Meng Chin 2

All in all, it had taken Xiao Fan about an hour for him to get information and then fetch, Fen Lin, herself to come and see what the problem with Meng Chin's cherry blossom tree is.

However, that hour had been enough for Meng Chin to wake up from her nap, for the cabinet holding the door into her bedroom where she should be had been pushed aside. Seeing this, it didn't take long for Xiao Fan to realise who had done so since the only fresh footprints there were was one of a woman coming from the direction of the room into the lobby.

While Xiao Fan began to wonder where Meng Chin had gone, Fei Lin who had been occupied with grading the front lawn of the courtyard, also came inside.

¨If the outside is a mess then why wouldn't the inside also be the same¨ She stated, skipping towards the place he had seen the cherry blossom tree.

'She's right' Xiao Fan murmured while then beginning to walk behind the little girl into the inner yard of the compound.

When they got there Xiao Fan, who might not see her face could still think what type of reaction she had when she saw the abomination of a cherry blossom tree.

Fei Lin's body had stopped just before the grass area, she stood there motionless, her eyes analysing the poor tree's condition, she was in so much shock that she didn't even greet the elder sitting on a bench by the paved area of the inner courtyard.

The elder in question was, of course, the owner of this tree Meng Chin who had woken up and had now come to relax in her inner garden.

Unlike Fei Lin, who didn't even register her existence Xiao Fan leisurely taking his time walked over to explain what was going on here, moving there he could see how Meng Chin's eyes had taken a stern look at his eyes, but he wasn't discouraged and sat next to her.

Though Meng Chin, at that point, wasn't looking him anymore, she had her eyes focussed onto the guest, who Xiao Fan had brought here for god knows why.

¨Why's a kid here?¨ She spoke, yet her tough attitude didn't translate into a stern tone.

¨She is Fei Lin. Fei Lin here has been said to be test best doctor for trees inside the Rising Fox Sect¨ Xiao Fan told why he had gotten her here.

¨I could have treated the tree myself¨ The moment Meng Chin had heard this she knew for what reason Fen Lin was here.

'Lies!' Xiao Fan exclaimed inside his head, yet speaking the other ¨Yes, I know that, but if Fei Lin does it she will get experience in treating these type of things¨

¨Right¨ Meng Chin spoke, quickly thinking about something else to talk about, luckily for her, it didn't take long ¨Fei Lin as in Elder Fei?¨

¨Correct, she is Fei Sun's little sister. I surely didn't know at first that I would have her come help, but now she is here¨ Xiao Fan said.

¨I didn't know that Elder Fei had other children¨ She spoke as for the first time she begins to look seriously at what Fei Lin was doing.

¨She's the third daughter of Elder Fei...¨ Xiao Fan spoke his tone carrying a slight hint of disappointment. Xiao Fan thought that Meng Chin was an elder, a knowledgeable person in the matters of the sect, yet she didn't even know the other elders so well that she would know their children?

On Meng Chin's side this prompted a slight pain in her old heart 'Why does she always sound so disappointed in me?' She could get how sometimes Xiao Fan would scorn her actions, but this was too much.

But this wouldn't, of course, be shown to the outside, as with her status something that Xiao Fans said to her shouldn't hurt her. Meng Chin wouldn't react to Xiao Fan's words this time and so letting the topic die down as they watched Fei Lin run around the tree and examine it.

Xiao Fan sitting on the bench was thinking about something he could talk with Meng Chin, and she was the same.

Both sides were trying to reach out for the other side, yet because Xiao Fan would always scorn her action, hoping that it would change her in some magical way would it fail.

The silence between them had already taken some twenty minutes as Xiao Fan tried to talk to her about cleaning the courtyard.

¨Meng Chin what do you think about the cleaning I did?¨ He would approach the topic slowly, and this was his testing of the waters.

¨First of all thank you for doing that. Secondly, where did you put all of my stuff?¨ The woman replied to him with the same caution in her words.

But Xiao Fan would again block any communication with the next sentence, for he spoke ¨I threw them all away. There was no possibility to use them anymore for someone had stored them in a way that they would all become useless¨

Xiao Fan was thinking that trying to pressure or even punish the other side could make her change, however, the only thing it would achieve was to make Meng Chin even more depressed.

And Meng Chin was, although not visible for Xiao Fan becoming depressed about his word always being so aggressive towards her.

