landbeastnovel Chapter 397 Amnesia
Chapter 397 Amnesia
Chapter 397: Amnesia
Two days later, in a shabby little house, the person who was rescued slowly woke up after being given some water. They opened their eyes and looked around, everything appearing extremely unfamiliar.
"Oh, you're awake. I'll go get Grandfather," a girl around twelve or thirteen years old said, suddenly seeing the person on the bed wake up, and happily ran outside.
Not long after, her grandfather walked in, followed by the child. The grandfather looked at the person with a slight smile, while the child timidly shrank behind him. However, the person on the bed kept staring into space, lost in thought.
"You're awake? We found you by the seaside and brought you back. May I ask how we should address you?" the grandfather said very politely, after all, judging from the person's clothes, they were not an ordinary person.
"Me?"
The person on the bed suddenly reached out and looked at their hand, and for a moment, they seemed confused. "I don't know."
"Ah?"
At this moment, the others were all surprised. How could someone not even know who they were? Could it be...
Indeed, this person was Lin Qing. That day, in order to resist the Tianning Qi left in his body by the mid-Nascent Soul stage Tianning Beast, his cultivation had decreased. Unfortunately, he had encountered a ferocious late-Gold Core stage monster beast. He had used all his strength and resorted to every means possible to barely escape, but his spiritual power had been severely depleted.
Afterwards, because there were many monster beasts in the endless sea, he didn't dare to stay and could only keep flying forward. Unexpectedly, due to the excessive depletion of his spiritual power, he suddenly fainted in mid-air and fell into the sea.
And somehow, after falling into the sea, he drifted to this coastline and was saved by this fisherman's family.
Having experienced this great calamity, his cultivation had now been reduced to the level of only the early Qi Refining stage. Of course, this was only temporary. As long as Lin Qing continued to recover and took some elixirs, it would only take a few years to restore his original cultivation. So, this matter was not a big problem.
The real problem was that he seemed to have lost his memory for a while and couldn't remember who he was.
In the following days, although Lin Qing tried his best to remember who he was, the grandfather also continuously tried to awaken his memory. But this memory was like a ship lost in the vast sea, drifting away to an unknown place.
"In that case, why don't you come fishing with me? Since you don't know who you are now, going out might be dangerous. It's better to follow me and fish. After all, you're a grown man, and it costs quite a bit to feed and support you. I can't afford to keep you for long. I don't know if you're willing or not?" The grandfather, seeing that Lin Qing still couldn't remember who he was after a few days, thought for a moment and said this to him. After all, a grown man like Lin Qing, who ate and drank, cost quite a bit.
"Fishing?"
Hearing this, Lin Qing hesitated for a moment, but then looked at the extremely poor house and nodded.
"Haha, that's good. I can see that you have quite a bit of strength. Surviving such a great calamity must bring good fortune. Don't think too much. Perhaps you'll remember who you are soon," the grandfather laughed and said, and Lin Qing also smiled.
The next day, Lin Qing followed him to go fishing, and the girl was also on the boat. As for the little boy, he went to pick seafood.
However, to Lin Qing's surprise, they didn't go fishing in the sea, but at the mouth of a river that flowed into the sea. According to the two children's grandfather, there were too many dangers in the sea, so someone like him, who was just an ordinary fisherman, could only fish in this kind of river, which was relatively safer.
"It's your first time fishing, let me teach you." After the grandfather paddled the boat into the river, he stopped the boat and picked up a fishing net, then started teaching Lin Qing.
With a swing of his arm, the fishing net in the grandfather's hand formed a large circle, but when he pulled the net back, there were only three or four small fish. However, the girl on the side immediately smiled upon seeing this. Most of the time, the net they cast would come back empty. That's why they say that being a fisherman is one of the hardest occupations for ordinary people. Fishing is not that simple.
After casting a few more nets, the grandfather let Lin Qing give it a try.
To the grandfather and the girl's surprise, Lin Qing did extremely well in casting the net. After just one or two casts, he was already as skilled as an experienced fisherman. The net was large and round.
"You didn't seem like someone who does manual labor before, but I didn't expect you to be so good at this." The grandfather looked at Lin Qing in amazement. He didn't know that although Lin Qing had lost his memory and cultivation, his body's instincts were still intact. Casting a net was such a simple task that it couldn't pose a challenge to him.
After casting a few more nets, Lin Qing got better and better. The girl on the side looked at him with admiration. While the grandfather was happy about this, he couldn't help but think of something and his face darkened. "Ah, speaking of which, if my unfortunate son and daughter-in-law hadn't had an accident, I wouldn't have to fish every day like this. They were both skilled fishermen, and they cast large and round nets just like you. But on that unfortunate day, even though I warned them not to go out in the strong wind, they..."
The grandfather became emotional as he watched Lin Qing casting the net, thinking of his son and daughter-in-law who had passed away due to an accident. As he spoke, a tear fell from his eye, and the girl wiped away her tears silently.
As for Lin Qing, he stood silently at the bow of the boat, listening to the grandfather's words.
He looked at the boundless sea in the distance and always felt that there were memories missing in his heart, memories that kept jumping but couldn't be found no matter how much he thought. This made him feel extremely lost.
It seemed that the world in front of his eyes shouldn't be like this.
In the blink of an eye, five years had passed.
During these five years, Lin Qing, who had lost his memory, hadn't gone anywhere. He had been fishing with the grandfather for a full five years.
After five years, Lin Qing still looked the same, but the grandfather appeared much older. The child had also grown into a half-grown boy. As for the girl, she had already married two years ago. The marriage had been arranged early on, and it was to another fisherman's family. It wasn't particularly good or bad, just the fate of most fisherman girls.
On the day of her marriage, Lin Qing gave her a peculiar stone he had found by the seaside as a gift.
And in these five years, with Lin Qing's superb fishing skills, this family, which now consisted of three people including Lin Qing, had a better and better life.
However, Lin Qing became more and more silent. He would always come to the seaside at dusk, gaze into the distance, and show a hint of confusion.
He would often try to remember something, but he couldn't. This caused him pain and made it difficult for him to find peace.
At first, the grandfather would try to console him, telling him to be more open-minded and that being a fisherman wasn't a bad thing.
But later, he stopped saying anything. The expression that occasionally flashed in Lin Qing's eyes was not something an ordinary person could possess. This made him understand that Lin Qing couldn't live like this forever.
(End of this chapter)