diskusbooks Chapter 263: Tracing relatives and finally saving them
Chapter 263: Tracing relatives and finally saving them
In the middle of the night.
"Lin Qinghe, is it really okay for you to come out like this?" 0038 Seeing the gatekeeper disciple of the Wuji Sect lying on the ground after being knocked unconscious, Lin Qinghe sneaked into the darkness without mercy.
"Will Wuji Sect be safe in this way?"
The gatekeeper disciples were all knocked unconscious, so nothing bad should happen, right?
“Whether they faint or not has no impact on the sect. The Wuji Sect’s formation affects the entire body. If there is an invasion by external enemies, they will react earlier than the disciples.” Lin Qinghe was so kind as to throw them into the Wuji Sect’s mountain gate.
"Well, it seems like you don't look like a rule-abiding person." 0038 complained, "You haven't really followed the rules these past two days."
Killing fellow disciples and running away secretly is quite rebellious.
"I killed Qiu Lanshan in self-defense, and now I'm in a hurry to leave here, which is understandable." She didn't mean it.
Besides, there is no one in Wuji Sect who can control her now, so can't she act unrestrained for once?
No one knows anyway.
The blood traction technique was really difficult to perform. She had only read about how to perform it in ancient books before. She kept trying along the way, and only when she arrived in Hanming City did she completely learn those complicated and tedious seals, which consumed a lot of her energy and blood.
Lin Qinghe's complexion now looks very bad, as pale as paper, which is a sign of excessive blood loss.
She quickly took out a bottle of top-grade blood-replenishing pills from her storage bag, and after swallowing a few of them, she felt much better.
When it was just getting light, she went to Wanbao Pavilion under Hanming City and sold the Frost Spirit Fruit and Snow Sky Flower in exchange for a lot of spirit stones. With all the calculations, she still had 5,000 low-grade spirit stones on her.
After exchanging the spirit stones, Lin Qinghe went to the market and bought some gold, silver and jewelry used by mortals.
The blood traction technique has been performed, and she just needs to follow the direction indicated by the compass.
Fortunately, the three sisters of the original owner, Sun Mingshuang, are still alive, but in different positions.
Except for the original owner Sun Mingshuang's eldest sister Sun Zhaodi who was in Hanming City, the other two sisters, one was thousands of miles away from the South Gate, and the other third sister was just the opposite. The third sister Sun Wangdi was actually in the far north.
One is in the south and the other is in the north, so they are really far away.
Lin Qinghe walked towards the small village belonging to Hanming City. Her elder sister Sun Zhaodi was here. It was the closest place, so she decided to go see her first.
She mobilized her spiritual power, slapped two wind talismans on her legs, and then used the Wind Riding Technique, running quickly on the road.
Lin Qinghe doesn't have much time left. After meeting the original owner's eldest sister Sun Zhaodi, she has to go to the south and north to meet her second and third sisters respectively.
Hanming City, a small fishing village.
A lamp was lit in a small wooden house, but the oil in the lamp was almost gone, so the flame flickered.
Sun Zhaodi, with a pale face, was embroidering patterns under the lamp. Because her husband's family disliked her and her parents' family despised her, she could only rely on embroidering things desperately to earn money to supplement her family income.
The wooden door, which was not very strong to begin with, was violently opened with a loud bang.
It was Sun Zhaodi’s husband’s mother-in-law. She had a wrinkled and pointed face and she took a broom and threw it heavily on the door!
"You're a useless goose. My son is so unlucky to marry you. Why are you lighting a lamp in the middle of the night? You're the most hypocritical, aren't you?"
"Mom, I..." The embroidery pattern in Sun Zhaodi's hand was suddenly snatched away, and the light on the table was turned off.
After the fire reflected in her eyes went out she was slapped hard again.
Wei Xiao snorted coldly, took the lamp on the table with her dry hands and left.
Lin Qinghe, who had already arrived here, happened to see this scene. She hid in the dark and pursed her lips slightly.
After Wei Xiao slammed the door and left, Sun Zhaodi wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, took the embroidery pattern to the window, and began to embroider in the moonlight.
Fortunately, the moonlight tonight is very bright. Days like this have been repeated year after year, and she has become a little numb.
"Sister." Lin Qinghe appeared behind her and called in a low voice.
Sun Zhaodi was startled and turned around quickly to look, "Who?"
How could anyone call her sister? Her second sister was sold by her parents when she was young, and her third sister was promised to a widower by her mother who coveted the bride price. She ran away secretly and her whereabouts are still unknown.
