Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 303 Mortals
When Chen Yan arrived at No. 791 Birmingham Street South, the sky had already begun to lighten up on a large scale. Even if it was covered by soot haze, some sunlight would still shine through the haze and shine on the earth, dispelling the frozen city. Haze in the corner.

No. 791 Birmingham Street is a three-storey villa with an independent courtyard, in which there are snow-covered flower beds and a pine tree taller than the villa. Such a pine tree is almost standard for middle-class people on Birmingham Street.

Chen Yan saw the prayer bell representing the choral group on the top of the pine tree, which indicated that this family was a believer in [Holy Light]——

Like most of the middle class in the empire, they must also attribute part of the reason they enjoy a good life to the omnipotent [Holy Light].

He rang the doorbell, and soon a servant appeared.

It was an old man with a lame leg.

"excuse me, you are?"

Although the old man is lame, his back is straight and his eyes are neither humble nor overbearing.

"I am a missionary from Andil's small church. I heard that someone in your family has suffered bad luck. Father Andil sent me to pray for him."

How can I pray at this time...

Although the old man had doubts in his heart, he thought of the misfortune his master had encountered, and the mistress who had shed tears all day long, so he sighed and said, "May the holy light protect us, please come in."

Although the name of Father Andil is very useful, the old man doesn't believe in that. His life experience tells him that lies are everywhere.

But at this juncture, even if it is a liar, it is good to coax the hostess who is trapped in grief.

After all, a liar's mouth is much stronger than a clumsy ordinary person like him.

There was a gleam of coldness in the old man's eyes when he looked at Chen Yan.

But if this person is doing something wrong, he must protect his wife and children from being bullied for his master.

Chen Yan followed the old man into the house, and saw a soul-guarding lamp lit inside the house. The choir made the people believe that the lamp is a kind of holy light, which can protect the dead soul from being infested by evil spirits, so that they can return more safely Holy Light will.

Sitting slumped in front of the Soul Keeping Lamp was a Luke woman dressed in black. She had thick dark circles under her eyes, staring at the photo of the man next to the Soul Keeping Lamp with empty eyes.

In the photo, there was a Luke man who didn't look handsome. He had a lot of pockmarks on his face, and his facial features were fairly straight. The gentleman's clothes on his body made him look a lot better.

This is deer.

"Hello, madam, I am entrusted by Father Andil to come and pray for the deceased husband."

When the woman heard his voice, she raised her face, and finally there was a trace of emotion in her empty eyes.

There was a trace of complicated emotions that Chen Yan couldn't understand.

She made a "mysterious" expression, covered her mouth with her hands, leaving only a tiny gap between her fingertips, and whispered:

"Actually, my husband is not dead!"

The old man on the side couldn't hold back anymore, and hurriedly said to Chen Yan: "Madam is too sad, and her spirit is not normal anymore! Please pray for her as soon as possible!"

Chen Yan grabbed her hand.

If the old man hadn't heard what he said next, he would have almost kicked him up.

"I take your word for it."

He winked at her.

"I believe he's still alive."

As if seeing the sincerity in his eyes, a gleam of light bloomed in the woman's eyes.

"Thank you!" Tears flowed from the woman's bloodshot eyes, and she trembled, "Thank you!"

She seemed to have hurt her body due to excessive grief. After saying this, her body was shaky and she fell to one side.

Chen Yan embraced her with one hand, and reached out to the old man with the other.

The old man's eyes widened, but he realized that there was nothing he could do now, so he had to hand him a tissue.

The woman bumped into his arms, felt the morning frost on Chen Yan's coat, and immediately woke up a little.

She gently struggled out of his arms, whispered: "I'm sorry..."

Chen Yan sighed, and handed over the tissue: "I can feel your sadness, may the Holy Light protect you."

The woman didn't pick up the tissue, but covered her face and cried again: "Jason must be very angry seeing me like this..."

Deer's real name is Jason.

Hearing her sobbing, the old man was at a loss for a moment. He was just a servant who only knew how to do housework and didn't know how to comfort others.

He looked at Chen Yan helplessly.

Chen Yan gave him a "calm" look, and looked at the woman.

"What kind of man is Mr. Johnson, madam?"

The woman was mentally weak. Hearing his question, she didn't have the idea of ​​rejection. On the contrary, the memory that appeared in her mind dispelled some of the sadness in her emotions.

"Jason...he's a nice guy."

"I didn't know him at that time. I only knew that he had experienced several love affairs. I was very scared because my family arranged for me to meet him. Our family that believes in the Holy Light has strict discipline. If I want to get married, I can only obey Arrangements at home."

"I met Jason at the Hummingbird Café on Birmingham Street, looking at him from a distance in a suit, looking very interested.

Was he also arranged by the family?
I regretted it immediately, I felt that I couldn't handle such a man. "

"Just when I was about to leave, Jason saw me and said hello to me - that was the first time he saw me, how could he recognize me?"

A smile appeared on the corner of the woman's mouth.

She is nearly 40 years old, but that smile looks like a very young girl.

How did that happen……

Chen Yan remembered a bad word.

Back to light.

Chen Yan felt that she was not in a good state, and looked at the old man standing aside when she was not looking directly at him.

