Down to Business (XV)

"Can you enlighten me of this matter, Master Mo?" Hui Lan's voice was surprisingly calm.

...News from the outside and inside seemed to go around fast here. Whatever was happening inside the Mo folks, it would be unlikely to not slip away from Master Mo eyes.

...Although it was matters of someone else's family, but this, it seemed she could not just let it pass like nothing happened.

Master Mo took a small sigh before slowly explaining, "It is a long story. My children, they didn't get along with each other. Their mother both passed away when they were young. All of my time was spent on the Mo folks that I did not realise I had forsaken both of my children. Now, I've lost one of my children, I wish to not lose another. All of this there's no one to blame but me for being a lacking father."

"Don't say that grandpa." Mo Li's weak voice spoke up as her grandfather blamed himself. She didn't like it when her grandfather spoke like that.