LEGEND OF THE RULER

Episode 5 "Beneficial And Hate"

While the old man's wife was upset at the child lying unconscious in front of her, her husband suddenly opened the door and walked in.

"Are you satisfied now?.." Said his wife coldly as her husband entered the room.

"Yu'er what do you mean?.." The old man looked confused.

"Don't pretend to be stupid, remember that now you've added to the family's burden..." His words are getting colder.

The old man could only let out a long sigh and shook his head helplessly because ever since he had come home and brought San Lin, his wife had looked displeased. The old man also clearly knew what caused his wife to be like that, but his wife was very fond of small children even if it was a child they did not know.

"Yu'er, do you really not have the slightest mercy on that child?.." Asked the old man while looking at his wife with a sad look.

His wife also kept quiet and said nothing. It would be a big lie if he said that he had no pity on the unconscious eleven-year-old, but on the other hand he also felt hatred towards San Lin for being similar to his son who had died a year ago.

Knowing what his wife was thinking, the old man then continued, "Look at the boy, isn't he very similar to son-"

"Shut up!!... Don't you try to equate him with my son!!!.." The old man's wife immediately snapped before her husband finished his words.

"But Yu'er..."

"Once again you try to equate him with my son then I will kill this child!! My son is the best and no one can compare to him!!.." Shouted the old woman getting angrier and looked at her husband with a sharp look.

The old man could also only remain silent after hearing the threat from his wife. He was very familiar with the nature of his wife who was always serious with every word, surely the old man did not want the child he saved to die in his wife's hands just because of a problem that had nothing to do with the child.

After a few seconds of silence, the old woman got up from her seat and walked towards the door, and when she passed her husband, she paused for a moment and said, "If you want to take care of that child then you take care of it yourself!.."

After that she came out without even glancing at her husband. But even so, the old man then smiled meaningfully, for even though his wife said cruelly but not with her tender and loving heart.

The old man did not even say if they would take care of him because the whereabouts of the child should be reported first to the village chief then the village chief would report to a higher level and so on until san Lin's parents were found. But instead his wife immediately claimed if they would take care of him, it was proof that his heart was not cruel mouth.

After that the old man then sat beside San Lin's bed and looked at her with a very deep look of pity. The old man stroked San Lin's hair slowly, for some reason he also felt affectionate towards the child so he did that. Not long after that the old man's wife came back and brought a white blanket.

"It's night, give him this blanket. Although this blanket is not thick but enough to keep her warm before winter arrives a few more days.." She handed the blanket to her husband.

The old man received the blanket without saying anything and directly put it on San Lin. The old man did not say a word because he was afraid that he would return to quarrels and fuss with his wife so he preferred to be quiet.

The next morning, the old woman got up early and went to clean herself and went to the kitchen and cooked food like a typical wife. Then the old man also woke up and looked at his wife in wonder because it was not usual for his wife to wake up so early just to cook, then he also decided to stop his sleep and go help his wife in the kitchen.

"Yu'er, tumben once you wake up this early.." Said the old man while picking up the axe located beside the door and wanted to go split the firewood.

"Curtain!! It's your fault for adding to the burden of family!!.." An old woman answered while cutting vegetables.

The old man fell silent again and finally shook his head and went to do his usual duty to help his wife every morning.

Two hours passed quickly and San Lin had also just regained consciousness. When he opened his eyes for the first time, all he saw was the ceiling of the room filled with cobwebs.

"D-where am I? Is this nature after death?.." He muttered, blinking his eyes a few times.

He wanted to move his hand and rub his eyes so that his gaze was clear but he could not even move one of his fingers at all. Feeling useless with his efforts that moved his hands, he then switched to moving his body and wanted to sit down, but then he felt so much pain in his stomach and chest that he shouted so loudly.

"Aaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!.."

The two old couples certainly heard a cry of pain from San Lin, but the first one to move so quickly was the old woman as if she was very worried. While the old man already knew that San Lin would definitely scream when he woke up because the healer Kang Ho had explained it last night.

"seen? This was the reason why I could not understand women in the past. Last night he said he didn't want to take care of the boy, but why now does he look more worried?.." The old man muttered and put on a funny confused expression. After that he also followed.

Meanwhile San Lin continued to shout and roll around on his bed while holding his chest and stomach which were very painful. The pain was incredible, because it was his lungs and ribs that were as crummy as the healer Kang Ho said last night.

"Buck! Why you!?.." Asked the old lady in a hurry after she violently broke down the door.

"It hurts!!..." Shouted San Lin with a face that was flushed red from enduring that tremendous pain.

If he had been a cultivator then the pain could still be reduced by flowing qi energy to the sick part, but San Lin was a very weak commoner, he said, so that the pain he felt was three times that of people in general.

"Just tell me where it hurts!!.." Asked the old woman who was confused what to do.

"P-stomach left and d-chest right!!.." San Lin replied with great difficulty.

Upon hearing that, the old woman spontaneously recalled that healer Kang Ho said his ribs were broken and his lungs were torn. And it made him even more confused what to do.