Chapter 289: Chapter 289

"Ah, why her?" Xiaoyao understood someone would be arranged to attend to him, but didn't understand why it was this Young Miss, she didn't seem like someone who would serve others.

"Because she wanted to stay and accompany you. Since she took such initiative, we juniors should be tactful." Fang Hong said with a smile, making another small joke.

"Fang Hong, you old rascal, what are you trying to say? Don't think that just because you're the family head, Young Miss can't deal with you." Fang Ling jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, roaring angrily.

"Yes, yes, I won't say anymore. I'm leaving. Everyone go, don't disturb Young Miss, no, don't disturb Xiaoyao's writing," Fang Hong said while already retreating. This made Fang Ling stamp her feet, standing helplessly beside Xiaoyao watching.

What could she do? Fang Hong was the family head, and most importantly, his strength far exceeded hers, he could kill her with one finger.

"What are you looking at? Write quickly."

Young Miss was clearly venting her anger on Xiaoyao. Xiaoyao shook his head innocently and continued writing.

"Don't think I stayed for you, I'm here to see the manuals sooner. Don't be conceited." Fang Ling originally felt this didn't need explanation, but in this situation, she didn't want to be misunderstood.

"I know. Even if I were conceited, it wouldn't be about you, elder." Xiaoyao nodded while not stopping his writing.

"What did you say." Fang Ling's voice rose several degrees.

"Nothing, I was just talking to myself about the manuals," Xiaoyao very straightforwardly refused to admit it.

Fang Ling fell silent. This was too obvious, he was brushing her off again. Hmph.

Then Fang Ling got angry for a short while before going to watch Xiaoyao write the manuals. She discovered Xiaoyao's writing speed was very fast, more than twice that of ordinary people. What made her admiring was that Xiaoyao's characters didn't become sloppy and ugly due to speed. On the contrary, they were very neat and beautiful, even master calligraphers were only at this level.

Fang Ling felt that just Xiaoyao's characters alone could make these manuals very precious, let alone their content.

He actually had such skill, truly amazing. Even more amazing was that his script was small regular script, neat small regular script. Writing at this speed was actually faster than cursive script, yet the output was so neat. If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she absolutely wouldn't have believed it.

After one day, Fang Ling felt her previous surprise was making a big fuss over nothing. What she'd seen before was nothing, just small potatoes.

At that time, before Fang Ling was a pile of freshly bound books. These books were all completed by Xiaoyao alone, including the binding. Of course, what gave her that feeling wasn't these many new books. Although she was surprised by such efficiency, she could have imagined it.

What made her feel that speed in small regular script was nothing was that Xiaoyao had also provided illustrations for these martial arts manuals. These were normal to appear in martial arts manuals, but the problem was that Xiaoyao could draw them, and draw them so lifelike, this made her feel small regular script was nothing.

She had carefully examined these illustrations, they were very detailed, giving people a sense of enlightenment. Compared to ordinary illustrations, they were completely on two different levels.

She had asked Xiaoyao this question and got the answer that it was because the people who previously wrote techniques and drew pictures had poor cultural foundations.

Another such statement, but it could well explain some situations. These martial arts manuals generally came with their own illustrations. Martial artists weren't necessarily good at drawing and didn't necessarily have good cultural foundations, so in drawing and annotation, they were much inferior.

It wasn't that they didn't want to find people who drew well and had deep cultural foundations, but after all, these were secret manuals, who would want to show them to others?

In fact, scholars weren't interested in this. Even if they were brought in, with only superficial understanding of martial arts, they might write things that made people even more confused, that would only have reverse effects.

People with both literary and martial talents naturally existed, but very few reached the level where they could write martial arts manuals themselves. Of course, it wasn't that there were none, because of this, there were some well-expressed martial arts manuals on the continent.

Of course, the main reason was still that these manuals needed people to comprehend them. Without comprehension, how could they highlight their mysterious aspects? How could they show their importance?

Days passed one by one, and more and more martial arts manuals appeared in Xiaoyao's hands. Among these manuals, some were ones the Fang family currently had but were missing parts, so they didn't stop Xiaoyao from writing them out.

Why not have Xiaoyao only complete the missing parts? This was their small private intention, they wanted to possess books written by Xiaoyao. These characters were worth collecting.

Regarding this point, Fang Hong also gave affirmation. He wanted to collect anything Xiaoyao wrote, even mistaken discarded waste paper. For this, he specifically instructed Fang Ling to pay attention.

