ch 382 - The Misunderstanding was Resolved; The Visit of the Parents 7 (1/2)

ch 382 - The Misunderstanding was Resolved; The Visit of the Parents (7)

And it was a peculiar kind of beauty – clean, neat, esthetically pleasing. They began to wonder whether their Miss was a fairy. How was it that she seemed to be able to do anything and everything?

So, the gardeners started to learn by observing her handy work. All the small trees outside became the poor subjects of their practice and all were horribly deformed.

“Aunty Huihui!”

Cheng Xiao Xiao called out when she saw the one walked out of her mother’s room with her maids.

Cheng Huihui, who was about to return to her own quarters looked up and saw Cheng Xiao Xiao walking toward her and smiled, “Xiao Xiao, you must be here to visit sister-in-law Yuqin!”

“I am, indeed. What have Aunty Huihui been up to lately? I haven’t been seeing you a lot lately.” Cheng Xiao Xiao was quite fond of this aunty; she liked that she was a strong woman.

“Nothing much. My dad has been cultivating behind closed doors day and night. Someone needed to watch over Lihui, so that’s what I have been doing!” explained Cheng Huihui.

Cultivating behind closed doors!

Cheng Xiao Xiao frowned a little. She had that the elder had been cultivating behind closed doors quite frequently lately. She was worried that his trying to rush things would make breaking through even more difficult.

It looked like he wouldn’t relax at all until he had some improvement.

Once her mind was made up, she comforted the one in front of her, “Aunty Huihui, don’t worry. I think Elder is just stuck at a bottleneck and trying to have a breakthrough!”

“I hope so!” Cheng Huihui smiled lightly. She had an idea what her father wanted to accomplish.

“How’s little Lihui? Is he settling in alright?”

The three of them had been with the Cheng’s for a couple of weeks now. With the exception of the first few days, Cheng Xiao Xiao had not gone over to bother them again recently.

“He is settling in alright…”

Cheng Xiao Xiao had a bitter look on her and, with sorrow, she said, “He’s still not used to my brother and sister-in-law being gone. He wakes up crying every night asking for them. That is….”