Huang Zhenhua felt Su Xingran tremble. Then Su Xingran pulled away from his embrace and looked up at him in disbelief. She looked pitiful and bewildered as she cried.
Huang Zhenhua patted Su Xingran's head and said, "Your master's wife has the same experience as you. It's just that your master doesn't know what happened to her or why she was able to come back. Your master only knows that she came back, married him, had children, and then left again when the time came."
“When your master’s wife left, your master didn’t want to live anymore either. It was your master’s wife who told me that I must live well, because she didn’t want to reunite with me so soon. Qingxiao was afraid that I would disobey, so she arranged for you to come to my side. We always wanted a daughter, but when that hope was gone, we wanted a granddaughter, but we never got our wish until Qingxiao passed away.”
Huang Zhenhua spoke of these things with a smile, and he continued, “Qingxiao would imagine her granddaughter’s personality and appearance. You, on the other hand, grew up entirely according to Qingxiao’s imagination. You and Moli went to the battlefield, and I had a dream the night before the war started.”
“In my dream, I saw you when you were seventeen, being pushed off a cliff, your blood flowing everywhere. In my dream, I saw Mo Li on the battlefield, shot in the heart from behind by an enemy soldier and dying. So I think that your insistence on going to the battlefield that time might have been because you dreamed of Mo Li's fate, just like me.”
Su Xingran looked at her master with reddened eyes. So her master had known all along. Her master had never asked a single question, but had silently watched her grow up. Her master's wife had also never hidden anything from her master; she had always found her own way to let him know everything.
Su Xingran said with a sob in her voice, "Master, I owe you and my wife a debt I could never repay in all my lifetimes. Without my wife, I would never have had the chance to start over, and without you, I would not be who I am today. Master, my wife appeared in my dreams, but I only saw her back."
“I saw the newspapers that Mo Li had collected in the room. I saw a picture of my master’s wife. I asked Mo Li for other pictures in the house to look at. I couldn’t be sure if it was my master’s wife. That’s why I asked you for a picture of my master’s wife. I wanted to confirm if the person in my dream was my master’s wife.”
Huang Zhenhua said with slightly red eyes, "Your master's wife has her own arrangements. Don't say you owe me or that you owe your master's wife. Xingran, you don't owe us anything. You came to Master's side and gave him the courage to face the days without your master's wife and to try to live on."
"In the years immediately after your master's wife left, your master lived like a walking corpse. Only after taking you as his disciple did he start living like a human being again. The night your master wanted to take you as his disciple, he saw your master's wife in his dream. She agreed to take you as her disciple and asked me to fulfill her duties as a master's wife. She told me to treat you well, teach you well, and let you grow up safely."
Huang Zhenhua sighed deeply and said, "Xingran, it's enough for us to know about this. If others find out about these illogical things, it will bring you immense trouble. Your master is getting older every year, and we don't know when he will join your master's wife. Your master only hopes that you will live a peaceful life, and that's what your master's wife also wants."
Su Xingran nodded and said, "Yes, Master, I know. Master, you must take good care of yourself so that Xingran can properly fulfill her filial duties. My master's wife wouldn't want you to go to her so soon."
The master and apprentice were talking and trying to compose themselves, completely unaware that someone was standing by the wall at the corner. Gu Moli stood there, looking like he had lost his soul, his eyes were frighteningly red, and his hands were clenched into fists.
While chatting with his parents and maternal grandparents in the living room, Gu Moli thought about the master and apprentice who had been gone for so long. He worried that something might have happened to them, so he told his parents that he was going to use the restroom.
When Gu Moli arrived, he heard Su Xingran crying. Anxious, he quickly walked towards the sound. Unexpectedly, he overheard Huang Zhenhua saying something that initially left him completely confused.
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