25 Newfound Cousin - 8.1 (1/2)

Dinner had just finished and both Jin Meng Yao and Jin Mei Rong are mulling about their newfound knowledge about this new cousin of theirs.

According to their mother; Wu Li Hua, her older brother; their uncle, Wu Zhang He had adopted a son a couple of years ago since he needed to have an heir but hasn't found a woman to marry and doesn't have any plans of looking for one anytime soon.

At first, Wu Zhang He didn't have any plans to adopt a child but apparently, during one of his travels, he encountered a group of bandits who had ambushed a group of people who was just some guards that were escorting a physician during his journey to the next city.

During the bandits' attack, most of the guards were killed while some had fled leaving the injured physician and his young son. It was at that time that their uncle, Wu Zhang He came across them and since he was a strong and talented cultivator, dealing with the bandits was as easy as squashing a bug.

Unfortunately for the physician, even with Wu Zhang He's arrival, it was already too late for him and he was already at death's door because of his grave injuries. His last request was for Wu Zhang He to please make sure that his young son lives on and in return, the physician gave a lot of precious medicine and herbs to him so Wu Zhang He had made sure that the young boy live on one of his estates as an apprentice to one of the physicians under the employment of the Wu family.

After that Wu Zhang He almost forgot the boy entirely until one incident where his niece, Jin Mei Rong had an attack that caused a complication and the medicine needed needed an extremely rare herb. It was then that the emperor's most trusted vassals started to look for the missing herb and luckily it was given to them by Wu Zhang Hewho had apparently gotten it from the herbs he had received from the physician.

Upon realizing how precious the herbs and medicine that was left to him was and how much the old physician had helped his beloved niece, it was that he felt an overwhelming gratitude which is why their uncle had decided to also personally take in the orphaned son of the physician.

When their uncle got the young boy and started training him in the ways of a cultivator, he found out that the boy had a huge talent for it so in turn, instead of keeping the boy with him here in Thunder Vale Country, he got the boy a master and had the master cultivator take the boy on his journeys to help him grow and when the boy departed with his master, their uncle; Wu Zhang He decided to keep his decision of adopting him private and didn't let the public know, only letting his parents and his subordinates know of the boy's existence.

Now that they found out, both Jin Meng Yao and Jin Mei Rong didn't know what to feel. The fact that they had no idea about their cousin's existence was already disconcerting but when they thought of how their parents never showed any plans to tell them before made Jin Meng Yao think that there may be something more to the story than meets the eye.

After dropping off his sister; Mei Rong to her courtyard, Meng Yao slowly made his way back to his own quarters, deep in thought.

Thinking back to what his mother said, the only concrete thing both he and his sister knew about their cousin was his name which was Wu Jun Qiao.

Aside from that, they knew nothing else and this made Jin Meng Yao wonder what kind of person his cousin was, where he's been in the past years and when exactly is he going to arrive.

Unknown to Jin Meng Yao, the very man he was wondering about was actually nearer than he thought.

In a city close to the imperial called Splitting Hammer City, residing in one of the more exclusive inns was a tall young man with long silky raven black hair and a lithe yet muscular build, dressed in simple yet obviously high quality black robes, stood in front of a window, gazing into the dark midnight sky while another man who looked older than him silently stood behind him with his head respectfully bowed as if waiting for the young man to speak.

Silence engulfed the two men in the room and no one moved, nor made any sounds.

The older, middle-aged looking man just patiently stood there, waiting.