Sheng Qingyin realized after a while and immediately started using the public chopsticks to pick food for her mother. As for her father, Sheng Qingyin hesitated for a moment, then picked a fried meatball and placed it in Mu Bai's bowl.
With her father's long arms, he could reach any dish easily, so she decided not to bother. Sheng Mingzhu, seeing this, felt even more uneasy. If her daughter only treated Mu Bai well, he could console himself, thinking that his daughter understood how to care for friends.
However, when her daughter was serving her mother, why didn't she also serve him, her father? Even if it was just a piece of vegetable! This meal made Sheng Mingzhu feel quite uncomfortable, so after finishing, he found an excuse to call Sheng Qingyin to the study for a talk.
Sheng Qingyin took a chair and sat down, tilting her head towards her father. "Dad, what's the matter?"
Sheng Mingzhu cleared his throat. "Cough, this Miss Mu, how did you get to know her? Tell me in detail."
"Oh, that," Sheng Qingyin said with little enthusiasm. Did her father start interrogating her friends as soon as she brought them home? With a slight frown, she continued, "Didn't I explain it in the letter? Mu Bai helped me catch a fugitive, and I invited her to go to the yamen together to claim the reward. We ended up traveling together."
"Is this Miss Mu only at the sixth level?" Sheng Mingzhu had read the letter, but it was quite vague about Mu Bai's details.
"I didn't specifically ask, but I think Mu Bai should have broken through to the seventh level. She's much stronger than me." Sheng Qingyin's expression changed quickly when talking about Mu Bai's strength.
Excitedly, she continued, "Mu Bai is amazing! Not only does she surpass me in internal strength, but she can also integrate sword techniques from different sects and even derive new moves from them!"
Sheng Mingzhu fell silent again, feeling a familiar sense of frustration. Integrating different sword techniques wasn't difficult for him, and he had even developed an earth-grade technique. Why did his daughter value Mu Bai more than him?
Sheng Mingzhu sighed, trying to advise, "Qingyin, it's not that I want to interfere with your friendships, but considering your special status, many people might approach you with ulterior motives."
"I know, but Mu Bai is definitely not one of them. We've been together all the time, and she never asked me for anything. Instead, she constantly practices with me and teaches me many new sword techniques!" Sheng Qingyin replied confidently.
Unable to refute this, Sheng Mingzhu chose to change the topic after a moment of silence. "After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the martial arts competition is approaching. There are rumors that I will choose a suitor for you from the top ten."
"Choose whoever you want; it's none of my business. If I don't find anyone I like among those ten, I won't marry." Sheng Qingyin dismissed her father's involvement in her personal life.
Sheng Mingzhu didn't argue. He couldn't force his daughter into marriage, so he allowed the rumors to circulate without confirming or denying them.
"Father, if there's nothing else, I'll go find Mu Bai. I'm worried she might not adapt here." Sheng Qingyin asked, eager to leave the study.
"Go ahead, and remember to talk to your mother. She misses you a lot." Sheng Mingzhu said with a touch of helplessness.
"Okay, Father, continue reading. I'm leaving." With his approval, Sheng Qingyin wasted no time, quickly getting up and leaving for her courtyard. As she approached, she overheard laughter inside.
Mrs. Sheng had a smile on her face. "Qingyin is indeed talented in martial arts. Initially, I was worried about her practicing too hard, but those basic sword techniques—she learns them after just one look, without much effort."
Mu Bai nodded in agreement. "Indeed, Qingyin has exceptional talent. There were times I thought her realm shouldn't be just at the sixth level. With her talent, reaching the eighth level at eighteen wouldn't be surprising."
Mrs. Sheng looked approvingly at her daughter. "Maybe it's because we didn't push Qingyin too hard when she was young. Whenever she was tired, we let her rest and told her not to overexert herself."
With a smile, Mrs. Sheng continued, confident that with her presence, her daughter would have enough time to reach the level of a junior martial arts master.
"Perhaps we'll find out more about her potential in the upcoming martial arts competition," Mu Bai remarked, feeling impressed by Sheng Qingyin's skills.
The conversation shifted away from Sheng Qingyin, leaving her father alone in the study, pondering why his daughter valued Mu Bai's opinions over his own expertise.
