A Cutie Spoiled by Her Seven Uncles

Chapter 1217 - 952: Suisui’s Mother’s Past Affairs_2

"With you here, you’ll surely live to be a hundred!""Whether I live to a hundred, I know better than you. Even the second child doesn’t dare to say such things!"

These words from the elder lady of the Li Family made Ji Youyuan lower his head.

"The sun is quite nice today, why don’t you chat with me! Just like mother and son talking about mundane matters!"

Ji Youyuan couldn’t refuse the elder lady and eventually nodded his head.

"Back then, I was unfilial, wandering everywhere for a breakthrough in cultivation techniques, and the second brother as well, studying at Medicine King Valley.

The third brother didn’t mention much, everyone was busy with their own affairs, and you and Xi’Er were left alone to live secluded in the countryside!"

As Ji Youyuan spoke of these things, he felt very uncomfortable in his heart.

"Mother knows, you actually don’t believe your father is dead, trying everything to find news of him!"

The elder lady of the Li Family directly pricked through his thoughts.

In the past, between mother and son, they certainly wouldn’t directly mention Ji Shang.

But now, when they talked about Ji Shang, it seemed quite natural to speak about him.

"So you knew all along!"

"How could I not know? All the places you went were related to him!"

The elder lady of the Li Family sighed, "Every time Xi’Er received your letters, she would come here probing me, always asking about your father. She was too young, really not cut out for intelligence work. I always felt she was too young and didn’t know martial arts, surely she wouldn’t be as bold as you, silently running off to find someone, right?

I never expected, she did run off, taking ten taels of broken silver from under my pillow before she left."

When speaking of this, tears appeared in the eyes of the elder lady of the Li Family!

But she controlled herself, shook her head, and all emotions were instantly put under control, once again becoming the elegant and dignified elder lady.

"Xi’Er actually didn’t go to find her father."

Ji Youyuan remembered all the information he had gathered over the years, his face filled with helplessness.

"She didn’t go to find your father?"

The elder lady of the Li Family was surprised, looking at Ji Youyuan seriously.

"Every time Xi’Er inquired about father, it was us brothers who asked her to help find out, hoping to get more information to trace father’s whereabouts.

So when you discovered her running away, the first places you searched were all around where father went missing.

In truth, she was creating a diversion for you, making you think she ran away to find father.

In fact, she went to find someone else."

"Did she go to find Li Dalang?"

The elder lady of the Li Family suddenly realized, no wonder she chased for three days and nights without finding her, as she was led on by that girl.

"That’s right, do you remember, when our family left the capital, Xi’Er got separated from us, and we searched half the night before finding her in a mountain cave.

It was a slightly older child than her who dug her out from the snow and took her to the cave, using simple methods to massage her acupoints and rub snow on her to lower her temperature."

"I remember, that time I asked the child his name?

Also mentioned wanting to visit his home to thank him for saving Xi’Er, but the child wouldn’t speak, unwilling to say his name or where he lived?

So he was Li Dalang after all?"

Ji Youyuan nodded.

"Yes, he was. It wasn’t until Suisui took Li Silang to visit Erhu after and found everything out, filling in all the connections between Xi’Er and Li Dalang."

The elder lady of the Li Family sighed, "It’s surprising! That old shrew of the Li Family gave birth to a child like Li Dalang, truly a good shoot from bad bamboo, if it wasn’t for the Li Family’s ancestral virtues, I wouldn’t believe it!"

Ji Youyuan said, "Who could say otherwise? At first, I thought I made a mistake, after several verifications, it turned out not to be a mistake. The child desperately saving lives in that cave was indeed Li Family’s Dalang."

"But afterwards, we didn’t encounter that Li Dalang, how did Xi’Er see him?"

"Recently, the eighth brother sent people to Ling Village, asking every household about everything concerning Li Family’s Dalang.

That was when we learned that seven years ago, in the summer, Xi’Er went up White Cloud Mountain and encountered a giant python.

That giant python supposedly coiled around her, nearly swallowing her, but Li Family’s Dalang saved her from the python’s jaws.

Only then did she escape unharmed!

The elder lady of the Li Family opened her mouth, "So the hero who slayed the python villagers spoke of that year was him, right?

Then why didn’t Xi’Er tell me?"

The elder lady of the Li Family self-blamed, "She must have been terrified at that time, she returned home very late that day, looking exactly ragged. When I saw her, I just told her since her health wasn’t good, she should stay at home and not run around!"

"I was really foolish, not noticing any anomalies, had I not scolded her for running around but asked properly, she would have definitely told me about Li Family’s Dalang saving her from the python, and knowing all this, her fate would certainly have been different!"

The more the elder lady of the Li Family spoke, the more she blamed herself, continuously hitting her chest, her voice choked.

"Mother! What’s done is done, you need not blame yourself. Xi’Er not telling you, she must have known she made a mistake, not wanting to upset you, nor wanted you to worry, that’s why she acted so!"

Seeing the elder lady’s state, Ji Youyuan quickly urged her consolingly.

"Mother! Don’t do this, it will harm your health, I can’t continue if you do!"

Upon hearing this, the elder lady softly sobbed, after crying and calming for a long time, she finally said, "Since we’ve come this far, just tell me everything in one go, don’t leave any unresolved matters in my heart!"

"Don’t be too sad, this is Xi’Er’s destiny; her appearance, birth date, and hour were all predetermined, you know this better than anyone."

"Indeed! The Empress Dowager often said, Xi’Er was destined to be the Empress; when the time came, she would marry the Emperor. Because I saw her fate, I wanted to leave the Imperial City, head to more remote places, keep her hidden, avoiding calamity, wait till she passed that hurdle before saying anything else.

But I didn’t expect, she would meet Li Family’s Dalang, this was all fate!"

"Fate is hard to defy, Xi’Er exchanged her life to give birth to Suisui, this shows, she had deep feelings for Li Dalang!"