Chapter 690 Wan Qingzhou's Past
Kong Wange thought she had long forgotten the past, but now she realized that it had never been forgotten. It was just sealed deep in her memory and had not been unlocked by the key.
And now, Wan Qingzhou is that key.
As soon as he asked, she remembered everything.
She spoke in a trembling voice, "You were right beside me then, why didn't you recognize me?"
Wan Qingzhou opened her mouth, but hesitated to speak.
After a moment, he let out a heavy sigh: "You were too young then, and there were many things you didn't need to know. Your father didn't acknowledge you because he didn't want you to grow up carrying hatred. Your father only hoped that you could grow up happily and healthily."
“But now I know everything. Fate cannot be changed,” Kong Wange murmured.
"Yes." The man's back seemed to hunch slightly as he spoke, adding a touch of melancholy.
Kong Wange had a thousand words she wanted to say, but for a moment she felt there was no need to ask any more.
She was almost certain that he loved her and cared about her.
She clearly remembers that for a period of time afterward, he appeared in her world, teaching her to play the harmonica, or playing it for her to lull her to sleep.
She only considered him a good friend of her master, and felt especially close to this uncle.
But then one day, this uncle suddenly stopped coming.
She asked her master, who said that he had gone to fulfill his mission.
She didn't know what "mission" meant; she only knew that he left and never appeared again for a very long time, so long that she had completely forgotten about him.
Kong Wange thought that if she had recognized him five years earlier, she might have wanted to get to the bottom of things.
But now that she is a mother herself, she can better understand some of her parents' feelings.
He did not acknowledge her as his wife, presumably because he had some untold difficulties.
She composed herself somewhat and said, "So you secretly put Mother in the secret room of the traditional Chinese medicine clinic and used medicine to prevent her body from decaying?"
"Mm." The man nodded.
"Why?"
"Because I want to revive her. It is said that there is a divine medicine in this tomb that can bring the dead back to life. Over the years, Tang Zhi has been collecting the Five Jade and searching for the location of this tomb. The reason I have kept him alive all these years is to wait for today, to use the Tang family to find the tomb and get the divine medicine to save your mother."
It's alright when a person is alive, but when a person dies, their spirit is gone. There's no such thing as a miracle cure that can bring someone back to life.
Kong Wange looked at the man's eyes filled with obsession, her lips moved slightly, but she didn't say anything. She could tell that the man in front of her loved her mother very much. He had been able to live alone for so many years for this one glimmer of hope.
She didn't want to shatter that glimmer of hope.
She sighed and said softly, "Would you... be willing to tell me some things about you and my mother?"
Wan Qingzhou had expected her to complain, question, and criticize.
To her utter surprise, he gave such a vague reason that even he himself found empty, and she accepted it.
He felt a mix of emotions.
She is so sensible and so willing to put herself in other people's shoes.
This seemed like a good thing, but a feeling of indescribable bitterness and heartache welled up in his heart.
If his daughter had been pampered and spoiled by him since childhood, would she still be so well-behaved?
Will she live a more unrestrained and carefree life?
However, these thoughts only lasted for a moment in my mind.
He quickly dismissed these "unnecessary" thoughts.
Life cannot be relived. If he had to choose again, he would probably still choose to walk the path of separation from his daughter.
He has his responsibilities, and she has hers to go through.
He shouldn't and couldn't let her follow him, hiding here and there, living a nomadic life, bearing burdens she shouldn't have to bear.
Yan Heli took good care of her.
This is the best possible outcome considering all the pros and cons.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Kong Wange forced a reply: "If it doesn't work, then so be it..."
“There’s nothing I can’t say,” Wan Qingzhou suddenly said. “You are my daughter, and it’s only natural that you want to know about what happened between your mother and me. I’m sure Zhiyi would also like to tell you, but unfortunately… she didn’t have the chance.”
With those words, Kong Wange's eyes reddened even more.
Not far away, Qin Feng had completely accepted Wan Qingzhou's identity. Seeing the father and daughter recognizing each other, he considerately did not go forward to interrupt them.
Instead, he sat with his men, quietly replenishing his energy.
However, the place was only so big, and Wan Qingzhou and Kong Wange's words still reached Qin Feng and his group's ears without missing a single one.
Hou Kai whispered to Han Xu beside him, "I never expected that the number one assassin would be Sister Wan Ge's father. You really can't judge a book by its cover."
"Do you think Sister Wan Ge is not good enough for such a father?" Han Xu asked rhetorically.
"Oh, I didn't mean that," Hou Kai quickly said.
"Is it because you think Master Wan is not good enough for a daughter like Sister Wan Ge?"
Hou Kai: "...Alright, I won't say anything more. The more I say, the more mistakes I'll make."
He consciously zipped up his mouth.
Han Xu ignored him and turned to chew on her compressed biscuit, but actually she was listening intently to Wan Daxia and her sister Wan Ge's story.
After all, Wan Qingzhou was a god-like figure in his mind.
He also wanted to know what exactly happened back then that caused the title of number one assassin to completely disappear from everyone's sight.
Of course, I also want to know what kind of woman Wan Ge's mother is, that she could fall in love with an assassin and completely win over someone as unruly as Wan Qingzhou.
Wan Qingzhou sat on a stone bench not far away, her eyes filled with a hint of reminiscence: "The story of your mother and me is from a long time ago, and it's a long story. I'll try to be as concise as possible."
The story of Wan Qingzhou and Wen Zhiyi actually started with a misunderstanding.
Back then, there was a killer ranking list in the underworld. He, Qianliu, Baiyi, Shiyu, and others were among the top-ranked killers, with a formidable reputation.
Of course, this is only the information people see on the surface, but in reality, he taught all the kung fu of Senryu, Hyakuyashi, and Jugo.
And it was precisely because of him that most of the people on this assassin list later served the same person, Tang Zhi.
He was an orphan, and the first time he hit someone was because the person who forced him to beg wanted to cut off his hands and feet so that he could sit on the street more pitifully and kowtow to people.
He was seven years old at the time. When the other man came in with a knife, he incited all the children present to fight back. Then, in the chaos, he picked up the knife and stabbed the man in the lung.
He still remembers how he felt then, looking at the man struggling on the ground, spitting out blood and foam, and the blood all over the ground; the fear came belatedly.
It took him a long time to manage to stop having nightmares.
However, he didn't know that there would be many more such moments afterward, and from that day on, he almost never had a peaceful night's sleep again.
After that incident, he became the leader of that group of little beggars and lived a life of begging from place to place.
During these days of traveling around, by chance, he caught the attention of a martial arts master.
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