Chapter 668: A Mother's Strength (Part )

Today was a triple blessing. First, Teng Sanshi and Xiao Zhirou recognized each other as father and daughter. Second, Xiao Zhirou and Yun Jianping reunited as mother and daughter. Third, Teng Sanshi had a granddaughter, and Yun Jianping had a grandfather.

After today, Teng Sanshi no longer had to act in secret. He decided that after returning to the Teng clan in western Hunan, he would immediately announce to the world his father-daughter relationship with Xiao Zhirou.

In this way, the Teng tribe in western Hunan and the Jueqing Valley will be able to have close dealings openly in the future, saving a lot of unnecessary disguises and troubles.

Surprise and confusion are just passing clouds. Excitement and sadness are also fleeting.

In the end, the closest relatives are still the closest relatives. The depth of blood and the source of clan made the three generations of Teng Sanshi, Xiao Zhirou and Yun Jianping, who had experienced many unfortunate experiences, finally reunite after a long separation after going through countless hardships and obstacles.

Teng Sanshi, who had always been mature and steady, was so happy that he no longer cared about his dignity. With tears streaming down his face, he hugged his daughter and granddaughter tightly and cried bitterly.

Thousands of words cannot express the pain of missing someone. Thousands of words cannot express the sorrow of separation.

Today was undoubtedly a great joyous event for Teng Sanshi, Xiao Zhirou, and Yun Jianping. But for Yun Zhuiyue, it was a great sorrow.

Although Yun Jianping vowed that she would always regard Yun Zhuiyue as her closest relative, in Yun Zhuiyue's heart, after learning the truth, Yun Jianping could no longer be her daughter.

An invisible, intangible, yet real barrier, like the mist on the river, unknowingly shrouded Yun Zhuiyue's heart.

Needless to say, there was a grand banquet in Jueqing Valley and everyone toasted to celebrate. Teng Sanshi, who was over 60 years old, was grinning from ear to ear and, ignoring the dissuasion of the Teng clan disciples, he drank wine as if it were water and drank 300 cups.

At his age, he cares about and loves his closest relatives more than anyone else present.

Xiao Zhirou and Yun Jianping, mother and daughter, left the table early and spoke to each other in a heart-to-heart talk behind closed doors.

When Yun Jianping held back her shyness and timidly called out "mother", Xiao Zhirou was so moved that tears welled up in her eyes, and her heart, which had been frozen for many years, seemed to melt instantly. She held Yun Jianping tightly in her arms, unwilling to let go for a long time.

The day is busy, some are happy and some are sad.

As the night deepened, Teng Sanshi became drunk and fell into a deep sleep.

Under Xiao Zhirou's comfort, Yun Jianping, with a smile on her face and tears in her eyes, slowly fell asleep with a complex and changing mood. This was the first time in her life that she fell asleep peacefully in her mother's arms.

She tucked in the quilt meticulously, blew out the candle cautiously, and tiptoed out of the room.

When Xiao Zhirou gently closed Yun Jianping's door, the joy lingering on her brows quietly solidified. Gradually, a hint of deep worry emerged in her eyes.

Walking alone on a moonlit night, down the river, Xiao Zhirou hurried to Liushang Ferry.

At this moment, Yun Zhuiyue, who was full of worries, had been waiting for a long time. The breeze, the bright moon, and the surging river could not hide his loneliness and sorrow at this moment.

"You finally came!"

Upon seeing Xiao Zhirou, Yun Zhuiyue quickly hid the melancholy in his eyes, and then took the initiative to stretch out his hand, wanting to help Xiao Zhirou on the boat to the shore.

However, Xiao Zhirou ignored Yun Zhuiyue's courtesy, tapped her toes lightly, and flew into the air, then floated down to the riverside with the wind.

"Ping'er didn't sleep for a long time, so I was delayed for a while." As if not wanting to embarrass Yun Zhuiyue, Xiao Zhirou took the initiative to apologize, "I made Saint Yun wait for a long time, I hope you will forgive me."