"Mother, I don't like what you're saying, when I was a child I was very diligent, but I didn't rest when I was tired." After standing in the doorway and listening for a while, Sheng Qingyin couldn't help but interrupt with her voice.
After walking to Mu Bai's side, Sheng Qingyin very naturally sat down next to her, "When I was a child, I practiced martial arts for more than two hours every day!"
Mrs. Sheng smiled and shook her head, her eyes fell on Mu Bai who was helping Sheng Qingyin pour tea, "Little Mu, how many hours did you practice martial arts every day when you were little."
Mu Bai hesitated for a moment and finally told the truth, "If the weather wasn't very hot, four hours a day, two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon."
If you add the theory course, there is actually one hour coming in the evening, Mu Bai added silently in her heart.
"Four hours?" Sheng Qingyin's eyes widened, "Isn't that the only thing left to do besides eating and sleeping is to practice martial arts?"
Mu Bai hesitated and said, "Actually, there is still a period of time for a lunch break, I don't do this every day, every five days of practicing, I will take a day off, and occasionally I will learn zither, chess, calligraphy and painting."
Sheng Qingyin nodded her head with a dazed look on her face, "Mu Bai, I will learn from you in the future! I will also practice martial arts for four hours every day."
Mu Bai didn't hold back a laugh when she heard this, "Qingyin, I only practice my sword every morning now, I've long since stopped being as hardworking as I was when I was a child."
After laying a good foundation, the internal energy had already started to automatically circulate in the body, to put it another way, Mu Bai was now practicing every moment to make her internal energy a lot more numerous and faster running.
Sheng Qingyin was a little embarrassed as she picked up her teacup and took a sip, "That's right, I forgot, in the future I'm going to practice a little more than you every morning."
"Good, do you need me to supervise you?" Mu Bai asked with a smile.
Sheng Qingyin answered with a bite, "Yes, but you'll just watch me practice, aren't you worried that I'll take the opportunity to surpass you?"
The smile on Mu Bai's face grew even bigger, "Wouldn't that be better? If I meet an enemy that's stronger than me, I can still let you help me, Qingyin."
Sheng Qingyin pondered for a while and felt that Mu Bai's logic was not problematic, the two of them were now acting together, if she became stronger, it would indeed be beneficial to Mu Bai.
Mrs. Sheng picked up a small snack and slowly tasted it, with a smile in her eyes as she watched the two interact, the more she looked at Mu Bai, the better she looked at her. What a good child, not arrogant, no utilitarian, looks very casual and dashing.
My daughter should be friends with such a person, the heart does not need to have too much of a burden, live in and happy.
After discovering that her daughter and Mu Bai had a lot to talk about, Mrs. Sheng didn't stay here much longer and quickly found a reason to leave, leaving the courtyard to the young people.
"Mu Bai, do you want to write a letter to your master, if there's a need, I can see that I can have someone deliver the letter for you, if you leave today, you'll still be in time to make it to Cang City by the Mid-Autumn Festival." Sheng Qingyin said.
Mu Bai smiled and shook her head, "Master, she doesn't really care about this kind of festival, if she's bored, she'll go to a nearby town to see the lantern festival."
I also don't know who exactly my own master sent to capture the male lead, whether she has captured the male lead now or not, but don't let him return to Jinling smoothly ah.
Sheng Qingyin nodded her head in understanding and quickly changed the topic.
After moving into the Sheng Mansion, Mu Bai started to be very restrained, rarely taking the initiative to have physical contact with Sheng Qing, trying to get Alliance Master Sheng to reduce his eye attacks on herself.
Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned, Mu Bai was restrained, but Sheng Qingyin, who had already developed a habit, didn't restrain herself and took Mu Bai's restraint as constraints and discomfort, and began to be doubly nice to her.
And so, the strange phenomenon formed a bizarre trap that trapped everyone. Mu Bai became more and more restrained, Sheng Qingyin became more and more gentle, and Alliance Master Sheng's eyes became more and more stern.
Mrs. Sheng, who could see something fishy, didn't get involved in this strange circle, but rather observed and watched silently from the side, not knowing what she was thinking about.
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The turn of events occurred on the morning of August 15th, when Sheng Xun, the eldest disciple of Alliance Master Sheng, came back from the capital in a dusty manner, bringing along the thousand year ginseng he had just acquired as a gift.
"You have a heart." In front of his eldest disciple, Alliance Master Sheng was still very dignified.
"It's good that Master and Mother like it." Sheng Xun said, "Where's Little Sister? She should be back from Suzhou, right?"
"Back, recently she has suddenly become diligent, at this hour she is probably still practicing her sword in the courtyard." Alliance Master Sheng said, touching the short beard he had purposely grown out, "You go bathe and change first, if you're tired, take a rest, it's fine to see your little sister later."
"Okay, then this disciple will retire first." Sheng Xun bent down and cupped his fists, regardless of how Alliance Master Sheng treated him, he had always been very observant in front of the other party, always putting the other party's words first.
Alliance Master Sheng was also accustomed to the way this great disciple of his acted and nodded his head in response.
"By the way, Qingyin has brought a friend back with her, her strength seems to be around the seventh rank realm, you can spar with her when you have time." Just as Sheng Xun was about to leave, Alliance Master Sheng added another sentence.
Sheng Xun's footsteps lurched, and without asking anything, he directly answered.
At this moment, Mu Bai didn't know that a new round of trial and error had come again, and was still concentrating on exchanging sword strokes with Sheng Qingyin, figuring out new moves together.
Sheng Qingyin: "It's a bit difficult to suddenly change stances in the air, but if it can be successful, it can definitely catch the opponent off guard."
Mu Bai: "With no borrowed strength, it's a great test of body coordination, and this move has a certain degree of danger."
Sheng Qingyin: "It's okay, the two of us can give it a try, if I miss, you can just give me a hand."
Mu Bai nodded: "Okay, I will protect you, you want to try it now?"
"Well, you'll make the first move in a while, I'll try it first." Sheng Qingyin said, her toes tapped the ground and she quickly pulled away from Mu Bai, "Use the real sword, the success rate will be higher if you have more of a sense of crisis."
"Okay." Mu Bai nodded in response, and after seeing Sheng Qingyin ready, she raised her sword and stabbed towards the other party. In order to pursue realism, she also released a trace of killing aura to facilitate Sheng Qingyin's entry into the tense state of responding to the enemy.
Suddenly changing her stance without borrowing any strength was something impossible for ordinary people, and only someone with exceptional talent like Sheng Qingyin would dare to propose it and put it into actual action.
But this was after all the first attempt, Sheng Qingyin still missed without enough experience, the angle of change was not enough, not only did she fail to complete the side stance, but she also sent her body towards the tip of Mu Bai's sword.
Seeing this, Mu Bai directly threw her sword downwards, intending to reach out and catch Sheng Qingyin in the meantime.
But the moment she let go of the sword hilt, a bellowing cry came from outside the courtyard, Sheng Xun had a furious look on his face as he raised his sword and stabbed towards Mu Bai, directly at her heart, using a killing move.
Hiss, it's not good to come, the sword had already been thrown away by her in advance, it was too late to retrieve it now. If she dodged it, Qingyin would fall to the ground and get hurt, if she didn't, she was going to get a sword on herself.
In a flash of lightning, Mu Bai thought of the soft whip that had been wrapped around her waist, and directly drew it out with one hand and flung it towards Sheng Xun, while the other hand steadily caught Sheng Qingyin.
Because of the perspective, Sheng Qingyin's reaction was a beat slower, waiting until she landed before she realized what was happening and hurriedly raised her voice to stop it.
"Eldest Senior Brother, this is my friend, we were just sparring just now." Sheng Qingyin said, and after she stood up and stabilized herself, she hurriedly checked up on Mu Bai's body, asking if she had any injuries.
Mu Bai shook her head, the whip that was thrown out, forced the other party to change the direction of the attack, this momentary deviation was enough for herself to dodge the attack.
The killing intent in Sheng Xun's eyes quickly faded, a look of shame instantly appeared on his face, "I'm sorry, I thought that someone was trying to attack junior sister, so I stepped in, I'm really sorry, I shouldn't have scared this girl, right?"
"It's fine." Mu Bai responded, her attitude slightly cold.
Sheng Qingyin scratched her face, hesitating for a moment before introducing Mu Bai and Sheng Xun to each other, hoping that the two of them could forget about this small misunderstanding and not create any barriers because of her.
