How could that be possible?
How could a family as large as the Lu Family let a cultivator who had married into the family serve as its patriarch?
And Mo Hua had never heard so much as a whisper of this before.
Mo Hua asked, "How did you find out?"
Shuisheng said, "My mother told me."
Mo Hua was quietly startled.
Shuixian knew about this...
"Does anyone else know?" Mo Hua hurriedly asked again.
Shuisheng thought for a moment. "At Hundred Flowers Pavilion, Auntie Xuefang and Sister Danxiang seemed to know too."
"Then they..."
Shuisheng sighed. "They're all dead."
Mo Hua's gaze narrowed. "Have you told anyone else about this?"
Shuisheng shook his head. "No. I don't have many friends, and my relationship with my fellow disciples isn't very good. I never told my master either..."
Mo Hua relaxed slightly, then his expression turned grave as he warned him:
"Never tell anyone else about this. It would be best if you forgot it altogether and never mentioned it again."
Mo Hua was not particularly familiar with the workings of great families, but he knew that generally speaking, a patriarch marrying into the family was a clan taboo.
If word got out, even Shuisheng would likely be killed to silence him.
Shuisheng did not understand why, but seeing Mo Hua's stern expression, he nodded seriously.
Then he suddenly remembered something and asked with a frown:
"Was my mother also... because of this..."
Mo Hua shook his head. "Not necessarily..."
That was what he said, but Mo Hua estimated that Shuixian's death was, nine times out of ten, connected to Patriarch Lu as well.
Mo Hua glanced at Shuisheng and instructed him again:
"For the next few days, stay in the residence with your master. Don't go out, and don't speak carelessly.