Things suddenly became serious. If it was just Xu Qiongzhen, it would be fine. She could just be sent back to her original time and space, given some compensation that she couldn't refuse, and have her sign a letter of commitment not to appeal.
But now there is a daughter. Regardless of Xu Qiongzhen's attitude towards his daughter, how to place her is a big problem. She certainly cannot stay in the Song Dynasty. Should she go to her mother's time and space?
So how can one fabricate a child's five-year experience out of thin air? Hua Liluo might even have to hire a writer to write a detailed story for the little girl.
All in all, this matter was quite troublesome to deal with.
Of course, this only applies to Hua Liluo and the Time Management Bureau. Gan Yuelong and Shen Yuelan have nothing to do with this matter. Therefore, Gan Yuelong looks at this matter purely from a fun-loving perspective.
His master had always seemed careless since the first day he met her, but she had the ability to arrange everything clearly, which made Gan Yuelong admire her.
Although this matter seemed a bit troublesome, it did not make Hua Liluo frown at all. Fifty thousand years of life experience was not something that could be said casually. She walked to Xu Qiongzhen and spoke to her in a gentle tone.
[My dear girl, your experience was caused by our negligence. I apologize to you on behalf of the Time Management Bureau.]
[Afterwards, whether you want to revisit your physical state or forget this memory, we will try our best to meet all your reasonable requests. ]
[The only issue we need to discuss now is about your child. We would like to ask for your opinion. We want to know if you are willing to continue raising her after you return?]
What will happen to her if I refuse to raise her?
[We will erase all her memories of the Song Dynasty, send her to an orphanage, and assign someone to look after her until she turns 18, the day she grows up.]
[If I raise her, what I can do is actually similar to this, right? ]
[Materially, this is true, but spiritually, we can never replace our biological parents. ]
[I see. Give me some time to think about it.]
【OK. 】
Looking at Xu Qiongzhen's distraught back, Hua Liluo made a bet with Gan Yuelong in a malicious way:
[What do you think she will choose? I bet one thousand Yaoji coins that she will definitely give up the girl next door.]
[Master, is this really okay for you? You are treating other people's pain as fun.]
[What kind of pain is this little thing of hers? She has many choices now, and everything is still in time. As long as she doesn't make the decision that she will regret the most, there will be no pain at all. ]
[But you know exactly what choice she will make. ]
[Yeah, but I really hope I'm wrong. ]
However, Hua Liluo was disappointed in the end, and Xu Qiongzhen finally chose to give up the child, but no one could blame her, after all, the child was the product of a wrong marriage.
[Just, I hope she won't regret it in the future. ]
Gan Yuelong recalled Hua Liluo's comments when she left with the child in her arms, and couldn't help but feel a little sorry for Xu Qiongzhen. Although the master seemed unsound, whatever she asserted would definitely happen.
Gan Yuelong once asked Hua Liluo how she could make such a brilliant judgment. Was there any secret? Hua Liluo smiled bitterly and said that she had no secret, but she had lived for a long time and had met too many people and things.
Human beings are like ants trapped in a historical cycle, constantly repeating past mistakes.
As Hegel said, the only lesson mankind has learned from history is that mankind can learn no lesson from history.
Therefore, Hua Liluo can easily judge a person's next choice and even the impact of this event on the person's life, because she has witnessed too many similar things and seen the difficult paths of countless people moving forward.
After Gan Yuelong sighed, she no longer paid attention to the matter. She still had to keep an eye on Zhao Heng. It would only be a few days before he ascended the throne. Before that, she had to make sure he could stand up and walk.
Speaking of which, the matter of Mi Yuan should happen in the next two days. Yue Lan should be able to return before Zhao Heng ascends the throne. I have to get things done before then, otherwise this guy will not know how to frame me.
In Tianshui Manor, after Shen Yuelan sent Mi Yuan away, she felt empty in her heart, as if something was missing. This guy was still in her heart, leaving a mark that belonged only to her. What a cunning guy.
