Chapter 5: Alice's Persuasion
Alice, as the patriarch of the Langton family, a famous Overseer family, for some reason, never married. The status is as noble as hers, but there is no heir. Therefore, there are many aristocratic young people who want to please her, if they can get her blue eyes, maybe they can become the future master of the huge Langton family.
Even without the use of "True Sensibility" and her own unique pupil technique, Alice can see the ambition of those people with her own experience, and she doesn't mind giving them a chance, after all, the Langton family really needs an heir. But for so many years, she never found a junior who suited her taste, until Xiao Ruo appeared.
may have been because Xiao Ruo was like the one in Alice's heart at first, but later, Xiao Ruo conquered Alice with her unique sense of existence. She liked this Chinese girl from the bottom of her heart, and she believed that she had found the most suitable heir to the Langton family, but she never told Xiao Ruo.
In fact, at the beginning, Alice was just curious about the asymmetry of Xiao Ruo's age and strength. Later, when she met again and saw Xiao Ruo's true appearance, it aroused her memories of her sweetheart. At that time, she just wanted to recall the past through Xiao Ruo.
Later, when she got along with Xiao Ruo, Alice began to really like this crystal clear girl.
Xiao Ruo's mystery, Alice has always known. A Chinese girl, alone, and pregnant. Such a young age, such a strong strength, profound knowledge, cold temperament, the vicissitudes of life that are revealed from time to time, and the considerable financial resources that can be inferred, all show that Xiao Ruo is not ordinary. But she didn't investigate, she knew that if she wanted to, it would still be easy to get Xiao Ruo's information.
Xiao Ruo seems to have little social experience, at least she can easily tell from Xiao Ruo's attitude that Xiao Ruo distrusts her.
Alice didn't care at first, after all, her appearance was too abrupt for Xiao Ruo. But in the later relationship, Alice found that not only for her, Xiao Ruo seemed to be very wary of anyone. She didn't understand what kind of experience could make a teenage girl so desperate for trust in people. She could see Xiao Ruo's unhappiness, her eyes were always out of focus, as if she couldn't see the future in her eyes.
Xiao Ruo didn't care about her children, Alice could see it. Xiao Ruo has never been taboo that she is a pregnant woman, and she is not as cautious as ordinary women when they are pregnant with a child. But every time Xiao Ruo stroked her lower abdomen, the complicated expression on her face made Alice seem to understand a little.
Maybe this is Xiao Ruo's feelings for the child's father.
In addition to being a little cold and a little lacking in social experience, Xiao Ruo is simply the perfect heir in Alice's mind. But these can all be changed, and she can only change her slowly through subtlety. But she didn't know if she could wait.
Now, Xiao Ruo agrees to be her child's great-grandmother, which is a good start, and recently she can also see the light in Xiao Ruo's eyes, which is a yearning for the future. The current Xiao Ruo, in addition to her lack of experience, is getting closer and closer to the heir in her mind.
"Thank you for your love for them, I'm touched, Alice. But what if they don't grow up well in the future?" Alice was looking at Xiao Ruo in a trance, and she heard her ask herself worriedly.
"Uh, what does it mean to grow badly?" Alice didn't react for a while, and asked a little confused.
Xiao Ruo still looked distressed, she supported her head with her hands, leaned her elbows on the sofa handle, and the worry in her eyes was even worse: "That is, if the children are not filial, or they fight for property or something, or hurt my mother, or ......"
"Stop, stop, wait a minute, rachel, are you having a phobia of expectant mothers? Children need to be educated, dear. So you don't usually seem to care if they're worried about this?"
Alice was a little speechless, she had never been a mother. Do you have to be mothers who suffer from gains and losses like this?
Xiao Ruo didn't know how to answer. The things in the fairy world taught her too profound a lesson, and she was unreservedly good to Jing Yao back then, but what was the result? Jing Yao has had a relationship with her for nearly two thousand years, and this kind of relationship is almost the same as that of mother and daughter, and it can be said that it is more than that, but Jing Yao still does those things that make her heart ache when she thinks about it to this day.
"Alice, I have a master." With a sigh, Xiao Ruo said.
"Of course, rachel, if you have cultivated to this point on your own, then I think all of us are going to commit suicide." didn't quite understand Xiao Ruo's sudden mention of this unrelated topic, but Alice still followed her words.
"However, I actually have a senior sister." Xiao Ruo continued, her own experience was too bizarre, she didn't plan to tell anyone, a little change was okay.
Alice listened respectfully, this was the first time Xiao Ruo had talked about her experience.
Xiao Ruo told the story that had been made up. She put the experience of her previous life on the unwarranted "master". In her story, her master adopted a little girl and raised her as if she were his own. But later, the little girl colluded with someone the master liked for a treasure on her master's body, and seriously injured her master. Although her master desperately killed the enemy, he was too seriously injured and finally ran into Xiao Ruo.
