C7: Much Time Flies! What Happened?

Date: December 25- 31, 2021 &

April 3- 12, 2022

Time: 2:11am- 11: 45 pm

(Third Person)

In the end, Sun Hei Shen striked the patriarch with all his might and make his father, spat more than a mouthful of dark colored blood. Sun Hei Shen panicked and utterly shocked of the result. Oh no! He's screwed.

"Immediately! Call for physicians and doctors!!! Summon that girl too!!! The patriarch spatted blood!..."

...

Hua, who was being entertained by her new found brothers, rushed to the patriarch's study room as soon as she hears the grieve condition of the patriarch. She was carried away by the female martial sister cultivator named Fei Wan instead of running all the way to treat the poor man.

The three young masters also followed suit.

"*Bang!"

The closed wooden door of the patriarch's study room opened with force along with a loud bang. Sun Hei Shen instantly turned his head towards the door. It seemed like calling Hua is more effective than the physicians. She arrives faster than them!

"Father!... Eldest brother, speak! What happened to father again?!" The youngest son of Sun Ying Yong bursted out a anxious questioning to Sun Hei Shen. He runs towards his eldest brother. With grim and pale face he grips her brother's shoulders, almost hurting him.

"I...," still shocked for what he did, Sun Hei Shen freezes and don't know how will he answer his youngest brother's interrogation. Should he tell him that it's his fault for not controlling his strength thus gravely hurting their father? Or should he just made up an excuseto cover it up?...

But before he can answer, Hua arrives with Fei Wan in her arms while carrying a medical tool box. "Hey! What are you doing there?! Back away from the patriar- father!!!," Hua shouts alarmingly. She immediately shoves the two standing young men aside and hurriedly see the patriarch's condition.

It turns out, the dark blackened blood the patriarch spat was the poison residue that mixed with his blood that been clogging the patriarch's veins and arteries for almost two months. How ironic! If not for Sun Hei Shen's attack, maybe the poisoned blood cannot be remove anymore. Who would thought that powerful punch is more beneficial than harmful towards the patriarch? What a blessing in disguise!!!

"* Sigh... Fortunately, the patri- I mean father is now relieved from the poison. I've been preparing the method to remove the blackened blood without any pain but it seemed like it's already unnecessary," Hua said, feeling relieved but a little bit disappointed. What a pity, truly...

"I apologize for the troubles, child. It's I who is in fault. I truly felt ashamed. I just wanted to test your eldest brother but I didn't expect that it will spoil your plan," the patriarch genuinely felt sorry and guilty for what happened. He even blames himself.

"Eh?!... What does the patri- uh father saying!? I only did what I ought to repay your kindness and favour that given to me. And why should I blame pat- father? Shouldn't I feel glad that fortunately you are now free from that San Yue Yin (Three Moon Cold) poison. You couldn't possibly spoil me rotten ah? Father?," humbling herself, she exclaim that it's not the patriarch's fault. Well who knows what might happen in the future? They should be grateful that nothing bad happens.

"You're really lovable one, like you're mother," Sun Ying Yong subconsciously blurted out. Hua catched the wind of his voice and felt way beyond curious.

" What?!... Patri- I mean father, do you... do you know my mother?," Hua asked out of concern and anxiety.

The patriarch already compared her to her mother twice. He mentioned her again. It seemed like Sun Ying Yong knew who her mother was. Since she became Yun Tian Hua then everything that concerns Tian Hua also matters to her.

There's many questions swirling in her mind like: Who's her mother? Her true father? What's the mystery and secret behind her parentage. Who is she really? Why her Senior Yun Lian Yue called her a Xian? Does her own biological father still alive?

The patriarch looks at Hua with unreadable expression before he diverts his attention to something while faking the cough. He just did that to evade her question.

"Cough cough, I think that matter should be called out for later. For now this old man thinks that I need to rest."

"*sigh!" Hua could only took a deep breath and sighed sadly in disappointment. It seemed like the patriarch don't want to talk about it. She could only respect his decision and privacy for not asking further.

"Right! Elder brothers, can you please put patr- father in the bed. He still needed to recuperate from the forceful removal of the poisoned blood," asking her stepbrothers to do the labor job.

...

One year passed like a fleeting clouds and colorful rainbow in the sky, too fast to disappear before people fully admire the scenery above. The matter regarding the identity of Hua's mother never revealed even though she tried to probe the patriarch about it.

The spring passed and the peach and plum trees started bearing fruits for Hua to eat in that very same season. It actually tastes great! She became foodie and help the kitchen to do some menial works without burdening the kitchen staffs.

