Elf: I have a deal with the big milk jug

The old man looked at the four of them and smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I just frightened a few of you. Why don't you go inside and have a cup of tea before leaving? I'll treat it as an apology."

Yan Xiao and others looked at each other and nodded without rejecting.

They were all curious as to why there was an old man carrying a champion-level Pokémon hiding in the mountains.

"It's okay, the big guy has left~" Xiao Qian pinched Lu Lili's little face and said.

"Lili~" The little guy smiled sweetly and rubbed her palm.

"Daughter-in-law, it seems she quite likes you~" Yan Xiao said.

"Yeah!" Xiao Qian smiled and took out Moo Moo milk to feed the little guy. She basically had no resistance to the cute little thing.

After a while, the four of them also arrived at the old man's residence.

This is an ordinary courtyard.

But in front of the house is a large area of ​​cultivated land, which covers several acres as far as the eye can see, full of fruits and grains.

In addition, Yan Xiao also discovered that the yard looked ordinary, but the materials used were extremely tough. There was a lot of steel piled in the corner of the yard, which looked like the remains of some kind of machine.

"Those are all the gadgets my grandson tinkered with when he was a child... Now they've been broken for a long time, haha..." the old man said, leading a few people into the room.

"Gululu..." The old man poured four cups of hot tea, and everyone also picked up their teacups and looked at the room curiously.

Soon, Yan Xiao found a photo on the wall of the room.

It was a middle-aged man with a blue-haired woman and a little boy with broken hair. It could be seen that the middle-aged man was the old man in front of him. Although the blue-haired woman smiled happily, her face looked sick and tired.

The little boy, on the other hand, made Yan Xiao feel familiar and couldn't help but ask: "This child..."

"Haha... That is my grandson Chiri, and the woman in the photo is his mother." The old man said with a smile.

"Chiri?!" Yan Xiao's voice was a little louder.

Only then did I realize where that feeling of familiarity came from...

If you ignore the bright smile on the boy's face, isn't he just a smaller version of Team Galaxy's boss Akari?

It was only because Chi Ri had abandoned his emotions and remained expressionless all day long that Yan Xiao failed to recognize him immediately.

"Is it the famous entrepreneur Chi Ri?" Xuan Lang asked.

"Yes..." The old man said with pride and a little weirdness on his face: "Speaking of which, the Gyarados that almost attacked you just now was left here by my grandson. I'm sorry to frighten you."

"Strange...why don't I remember that Chiri is a powerful trainer?" Daye frowned.

As the Four Heavenly Kings, it is his duty to stabilize the Sinnoh realm. He knows where the powerful kings and champion trainers are.

But now, a championship-level Gyarados appeared at his doorstep!

And based on the momentum the opponent had just released, even if he had reverse attributes, he probably wouldn't be able to keep the Gyarados.

"Then I don't know... Chiri, this kid, has been smart since he was a child, and he doesn't want to tell me anything..." The old man shook his head and explained.

Everyone exchanged some more pleasantries, and Xuanlang left first because he still had matters to deal with in the battle tower. Daye was also worried about today's discovery, and after agreeing to be a guest at Yan Xiao's house, he also said goodbye and left.

There were only three people left in the room, Yan Xiao.

"Old man, I had the honor to meet Mr. Chiri before, and I am quite curious about his past. I wonder if you can tell me a story about his childhood?"

Yan Xiao said as he took out the business card Chiri gave to him.

Ever since I saw him at the foot of Tianguan Mountain, I would reflect on Chiri's words that day from time to time.

Such as: 'Because of so-called dreams, ambitions, desires... the world has become a mess', 'Incomplete and imperfect things like the human heart are themselves a blasphemy to the world' and so on.

What concerned Yan Xiao the most was his last sentence: 'When you experience failure, pain, and lose the most important thing... you will understand what I say, and when the time comes, you are welcome to join us.'

So he also hopes to find some answers from Chiri's grandfather.

"Oh?..." The old man picked up the business card and nodded slowly: "It's really the number of that kid from Chiri..."

"Actually, it's just a past that is hard to look back on. Since you want to hear it..." He raised his eyelids, a look of recollection flashed through his cloudy eyes: "Then I will tell you..."

In the old and plain voice, a story of jealousy of talents unfolds.

More than twenty years ago, a gifted child was born into an ordinary family.

The composition of the family is very simple, parents, grandfather and the newly born Chiri.

At that time, the alliance's various systems and benefits were not yet complete, and the group of trainers was not strong, so life for civilians was far less prosperous than it is now.

In order to give Chiri a better life, his father trusted others and emptied his family fortune into a casino.

And this is also the beginning of the nightmare.

The family, which was not rich, became impoverished due to his father's desperate measures, but even so he did not realize his mistake.

Even if Chiri's grandfather and mother repeatedly persuaded and begged, it was of no avail.

In just a few years, he was saddled with high debts and had to work hard to pay off his debts.

The unsatisfactory life and inner greed and dissatisfaction made his temper more violent. He often went home and beat Chiri's mother, even the young Chiri.

Fortunately, Chiri's grandfather kept a small amount of his assets and helped the mother and son from time to time, so Chiri had the opportunity to go to school.

It was in such an environment of starvation and family disharmony that Chiri showed amazing learning ability. It only took him half a year to get the first place in his grade after starting from the fourth grade of elementary school.

And when he returned home happily with a perfect score card, he saw his father feverishly snatching the change wrapped in a handkerchief from his mother's hand.

That was the money his mother saved hard from working part-time jobs to buy him study materials.

But now, his father, a gambler, has discovered it, and he is determined to use these to the casino to make a comeback...

"The child, who was only 9 years old at the time, watched helplessly as his father beat his mother unconscious, took a handful of blood-stained change and ran out of the house like a madman, without even looking at him from beginning to end..."

The old man shook his head sadly, his voice mixed with pity and hatred.

"Then... what happened next?" Xiao Qian wiped the corners of her eyes with a tissue and asked in a thick nasal voice.

"Later...the second nightmare began..."

...(To be continued)

Happy New Year! !

It is now 2024, at : a.m. on the first day of the Lunar New Year in the Year of the Dragon, Fubuki is here to wish all readers a happy New Year!

I wish you all good luck in the new year, may your hopes be bright, and may you get everything you wish for! ~

This is the fifth update, I hope you all will get better and better together with Yan Xiao (??????) ?

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