Chapter 97: Getting Lost in the Wilderness
Xing thought she’d be able to return back home after a couple of days but there was no indication of her uncle making travel plans even after a week.
Xing wrote letters to Shengli daily and once every three days to her father and brother. Of course she wrote her brother of her recent findings about the secret being his supposed abandonment by his birth father and received his response and even though Rijun had written as if he didn’t care much, she could sense the happiness in his writing.
Lin Mubai visited her and in his loud voice chattered for a long time.. Sister-in-law this, sister-in-law that... Brother this, brother that...
The condensed version of his hour long speech was that Shengli misses her, Shihong is dealing with the troubles in the East as Lord Chu’s confession has caused stirs there and also those two who meant to meet Shihong were interrupted and dealt with. Also in the capital Lord Ran is pissed off at Lord Táng for seducing his third daughter who is now on a hunger strike asking for Shihong’s head!
All in all, she was asked politely by Mubai, to stay in the South for at least a month until all those hypes dies down as the Martial Arts tournament will be held in seven weeks and that will be the new hype soon.
Zedong who was with Xing listening to Mubai cannot help but laugh at the situation in the capital. Father and daughter had managed to seduce the first and third daughter of the Ran family and it made his day. Xing just sighed and didn’t know what to do...
Maybe I should stop talking to women! Five minutes.. Just five minutes is enough to make a girl fall in love? Xing thought, but then again she fell in love with her man just with a glance! How weird is that? How weird is love?
Xing spent her days with the daughter-in-laws and her nephew and niece. Xing who loved little girls found that little girl very adorable, she was scared to even touch her. That girl was so pink, soft, chubby and beautiful that made one feel that one touch would make her hurt. She would just sit beside her and watch when her mother one day just made her carry that baby and Xing didn’t let go of that sweet smelling, soft girl again.
But sadly her spending more time with that baby girl made RuYang jealous and he pinched his sister and seeing that baby girl cry made Xing’s heart bleed. So RuYang was educated by his mother and Xing spent equal time with her nephew and niece.
But soon Xing got bored and she was brought to the Jade Workshop by her uncle. She saw all those beautiful carvings done and she was amazed. After a long time Xing wanted to learn something new. In the past few days, Xu mama tried to help her learn embroidery but Xing flunked miserably. But when she saw those people carving those jade stones and polishing them to make amazing sculptures, her interest got piqued. And once Xing’s interest got piqued nothing can stop her from learning it.
So she asked her uncle and her uncle brought her to Old Tong, their Master carver. He had a small courtyard inside their workshop where he lived.
Xing saw the amazing carved figures inside his place,