The Unlucky Kid Is Still Kneeling by the Tree in Remorse Today

Ying Huai was a locust tree in a secret realm of cultivation. As time passed, he developed sentience. After cultivators fought over him, he became a Chinese locust tree rooted in Daxi Village a hundred years ago. Everyone in Daxi Village knew that the old Chinese locust tree at the village entrance was very efficacious, practically a sacred tree. Many people with sickly family members came to pray to their godmother, and before long, their relatives recovered. Pray for favorable weather, and nothing major would go wrong all year. No one knew who started it, but every so often, parents would drag some naughty kid in front of the tree godmother and make them kneel in repentance. As the years went by, Ying Huai looked at the area around his trunk and felt utterly hopeless. The villagers had become mama's boys and girls who invoked their godmother at the drop of a hat. The kid won't behave? Tell godmother! The harvest was bad? Tell godmother! Someone from another village bullied you? Tell godmother! Who knew whether it would work? They just enjoyed tattling. Villager 1: A ninety-year-old man dragged his seventy-year-old son over to kneel before him, calling him godmother every other word. His son wouldn't listen, and when he got sick, he secretly hid candy and ate it. And the worst part? He was so unfilial that he ate it all by himself! Villager 2: A woman in her forties dragged her grown daughter over to complain to Ying Huai, the godmother. That little rascal had beaten up her thirty-second blind date. But more often... Villager 3: "Godmother, please do something about this little menace! He set my house on fire again today. The flames shot up in a flash..." A man stood by the little boy at his feet, sniffling and sobbing as he complained. Villager 4: "Get down on your knees!" Someone beside him dragged a child to the tree and kicked him down onto his knees, then turned and cried to Ying Huai. "Godmother, please do something about this little menace! His grandma had a dog that died recently, and I don't know what got into this kid, but in the middle of the night, he crawled up to the old lady's window and started barking like a dog. He scared her so badly she won't even get up to use the bathroom at night anymore..." Ying Huai looked at the little one beside him, who was crying just as hard, and didn't know what to say. These people were taking advantage of the fact that he was a tree and couldn't talk! Heaven knew he was a male tree!! Just because he could flower and his branches could be propagated from cuttings, they had no business rashly calling him godmother!!! He wasn't a mother! He didn't want to be anyone's mother! Ying Huai screamed inside his tree heart, but on the outside, he only let his branches sway in the wind. Just as he thought he would never be able to take human form and speak, the world shifted. All things grew wildly, and spiritual qi revival began. He seized his chance and successfully took human form. The people of Daxi Village: ... What happened to godmother?! [Confused Black Person.jpg] Many years later, whenever people spoke of the Chinese locust tree in Daxi Village, they did so with reverence. The place sheltered by the locust tree had become a home for the people. P.S. This is a fantasy world. The plot and setting are there to serve the story, so if anything makes your brain hurt, please ignore it. Let's not use our brains too hard while reading~ Hope you enjoy the story, hugs to you all~ Everyone, here's an upcoming story to add to your reading list: Sound Hunter at Your Service Synopsis: To other people, extreme sports enthusiast Qi Ting seems nothing like his name suggests. He's rebellious and arrogant, and has never been one to listen. But to others, Qi Ting, the illegitimate son of the Qi family, has only one redeeming quality: he's obedient. The two of them are alike, yet different. The only thought the person who named them had was that they should be obedient. Qi Ting from Earth Star doesn't compete with his older brother for the family fortune. Instead, he searches for a sense of belonging through extreme sports, showing off his strength. Qi Ting from Blue Star meekly follows the role his father has assigned him, then silently chooses to die, curled up in his own little corner. After an accident, Qi Ting from Earth Star is reborn into the body of Qi Ting from Blue Star, who is unconscious with a high fever and barely clinging to life, with the help of a collection System. Two souls in one body: one is the obedient Ting, the other the defiant Ting. Sound Hunter: a role that comes with the collection System. What it collects and hunts is no ordinary thing, but the sounds that exist in the world. The T-6932Z nebula system lost some of its five senses through extreme evolution, including its sense of hearing. In a soundless world, mental entities began to go berserk, erupt, vanish, and lose their lives. To find a cure, Doctor Kong created the collection System to gather sounds from parallel-dimension worlds and build a soundscape capable of soothing mental entities. "Hello, Sound Hunter No. 0398, Qi Ting, at your service." "I can't sense the world. I feel like I'm becoming nothing..." The client curled up, eyes hollow. "Hello, I'd like to hear my mother's voice just once. She was born mute." The young man stood before the funeral hall and turned to look back. "Hey, Hunter bro, could you call out to my brother for me? Tell him to wake up~" With a beckoning motion of his fingertip, the young man in a plant-like state slept soundly in an endless, dreamless slumber. Theme: Humanity and nature coexisting in harmony