Chapter 73 - Story of Jiang Mingyue (1/2)

Commander Qin is stunned. He isn’t expecting Lin Luoran’s question.

He never tells Baojia about some things in the past. However, he feels comfortable to tell Lin Luoran the story because she is a cultivator.

“Luoran, do you blame me for being nosy and says things like the Taoist root to Liu Zheng?”

Lin Luoran shakes her head and answers, “I’ve been following the path of cultivation for a short time. My masters never tell me things like that. I only ask you out of my own curiosity.”

They are in the villa of the Qin family so there is no need to worry about being overheard. Commander Qin sits down in Baojia’s room and starts to tell the story of his family.

“In fact, my grandmother, who is Baojia’s great grandmother, was a cultivator, just like you…”

Lin Luoran is shocked by the first sentence Commander Qin says. It turns out that Baojia is also the offspring of cultivators?

“Don’t be surprised. I only got to know about this after I joined the army. In my memory, my grandmother was beautiful. She even didn’t look much older than my mother. My grandfather was a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty and he came from a well-off family. They said that the dowry of my grandmother was a huge luminous pearl, and thanks to it, the Qin family became even richer. However, my grandfather began to look down upon his wife who didn’t have her own family. Then he took his mother’s advice and had two pretty concubines…”

Commander Qin is quite awkward while talking about the indecent story of his grandfather. Though she is puzzled, Lin Luoran doesn’t pursue further in order to be considerate. A cultivator gave up her cultivation and married a scholar. It might be a beautiful story if they could live in harmony and grow old together. But her husband had two concubines… Lin Luoran s.h.i.+vers. If the same things happen to her, she may regret giving up cultivation and overreact.

“What happened then?”

“The Qin family had already declined since I could remember. It was the time when the war between the State of Huaxia and j.a.pan was in a stalemate. The Qin family used to be famous in the central Sichuan Province. All of a sudden, it went broke. My father couldn’t stand such a fall and secretly joined the army… Later, my father told me that on the night he sneaked out of the house, his mother seemed to know that he had planned to leave. She waited for him at the back door but didn’t try to stop him. His mother encouraged him that it was good that he wanted to serve the country. She gave him a jade pendant and told him never to let it leave his side.”

A jade pendant? Smart as Lin Luoran, she instantly knows that it is the key to the story. The jade pendant should be the amulet which Commander Qin’s grandmother gave her son!

Therefore, Commander Qin’s father became a soldier. However, he had been a rich young master for his whole life, and for several times, he almost died of shrapnel. Every time when his life was in danger, the jade pendant hanging on his chest would glow and make the shrapnel go off-track.

Commander Qin’s father discovered the capability of the jade pendant. Relying on this magical treasure, he made some remarkable contributions and his rank in the military rose a lot in a few years. Once in a field operation, a bullet came right at him. He didn’t react quickly enough and was. .h.i.t by it. However, the jade pendant glowed and the bullet actually failed to go inside his body. The enemy was shocked by this miracle and retreated.

Commander Qin’s father made another huge contribution, but the jade stone broke into pieces like it had used up its energy. Though it was a pity, Commander Qin’s father couldn’t do anything about it and just stored the pieces away carefully.

Half a month later, a crazy old man broke into the camp where Commander Qin’s father stayed at night. Back then, Commander Qin’s father was already in high positions. His camp was surrounded by soldiers and n.o.body knew where the man came from.