Chapter 10 Knocking on Heaven's Door
The first ray of sunlight in the early morning came in through the window, and Xia Yu woke up slowly. When she looked up, she saw Natasha Romanoff's gentle gaze and smile, with golden sunlight in the background. It felt so good!
Xia Yu stood up and stretched, yawned contentedly and asked, "You didn't sleep all night?"
"I lay on the table for a while. I guess that's how I paid my medical bills." Natasha Romanoff pointed to her thigh.
Xia Yu looked at the saliva marks still on it, turned around embarrassedly and said, "I'll go upstairs to make breakfast for you, you can come up later."
Looking at Xia Yu's fleeing back, Natasha Romanoff laughed out loud.
Seeing Xia Yu running out of the door and climbing the stairs, she lowered her head and gently felt her rib injury with her hand.
She felt the growth of the bones and praised the magic of oriental medicine again.
Even if she went back to the headquarters for treatment, it would take at least two weeks to recover to her current condition.
It seemed that she needed to rest here for a few more days.
Xia Yu was happily frying eggs. Why was he so happy? Because he had a smile on his face all the time. He looked silly, like an honest countryman who married a charming wife and got up to make breakfast for his wife after the wedding night.
"Is there a charge for breakfast?" Natasha Romanoff asked as she pushed the door open.
"I've prepared clothes for you in the bathroom. They're my mother's clothes from when she was alive. I've kept them. There's no extra charge for them." Xia Yu's smile grew even wider.
Xia Yu still had a silly smile on her face when Natasha Romanoff came out of the shower and they sat opposite each other to eat breakfast.
Natasha Romanoff ignored Xia Yu and quietly enjoyed this breakfast.
It was a sunny breakfast with a silly-smiling big boy beside her.
Natasha Romanoff didn't know how long it had been since she felt so relaxed.
The two of them tacitly agreed not to ask each other any questions to break the relaxation and tranquility.
After dinner, Xia Yu cleaned up the table and asked nervously, seemingly unintentionally, "Your injuries are not fully recovered.
Do you want to rest here for a few days? I suggest you wait until you are fully recovered before leaving?"
Xia Yu tried to sound as relaxed and nonchalant as possible, but the dripping tablecloth in her hand betrayed her.
Natasha Romanoff pointed at the water stains on the floor and said with a smile, "When you finish cleaning the floor, I need you to go out with me to buy some clothes that suit me.
I don't want to sleep in someone else's pajamas at night."
Xia Yu didn't expect that he would go shopping with a girl in Times Square in the Marvel world.
He also didn't expect that the girl next to him was Black Widow, the goddess of countless otakus' dreams in his previous life.
To be honest, he was a little nervous and didn't know how to walk.
Just when he was thinking about whether to put his hands in his pockets or swing them outside, Natasha Romanoff naturally took his hand and whispered in his ear: "If you don't know where to put your hands, then I think it's better for you to hold them."
After saying that, he looked at Xia Yu who was blushing and laughed.
Xia Yu had never seen this side of Natasha Romanoff, but as she smiled and frowned, she put on ordinary jeans and a white T-shirt.
She kept trying the clothes on her body to ask herself if they looked good.
She was struggling to choose between two colors.
Xia Yu felt that the image of Black widow in her mind and the girl in front of her were slowly integrating and becoming flesh and blood.
Natasha Romanoff took Xia Yu shopping for a whole day, from morning to afternoon. They had lunch outside, drank coffee, and went to see a movie. It was not until dusk that Natasha Romanoff, still not satisfied, took Xia Yu out of the mall.
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Times Square at dusk was a little more lively than during the day.
There were many more people shopping and many street performances, including magic and jokers.
Xia Yu followed Natasha Romanoff and stopped in front of a street singer.
The singer was a middle-aged man in his forties, holding a guitar and singing an American country song.
The lyrics sang about a country girl who left her youth and came to the big city to work hard.
It reminded Xia Yu of the song "Small Town Girl" by David Tao in his previous life.
The lyrics were similar and the melody was also very nice.
Natasha Romanoff held Xia Yu's hand and hummed along softly, just like an ordinary girl shopping with her boyfriend and seeing someone singing her favorite song on the street.
Xia Yu felt an inexplicable pain in her heart and thought of Black Widow in the movie.
