After a few mouthfuls of hot porridge, the old man seemed to have regained some strength and his complexion looked better.
"Old man, please eat slowly, there is no rush." Ye Chen said in a gentle voice.
The old man put down the spoon and sighed heavily: "Hey, young man, to be honest, my name is Li Gen, and my family has been tenant farmers outside Qinghe Town for generations."
"The rain was so heavy this year that the riverbank burst. When the flood came, everything was gone!"
As the old man spoke, his eyes turned red again.
"The fields were flooded, the house collapsed, and my old wife didn't make it. She passed away just like that!"
His withered hands gripped the rim of the bowl tightly, his knuckles turning white from the force.
"People in the village died or fled. I really had no way to survive, so I thought of going to a town a hundred miles away to seek refuge with a distant nephew and see if he could give me some food."
"But after all this hardship and exposure, my body can't take it anymore..."
Ye Chen listened to the old man's story with mixed feelings in his heart.
Human life is so fragile in the face of natural disasters.
They don't have the magical power to move mountains and fill the sea, nor do they have the cultivation to defy the will of heaven and change their fate. A flood can take away everything they have.
"Old man, have you eaten enough? I'll prepare some dry food for you to eat on the road." Ye Chen said.
"This...this is so embarrassing, young man, you have already helped me enough!" The old man waved his hands quickly.
Ye Chen smiled slightly: "It's just a piece of cake."
He chatted with the old man, listening to him talk about the sufferings of the mortal world and their helplessness and struggles in the face of disasters.
I saw a hint of indomitable spirit and a desire to survive in the old man's cloudy eyes.
This is what mortals are like, fragile yet resilient.
They can only silently endure the whipping of fate, but try hard to find a glimmer of hope in despair.
Ye Chen's understanding of the great path of annihilation in the mortal world deepened at this moment.
It turns out that the sufferings in this world are not just birth, old age, sickness and death, love and hate.
It is also the indomitable spirit and tenacity of hundreds of millions of living beings in this world who are struggling to survive against fate.
Just as Ye Chen was comprehending the world of mortals, a major event occurred in the Xueyou Secret Realm that shocked the entire fairy world.
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