While she also practiced herself to get more used to her blindness. Not until she finds the needed rare and extremely precious herbs and ingredients to make the cure for her rare condition, she might continue being a blind and a cripple but not useless person.

The Sect thrown off a grand banquet just for celebrating Hua's fifteenth birthday! Many prominent and well known people attended and congratulated her. Her gifts also made her treasure room in her courtyard overflowed in numerous variety.

She even saw 'that father' and few of the Yun Clan's children who abandoned and made her life miserable. Unfortunately, Yun Lian Yue was not with them. She tried to suppress her furious and raging heart that itching for revenge as she calmly face them like a stranger would.

Her older brothers were being doted and loving brothers. She recieved too many food so that she'll be plump and healthy. Also to grow her small and malnourished body that seemingly belong to a short, weak and frail twelve years old girl when actually she's already fifteen years old.

They give her various variable herbs, treasures and weapons eventhough Hua deems them unusable at the moment.

And her second brother, Sun Wei Ming, Wei'er, finally came back after two months and a week from mission on Qiao Gong Prefecture to looked out for the situation, the problem with the supply of spiritual stone they were mining in Mt. Jin Long. It's the mining site where their source of spiritual stones that essential for cultivating spiritual qi. There's a talks that there's a kind of dragon living there. But that rumor was never proven.

He also negotiated nicely with the Fu Xing Sect, one of the sects that has a great history with Sun Sect for a few century, about trading. He acquired various rare herbs and pills there to boost the cultivation level.

Then summer came. It's such a hot season and she instructed the cooks to create refreshing cool drinks and desserts with mint and blueberries found in the northeast Baiting forest of the Sun Sect's territory to alleviated the heat of the hot season.

Heh! The Sect's patriarch was truly generous by giving her a huge block of ice while it's hard to obtain a small piece of it. Since then she leisurely spent her summer season at her courtyard. And sometimes she go dine and play with her four handsome elder brothers.

She enjoyed most was the jujube ice tea with blueberry mint and strawberry pudding prepared by Xiaocui, her new favorite cook. Of course she wouldn't forgot to ate her favorite snack, honey dew flavored cookies, that Chuang Yao have been fussing about and restricting her to eat it to the fullest.

Then the hot summer season ended and it's the time for autumn to enter, Sun Hei Shen became the master of the Sect. He's turning three- and- twenty that season. He's been becoming extremely excellent since that day when Hua accidentally hitted his head, one afternoon, the late summer season.

And made Hua racked her brain to think for forgiveness until just a heartfelt opening up moment from Hua flared up inside Sun Hei Shen to have strong determination.

Mid- autumn is slightly becoming colder. The patriarch send various thick clothes, furry ones and everything for winter so she won't feel cold. Dozens and dozens of wood delivered at her courtyard to use.

Many people thought that she was extremely favored by the patriarch and the four young masters. Many eyed her with envy and contempt. How can a crippled person be doted and treated with so much care?!

But do you think that all she do was to enjoy her life within a year? Then you are wrong.

There's no time she waste a single second. She acquired herbs from the sect's herb hall using the permission and token the patriarch gave her. Practice her alchemist skills and strengthened her body, apparently just to find how can she recover her broken dantian.

Since cultivating spiritual, martial, elemental qi and mental power are a different matter, her being a non cultivator doesn't affect much her alchemy skills' efficiency. She can now make Grade 4 Ecellent Mid level Mystic pills.

Pills grade: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.

Pills quality: Poor, Bad, Good, Best and Excellent.

Pills level: Low, Mid, High, and Unique.

Pills rarity: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Legendary, Mystic and Ancient.

And Chuang Yao was there cheering for her and attended all Hua's needed and orders. Fulfilling her promise to her madam: protect and assist Hua.

...

"Lady Miss!... Eh?! Where's the young miss?"

One chilly dawn at Yin hour (3 am to 5 am), four of Hua's personal maidservant found her missing. Her bed is empty and cold; it must be because she's already gone hours ago. But where?

If Hua just really gone the normal way then why is the room and things inside in disorder? The bed is full of scratches. There's hidden weapons all over the place and blood stains. There's also signs of struggles and fighting. Something bad happened here! Why does no one aware of it?!

"B- blood!!! What are we gonna do?! We'll be blame if the Lady Miss is missing!!!," one of them called Xiao Bei starts getting panick. Their Young Miss who always wakes up at four am is not there!

