Unexpectedly, Xuan Yuanzhan was so thoughtful and considerate. Su Xuening smiled and said, "Thank you."
Xuanyuan Zhan was displeased: "Why are you being so polite with me?"
Madam Bai chimed in, "Yes, you don't need to be polite with him. It's quite thoughtful of the boy for once. I was just regretting not bringing these things with me and was thinking of having Granny Shang go back to get them."
She arrived in a hurry last night; besides preparing gifts, all she remembered to do was ask Granny Shang to bring the ingredients for stewing soup.
Ning'er is physically weak, so she must drink this soup every day.
Xuanyuan Zhan then looked at Bai Shi and said, "I also had them prepare a few changes of clothes for you."
I don't know how long this person is going to stay here. We can't just ignore her image, she is, after all, a concubine.
"Ah, I've noticed that you're quite different now that you've married a wife. She's so much more considerate." It was rare for Madam Bai to find Xuan Yuanzhan pleasing to the eye. "It's all thanks to Ning'er's excellent upbringing."
"If you don't know how to praise me, you don't have to." Why did Xuan Yuanzhan dislike hearing her praise him so much?
Su Xuening was amused by the two of them.
They must have been enemies in their past lives, because they became mother and son in this life, constantly at odds and refusing to give in to each other!
Su Xuening felt a bit full and wanted to get out of bed for a walk, but Bai Shi and Xuan Yuanzhan wouldn't let her.
Pei Luo came in and said, "The girl only has some residual toxins in her body, but there's nothing else wrong. As for the silver needles in her meridians, they won't hurt as long as she doesn't bump into anything, so going out for a walk is fine."
After Pei Luo spoke, Xuan Yuanzhan and Bai Shi were relieved.
Xuanyuan Zhan accompanied Su Xuening for a walk in the bamboo forest.
Bai stayed in the courtyard to play chess with Pei Luo.
"It's been many years since we last met. I never expected to run into you here again." Pei Luo held a black piece, and although he didn't look up, his words were directed at Bai Shi.
Madam Bai was also playing chess seriously: "It is indeed fate. I never expected that Ning'er would be taken as your apprentice. She is truly a blessed girl."
She had been quite curious about which sect Ning'er had joined, and why she was so mysterious about it.
Unexpectedly, her master was the former chief disciple of Hundred Flowers Valley, and now the ancestor of Hundred Flowers Valley.
Thinking back to what happened back then, Madam Bai said with great gratitude, "I am very grateful to Doctor Luo for his help back then."
"How is your maternal grandfather?" Pei Luo asked about his old friend.
Upon hearing this, Bai's hand holding the chess piece stiffened, and her mood seemed to suddenly become somber: "He... passed away not long after leaving Zhongzhou."
"How could this be?" Pei Luo was stunned, and finally raised her head.
When he treated Heming back then, he clearly cured him before leaving.
Bai Shi also looked up at Pei Luo and said with a bitter smile, "Perhaps it was because the Xuanmen was gone that he lost the will to live and eventually died in depression."
Pei Luo remained silent. That was indeed possible. There was no greater sorrow than a broken heart. The significance of the Xuanmen to that person was far more than just a sect.
With the Xuanmen gone, even if no one remembers Heming anymore and no one hunts him down, he himself has lost the will to live.
Seeing Pei Luo grieving for her maternal grandfather, Bai was overwhelmed with emotion. Moved, she said gratefully again, "You have been kind to our Xuanmen. My grandfather told me on his deathbed that if I ever saw you again, I must thank you again."
When the Xuanmen sect was destroyed and her maternal grandfather was hunted down, if it weren't for Doctor Luo's help, she and her grandfather would probably have died in Zhongzhou.
As Bai spoke, she stood up and solemnly bowed to Pei Luofu.
Seeing this, Pei Luo quickly reached out to help her up, and sighed softly, "It's all in the past. He's no longer here, so why bring it up?"
He helped Heming back then not for any other reason than out of a past mutual respect.
It's a pity that I thought we might meet again in this life, but I never expected that our parting decades ago would be our eternal separation.
Pei Luo pulled Bai Shi down to sit and asked, "Did that kid learn his martial arts from the Xuanmen sect?"
Although he had fought against that kid Xuanyuan Zhan, he really couldn't figure out the kid's martial arts style. It looked somewhat familiar, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't figure out which school of kung fu it was.
I hadn't seen his mother before, so I hadn't thought about the Xuanmen sect. Now that I think about it, it's probably true that he inherited the Xuanmen sect.
Knowing that Pei Luo must have figured something out, Madam Bai decided not to hide it anymore: "Zhan'er's martial arts were taught by her martial uncle, but..."
Bai gave a bitter smile: "As you know, the Xuanmen has been destroyed. My uncle was worried that the martial arts of the Xuanmen would bring trouble to Zhan'er, so he only taught him half of it. Moreover, in order to hide his identity, my uncle has never shown his true face in front of Zhan'er."
Because of the ultimate fate of the Xuanmen sect, Bai Shi originally did not intend to let Xuan Yuanzhan learn martial arts, fearing it would bring unnecessary trouble. However, seeing him being bullied by Xuan Yuanyu and the others, she couldn't help but feel indignant.
Thinking back to how her maternal grandfather's Xuanmen sect once held immense power in Zhongzhou, and now his descendants were being bullied by a mere child, she finally couldn't bear it any longer and went to find her martial uncle.
The martial uncle really liked Zhan'er, but in order to conceal his identity, he never showed his true face to Zhan'er when teaching her martial arts.
Pei Luo looked surprised: "You mean Lu Shao? He's also in Dong Chu?"
He had fought Lu Shao a few times before, so he should have been able to recognize Lu Shao's martial arts style. But he couldn't recognize it at all when he fought that kid before!
"Hmm." Madam Bai nodded slightly, then asked curiously, "And you, how did you suddenly come to Dongchu and take Ning'er as your apprentice?"
Pei Luo smiled wryly: "As I get older, I don't want to stay in one place all the time. With the Central Plains peaceful and Hundred Flowers Valley quiet, I came out to travel. I once heard that someone had seen your maternal grandfather in Eastern Chu, so I went to Eastern Chu. However, I searched all over Eastern Chu but couldn't find your maternal grandfather. Instead, I unexpectedly met this girl. Seeing that she was so intelligent and interested in medicine, I had the idea of taking her as my apprentice. As you know, I have never been married or had any children in my life, so I raised this girl as my daughter."
At the same time, he was grooming her to be the successor of Hundred Flowers Valley. After his death, if the girl was willing, Hundred Flowers Valley would be passed on to her.
Pei Luo recalled the time when he met the girl. That year, he searched all over Eastern Chu and finally stayed in the capital for a month. He thought that if he could not find Heming's whereabouts, he would travel elsewhere. On that last night, he met the girl in an alley on South Street.
At first, he thought the noise in the alley was a cat, but when he went over, he found a little girl pulled out of the broken jar.
The little girl was dressed in an exquisite little dress, with two small buns in her hair and a longevity lock around her neck. She was so beautiful and delicate that she looked like a little fairy child beside a Bodhisattva.
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