Chitose words

Chapter 468 Fetal Poison
Xie Zhao smiled and said, "When I was a teenager, I had to leave home due to a natural disaster to handle the 'family business'.

After the matter was settled, I was able to return home, but my father died not long after due to a long-term illness.

The family was in a mess, and I, as the elder sister, was away from home all year round. So my younger brother had to take on the huge family business at a young age.

Some of the 'elderly' people in the family, seeing that his father was gone, would inevitably bully him because he was young, and would secretly have some other little thoughts.

Although my younger brother is young, he is as determined and courageous as others.

He wanted to protect the old man's "family property", and perhaps he wanted to intimidate all those who had ulterior motives. Therefore, his actions were inevitably drastic.

Besides, I have always had a high opinion of myself since I was young, and I always treated him as a naive child.

He may have some resentment in his heart, so he treated me even colder. Therefore, our relationship as siblings is no longer as close as it was when we were young. "

Zhuo Nan listened quietly without interrupting.

It is normal for brothers and sisters in a large family to quarrel with each other. It is rare and precious to see one that can end well from beginning to end.

When power is at stake, how can there be loving fathers and filial sons, friendly brothers and respectful younger brothers, or harmonious relationships between sisters?

Even among brothers and sisters, there are many cases of fighting each other to the death.

The same is true in his home.

Zhuonan felt pity.

But he was lucky. His mother came from a noble family. Although he was not the eldest son, he was his father's eldest son.

In addition, he was very smart since childhood and has always been valued and loved by his father.

Even after his father passed away and his uncle took over the family, he still treated him with great courtesy and love.

"and after?"

Zhuo Nan asked softly with curiosity. He was a good listener and always looked at the other person very seriously and just right.

"Later"

Xie Zhao smiled, with no sadness or joy in his eyes.

"Later, my younger brother became very successful and naturally gained a foothold in the family.

He was in a high position and gradually gained a team of loyal followers around him.

Some people are afraid of the contributions I made to "family affairs" in the early years and are concerned about public opinion, so they cannot touch me.

But he also kept whispering in his ears, listing all my "crimes of disrespect".

I have always been like a donkey. I won't move when you lead me, I retreat when you hit me, and I have a bad temper.

Therefore, he became less and less willing to spend time at the 'family home', so he took the opportunity to wander around the world, and he lived a carefree life for several years. "

Xie Zhao half-closed his eyes, and his long eyelashes opened and closed like half a small fan, covering the light in his eyes.

After hearing this, Zhuo Nan let out a long sigh, and it was unclear whether the sigh was for himself or for Xie Zhao.

After a while, he said in a gentle voice:

"Fortunately, your brother is born of the same mother as you, and the relationship between you and him is always different.

Even if he can't change his mind for the moment, but you are avoiding his attention now, sooner or later he will be able to see how well you, his sister, treat him."

Xie Zhao smiled very faintly.

She smiled, and her tone was soft and gentle, making it hard to tell whether her answer was sincere.

"Who says it's not?"

As if he suddenly felt a dull pain in his chest, Xie Zhao's smiling brows slightly twitched, and he turned his head and coughed softly a few times.

Unexpectedly, after these few coughs, it was as if a floodgate had been opened and he couldn't stop coughing, and the coughing became more and more intense.

Zhuo Nan frowned and looked at her.

"what happened to you?"

The noble men of the Kodaru tribe at the other end of the mountain temple seemed to be awakened by the disturbing cough.

He turned over in his sleep and uttered a few unpleasant curses in a low voice in Handong dialect.

Xie Zhao frowned, took a few deep breaths, secretly used his Qi to suppress his cough and the chill in his meridians, then smiled and answered as if nothing had happened:
"It's okay, I'm just an ordinary sickly person who falls down at the slightest touch of wind. I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, Brother Zhuonan." Zhuonan frowned as he looked at Xie Zhao, who was wrapped tightly in a fur coat, and his eyebrows twitched slightly.

