Chapter 19 – The underground old lady, Part 10
Qiu Qianchi said, with hate in her voice; “Huh!” After a while she continued, “This happened twenty years ago. My two brothers got into an argunt…”
Lu E interrupted, “I’ve got two uncles?”
Qiu Qianchi said, “Don’t you know?” Her tone beca stern with a hint of scolding.
Lu E thought, “How would I know?” She replied, “No, no one’s ever told before.”
Qiu Qianchi sighed and said, “You… you really don’t know anything. Pitiful… pitiful!” After a while she continued, “Your uncles are twins, your older uncle is called Qiu Qianzhang, your second uncle is Qiu Qianren. Their voices, figure and faces were the sa, but the two’s characters and fate were very different. Second brother’s martial arts are extrely high but first brother’s martial arts were very ordinary. Second brother taught martial arts but first brother and I were a lot closer to each other. Second brother was the chief of the Iron Palm Clan; he had many clan matters to deal with and was busy with his own martial arts, so we saw very little of each other. When he taught martial arts, he was strict and didn’t say much to . But first brother was very close to ; he would say, sister this and sister that. Later on when the two argued, I sided with first brother.”
Lu E said, “Mother, what did the two uncles argued about?”
Qiu Qianchi’s face suddenly showed a hint of a smile and said, “This matter is not serious but not too insignificant either; it’s just that my second brother was too obstinate. When second brother beca the chief of the Iron Palm Clan, his na ‘Iron Palm Water Floater Qiu Qianren’ was famous throughout the world of the Wulin. Very few knew my elder brother’s na. Whenever my elder brother went out, he would sotis borrow my second brother’s na for convenience. The two of them looked the sa and were real brothers, so what’s so bad about borrowing his na? But second brother didn’t see it this way; he would argue about this all the ti, saying elder brother was a swindler and trickster. My elder brother had a good temper; whenever second brother scolded him he would just laugh and apologize. One ti, second brother went too far. I couldn’t do anything and so added a few words to help first brother. This brought trouble onto and we argued. I left the Iron Palm Peak in anger and never returned.”
“I road Jianghu by myself. One ti, I was pursuing a scoundrel and ca to the Passionless Valley by accident. This was punishnt for the bad deeds in my last life and I t Gongsun Zhi… this evil… this evil scoundrel. We eventually got married. I was older than him by a few years and my martial arts were a lot stronger than his. After we got married not only did I teach him martial arts, I looked after his everyday needs; he didn’t have to do anything in the valley. His family’s martial arts have its ingenious aspects but there were too many holes in them. It was who thought about it carefully and helped him improve it. One ti, a strong enemy attacked; if it wasn’t for driving them away, this Passionless Valley would have been flattened long ago. Who could have predicted that this scoundrel would repay these deeds with ingratitude? After he grew his wings he forgot about where all his martial arts ca from, and who saved him in his ti of danger.” She then spurted out a load of insults and curses with the insults becoming eviler as it went on.
Lu E blushed when she heard this; she felt that insulting her husband like this in front of Yang Guo was a bit embarrassing. She kept on calling out, “Mother, mother!” But how could she stop her? Yang Guo loved it; he hated Gongsun Zhi too and enjoyed these insults imnsely. He couldn’t stop himself from adding a few words to stir Qiu Qianchi’s mood further. If it wasn’t for Lu E, he too would have opened his mouth and insulted him as well.
Qiu Qianchi exhausted her insults until nothing new could be added; she had repeated everything she said and had to stop. She continued, “That year I was pregnant with you and it was unavoidable that my character would beco a bit more anxious and worried. Who knew that while it seed like he treated the sa on the outside, he was having an affair with a maid behind my back. After you were born, he still carried on with this maid. I didn’t know anything; I thought that after we had this beautiful daughter, he would treat better. I was deceived by them for a few years. One day I accidentally stumbled across them and heard them discussing about leaving the valley together and never returning.”
“I was hiding behind a tree and heard that scoundrel say that he was worried about how high my martial arts were and the further they went the better; how I was too controlling and didn’t give him any freedom. He said he only felt alive when he was with that bitch maid. I had always thought his feelings for were real, but when I heard this I was so angry that I almost fainted. I wanted to dash forward and kill the two right there and then. Although he was heartless, I still looked back fondly upon the many years of us being a husband and wife. He was originally a good person, this must be the fault of that seducing bitch using her charms on him. I held my anger and stood behind the tree, listening carefully.”
