Siheyuan: Relieve stress and relieve worries

Chapter 1243 Human Destiny
Kournikova looked at her and said, "Don't call me 'brother' yet, I haven't acknowledged you." The baby giggled again.

Kournikova opened the remaining boxes first, carefully and with a bit of trepidation, wondering if there would be a whole row of children behind them.

Fortunately, they were mostly preserved fish, preserved meat, rice, and noodles.

Carefully picking up the baby, I turned him over and found eight layers of blankets underneath.

Kournikova didn't know how the baby had come from Central State, and that it must have been unnoticed along the way without crying or fussing.

So far, the baby has only chuckled a few times and hasn't cried or fussed.

Kournikova hesitated for a moment. For some reason, when they looked at each other, he thought the baby was quite cute and should be easy to raise.

Well, Grandma must be a very easygoing person. Let's take the baby back first. After tidying up, she picked up the baby and climbed over the back wall of the storeroom.

That night, his grandmother gave him a beating, and the baby stayed.

Grandma held the baby, checked him over, and told Kournikova that he had a little sister.

But after only a few days, Grandma and Kova were worried. There was no milk. How could they feed her? They couldn't just make her rice water every day.

When Kournikova, sitting in the yard, turned her gaze to the Mercedes, the Mercedes got angry, scrambling to move its massive body further in and hiding its head in the corner.

“I know you’re a bull, do you think I’m that much of a beast? You know nothing, you blind man Zhang.” Kournikova turned to find Blind Zhang.

Grandma sighed inside the house. "It's all fate," she thought. She turned around, went back inside, found the box of notes that hadn't been touched in a long time, took out the six remaining notes, and walked out of the courtyard she hadn't left in a long time.

When Kova found Blind Zhang, he was tricking Fatty Baozi, telling him that if he gave Baozi the steamed bun in his hand, he could turn the zero-point test paper in Fatty's schoolbag into a hundred-point one.

The chubby boy was taken aback and hurriedly asked Blind Zhang, "You're blind, how did you know I had a zero-score test paper in my schoolbag?"

The chubby boy gave the steamed bun to Blind Zhang, who then wrote the two characters "壹佰" (One Hundred) on the test paper. The chubby boy skipped away happily.

“I think if you removed that zero, maybe the chubby boy wouldn’t have gotten beaten up,” Kournikova said to Blind Zhang.

Blind Zhang ate his steamed bun without looking up, "If I don't hit him, won't I get zero points from now on?"

Then he asked, "Is there something you need?"

"Where can I find milk?" Kournikova asked earnestly.

Blind Zhang suddenly spat it out.

"Are you doing this on purpose? Can't you stand me eating steamed buns or can't you stand me lying to the kids at the steamed bun shop?" Blind Zhang was furious.

"Well, no, a little sister came to visit, and she needs milk," Kournikova replied somewhat embarrassedly.

Blind Zhang suddenly stood up and said, "Never mind that, 'Iron Arms Takes Charge, No Evil Will Resist,' your grandma is here."

Kournikova was startled. She turned around and saw her grandmother holding the little girl. A poster flew by, and blind Zhang reached out and caught it.

It was midnight on the top of West Mountain.

Grandma held the baby in her arms, and Kournikova followed behind, walking uphill step by step.

Kournikova said, "Grandma, have I caused you any trouble?"

"My grandson is no trouble in my heart," Grandma said firmly as she walked ahead.

The Imperial Sword Pool is said to contain swords, and these swords are said to possess spirits.

Grandma and Kournikova waited in the pavilion by the Imperial Sword Pond.

Within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, six figures flew towards the Sword Control Pool, arriving almost simultaneously.

Kournikova recognized three of them, but she didn't expect it to be them: one was Blind Zhang, one was Widow Chen, and the other was Li Daniu from the alley entrance.

He didn't know the remaining three people.

Grandma spoke first, "Come on, Kova, kneel down and kowtow to your uncle and aunt."

