Chapter 246: Life 73, Age 40, Martial Grandmaster Peak
Roughly a month later, I gathered up Mo and RuLan and took them to meet their parents.
RuLan was from a distant branch of the Su Clan that might have already been pruned from the family tree if I hadn’t stepped forward and started paying high prices for any Disciples with a Su bloodline. So, even though they were part of the Su Clan officially, all this meant was that their children were forced to endure the Su Clan’s training camp. The clan did nothing to support them.
Like most people in the Wastes, RuLan’s family lived in a small, unnamed farming village that focused on growing blue peonies and other simple Rank 1 herbs.
After dropping Mo and RuLan off on the outskirts of the village, I stepped back and watched from the shadows. I would intervene if I had to, but this wasn’t something that I had any desire to be a part of. My presence would only make the situation more tense and awkward.
As the two approached the home of RuLan’s family, I studied it closely.
It was a modest, one-room house with a living space on the ground floor and a sleeping area in the loft. Its small size and lack of ornamentation showed that RuLan’s family wasn’t very well off, but the home was clean and well-maintained. All the clay shingles on the roof were in good order, and fresh white paint had been applied to all the exposed wooden beams. Her family might be poor, but this home gave me the sense that they were honest, hard-working people.
Like when he had first asked me to bring him here, Mo was extremely nervous. When RuLan introduced him to her parents, he stumbled over his words and had a hard time expressing himself, but her parents were gracious and didn’t speak a word of criticism.
After the initial introductions were made, RuLan’s mother took her daughter out into the village to buy some vegetables, and RuLan’s father took Mo to a pair of wooden chairs behind the house that were positioned to give a good view of the expansive fields beyond.
Father and son-in-law had a good talk, and when RuLan and her mother returned, everyone sat down for a nice meal.