"Alright, alright, it won't hurt to talk to my senior sister. Keeping so many things to myself will drive this old woman crazy. Senior sisters, just listen to this old woman rambling about her family matters. Don't take it to heart, just treat it as gossip." The old woman, Han Feng, couldn't resist the concern of her senior sister, Qi Xue, and couldn't help but tell her about the trouble she was facing.
The matter is not complicated.
The old woman's words were clear enough.
The truth is, the old woman was a daughter-in-law of the Song family. Although she now had grandchildren, she had suffered many misfortunes in her youth. Not only did she become a widow when her son was still young, but now she had also lost her son and daughter-in-law, leaving behind her to care for her two children.
The Song family owns a business, but because they didn't have a suitable person to manage it before, they had been entrusting it to their cousins for help.
Since the passing of their two poor children, the family's business has naturally relied more on their cousins for management.
Now, many years have passed, and the cousins have become too powerful to control.
Moreover, these cousins are no longer just simple cousins.
Over the years, they have enriched themselves by siphoning off the wealth of the Song family. They have now become a prominent family in the area, and their power has long surpassed that of the local Song family head.
Now, this cousin has completely seized control of the Song family's fate. In the past, it was a covert struggle, and she could still suppress it as an old woman.
Now, they are blatantly taking advantage of their family's status as a prominent clan to forcibly seize it.
The three of them, grandmother, grandfather, and granddaughter, were pitiful. The old was old and the young was young. Most of their family's business, from the manager to the employees, had fallen into the hands of others. They were truly alone and helpless.
Now, someone has suggested that in order to glorify the Song family's business, a qualified leader must be chosen to take charge of the business, and the candidates even include that cousin's family.
This is clearly a blatant attempt to seize the Song family's assets. Otherwise, why would someone from another family be allowed to run for the position of head of the Song family? However, they are using the pretext of acting in the Song family's best interests, which is already a cover-up for their fear of her status as the old lady.
Otherwise, it would have been outright robbery.
Therefore, everything can only be done according to this so-called fair competition.
Her unfortunate granddaughter needs to defeat one of her cousins in order to protect the Song family's assets from being forcibly taken away by someone through such a high-sounding but actually despicable and shameless means.
However, in terms of both strength and divine weapons, her granddaughter has always been a few points behind her cousin.
Since the other party had proposed this competition, they must be confident of victory. Therefore, she could only try to find a way to get some help so that her granddaughter could defeat the other party's scheme.
Even though she still understood perfectly well that if she defeated someone's scheme once, the other party would definitely be unwilling to give up and would definitely try to scheme a second and a third time.
Their path to reclaiming their family's assets remains long and arduous, fraught with difficulties.
After all, nine out of ten people in the family belong to other people.
If one wants to reclaim their family business, they can only proceed gradually, slowly replacing other people's people with their own.
This process will be very difficult. Other families certainly won't just sit idly by and wait to die. So, the old lady knew in her heart that this couldn't be rushed and might take ten or twenty years to complete.
However, no matter how difficult it is, we cannot sit idly by and let outsiders take over our family's property.
Therefore, having no other choice and with nowhere else to turn for help, he could only think of his own sect.
Song Yuxi, the granddaughter of the old woman who had returned to the sect after leading the porters out, heard her grandmother recount her heartbreaking past. Thinking of her own pitiful life, with both parents gone and now relatives trying to seize the family property and bully the frail grandmother and granddaughter, she couldn't help but feel sorrowful and shed many tears along with her grandmother.
"Who is this person! How could he be so wicked! Bullying people like this. Just like a bandit, all he does is bully people. He must not be let off!" The junior sister was so righteous. Hearing the old woman's words, she couldn't help but think of her own sect's experience. Wasn't it the same as theirs?
If your own sect is weak and gets bullied by bandits like this, almost to the point of being humiliated, how can you not empathize and feel that the villains are despicable?
How could one not feel an urge to chop these despicable people to pieces with a sword?
Hearing her junior sister's wild words, senior sister Qi Xue did not stop her.
In fact, anyone who understands human relationships should have realized that this was already the senior sister's attitude.
Moreover, the eldest senior sister then asked very directly, "Senior, what is it that our sect would like to do for you?"
Han Feng smiled wryly and said, "Before I came here, I thought that my sect was still the same as before, with no changes, and still held considerable influence in the martial world. So, I thought I could ask my sect to help my grandson repair his weapon. I believe my sect should have a way to restore my family's divine weapon to its former glory. That way, my grandson might be able to thwart someone's conspiracy with his own abilities. I wonder, senior sisters, does our sect still have any masters who can forge weapons?"
"Yes, it's Ye Liang!" The junior sister blurted out Ye Liang's name.
"Ye Liang? Could he be the young man I met on my way down the mountain?" The old woman was suddenly surprised.
Since her junior sister had already blurted out Ye Liang's name, Senior Sister Qi Xue not only didn't scold her for speaking so quickly, but also assured the old woman again, "Ye Liang is our junior brother. He is a rare master blacksmith. I think that since your request is so simple, just to repair a divine weapon, then you can rest assured. The sect can help you with this."
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