She had been trained as a spy and killer since she was a child.
She never had a normal childhood and no friends.
It was not until she met Hawkeye and joined SHIELD that she found the faith to support her heart.
After great difficulty, she fell in love with Bruce Banner.
Originally, two people who were afraid of being hurt and even more afraid of hurting others could warm each other up.
Until Natasha Romanoff finally mustered up the courage to take the first step, Bruce Banner did not have the courage to accept it.
Until the end, Natasha Romanoff did not get her own love.
Until the four members of the Avengers alliance sacrificed for the Soul Gem, other people either had families or friends, and even Captain America finally lived the life he wanted, except Black Widow.
Thinking of this, Xia Yu looked at Natasha Romanoff who was still humming a song beside him, and there was a little more love and protectiveness in his eyes, just like the way Natasha Romanoff looked at him last night.
Xia Yu gently let go of Natasha Romanoff's hand, walked to the singer with an inquiring look in her eyes, and asked him to borrow his guitar.
Xia Yu didn't say anything. In the surprised eyes of Natasha Romanoff, she slowly sang: "Ma take the badge off of me, I can't use it any more, It's getting dark too dark to see, Feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door..."
This song "Knocking on Heaven's Door" is one of the representative works of the famous American band Guns N' Roses.
It tells the story of an old soldier who goes home and tells his mother that he no longer needs medals and guns.
It sings about an old soldier's fatigue and disgust with war.
This song does not exist in this world, but good music works resonate in any world.
Moreover, Xia Yu almost perfectly expressed the meaning of the lyrics.
More and more people came around, and in the end many people even hummed along with tears in their eyes.
Xia Yu looked at Natasha Romanoff again, but she was already standing there crying.
Fortunately, in 2007, communications were not so developed, otherwise many people around would have picked up their mobile phones to take videos, which would have caused Natasha Romanoff a lot of inconvenience.
As the last note fell lightly, the people around her spontaneously burst into thunderous applause, and then strongly requested Xia Yu to sing another song.
Xia Yu wanted to refuse, but unexpectedly the system issued a temporary task:
Sing a theme song from a martial arts TV show or movie in your previous life. The requirement is that it must have a Huxia style and a martial arts feel. The reward is a magical weapon from the martial arts story.
Xia Yu was a bit puzzled, and quickly recalled the martial arts movies or TV series he had watched.
In fact, the first song that came to his mind was the "Difficult Sutra" in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, but there were no magical weapons in it.
Besides, he didn't even remember the lyrics of the song.
There were a lot of magical weapons in "Feng Yun", and they were very high-end.
The key was that he hadn't watched the TV series much, so he couldn't sing it.
He could sing Li's flying darts, but the main thing in the weapon list there was actually people, and the weapons were originally very ordinary.
Suddenly Xia Yu remembered that the original singer of "Nan Nian De Jing" also had a song, which was the theme song for an early version of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, the version played by the famous Roaring Emperor.
Although Xia Yu had not seen it, she had heard this song many times.
It was called "Sword Like a Dream".
So Xia Yu slowly began to sing this song with a strong Huxia style under the expectant gazes of the people around her.
Where does my sword go?
Love and hate are not exclusive
My knife cuts through the sky
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I don't know right from wrong.
I'm drunk and hazy
Gratitude and resentment are illusions and emptiness
.........…
Come and go in a hurry
I hate that we can't meet
Love is fleeting, hate is fleeting
Everything is up to the wind
A wild laugh and a long sigh
A happy life, a sad life
Who will live and die with me?
Who will live and die with me?
After the song was over, there was a lot of applause again.
Although people didn't understand the lyrics, music has no boundaries.
The uninhibited and happy mood expressed in the song reached the hearts of every listener.
Xia Yu returned the guitar to the uncle next to him.
The uncle asked Xia Yu excitedly, "Oh, man, your singing is amazing.
You are a professional singer, right? A Huxia singer?"
"No, I was just singing by myself. Thanks for the guitar, man." Xia Yu said and hurried away. Someone around him started taking pictures of him.
Xia Yu dragged Natasha Romanoff away from the crowd in a hurry. The old man was still shouting at him from behind: "You should sing. You will be famous. I swear..."
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