The Knight from the Fairytales

Chapter 85: Five Peas

Since buying this dessert shop, Beihai had already considered how to transfer it. After all, his main goal was the Little Fairy.

Once she was obtained, this fixed-location dessert shop truly wasn't suitable for Beihai anymore.

As for asking the nearby Aladdin's Lamp to shrink the house and just take it away, that also seemed pointless and a bit troublesome. Aladdin's Lamp could directly conjure up a better house, and besides, when people buy houses, isn't it usually for the land?

Beihai went outside, grabbed a wooden sign and some nails, set up a ladder, climbed up, and nailed the two signs with "For Rent" written on them onto the wall. After finishing all this, he just waited for the right person.

When Beihai came down the ladder and stepped on the ground, he felt something hard under his foot, like stepping on a pebble or something. This odd sensation made him move his foot and look down. There was a green bean.

Beihai bent down and picked up the green bean. He remembered there wasn't this thing when he went up just now, and the surroundings were clean. Where did this come from?

Moreover, this green bean was very different. If it were ordinary, it would have been crushed just now. But this one felt... alive.

"Can you take me to a farther place? I want to reach a very distant place."

Hearing this voice startled Beihai so much he almost crushed the pea right then and there. Luckily, he managed to control himself in the end, mainly because he had some guard up against this sort of thing.

But actually encountering it still felt quite astonishing. A pea spoke to me. Did this 'listening to the voices of all things' ability level up? That shouldn't be the case!"Alright, alright. Tell me, where do you want to go?"

"My four brothers and I were very sad inside the pea pod, seeing who could go the farthest. After we were shelled, a child used us as bullets and shot us away."

"Well, we are truly fated then. But you probably wouldn't have escaped this city. More likely, you're around the vicinity. I'll go look."

Beihai placed the pea in his palm and began observing the surroundings. Even if a child used peas as bullets to shoot, they probably couldn't shoot very far.

Soon, Beihai found two of this pea's brothers. It was just a bit too late. They had been eaten by a pigeon, completely digested, beyond saving.

That pigeon even greeted Beihai in a friendly manner. It had to be said, it was quite bizarre. After all, those two beans probably also had intelligence, and yet they were just eaten like that.

Then, the pigeon that had eaten the beans continued to greet Beihai.

Following the traces of the other two beans, Beihai continued to observe the surroundings. Living up to expectations, he found another one. It had landed in a sewage ditch and changed, its body somewhat swollen from the filthy water.

Listening carefully, he could even hear the pea boasting: "I have become more plump. I am so full I'm almost about to burst. I think no other pea can compare to me. They cannot possibly have gone farther than me. I am the most promising one among the five."

The sewage ditch agreed with its view. Then, the sewage ditch seemed to sense something and spoke up: "I want to keep the bean that fell into my body."

Beihai quickly waved his hands and stood up: "Okay, okay, I won't take it."

That's what he said, but wasn't it even more bizarre now?! Why can a sewage ditch talk now?!

Thinking about it this way, the trees he had chopped down before and the weapons he had thrown away suddenly felt like grievous sins.

But no matter how you calculate it, two with the bird, one in the sewage ditch, plus the one in his hand only makes four. Where's the last one? He didn't see it around.

It seems he could only go find Aladdin and hope the Lamp could provide an answer.

Right at this moment, the bean in Beihai's hand, seeing the fate of its brothers, also felt somewhat proud: "It seems I will be the most promising one. The growth of my other brothers was meaningless."

That's right. Regarding these kinds of animated items, the first thing they seek upon birth is their own meaning—why do I exist in this world?

What is the purpose of my birth and what must I do? And in the process of seeking, it is to help others. Just like in stories, even a stone thinks about how it can help a stranger.

And those brothers of the bean, without a doubt, they did not find their meaning. It was simply a waste of life.

But after all, there were originally five. With the help of Aladdin's Lamp, when the image was displayed, it seemed the last one had already found its meaning.

That pea was shot out by the child as a bullet. Being a bullet and used by a child, with this double buff, it would hit a window.

The final one entered someone else's room and fell into the attic.

Under the old wooden board at the base of the window frame, it rolled into a crack in the board.

In that small, cramped attic lived a poor woman. She had to go out to work during the day, cleaning stoves for people, chopping firewood—doing heavy, laborious work.

She could endure hardship and toil, yet she remained extremely poor. In that little house lay her only daughter, a young girl with beautiful features but a very frail body.

She had been lying in bed for a whole year.

"She will eventually go to keep her sister company," the woman said.

She had given birth to two children, but raising two was very difficult. So, Heaven shared her burden.

When this mother wanted to raise the other one, Heaven seemed unwilling to let the two sisters be apart. Now, it seemed she was also going to keep her sister company.

But miraculously, this sickly young girl did not go to keep her sister company.

During the long days when her mother went out to work and earn money, she just lay there quietly.

One morning, when her mother opened the window and sunlight streamed in, the young girl noticed a tiny bit of green in the window crack.

It was that pea. It had even sprouted. The mother said jokingly, "Now you finally have a little garden to lift your spirits."

So, the sick girl moved her bed closer to the window. She could clearly see the sprouting, growing pea seedling.

Seeing that pea seedling, she couldn't help but clasp her hands together. "Mother, I think I will get better. Today the sun shines in, warming me up so nicely. That little pea seedling is growing so adorably, so vigorously. I think I will get better too. Then I can get out of bed, walk, and go outside to feel the warmth of the sun."

This pea seemed to give the little girl great confidence. To take good care of this pea, the little girl couldn't help but take matters into her own hands.

So, among these five peas, it had already won overwhelmingly.