Chapter 257 The Past
The room was pitch black, without even a candle, and only a few rays of light came in through the window.
With the door panel removed, the situation in the room was finally illuminated.
Seeing this, Xie Liuyin waved his hand gently, and the scattered wooden boards on the ground were picked up as if by a big hand and nailed back to the hole.
But in just a few blinks of an eye, most of the holes in the surrounding walls were filled, and even the broken door was repaired.
Xie Liuyin casually threw out a lighting bead, and the darkness in the room was instantly dispelled, and the woman's tense nerves relaxed a little.
"Don't be offended, Immortal. I don't have any special abilities. I can only live in a place like this with Xiao Nian." The woman said, lowering her head with guilt.
But Xie Liuyin knew that her guilt was not directed at herself, but at the child.
She followed the woman's instructions and sat on the only intact chair in the room. After the woman put the child named Xiao Nian back on the bed, she finally spoke:
"If I'm not mistaken, you should be the former eldest daughter of the Liu family, Liu Ruyun."
The woman, Liu Ruyun, paused for a moment before nodding: "I haven't heard anyone call my name for a long time, and I'm a little uncomfortable for a while. The Immortal came to look for me, is there something going on?"
Even though Liu Ruyun tried hard to suppress it, Xie Liuyin could immediately sense her wariness from her tone.
After thinking for a while, Xie Liuyin did not ask directly, but changed the subject and said: "What's wrong with this child? I think she has spiritual roots and should practice hard. Why is she now suffering from illness and looks like she will not live long?"
The specialness of Cangzhen Castle is seen by everyone. If a child born here does not have spiritual roots, he will continue to stay in the castle and live an ordinary life.
But if they are lucky enough to have spiritual roots, they will be sent to the family or sect where the child’s relatives are as soon as possible to start their life as a cultivator.
Even if the child's relatives are no longer around, if he has good talent, a sect will take the initiative to take him in and accept him as a disciple.
If Xie Liuyin was not mistaken, this child clearly had the dual spiritual roots of gold and fire. Such qualifications were more than enough to enter their Qingxiao Sect, so why would a sect be unwilling to accept him?
"Well, this is a long story." Liu Ruyun seemed unwilling to tell Xie Liuyin the truth.
Xie Liuyin said, "Let's make it short. Maybe if you tell me the truth, I will be able to save this child."
Liu Ruyun's eyes lit up. She knew that Xiao Nian would die sooner or later with her own ability. Even though she didn't know the origin of the female cultivator in front of her, what did she want to do with her?
But now she has nothing to plot, for Xiao Nian, Liu Ruyun is willing to fight, just betting that this female cultivator is willing to bring Xiao Nian back, and will not let her die easily.
After calming down, Liu Ruyun began to talk about her and Xiao Nian's past.
Just as Xie Liuyin had asked the waiter, she was indeed the eldest daughter of the Liu family.
But because the ancestors of the Liu family are not in this world, few of the other side's descendants are capable.
The Liu family gradually declined, and Liu Ruyun's father was a prodigal son. He was plotted against by the descendants of other powerful people in the castle.
The family's property became less and less, until finally even the big house became someone else's.
In order to prevent her useless father from dragging her down any further, Liu Ruyun's mother committed suicide with her father on the day the Liu family mansion was taken away.
Compared to them, Liu Ruyun was better off. Her mother married Liu Ruyun to the Wen family before the Liu family completely fell into decline.
The Wen family is descended from the same powerful people as the Liu family, but the difference is that the Wen family was not rich at the beginning. However, the Wen family has produced smart people from generation to generation, and they have managed the Wen family to the same level as the Liu family when it was powerful.
Even though the Liu family was getting worse and worse under the hands of Liu Ruyun's father, a broken ship still had three thousand nails. Although the Liu family was no longer rich, the friendships they had made in the past were still there.
Sometimes, this friendship is more valuable than any amount of money.
For the sake of this friendship, the master of the Wen family took the initiative to ask for Liu Ruyun in marriage for his son, just so that he could use the only child of this generation of the Liu family to integrate his family with other old-school families.
In order to ensure her daughter's future life, Liu Ruyun's mother agreed to the marriage proposal. While the family property had not yet been completely squandered by her husband, she collected a lot of good things from the house as a dowry and married her daughter off.
She originally thought that a smart man like the head of the Wen family would treat her daughter as a mascot and take good care of her in the Liu family even if the Liu family was gone.
But Liu Ruyun's mother never imagined that the head of the Wen family died early, and the husband she chose for Liu Ruyun was a man with a kind face but a wicked heart.
"Xiao Nian is a child I picked up. When I met her, all her family members were gone and she was supposed to be kicked out of Cangzhen Castle. But I felt so sorry for her. When I picked her up, she even smiled at me, so I kept her." Liu Ruyun explained.
After her parents died, Wen Ke, her husband, treated her worse and worse. He even took her child away and refused to let her raise him, as if he was afraid that the child would get close to her.
Liu Ruyun naturally wanted to fight back, but she no longer had the protection of her family, and the head of the family who recognized her had been dead for many years.
The entire Wen family was Wen Ke's territory, so naturally, whatever Wen Ke said was the final word. Liu Ruyun only had the title of the head of the family's wife.
Even the child Xiao Nian was the result of her desperately begging Wen Ke for her child.
Wen Ke wanted to save face, and Liu Ruyun had really gone too far at that time. In order to make this decorative wife obedient, he allowed Liu Ruyun to keep Xiao Nian.
After all, he is just a child, and the Wen family can still support him.
Liu Ruyun got what she wanted from then on. She didn't know Xiaonian's origins, nor did she know the child's name.
Because she was abandoned on the street, and when she was picked up, she had nothing on her except a pair of old clothes.
The old clothes looked very ordinary and there was nothing special about them.
Liu Ruyun simply let Xiao Nian take her surname and named her "Nian", hoping that the child would know that she was thinking of her all the time in this world.
With Xiao Nian's company, Liu Ruyun had hope in her life. She no longer worried about her husband and son, but devoted herself to Xiao Nian.
Xiao Nian is also very well-behaved. She seems to be born knowing her mother's predicament, so she never makes any requests that would make Liu Ruyun embarrassed.
Sometimes the Wen family father and son would take advantage of Liu Ruyun's absence to say something unpleasant to her. But Xiao Nian didn't care at all, she just wanted to live a good life with Liu Ruyun.
But fate never favors Liu Ruyun.
When Xiao Nian was seven years old, she suddenly developed a strange illness. A monk happened to be a guest at the Wen family and saw Xiao Nian who was sick and uncomfortable, and offered to help her with treatment.
Unexpectedly, before she recovered from her illness, Wen Ke found Liu Ruyun and asked her to hand over the child.
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