As for the fourth sister, she was nowhere to be found. During this year, Sun Zhaodi also returned to her original home, but her parents never mentioned her fourth sister. Even when they asked them about her, they would ask in return whether they had such a daughter.
Sun Zhaodi just thought that her parents had no conscience and sold her fourth sister, so she never mentioned her fourth sister.
Unexpectedly, when she turned around and saw a little girl about eight years old, she was stunned.
The little girl was plump and fair, and she looked at her with a smile on her face. Her eyes were bright and lively, totally unlike the skinny and somewhat numb sister in her memory.
"You are..." Sun Zhaodi looked at the person in front of her who had similar features to her fourth sister, and was a little unsure.
"My name is Sun Mingshuang, and I'm your fourth sister." The moonlight sprinkled on Lin Qinghe's face. She stepped forward and grabbed Sun Zhaodi's hand. "Sister, do you want to leave here?"
Anyway, Sun Zhaodi doesn’t have many children, so Lin Qinghe can take her away from Hanming City and start a new life somewhere else.
"Fourth sister, at this point, it doesn't matter whether you want to or not. You should leave quickly. If someone finds us..." Sun Zhaodi raised her hand and touched the hair bun tied on Lin Qinghe's head.
Although she didn't know why her sister had changed so much, she didn't want to drag down her fourth sister.
Besides, my fourth sister is only eight or nine years old now. Where can I take her?
“Sister, I was recruited into the Wuji Sect and became an immortal cultivator. As long as you want, I can take you away from here.” Lin Qinghe looked at the girl in front of him with firm eyes. She was only twenty years old but already looked old.
Sun Zhaodi first widened her eyes in surprise, and then couldn't stop her joy, "Little sister, are you serious? Have you really become a cultivator?"
Lin Qinghe nodded, "Let's leave here, big sister."
After getting the younger sister's affirmation again, Sun Zhaodi was ecstatic. She naturally knew a thing or two about the abilities of cultivators. Now that her younger sister had become a cultivator, all the changes in her body made sense.
Sun Zhaodi responded, "Okay, okay, I'll pack my things first." She turned around to pack. Actually, when she said "pack", Sun Mingshuang only took a few pieces of clothes and thirty copper coins, which were all her belongings.
But when she packed her bag and wanted to leave with Lin Qinghe, she hesitated again and couldn't take this step. "Little sister, I won't cause you any trouble, right?"
She hesitated, fearing that she might cause trouble to her younger sister who had just become a cultivator, and took the bag off her shoulders.
"Sister, I'm here to pick you up, so don't be afraid of any trouble. After I take you away, I'll go get my second and third sisters." Lin Qinghe picked up the bag she had placed aside, took her hand, and took her away from this place.
When she left, she also threw out a ball of spiritual fire. Once the flame touched this place, a raging fire broke out. This place was instantly engulfed in fire, burning away all traces of Sun Zhaodi's existence.
Under the raging fire, thick black smoke soon rose from the room where Sun Zhaodi lived. Wei Xiao, who was not yet asleep, got up in a panic and ran out.
"It's on fire! Help! Put out the fire!" Sharp howls resounded through the sky, and Wei Xiao ran to fetch water in panic, trying to put out the fire.
There were still a lot of things in the room. What happened to Sun Zhaodi? She was so clumsy. Didn’t she take the lights away? How did the fire start again?
Seeing that the fire was too fierce, no matter how many buckets of water were brought, it could not be put out. The neighbors came to help but it was still useless. Wei Xiao could only watch the fire that could not be put out burn the house in front of him to ashes, leaving no residue.
After the fire was out, the exhausted Wei Xiao sat in a pile of black ashes in a daze. Her face was covered with black ashes and she cried out loudly, "Oh my, my poor daughter-in-law... She was taken away by the fire just like that!"
Although she cried loudly, no tears came out. It was not easy for the neighbors to see such a lonely old woman, not to mention that Wei Xiao's son was not a good person. He spent his days eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. Now even if the house was burned down, he would not come back.
Thinking of this, they felt even more sympathetic. Some kind-hearted neighbors stepped forward and helped Wei Xiao, who was slumped on the ground, up. "Don't be too sad, Aunt Xiao. At least Wei Shi is still here. There will definitely be a way to deal with him when he comes back."
I'm afraid that there is no way out and it will bring disaster to the family. When Lin Qinghe took Sun Zhaodi away, she saw that there was no trace of nostalgia in her eyes, so she knew that she must have suffered a lot of grievances.
