Chapter 110: Search 9: Brother is not allowed to kill sister-in-law
That night, Bai Jinan set up a magic circle in the Rong Cave, preparing to take blood from Su He.
Zhang Xiuhua was worried. She pulled Su He aside and whispered, "You must remember that your life is the most important thing. If you can't bear it, don't try to hold on."
Su He comforted her, "Don't worry, Auntie. I know what's going on."
Zhang Xiuhua took a deep breath and said, "Anyway, I'll keep a close eye on that old man Bai. If he dares to do anything untoward, I won't let him go."
Although she didn't have any special skills, at least she had a pair of hands and feet, so she could always deal with it.
Su He smiled and said, "As long as my aunt is here, I'm not afraid."
Zhang Xiuhua nodded: "Yes, we are not afraid."
After Su He comforted Zhang Xiuhua, he turned around and went to find Bai Jinan.
This melt cave is huge. In addition to the hall in the middle, there are several connected single melt caves on the side. Bai Jinan's magic circle is set up in the melt cave on the easternmost side.
When Su He walked in, Bai Jinan was putting his grandson down from his back and trying to place him on the cushion in the cave.
Bai Chen was unconscious, like a dead person, and couldn't sit still on the mat at all.
Su He stepped forward and moved two wooden boxes to the side of the futon, and only then was he able to stabilize him.
She looked around the cave, quite puzzled: "Senior, why didn't you just set up the formation in the spacious hall? Why did you move to this simple cave?"
Bai Jinan, while tidying up her grandson's clothes, replied, "Young lady, you don't know that this magic circle requires concentrated energy. If it's too wide, it will be detrimental to casting the spell."
He pointed to the other futon next to him and said, "Please return to your seat, young lady."
Su He nodded, turned around and sat on the cushion next to Bai Chen.
Bai Jinan then explained, "There may be some physical pain during the spell, so please don't panic."
Su He asked: "Why is there physical pain?"
Bai Jinan smiled and said, "I will cut your wrists then."
Su He suddenly realized: "So the blood is taken from the wrist."
Bai Jinan nodded: "Don't worry, young lady, compared to the pain of bone shaping, these are nothing."
Su He said no more. He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and said, "Let's start."
But in just a moment, she felt a huge force coming towards her. The force was like a strong gale or a huge wave, spinning and whistling around her rapidly. Then her body lost weight, she felt dizzy, and even her consciousness became blurred and hazy.
In a trance, she raised her arm uncontrollably, and something scratched her wrist, sending a piercing pain through her skin.
Then it seemed as if a suction cup had sucked on her wrist, and blood gurgled out from her wrist. She could even hear the sound of blood splashing when it fell into the suction cup.
She felt like she was being sucked dry, drying up, and withering...
She even felt like she was going to die soon.
Just when she was at a loss and helpless, a loud noise suddenly came from her ears. She was pushed away by the previous force and her body fell to the ground.
Bai Jinan and Bai Chen also fell to the ground at the same time.
The air was silent for a moment.
Only the torches on the wall were flickering silently, and only Zhang Xiuhua outside the cave was peeking silently.
After a while, Bai Jinan got up from the ground, looked at his palms, seemed a little unbelievable, and then went to check on his grandson's body.
Seeing that Bai Chen was safe and sound, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhang Xiuhua also hurried into the cave and helped Su He up from the ground. "Miss, are you okay?"
Su He was still a little dazed, and the wound on his wrist was still bleeding, but he replied, "I'm fine."
While bandaging her wound with a towel, Zhang Xiuhua said angrily, "You cut such a big wound, and you still say it's okay."
Then he looked at Bai Jinan and said, "My young lady has finished donating blood. May I take her to rest, Master Bai?"
Bai Jinan's expression turned pale. "I'm afraid I'll disappoint you. This blood supply has failed."
Zhang Xiuhua got angry when she heard this. The young lady was injured so badly and they still said that the blood supply failed?
She was about to argue, but Su He stopped her by grabbing her sleeve.
Su He asked: "Why did it fail?"
Bai Jinan replied, "To be honest, my grandson's body doesn't seem to accept the blood from the girl. Logically, this shouldn't happen, and I can't figure it out for the moment."
She asked again: "What should we do now?"
Bai Jinan thought for a moment and said, "Please rest for a few days, and we will try again in a few days."
Su He nodded "OK" and then turned around and went back to the other Kongrong Cave where he lived with Zhang Xiuhua.
Zhang Xiuhua felt somewhat relieved. "If the blood supply continues to fail, then the young lady won't have to donate blood to her grandson?"
Su He smiled bitterly: "If I don't supply blood, how can I get the other half of the antidote?"
Zhang Xiuhua sighed helplessly: "Now there is a son-in-law outside the cave who wants to take the young lady's life, and there is an old man Bai in the cave who is holding the young lady's lifeline. What do you think of this day..."
Su He comforted her: "Don't worry, aunt. The road is made by people. Think about the time when we were in the West Hill Villa, we were in such a difficult situation, but we also walked step by step to get to where we are today."
Zhang Xiuhua wiped the moist corners of her eyes and said, "Miss, you are right." Then she turned around to prepare the meal.
At this time, Xie Mansion.
Xie Wuhen lay unconscious on the bed for two days, and only woke up slowly in the early morning of the third day.
The moment he woke up, his mind was blank and his consciousness was a little hazy, as if he woke up from bed every morning, with his wife, Chunhuayuan and home by his side.
But as consciousness gradually cleared, the experiences of the past few days gradually emerged, and pain surged into my chest like a tide.
He murmured, "Someone come here."
