Chapter 81 – Trapped Old Lady (2/2)

“Old lady…” Lei Yu spoke with her in fluent English, “may I ask why you are living alone in this house?”

Looking at her appearance, the old woman’s age should be over seventy years old. Her white hair was somewhat striking to look at in the evening from the dimly lit lights. Lei Yu observed the old woman’s face was covered in deep wrinkles and her hands were fully calloused. Why would this western old woman suffer so much in the Kou country?

“I am waiting for my son.” The old woman’s voice was trembling a bit, she was apprehensive to have strangers disturb her peaceful life.

“Why don’t you go out and look for your son then?” Lei Yu asked. He looked around at the dilapidated house and observed a simple bed; a table; and near the door was a rusty stove and some chipped porcelain bowls. Evidently, life was as poor as it could get for this old woman.

“I don’t have the money to travel. I’ve sought help from the government officials of the Kou country but they didn’t want to help me, they even kicked me out of their office. These Kou people are really horrible!” The old woman’s eyes were slightly red as she said this. It appears her request for aid was rejected by the officials of the Kou country¹.

Lei Yu observed the old woman’s appearance and it made his heartache; she was so pitiful while living alone in a shabby house, this scene caused Lei Yu to feel unimaginable sadness in his heart.

“So why didn’t you give your son a phone call?” Lei Yu asked again.

*Sigh* “I’m old now; I can’t remember his phone number. If I knew it, I will have definitely called already since my family is really very rich!” The old woman kept repeating how rich she was as if she was reminiscing about her past. Now that she had fallen to this state, as for the reason, Lei Yu didn’t want to ask too much. Pulling back the tears that were about to come down, Lei Yu said: “Old lady, I am willing to send you back to see your son but I’m not sure if you’re willing to accept my kindness?”

The old woman’s trembling withered hands grabbed onto Lei Yu’s hand, her lips trembling constantly and her cloudy eyes seemed to brighten a little. “Is this true? Is this for real? Is everything you’ve said really the truth?”

“It’s the truth old lady.” Lei Yu turned around and said to Nami: “Take the car and drive the old lady to the airport, buy her a plane ticket and give her $5000 U.S. dollars. That should be enough for her to find her son.”

“Yes, young master.” Nami respectfully nodded, then assisted the old woman. The old woman was already so excited that she was unable to speak. One could see in her eyes that the happiness she felt was like she regained a new life; this kind of gaze coming from an elderly person was rarely seen.

Lei Yu carried the two people out from the car. When the old woman asked, Lei Yu told her they were his friends that had drank too much, they would be staying here for the night and then leave tomorrow at their leisure.

The old woman went inside a room to the table, opened a drawer and brought out a gray ring. The design of the ring looked like it was from a long time ago, but the style wasn’t too bad. On top it was carved with a rotating pattern that made it look pretty unique.

The old woman was already bitterly weeping, with a trembling voice, she said: “Child, this ring was originally a pair, one is held by my son and the other one is here. I have lived in the Kou country for a full three years now and today, I’m giving this ring to you. I hope that one day you will go to the United States to look for me, but remember, it’s the state of Idaho in the United States. As long as someone sees this ring, they will know you are my benefactor. Child, I really do hope that one day you will come find me in the United States.”

Lei Yu smiled as he walked with the old woman to the car before running back into the dilapidated house.

He naturally did not have to care about the dead person. Picking up the glass kettle on the table, he poured water all over the unconscious man’s head. Having cold water poured over his head, the man immediately woke up.

“Who are you? Where are we? Why do you want to kill us?” The man went “ooo ooo la la” and asked a bunch of questions. Since Lei Yu did not understand a word, he impatiently stepped on the man’s stomach, “f*cker, stop screaming like a pig, speak English!”

The man gave an “aghh” shout; it appears the force Lei Yu was using wasn’t something he could handle. But this man was very confused, he was already at the strength of an Advanced Ninja yet the person in front of him was overwhelming him like he was toying around, how powerful was he? Thinking up to this point, he did not dare to be presumptuous.

“Let me ask you, where is Otsuka?”

Hearing Lei Yu ask him that, the man was suddenly shocked and asked: “You’re Lei Yu from the Tenglong country? All our people were killed by you?”

Lei Yu lightly sneered, he couldn’t kill this person yet, he will probably be able to get a lot of answers from this guy. Calmly, Lei Yu sat down and lightly said: “Correct, I’m Lei Yu. And all the people were killed by me, including that show girl.”

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¹ – In the author’s quest to insult Japan, he forgot or doesn’t know something called the U.S. Embassy.