Chapter 249 â Raising A Son In The Cultivation World (part 1) (catching insects)
The light passed through the window lattice. Today was the first birthday of the eldest young miss of the Yuan family. On the embroidered bed in the Yuan familyâs east garden, a woman opened her eyes.
Li Su rolled over and sat up, woke up, and began to think about what to do next.
The story of the person she transmigrated to this time was about a cultivator. It was a story of a middle-aged male protagonistâs enlightenment, hard work, and various adventures and hardships. The original owner and the target of this mission existed in the memory of the hero.
The Yuan family was an ordinary family in the Eastern Continent. To say that he was ordinary was in comparison to those who cultivated. In the mortal world, the Yuan family was considered an aristocratic family. Their ancestors had produced 2 empresses, 3 princesses, many princess consorts, and of course, many talents.
The original owner, Liu Qingyun, was the current mistress of the Yuan family. After marrying into the Yuan family, she was filial to her in-laws, served her husband, and loved her siblings. She was gentle and kind. She was a qualified mistress, and the Yuan family highly praised her.
But Liu Qingyun has been in the family for 5 years and never had any children. Therefore, her husband, Yuan Dao, offered to marry an equal wife. He wanted to marry an equal wife and not a concubine.
Liu Qingyun was ambitious and proud. Although she was very reluctant, she had no children, so she had to bow her head.
Yuan Daoâs newly married wife was Su Wanrong. There were cultivators in the family. As the descendants of cultivators, their families had also been bequeathed books on martial arts techniques by their ancestors, so that practitioners could strengthen their bodies and prolong their life. It could be said that the Yuan family married her as an equal wife for this reason. After all, Su Wanrongâs children were also descendants of the Su family and could practice these martial arts techniques.
After Su Wanrong married into the Yuan family, she fell in love with Yuan Dao. Between them and Liu Qingyun, although the relationship between the two was doomed to be hostile because of their identities, on the surface they were relatively harmonious.
In the beginning, the Yuan family still favored Liu Qingyun. After all, they met Liu Qingyun first and had many years of history.
But within half a year of entering the house, Su Wanrong became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter.
Although she was a daughter, she was Yuan Daoâs first child. The Yuan family was very happy. Yuan Dao also loved this daughter a lot. Besides, Su Wanrong could have a daughter and a son in the future. Therefore, Su Wanrongâs position in the Yuan family gradually stabilised. Liu Qingyun could not compete.
Nobody expected that, not long after the eldest young miss of the Yuan familyâs first birthday banquet, Liu Qingyun, who had been infertile for many years, unexpectedly became pregnant. Su Wanrong also had good news at about the same time.
Liu Qingyun was ecstatic, and the Yuan family was also very happy. Prosperity of offspring was a sign of prosperity for the family.
After she conceived in October, Liu Qingyun was able to give birth to a boy, but Su Wanrong had a difficult childbirth. After Su Wanrong narrowly escaped death, she gave birth to twins, one male and one female. However, the boy died and the girl lived. This was a bad omen at the time.
After Liu Qingyun learned about it, she was overjoyed and sighed in relief, thinking that she had won.
Nobody expected that, that night, an immortal would accidentally land in Su Wanrongâs yard and pick up the child who killed her brother at birth.
The immortal had some connections with the ancestors of the Su family. Before the death of the ancestor of the Su family, the ancestor had asked the immortal to take care of the ancestorâs descendants in the mortal world. The immortal calculated with his fingers and learned that a child with spiritual roots was born in the Su family, so he came to the mortal world, picked up the child, and added âĄâĄÂ to make her enter the path of enlightenment as soon as possible to avoid the pain of birth, old age, sickness, and death.
The situation suddenly changed. Su Wanrong, who was in the losing position, had her arteries transformed suddenly. What if Madam Su gave birth to the eldest son? Madam Suâs daughter was a cultivator! In the future, if she could see the secrets of heaven and become an immortal, maybe the whole family would benefit from it.
After Yuan Dao discussed this matter with his parents, he handed over the power of the house to Su Wanrong.
Liu Qingyun was a proud and arrogant person. She thought that, since she had given birth to the eldest son of the Yuan family, victory was in her hands. She didnât expect that such a change would occur, that the power of the house, which represented her status, was taken away. She couldnât accept this. She got too agitated and experienced sudden hemorrhaging. Her situation was critical, even the doctor was helpless.
In the end, Su Wanrong asked her maid to deliver a pill to save Liu Qingyun. After the others found out, they praised Su Wanrong for being tolerant and generous.
But Liu Qingyun hurt her body because of this, and from then on, she was bedridden and on her last legs.
