Chapter 300: Chapter 300
The four sat around a small stone round table in the courtyard and began getting to the main topic.
"Her name is Fang Chunxue, from the Fang family, and the jade pendant is a Fang family heirloom," Xiaoyao replied softly, looking at the night sky.
"Fang family?. Which Fang family?" Nangong Suxin couldn't be certain. There were too many Fang families, and the most famous was that one, but it couldn't be such a coincidence. The previous one was Princess Zhuyue from the Great Tang Empire, how could there be such a coincidence that another person of similar status would appear now?
Nangong Suxin didn't know that this matter was indeed such a coincidence.
"The Fang family that's the world's number one prestigious family," Xiaoyao replied. This answer shocked all three women.
Xiaoyao nodded and said: "Yes, that one."
"No way, how are you so fortunate? First it was Princess Zhuyue, now it's someone from the Fang family." the Young Miss said heartlessly.
"Mo Yu..." Nangong Su felt helpless. This was about Xiaoyao's background, a serious topic. How could she be so heartless?
"What's fortunate or unfortunate about it? The time when I could have been fortunate has already passed. Now it doesn't matter who it is," Xiaoyao said nonchalantly.
That's right, so-called "good fortune" meant being born with a silver spoon, having excellent conditions for growth, and that usually happened during childhood, not now.
The current Xiaoyao no longer needed others to provide conditions for his growth. He already had the ability to make his own life fortunate. Regardless of what his background was, getting ahead would be effortless for him, it wouldn't affect him at all.
Therefore, family background was no longer important, and this kind of "good fortune" had no meaning. Google seaʀᴄh novel•fire.net
The Young Miss tilted her head and thought for a moment, then said, "True, for you, family background no longer has any meaning. The only meaning is that you'd know who your parents are."
"Mm, but I seem to have a strange feeling that this time I might be approaching the endpoint, but it's not the endpoint," Xiaoyao nodded, speaking somewhat profoundly.
"What do you mean? Oh, you're saying this time might not have results, right? Don't speak so profoundly, okay? I'm silly," the Young Miss said.
"..." Xiaoyao was speechless. The Young Miss seemed to still be displeased about what happened earlier.
"Right, she's silly." Nangong Suxin immediately chimed in.
"Nangong Suxin, you want to fight, right? I just happen to find this place displeasing, let me help you reorganize it," the Young Miss looked ready for battle and prepared to fight, even wanting to thoroughly destroy things here.
"Tonight I have the little servant staying here, so I won't fight with you." Nangong Suxin waved her hand.
"...Fine, I'll let you be smug for a few days. I'll get you back in a few days," the Young Miss gave up helplessly, but her eyes still stared at Nangong Suxin, as if wanting to teach her a lesson with her gaze.
"Stop fighting and listen to Xiaoyao finish explaining. What exactly was Senior Fang Chunxue's situation? Why did she leave the jade pendant for you, and why hasn't she come looking for you in over twenty years?" Nangong Su spoke up, wanting to stop the two while also wanting to know why Fang Chunxue hadn't come to retrieve the jade pendant.
If it was accidentally lost, then there wouldn't be the possibility of her being Xiaoyao's mother. Back then, she must have had a son and given the jade pendant to her son, which is why this possibility existed. Otherwise, Xiaoyao wouldn't need to investigate this matter.
"Because she's already dead. Not long after giving birth to her child, maybe a son, maybe a daughter, she was hunted down and killed," Xiaoyao replied.
"Ah, dead again?" the Young Miss said heartlessly again.
The word "again" referred to how the previous Princess Zhuyue seemed to have died too, and now this one was also dead.
"I see. Don't the Fang family know the situation?" Nangong Su continued asking.
Xiaoyao shook his head, "They don't know, because Fang Chunxue had already left the Fang family for ten years. She fell in love with someone outside and secretly married him. The Fang family doesn't know what she did during those ten years, they only discovered she had a child after finding her body and examining it."
"I see. Then who killed her back then, and who was that man?"
"Also unknown. They only know he was called Qi Bupo and might be from the Demon Cult. I've already had Hei Xue investigate this," Xiaoyao replied.
"Hei Xue?" All three women's eyes immediately lit up.
"The Demon Cult woman who assassinated the Emperor back then, the one who knew the Heavenly Demon Sound," Xiaoyao explained, thinking the three were asking because they couldn't remember Hei Xue.
"I know it's her. I want to ask how you came to have contact with her, and it seems your relationship isn't simple, you can even have her help investigate things," the Young Miss asked very directly. This was also what the Nangong sisters wanted to ask.