Mu Bai naturally wouldn't make things difficult for Sheng Qingyin, and after seeing Sheng Xun apologizing again, she returned a smile to show that she didn't mind.
Sheng Xun first expressed his apology, and then asked with feigned curiosity, "If Miss Mu carries a soft whip with her, she should have a deep attainment in whip techniques, right?"
"Generally, I'm just practicing casually, after all, a whip can be carried around with me, much more convenient than a long sword." Mu Bai said with a leathery smile, guessing Sheng Xun's next move.
After the curiosity and compliments, it was time to propose a sparring session, right?
Sheng Xun was already an expert of the seventh rank realm two years ago, if he were to spar with her, would it be better for her to win, or would it be better for her to fight to a draw?
Without waiting for Mu Bai to think of a reason, Sheng Xun made a request for a sparring session, or the kind that involved moving real swords.
"Of course." Mu Bai responded, a sparring match was a sparring match, the big deal was that she modified her strength to the seventh rank realm, or broke through during the sparring match like this.
"No way." Sheng Qing Yin frowned slightly and picked up the sword on the ground, handing it back to Mu Bai again, "Mu Bai and I just sparred, Eldest Senior Brother if you propose a sparring match at this point in time, even if you win, it's still not a win."
Sheng Xun froze for a moment, his own little junior sister didn't help herself even if it's not enough, how come she started to turn her elbow outwards.
"If Eldest Senior Brother really wants to spar, then let's do it after a few days, so it's fairer." Sheng Qingyin said, her tone particularly strong.
"Junior Sister has a point, then I'll come back to find Miss Mu for a sparring session days from now." Sheng Xun didn't hesitate for too long, and quickly accepted the time Sheng Qingyin proposed.
"Okay." Mu Bai didn't have a problem with it either, if the time was pushed back, there would be a little more time left for him to prepare.
After Sheng Xun left, Sheng Qingyin pulled Mu Bai into the study and spoke with a serious face, "Mu Bai, Eldest Senior Brother is much stronger than me, and his internal force is also very deep, you must be careful when you spar with him after a few days!"
"Since it's Qingyin's Senior Brother. It shouldn't matter if it's just a sparring match, right?" Mu Bai said, with a hint of teasing in her tone.
"It shouldn't matter, but the technique practiced by Eldest Senior Brother is so powerful that it can't be retracted after it's made a move, so if you can't dodge in time, there's a huge possibility that you'll be injured."
Sheng Qingyin said, a palpitating look in her eyes.
"Qingyin, you've sparred with your Eldest Senior Brother before?" Mu Bai instantly realized that something was wrong, Sheng Qingyin's tone seemed to be a little too cautious.
Sheng Qingyin slowly nodded her head, she was very excited when she had just broken through to the Fourth Grade Realm, she couldn't wait to go and find her Eldest Senior Brother to spar with him, as a result, the other party hadn't held back his strength and had almost seriously injured her.
Luckily, at the last moment, Eldest Senior Brother used his own internal injuries as the price to forcefully change the direction of the attack, which allowed her to dodge a bullet and only suffered a little less serious skin injury.
However, this experience left a deep impression on Sheng Qingyin, and she kept this incident firmly in her heart. Since then she never looked for her Eldest Senior Brother to spar again, and even if she couldn't help it, she went to her second senior brother, Lu Yifeng, lest something bad happen again.
After hearing Sheng Qingyin's words, Mu Bai frowned slightly.
Would Sheng Xun also use moves with that much killing power when he sparred with Qingyin? This seemed a bit out of place.
After all, Sheng Xun's realm was definitely higher than Qingyin's, and there was no need to go all out when sparring with a junior sister who was clearly inferior to herself, right?
Mu Bai's intuition told her that there was something not quite right about this Sheng Xun. After associating it with Sheng Xun's sword strike towards her heart without saying a word just now, her mind vaguely had a guess.
"Qingyin, what kind of technique does your Eldest Senior Brother cultivate? Is it different from yours?" Mu Bai asked.
Sheng Qingyin shook her head and said, "Although Eldest Senior Brother is my father's disciple, he practiced what seemed to be a family heirloom at the time ......"