After Yuan Dao and his parents learned the reason for Liu Qingyunâs sudden hemorrhaging, they were displeased with Liu Qingyun. They believed that she was ignorant, intolerant, and not as generous and decent as Su Wanrong. They preferred Su Wanrong.
Because Liu Qingyun was ill, she couldnât raise her own child. She was worried about handing him over to someone else. After some deliberation, she wanted to hand over her son to her mother-in-law to raise.
Mother Yuan agreed in front of Liu Qingyun, but she turned around and said that she was not in good health and could not raise the child. Mother Yuan entrusted her eldest grandson to Su Wanrong to raise.
Mother Yuanâs move was also distressing for her grandson. In her opinion, Liu Qingyun was now only a half-dead person, and the Yuan family had only one mistress, Su Wanrong. As for Su Wanrong, if she could give birth to a daughter who had spiritual roots and could cultivate to become an immortal, the son she would give birth to in the future would definitely be very intelligent. In the future, the Yuan family would still be handed over to Su Wanrongâs son. By then, Yuan Xianâs identity would be embarrassing.
Liu Qingyun was just a dying person. How long could Liu Qingyun protect her grandson? It was better to take advantage of Su Wanrongâs absence of a son of her own so they could develop more familial feelings, and he could have his place in the future. Yuan Dao also agreed with this.
Yuan Dao didnât think so much. He simply trusted Su Wanrongâs character and was relieved to hand over his eldest son to Su Wanrong to raise.
But Su Wanrong was reluctant. She had two daughters to take care of, and she had to look after the household. She also had to take care of herself so that she could have a son by her side. Why would she be willing to educate the son of a rival?
But her father-in-law and the mother-in-law had spoken, so Su Wanrong had no choice but to accept it.
However, Su Wanrong didnât care about Yuan Xian, and only asked the wet nurse to take care of him.
The next year, Su Wanrong became pregnant again. She finally gave birth to a healthy boy named Yuan Ye, who was the male lead.
When Yuan Ye was born, although no immortals came, a girl came riding on a crane. She was Su Wanrongâs second daughter, the former second older sister, Yuan Ru.
Yuan Ru obtained an elixir from the immortal, and let Yuan Ye take it. It could cleanse the meridians and bone marrow so demonic energy could not invade his body.
After watching her younger brother take the immortal medicine, Yuan Ru said a few words to Yuan Dao, Su Wanrong, and her eldest sister, Yuan Lan before she flew away on the crane.
The Yuan family had always attached more importance to Yuan Ye, and Yuan Ye had this occur, so his status was even more unusual. Although he was the second son, he had enjoyed being treated like the eldest son since childhood. And he himself was also very good. He was excellent at reading, riding and shooting, and dealing with people.
Yuan Xian was eclipsed by his younger brother. In fact, although he was not as good as Yuan Ye, he was still good. Yuan Ye respected his older brother a lot and was humble. But Yuan Xian inherited Liu Qingyunâs ambition and pride. When he was five years old, after learning of his own background, his personality became increasingly more strange. His mother asked him to live up to her expectations day after day. Yuan Xian thought like this at first, but he found that no matter how hard he tried, he couldnât catch up with his younger brother, and his heart became more twisted.
When Yuan Xian was eighteen years old, Yuan Dao wanted to get him married. When he asked for Yuan Xianâs opinion, at the behest of his own mother, Yuan Xian proposed to marry his cousin from his maternal uncleâs family, Mingzhu, as his wife.
Although Yuan Dao was not very satisfied, he agreed. When he went to the Liu family to talk about this, the uncle of the Liu family wanted to marry his daughter to Yuan Ye.
Yuan Dao was very angry. He turned back and ordered no one to tell Yuan Xian about this.
But the wet nurse next to Su Wanrong proudly told Liu Qingyun about it. Liu Qingyun didnât expect that her own brother would despise her own son and she died from anger.
After Yuan Xian learned the truth about his motherâs death, he didnât say a word. He just knelt in front of his motherâs remains.
Yuan Ye knew about it, so he personally pressed that wet nurse to apologise. He even hit her twenty times in front of Yuan Xian, and the whole family kicked her out.
But he was still expressionless and didnât say a word.
Seeing this, Yuan Dao didnât know what to do since he didnât know the general situation.
After Liu Qingyun was buried, Yuan Xian said that he would live in a house in front of his deceased motherâs grave to keep filial piety for three years. Yuan Dao agreed.
Three years later, the Yuan family sent someone to pick Yuan Xian and have him return home. At the family banquet, Yuan Ye looked at Yuan Xianâs face with guilt. After, Yuan Dao made an announcement. Yuan Xian learned that, after his mother died, his uncle from the Liu family had visited the Yuan family. Yuan Ye and cousin from the Liu family fell in love at first sight.
