Chapter 138 Feng Residence’s Search (1/2)

A stick thin hand reached out as it trembled, seeking to lightly brush over those heinous scars upon her face. Unexpectedly, before he could touch her, Feng Jiu stirred awake.

Feng Jiu startled awake, sitting up quickly coming alert. When she saw that it was the Old Patriarch who had woken up and was stretching a slightly trembling hand towards her, she then softened her guard. Seeing that the Old Patriarch had been weeping soundlessly, she was suddenly surprised.

”Grandfather, why are you crying?”

She lifted her hand to wipe away his tears and continued to ask: ”Are you feeling unwell? Come, let me help you sit up for awhile.”

Feng Jiu's high alertness made the old man's heart wrench up. How much suffering must she have gone through before she had to develop such alertness? Did she have to always fear danger and could not even get any sound sleep?

”Little Feng….. Grandfather….. Grandfather has really let you down…..”

The old tears ran down, in regret and in pain. If he had known that such a thing would happen within the few months he went into seclusion for cultivation, he would never have done it no matter what.

Hearing that, Feng Jiu revealed a smile and helped him up sit up against the head of the bed while she said in a gentle voice: ”Grandfather, don't be like that. I am doing very well now. Really well.”

In order to distract him and not let him continue to wallow in self reprimand, she went on to ask: ”Grandfather, what really happened after you went back? You ingested stimulant drugs that would cause you to become highly agitated and you were even poisoned.”

”Highly agitated?”

The old man wiped his tears away and thought about it a moment before he said in a voice filled with hatred: ”It's that woman. I had gone to the courtyard wanting to capture her at that time and she had thrown some powder without me noticing. I had carelessly breathed it in and she said…..”

Speaking up till that point, his voice suddenly halted and he hesitated.

”She said that my face was disfigured by her? And the torment she inflicted upon me then greatly angered Grandfather?” That was the only reasonable thing that she guessed must have happened or the Old Patriarch would not have fallen for that so easily.