Parents, to have survived and come here now, you must have used up all your strength...
He looked at his parents who were looking at him and flashed a carefree, bright smile: "Okay, Mom and Dad, you haven't seen Uncle Fan and Aunt Fan for a long time. Chat first, I'll go make some food. You can try my homemade food for dinner."
Bai Manshan smiled with relief. Her son had grown up and knew how to keep things to himself with good intentions, and he also knew when not to pry too much.
Li Huyu breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness, her son hadn't noticed that she wanted to avoid the children.
The men sat chatting in the main room, while Li Huyu pulled Shui Qing and Qin Yilin along, and Hu's mother carried hot water into the tea room.
In the tea room, Li Huyu held a steaming teacup, and tears streamed down the face of this usually cheerful man. He choked out, "Thanks to my fellow disciples, if it weren't for them, the Bai family would be gone, and Manshan and I wouldn't be alive!"
But several of them will never see it again.
When the flood first started, all the brothers and sisters moved to the martial arts school that my father ran. At that time, Man Shan had not yet returned, and there were more and more refugees committing evil deeds outside, and their evil deeds were becoming more and more outrageous!
The Bai family, being large and powerful, had long been targeted. If it weren't for the brothers in the martial arts school risking their lives to protect them, the Bai family would have suffered the same fate as other wealthy families, being destroyed and wiped out.
All the men were killed, and the women were abducted and their whereabouts are unknown.
She had just overheard Fan Jin talking about her brother-in-law, Magistrate Wu, and she was so angry she was trembling all over! If he succeeds, the people of Shanshui Village will suffer the same fate as those wealthy families in Nandu!
Shui Qing, Qin Yilin, and Hu's mother silently wept, for in the face of life and death, all words of comfort seemed hollow.
Li Huyu wiped away her tears, forced a smile, and said first, "Fortunately, it's all over now. Governor Ling led people to wipe out the bandits. From what Man Shan said, we also owe a debt to Shui Qing and your family."
Otherwise, why would Governor Ling take charge of Nandu, which had been neglected for so long, after he went to Guangning Prefecture?
She also made a special trip to the Bai family to deter those petty scoundrels; otherwise, she and Man Shan wouldn't have been able to arrive so quickly.
Shui Qing dared not take credit and truthfully said, "It wasn't us, it was that child Ling Ran. Governor Ling probably inquired about it and knew about the relationship between Zi Qian and our family, as well as the relationship between Ling Ran and Zi Qian, so he helped out."
Li Huyu hummed in agreement and nodded. "Whether it's you or Ling Ran, you've all helped us. What about the child? I want to thank him in person."
I had stored a lot of gold and silver jewelry with Shuiqing back then, so I can pick out some to give to him.
Shui Qing, seeing that everyone in the teahouse was a friend and knew the details, and that Li Huyu would find out sooner or later anyway, briefly recounted Ling Ran's situation.
Li Huyu had previously thought Ling Ran was just a man of few words, but she never expected that this pampered young master would live a life worse than that of a farmer's son!
Knowing Li Huyu's personality, Shui Qing changed the subject: "You'll see him eventually, then you can thank him properly in person."
“...Okay,” Li Huyu replied.
The four chatted for a while longer, mostly with Shui Qing and the other two asking questions and Li Huyu answering.
When the hardships of Nandu were mentioned, a heavy silence fell over the room.
Then a deep sigh was heard.
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