Chapter 251
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The old man slowly walked over, touching the dust on the coffin, and chuckled, “Who would have thought, ten years later, I could come here again to see you all…”
I dared not set foot here for a decade, thinking that for the rest of my life, this was it.
I was lucky to come back alive, all thanks to that little girl hiding in the shadows who overheard that I was to be dragged away and beaten to death. Crying and pleading, she begged for my life to be spared.
In the end, I was the only one left alive, but physically crippled by severed tendons. All my fellow disciples met their end and were discarded in Mass Grave Mound. It took me a lot of effort to find their bodies and transport them back by water to Fengping County, where I bought a townhouse and dug a cellar.
I couldn’t even pile up graves for them.
“You want to become my disciple, come and kowtow to your martial uncles and senior disciples!” Lian Huai said, tears already streaming down.
Xie Zhinuan took a deep breath and stepped forward to kneel down.
Lian Huai sat on the side, “Do you know why I brought you here?”
“I do not!” Xie Zhinuan said softly.
Indeed, she did not know.
“Because you resemble a little girl who saved my life, preventing my brothers from being buried in Mass Grave Mound. I will never have the chance to meet her again in this lifetime, so that debt of gratitude can never be repaid!”
How could a cripple like me repay the debt?
“…”
Xie Zhinuan remained silent.
After a while, she finally said, “My name is Xie Zhinuan, may I ask for my master’s honorable surname?”
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“Xie…” Lian Huai chuckled, “What a coincidence, that little girl also had the last name Xie!”As he laughed, he turned to Xie Zhinuan, “I want you to promise me something!”
“Please tell me, Master!”
“If you ever go to the capital city, do something for me!” Lian Huai said softly.
“Yes!”
Xie Zhinuan agreed.
Lian Huai looked at Xie Zhinuan, “Aren’t you going to ask what it is?”
“Master’s command should be followed with all my heart and effort, there’s no need to ask what it is!” Xie Zhinuan replied, pausing slightly, “But if it’s something utterly insane, Master wouldn’t have me do it!”
“Ah, such an innocent girl!” Lian Huai sighed. “You have not experienced what malice is!”
Perhaps that was due to the extraordinary gentleman accompanying her on her journey.
An influential young master, who, because of his protection, kept the evil ones at bay, and that was also why he was willing to take her as his disciple.
In the end, he still hoped to visit the capital city, to see how his benefactor had grown up and to do something for her, fulfilling the life-debt from those years ago.
“…”
Xie Zhinuan couldn’t help but smile wryly.
It wasn’t that she hadn’t experienced malice, but that she had encountered far too much of it.
She had long since learned not to dwell on it, fearing that if she did, she might have died from anger long ago.
While they called it a master-disciple relationship, the emotional bond was not strong enough.
It began with utilitarianism.
Xie Zhinuan hoped to master the art of brewing with the help of Spiritual Spring, certain she could make the finest wine in the world.
Lian Huai hoped to use her to rise again, for his deceased brothers and his family, whereabouts unknown.
“Let’s go, let’s not keep that young master waiting too long!” Lian Huai said.
“Alright!”
As they left, Xie Zhinuan did not notice what Lian Huai pressed, nor did she look back or turn around.
Once outside, she finally took a deep breath, breathing in the fresh air and feeling truly alive again.
It wasn’t fear that she felt but rather that the cellar was too stifling. Thinking about those coffins, the corpses inside them.
How had they died?
Had they offended some powerful figures? Discarding bodies in Mass Grave Mound was something the powerful were adept at.
Chapter 252