“I heard them say that two days later I’ll be ditating for seven days and nights without leaving the room. They would take this chance to leave the valley, and by the ti I’ve found out seven days later, they’ll be long gone. I shivered when I heard this; heaven must have pitied to give this chance to see through their plans. Otherwise, where on earth would I be able to find them seven days later?” By this point, her teeth were chattering with fury.
Lu E asked, “What was the young maid called? Was she beautiful?”
Qiu Qianchi said, “Crap! Beautiful my arse! This maid seduced him through her words; whatever the bastard said she agreed with and she would sweet talk him saying that he was the greatest man on this earth, that he was a great hero. Huh, that bitch was called Rou’er. That Gongsun Zhi with his sinful ancestors, what stance or form of his that I don’t know? He’s a great hero? He’s not even worthy to be a follower of my big brother; if he tried to pour wine for my second brother he would be kicked out on his butt.”
By this point, Yang Guo was beginning to feel a little sympathy for Gongsun Zhi, he thought, “It must be because you were too controlling and that your looking down on him was what forced him to finally fight back.”
Lu E was afraid that her mother would break out in another bout of non stop cursing, so she asked quickly, “Mother, what happened then?”
Qiu Qianchi said, “The two animals had decided that in the morning on the third day, they’ll et there again and leave together. They said that in the two upcoming days they’ll need to be extrely careful and not leave any clues as to what they were doing in case I found out. The two then continued on with talking rubbish. The bitch looked at the bastard captivated, as if she were looking at soone more important than the Emperor; revering him more than gods and goddesses. That bastard felt proud of himself; he kept on praising himself and then hugged and touched that slut. Their shaless actions almost angered to death right there and then. Early on the third day, I pretended to ditate in the ditation chamber while Gongsun Zhi ca over and peeked in a few tis through the window. I waited for him to leave and then utilized my lightness kung fu and rushed to their eting place. That bitch had arrived there before him. Without saying a word I grabbed her and tossed her into a Passion Flower thicket….” Yang Guo and Lu E both gasped.
Qiu Qianchi glanced at them and continued, “After a while Gongsun Zhi arrived; there is no need to describe the panicky state he was in when he saw Rou’er rolling about and crying out in pain in the Passion Flowers. I leaped out from behind the tree and held him with my two hands then threw him down into the thicket as well. The valley has an antidote to the Passion Flower poison that had been passed down from generation to generation; it is called the Passionless Pill. Gongsun Zhi struggled and picked himself up; he then helped that slut off the ground and rushed to the pill room, wanting to get the Passionless Pill to cure their poison. Ha-ha, guess what they saw?”
Lu E said, “Mother, what did they see?”
Yang Guo thought, “You must have destroyed all the Passionless Pills; what else could it be?”
Qiu Qianchi did indeed say, “Ha-ha, when he got to the room, he saw a bowl filled with frosty arsenic water and hundreds of Passionless Pills soaking in the bowl. If he wanted to take the Passionless Pill he would have to take in the poison of the frosty arsenic water; if he didn’t take it, he would still die. The thod of producing the Passionless Pill is a family secret. It is extrely difficult to get all the precious herbs and dicines to produce them. To make a batch of Passionless Pills requires the spring dew and autumn frost; it will take three years to make. He then rushed to the ditation chamber and begged on his knees for their lives. He knew that I would muse over on our marriage and wouldn’t destroy all the pills, keeping so just in case. He struck himself across the face many tis; he cried and swore that if I spared the two them he would send Rou’er away and never see her again. And he said he would never dare to do such a thing again.”
“As I heard him beg, his mouth kept on talking about Rou’er. I was angry and took out a Passionless Pill and put it on the table. I said, ‘There is only one Passionless Pill left. Only one of you can live. You know that it would be of no use if you each take half. You decide whether you want to save her or save yourself.’ He imdiately took the pill with him and hurried to the pill room. I followed after him. By that ti, the bitch was in unbearable pain and was rolling about on the floor.
Gongsun Zhi said, ‘Rou’er, go in peace. I’ll follow you in death.’ He then drew out a sword.
When Rou’er saw how loving he was, she was extrely touched and said, ‘Good, good. We’ll be a husband and wife in the underworld.’
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