Because Mi Yuan is really leaving here this time, this manor needs Shen Yuelan's help to deal with it. These days, Shen Yuelan has been sorting out the things left behind by Mi Yuan.
Most of the luggage were various research manuscripts on Song Dynasty history written by Mi Yuan before she met Shen Yuelan. The manuscripts written after Mi Yuan met Shen Yuelan should have been taken away directly by her.
This part of the manuscripts must have been forgotten by Mi Yuan because she left in such a hurry. Shen Yuelan sorted and organized the manuscripts, packed them up and took them away, intending to return them to her when they met next time.
Apart from that, there was only the manor itself and the servants and tenants. After Shen Yuelan confirmed that she had not missed anything, she sold the fields in the manor to these servants and tenants at a relatively low price.
Shen Yuelan sold the mansion to a family named Li through a broker, and left before the family moved into the house. However, before leaving the mansion, Shen Yuelan looked back suspiciously.
I heard that the people who bought the Miyuan Mansion were a father and son of the Dangxiang clan. Were they the father and son of the Li family of the Dangxiang clan? Shen Yuelan was a little puzzled. It couldn't be such a coincidence. Why would Li Jiqian (Li Yuanhao's grandfather) come here at this time?
However, the matter here has come to an end, and Shen Yuelan is too lazy to meddle in other people's business. She plans to go to the mountain to pay tribute to Old Zhao, and then return to Tokyo City to reunite with everyone.
But Shen Yuelan did not go looking for trouble, but trouble came looking for her. Shen Yuelan, who came to Lao Zhao's tomb with a happy face and yellow paper in hand to pay her respects, saw two people here who should not be here.
The Li father and son who bought the Miyuan mansion actually appeared in front of Lao Zhao's tomb and were paying tribute to him. Shen Yuelan didn't know whether they were enemies or friends for a moment, so she had to hold Su Yi and get ready.
Shen Yuelan has already sensed the secret guards hidden in the nearby woods. The two people in front of her might not be so easy to get rid of. Humph, but am I, Shen Yuelan, so easy to get rid of?
[Who are you? Why are you coming to worship my ancestors? ]
The father and son who were worshiping looked in the direction of the sound and saw a girl in plain clothes with a servant boy, holding a bronze blade in her hand, angrily questioning them what they were doing.
Chapter 87: Fame Beyond the Great Wall
The middle-aged man hurriedly stood up upon seeing this, and bowed to Shen Yuelan to apologize, saying that they had heard that the ancestral tomb of the owner of the mansion was there, and thought that they might see Shen Yuelan here, so they came uninvited and disturbed the peace of the tomb owner.
[Why are you looking for me? There is nothing wrong with my house. You bought it after seeing it. We should be clear on the financial matters.]
[Hahaha, there is no problem with the mansion. I just want to ask you about a person. I heard that you and the previous owner of this mansion had a deep relationship and were always together all day long, so I guess you should know where that person is.]
[Ah, please don't misunderstand. Yuan'er and I are not enemies. She is my adopted daughter. Speaking of this house, it was I who bought it for her. This time when I returned to Song, I passed by here and planned to come and see her, but I never thought that this house was for sale. ]
[I thought she was in trouble, so I bought this house and planned to give her a surprise, but... ]
But she didn't expect that the owner of this house was no longer Mi Yuan, but this little kid who came out of nowhere. Shen Yuelan couldn't deny this man's statement. After all, Mi Yuan had never mentioned this before.
[Oh, but Mi Yuan never told me that she has a foster father. If you can't produce evidence, you and your son, as well as the secret guards in the forest, will have to stay here today.]
While Shen Yuelan was speaking, the secret guards in the forest seemed to be suddenly stimulated by something and rushed out from their hiding places frantically, causing the father and son to frown for a moment.
They didn't know that their secret guards were driven out of the woods. The offensive and defensive situations changed in an instant. The father and son hadn't encountered such a situation in many years. It was really exciting.
