Out of the hotel, Andrew didn’t see his car. Emily should have left, driving the car.
He didn’t mind why Emily drove home earlier. He just walked on the way home. He subconsciously gave a glimpse at the blind old man, but he was not there now.
He wanted to see him, because the old man was different.
When he passed by a lane, he was stopped by an old voice. “Sir, can I have your time for a minute?”
Andrew looked at the direction of the voice, to see the blind old man crunching there.
He just changed a position to run his stall. But there were fewer people here.
“What’s up?” Andrew asked coldly.
The old man said, “I see your step is weak, and you seem to get a disease.”
With a gloomy face, Andrew suddenly grabbed his arm, asking fiercely, “Who are you?”
The old man remained calm, “Sir, you don’t have to be so excited. I am just a blind old man, who can do nothing harmful to you. I just want you to take a look at my goods here, and maybe you will find something you need.”
Andrew looked around the stones on his stall, crunching. He said, “There is nothing I need! Who are you on earth?”
“An old friend!” The old man uttered, then continued, “You have suffered an old disease and you need something good to heal yourself.”
Finishing, the old man picked two stones out slowly and put them aside, one green and one red. Then he packed the rest of his goods and left, leaning on a stick.
He seemed to wait for Andrew here, knowing he would pass by this place.
“Who are you?” Andrew’s voice was colder.
Without turning back, the blind old man leaned on the stick, leaving a buddhist saying,
“Bodhi is fundamentally without any tree;
The bright mirror is also not a stand.
Fundamentally there is not a single thing —
Where could any dust be attracted?”
Picking up the stones, Andrew looked at them for a while, then he suddenly raised, to see the old man has disappeared.
It cannot be him!
Andrew murmured inside, but the fact told him that the old man was him.
Four years ago, Andrew just arrived at Northland, and he was just a new soldier. He cannot tell a blessing or a curse for being selected to fight on the battlefield.
All in all, he missed the memorable days with the Clark family at the time when his future was on suspense.
Later, he made a friend with an old man who enjoyed drinking. In the beginning, the old man just smiled at him, then he asked him for wines. With a kind heart, Andrew bought him drinks and the old man told him the stories about Northland.
Gradually, they became friends. One day, the old man gave him one pill and let him take it.
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