I Only Want to Lie Flat But Am Forced to Cultivate Immortality-Chapter 235 - 134 Past Connections_2

Granny Guan saw Spiritual Granny always taking her to Mountain Lord Temple, so she crisply said, "I know, my father is the Mountain Monarch, he is a big tiger..."

Spiritual Granny laughed and said, "If the Mountain Monarch is your father, then wouldn’t that make me the tigress?"

The little Granny Guan didn’t understand anything then and replied, "If mother is a tigress, then I must be a tiger cub!"

Days flowed like water, and little Granny Guan gradually grew into a young lady, while Spiritual Granny’s hair had turned silver, her mouth wrinkled inward, making her speech sound as if she was chewing on sticky rice cakes, no longer clear.

By this time, Granny Guan had taken up the burden of life, every day besides helping others with events and illnesses, she would study needlework, engage in sewing trades to supplement household expenses.

Old Spiritual Granny sometimes felt fortunate to have found Granny Guan, but amidst her fortune, she also felt a bit guilty...

Granny Guan saw it in her eyes but never asked much.

Years passed in a flash, and when Spiritual Granny’s lifespan was nearing its end, Granny Guan stayed by the bedside, and at that moment, the old Spiritual Granny in her final lucid moment suddenly spoke to her daughter.

"Daughter, I owe you an apology, I’m actually not your biological mother..."

Granny Guan held Spiritual Granny’s hand and whispered, "I know, I’ve always known. I’m different from ordinary people, I still remember the way you carried me home..."

Spiritual Granny was stunned, her eyes a bit dazed, but slowly she looked at Granny Guan again, trembling as she spoke, "I... I also did something wrong. When I was carrying you back then looking for your family, at the village entrance I saw your parents who abandoned you. But I was old, and had no children of my own, so..."

Granny Guan’s body trembled, she paused for a moment, then reached out, wiping her tears as she laughed and said, "They abandoned me, even if you chased them, they probably wouldn’t have wanted me. They might have just thrown me to another place, if that were so, I might not have met you or lived till now."

"In my heart, you are my real mother."

...

After Spiritual Granny passed away, Granny Guan became the new Spiritual Granny of Guanmen Village.

On this day, Granny Guan sat at her doorway with a basket of sewing tools, but just as she was mending clothes, from the opposite field came a sudden low growl of a wild beast.

Granny Guan put down her sewing, lifted her head to look, and saw upon the short wall surrounding the fields appeared a white forehead, spotted tiger.

Ordinary folks at this time might have already run for their lives or hid indoors, but when Granny Guan saw the tiger approaching her, she didn’t make a single move.

It wasn’t until the tiger came limping with one paw, stepping awkwardly to her front that Granny Guan spoke.

"You’re injured, can’t catch prey, so you want to eat me?"

The tiger whimpered softly, using its injured front paw to nudge the sewing basket.

Granny Guan saw the tiger lying on the ground in an innocent manner, chuckled and said, "If you’re not here to fill your belly, then it must mean you’re in trouble, looking for help?"

The tiger whimpered once more, lifting its paw.

Granny Guan noticed the tiger seemed to understand human nature, thus she was no longer afraid, she leaned forward and took a look.

She saw a large wooden nail, about an inch long, deeply embedded in the palm of the large tiger.

"Big tiger, bear with the pain, I’ll use a needle to remove the splinter."

Then, Granny Guan took a large needle from the sewing basket and picked out the wooden splinter.

"Wait here, I have Blood Remnant Charcoal in the house, which stops bleeding and relieves pain..."

Soon, Granny Guan returned with a small medicine jar containing the Blood Remnant Charcoal, applied medicine to the waiting tiger, and wrapped its bleeding wound with cloth.

Having done all this, Granny Guan smiled and waved her hand, "Go on, be careful from now on, don’t let these splinters stab you again."

On the second day after sending away the tiger, Granny Guan followed routine, heading to Mountain Lord Temple to worship, but when she opened the courtyard gate, she noticed a rabbit carcass at the doorstep.

Granny Guan looked around, then on a distant mound, she saw the tiger she had treated the previous day.

The tiger growled into the distance when it saw her looking, immediately jumping off the mound and disappearing into the fields.

In the days that followed, the tiger would periodically bring her gifts like deer, roe deer, and wild pheasants, until a month later, it stopped appearing.

Granny Guan thought the tiger had repaid its debt, this matter was completely resolved.

Unexpectedly, two years later, on a certain day, while Granny Guan was resting, she heard tiger growls outside the courtyard gate.

She hurriedly dressed, and when she opened the gate, she saw a tigress with two cubs sitting on the mound watching her.

Granny Guan was puzzled, until she heard the cries of a tiger cub from the nearby dry water channel, she realized.

Tigers give birth to three cubs, one of which is often abandoned, not because the tigress wants to discard it, but because she has insufficient milk to sustain it, so she has no choice but to abandon it.

But this tigress was different, she recognized Granny Guan, knowing she had no children, so she brought the cub she couldn’t raise over.

The tigress seemed rather proud, nodding her head in a haughty manner towards Granny Guan from the mound.

Granny Guan witnessed this scene, immediately recalling her own abandonment by her parents.

She was not like Spiritual Granny, now with the cub’s mother right before her eyes, she wouldn’t just sit and watch.

Granny Guan picked up the cub and chased after the tigress.

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