Sheng Qing Yin paused as she said, seemingly reorganizing her language, "Eldest Senior Brother's family heirloom mastery is a Heavenly Rank Technique, and because of the reason that he didn't create a sect, it was coveted by many people. Twenty years ago, there were thieves who made a move, and in order to get the Heavenly Rank Technique. They killed Eldest Senior Brother's...... all of his family members. After, my father rushed over, he only had time to save Eldest Brother."
"What happened later, I'm not too sure, anyway, it's just that my father took in my eldest senior brother, who was only five years old, as an apprentice, and then taught him the family heirloom techniques." Sheng Qingyin struggled to recall.
Sheng Qingyin wasn't even born when this incident happened, and all of this information was all pieced together from her east and west.
Mu Bai: "What about your Eldest Senior Brother's original name? It should be different from the alliance's surname, right?"
Sheng Qingyin nodded her head, "Eldest Senior Brother was originally surnamed Xing, but then after two years of following Father, that is, when I was born, Eldest Senior Brother changed his surname to Sheng."
"I don't know the exact reason, I only know that the change of surname was after Eldest Senior Brother took the initiative." Sheng Qingyin added.
Mu Bai nodded, feeling more and more that what she had guessed might be the truth of the matter. After all, the world line was unknown right now, and she needed to make judgments and speculations based on the information she had received.
"So Mu Bai, you must be careful! If you can't beat them, immediately admit defeat! Don't tough it out!" Sheng Qingyin said with a serious face, and only after hearing Mu Bai's reassurance did she stop.
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The table on Mid-Autumn Night was much more lively than usual, not only was Sheng Xun added to the table, but the ever-present chief housekeeper, Uncle Li, had also joined in, enjoying this moment of reunion together.
At this special time, Sheng Qingyin took care of Mu Bai even more, trying to make her fit in, the action of pinching food basically never stopped.
Alliance Master Sheng looked and looked, and in order to maintain his image in front of his disciple, he could only let it happen, but also cared about Mu Bai's situation as well!
Mu Bai also gave up acting at this time, she had been pretending to be formal for days, if she still couldn't let go, it would be a bit too fake.
So then Mu Bai started to become proactive, and started interacting with Sheng Qingyin, causing Alliance Master Sheng's eyelids to jump again and again.
"Auntie, thank you for greeting me these past few days, I ......" Mu Bai said and paused, blinking heavily before continuing, "Truth be told, I feel that you're very much like my mother, if my mother was by my side , she would definitely take care of me just like you, Auntie."
"Good girl, if you don't mind, you can recognize me as your godmother, so I'll be your other mother." Mrs. Sheng was an emotional person, and after thinking about Mu Bai's life, she couldn't help but start to pity her.
Mu Bai sniffled and a smile quickly appeared on her face, "Really? Can I call Auntie ...... Mother?"
"Of course you can, you're Qingyin's good friend, there's no harm in being a good sister in the future." Mrs. Sheng said and couldn't help but touch Sheng Qingyin's head, "I've actually always had regrets about not letting Qingyin have one more sibling or something."
Sheng Qingyin couldn't help but pop up a question mark, Mother why are you touching my head when you're talking to Mu Bai? Just because I'm closer to you?
"Mother?" Mu Bai cautiously shouted. Godmother is half mother, mother in law is also half mother, both are kind of the same way, there is no harm in shouting it yourself.
"Good girl." Mrs. Sheng revealed a satisfied smile, removing her own hand from her own daughter's head and reaching out to Mu Bai.
Mu Bai was also very understanding, leaning her body towards Sheng Qingyin's side, making it convenient for Mrs. Sheng's hand to fall on her head.
Seeing this, Mrs. Sheng became even more satisfied, and after touching Mu Bai's head, she patted her own daughter's shoulder, "Didn't you clamor for a sister when you were little? Now you have a sister."
"Huh?" The question mark on Sheng Qingyin's head got even bigger, "Why is Mu Bai the older sister, maybe I'm older than Mu Bai!"
"It's true that you're both eighteen, but your birthdate is in December, have you forgotten?" Mrs. Sheng reminded.
Sheng Qingyin looked at Mu Bai unconvincingly, "Mu Bai, what month is your birthdate in?"
