Chapter 60: Mom's Fortune
At night, Mengyu slept in the same bed as her mom, discussing the past decade's events, which made her mom weep with sorrow once again. But when it came to leaving her master, she refused to agree under any circumstances.
That night, she woke up suddenly in the middle of her sleep. Feeling around, she noticed her mom wasn't there.
Mengyu hastily got dressed and walked out of the courtyard, only to hear voices coming from the pavilion.
Tonight was the sixteenth day of the old lunar calendar.
It was often said that the moon was rounder on the sixteenth than on the fifteenth; moonlight poured down like water, shrouding the earth and veiling everything with a thin layer of gauze.
Mengyu tiptoed over and discovered that the people speaking in the pavilion were her mom, Leng Xiangyu, and her master, Tang Ailian.
Mengyu didn't dare get too close and could only catch snippets of conversation from the pavilion:
