Chapter 1903 — Who Is the Bigger Snob
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"Exactly. You two always have the wildest ideas..." Gu Mengyao nodded.
There is a saying: speak of Cao Cao, and Cao Cao arrives. Sometimes life really is that coincidental...
Snow Valley.
Tang Zhi's parents had been here for some time now. Tang Jucheng, for his part, was perfectly content. The Ice Palace's scenery was lovely, and what could be more enviable than living the life of a hermit in the mountains with one's wife and daughter? No backbreaking work, no worries about food or warmth—Snow Valley arranged everything. Only this life of having meals brought to his mouth and clothes handed to his back still felt somewhat strange to him.
Xiao Ming was a quiet sort as well. Each day, apart from practicing Snow Valley's breathing exercises with Tang's mother, she simply lived in peace. She had long since grown used to the cold, bitter neglect of her days in the Tang household, and compared with that, being free to walk about here as she pleased and to see her sister, her brother-in-law, and her daughter—this was a life close to paradise.
But Tang's mother's arrival was nothing short of a disaster for Snow Valley.
The Grand Elder had always believed that after practicing the Heartless Art, she had become a thoroughly snobbish person. Yet only after meeting Tang's mother did she learn what snobbery truly was, what greed truly was. Compared with her, she herself was a small sorcerer meeting a great one.
"Reporting to Elder Zhang on duty: our Snow Valley disciples have discovered a thousand-year snow lotus..." one of the valley's disciples said, cupping his hands in salute.
"Ah, a thousand-year snow lotus! Yun-yun, isn't that terribly precious? Let's save it for Wei Zhao—Xiao Yi is a cultivator too, and he has so few treasures like this. Whenever we come by something good, we must set it aside for him!" Tang's mother was even more on the ball than the Heavenly Thunder Pig: whenever Snow Valley turned up something fine, she was always the first to drag Tang Zhi over.
Several black lines sprouted across the Grand Elder's forehead. How many days had it been? Tang's mother had already laid claim to more than half the good things Snow Valley had found. Was anyone supposed to go on living like this? They were hardly acquainted yet. Once she knew the place well, would she loot Snow Valley's treasure vault clean?
"Mother... you've already saved up quite a lot of good things for Wei Zhao..." Tang Zhi said, rather helplessly.
"One can never have too many good things. I'm taking this snow lotus!" Tang's mother declared smugly to Elder Zhang.
"Very well... Madam Tang..." Elder Zhang, too, was in a cold sweat.
But if even the Grand Elder was helpless against Tang's mother, what virtue or ability did Elder Zhang possess to stop her?
Madam Tang's pet phrase was: You won't give it to me? Fine, then I'll take my daughter and leave, go back and find Wei Zhao, get married, have children—pass on your inheritance, my foot! Go on, kill us if you dare.
So the Grand Elder had no move to make against her at all. In all her years, the Grand Elder had never met anyone so snobbish and so utterly shameless. This was turning hostile at the drop of a hat; the slightest displeasure, and she threatened to walk out. The Grand Elder could only let her have her way...
After all, Snow Valley had nothing left to hold over Tang Zhi now. Wei Zhao's qi deviation had been cured; if Tang Zhi truly set her mind on leaving, Snow Valley was powerless to stop her. They had finally found an heir—surely they could not really kill her?
And Tang's mother was Tang Zhi's mother; she could not be offended either. Offend her, and Tang Zhi would stop cultivating properly, and in the end the one to lose out would still be Snow Valley.
Besides, Tang's mother was not Tang Zhi's birth mother but her adoptive mother; her true daughter was Bingtang. If she really did kill her, wouldn't that little minx Bingtang blow her top and come turn Snow Valley upside down?