Mu Bai touched his nose and noticed that Alliance Master Sheng's eyes were sharp with a sly grudge, probably not understanding why his wife and daughter were starting to favor him.
"It was in December when I was picked up by master, I was still in swaddling clothes at that time, it seems like I was only a month or so?" Mu Bai said, "My master couldn't decide when I was born, so he simply set my birthdate at September 15th."
"Hm? September 15th? Then won't it be Mu Bai's birthday in a month's time?" Sheng Qing Yin quickly reacted, "Mu Bai why didn't you tell me earlier? I didn't even have time to prepare a gift."
Mu Bai hesitated for a moment and said, "I don't celebrate birthdays on weekdays, I'll only commemorate the day Master picked me up."
"When was that?" Sheng Qing Yin asked after her.
"It seems to be the afternoon of the sixth day." Mu Bai said.
"Huh?" Sheng Qingyin's eyes widened, "Doesn't that happen to be my birthday? Really ......"
"Qingyin." Mrs. Sheng spoke out to interrupt her own daughter's words and digressed, "Since Little Mu's birthday is set on the 15th of September, it's time to celebrate it in a month's time, along with your previous birthdays."
Sheng Qingyin was originally a bit confused, but after locking eyes with her own mother, she quickly understood.
Wasn't the day Mu Bai was picked up by her master the day her parents were killed and died? The so-called commemoration of this is mostly the laying of the foundation of her parents ......
"Okay, I'll listen to Mother!" Mu Bai smiled and answered, taking the initiative to look at Sheng Qing, "Sister Qingyin, I'm older than you oh, from now on I'll be your elder sister."
"What?! Only older than me by less than a month! I don't admit it!" Sheng Qingyin also cooperated and pulled away from the topic, and started to play around with Mu Bai, trying to help her suppress the bad memories.
"Let's not talk about months, even a day, an hour is still older, Sister Qingyin~" Mu Bai said cheerfully, ignoring Alliance Master Sheng's increasingly grudging eyes and smiling not too happily.
After verbally acknowledging it at the dinner table, Mrs. Sheng, in order to give Mu Bai a greater sense of belonging, even staged an acknowledgement ceremony, drinking the tea Mu Bai handed over, and presenting a gift in the process.
"This is a precious sword that I collected a few years ago, it doesn't have too special of an origin, but it's extremely sharp, sharpening iron like mud is no big deal." Mrs. Sheng first pulled out a precious sword, and then presented two house deeds.
"Since you've called me mother, just accept this, the profit from these two stores will be considered as pocket money for you."
Mrs. Sheng is very generous, these two stores are opened on the best location in Jinling City, together they can make a profit of almost five thousand taels of silver, if they are sold directly, a store of ten thousand taels is no big deal!
"Thank you, Mother." Mu Bai received the deed of the house with both hands, the simple two pieces of paper gave her a sense of urgency at once.
It seemed that no matter what place it was, she was going to have to make good money. If she didn't have enough family money, she probably wouldn't even have the face to propose a marriage.
After receiving the gift, Mu Bai met Alliance Master Sheng as soon as she left the house, and after thinking that she didn't recognize her godfather, Mu Bai immediately straightened her posture, "Alliance Master Sheng, I'll go back to Qingyin's courtyard first."
"Uh-huh." Alliance Master Sheng tensed his face with obvious displeasure.
What an unintelligent little girl, her bottom line is unclear not to mention, she's also so colorless, she's already called her own lady as mother, how can she still call Alliance Master Sheng? What does this mean? You don't recognize the husband and wife relationship between them?
Mu Bai didn't know what kind of mental interaction was going on underneath Master Sheng's serious expression, and when she heard the other party answering, she ran off in a huff, heading straight to Sheng Qing Yin's courtyard.
Seeing this, Alliance Master Sheng became even more disgruntled, humming heavily before walking in across the threshold.
Mrs. Sheng looked askance with a smile, "What's wrong? Don't like our new daughter?"
"It's your daughter, not mine." Alliance Master Sheng sat down on the chair next to her, "People are calling you mother, but they kept on calling me Alliance Master Sheng, polite as hell."
Mrs. Sheng smiled, "It's probably because the time spent together is too short, and you're still not familiar, right?"
