Chapter Thirty-Nine: A Tale Sealed in the Years
The man sighed at the afterimage left in the air, got up and walked to the window, and looked at the flowers and branches dancing in the wind in the courtyard. I still remember that when he was seven years old, there was a once-in-a-century flood in his hometown, and his father was swept away by the flood in order to protect his big-bellied aunt and him. After the flood, there is the plague. He escaped with his mother before the lockdown, and they followed the crowd of people fleeing the desert all the way to the capital.
That day, they were so tired and hungry that they didn't have the strength to go any more. Just when I didn't know what to do, I heard that the eldest lady of the Protectorate Mansion was giving porridge in Xiangguo Temple. As soon as he heard about it, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly helped his mother to rush there. That is, one day, he saw the eldest lady of the Protector Mansion who also had a big belly, but when she smiled, she could make people feel warm.
The eldest lady saw that her mother was also pot-bellied, so she sent someone to arrange a place for him and her mother to live in Xiangguo Temple. Although I only eat vegetarian food every day in the temple, it is better to finally have three meals than to wander outside. So, he and his mother lived in Xiangguo Temple until his mother gave birth.
His mother's body was already weak, and the time of exile during the escape caused great damage to her body, and she died after giving birth to her sister. The presiding officer of the temple saw the pity of their orphans and widows, so he paid for the burial of his mother. However, his sister was still a baby waiting to be fed, and he had no money to find a nurse, so he planned to take his sister down the mountain.
He will always remember that day, when he was halfway up the mountain with his sister in his arms, he met an old lady in the Protector's Mansion. She said that their wife sympathized with their brother and sister and wanted to adopt his sister. He was reluctant at first, but he thought that he couldn't even support himself, and he couldn't sell himself into slavery with his sister. I could only grit my teeth and hand over my sister to the old woman.
The old lady took over her sister with a smile, and ordered someone to give her a land deed, which is now Cuizhu Villa. In addition, he was given a letter, an address and a person's name. He kept watching the old lady get into the car with his sister in his arms, and then watched the carriage go away, before he thought about the address that the mother said and looked for it.
He never expected that the address given to him by the old lady would be the location of the famous sect on the rivers and lakes, Canglan Pavilion. And the name of the person that the old lady told him was Liu Canglan, the pavilion master of Canglan Pavilion. He gave the letter to the legendary god-like man. When the man read the letter, he said that he would take him as his son and pass on the mantle to him.
He was overjoyed, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed to his father-in-law three times. And from that day on, he had a new name and a new identity, Liu Mingyang, the young master of Canglan Pavilion.
Five years later, he also had some fame in the rivers and lakes, so he sent someone to secretly inquire about his sister's situation. At that time, I learned that there was no adopted daughter in the Protectorate Mansion.
He panicked and told his father-in-law that he wanted to find out where his sister was. The father-in-law hesitated for a while before handing him the letter from the old grandmother and letting him read it for himself. Only then did he know that the eldest lady couldn't help but lose too much blood on the day of childbirth, and even the child was not saved. That's why he adopted his sister.
He couldn't react for a while after knowing the truth, and he couldn't understand why a gentle and kind person like the eldest lady should suffer so much. At the same time, he is glad that his sister can be raised like a princess.