Grandma was extremely sad. She endured the pain all over her body. The mother and son hugged each other and cried for a long time. Then my father slowly helped grandma up and went to his room.

After that, grandpa's attitude towards grandma became even worse, but seeing that she was nice to my dad, he didn't beat her anymore.

His health deteriorated day by day. Two years later, he contracted tuberculosis and passed away, leaving behind his grandmother and father.

In fact, I think my grandfather believed the rumors spread by the villagers, which caused him to suffer from mental illness, become depressed, and eventually die a miserable death.

When my grandmother talked about this, she was already in tears. Her life was really hard. After my grandfather passed away, she raised my father alone, married him off and gave birth to me.

But fate played another joke on her, and my mom and dad passed away before her.

Grandma clenched her trembling hands tightly, tears streaming down her wrinkled face. As she recalled every detail of the past, the pain became even more excruciating.

I walked up to my grandmother, hugged her and choked with sobs.

"Grandma, please stop crying. This is not your fault."

Grandma also hugged me tightly.

"Feng'er, I won't cry. After so many years, I still have you. You are my blessing."

"Grandma, I am your granddaughter and will always be your granddaughter."

At this moment, I didn’t know what words to use to comfort her. This was also what I thought in my heart. I never doubted my grandma’s love for me. She is my real grandma.

"Yes, yes, grandma knows that my Feng'er is the most filial. So, if you didn't get into the technical secondary school, it's okay. Grandma has money to support your education. Grandma wants to live well and watch you finish college, get married, have children, and even help you take care of the children."

Grandma stroked my head gently.

"Grandma, you have to keep your promise and help me take care of the children in the future. Don't break your promise."

I acted like a spoiled child in my grandma's arms.

"Grandma won't break her promise. By the way, Feng'er, there is something else I want to tell you."

Grandma continued, I raised my head and looked at her with wide eyes. What she said today had already amazed me. Could there be something else earth-shattering that she wanted to tell me?

"Our Xu family has been a family of horsemen for generations. We were once prosperous, but it has ended with my generation. You should study hard. I don't plan to pass on my legacy to you in the future. You can only help others occasionally to accumulate merits. You can't take this as your main job."

My grandmother spoke every word very seriously. Perhaps she was still frightened by the departure of her family members and did not want me to inherit her career, fearing that I would become a widower and lonely.

"I know, grandma! I have never thought of making this my future career." I comforted her.

"Originally I didn't want you to get involved in this kind of thing, but God gave you a pair of yin-yang eyes, so you can't avoid it. But you must have good intentions and not use this ability to make money or harm others, and you will be fine."

Grandma said again.

"Yeah, yeah, I understand." I nodded.

At this time, grandma let go of me and stood up. I saw her carefully open the black wooden box again, took out a cloth bag from it, and walked to me.

She gently opened the cloth bag layer by layer and took out a yellowed book from it. The big words "Xu Family Tree" on the cover caught my eye, in traditional Chinese characters.

"Feng'er, this is the genealogy of our Xu family."

Grandma slowly stretched out her wrinkled hands and opened the old family tree. Her eyes were full of awe and solemnity, as if she was touching a distant piece of history.

My fingers gently stroke the pages of the book, feeling the passage of time, and my slightly trembling hands gently flip through the family tree. Each page carries the family's heritage and memory.

She gently opened it, and as the family tree turned, a trace of emotion and attachment flashed in her eyes.

She said to me as she flipped through the pages.

"Feng'er, although you don't have the blood of our Xu family, you are also the root of my Xu family. Your yin-yang eyes are the witness."

"Our Xu family's ancestor was also a woman. It's recorded here that she was once a maid in a wealthy family, but later she became a prostitute after being pointed out by an immortal.

The immortal promised the Xu family 19 generations of glory, but there was a mission, which was to protect one person from generation to generation. "

"I have also asked my father about this, but he doesn't know who we need to protect. After more than 500 years, it has been passed down from generation to generation, and it is not clear. I am already the 19th generation of the Xu family. This mission should be completed in my generation."

"So, I'm telling you this today. When I leave in the future, if this mission is not completed, you have to continue to help me complete it, otherwise the immortal will think that our Xu family does not keep its promise."

I opened my eyes wide again and asked my grandma suspiciously.

"How can we accomplish this without knowing who it is?"

"Everything is predestined by fate. Since the immortal has said so, that person will appear when the time comes."

Grandma explained.

"Okay, grandma, I get it." I blinked.

Grandma showed me the family tree page by page. The densely packed handwriting recorded the Xu family's past glory.

Over the past 500 years, the Xu family has produced many talented people. During the heyday, there were even descendants of the Xu family who reached the level of prime minister.

Even in the Qing Dynasty, there were high-ranking officials and big businessmen. Before liberation, the Xu family was also a scholarly family.

"It should be that the Xu family kept their promise, and that immortal did not break his word. He said that he would ensure the prosperity of our Xu family for 19 generations, and it is true. So even if my generation has fallen into such decline, we must complete his instructions."

After reading the family tree, grandma's face showed a mixture of pride, admiration, and sadness. All kinds of emotions were piled up on her face.

After he told me this, he felt relieved, as if he had let out the secret that had been weighing on his heart.

I also feel very sad. This heavy burden has fallen on my head. Can I complete it?

Who is the person to be protected? Is she or he an ordinary person? Is it like in the novels, where a person keeps reincarnating and the Xu family always has to protect that reincarnated person?

"Grandma, you said the ancestor of the Xu family was a woman?"

This suddenly occurred to me and I asked again.

"Yeah, I said that at the beginning."

Grandma was puzzled. She had already told me the answer at the beginning, so why was I asking again?

"Grandma, I had a dream before. The person in the dream who looked very similar to you should be the ancestor of the Xu family."

The reason I asked my grandma again was that I remembered the dream I had before, so I told her what happened in the dream.

The Xu Ma who took care of the second young lady in the dream should be the ancestor of the Xu family. The three magical instruments passed down by the Xu family in the dream were handed to Xu Ma by the man in black.

The man in black is the immortal that grandma talked about, so the second young lady should be the one that the Xu family wants to protect.

After I told my dream, I analyzed it.

"Well, that should be it. So you are still the root of the Xu family. Where is the second young lady? What we have to protect now is her reincarnation, but where can we find her?"

Grandma sighed and expressed the doubts in my heart.

"Grandma, let's not worry about it. She will show up naturally when the time comes."

I also understand that she will show up when the time comes.

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