Whispering Poems

Chapter 1873 Miles Love Story

The tip of the old man's pen touched the paper of the relic:

"When he said goodbye to me, it was a beautiful spring evening, and that was the third year after we met for the first time. The sunset that evening was really brilliant, and he took my hand and walked in the village , and invited me to the highest point of the bell tower, and wanted to tell me something very important. It’s really nostalgic. After so many years, I still remember the temperature of his palm that day, and remember that we walked through the steps of the bell tower together. Hugging at the top of the clock tower that existed in my hometown, watching the setting sun in the distance outside the window.”

The environment of the clock tower itself has not changed in any way, but a brilliant orange-red sun is now shining in from the windows on all sides.The sunlight was more dazzling than the bonfire. Both Shad and Miss Higgins narrowed their eyes subconsciously, and then smiled to welcome the warm sunshine.

They all stood up, walked to the window and looked out.Under the brilliant sunset, there is a small and rich village in the valley basin. The smoke from the kitchen rises, and the sound of dogs barking comes from the corner of the village. The villagers carrying farm tools go home, and the children are happily walking on the small road in the village. Running, this is a very warm picture.

The sound of footsteps came from the stairs, Shad and Miss Higgins turned to look, and then they saw a young girl holding hands and a young man with a long sword hanging from his waist walking up together.

The faces of the two were flushed by the setting sun, and even their hair and clothes were flushed.

They embraced and came to the window facing west, watching the afterglow of the setting sun together.The young man suddenly hugged the young girl from behind, and the latter gave his lover a slight push, his ruddy ears even turned translucent under the brilliant sunset.

"It's really romantic. It would be even better if there were two girls."

Shad heard Miss Higgins muttering, and then heard the words of the two young men in Mrs. Miles' memory:
"Sarah, I'm... leaving my hometown. No, please listen to me, I want to go to the battlefield to make achievements, and then come back with honor to marry you."

The blond young man who was talking hugged his lover tightly, and the plain but gentle Miss Sarah Miles pursed her lips and asked softly:
"Marry me?"

"Yes, my title of knight comes from my father, and everything I have is given by my father. Now I don't have the ability to make you my wife, please wait for me, this war does not involve witches It will end soon. At most one year, I will come back, I will come back with military merits and lord's rewards, and make you my wife."

After finishing speaking, he joked:

"Maybe after I come back, you have already awakened and become a witch, and then abandoned me."

"No, Richard, please don't say that, I'll be waiting for you until you come back."

The young girl turned and put her arms around her lover's neck and embraced him again.

Shad saw Miss Higgins shaking her head because of what Mrs. Miles said when she was young. She didn't believe that anyone could be immune to the influence of the witch's curse.The fact is that Mrs. Miles has never been a witch.

"I kept the agreement and waited for him to come back."

The young men and women who hugged each other remained silent for a long time, as if they wanted to melt themselves into the sunset of this evening and become an eternal landscape oil painting.The old man by the bonfire spoke in a very slow voice. Contrary to Shade and Miss Higgins watching the scene, she turned her back to the hugging man and woman. She didn't need to look back. This picture has long been etched in her heart forever:
"I waited and waited and waited and waited until wrinkles crept into my cheeks and my hair turned frosty white. I waited until the village fell after a plague and the lord was murdered by his son and a new lord took over. I've been When he comes back, I also believe that he will come back."

Xia De's sigh ended the old man's words.This memory is not over yet, the young men and women who embraced each other made their own promises:

"I will always wait for you to come back, you have to hurry up, or I will grow old."

"Yes, next spring will still be this season, please wait here at the highest point for me to lead the horse back."

"I will prepare a garland of parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme for you, and I will wait for you here."

Two young hearts approach each other, eye to eye, nose to nose.Against the backdrop of the setting sun, they kissed together, making Miss Higgins shake her head again and again:
"I don't like this kind of story. I already know that it is a story with a tragic ending. Even if the content in the middle of the story is very interesting and touching, I don't like it at all. Ma'am, this tower, oh, I mean the one in your hometown in your memory Does the bell tower still exist?"

