My Divine Pet Enables Me To Become The Biggest Winner
Chapter 953 - 486 Sophia has Two Homes_3

Chapter 953: Chapter 486 Sophia has Two Homes_3

"One time, Master took me along and we passed by a clothing store. Master saw a goose-yellow dress, which looked really pretty when worn. All us kids clapped and liked it. Master walked around the shop a few times, but in the end, she couldn’t bear to buy it. She had to support a big courtyard full of children like me - but Master didn’t like unrighteous wealth. She often boasted to us that every ounce of silver she had was clean and pure, but we all knew that she barely had an ounce of silver on her for years."

"Then Master started to teach us cultivation. Out of all the siblings in the big courtyard, only four of us were able to cultivate. I still remember clearly that Master wasn’t happy. After that day, our food was noticeably better than the others’. The other children complained in secret, saying Master was biased, and some even maliciously slandered her, claiming she saved us only to find a successor and that she would eventually abandon the other children."

"But Master didn’t blame them. She just sighed and said: For these four who can cultivate, it may not necessarily be a good thing for them, but it’s a good thing for the rest of you."

"Many years later, after Master passed away, I realized that we who could cultivate had to support a big courtyard of brothers and sisters, as well as the new fellows. We were also taught by Master not to accept unrighteous wealth and could only rely on our own abilities to earn money, making it very difficult to support everyone."

"For ourselves, it really might not be a good thing. Of the four who could cultivate back then, two couldn’t persist and never came back ten years ago.

Another one wanted to take a risk to earn a fortune, and accepted a job beyond his capabilities, but he wasn’t as lucky as he thought, alas...

Now, only I am left. I am not as great as Master, I am just a girl who likes pretty dresses, shiny jewelry, and bright rouge... I can only work harder to earn more money. But somehow, Master found only four of us who could cultivate in her lifetime. And after I took over the big courtyard, those little fellows who could cultivate just kept popping up like bamboo shoots in a bamboo forest... Cultivation costs money, it’s driving me to poverty!"

Sophia pulled her ears down with both hands, like a disheartened rabbit.

"Then I met you!" Sophia glared at Lord with "fierce eyes": "What kind of jobs have you introduced to me? If it weren’t for my hard life, there would be no one to take care of the children in this big courtyard!"

Lord wisely chose not to defend himself. Sophia snorted, "At least you have a conscience, dead ghost, the price you gave me was fair."

While talking, she had already arrived outside County Town.

"Four years after I followed Master, she happily took me back here. She bragged about how difficult it was for her to find my relatives. She even boasted that without her powerful cultivation methods, even the old officers in the government office wouldn’t have been able to find any clues."

"She let me meet my parents. The moment my mother saw me, she knelt down and hugged me, wailing loudly. She refused to let go no matter what, but in the end, I still left. I remember my mother’s words - I am the eldest, and I have to take care of my younger brothers and sisters. Our family was still so poor, and if I stayed, it would just be another mouth to feed. If I went back with Master and saved some food for my younger siblings, that would also be taking care of them."

"Also, at that time, I not only had my younger siblings at home, but also the younger brothers and sisters in the big courtyard. I had to go back and take care of them as well."

"After that, Master would take me back every few years and leave a little money for my parents. Master didn’t want to give more, but she was really poor."

"Later, when Master passed away, I wasn’t as open-minded as her, but I was better at making money than Master, so I still came back every few years, finding a good husband for my sister and helping my brother build a house and marry a wife."

"But now, my mother is dead..."

Sophia suddenly fell silent, just staring blankly in the direction of County Town.

Lord sighed quietly, understanding that her feelings for her biological mother must be very complex. Those who haven’t experienced it will not be able to let go easily. Lord simply accompanied her quietly by her side.

After a stick of incense’s worth of time had passed, Sophia gently tugged Lord: "Let’s go, into town, back home."

At home, a mourning hall had been set up, and siblings were wearing funeral clothes, while relatives and friends were helping to arrange the funeral. Lord accompanied Sophia and could feel the sense of distance between her and her relatives, or rather, a clear boundary had emerged between her and the secular world.

He accompanied Sophia to meet her father, an ordinary old man. Sophia comforted him for a while, but didn’t even let Lord greet him.

In the night, Sophia told her younger siblings to rest and she stayed alone to keep watch over her mother’s body for the night.

She pulled Lord close and whispered: "I want... to see my mother one more time." Lord understood and nodded quietly. But that night, Lord’s soul summoning technique didn’t attract Sophia’s mother’s soul from the vicinity.

This was very unusual, as it hadn’t yet been the seventh day after death, and the soul should still be lingering near the corpse.

Sophia’s face changed, and the next morning, she burst into her father’s room: "How exactly did my mother die?!"