Chapter 251: Different Paths Left No Room for Common Cause
Tie Zhongtang also looked at Yun Jiuxiao in bewilderment.
"No!"
Yun Jiuxiao shook his head. "We can only count on you now."
Without waiting for either of them to ask, he continued, "Do you know who your mother is?"
Mother?
Yun Zheng's expression shifted slightly. That word was unfamiliar to him.
Ever since he could remember, there had been no such word as "mother" in his life. His father had told him that his mother had died giving birth to him.
Yun Zheng stared intently at Yun Jiuxiao. "Second Uncle, my mother... is she still alive?"
Yun Jiuxiao sighed. "It's a long story, but at its root, it all comes down to the rules our Banner Sect has passed down through the generations..."
"The rules?"
Both Yun Zheng and Tie Zhongtang were bewildered.
Yun Jiuxiao nodded and asked, "Do you know why our Banner Sect consists entirely of men, without a single woman?"
The two shook their heads. Ever since they could remember, they had only had fathers, not mothers. They had assumed it was simply misfortune, but now it seemed there was another reason.
Facing their gazes, Yun Jiuxiao could hardly bear it. But with the Banner Sect's very survival at stake, he could only tell them the reasons behind everything.
As it turned out, ever since the founding patriarch's generation, every disciple of the Banner Sect had been stripped of the right to enjoy a mother's love from birth. Even the fathers had to choose to separate from their wives, using this to temper a tenacious, unyielding character capable of enduring hardship.
In their eyes, women were absolute weaklings and sources of disaster, useful for nothing but continuing the family line.
Even though none of them wished to