According to Xiao Ruo, she was still an orphan at that time, wandering everywhere. Kindly gave the stolen things to the seriously injured master to eat, and the two became acquainted. Later, the master saw that his time was running out and he didn't want to lose his kung fu, so he passed on what he had learned in his life to Xiao Ruo, and passed on all his skills to her. Before she died, the master told Xiao Ruo about her experience and accepted her as a disciple.
After listening to Xiao Ruo's words, Alice sighed at Xiao Ruo's luck, but she didn't expect that Xiao Ruo's experience would have such a big impact on her attitude towards children.
"Rachel, I have to say, you're a lucky kid. But you have to be clear that you are not your master, and your children are not your sisters. β
Alice's words made Xiao Ruo smile bitterly. How would she know that it was herself.
"I understand, Alice. But you must know that in our Chinese country, the relationship between master and apprentice is even more important than the relationship between parents and children. What's more, my master was nearly two hundred years old before he died, and my senior sister has been by Master's side for more than a hundred years. What child in this world can stay with his parents for so many years? After so many years of affection, it can't even compare to a dead thing, can I still have hope for my children?" The more Xiao Ruo spoke, the more disheartened he became, "I'd rather not want them, and I wouldn't be as sad as Master in the future." But they are my children, and I can't kill their hope of survival like this, and I don't have that qualification, because they don't belong only to me. β
A little surprised that Xiao Ruo's master had such a great influence on her, Alice organized the language and said, "Rachel, you care too much about your master's experience, you have to understand that you are different people." Seeing Xiao Ruo's disapproving eyes, Alice changed the topic and said, "Okay, let me change the question, can I know how your master educated your senior sister?" If you knew. β
"Of course." Xiao Ruo replied. began to tell Alice how she was good to Jing Yao in the first place, what she wanted, and how she obeyed.
"Okay, I think I get it. I gotta say, rachel, your master doesn't seem to be good at raising children. Alice looked at it.
"Why? My master is responsive to my sister's needs, and her food, clothing, shelter and transportation are the best, isn't that enough?" Xiao Ruo was a little puzzled.
"But, rachel. You have to understand that a person's growth requires more than just material needs, and your senior sister was still young when she followed your master, right?" Seeing Xiao Ruo nodding, Alice continued, "Children need playmates, you said that your master has taken your senior sister with her since she was a child, then she will inevitably lack some communication with her peers, which is not conducive to a child's growth." β
Xiao Ruo was stunned when she heard this, it seemed that she had never thought about it.
She only heard Alice add, "For a person, spiritual needs are sometimes more important than material needs. Your master just thinks he's good for your sister according to her own thoughts, but has she ever asked your sister what she needs?"
"But, why didn't she say it, senior sister? If she says it......" Xiao Ruo's voice slowly lowered. She remembered that at the beginning, Jing Yao would ask her to go out of the Immortal Mansion to play and practice, but she was always rejected by herself, on the grounds that the outside world was too unsafe. And he was always cultivating most of the time, and he didn't care too much about Jing Yao's mood. It wasn't until she became an immortal monarch that many people came to visit, and Jing Yao was sent by herself to socialize, that she looked a lot happier.
After all, it was my reason. Xiao Ruo's heart was bitter.
"Of course, this can't be a reason for your senior sister to betray your master. In any case, your master's intentions must be for your sister's good, but it is clear that her intentions are not felt by your sister. I think there must be something else going on. Is it just that your senior sister will betray you?"
Xiao Ruo nodded: "Yes." Later, my master met someone she liked, but that person just wanted a treasure from my master. After he deceived my master's trust, he seduced my sister. You know, Alice, our Chinese kung fu can remain the same for a long time when we practice it to a high level. My Master, even when I met her, was beautiful. So the appearance of that man, and the greed for treasures, happened next. β
"Oh, your master is so pitiful." Alice sighed, "Is that man the senior sister who really loves you?"
"I don't know, and neither does Master, but she killed them all with a desperate blow later." Xiao Ruo actually wanted to know this question.
"Actually, if you think about it, you can know. If your senior sister likes someone for the first time, with that man's scheming, he definitely doesn't mean it. Alice felt that she understood a little.
"Really?" Xiao Ruo's eyes were a little dazed, and she muttered, "It turns out that what she got is not sincere." β
βrachel,rachel!β Alice shouted, "What's wrong with you? Oh my God, I have to say, your master has had such a great influence on you! You see, you're not her! Oh, I think I've said that a million times, did you hear that, rachel?"
Xiao Ruo came back to his senses, smiled at Alice reluctantly, and said, "Thank you, Alice, I finally understand." It turned out that everything was ...... Alas. You don't have to worry, I just need to be quiet and let me think about it, okay?"
Alice's heart settled, seeing that Xiao Ruo was normal, she found a maid and asked her to prepare coffee for Xiao Ruo, and then calmed down.
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