Hearing Xiao Zhirou's words, Yun Zhuiyue suddenly felt sad and said self-deprecatingly, "I have waited for you for decades, so why would I care about you for a moment? As for Ping'er... With your biological mother by her side, she must have completely forgotten about me, her adoptive father."

"Ping'er is careful and sensible, how could she be ungrateful?" Xiao Zhirou said, "Just now, she kept praising you in front of me and told me a lot about her childhood. In fact, deep down in her heart, she relies on you very much."

"Forget it!" Yun Zhuiyue said seriously, "Tonight, we won't talk about Ping'er."

With just these words, Xiao Zhirou's heart suddenly tightened, her eyes became more nervous, and she asked tentatively: "My son...is he okay?"

"In fact, you have seen him, and...more than once."

"what?"

Xiao Zhirou was shocked, and countless images flashed through her mind. But she had met too many people in her life, and there were too many descendants of the same age as her son. In the memories without any clues, her thoughts were in a mess, and she had no idea which one was her own flesh and blood.

"Who is it? Who is he?"

Xiao Zhirou knew that she couldn't figure it out, so she was shocked and subconsciously took two steps closer to Yun Zhuiyue, impatiently asking, "Who is my son?" "He is a rising star in the martial arts world, especially in the past two years, he is as prosperous as the rising sun, and there is almost no one in the martial arts world who can match him." Yun Zhuiyue seemed to want to whet Xiao Zhirou's appetite, and said slowly, "Especially at last year's martial arts conference, he amazed everyone with his skills and shined brilliantly. He has made an indispensable contribution to Luo Tianjin's position as the leader of the martial arts world..."

As Yun Zhuiyue continued to tell the story, a vague figure that was both familiar and unfamiliar gradually emerged in Xiao Zhirou's mind.

Every time Yun Zhuiyue spoke another word, the figure in his mind became bigger and clearer.

"What's even more interesting is that your son still remembers what happened in his childhood, so he is particularly compassionate to his long-lost sister. Even when the two of them were fighting on the sword arena, he gave in again and again and couldn't bear to hurt her..."

"boom!"

As soon as Yun Zhuiyue said this, Xiao Zhirou's mind could not help but roar. Thousands of chaotic and blurry images immediately disappeared, and her empty mind was blank, with only a tall figure holding a sword standing upright.

The man suddenly turned around, and a handsome face with a smile appeared clearly in front of Xiao Zhirou.

"Liu Xunyi..."

When Xiao Zhirou woke up from her dream and blurted out, the past scenes between her and Liu Xunyi emerged in her mind uncontrollably, and tears of excitement and sadness flowed down like the Yellow River bursting its banks.

Not long ago, also at Liushang Ferry, Xiao Zhirou and Liu Xunyi, who met by chance, were like enemies and friends, and they expressed their frustrations to each other.

At that time, when Xiao Zhirou asked about Liu Xunyi's parents and relatives, Liu Xunyi sighed three times in a row, which made Xiao Zhirou feel sympathetic.

Thinking about it today, it was not out of sympathy, but rather the mother's love for her child.

When Xiao Zhirou thought of this, she felt even more grief, guilt, and regret. She couldn't help herself and cried with her face covered.

"Rou'er, I will never break my promise to you. That's right! Liu Xunyi... is the flesh and blood that you miss so much, and he is also Ping'er's biological brother." Yun Zhuiyue recalled, "Back then, I followed your wishes and sent the crying brother and sister to a family in Xinglin Village for adoption. I wanted to never disturb them again in this life and let them live a peaceful life. But God's will played tricks on them. Xinglin Village was suddenly hit by a plague. All the villagers died or fled. Their adoptive parents were not spared and died one after another. In order to survive, the brother and sister had to leave the village, beg everywhere, and wander around the world..."

"Beggaring everywhere...wandering around the world..." Xiao Zhirou was in a trance, muttering to herself.