The secret guards around him were about to attack Shen Yuelan, but were stopped by the middle-aged man, who said to Shen Yuelan with great pleasure:
[Hahaha, I didn't expect that this small Tianshui City would have such a hidden talent. I was wrong.]
[However, young lady, there is no need to be so aggressive. What I just said is absolutely true. As for the evidence, I can also show it. Take a look at this manuscript. Is it Yuan Er's handwriting? ]
Shen Huanyan, who had been silent all the time, walked to the middle-aged man at Shen Yuelan's nod, took the manuscript, and after looking at it carefully, confirmed that it was indeed left by Mi Yuan, and what the man said was true.
Shen Yuelan was silent for a moment, and then asked the man what he wanted to know from her. Seeing that Shen Yuelan's attitude had softened, the middle-aged man waved his hand and asked the secret guards to disperse.
But the secret guards did not obey his orders. They just stood there, staring at him, not daring to make any move. The middle-aged man was stunned at first, then turned to look at Shen Yuelan with sudden realization.
Shen Yuelan snorted coldly and ordered Qin Ruishi to withdraw. Only then did the opponent's secret guards dare to leave. The middle-aged man smiled bitterly when he saw this.
[All we want is to know where my daughter is. Please show us your kindness.]
[Since you two claim to be Mi Yuan's adoptive father and brother, you should know roughly where she came from. She just returned to her real home, so there is no need to chase her.]
The father and son frowned and looked at each other. The young man, who had been silent, finally couldn't help himself and said:
[Young lady, you don’t know that Sister Yuan is a transmigrated soul. That body is that of my elder sister who passed away early. If Sister Yuan is still alive, it would be fine. But if she is really gone, can that body still be with us and let it rest in peace? ]
Shen Yuelan was slightly stunned when she heard this. Ha, what do you mean? You came to ask for my body, but Mi Yuan just flew away with the wind, not even a trace of it was left. I'll go there and get you the body.
Shen Yuelan twitched her lips and thought for a long time, but couldn't figure out how to explain that she didn't have Mi Yuan's body. Finally, she said:
[Do you think Mi Yuan is someone who would let you go so peacefully? ]
As soon as these words were spoken, the faces of the father and son opposite suddenly darkened, and the corners of their mouths and eyes kept twitching, as if they thought of some bad memories. In the end, they even accepted Shen Yuelan's nonsense and stopped trying to get the body back.
Instead, he got some snacks and drinks, and pulled Shen Yuelan to sit in front of Lao Zhao's tombstone, and complained to her about the bad things that Mi Yuan did when he was a child.
Shen Yuelan didn't know whether to laugh or cry for a moment. It seemed that Mi Yuan's childhood had cast a deep shadow on this family.
According to Li's father and son, Mi Yuan was not who she said she was. She was swept in by the turbulence caused by the war in Annan. She was a soul that traveled through time and space and possessed the body of the daughter of an official family in Yinzhou (Mizhi).
The girl was weak to begin with, and she died soon after contracting the disease. Just as her family was preparing for her funeral, the girl suddenly came back to life, and came back to life. The energy brought by Mi Yuan's soul was what supported the little girl's recovery.
When Mi Yuan came, she told the family her origins clearly. The Li family did not believe it at first, thinking that the little girl had a fever and was talking nonsense. But after witnessing all the strange behaviors Mi Yuan performed in the next two or three years, they began to believe it.
Everyone in the Li family had to admit that what the little girl said was most likely true. She was really a stranger who had come back to life through borrowing a corpse. Once they realized this, there was always an invisible wall between them and Mi Yuan, which made them feel familiar yet distant.
Although Mi Yuan didn't care, the Li family couldn't stand it after a long time. Not only because there was a gap between Mi Yuan and everyone else, but also because Mi Yuan always liked to scribble and write words that they couldn't understand.
