asked.
"If you don't run away, you will be bullied!" said Tie Hongyan.
"Bully?"
"You forced me to learn those disgusting martial arts and beat me!" Tie Hongyan said, wiping away her tears.
"Learning martial arts? It would be so great to learn martial arts!" The little boy looked envious.
Seeing his envious look, Tie Hongyan suddenly felt disgusted. "Have you learned it?" Tie Hongyan asked a little unhappy.
"No." The little boy shook his head.
"If you like it so much, why don't you learn it?" Tie Hongyan glanced at the little boy.
"I would like to learn, but no one can teach me," said the little boy.
"You want to learn because you have never learned it before. If you have learned it, you won't want to learn it anymore!" Tie Hongyan frowned.
"Who said that? If someone teaches me, I will definitely learn it!" said the little boy firmly.
"You've been doing one move for a long time. I want to see if you still like it!" Tie Hongyan said.
"So you are afraid of hardship!" asked the little boy.
"Who is afraid of hard work?" Tie Hongyan said disdainfully, "When I was doing what the adults said was hard work in another place before, I was so happy, it was like playing. The adults all praised me for my strength. The more they praised me, the more I liked to do it. They never bullied me!" In Tie Hongyan's view, in her previous experiences, even when she was doing hard work, she was playing because she was happy.
"If you are not afraid of hardship, then what are you afraid of?"
"What is there to be afraid of? I'm not afraid of anything! But I'm so annoyed to do the same action for such a long time! I was forced to learn it by the adults, and I'm suffocated by them!" Tie Hongyan said angrily.
"Adults force you to learn martial arts for your own good," said the little boy.
"What's so good about it?"
"I'll practice martial arts well from a young age so that I won't be bullied when I grow up!" The little boy's eyes revealed his longing to learn martial arts.
(End of this chapter)
