The Poison Cultivator Married the Crippled Heir novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: The Sect Master
The Sect Master came to the Cold Lamp Court at dawn, on foot, alone.
He was a tall man of fifty-five in plain grey, with white at his temples and a face that looked very much like his son's.
Wanqing was in the garden with a basin, washing her hands.
She straightened and saw him at the gate.
He did not speak.
He crossed the flat stones to the porch, where Yuhang sat in his chair with a cup of Bao's tea.
Then he went down on one knee on the stone so that his eyes were level with his son's.
"I will not say I'm sorry for the chair," he said.
His voice was rough from long silence. "You built a better one than I would have.
"I am sorry for the three years I let you sit in it alone."
Yuhang did not answer for a long moment.
"You heard everything," he said at last.
"I heard every word that was said in my hall. Zhonglin had his people in the walls, and I had mine.
"I heard the day the tonic began for you.
"After the second month I drank nothing his people brought me. I ate what I grew in the seclusion garden."
"Why didn't you come out?"
"Because I had no proof," said the Sect Master.
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