It would be fine if the little girl just wrote it randomly, but the problem is that after everyone studied the text carefully, they found that it was actually quite systematic.
What made the little girl's family even more frightened was that after a long time, they could almost understand what Mi Yuan wrote.
Influenced by this, when the Li family wrote letters to relatives and friends, they would be led astray by Mi Yuan from time to time and write the characters made up by Mi Yuan, and then their relatives and friends would write back to mock them for the incomplete characters in their handwriting.
In the end, it was the little girl's father, the middle-aged man in front of him, who made the decision. After consulting Mi Yuan, he arranged such a manor for her in Tianshui, Qinzhou.
The middle-aged man would bring his family to visit from time to time. It is said that distance creates beauty. After Mi Yuan and they were separated, their relationship became normal. Everyone even recognized the name Mi Yuan and no longer used her as a substitute for the little girl.
The younger generations in the family like to study the manuscripts left by Mi Yuan when they have nothing to do. Some of them even aspire to surpass Mi Yuan and create a more unique and self-contained writing system than the one written by Mi Yuan.
One day, let it become the Dangxiang people's official language, become famous in the frontier, and spread throughout the world.
Shen Yuelan's mouth twitched slightly when she heard this. "Okay, okay, it's your family that invented the Xixia script, right? Do you still want it to be famous in the frontier and spread throughout the world? In a few hundred years, the Mongols will wipe out your clan."
Chapter 88: Move forward and don’t look back
Happy times always pass quickly. By the time Shen Yuelan and the others had finished three rounds of drinks and both the host and the guests were happy, it was already midnight and it was time to say goodbye.
Shen Yuelan said goodbye to the father and son in the mountains. The middle-aged man hoped that Shen Yuelan could help him tell Mi Yuan something when they saw Mi Yuan again.
[Yuan'er, you and I have been father and daughter for a long time, and I have no regrets. As a father, I know that you are strange and I can't help you at all. Now that you are back, it is even more difficult. As a father, I can only pray for you in front of the Buddha and hope that you will have a safe and smooth life for the rest of your life.]
After saying this, the father and son, along with a group of secret guards, mounted their horses and prepared to leave. Before leaving, the middle-aged man said to Shen Yuelan:
[My dear friend, I know you are amazing. After we part today, I am afraid we may never meet again in this life. Please remember that I am Li Jiqian of the Dingnan Army! ]
[Sister Yuelan, I am Li Deming from the Dingnan Army. Please take care of yourself! ]
After the two men finished talking, without waiting for Shen Yuelan's response, they led their horses down the mountain and sped away. The momentum of their horses and swords, and their domineering aura, made Shen Yuelan feel passionate. A man on the frontier should be like this.
After bidding farewell to the Li father and son, Shen Yuelan returned to Old Zhao's grave and burned paper to pay tribute. This might really be her last time to see Old Zhao. From now on, the mountains are high and the roads are long, and it might be difficult for her to come here again.
[Old Zhao, did you see the Li father and son who just drank with me in front of your grave? Their descendants will carve out a piece of land in the north and claim the throne, tearing off a piece of flesh from the Song Dynasty that you and your brothers conquered with great difficulty.]
[Even the ancestors of a tiny country have such momentum, let alone when you were young. ]
[Everyone wants to change history, everyone wants to travel back to the Song Dynasty and rebuild a new country, but if the authority of history is really handed over to them, how many people can do better than you? ]
[Oh, it's just a moan without any reason, an attempt to vent dissatisfaction with the current situation through fiction, using the past to satirize the present, it's just a satire, don't take it seriously.]
Huanyan, who was accompanying Shen Yuelan, frowned when she heard this and gently reminded Shen Yuelan that it was time for them to leave.
Shen Yuelan understood what Shen Huanyan meant. She thought she was drunk and it was time to rest. The two of them cleaned up Lao Zhao's grave and went down the mountain.