The person who appeared in front of her was Xu Nanzhi, "Zi Yu finally woke up." She breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly ordered the servants to bring medicine and food.
Xie Wuhen was a little confused: "Why is my mother here?"
Xu Nanzhi looked helpless: "How can I feel at ease letting these servants take care of you? As long as I am still breathing, I will not leave you alone."
"I'm fine. I don't need anyone to take care of me." He said as he was about to turn over and get out of bed.
Xu Nanzhi immediately stepped forward to stop him, and took a pillow and placed it on the head of the bed for him to lean on: "The doctor said that you have qi stagnation attacking your heart, causing disorder in your internal organs. You need to recuperate for a few days before you can recover. You can't move around right now." As she said this, she brought him the boiled medicine.
Xie Wuhen drank the medicine in one gulp, and then had a simple meal.
Xu Nanzhi felt a little relieved: "Don't worry about what's going on outside these few days. Just lie down in the house and relax."
He flatly refused: "I can't lie down. There are too many things going on outside."
Xu Nanzhi stared at her: "Didn't you take leave? What else is there that you must do?"
He avoided Xu Nanzhi's sight and called out "Mr. Wu" outside the house.
No one outside answered him.
Xu Nanzhi glanced at him and said, "Didn't you send Wu Sheng out to look for someone? I'm afraid he's not in the house right now."
"If he's not at home, I'll go find him."
"What do you want with him?"
"Ask him about his search for people these days."
"You issued a killing order. Even if we find him, he'll just be a dead body. What else is there to ask?"
Xie Wuhen secretly clenched his fists and remained silent.
Xu Nanzhi felt sorry for him and said earnestly, "My son, love is the hardest thing to find. You must be able to let it go. Otherwise, you will only be hurting yourself."
Xie Wuhen turned to the inside of the bed and ignored her.
Xu Nanzhi continued, "Although I don't know what happened between you and Shuli, she doesn't deserve death anyway. How about you withdraw the execution order?"
Then he said, "I know you're hating her out of love, but you don't really want to hurt her, right?"
He still left her with his back, saying nothing.
Xu Nanzhi then said to herself, "In love, there is no fairness at all. It's not that just because you like someone, they have to like you back. It's not that just because you give, they have to give back. The comings and goings between men and women are all determined by fate and cannot be forced."
Xie Wuhen suddenly said in a cold voice: "So, between you and your father, you are also forcing it, right?"
He still had his back to her when he asked the question.
Xu Nanzhi paused, speechless for a moment.
Although he was asking about her and his father, he was actually referring to her and Xie Jin, right?
That scandal has been a knot in her heart for many years, and it has also been a knot in her son's heart for many years.
But even so, the mother and son never had a heart-to-heart talk about this matter.
Today was the first time he questioned her like this.
If she was going to be hated by him in the end, why not tell him everything?
Xu Nanzhi spoke slowly, "You're right. The relationship between your father and me was indeed forced in the beginning." Recalling the past, her breath grew heavier, and her tone was faintly desolate. "Actually, back then, before I got engaged to your father, I had already met your uncle, Xie Jin. We met on a spring outing, and later met a few times at the Buddhist temple. At the time, I only knew he was the son of the Xie family and didn't ask much about him. Later, when I learned that my family had betrothed me to the son of the Xie family, I was overjoyed, thinking he would be the one I would marry."
Xie Wuhen's tone grew colder: "So, father has been a joke from the beginning!"
Xu Nanzhi sighed, "Son, you underestimate your father. In fact, a month after we got married, I confessed to your father about my relationship with Xie Jin. He gave me two choices: one was to divorce me and let me marry Xie Jin; the other was to pretend nothing had happened and continue living with me. In the end, I chose the second path."
Xie Wuhen gritted his teeth and said, "You could have chosen the first path."
"I chose the second path because your father loves me, so naturally I love him back. Besides, the rice has been cooked and the wood has been laid, so why should I go back?"
Xie Wuhen's tone became more and more cruel: "If you don't turn back, how can you thank Erlang?"
Xu Nanzhi pursed her lips upon hearing this, then spoke solemnly, as if she had made up her mind. "Your father and I have been married for many years, and we have always treated each other with respect. I never thought of leaving him, nor did I ever do anything to let him down. Even after he died on the battlefield, I never considered marrying another." She paused, her voice choking with sobs. "That time with Xie Jin... it was because I had a few drinks, and Xie Jin... he happened to be wearing the same armor your father often wore. I thought it was your father who had returned, and in a moment of confusion... I just..."
She didn't say anything else, but just lowered her head and wiped away her tears.
Xie Wuhen also fell silent and did not say anything for a long time.
Xu Nanzhi calmed down and finally calmed down. "I've said so much to you because I want to tell you that love cannot be forced. Even if it's like what happened between me and your father—even if I didn't like him at first, but he loved me and gave me freedom and ease, I would love him back. The same goes for you and Shuli. If she has feelings for you, she will come back. If she doesn't, you have to let her go. This is not letting her go, this is letting yourself go."
He moved his arm but did not turn around.
After a while, he replied, "I understand, mother."
His tone softened a lot, and he sighed softly, as if he had listened to her words and let go of the past.
"I'm glad you know." Xu Nanzhi's tone was tired: "You lie down for a while, I'll go to the kitchen to see how the dinner is prepared." After that, she walked out of the house.
As soon as Xu Nanzhi left the house, Chunlan, A Si and Erlang hurried in and knelt down in front of him.
Chunlan and Ah Si begged, "Sir, please spare the young lady. Please, Sir."
Erlang yelled, "I want my sister-in-law. Brother, don't kill her..."
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