Chapter 68 Valuable

In the lady’s small building.

"You said that Master Zhang gave Zheng Fa a fairy token?" the lady asked the Seventh Young Master.

The Seventh Young Master saw that his sister and his mother both had looks of astonishment on their faces.

"Well, Zheng Fa told me... He also said that he has no plans to get married now."

The Seventh Young Master looked at his mother cautiously and repeated Zheng Fa's words, somewhat afraid that his mother would get angry because of Zheng Fa's refusal.

What he didn't expect was that the look on his mother's face was not anger, but a hint of disappointment.

She was silent for a long while before she spoke: "I thought I was in time, but I didn't expect it was too late."

Hearing this, the Seventh Young Master became even more confused: "What do you mean it's late?"

The lady did not answer him, but turned her eyes to his sister.

The Seventh Young Master followed her gaze and saw that the emotions on his sister's face were three times more complicated than those on his mother's.

Seeing that both of them were looking at her, the eldest lady suppressed the complicated emotions in her heart, thought for a moment and said, "It should be the time when he went to Senior Sister Zhang's courtyard two days ago."

Madam nodded, the sigh in her tone still not dissipating: "Although I have tried my best to overestimate Zheng Fa, I didn't expect that Master Zhang would think so highly of him."

After saying that, she suddenly stood up and walked downstairs.

"Mom? Where are you going?"

The Seventh Young Master asked.

"I'm bored, let's go out for a walk."

"…Mom thinks I'm three years old?"

"When they grow up, they are harder to deceive." There was a hint of sigh in the lady's tone.

The Seventh Young Master curled his lips, this lie was too perfunctory.

Ever since he could remember, his mother had been living in seclusion in a small building.

Even when his sister came back, his mother just waited on the first floor and did not leave the building.

Now you suddenly want to walk out of this building?

"Are you looking for Zheng Fa?"

The Seventh Young Master thought about it and realized that he only came here to talk about Zheng Fa.

"No?"

"Why?"

Madam looked back at him with a surprised look, as if she thought his question was stupid: "Master Lian Zhang gave him the Immortal Rank Order, shouldn't I go and congratulate him? After all, he grew up in my Zhao family, and if he goes to the Immortal Sect in the future, he will also be considered a connection of my Zhao family. As the head of the Zhao family, I am just going to watch?"

The Seventh Young Master looked at his mother suspiciously, his heart full of disbelief.

Zheng Fa is very powerful because he got the Immortal Item Order from Senior Sister Zhang.

But his mother had not left the house for twenty years, and she made an exception just for this matter? "Mom... do you want to apologize to Zheng Fa?" He suddenly thought of something and asked.

The lady paused, her face showing disdain and embarrassment, and she looked at him and said, "I always say that you are always smart at the wrong time."

"Mother, why is it so?"

"Mom is scared. What if he becomes powerful in the Immortal Sect and causes trouble for me?" The lady's expression seemed as if she was really scared.

"You know Zheng Fa is not that kind of person."

"Can you guarantee that? You trust his mother but not him."

The Seventh Young Master grabbed his wife's sleeve and stopped her, saying, "Mother, you did all those things for me, so I should go and make amends!"

He knew only too well what a proud person his mother was.

Ever since his father became addicted to alcohol and sex and took in many beautiful women, his mother stayed in the small building and didn't go to the front yard.

Later, she gave birth to him and his sister, completing the mission of continuing the Zhao family's lineage, and she even disappeared without seeing her father.

She was so proud that she disdained to compete for favor with others. She did what she felt she should do and just hoped that no one would see it.

"What have you done wrong? You are a fool but you have good fortune. I am very happy that the person I value has such a talent." Madam shook her head and said, seeing that he still did not let go, she said with a fierce face, "It was mother who did something wrong and offended people. What's wrong with that? Can't I admit my mistake?"

The Seventh Young Master said nothing, but just held his mother's sleeve tightly.

The lady's tone softened a little: "If you go to apologize on my behalf, you will consume the friendship between you two. The more talented he is, the more valuable this friendship is. It's not worth it."

"Mom, you're wasting my reputation, and my reputation is worthless."

"Let go."

The Seventh Young Master did not let go.

Of course he knew that his mother cared most about her reputation.

Madam pulled the corner of her sleeve away from his hand and chuckled as she looked at the Seventh Young Master.

"No matter how much I care about my face, is my face more valuable than the Immortal Token in Master Zhang's hand?" Looking at her two children, she shook her head self-deprecatingly: "If my face was so valuable, I wouldn't have let my son wait for ten years for an Immortal Token."

Watching her leave the small building, the Seventh Young Master turned around and looked at his sister.

"Sister, why didn't you stop her?" Even though he had a good relationship with Zheng Fa, the Seventh Young Master couldn't bear to see his mother bow her head like this.

"Don't stop me, you have to remember this."

"Remember what?"

"What use is the Immortal Product Order to my mother?"

The Seventh Young Master was stunned.

"So what if Senior Sister Zhang favors me? Can Zheng Fa still help my mother become an immortal?"

“…”

"If she offends Zheng Fa again, will Zheng Fa kill her for your sake?"

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“…”

"She went to apologize, not because her face was worthless, but because her face was worthless compared to your future. She didn't want what she did to affect your relationship with Zheng Fa, even if it was just a little bit." The eldest lady looked at her brother and said, "When you go to the Immortal Sect and feel that it is hard, practicing is tiring, and there is no hope for the future, think about today."

The Seventh Young Master looked at his sister and suddenly realized that she had really changed a lot after being in Qingmu Sect for ten years.

…

Downstairs, Butler Wu looked at his wife walking out of the small building, his face showing an expression as if the sky had fallen.

"lady?"

He sounded as if he didn't know the person in front of him.

"Do you know where Zheng Fa's yard is?"

"Zheng Fa's family?" Butler Wu thought for a moment and said, "I know."

"lead the way."

"I will have someone prepare the sedan chair right away."

"No need, just walk over there and go around the Zhao Mansion first."

"ah?"

…

"Zheng Fa! Something big happened!"

Outside the Zheng family courtyard, Gao Yuan’s shouts were heard.

"What's up?"

Seeing how serious he was, Zheng Fa also walked out of the yard and asked him.

"You don't know, today the Madam actually walked out of her little building!"

"That's all?" Zheng Fa felt that this person was making a big deal out of nothing.

"You don't understand. Madam hasn't come downstairs for twenty years... Think about it, if nothing serious is going to happen, why would she come out?"

Zheng Fa thought it made some sense.

"What happened?"

"How would I know? Maybe some important person is coming to the Zhao Mansion, maybe he wants to cause trouble for the master's concubines." Gao Yuan curled his lips and said, "I just know that all the servants in the mansion are working, for fear of being caught by the lady for being lazy. My father is trembling with fear now, and he even kicked me out and asked me to go to the seventh young master's study to pretend."

"Then why are you here?"

"Seventh Young Master is not in the yard." Gao Yuan explained, "But I saw Madam on the road. She is so young."

"Um……"

"We younger servants have never seen her. When I saw her, I couldn't believe it. I said she looked like the Seventh Young Master's sister."

"Um……"

"I think the madam is not going to the front yard. She should be going to meet some important person...who do you think it is?" Gao Yuan speculated with a gossipy look on his face.

"I."

"?"

"Yes, she's behind you."

(End of this chapter)