¨Well, most of the stuff was something of little value for me, so I didn't think about them much¨ She refuted while her eye that Xiao Fan couldn't see was looking down a little.

But it was in a certain way a good refute, the things that were in those piles was meant for someone in the Body Strengthening realm, so Meng Chin honestly had zero use for them.

¨So if something isn't useful for oneself you can throw it all away? I could have performed wonders on those items, or you yourself could have produced a reliable helper only loyal to you¨ Xiao Fan didn't stop pressuring her.

¨I, i¨ Meng Chin was thinking about some type of a refute to his words while holding her anger back.

She knew he was right; however, all of those things would have required foresight or time, something that Meng Chin wasn't fond of a lot. Nevertheless, being bombarded again, she stammered there for a moment before she was then saved by Fei Li,n who had come up with the verdict for her cherry blossom tree.

She had been done a moment ago, but the things she could hear currently was of too much importance to stop them, but now that this stranger was pressuring elder Meng, she didn't take long before coming to her aid.

And as she came, she acted as if she hadn't seen Meng Chin inside the courtyard yet ¨Oh, sorry Elder Meng for I haven't noticed you until right now¨ She spoke, making a respectful bow towards her.

Meng Chin felt how she had dodged a bullet and inwardly thanked the right timing from Fei Lin.

¨At ease¨ She spoke while waiting for Fei Lin to come out of the bow before talking more ¨So you know what is wrong with the tree?¨

Fei Lin now her back straight spoke about the condition with fervour Xiao Fan had never thought possible when talking about trees.

The little girl was lecturing the two of them for so long for two distinct reasons. One of them being giving Meng Chin some time to recover, while the other was her just being herself.

The talk for Xiao Fan wasn't such a big deal as he was taking it as free information how to take care of a cherry blossom tree, a thing that he would also be doing in due time.

All in all this lecture, Xiao Fan was listening to took about five minutes before Fei Lin stated the conclusion she had come up with for now.

¨Its dead¨ Were the two words she spoke about the condition of Meng Chin's tree.

Hearing this even the usually indifferent Meng Chin was taken, for the cherry blossom tree shouldn't die, as the cherry blossom tree might very well be the only thing she cared for inside the sect. However, it was now dead? Just hearing this was enough for the around forty-year-old woman to begin forming water drops from the corner of her eye.

Meng Ching then took a look at Fei Lin, the small girl who had given the judgement ¨How? It still has healthy leaves, so how can it not be alive?¨ Deep down, she might know that what Fei Lin was saying was true, but right now she couldn't acknowledge it.

What was the most painful thing in this was how she had seen the tree go on like this for years already, but every time thinking about it she would say to herself that it was alive, so no action was needed.

However, it would now seem that thinking it like this had cost her the cherry blossom tree.

Xiao Fan, sitting next to her on the same bench, seeing Meng Chin about to burst quickly communicated with Fei Lin without speaking that she should leave.

Fei Lin wasn't stupid enough to not realise this and so quickly took off leaving the two of them there without answering Meng Chin's question further.

Now alone, Xiao Fan began to calm her down with the ways already tested and proven helpful. And again, those tactics he had were proven to be working worked, as Meng Chin didn't completely start crying as it stopped in the sobbing part.

Xiao Fan, when seeing this was for a moment tempted to explain that this would be the result of laziness.

Yet before actually blurting something like that out, he figured that saying that right now wouldn't do anything, and if she didn't get it from this alone she might be unsalvageable.

So him not speaking, they spent the next five minutes on the bench while Meng Chin balanced on the verge of crying.

During this, Xiao Fan was thinking about what could he do at this point, but he had nothing. This time it wasn't the same with Du Lan or Qian Ki who could be calmed down with sweet words and such, as in the case of Meng Chin, his words held little value.

But after the five minutes, it became evident that he didn't need to say anything as Meng Chin who had been crying alone had now leaned onto him.

In this new position, she without looking at his face began to unravel to him what was on her mind.

When she had spoken the first sentence, Xiao Fan thought he should respond to her, but before he could do so, Meng Chin's hand blocked his mouth.

Xiao Fan wondered what this was about for a second before Meng Chin started another sentence without him speaking anything, which made Xiao Fan believe that she actually didn't want him to talk anything, she might just want him to be a vent for her words.

Leading into this, Xiao Fan shut his mouth and then took the position of a vent as Meng Chin spoke.