Yuan Ye liked her, and Su Wanrong didnât stop him. In addition, a woman from the second branch of the Liu family had just become the crown princeâs official consort. Yuan Dao also wanted to form connections with the Liu family, so he agreed.
It was only because of Liu Qingyunâs death that he had to keep filial piety, so this news was not made public.
Yuan Xian sneered in his heart after hearing this. It turned out that his uncle and cousin had been to the Yuan familyâs house, but they did not go to his motherâs grave to pay their respects. Thatâs right, what his uncle valued was not his mother and he, but Yuan Ye, who had a cultivator as an older sister.
Yuan Xian was silent. This made Yuan Dao a little unhappy, and he said that both parties must be willing regarding the matter of marriage.
Yuan Xian still didnât speak. Yuan Dao just ignored him.
Three months later, Yuan Ye and Liu Mingzhu got married. The Yuan family invited lots of guests, had a feast, and were beaming with joy.
Early next morning, the newlyweds served tea to their elders. As a result, after Yuan Dao and Su Wanrong drank their daughter-in-lawâs tea, they suffered severe pain in their abdomens and soon fell into a coma.
Yuan Ye was shocked. He did not doubt his wife because she had no reason to do such a thing. While comforting his frightened wife, he also ordered the gate to be closed for a thorough investigation.
After some investigation, the poisoner was found out. It turned out to be Yuan Xian.
Yuan Ye couldnât believe that his older brother had done such a treacherous thing, but with the facts in front of him, he couldnât help but keep asking Yuan Xian why.
Yuan Xian took out a knife from his sleeve and stabbed Yuan Ye. At the critical moment, Liu Mingzhu blocked the knife for Yuan Ye. Yuan Xianâs knife missed. He prepared another knife.
At this critical moment, there was a flash of white light. Yuan Xian was knocked aside by an inexplicable force. From the clouds, a beautiful fairy floated out, looking at Yuan Xian with contempt and disgust. âThe Liu family are your maternal relatives. But I chose Yuan Ye instead of you because Yuan Ye is better than you. This move by the Liu family was just natural! You donât reflect on yourself, but blame others. You are really useless.â
After finishing speaking, Yuan Ru ignored Yuan Xian. She first fed Yuan Dao and Su Wanrong two medicinal pills to relieve the poison in their bodies. Then, she cast a spell to heal Liu Mingzhuâs injury.
Although Yuan Dao was unconscious, he was aware of everything going on. He heard everything just now. The first thing he did after waking up was to slap Yuan Xian. âYou are ruthless and unjust beast! My Yuan family does not have such a disobedient and unfilial descendant like you!â
Yuan Dao expelled Yuan Xian. This was still considered him showing Yuan Xian some sympathy.
But Yuan Ru didnât want to let Yuan Xian go so easily. This was the last time she would come back to the world. After returning, she would go to a secret realm to gain some experience. After that, she didnât know when she would be able to come out. By the time she came out, perhaps her parents and her family would no longer be there. She was worried about leaving behind such a hidden danger that threatened the safety of her parents and brothers.
After leaving the Yuan family, Yuan Ru found Yuan Xian and stripped him of one spirit and one soul1, which would not affect his lifespan, but he became a foolish person.
In this way, Yuan Ru left with confidence. She didnât even think about how Yuan Xian would protect himself after he lost one spirit and one soul.
After the turmoil, Yuan Dao removed Liu Qingyun and Yuan Xian from the family history. He pretended that these two people never existed. Yuan Ye couldnât bear it and ordered people to search for the whereabouts of Yuan Xian. But, after searching everywhere, he couldnât discover Yuan Xianâs existence.
Yuan Ye and Liu Mingzhu were in love with each other. After their marriage, Yuan Ye participated in the imperial examinations and achieved first place in the civil service examinations at the provincial, metropolitan, and palace levels. He finally became the prime minister, a highly respected minister. He and Liu Mingzhu had three sons and one daughter. The husband and wife were very affectionate. The three sons born were also intelligent, and they were all talented generals.
After Liu Mingzhuâs death, Yuan Ye suddenly had an epiphany and began to cultivate. His talent was outstanding. Within a few years, he had entered the foundation-building stage. Afterwards, he simply abandoned his family and his sons, lived in seclusion in the mountains, and cultivated.
After that, Yuan Ye beat monsters and increased in cultivation. It was the story of his cultivation.
1.(ä¸éä¸é) There isnât a good translation to English for this. Apparently, there are 3 immortal souls in Daoism that represent the spirit and intellect, and 7 mortal forms in Daoism that represent carnal life and desires. I guess Yuan Ru just removes one of each? Not too sure here.