Chapter 534: Breakthrough (4)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
When she came back to her senses, she found herself in her eldest son’s room. The room was still filled with the lingering smell of medicine.
A window opened on the east side. Hua Xi, who had a sickly expression, was sitting by the window with a black cloak. When he heard this, he looked in Madam Hua’s direction and called out, “Mother.”
His eye sockets and cheeks were slightly sunken because he was thin, making him look very weak. His voice was hoa.r.s.e, and he was short of breath, but he was no longer as weak as he was this morning.
This face was originally identical to Hua Zhao’s, but because he was sick and thin, the brothers only looked 50 to 60% alike.
“Xi’er!” Madam Hua shouted in a trembling voice. Her vision was blurry, and a few strands of messy hair were stuck to her cheeks with cold sweat. The usually dignified woman now revealed a rare, sorry state.
“Mother, don’t worry.” Hua Xi forced a smile and comforted her. “I’ve eaten the ginseng soup prescribed by Doctor w.a.n.g. I’m much better. I’ll be fine soon.” These words were like a knife stabbing deeply into Madam Hua’s heart. The knife stirred repeatedly in her heart, making her wish she was dead.
She held Hua Xi’s bony hand tightly as tears rolled down her face again.
In just half a day, she had shed countless tears. Her eyes were already dry and burning.
“Mother, what’s wrong?” Hua Xi asked with concern. He noticed that his mother was holding the family tree. “Mother, why are you holding the family tree?”
Madam Hua’s tears flowed even more turbulently. Her heart and soul were shattered. As she cried, she told him everything. From the Yin marriage with the Lu family to what Second Lady Gu had said, to his and his second brother’s illness, she told him everything.
In the end, she said in a heart-wrenching voice, “Your father is too heartless!” Hua Xi was weak, but he was smart. He sorted out the situation in a flash, and his expression instantly changed.
It turned out that he was on the verge of death at a young age, not because he was weak, but because he had been harmed by his father. In every generation of the Hua family, there were men who died young for an unspeakable purpose. “Mother!” Hua Xi grabbed Madam Hua’s hand. His eyes, which were slightly yellow from his long illness, were bloodshot. “Save me. I don’t want to die!” “Please!”
I’m only 18 years old. 1 don’t want to die.
I should have had a bright life. With my talent, it 11 be easy for me to get on the honor roll in the future. Why do 1 have to die for my father’s selfishness?!
Second Brother and 1 are clearly twins, and just because I’m the eldest brother, Father wants to sacrifice me and not Second Brother?!
On what grounds?!
Just because Second Brother is healthier than me, Father chose to sacrifice the sickly me?!
I’m a 16-year-old top scorer. I’m clearly more outstanding than Second Brother!
Hua Xi’s heart was filled with despair. His hand that was holding Madam Hua’s trembled violently. He was agitated and didn’t look like his usual refined self at all.
“Xi’er.” Madam Hua’s trembling hand gently touched her eldest son’s face, and her heart ached even more.
At this moment, her head was buzzing. An ethereal female voice sounded close and far away, with a soul-stirring bewitching power. “There’s no one else who can save your son. Only you.”
“Wuliang Temple. Take the Hua family tree to Wuliang Temple.”
“Second Lady Gu said that only 1 can save you.” Madam Hua muttered to herself. “She asked me to take the Hua family tree to Wuliang Temple.”
“She also said that the sin in the soul came from the family. For generations, as long as it’s worshiped, it’ll never stop.”
“Worshiped?” Hua Xi thought for a moment, his eyes flashing as he asked thoughtfully, “Mother, are those elders of the family who died young a form of worship to the Wuliang Temple?”
“That’s right.” Madam Hua nodded.
Wuliang Temple was famous in the capital. No other temple or Daoist temple could compare to it. Like most prominent families in the capital, the Hua family also worshiped the tablets of their ancestors and clansmen in Wuliang Temple.
Madam Hua frowned tightly and speculated, “Could it be that Second Lady Gu wants me to go to Wuliang Temple to destroy the offering so that I can interrupt this evil technique that harms people?!”
This was indeed something she could do, but Second Lady Gu couldn’t do it.
Hua Xi thought so too and agreed eagerly. “That must be it.”
He held Madam Hua’s hand tightly and looked at her with admiration. “Mother, since Father is so heartless… I can only rely on you!”
“Mother, you won’t disappoint me, right?”
At this moment, Hua Xi’s eyes were abnormally bright, as if a dying person had seen a miracle pill.
“Leave everything to me.” Madam Hua nodded, her voice hoa.r.s.e. “Mother will definitely save you!”
Madam Hua seemed to have absorbed strength from her son’s gaze, and her fighting spirit became high again.
Not long after returning to the residence, she left in a hurry.
This time, her carriage went to Wuliang Mountain.
When the carriage arrived at Wuliang Mountain, it was almost five o’clock.
Madam Hua rushed up the mountain. The weather was clearly not hot, but she was already sweating profusely. There was only one thought in her mind: I have to save Xi’er.
“Lead me to the Rebirth Hall!” she grabbed a little Daoist child and said.
The Daoist child said with a smile, “Kind lady, the Rebirth Hail is being repaired. The Temple Master has ordered us to close the hall and not entertain visitors recently…”
He wanted to ask her to come back another day, but the anxious Madam Hua had no patience to listen to him finish. She said anxiously, “Temple Master… Where’s Daoist Xuan Cheng? 1 want to see him!”
As she spoke, she searched for Daoist Xuan Cheng.
Madam Hua rushed into the temple without a care. She pulled a Daoist priest and asked, “Where’s Daoist Xuan Cheng?”
After asking a few people in a row and getting no answer, Madam Hua became even more anxious. The back of her neck seemed to feel the coldness of a guillotine against her skin.
The Daoist child behind her shouted breathlessly, “kind lady” as he chased after her. He felt that this Madam seemed to have gone crazy.
Suddenly, Madam Hua’s eyes lit up. She saw an old Daoist in a blue coat walking out of a hall. The old Daoist had a sage-like appearance, with white hair and a youthful face. At a glance, he was completely different from the other Daoists around him.
The old Daoist was surrounded by more than ten men who looked like scholars. There was also a young master in white who was talking to him.
Madam Hua’s gaze was fixed on the old Daoist. She could only see him and no one else.
That must be Daoist Xuan Cheng!
There isn’t much time left… When the time comes, both my sons will die..