Chapter 77: The Awakening (2/2)

The voice of the old lady was filled with admiration.

Ai Hui secretly felt pleased. Being praised by others was indeed a happy thing, not to mention that he had sacrificed a lot.

”He is a genius! A weaving genius! Shouchuan, it was my fault previously. His talent is simply amazing, you must let him come to the embroidery workshop. I will educate him personally, and I want to take him as a closed-door disciple!” The old lady was evidently very agitated.

Ai Hui was struck dumb. Please don’t. Although weaving was a profitable job and offered a bright future, he was, after all, a man. It would be very awkward to always be dealing with weaving for the rest of his life.

The old man was initially pleased, but once he heard that the old lady wanted to fight over Ai Hui, he could not care less anymore. ”This is out of the question! He is my disciple! I have only one disciple, and he is going to be carrying my legacy in the future.”

”You are wasting his talent! You are being irresponsible!” The old lady coldly remarked, ”Given your insubstantial theories, he could still follow and learn.”

”Whatever you say, my answer shall still be definitely no!” The old man rejected her bluntly.

The old lady immediately became angry. ”Wang Shouchuan, what do you mean by this? I have already apologized to you. What more do you want me to do? I have been following you for so many years, and this is how you treat me? It was my fault previously. When did I ever benefit from any good fortune after being with you for so long? When did I beg you for anything? If you are at the Induction Ground, I will follow you to the Induction ground. I let you squander whatever you want, and this is how you treat me? Wang Shouchuan, you better explain things to me clearly today! Boo hoo hoo…..”

Looking at his old partner reduced to tears, Wang Shouchuan became terrified. He softened his tone. ”I did not say anything. Why are you crying?” My disciple is also your disciple. If he does not learn properly, you can break his legs.”

Li Wei and Mingxiu were at the side, looking down at the floor and standing still like statues. Li Wei felt weak and inwardly regretted that he rushed over. The spectacle unfolding did not seem like it was supposed to be seen by an outsider like him.

Teacher, oh Teacher, please do not hold this against me, Li Wei thought to himself.

Mingxiu had seen many such spectacles and did not feel too awkward. However, she also knew not to cut in at this moment.

Seeing that his old partner had stifled her sobs, Wang Shouchuan continued, ”But we have to consider Ai Hui’s opinion as well.”

Having heard that, the old lady stopped crying and raised her voice. ”He has objections?”

Ai Hui, who was in the nearby room, felt his heart tremble.

”Of course, he would not have objections.” Wang Shouchuan coughed lightly. ”Look at how much he wanted to enter the embroidery workshop. But we have to think over this properly. If he were a girl, I would give him to you without a second thought. But he is a boy, and you are more familiar with weaving than me. When was there a male weaving master? I am also clear of his temperament—he loves to fight. Learning to weave is one thing, but to let him weave for the rest of his life might be difficult for him.”

The old lady became silent.

Wang Shouchuan’s sentence was straight to the point. In fact, before she came, she too had felt that it was a pity that Ai Hui wasn’t a girl. While it wasn’t to say that there were no males who learned to weave, they were incredibly rare. Not to mention that there were no male weavers who had managed to achieve any accomplishments.

Seeing that he was winning the argument, Wang Shouchuan quickly continued, ”My point is, let him go to the embroidery workshop when he has recovered. Let him learn first, and we will decide from there. We should not be anxious about whether he has good skills or whether he is interested in weaving. His future should still be decided by him.”

The old lady’s face was not as black as before, and she gave a snort and said, ”Finally there is a humane sentence coming from you, after wasting so many of my tears. Mingxiu, let us go back to the embroidery workshop.”

With that, she left haughtily, without a trace of that tearful grandmother of a few moments ago.

”Uncle, we are leaving.” Mingxiu hurriedly bowed to Wang Shouchuan, waved to Li Wei, and ran after her master.

Wang Shouchuan looked at his old departing partner and let out a sigh of relief. The battle that he had just fought had given him a huge shock. He grabbed the teapot that was on the table and started to take big gulps of water.

Putting down the teapot, he asked Li Wei, who was at the side, ”What happened to you again?”