Standing at the foot of the mountain, Shen Yuelan looked back. The old man who had shouted "I have no regrets" at sunset seemed to be standing on the hillside and shouting to her:
【Keep moving forward, don’t look back. 】
【Keep moving forward, don’t look back!!】
On March 28th of the third year of Zhidao, the second emperor of the Song Dynasty, Emperor Taizong of Song, Zhao Guangyi, died of illness in Wansui Hall. Shen Yuelan had no idea what he was thinking and why he finally chose Wansui Hall as the place where he would die.
At this moment, she was still on her way back to Tokyo. Because she was somewhat envious of the momentum of Li Jiqian and others when they were riding horses, Shen Yuelan bought two northwestern war horses on her own and came back to practice riding.
But she overestimated her cycling talent. She fell all the way. Shen Huanyan rode better than her. What else could Shen Yuelan do? Although it was painful every time she fell, she could not help running fast.
And maybe if she falls a few more times, she will be able to completely master the skill of horse riding. However, ideals are full and reality is very skinny. Shen Yuelan fell no less than a hundred times along the way, but she never learned how to brake or dismount.
In the end, she had to give up riding a horse and instead ride the same horse with Shen Huanyan. Huanyan was responsible for holding the reins, and Shen Yuelan sat behind little Huanyan, hugging her tightly, feeling Huanyan's slender waist and gradually fuller curves.
Shen Yuelan couldn't help but feel that her daughter had grown up. How big a domesticated beauty can grow generally depends on the appearance of her owner. When little Huanyan grows up, she will probably be at the same level as Shen Yuelan now.
Shen Yuelan felt that it would be enough to let Huanyan grow up to her age. Seventeen or eighteen years old is the time when the human body has the most energy, which is enough to handle most of the work.
If the body is shaped too maturely, it will affect the speed of drawing the sword in various ways, and it will also cause some unnecessary troubles due to appearance.
Don't underestimate this little trouble. In an ordinary surface world like the Song Dynasty, you won't see anything. But if you go to a surface world with special settings to perform a mission, it will be normal to see such weird operations as [hitting the small one will attract the big one; hitting the big one will attract the old one].
It would be fine if you can win, but if not, you have to consider changing your body. Although it is not uncommon to change your body regularly in the other world, it is very expensive to customize an identical body. Shen Yuelan doesn't want to waste that money.
Thinking back to the present, Shen Yuelan was holding the soft Huanyan in her arms, and liked to rub and pinch her whenever she had nothing to do, under the pretext of checking Huanyan's physical growth condition. This made Shen Huanyan's little face puffy all the time, and she didn't calm down at all during the whole journey.
The two of them walked and stopped along the way, and finally returned to the small, dilapidated temple in early April after an absence of five years. Fu Xi and others had already returned at the end of March, and now only Shen Yuelan and Shen Huanyan were left.
After being busy for four or five years, everyone looked exhausted. After Shen Yuelan came back, she gave everyone in the Yaodaoji Squadron a few years' vacation and let them live their own lives in Tokyo City.
Fu Xi brought a few experienced people with her and chose to find a relatively remote town outside the city to continue their casino business; Xu Hanyue and the other two went to the city to buy a restaurant and started a food and beverage business; Meng Anran brought a few demon sword girls who knew pharmacology and opened a Meng's Medical Clinic in the city;
There are also people like Xuanyuan Minghong who like to stay in the Taoist temple and not go anywhere else; there are also travel enthusiasts who traveled to Chengdu Prefecture with Mi Yuan before, and after resting in the Taoist temple for a while, they embarked on a new journey.
This is a bit normal. There are also some mavericks, such as Lu Lingjia and Xiao Yuhuan, these two idiots, actually bought a brothel and ran away to become mamasan. Shen Yuelan was so angry that she grabbed Lu Lingjia's ear and asked:
[Little bastard, is it because the customer has paid you enough that you, the mama-san, have to accompany the customer for one night? ]
[Hehehe, well, if the other person is handsome enough, it's not impossible. ]
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