Insufficient balance

  Before Wind Four Niang could speak, she suddenly found an old woman standing in front of Li Huo, turning her head to look at her.

  Ye Yizhe took advantage of the situation and pulled Feng Si Niang's hand, disregarding Li Hu Niu's expression. He walked up to the two of them and said: "Shifu's wife, let me introduce you. This is Liu Ruihan, everyone calls her Feng Si Niang, but you can just call her Ruihan."

  After finishing speaking, he turned his head to face Feng Si Niang and said: "Rui Han, this is my Shifu's wife. I've never told you about my family situation before. For someone like me who doesn't have parents, Shifu and Shifu's wife are the closest relatives I have. As for Li Hu, I think there's no need to introduce him, right?"

  The puzzled Fourth Daughter stopped in her tracks, what does "closest relative" mean? Is it referring to parents or something else?

  She caught the most important information from Yiyue Zhe's words, and Feng Siniang stood there in a daze. When she came to her senses, she found Kang Zhuo smiling at her, without any sign of anger at her being stunned.

  Although she was also used to grand scenes, she had not had an emotional life for many years. She seemed to have returned to the time when she first saw her family's wind and sky. Now there is something different again. She and Ye Yizhe maintained a relationship that was neither romantic nor friendly, and no one had clarified this layer. In this situation, seeing Ye Yizhe's teacher's wife, she felt a little strange in her heart, but she still calmed down and walked to the front of Kang Zhuo, saying respectfully: "Teacher's wife is good, I am Liu Ruhuan, Ye Yizhe's... friend..."

  After some thought, she still positioned herself with this title, although there was a little loss, but it didn't show up. Ye Yizhe suddenly slapped her hand and grabbed it to Kang Zhuo's face, also pulling Kang Zhuo, holding both hands in his palm, looking at her slightly discontentedly and saying: "What friend?"

  He said and looked at Kang Zhuo: "Master's wife, this is the daughter-in-law I found for you, don't know if you're satisfied?"

  Feng Si Niang's face suddenly turned red, and she lowered her head, unsure of what to say.

  At this moment, she was like a little girl in her first love, Ye Yizhe thought. Li Hu, on the other hand, gave Ye Yizhe a thumbs up from the side, he had always felt that something was not quite right, but he didn't dare to confirm it, he always felt that recently, Feng Simao's gaze at him lacked the alienation of before, and had some other things, now looking at it, he finally understood, originally his Yezi brother had already won over Feng Simao.

  Deep down, he had a great deal of respect for Ye Yizhe, and in that instant, it burst forth like an endless river. If not for the fact that his teacher's wife was present, he really wanted to rush up and shout "Long live Brother Yezi!" at the top of his lungs.

  Kang Zhuo patted Feng Siniang's hand with his other hand and said in a slow tone, "This girl is not bad, I like her. You're called Rui Han, right? If Yezi bullies you in the future, just tell me, and I'll teach him a lesson."

  Feng Si Niang was taken aback, then nodded heavily, and when she looked at Kang Zhuo again, she felt that her gaze was even more kind and gentle, as if it could see through people's hearts. She only felt that she was very real in front of her, without any pretence or deception, and couldn't bear to hide anything under such a gaze.

  "Child, I just returned empty-handed except for this jade pendant. The origin of this jade pendant dates back to a long time ago. If it weren't for this, I wouldn't have met your master. If it weren't for this, I wouldn't have returned from Hokkaido either. Everything is fate. This is only half of it, the other half is with Yezi. Now, I'm giving this to you, are you willing to accept it?" Kang Zhuo said, taking out a jade pendant from his bosom and placing it in Feng Siniang's hand.

  Seeing this jade pendant, Ye Yizhe was taken aback and said: "Shifu's wife?"

  Li Hu also responded with a puzzled "hmm", and only then did he notice that this was the thing Ye Zi Ge had asked him to bring to Hokkaido to fetch his wife back, although he didn't know what it was, but from Ye Zi Ge's serious expression, he had thought that it must be something important, just not as important as he had imagined, and that Master and his wife had actually met through this.

  Looking at their expressions, Feng Si Niang knew that even if this thing wasn't valuable, it was still not something ordinary. She had already taken a liking to Ye Yi Zhe and wanted to see his reaction before making a decision.

  "Just take it with ease, I'm giving you something that even if Yezi had ten times the courage, he wouldn't dare say anything." Kang Zhuo saw through Feng Si Niang's thoughts and glared at Ye Yi Zhe, saying "This jade pendant is indeed very valuable, it was once his master's most treasured item. However, since that year when Yezi accidentally dropped it on the ground and it broke into two pieces, it wasn't anything special anymore. My master and I have been discussing this, if one day Yezi finds someone to take care of him, he's no longer alone, has someone he likes, and we can entrust Yezi to her hands, then we'll give her one of the pieces. Today I see that you, Rui Han, really like it, who else would I give this to? Even if you didn't appear, I was prepared to give it to Yezi's future partner, do you want me to bring it down with me instead?"