"You... !?... Dont worry! Just be calm and don't try to aroused panic and chaos around. We need to report it to the patriarch and young masters! Our lady is missing! I'll blame myself if something bad happened to the kind Lady Miss!," one the maidservant mumbles, she whispers to the other maids. She was called Xiao Xi

"Then who will report it?," it's Xiao Nan worriedly asked. She's afraid to go lest his masters punished her to the Lady Miss found missing nust as Xiao Bei thought.

"Why don't you go there yourself Xiao Xi? Since you proposed to report it," Xiao Dong, the fourth maid, suggested as she states her reason.

The maid nodded and immediately takes action, she hurriedly but discreetly leaves Hua's sleeping room and her courtyard. Knowing that her Lady Miss is missing, she's afraid that there's something fishy going on here. Especially when the corner of her eyes are twitching nonstop like it's giving her a warning.

Except for Chuang Yao, she's the one who always first to enter in Hua's sleeping room while the other three maids left in the exterior chamber. The four of them are the personal servants that the patriarch picked to serve Hua responsible for her attires. They are named after four main directions: North, South, East and West by Hua.

But strangely, today the three bursted inside the room. It's like they deliberately do so. "I belive it's a trap! But... no matter what I still need to report it!" With conviction she strives to look for the masters, oblivious of what the kidnappers reason of taking Hua away.

...

"*Knock knock knock!!!"

Thrice, she knocks fiercely outside the patriarch, Sun Ying Yong's courtyard three times. It's immediately opened up by the head eunuch, Sun Wuyu.

"Come inside fast!," Sun Wuyu encouraged Xiao Xi to enter the patriarch's courtyard. He's anxious and worried that bad things were happened. The guards are all knocked down by some kind of strong sleeping pills and can't be awaken for a day. They've all been inside the patriarch's courtyard's spare rooms.

Xiao Xi gulped as she heard the urgent and fear in the head eunuch's voice. She did as what he told and followed him pretty fast. They arrive at the patriarch's sleeping chamber soon enough.

"Am I... Am I allowed here?," Xiao Xi asked in doubt and trouble. It's the patriarch's sleeping chamber! Of course it's literally forbidden to enter without permission.

"The patriarch already gives the permission. Whatever you wanted to say it must be of importance!... Go now there, don't waste time. I'm afraid that something evil minded person is playing around with us!," Sun Wuyu grimly said. His expression is bad and pale as be opened the door and urge Xiao Xi to enter.

"*Sighs" Sighing, Xiao Xi doesn't have any choice but to enter the room.

It's just she didn't expect that the three young men, two young women, two young masters, Sect Master, Third elder, Fourth elder, Sixth elder, Seventh elder and the Sun Sect's Patriarch are inside, surrounding the big table like they are having a meeting.

"Sect Patriarch! I, Xiao Xi, of Lady Miss personal maid is here to report a very important matter!!!," Xiao Xi immediately kneeled down in one knee and cupped her hands in front of the important people of the Sun Sect. Her voice is serious and firm.

...

"What?!... Did you just said Hua'er is missing?! Who else know this?," the patriarch of the Sun Sect, Sun Ying Yong, reacts greatly and fiercely. Shocked and feeling unbelievable he asked.

He just couldn't believe that his adopted daughter that sleeping peacefully in her courtyard disappeared. With the protection array set up?! What about the senior brothers and sisters of the sect he sent to Hua's side for protection? He's afraid that mqybe all of them are all dead!

"I can't be wrong Sect Patriarch! I saw the Lady Miss sleeping room in disorder and some fighting was found inside. Maybe they not just want to kidnap Lady Miss but also...," Xiao Xi didn't intend to continue more because everyone already get what she wanted to say.

"For the one who knows, I'm sorry Sect Patriarch! Forgive Xiao Xi! The one besides me are also fellow personal maids you picked who are responsible for preparing the Lady Miss' clothing and attires but they might be...! Tr- traitors!!!They are Xiao Bei, Xiao Nan and Xiao Dong!!!," her body trembles in rage and fury.

It's hard for her to say the word 'traitors' as she was with them for a long time already. They've been treated by Hua with so much care and kindness that a mere servants never thought to be treated but in the end they are traitors, accomplices of the enemies!

"D*mn! What did they wanted from Sister Hua?!," enraged, Shen Rei Mo, the fourth born son of Sun Ying Yong shouted. Just celebrated his sixteenth birthday. Just a year ago he's still a shy and timid boy hiding behind his Third brother Wei (the psycho of the Four brothers) yet now he can cussed and without fear.

"Are you not still clear about their intentions Xiao Si? Then let this Er Gege enlighten you...," someone said...

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{[To Be Continued]}

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