To the Sky Kingdom by Tang Qi

Author:Tang Qi [Qi, Tang]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781503937420
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
Published: 2016-08-23T04:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

I spent the first thousand years after Mo Yuan’s soul passed waiting, feeling anxious and upset. Each night I hoped that I might dream of him so I could ask him when he was coming back. Each night before I went to sleep, I would make sure this question was in my heart. I would think it over five or six times so that the words were firmly in my mind. I was afraid that seeing Mo Yuan in the dream would overwhelm me with emotion and cause me to forget my question. But I never had this dream, and the idea gradually started to fade from my mind.

I had thought so hard about this old question that when I finally had the dream after seventy thousand years, the question was still so firmly in my mind that I was finally able to ask it.

The dream started with Zhe Yan taking me to begin my apprenticeship with Master in Mount Kunlun.

I had just celebrated my fifty thousandth birthday and was the same age that Ye Hua is now. Mother had given birth to four sons before me. I was her youngest child and the daughter she had always wanted. I had been born with my eye condition and was quite a feeble infant, and my family tended to fuss over me. My four brothers were given a lot of freedom and could generally do as they pleased. But not me. Everything I did was strictly controlled, and the only two places I was allowed to roam were the foxhole in Qingqiu and Zhe Yan’s Ten-Mile Peach Grove. I struggled on like this for twenty thousand years, and even though I grew stronger and more robust, Father and Mother continued to worry.

After my twenty thousandth birthday, Father and Mother started to get called away from Qingqiu on a regular basis, and they put Fourth Brother in charge of me. Fourth Brother was renowned for his martial arts expertise, and he appeared gentle and obedient on the surface, but underneath he could be quite a troublemaker.

I really looked up to Fourth Brother.

After Father had instructed Fourth Brother to look after me, the young boy had sat outside the entrance to the foxhole with a stick of dog-tail grass in his mouth. He looked at me kindly and said, “From now on I’ll be looking after you. Any time I climb a tree and scoop up an egg from a nest, I will share it with you. Any time I go to a lake and catch a fish, it will be your fish too.”

Fourth Brother and I soon became very close.

Zhe Yan had taken Fourth Brother under his wing by then, and we only needed to mention Zhe Yan’s name and any trouble we had stirred up would be resolved. I scampered around Qingqiu for thirty thousand years in Fourth Brother’s care without a worry in the world.

When Father and Mother returned, they started to worry about my schooling. I was their

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