Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 313: For Your Majesty (128)

Dragon Raja 5

The little girl Su Enxi, and the old woman is her great-grandmother.

Her parents, a handsome man and a beautiful woman, were prominent figures in small town, but it seemed like they were always arguing. Her father was always accusing her mother of having an affair, while her mother would retort by accusing her father of being unambitious and only attracting unwanted attention. When the arguments got really bad, they would smash pots and pans, creating a noisy spectacle at home. At these times, her great-grandmother, who had raised her father, would tearfully try to comfort them, urging them not to escalate the situation for the sake of their little girl.

Although the little girl couldn’t speak yet, she was actually quite perceptive; she would remember her parents’ arguments for the rest of her life.

But Su Enxi’s demeanor was nothing like the fragile person her great-grandmother had described. Once, when her parents were arguing fiercely, the neighbor’s children came over to watch. Su Enxi, who had been quietly playing with a Rubik’s Cube, suddenly dropped it, got up, grabbed the boy who was leading the argument, straddled him, and began to beat him mercilessly until he cried loudly. Her parents were shocked and stopped arguing, trying to break up the fight, but Su Enxi had already finished and run away, faster than a rabbit, covering several miles to her great-grandmother’s old house on the outskirts of the city.

She was only two and a half years old that year. For a two-and-a-half-year-old child to travel such a long distance across the countryside was practically an adventure like an adult climbing Mount Everest.

But when her great-grandmother returned from the fields, the little girl was sitting cross-legged under the tea tree in front of the house, eating sugarcane. Since her baby teeth had just come in and weren’t very strong yet, she knew to use a small knife to cut the sugarcane into strips first.

Her great-grandmother was an old-fashioned woman, so old that she had bound her feet halfway back then, which shows how backward the small town where Su Enxi grew up was. Everyone else thought her great-grandmother was an antique who should have been buried in the ground long ago, but only she could tame Su Enxi, this troublesome little devil.

Su Enxi became well-behaved when she met her great-grandmother. When her great-grandmother asked her to help pick beans, she would pick beans. When her great-grandmother asked her to do something, she would play with a Rubik’s Cube next to her, but she had to sit where she could see her great-grandmother.
Everyone, including her parents, said that Su Enxi was stupid. She could talk but rarely spoke, but when she got into a fight, her fierceness was so strong that even boys were afraid of her. Only her great-grandmother repeatedly said that her little girl was smart, that her little girl had the most beautiful eyes in the world, and that her little girl’s eyes could speak.

The dashing parents had a meager income, unable to even afford their daughter’s kindergarten fees, or rather, when that conflicted with their drinking expenses, the drinking expenses took priority. So they gradually stopped caring for Su Enxi, leaving her with her great-grandmother to avoid a lot of trouble.
Her great-grandmother was a rural resident with a homestead and a private plot of land. There were also two tea trees in front of her house. If she worked hard, the income would be enough to support her and Su Enxi. She carefully calculated her income and expenses, hiding the money from the tea merchants who came to collect the tea in a jar, with a few stones on top of it.

This old-fashioned woman didn’t really trust banks until one day a young man from the village lost money gambling and sneaked in to steal from the urn under his bed. When the old man woke up, there was a person lying on the floor. Her three-year-old granddaughter dropped the brick she was holding and was about to drag the thief out, but even though she was much stronger than her peers, the task was still too challenging. The next day, the great-grandmother got up early and took Su Enxi into the city. They deposited the money in a fixed deposit account at a bank. When it was time to enter the password, the great-grandmother asked Su Enxi to enter it. The teller hurriedly stopped her, saying that the child would forget the password after entering it, and it would be too troublesome to find the password later.

Her great-grandmother said it’s alright, my little girl is very smart, she will remember this, it’s my little girl’s dowry when she gets married.

She believed without any principle that her great-granddaughter was a very capable child, even though Su Enxi’s capability seemed to be only manifested in chasing chickens and dogs at the village entrance and beating up children at the exit.

The old woman’s life was like a candle in the wind; no one knew when it would be extinguished. That day, she suddenly collapsed while picking insects from the tea trees, hitting the back of her head with a dull thud.
The doctor quickly announced her death. Although she was still lying in the hospital bed, breathing and able to open her eyes, she couldn’t speak. She was well-liked in the village, and people went to see her one last time.

Su Enxi stood silently at the head of the bed, holding her great-grandmother’s hand, refusing to let go no matter who came to look at her. This domineering and unruly girl suddenly became exceptionally quiet, but she didn’t cry, not a single tear.

Those who came to see her eventually left. In that quiet night, only Su Enxi and her great-grandmother remained. In the darkness, her great-grandmother suddenly opened her eyes, moved her lips and asked something, but could not make a sound.

Su Enxi accurately recited the password for the deposit slip, and the old woman smiled with relief. Su Enxi felt the withered hand in her palm suddenly lost its strength, but she stood there, still holding it tightly, until the hand became completely cold.

The next day, Su Enxi withdrew all the money from the deposit slip. Despite her parents’ efforts to keep this windfall, the five-year-old girl made all the arrangements for her great-grandmother’s funeral with lightning speed, from the cemetery to the burial.

It was a grand funeral, old-fashioned and solemn. Amidst the swirling snowflakes of paper money, Su Enxi stood alone, supporting the coffin, without shedding a single tear.

The villagers were surprised and said that the old woman was right after all; the Su family’s daughter was actually smart and not stupid at all.

Su Enxi was far from stupid; she was precocious, unbelievably so. At the age of three, she likely possessed the intellectual capacity of a teenager. At that time, she knew nothing about her bloodline, nor did she know that the ability called “Heavenly Evolution,” though not fully awakened, was already subtly taking effect.

She doesn’t speak because she was too lazy to; with her intelligence, she has nothing to say to children her age.

She hits people without saying a word because she was easily irritated. What others see as blue skies, white clouds, and bustling traffic, she sees as nothing but a stream of information. She could tell the wind direction just by looking at the clouds, and she could memorize every line of dialogue while playing with a Rubik’s Cube and watching TV dramas.

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