  "Shi Niang!" Not just Ye Yizhe, but also Li Hu and Feng Si Niang were all indignant.

  "Alright, alright, Master's wife will live to be a hundred years old." Seeing them like this, Kang Zhuo couldn't help but smile, and didn't forget to pull Feng Si Niang over to sit beside her. She continued, "Master's wife hasn't even seen your children born yet, hasn't been able to hold them in her own arms, how could she bear to leave just like that? So, Rui Han, don't worry about anything, even if Ye Zi can't get married now, we're not old-fashioned, we can accept it."

  One sentence suddenly made Ye Yizhe and Feng Siniang both blush.

  "Yèzi, bring out your half too."

  Kang Zhuo took the half of the double fish jade pendant from Ye Yizhe's hand, and Feng Si Niang didn't have any time to stop before handing over the one she had just put in her hand. Kang Zhuo nodded secretly in his heart, and without making a sound, he pieced the two jade pendants together.

  There is no gap at all, it's a complete jade pendant.

  If you look at the intact double fish jade pendant in Kang Zhuo's hand, no one would believe that it was once broken.

  Apart from Ye Yizhe, who already knew about it, Li Hu and Feng Siniang looked at each other in disbelief.

  A broken mirror cannot be made whole again, anyone with scientific knowledge knows that this is impossible. Once something is shattered, it can never be repaired, those small fragments are irretrievable and can only appear to fit together on the surface.

  What happened before their eyes was a subversion of their cognition.

  "Look, how well-matched they are." Kang Zhuo said with a smile, pointing to the pair of fish-shaped jade pendants in his hand. Then he let go of his hand and picked up the jade pendants that had fallen into two pieces, putting them back in their hands and holding their hands together: "You two are like them, an integral whole. I and Master Yezi can't take care of him for a lifetime, now that you're by his side, I'm at ease. I can see that you're a good girl, maybe you've been through many things, maybe you've lost hope in life before, but I won't pry into any of that, nor will I care about your identity or family background. As long as you genuinely care for Yezi, Master and I won't object. Actually, what's the point of all those restrictions? Two people loving each other is what matters most. Those things like nationality and faith are just illusions."

  Feng Si Niang was both shocked and delighted, shocked that Kang Zhuo had seen through so many of her secrets, delighted that he hadn't opposed anything, and regarding the things in her words that would have normally made her suspicious and worried, she didn't mind them anymore. When a person is happy, they often overlook many things, and at this moment, she was just like that.

  She wouldn't know, but Ye Yizhe and Li Hu exchanged a glance, clearly both thinking the same thing.

  In the Plateau Province, there are many lovers who will not be forcibly separated because of different ethnicities. Ethnicity is indeed not that important to them, but in the end, they were still torn apart without any warning, just with one sentence.

  Your beliefs are different.

  In a region with faith, how important is this belief.

  Enough to make two people in love leave each other willingly without any resistance.

  But the two of them clearly knew that, saying a childless master and wife, in fact, had a child. Before Zhe Yang picked up Ye Yizhe from somewhere, they had a son who was 20 years old and was in high school at the time. He had a girlfriend, a girl from inland China who came to teach on the plateau province. The two were deeply in love, and the girl stayed on the plateau for his sake.

  Zheyang and Kunchok, who knew about this matter, did not object. In their opinion, everything was not that important. Although he was a living Buddha respected by everyone in the highland province, Zheyang, being open-minded, naturally would not attach importance to these things.

  But the entire Plateau State was boiling over.

  The son of Living Buddha Jiyang is going to marry a woman from another ethnic group and with different beliefs, and the voices of criticism have been spreading from all directions, even the evening newspaper in Qinghai Province has been criticizing this "dog-like couple".

  Although Zhe Yang also advised the two of them not to care about what others thought, the young man's strong self-esteem still left both of them speechless. In the end, they jumped off the snowy mountain in Duo Long one quiet night after leaving a letter behind. Zhe Yang and Kang Zhuo didn't even get to see their last faces, all they saw was the "I'm sorry" filled with tears in the letter.

  Feng Si Niang would not know, nor would she be allowed to know. As the successor of Living Buddha Zhe Yang, if he were to unite with an outsider, it would be a sinful thing in Qinghai Province. Upon hearing Kang Zhuo's words, Ye Yi Zhe grasped Feng Si Niang's hand even tighter.