Listening to Sun Zhaodi talking about her experiences over the years, Lin Qinghe also realized that the man she married, Wei Shi, was not a good person.
Sun Zhaodi had been married into the Wei family since she was fourteen years old. There were only two people in the Wei family, Wei Xiao and her mother and son. She originally thought that life would be easier.
Unexpectedly, I jumped from one pit to another.
Wei Shi, the man Sun Zhaodi married, was not a down-to-earth person. His true colors were revealed after she got married. He beat and scolded her, and often spent the money Sun Zhaodi saved from embroidery on wine and women. He became even more aggressive towards her when Sun Zhaodi had no children for six years.
Sun Zhaodi often couldn't even have a normal meal. The food she cooked was only hers after Wei Xiaoshi and Wei Shi finished eating the leftovers.
And Wei Xiao was even more excessive. If Wei Shi's abuse of Sun Zhaodi was physical, then Wei Xiao's abuse of her was mental.
Because Sun Zhaodi couldn't give birth to a child, she often mocked and said that she would ask her son Wei Shi to divorce her. In front of outsiders, she even ordered Sun Zhaodi around, beating and scolding her.
Sun Zhaodi only told Lin Qinghe a small part of her experiences over the years in a vague way, which made Lin Qinghe hold her hand tightly with heartache.
"Big sister, you must have suffered a lot." Lin Qinghe touched the thick calluses on her hands and said with some heartache, "It will never be like this again in the future."
Sun Zhaodi had only heard derogatory words from other people, so when she heard that her little sister, who was only eight years old, truly understood her, she suddenly burst into tears.
But she cried very suppressedly, as if she didn't want others to know, and covered her face with her sleeves.
Lin Qinghe took a step forward and hugged her slender waist, which could be held in one hand, and patted her on the back, "Big sister, cry if you want to. No one will blame you anymore."
“Wuuuu… Little sister, little sister… Thank you…” Sun Zhaodi walked forward and hugged Lin Qinghe tightly, buried her head in her neck and burst into tears.
For a moment, the only sound in the mountains and forests was her sobbing.
"Big sister, you don't have to call me Zhaodi anymore. How about Mingshu?" Lin Qinghe touched her big sister's dry and yellow hair and asked softly.
May you live a worry-free and comfortable life in the future.
"Hmm...hiccup...little sister, you actually know how to name things." Sun Mingshu's cheeks were full of tear marks, but he smiled.
Mingshu...Sun Mingshu, she will have a good name from now on.
Lin Qinghe took out a clean towel and wiped her elder sister's face carefully.
There is not much flesh on Sun Mingshu's face, and she is even a little unrecognizable due to her thinness, but her eyes are exceptionally big.
"Sister, do you want to go to that house to see them?" Lin Qinghe asked softly.
Sun Mingshu shook her head and said, "I haven't had any contact with them for a long time. She also said that she will treat me as her daughter from now on. Let's go." She never wanted to see the parents in that family again.
After leaving here with her younger sister, she was no longer Sun Zhaodi. She had a new name and a new life.
As for that heartless pair of parents, Sun Mingshu never wanted to see them again.
"Then I'll take you to live in Hanming City." Lin Qinghe happened to have bought a courtyard there, just enough for her eldest sister to live there, while she used the blood traction technique to find her second sister who had been sold and her third sister who had escaped and her whereabouts were unknown.
When they arrived at the courtyard that Lin Qinghe had purchased in Hanming City, the tables, chairs and benches inside were all covered with dust. Lin Qinghe cast a few dust-clearing spells to clean the place thoroughly.
She took out a lot of silver ingots from the storage space and handed them to her eldest sister Sun Mingshu, "Sister, I'm going to find my second and third sisters. If you need anything here, take the silver and go get it."
She took out a dozen low-grade spirit stones and placed them on the table. "Don't take these spirit stones out unless necessary."
After all, the elder sister is just a mortal, and it would be bad for her to carry too many spirit stones.
"There are some shops around here. Go and buy whatever your family needs when daybreak." Lin Qinghe advised with some concern.
Sun Mingshu couldn't help but laugh when he saw his sister acting like a little adult. "Okay, I'll listen to you."
When she turned her eyes to the gold and silver, she hesitated, "Isn't this too much..."
"It's not much, just take it and use it, sister." Lin Qinghe said that these were just a drizzle in her space. She was afraid that if she took out too much at once, it would scare Sun Mingshu. Also, she was afraid that if she gave too much, she would get into danger.
After all, this is the world of cultivation, and murder and robbery are very common.
After settling Sun Mingshu, Lin Qinghe set off for the next destination.