"This is your second uncle, Bai Nanshan." Kova knelt down respectfully and kowtowed.

"This is your third uncle, Zhang Yifei, the blind man." "This is your fourth aunt, Chen Meijiao, the widow."

"This is your fifth uncle, a scholar named Wen Buluo."

"This is your sixth uncle, Chen the blacksmith, Chen Daniu."

"This is your seventh uncle, Fatty Wang, the God of Wealth."

Kournikova knelt and kowtowed one by one.

Kournikova was seeing Bai Nanshan for the first time. He was a tall man, seven feet tall, with a red face, a short beard, and an imposing presence.

At first glance, Wen Xiucai looked like a poor, pedantic scholar. He was rather thin, but had a cynical and irreverent attitude.

Fatty Wang was a fat man, so fat that you couldn't see his neck. He was dressed in silk and satin, and adorned with gold and silver.

What surprised Kova even more was that several of them had reached the eighth level of the Divine Realm or higher. Wasn't the highest level in White Mountain Town the fifth level of the Divine Realm?

It seems there's more to Baishan Town than meets the eye; I'll have to dive deeper. Of the six people, besides Widow Chen, Blind Zhang, and Chen Daniu, all were watching Kova with great interest.

Kournikova was a little embarrassed and awkwardly retreated to her grandmother's side.

Grandma continued, "Gathering people is not easy. To make a long story short, firstly, Kova has reached the bottleneck of the Divine Realm and needs a lot of divine pills and medicinal herbs. Secondly, we found a genius who needs milk, but my family is poor."

Bai Nanshan said seriously, "Auntie, we still have the items, but they're not in Baishan Town. I can handle it in the short term, but we'll need a lot of money afterward. You and I have both been through this before, so you know how much money that is. It'll be a bit difficult."

Grandma's face fell slightly as she said, "I'm sorry to have troubled you."

Bai Nanshan paused for a moment, bowed to his grandmother, and said, "It's my fault that you're upset, Aunt. Let's talk about it."

The six people left, and Grandma and Kournikova waited at the Sword Pool.

Soon after, only Bai Nanshan returned.

Bai Nanshan walked over, patted Kuva's head, and said to his grandmother, "Auntie, my brothers and I have discussed it. For the next six months, all of Kuva and the girl's expenses will be ours. You know Baishan Town is a small place. If you want something, you have to go out and find it. We don't have anything here that can attract dignitaries from all over the world. Please forgive us. We'll think of something else after six months."

Grandma bowed deeply to express her gratitude.

Bai Nanshan left, and Grandma took Kova home. Kova didn't say a word on the way.

Back home, Kournikova fell silent, and his grandmother ignored him.

While tidying up the baby, I opened the swaddling clothes and saw a character written on one corner. I asked Kournikova to identify it. Kournikova looked at it absentmindedly and said it was the character for "ugly".

Grandma thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "From now on, we'll call her Ugly Girl."

“She’ll resent you when she grows up. It’s nice to call a pretty girl ‘ugly girl.’” Kournikova was somewhat opposed to the name.

Grandma said dismissively, "That's a name, it's a memory."

Kournikova didn't sleep all night.

Kournikova skipped school early this morning and started cooking.

After breakfast, he lingered in the yard, making Da Ben think that Kournikova was going to take him up the mountain.

After hesitating for a long time, Kournikova finally made up her mind, found her grandmother, and pulled her back into the house, where they sat on either side of the kang table.

"Grandma, I'm all grown up now, and I don't want to owe so many favors; they're all debts. Actually, um, um, I have something to give to the other five continents."

With a flick of her hand, three items appeared before her: a medicinal herb, a longsword, and a golden ribbon.

Grandma was shocked because she recognized them all.

The medicinal material is a ginseng root, which must be over a thousand years old, and this root was just unearthed, not a dried ginseng.

The longsword has a scabbard, a golden scabbard, with the character "Xu" on it.

This is the sword of the founding ancestor of the Xu family in Zhongzhou, which has been lost for a century.

(End of this chapter)