The old man looked at the words he wrote and shook his head slightly:

"Every spring, when the sun is at its best, I go to the clock tower to wait for him. I waited for 12 years, but I only waited until the plague came, and all the survivors in the village left. I had to move with my family. Go, but every year in the spring, I will return to my hometown again and wait for a day on the tower. In the 23rd year after he left, the clock tower, which was not maintained, also collapsed after a heavy rain in summer. So I will Waiting for him on the ruins with a garland weaved. Year after year, watching the sun rise and set, watching the wind, frost, rain and snow"

The young witch suddenly thought of what happened before:
"The garland? You mean, the garland that His Majesty didn't let you carry when we set off?"

After speaking, he explained to Xia De:

"In places like the Black Mist Camp, Your Majesty predicts that no matter how beautiful the flowers are, they will wither immediately."

Xia De nodded, and then cared about the follow-up of the story:
"Ma'am, when did you make up your mind to come to the dangerous place we are in right now?"

"I waited for him all my life, thinking that there was no more hope. Unexpectedly, in the spring about 7 years ago, when I waited again on the ruins of the clock tower in my hometown, I failed to wait for him, but a man riding a The girl of the blue chocobo. She told me that the youngest daughter of my mother's brother had just established a country on the edge of the desert at the other end of the western continent. She used to have many enemies and was afraid to come to us. Now she has finally defeated all The enemy is going to take me to enjoy the blessing."

"I'm really envious, ahem, I mean, you're so lucky."

Miss Higgins said, Xia De looked at the young men and women who were still kissing, but in fact their memories had been frozen:
"That was seven years ago?"

The old man sighed amidst the crackling of the bonfire:

"My cousin and I didn't know each other well at first, and over the years, I have been expecting him to come back by himself, so I didn't ask her to help me. Later, I still have to return to my hometown every spring, and my cousin also waited with me , she also persuaded me, if I can’t wait, I can get him back by myself. She helped me try divination and other methods, but they all failed. In the past two years, my health is going to be bad, Even she couldn't let me, an ordinary person, live a few more years, so she came up with the plan to come here."

Both Xia De and Miss Higgins had such expressions, and it seemed that the young witch didn't know that there was such a story in it:
"Indeed, if you can't even find that Mr. Richard Knight Jackman with His Majesty's divination, you can only turn to this place. The memory ends here. Has that gentleman returned?"

She asked curiously, and Xia De also looked around, but did not see any souls appearing here, only the frozen landscape oil painting-like memory scenes that have not dissipated for a long time.

He thought about it, and came up with an idea:
"Mrs. Miles, please don't sit down, please stand up. Yes, please say that name again, and say it carefully."

Miss Higgins hurried over and helped the old man up.Mrs. Myers, who got up by the bonfire, carefully arranged her clothes:
"Richard Knight Jackman."

She tried to shout, and Miss Higgins quickly turned her head to look at the stairs, but there was still no one there, but Xia De saw the fingers of the young man who was kissing his lover move.

"Richard Knight Jackman."

The old man shouted again, and then he seemed to realize something, and looked at the window of the clock tower, the young man in his memory under the setting sun.

The young girl in his arms had disappeared, and after the second call, his raised arms had also been lowered, and he stood facing the setting sun with his back to the three people behind him.

Miss Higgins looked like she was going to explode, not just because of the good story, but because the damn journey was finally coming to an end.Even Xia De smiled because of this, he had just experienced the most tormented moment after coming to this world, seeing this warm story at this moment, he naturally felt joy in his heart.

"Richard Knight Jackman."

Mrs. Miles called out the name for the third time, and she made Miss Higgins let her go, and then she herself took a step forward in disbelief.And the figure with his back to the three of them turned around slowly at this moment and looked at her.

The two pairs of eyes were staring at each other, it was still the young blond youth under the bright spring sunset.It's just that she already has white hair all over her head, and her cheeks are full of wrinkles.But nothing seemed to have changed much. The young man who turned around looked at her in shock, and immediately recognized who it was:

"Sarah!"

"Richard!"

The two hugged each other tightly with open arms, not only Mrs. Miles was crying, but young Richard was also crying:

"Sorry, sorry, I'm late, I'm late."

He is no longer the person in the memory revealed by the relic, whether it is Shad or Miss Higgins, they can recognize that he is really the soul that is being sought.

"but."

Shad twitched his nose:
"Why does it smell like sulfur?"

　PS: The picture in this chapter is "Cross-Scene Picture-The Village at Dusk"

　
(End of this chapter)