Stitching A Broken Heart

Chapter 12

Macaque walked through the village in a disguise with Qi Xiaotian in a blanket baby sling making sure he's covered up so no one could see him and with Red Boy holding onto his hand wearing a light tunic with a hood over his head and his tail tucked safely away from sight "why do I have to wear this Shūshu it's itchy and I don't like it" Red Boy said scratching the hood "I know, but you're still too young to disguise yourself, so until you're old enough you have to wear the tunic" Macaque said looking at Red Boy "okay" the two year old said miserably and stopped scratching the hood

Macaque continued to walk down the busy street into the market area buying fresh fruit, vegetables and meat. He looks down at Red Boy whose attention was turned somewhere else, Macaque followed his gaze and saw a group of people gathering round a man who was selling small bottles, his ears twitched and he listens "come, come, and buy my elixir, hurry before they're gone!!!" A man said holding out a small blue bottle "one drink of this, and you will never be sick, you will never get hurt, and you can never die! With this Elixir you will live forever!!" The man shouted and people crowded the man their hand filled with money as they want to buy the elixir "Shūshu, is that really the elixir?" Red Boy asked looking up at Macaque "not even close bud, the bottles all wrong as well as the color, it also smells like dirty pond water, and not to mention that an elixir takes years to find the ingredients and make it. In other words, it's a fake" Macaque said looking down at Red Boy

Then he heard the sound of coughing, he turns to the sound and saw a woman holding her child close who was coughing loudly, he felt sympathy for her and walked up to her "is everything okay?" Macaque asked looking at the woman "it's my son, he's been coughing for three weeks, I've tried the elixir but it only made it worse...me or my husband don't know what to do" the woman said holding her son close. Macaque looked at the distress woman and pulled a small pouch from his pocket "here, it's ginger and thyme, mix it in the tea and it will help with the coughing" he said handing her the pouch "thank you" she said and began heading home

"Come Red Boy let's...Red Boy?" Macaque said when the two year old wasn't holding his hand anymore "Red Boy, Red Boy?!" Macaque called out looking for the two year old, he then heard some commotion from the stand where the fake elixir was and immediately went there, only to find him biting down on the con man's leg "Let go you little brat!!" The con man said shaking his leg, but Red Boy held on "damn it brat, I said let go!!" He said lifting the stick up in the air. But before he could bring it down Macaque grabs the stick tightly "What, were you just about to do?" Macaque asked glaring at the man, Red Boy immediately let go and ran to his uncle

"That little brat, bit my leg and called my product a fake!!" The man said pointing to Red Boy who stuck his tongue out to the con man "well, he's not wrong, your elixir is just dirty pond water in a blue bottle" Macaque said glaring at the man "Lies, the elixir is real!!" The con man said his face turning red "then explain why the woman whose son had a cough, was still coughing AFTER she bought your elixir" Macaque said and the the man paused with a stunned look on his face "he's right, I gave my grandfather the elixir for his hurt leg and it didn't work!" A man shouted from the crowd "and my mother's headache worsened after I gave her the elixir!!" A woman shouted, soon everyone was shouting and demanding their money back as the man was cornered by the angry mob, Macaque created a shadow portal and teleported out of there with his son and Red Boy

When they were back in the forest Macaque dropped his disguise and let out a sigh while calming down a crying Qi Xiaotian "Shūshu, are you mad at me?" Red Boy said looking down "no I'm not mad...did you bite down hard?" Macaque asked and Red Boy nodded "enough to leave a scar!" Red Boy said showing off his fangs "good boy" Macaque said patting Red Boys head with a smile