Every word was like a knife or a sword, cutting her heart and making it bleed, burning her internal organs and breaking her intestines.

"And then?" Xiao Zhirou's eyes suddenly condensed with tears, and she asked hurriedly, "Why did Ping'er recognize you as her father? Why does she have no memory of her brother? And what did he...go through?"

"Back then, Luo Tianjin was very successful in the Central Plains martial arts world." Yun Zhuiyue gritted her teeth and said, "I am unwilling to accept this. Why is God so unfair, allowing such a despicable villain to have everything he wants? But you and I... have to suffer and be tortured. So, in order to avenge Luo Tianjin, I decided to make a perfect plan. I want to make Liu Xunyi and Luo Tianjin and his son enemies, I want them to kill each other, and I want to avenge Luo Tianjin in the most cruel way, making him lose his reputation and live a life worse than death."

"What do you mean?" Xiao Zhirou frowned, and an ominous premonition arose in her heart.

"When the siblings wandered to Luzhou, I took advantage of the chaos to take the younger sister away and brought her back to Longxiang Mountain, changing her name. In order to make Ping'er forget her past life, I took great pains and even used the secret method in the Dragon Elephant Treasure Book to make her reborn as a human in her second life."

"You..." Xiao Zhirou was anxious and angry, but helpless, and said with hatred, "If you take my sister away, what will happen to my brother? Is he going to fend for himself?"

"Liu Xunyi is the son of you and Luo Tianjin, and his martial arts talent is far beyond that of ordinary people. So I deliberately set up a trap to lure Zhao Yuan from Tianji Pavilion to meet him on the street. As expected, Zhao Yuan admired Liu Xunyi very much, brought him back to Tianji Pavilion for training, and gradually cultivated him into an eagle claw of the court. The court and the underworld have always been incompatible and conflicts have continued. And I have been waiting for an opportunity, until three years ago, the court intended to win over Luo Tianjin..."

Tonight, Yun Zhuiyue told Xiao Zhirou everything he had done in the past, which shocked, astonished, saddened, and angry her...

"Yun Zhuiyue, you... you have lost all conscience, worse than pigs and dogs!" Xiao Zhirou was filled with grief and indignation, furious. "You actually used my child as a puppet to avenge Luo Tianjin? You actually separated them? You actually set up a trap to make Xunyi an enemy of his own father? You..."

The more Xiao Zhirou spoke, the angrier she became. Finally, she could no longer endure it and suddenly swung her palm, with a fierce palm wind rushing straight towards Yun Zhuiyue.

Yun Zhuiyue was startled and hastily waved his palm to block, but Xiao Zhirou's palm power was too strong and he could not take it at all. He suddenly felt a tightness in his chest, his internal organs churning, and his blood rushing up. At the same time, he stepped back several steps before he was able to release this terrifying force.

“Rou’er, now you know why I hid it from my adoptive father? Now, Liu Xunyi is the traitor who killed Luo Tianjin. Qingfeng and Ling Xiaoxiao have issued a killing order, and everyone in the world can kill him.” Yun Zhuiyue explained hurriedly, “If my adoptive father knew that Liu Xunyi was his grandson, he would be caught between morality and family affection. He can neither ignore the future of the Teng family and indulge Liu Xunyi, nor ignore the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren and kill his own family for the sake of justice…”

"Bah!" Xiao Zhirou spat angrily, "At this point, how can you have the nerve to say these things? If it weren't for you, how could my son fall to this point, and how could Dad be in such a dilemma?"

Yun Zhuiyue said in a fierce voice: "Luo Tianjin has ruined my life. In order to avenge him, I can't care about so much..."

"You can't take care of him, but I must!" Xiao Zhirou glared with her beautiful eyes, and a murderous aura that even Yun Zhuiyue couldn't resist emanated from her body. She said sternly, "Xunyi is my child, no one can hurt a hair on his head! Whoever dares to take advantage of my son, I will repay him tenfold, without mercy!"

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(End of this chapter)