Xiao Bao thought about it very seriously, "I want a little sister."
"Why?" Su Ruojin asked.
“If it were a younger brother, he would definitely be sent to Qingyue Mountain by the Imperial Uncle to learn martial arts. That would be too tiring for a younger brother. If it were a younger sister, she wouldn’t need to come to Qingyue Mountain to study. I can protect her.”
Xiao Bao said this in a serious tone, completely unaware that his words were tantamount to complaining about how tough it was to study at Qingyue Mountain.
Su Ruojin smiled. Xiao Bao had gotten a bit tanned and had become stronger. He even spoke like a little adult.
The way Xiao Bao ran just now showed that his lower body was very stable, which means he must have improved a lot during his time at Qingyue Mountain.
"Did Uncle Huang send you to Qingyue Mountain to suffer, Xiao Bao?" Su Ruojin asked.
Xiao Bao shook his head. "I don't blame him. My uncle is doing this for my own good. If I don't come to Qingyue Mountain to learn and practice martial arts, how will I be able to protect my younger brothers and sisters and Sister Jin in the future?"
Hearing Xiao Bao say this, Su Ruojin felt very gratified.
Xiao Bao has grown up and become more sensible.
"Let's go, let's go and pay our respects to Sect Leader Qin together." Su Ruojin took Xiaobao's hand and they went inside together.
Qin Buyu sat in the middle of the hall, while Xiao Yanchu and Xiao Bao respectfully knelt and kowtowed to Qin Buyu, saying, "Greetings, Master!"
Su Ruojin wanted to kneel down and pay her respects as well, but Qin Buyu stopped her, saying, "Xiaojin, you are pregnant, you don't need these formalities."
“Yi’er, this is your sister Jin’s first time visiting Qingyue Mountain. Why don’t you take her sightseeing?” Qin Buyu said.
"Yes, Master." Xiao Bao bowed respectfully, then took Su Ruojin's hand. "Sister Jin, come on, I'll take you to see where I practice martial arts. There's a waterfall in the back mountain, and the fish there are delicious, but Master won't let me catch them..."
Su Ruojin knew that Qin Buyu had something to talk to Xiao Yanchu about, so she went out with Xiao Bao.
Watching the two figures disappear into the distance, Qin Buyu spoke up, "Yan Chu, what path do you plan to make him take?"
Xiao Yanchu understood what his master meant by asking the question, and instead of answering, he asked in return, "Master, do you think Yi'er has the bearing of an emperor?"
“He’s just like you when you were little, he never complains or gets tired,” Qin Buyu said.
"Fortunately, there was Ah Jin, otherwise Yi'er would still be immersed in the grief of her parents' murder." Xiao Yanchu said with some emotion.
Qin Buyu said, "Those who achieve great things must experience the hardships of life. Didn't you go through the same thing back then? Although the poison in your body has been cured, don't you have any sense of who poisoned you?"
Xiao Yanchu fell silent upon hearing this.
Everyone believed that the poison in his body was administered by the late empress because she was afraid that he was a prince.
But he wasn't the only prince of the late emperor, so why was he the only one poisoned?
“Master, I sent people to look for the Taoist priest you mentioned, but we haven’t heard anything from him. Perhaps he’s no longer alive,” Xiao Yanchu said after a moment of silence.
Qin Buyu nodded. "When the late emperor met that Taoist priest, the priest was already in his seventies. If he were alive now, he would be nearly a hundred years old. He should be no longer alive. I have secretly sent people to look for him, but there has been no news."
Xiao Yanchu sneered, "Regardless of whether this Taoist priest is still alive, how can someone poison his own son based on the words of a Taoist priest? Even tigers don't eat their cubs. If I hadn't met Ajin, I wouldn't be alive either."
Legend has it that the late emperor once encountered a Taoist priest who predicted that one of his concubines was pregnant with a prince, and that this prince would have great opportunities in the future, with the rise and fall of the Great Chu Dynasty resting on this prince's shoulders.
No one knows exactly what the Taoist priest said to the late emperor. All that is known is that at that time, only the current Consort Jiang was pregnant in the late emperor's palace. Then, the incident of disrespecting the empress occurred, and she was banished to the cold palace.
Although there was no evidence, Xiao Yanchu still believed that it was his father who poisoned his mother, or more accurately, he, all because of what that Taoist priest had said back then.
He even suspected that the Soul-Devouring Shadow poison his father had given him was given to him by that Taoist priest, since very few people in the world knew about this kind of poison.
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