Late at night, Yae Sakura's father was sitting in front of the case, looking at the hazy moonlight, really worrying about tomorrow. At this time, his little daughter's voice came from outside the door, which surprised the father.
You know, this little daughter has always been afraid of his father. The time the father and daughter spend together is less than one-tenth of the time Yae Sakura does. Why are you looking for him in the middle of the night tonight?
Could it be that he was frightened by the formation this morning?
He sighed and spoke softly to Jingliang outside the door.
"It's Rin outside, come in."
Katz,
Yae Rin pushed open the old wooden door, and a cool breeze blew from outside, blowing away the temperature that had finally gathered in the room.
"Rin, what's the matter? It's so cold outside at night, why did you come here to me?" his father said with a frown, as if he was complaining about Yae Rin's ignorance.
However, Yae Rin's original bones were relatively weak, and when blown by the cold wind, she was like withered and yellow weeds on the roadside, as if a gentle breeze could blow her away.
The father picked up the big coat that was wrapped around him, walked to his little daughter who was shivering from the cold, and put it on her.
"Rin, why are you looking for your father late at night?" Looking at this little daughter, his eyes were slightly confused. If he was scared because of what happened this morning, according to Yae Rin's habit, shouldn't he run to Yae Sakura?
How could he run to his relatively "strange" father so well?
"Father, I came to you to tell you something." Yae Rin swallowed, a firm look flashed in his eyes, and he said to the slightly thin and unfamiliar father in front of him.
"What happened? Could it be something that happened this morning?" The father held his daughter's petite figure and spoke with a slightly more serious tone.
"That's right." Yae Rin nodded and said to his father.
The man's face darkened, he just looked at his daughter and said in a deep voice.
"I will take care of the matters in Yae Village. You should go back and rest first." Because of this matter, he has been worried about it for many days. This time his daughter brought it up again, which naturally made him unhappy.
"No, father, Rin wants to say, Rin is willing." Hearing his father's slightly serious tone, Yae Rin quickly knelt down and said to his father.
"What are you willing to do?" The man frowned, and the thousands of threads in his heart finally converged into one line. He had vaguely guessed what his daughter wanted to say. Before he could speak again, Yae Rin calmed down.
Speak slowly.
"Rin is willing to be a miko to appease the wrath of the gods, and she hopes that her father will fulfill her wish."
"I hope my father will fulfill my wish!" Yae Rin's clear voice echoed in the relatively empty room and could not be dispersed for a long time.
"Rin, actually..." Before her father could finish speaking, Yae Rin interjected.
"Father, I have been weak and sick since I was a child, and have been a burden to my family. The only ones who can become miko are me and my sister. My sister practices swordsmanship to protect the village."
"And I..." Yae Rin smiled brightly, as beautiful and pure as the cherry blossoms he saw this morning.
"And I am just a useless person. No matter whether I live or die, I will not destroy other people's lives. If my death can calm the anger of the gods, I can stop the rumors among the villagers for my father."
"Rin, you deserve to die!"
"I hope my father will do it for me!"
Yae Rin's sonorous and powerful voice echoed back and forth in the man's ears, and could not be dispersed for a long time. The man looked at his daughter, who had been frail and sick since childhood, again.
For the first time, I discovered that my younger daughter has qualities and courage that are not inferior to those of my older daughter.
After a moment of silence, the man spoke in a deep voice.
"Get up, the ground is cold. Don't freeze your body."
Yae Rin stood up, patted the dirt on his trouser legs and said.
"Thank you, Father, for helping me!"
The man took Yae Rin's little hand and said.
"It's my father who's sorry for you two sisters. It's my father who's sorry." At this point, the man lowered his head, his eyes filled with bloodshot eyes. A drop of turbid tears fell on the palm of his daughter's hand.
"Father, don't be sad. This is Rin's choice. I believe my mother's spirit in heaven will also be pleased with Rin's courage." Yae Rin took her small hand and smeared it on her father's face, with a panic look on her face.
"Father, crying is not the behavior of a samurai. The book says that a man should not shed tears easily." Yae Rin said to his father.
"Yes, yes, our daughter has grown up, and I am old. A man cannot shed tears easily, and his father is a samurai, so he cannot shed tears." The man wiped away a trace of tears, picked up the thin little daughter and said to her
arrive.
"Yeah." Yae Rin lay on the man's shoulder, greedily absorbing the father's love that she had never felt before.
The man patted Yae Rin's back gently to comfort his little daughter. Her daughter's body was trembling slightly. Why couldn't he see it?
How can a person not be afraid when facing death? It's just that my little daughter is using her brave heart to overcome the fear in her heart.
One night.
Yae Rin did not return to her room, but lay on her father's body and slept the whole night. The man's broad shoulders brought Yae Rin a long-lost warmth, a warmth that Yae Sakura could not bring to her.
Yae Rin absorbed this warmth like a greedy little beast, because she knew that tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, she would...
She would never be able to feel this warmth that she had never experienced before, if she could.
Yae Rin wants to believe that there really is a place like hell in this world. Perhaps only with hell, when Yae Rin goes down, she may be able to see her mother and feel maternal love for once.
Father's love and mother's love were both the first time for Yae Rin. Not long after she was born, her mother died and her father became indifferent.
Only her sister Yae Sakura brought a touch of warmth to her lonely childhood, like a bonfire lit in the bone-chilling winter wind, dispelling a hint of coolness.
but.
A sister is destined to be a sister. Yae Sakura cannot bring fatherly or maternal love to Yae Rin, and Yae Sakura cannot replace the role of mother. All Yae Sakura can do is to do her best to protect her sister.
Obviously, Yae Sakura did it.
However, the emptiness and loneliness in Yae Rin's heart, the love that is missing in Yae Rin's heart, has always been vacant and cannot be filled, and Yae Sakura has no way to fill it.
And just tonight, Yae Rin felt that the vacant part in her heart had been filled. Her heart was filled with the father's love that she had not seen for a long time or had never experienced before.
…
When I woke up, the sun was in the sky.
Yae Rin smiled silly, the man had already left the room and headed to the Tower of Babel.