Although this woman's behavior was strange in every way, her illness did not seem to be fake.

Sitting next to the campfire, wrapped in a thick fur cloak and warming himself by the fire, Xie Zhao's face still had a faint bluish-white hue.

Zhuonan could see that she was very afraid of the cold.

However, people who practice martial arts are more or less stronger than ordinary people, so they shouldn't be so afraid of the cold.

He had seen Xie Zhao fight against a pack of wolves in Jiuwei Mountain. As everyone knows, wolves have extremely fast leaping speed.

Especially at night, people's vision will be limited.

It is actually very difficult for an ordinary martial artist to survive if he is besieged by a pack of wolves.

But he saw with his own eyes that Xie Zhao's move was done with ease and composure.

She was so nimble and light that she looked as if she had lifted heavy objects with ease, so Zhuo Nan could tell at a glance that this person was no ordinary person.

It stands to reason that someone with such skills must have superior internal strength and his body shouldn't be so weak.

Zhuo Nan knew that Xie Zhao might have some little secrets of his own, so he was unwilling to talk to him in depth.

But after thinking about it, he couldn't help but ask:

"You came to Jiuwei Mountain at this time of year to look for some life-saving medicine?"

Jiuwei Mountain is extremely cold during this season, but many medicinal herbs are in season and cannot be picked in other seasons.

Apart from the medicinal materials, the bear bile from Jiuwei Mountain is even more unique.

In winter, brown bears in the northern wilderness eat their fill before hibernation and become plump and delicious. If you take bear bile at this time of season, it can be a great tonic for the weak.

Xie Zhao suppressed the dryness and itchiness in his chest and throat, and continued to deceive people with a smile.

"Brother Zhuonan is really smart, he actually let you guess most of it.

I originally wanted to go into the mountains at this time and find a aged wild ginseng to replenish my energy.

But it was just bad luck that I never found it."

Zhuo Nan looked at her intently.

"Is mountain ginseng useful for Miss Yu's condition?"

"Huh."

Xie Zhao's smile was harmless and sincere.

"It may be useful, or it may not be useful. Who can say for sure?"

She didn't raise her eyebrows or open her eyes, and she didn't say a single word of truth, just nonsense.

"Besides, this is a problem I have had since my mother's womb. My mother accidentally ate poisonous grass when she was pregnant with me, so it was difficult for me to survive when I was born.

When I was a child, my grandfather tried all kinds of panaceas on me, but they were of no use.

As for the gall of bears and snakes, if they can't cure me, there's no need to kill them in vain."

This is not completely groundless, this matter is true, but the "protagonist" of the story is not her, Xie Zhao, and now she has "misattributed" her to someone else.

According to Xie Zhao's master, High Priest Feng Zhi, Nanxu's mother may have accidentally eaten some poisonous grass when she was pregnant, which caused Nanxu to be born weak and sickly.

His elders probably thought that this tiny baby could not survive, so he was abandoned by his family at a very young age.

The little baby Nanxu was placed in a basin and floated downstream. After drifting for a day, he was picked up and rescued by the traveling High Priest Fengzhi, and survived.

Later, High Priest Feng Zhi saw that although Nanxu was born weak, he had a rare superior physique and was a genius who could easily practice martial arts.

Therefore, he was accepted as his disciple and became the first disciple of the priest of Shentai Palace.

Later, when Nanxu was a few years older, he found that he had an astonishing talent in martial arts, just as High Priest Fengzhi had predicted.

Therefore, not only did he make great progress in martial arts, but his inner strength also turned a disaster into a blessing, curing the fetal poison that he had been carrying since his mother's womb.

At this time, Xie Zhao was fooling the "silly boy" Zhuo Nan. She subconsciously brought up the experience of her unlucky senior brother Nan Xu and made up a story, which really frightened Zhuo Nan.