"It's all days, and you're familiar with this Mu Bai? The moment she acts pitiful, you want to be her godmother?" Alliance Master Sheng said, his tone full of disapproval, "Even if you like her more, you're not so much as to accept her as a daughter, right?"
Mrs. Sheng remained calm and waited until Alliance Master Sheng had finished complaining before speaking, "Can't you see that? Qingyin and Little Mu are extremely close?"
"So what? Aren't all girls with a better relationship this mushy?" Alliance Master Sheng asked, he didn't feel anything wrong, he was just a bit unhappy that his daughter valued each other so much.
"Have you forgotten about your sister, Qingyin's little aunt?" Mrs. Sheng said, her tone still pretty much the same as usual, "I don't care if your sister fooled around, but she shouldn't have fooled around in front of Qingyin when she was so young, and even said those kinds of words to Qingyin."
Alliance Master Sheng froze for a moment, and it took a while for him to react, a somewhat sardonic expression on his face, "This was ten years ago, Qingyin should have forgotten, right?"
"Forgotten?" Mrs. Sheng gently shook her head, "I don't think so, every time we talked about marriage, Qingyin subconsciously started to resist, and even left us and ran away to settle in Suzhou."
Alliance Master Sheng frowned slightly, "Qingyin, she went to settle in Suzhou City, didn't she want to go on her own?"
"That's only part of the reason, what's more important is that she's very repulsed by us arranging a marriage for her." Mrs. Sheng's powers of observation were much higher than Alliance Master Sheng's, and as she usually spent more time with Sheng Qingyin, it was easier for her to guess what she was thinking.
"I don't agree or disagree with my little aunt's matters, but Qingyin is your child, the child of the Martial Alliance Master, if I can, I don't want her to become too special, lest those of the righteous path poke their spines." Mrs. Sheng said.
Alliance Master Sheng's frown deepened, he actually didn't think in that direction, after all, relationships between same-sex friends that were better abounded, and it wasn't unheard of for them to live and die together.
But when he thought of what his sister had done ten years ago, his heart began to fizzle, and if it was between people of the same sex, the line between best friends and that kind of relationship was indeed a bit blurred.
"Madam, are you worried that Mu Bai has bad intentions towards Qingyin? So you simply recognized Mu Bai as your goddaughter to cut off any possibility between the two?" Alliance Master Sheng said.
Mrs. Sheng exhaled and didn't hold back from rolling her eyes, "I'm not worried about Little Mu, I'm worried about Qingyin! Can't you see how attentive Qingyin is to Little Mu? First, she invited Little Mu to stay with her, and now she's inviting Little Mu home, I'm worried that the next step is for Qingyin to invite Little Mu to sleep against her feet together, and then she'll eat and wipe the person clean!"
"Huh?" Alliance Master Sheng's eyes widened, Alliance Master Sheng's pupils quaked, Alliance Master Sheng's brain went into overdrive, "No, it can't be?"
"No?" Mrs. Sheng asked rhetorically, "Do you think Qingyin doesn't understand anything? You have to know that when Qingyin was still only ten years old, your good sister took her good wife home and taught Qingyin to call each other Little Auntie!"
"If she was still young, Qingyin might not have understood that shit, but now that Qingyin has grown up, she definitely understands everything she should." Mrs. Sheng said, slowly letting out a breath.
"Little Mu, this child has a pitiful life, not long after coming down from the mountain, she got together with Qingyin, if we don't stop it, maybe Little Mu will be cheated by Qingyin without even realizing it!" Mrs. Sheng said, not holding back another sigh.
It would be fine if it was a disciple of an ordinary sect, even if their own daughter had tricked someone, they could still cover it.
But Little Mu, this child is not the same, her master is a hermit highlander with notable strength, the realm is certainly not lower than the small sect master realm, if Little Mu's master knows that his own daughter ...... they most likely can not be peddled.
Alliance Master Sheng didn't say anything, he had to admit that his own lady's worries were justified.
"What if, these two children are in love with each other?" Alliance Master Sheng asked weakly.
"I don't think so." Mrs. Sheng had a deep look on her face, her act of proposing the marriage recognition seemed sudden, but it was actually well thought out.
If Mu Bai had so much as a passing interest in her own daughter, she would definitely have politely declined with discretion, rather than simply agreeing in a single breath.