However, Fang Ling told him that Xiaoyao had never written a wrong character, this possibility didn't exist.

Although Fang Hong was surprised Xiaoyao could achieve not missing a single character, he was more regretful, regretting that this way there was no method to collect more of Xiaoyao's writing.

When he first saw Xiaoyao's writing, he didn't believe Xiaoyao had written it. At that time, he even suspected whether these manuals were secretly taken out by Xiaoyao. But after watching Xiaoyao write character by character on site, he believed it.

Afterward, he fell into fanaticism, spending maximum time every day beside Xiaoyao, watching him write. Because he was a calligraphy enthusiast with deep attainments, he had even compared calligraphy with some masters, each having their strengths.

Now, he could only deeply admire Xiaoyao's characters. This was also why he hadn't believed before, such characters required long cultivation and couldn't possibly be written by a young man's hand.

However, Xiaoyao had once again broken this impossibility.

Perhaps because of this, when Xiaoyao finished writing and was leaving, he was very reluctant, more reluctant than when his own son left home. Those lingering, reluctant eyes scared Xiaoyao so much he didn't dare stop even half a step, driving Mao Mao to leave at fastest speed.

Another two months passed. Starting from the Fang family, Xiaoyao followed another arc-shaped route back to the Heavenly Wind Kingdom, touring many new places along the way, experiencing the cultural characteristics of various areas, encountering some events and people, gaining some martial world experience, and earning a bit of small fame. However, this small fame belonged to Xiaoyao's alias, no one knew it was him personally.

Before entering the Heavenly Wind Kingdom, Xiaoyao disguised himself as a merchant and conducted business along the way several times. He also acquired a batch of goods at one place to take to Qingyun City. These goods were very popular in Qingyun City and could earn a profit. Anyway, Mao Mao was strong enough to carry these goods with ease.

Xiaoyao naturally wasn't disguising himself to make money. He didn't want to invite trouble, he had enemies in the Heavenly Wind Kingdom.

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Xiaoyao's enemy in the Heavenly Wind Kingdom was the Fourth Prince. Xiaoyao didn't know the Fourth Prince's current situation, but anyway, as a Fourth Prince, he would have some influence. Such local powers still required caution.

Therefore, he disguised himself as a merchant, using such an inconspicuous small merchant identity to enter the Heavenly Wind Kingdom. He believed this wouldn't attract anyone's attention. In fact, as long as he didn't go to the Heavenly Wind Kingdom's royal capital, the Fourth Prince would have difficulty discovering his existence. In Qingyun City, it would be even less of a concern.

Xiaoyao's understanding of Qingyun City was no less than anyone's. He had grown up in Qingyun City. There, even if discovered, he could easily leave because he knew every place in Qingyun City and could easily find escape routes.

However, when Xiaoyao entered the Heavenly Wind Kingdom's border checkpoint, he discovered the Heavenly Wind Kingdom seemed somewhat different from before. It seemed like something had happened in the Heavenly Wind Kingdom.

"Name, origin, purpose." The checkpoint guard soldiers questioned with serious expressions.

"Fang Mo, from Qingyun Province. Returning from business abroad, bringing some goods back to sell in Qingyun Province," Xiaoyao answered. Since he began playing this merchant, he had called himself Fang Mo, a combination of the Fang and Mo families.

Xiaoyao had also considered using Ning, but this surname seemed too unusual and might easily make people think of the Great Tang Empire's royal family, so he used the common surname Fang instead.

He couldn't use the three characters Le Xiaoyao because he was afraid the Fourth Prince would discover him, no need to invite unnecessary trouble.

Previously at this time, they would just check briefly and let people through. Now it seemed different. The soldier continued asking, "What goods?"

"Premium Wu Kingdom silk, something many people in Qingyun City like, very popular," Xiaoyao answered.

"All of it?" the soldier asked.

"Yes, just different colors and patterns. Everything is the same, all premium Wu Kingdom silk."

The soldier still didn't let him pass and said, "Check them. Make your mount lie down." Mao Mao's size was relatively large, making inspection somewhat difficult.

Previously in the Heavenly Wind Kingdom, generally one just needed to report identity, then pay some checkpoint fees to pass. Now they not only asked for detailed identity verification but also verified purposes and checked imported goods.

This was very different from usual, something must have happened.

However, Xiaoyao didn't mind this. It was normal for a country to have some incidents, and he couldn't interfere. As long as they let him pass, it was fine.

So he patted Mao Mao's body, and Mao Mao immediately obediently lay down on the ground.