Chapter 268: Chapter 245: Memories

The big man carried Su Rende on his back and ran inside.

Zhang Zhaodi followed behind, extremely anxious.

She shouted to Jiang Jing, "Jing’er, come out quickly and save him."

Jiang Jing was in the consultation room. Hearing Zhang Zhaodi’s trembling voice, she instructed Jia Chunni to stay behind and look after the other patients before she hurried over.

When she saw Su Rende covered in blood, Jiang Jing’s expression became very serious.

"What happened to him?"

"An assassin rushed out from the street to kill him. He was stabbed while protecting me. Jing’er, you must save him!"

"Don’t worry, mother. As a doctor, I will do everything I can to save those I can."

Zhou Wangshu came in from outside, handed a stack of papers to Su Yaoguang, and said, "This is the information I had someone gather from the border. It contains important doubts about the National Guardian General. Take a look, and if there are any unclear points, I’ll send someone to investigate further."

"General Su is right here," Su Yaoguang said, "He just encountered an assassin, and Jing’er is saving him."

"Inside?"

"Yes."

"I’ll go take a look, don’t worry."

Su Yaoguang stopped beside Zhang Zhaodi and hugged her, saying, "Mother, don’t worry, it’ll be okay."

"It’s my fault. He kept pestering me about amnesia earlier, and I didn’t want to listen, so I kept driving him away. If I had just found a place to listen to him, he wouldn’t have met the assassin, and this wouldn’t have happened. He is the National Guardian General. If he dies at the hands of an assassin like this, I, a plain village woman, would become a sinner in the eyes of the world."

"Mother, how can you blame yourself for this? Even if this time he avoided it, those assassins wouldn’t give up easily; there would still be a next assassination." Su Yaoguang handed the documents Zhou Wangshu gave to her to Zhang Zhaodi, "This is the information Wang Shu had someone investigate about General Su. Why don’t you take a look? Maybe there’s some clue that could help General Su."

Zhang Zhaodi hesitated for a moment but finally opened them.

Inside, it detailed Su Rende’s daily eating habits, his every move, likes, and dislikes.

"Mother, mother... what are you thinking?"

Zhang Zhaodi’s eyes reddened, "Yaoguang, he could really be your father."

"Why?" Su Yaoguang took the documents from Zhang Zhaodi’s hand, reading through the text, "There’s no such record here. How did you conclude that?"

"It’s written here about the changes in his habits over the years. He is now a Great General. I would never link such a dignified person with my honest and simple husband. But, so many years have passed, I, this new wife, have become an old woman. Why couldn’t he have become a majestic Great General? It’s true that it doesn’t say what his name was before he lost his memory or what his life was like. It even says that none of his contemporaries who enlisted survived, so it’s difficult to find out about him."

"However, it notes that he likes to stare at the moon, likes to pick sour apricots, and likes to play strange tunes with leaves. You know, these were his habits. Especially sour apricots, not many people like them; I liked them, so he ate them with me. When he left, he said that even though he wasn’t beside me, we could look at the same moon, so if I missed him, I should look at the moon."

"As for that tune, it was our little pastime from when we first met. I was collecting firewood on the mountain, he was hunting. He sat there playing the leaves and caught my attention. I stood there listening to him play, when suddenly a wild boar rushed down the hill. I was so scared, he held me and climbed a big tree. We watched the wild boar trying to knock us down from the tree."

"And then?" Su Yaoguang was hearing about Zhang Zhaodi and her father’s love story for the first time.

"That wild boar wouldn’t leave and kept hitting the tree. He saw it was not going well, took a sickle from his waist, and jumped down to fight the wild boar. I watched him from the tree holding onto the tree trunk; he was strong, but the boar was too powerful. He got hurt and was running out of strength. I was there to gather firewood, so I must have had a machete in my basket. I jumped down with the machete to help him fight the boar."

Su Yaoguang never expected Zhang Zhaodi to be so fierce in her youth.

In some ways, she was quite like her mother.

"Did you both kill the wild boar?"

"Yes," Zhang Zhaodi blushed, "The boar was killed by us together. He was injured but he still carried it down the mountain. Can you guess what he did next?"

Su Yaoguang shook her head.

Zhang Zhaodi, immersed in memories, had an extremely gentle expression.

"He carried the wild boar to my house and asked my parents for my hand in marriage, saying he wanted to marry me."

Su Yaoguang let out a gasp, her face full of surprise, "You only met once, and he wanted to marry you?"

"Yes, he said he had never seen a bolder woman than me. He just liked that type and wanted to marry me."

At that time, her father was not favored at home, her mother was like a laborer; the two unnoticed bitter souls who met on the mountain and fell in love at first sight suddenly wanted to start a small family, a family where two mutually dependent bitter souls resided.

Su Yaoguang felt that Zhang Zhaodi’s evaluation of her father was not correct.

How could such a brave and decisive man be honest and slow-witted? Was it her memory of her father that was incorrect, or had time faded his image?

"Mother, didn’t you say he wasn’t before? If he is, you should sense it."

"I dare not believe it is him. My daughter, he has no memory. What if I am wrong? In other words, even if I’m not wrong and I am willing to accept this man, would he accept us? He is the National Guardian General, his status is worlds apart from ours. Would he still consider someone like me, an ignorant woman? These worries stop me from acknowledging it, even if my heart wavers."

"Earlier, when he saved me from the assassin, that look confirmed it to me. He’s the boy I loved back then. He has always been courageous and responsible."

"General Su is awake and is calling for you," Jia Chunni came out from inside and said to Zhang Zhaodi.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Zhaodi pulled Su Yaoguang and rushed inside.

"Chaochao, I want to see her," Su Rende tried to get out of bed but was held down by the people beside him.

Zhang Zhaodi trembled upon hearing the familiar name.

This time, she ran over without hesitation and threw herself into Su Rende’s arms.

"Brother Dali."

"Chaochao..."

The two embraced tightly.

Jiang Jing opened her mouth but eventually swallowed her words.

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