Chapter 524: The Tang Family
The girl approaching was pretty, and her dark blue robe made her skin look even whiter.
But what caught Ye Fei's attention was not her appearance, but the dark pattern embroidered on her robe—a lotus with many petals, neither sprawling nor branching, also known as the water lily.
In the instant they brushed past each other, the two girls exchanged a glance, their faces reflected in each other's pupils.
After a brief moment of eye contact, the two looked away and then walked off in their respective directions.
Ye Fei picked up a pastry and stuffed it into her mouth, munching on it while recalling the lotus pattern she had just seen.
Lotus pattern... Hmm, why does this pattern look a little familiar?
Ye Fei didn't think too much about it and continued to wander around the small town.
...
Tang Qian walked for a while, then belatedly looked back.
The girl I just met has already disappeared.
"That's strange, why does that girl look so familiar?" Tang Qian stopped in her tracks, puzzled. "Have I seen her somewhere before?"
Tang Qian returned to the Tang family in Xingluo Kingdom from Wushuang Kingdom with doubts.
Inside the Tang family mansion, there was a garden pond filled with lotus flowers. A woman in white sat gracefully in the pavilion, with a standing easel in front of her, on which was a lifelike ink lotus painting.
Tang Qian slowly walked up behind the woman in white. The woman in white heard the footsteps and turned around.
"Third cousin," Tang Qian greeted her with a smile.
"So it's Qianqian. Why are you back? Don't you need to cultivate at the academy?" Tang Mei, the third young lady of the Tang family, looked at Tang Qian with gentle eyes.
“Cultivation is nothing compared to my little nephew!” Tang Qian said with a grin, her gaze shifting to Tang Mei’s slightly protruding belly.
Tang Mei gently stroked her lower abdomen and smiled, "It could also be my little niece."
Tang Qian sat on the stone bench next to Tang Mei, gazing at the ink lotus painting on the easel, and blinked: "This painting..."
"What's wrong? Doesn't it look good?" Tang Mei asked, noticing Tang Qian's thoughtful expression.
Tang Qian quickly waved her hand: "No, no, Third Cousin, you are a famous painter in Xingluo Kingdom. A painting of yours is worth a thousand pieces of gold. How could it not be beautiful?"
"Your expression seemed a bit strange just now. Did something happen?" Tang Mei put down her paintbrush and asked softly.
Tang Qian rested her chin on her hand, recalling the girl she had met on the streets of Wushuang Kingdom. After a while, she finally remembered: "Third cousin, does eldest cousin have a daughter?"
Tang Mei paused slightly, her eyes dimming slightly at the mention of this: "I cannot answer this question for you, because my eldest sister has not returned to the Tang family for many years."
Tang Qian continued, "Actually, it's like this: today I went to the weapon shop in Wushuang Kingdom to pick up my reforged weapon, and then I ran into a girl on the street who looks a lot like my eldest cousin..."
As she spoke, she raised her hand and pointed to the painting on Tang Mei's easel: "Because not long ago, my third cousin painted a picture, and you said that the woman in the painting was my eldest cousin whom I had never met, which left an impression on me."
After hearing what Tang Qian said, Tang Mei looked astonished. She grabbed Tang Qian's arm and exclaimed, "Qianqian, did you really see a girl who looks a lot like my older sister?!"
Tang Qian nodded: "It's true. Although it was just a fleeting glimpse, the girl had delicate features and looked very similar to the woman you painted before, which is why I came back to tell you."
Tang Mei raised an eyebrow and murmured, "A few months ago, Uncle Hai also met a girl in Danyan City who looked similar to my older sister. It's very likely that the girl you met is the same person."
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