Logically, Xiaoyao should be enemies with Hei Xue, but now it sounded like that wasn't the case.
Regarding Xiaoyao and Hei Xue's relationship, probably only some people in the Demon Cult knew. Even outsiders who knew only knew that Xiaoyao had once disrupted Hei Xue's affairs.
"Met by coincidence. Due to some reasons, I helped her with something. Having her help me investigate someone shouldn't be a problem. She says she can't find this person currently, he might be from another Demon Cult branch. She needs to continue investigating and will notify me if there's news," Xiaoyao said nonchalantly, even mentioning things the Young Miss and others didn't want to focus on.
"I don't want to know those things. I just want to know what happened, what were those 'some reasons,' and where did you meet," the Young Miss wasn't letting Xiaoyao brush this off so easily, holding onto the matter.
"You want to know about this?" Xiaoyao was stunned. He didn't mention it because he thought they wouldn't be interested, so he just skipped it. If they wanted to know, he could give a brief summary.
Xiaoyao had plenty of time now, they could chat all night. For the Young Miss and the others, there wasn't much he needed to deliberately hide, at least not this matter.
"Yes. Will you tell us?" the three women said in unison. Women were always curious about some things, and they all wanted to get to the bottom of such juicy matters.
"There's nothing wrong with talking about it, it's just a bit long. I'll give you the short version," Xiaoyao said indifferently, then prepared to start telling this story, but was immediately interrupted by the three women.
"Don't. Don't give us the short version, we want it as long and detailed as possible. We can talk all night." the three women expressed their thoughts, and at this moment, they seemed to forget what they were originally supposed to discuss.
"You're that interested?" Xiaoyao said somewhat helplessly.
"Mm, I'm very interested in your affair with someone else," the Young Miss nodded, not hiding her thoughts at all.
Xiaoyao smiled without minding, just saying, "It's not an affair, okay? It's just a trading partnership."
"Whatever the relationship, hurry up and get to the point and tell us what happened," the Young Miss said.
"It was , at that time, I was called by the Emperor to participate in Bai Yue Kingdom's marriage competition..." Xiaoyao really began slowly telling the story from the beginning.
And it was because of this that the three women seemed to remember something.
"We heard about the Bai Yue Kingdom matter. You were selected in the end, then you abandoned her heartlessly."
The Great Tang Empire's military intelligence network definitely knew about this matter. Any high-ranking generals who paid attention to Xiaoyao would know about it, and obviously, they were following Xiaoyao's situation.
"...I didn't abandon anyone heartlessly, okay? This matter was just going through the motions for me from the beginning. Who knew that whoever... I forgot what her name was. Forget it, doesn't matter. Anyway, I don't know why she chose me, I just did it casually," Xiaoyao was also troubled by this, and he had already forgotten that princess's name.
"You really are heartless."
"..." Let's not talk about this. Actually, my purpose in going to Bai Yue Kingdom was the Emperor's purpose, for the Peerless Sword. Hidden in the Peerless Sword was a treasure map. I accidentally glimpsed it, then went to the treasure location," Xiaoyao continued, not letting the topic continue on Bai Yue Kingdom.
Xiaoyao's words made the three girls feel helpless. The Peerless Sword contained a treasure map that you could "accidentally glimpse"? Obviously you cracked the mechanism on it, then could see it. This definitely couldn't be explained as "accidental."
Well, let's just say it can be explained that way. This isn't the main point anyway.
Finally, the girls naturally wouldn't bother with Xiaoyao's obvious error and continued listening to him...
"What?. Heavenly Gate? Don't tell me that the Demon Cult destroying Heavenly Gate, you were also mixed up in the middle of that." When it came to the treasure location being Heavenly Gate, Nangong Suxin thought of this terrifying possibility. If Xiaoyao was really involved, then he would become a public enemy of the righteous sects.
"This matter has nothing to do with me."
"That's good..." The three women breathed a sigh of relief.
"I was just at the scene at the time."
"..." Xiaoyao's words plunged the three back into that same worry. This was no joke. Although they had ways to protect Xiaoyao...
"Don't worry, I wasn't involved, just an observer. I even saved two people from Heavenly Gate," Xiaoyao said calmly.
"Two what people? Women?" The Young Miss seemed to become very perceptive about this, immediately guessing the truth.
"Uh, yes, two sisters from Heavenly Gate's Dongfang family. I'm more familiar with the younger sister, so I made a deal with Hei Xue to have her release her, along with her older sister," Xiaoyao briefly explained the situation at the time.