The old man was sweating profusely, and his anxious facial features were all pulled together. When Chen Yan looked at him, he also looked at Chen Yan with more nervous eyes.

Sure, the old man will definitely not be able to help.

Chen Yan looked at the woman with her head down and smiled and fell silent.

And as the silence began, her eyelids seemed to close.

At this moment, Chen Yan's spirit began to tense, and the spirit vision automatically turned on.

In the spirit vision, a thin layer of flame emerged from the woman's body.

The flame continued to decrease at a speed visible to the naked eye, and every time it decreased, the woman's eyes closed a little bit.

Can't go on like this.

"Then what? Ma'am? What did Mr. Johnson do then?"

Chen Yan's words successfully attracted the woman's attention. She raised her head, although her eyes were in a trance, but her eyes no longer closed, and the flames on her body no longer diminished.

"That guy Jason, he opened his eyes wide when he saw me, and he looked at a loss."

A happy smile appeared on the woman's face.

"I was thinking, I know I'm not good-looking, why is he acting like that? To take me down? To clean up an unloved, conservative choir family. A woman takes it? Does that give him a sense of accomplishment?"

"He was very attentive and talked a lot. We talked from spring in Birmingham Street to winter, and from my boring life to his even more boring job as an announcer."

“[We are also boring people, and we are not bored when chatting together! This shows our fate, doesn’t it?]

He said such blunt things to me. I was a girl at the time, how could I bear this? "

"I almost hid my face and ran away in embarrassment, thinking in my heart that I hope the guests of the Hummingbird Cafe will not remember my face."

"After that, Jason waited on the way between me and the school every day."

"Whether it's going to school or after school, he will show up on time not far from my home and school. Even though I always ignored him at the beginning, he still whispered various things in my ear like a sparrow. "

"Why didn't I drive him away?"

"Maybe, at that time, I also had a good impression of him."

"Perhaps, I, who is poor in spirit, wish to be surrounded by him like this."

She rambled on.

Chen Yan listened carefully.

Maybe it was because she felt Chen Yan's seriousness, her words became more powerful, and she was no longer as sick as before.

The old man felt her change, and he looked at Chen Yan with gratitude immediately.

"I still don't know why Jason is so nice to me."

"It's so good that I don't know what to do, and even panic."

"Do I deserve him to treat me like this?"

"I don't know, so I never responded."

"I was still in college, a three-year accounting major, and I was about to graduate in a year.

My family wanted me to get married and have children as soon as possible after graduation, because the empire was not stable in those years, there was a big conflict between the choral group and the emperor, and the whole society was very tense.

And if I get married quickly, someone will watch over me, so that I can have children at the right age, and with the help of my family, my life will be easier.

Fortunately, Jason's newspaper also serves the choral group, so I don't have to be separated from him due to political struggles.

As the mouthpiece of the choral group, he has to report every day the sacred events that are blessed by the holy light in various places, and because of this, he is hated by the aristocratic forces belonging to the emperor.

One evening, while he was waiting for me to leave school, he was beaten by a street gangster. "

Her voice began to strain.

"I rushed to the hospital and he was in the emergency room.

He was said to have been stabbed several times and suffered a severe fracture.

I was terrified, more terrified than ever.

After waiting for an unknown amount of time, he was finally pushed out.

[The patient is temporarily safe, but due to serious injuries, he needs to be hospitalized].

I swear to the Light, that's the sweetest thing I've ever heard in my life.

Later, he finally woke up.

He was lying on the bed in the ward, his body was covered with plaster, his toothless mouth was grinning, he wanted to laugh but couldn't because of the pain.

【Hi!Nice to see you! 】

He winks.

[It seems that you still care about me! 】

I couldn't help but ask him:

【Why do you like me? 】

He corrected me:

[It's not liking, it's love. 】

I have never experienced such an explicit expression, but this time, I was not shy.

【Why do you love me? 】

I'll never forget the look in Jason's eyes.

[There is no reason to love someone. 】

I seem to finally understand the reason why he treats me well, but I also don't seem to know.

I've always been like this, confused.

The lights in the ward were very dim that day, and the kerosene lamp seemed to be refueled, but the new oil was blocked on the road by the emperor's rebels and had not yet arrived, so there was no way to achieve very bright lighting.

Fortunately, I can still see that Jason is smiling with a mouth that is missing a few teeth.

He said to me: [I love you, marry me. 】

I said: [OK. 】”

"With the help of my parents, we got married in no time, and I graduated from school and got a not-so-great job as an accountant, but not a bad one.

And after a few years, it can't be said that she had a child smoothly.

Everything between us seems to be logical and flat. "

The expression on her face suddenly froze, and then pain emerged.

"cocoa……"

She was sobbing and unable to speak, and said intermittently in a voice interrupted by sobbing:

"It's been 20 years, and I'm used to living with him and his love, but..."

She was a little out of breath.

"But Jason... why did he leave me so suddenly..."

She was almost suffocating!
The old man was about to jump in anxiety, while Chen Yan looked at the woman, and the words that came out of his mouth made the woman stop crying for a moment.

"What if... I could bring Jason back."

(End of this chapter)