"It was I who asked her to bring you here."
Elderly Mrs. Xiao looked at you steadily, still appearing proud and authoritative, but given how unpleasant this felt, you preferred calling her Elderly Mrs. Xiao.
Your mother had severed ties with her natal family for nearly twenty years, but you still had so understanding of your grandmother’s family.
The Xiao family was a well-established old-brand family in Yenjing; they were a traditional matriarchal society. In their family, all the children took their mother’s surna, and won controlled everything, whereas most n married into the family.
In such a family where won dominated and n declined, it was natural for a domineering woman to develop an arrogant and egotistical temperant, and Elderly Mrs. Xiao was one of them.
You kept silent, not bothering to talk to her.
"What’s the matter, just standing there, not willing to say a word to an old lady like ?" Elderly Mrs. Xiao suddenly said.
"Thirsty, don’t feel like talking."
"You child, how can you speak to your grandmother like that?"
Your mother made as if to hit soone, and Elderly Mrs. Xiao let out a cold laugh, "Forget it, soon enough you’ll be a Xiao family mber. I ca here to see you, and also..."
"What the heck?" you imdiately interrupted Elderly Mrs. Xiao, "What do you an I’ll soon be a Xiao family mber? My surna is Li, what the hell does that have to do with the Xiao family!?"
"Li Muyun! Mind your manners!"
Seeing that your mother was truly angry, you pulled back your neck and changed the defiant expression you had just worn, smilingly said to Elderly Mrs. Xiao, "Elderly Mrs. Xiao, what did you an by what you just said?"
"What? Your mom didn’t explain it to you when she ca?"
"No, my mom only praised , saying how her son has beco even more handso, smart, agile, and imposing, nothing else."
Elderly Mrs. Xiao looked at your mother, who slightly lowered her head, obviously hiding sothing from you.
But your mother wasn’t a pushover either. She imdiately lifted her head and said to Elderly Mrs. Xiao, whom she had feared since childhood, "Mother, although Muyun is my son, I cannot decide his life for him. Bringing him here was to let him make his own decision."
"Make his own decision? Humph, when a person is faced with the threat of death, the only thing he can do is save himself!" Elderly Mrs. Xiao turned to you and said, "Brat, let tell you the truth, if it wasn’t for Ying’er kowtowing to , I wouldn’t have considered letting i’er marry you. But rember, when you marry i’er, that’s when you will be marrying into our Xiao family."
"Hold on!" you suddenly spoke up, scratching your head, "Let get this straight. Elderly Mrs. Xiao, you’re saying my mom ca all the way from Yuhang to Yenjing and kowtowed in front of you, just to have marry into your Xiao family?"
"That’s right!" Elderly Mrs. Xiao glared, asking, "What, you’re not willing?"
"Ah, no shit!" you pointed at your head, "Do I look like the type whose brain has been kicked by a donkey? Instead of being a proper man, I should run off to Yenjing and enter into your weird Xiao family, even as a son-in-law, pah! And who the hell cares about so i’er, even if you offered a dozen, I wouldn’t be interested!"
"Humph, hmph hmph, so you an to say you’d rather have your curse strike, ending your pri at twenty, than marry into the Xiao family?"
"Heh..."
You couldn’t be bothered to waste words.
"You’ve got guts, sobody show the guest out!"
At this mont, two sexy cheongsam-clad beauties stepped inside the door and made a "please" gesture towards you.
"Mom, let’s go. This place isn’t ant for poor folks like us."
With that, you shoved your hands into your pockets, whistled softly, and sauntered out, shaking your head.
Your mother gave a bow to Elderly Mrs. Xiao and then followed your lead.
"Son, you were pretty bold just now."
"Of course, do you know who your son is?"
"Really? But that’s my mother, after all!"
"Ouch! Mom, easy! My ear’s coming off, it’s coming off!"
As the voices of you and your mother gradually faded away, the presidential suite returned to its peace.
The long-haired beauty who hadn’t glanced over from the beginning gave a curtsey to Elderly Mrs. Xiao, revealing her pearl-like teeth with a sweet smile, "Grandma, you really hit the nail on the head. Cousin Mu Yun is quite interesting."
"Hmph, just like his deadbeat father!" Elderly Mrs. Xiao snorted coldly, "If his father hadn’t been so stubborn back then and had listened to to marry into the Xiao Family, I could have delayed his curse from occurring for another forty years. Ying’er wouldn’t have beco a widow so soon!"
"But Grandma, doesn’t that an Cousin Mu Yun will really die at twenty?" The long-haired beauty blinked her charming, seductive eyes, her every move exuding a captivating charm.
Elderly Mrs. Xiao let out a soft sigh, "I don’t know. The Old Li Family has only this one heir. If he’s gone, the authentic Taoist bloodline of the Li Tang will be cut off as well."
"Grandma, you always say that the authentic Taoist bloodline is from the Li Tang, but in these thousand years, haven’t they produced any formidable Heavenly Masters? Although Cousin Mu Yun can use the Five Elents Spell Art, his foundation is very shallow; he’s not even a match for ."
Hearing this, Elderly Mrs. Xiao chuckled, "You girl, you just t him for the first ti and already you’re trying to pry into that boy’s secrets from ?"
"Hehe, you saw right through , Grandma." The long-haired beauty stuck out her tongue cutely, showing her adorable side, "Co on, Grandma, tell ."
The long-haired beauty gently shook the wheelchair, acting spoiled like a child.
"Alright, alright, Grandma will tell you."
Elderly Mrs. Xiao lovingly patted the long-haired beauty’s delicate hand, her eyes full of gentleness.
If you were there at the ti, you would not believe your eyes. The Xiao family head, who had just acted so haughtily, as if she was the Empress Dowager Cixi of the Western Palace, now showed a tender and compassionate side.
"This subject is quite profound. I’m old and can only pick the simple parts to talk about." Elderly Mrs. Xiao seed to be lost in mories, "As everyone knows, Li Shimin revered Laozi and Li’er as his ancestors. During the Tang Dynasty, Taoism reached its peak, with the likes of Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang being quite prominent."
"But wasn’t Xuan Zang just back from his journey to the west at that ti? The Buddhist practice should have been quite popular then, right?" The long-haired beauty fluttered her seductive eyes, expressing a hint of doubt.
"You’ve read too much ’Journey to the West,’ haven’t you?"
"Hehe, that’s what everyone thinks."
"’Journey to the West’ was written by soone from the Ming Dynasty, what would they know?" Elderly Mrs. Xiao said with a smile, "Since the beginning of the Li Tang with Li Yuan, both Li Shimin and Li Zhi were extraordinary talents. It’s just a pity that the Li family mbers always had fatal entanglents with won."
"Won?"
People love gossip, especially girls. Upon hearing this topic, the long-haired beauty’s fox-like eyes instantly sparkled with interest as she eagerly asked, "Grandma, tell about the won of Li Shimin and Li Zhi."
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