Chapter 2195 — Where Has Zhao Qilei Gone
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"Jiang Yang the Great Bandit, I've confirmed the location of the Ulonghot Mountains. Will you come with me?" Sun Jingyan's words brimmed with delight. Perhaps on this trip to Ulonghot she would uncover some of the secrets of her parents from back then—naturally, she was overjoyed.
"You've already confirmed it? Tell you what, I'll come find you at noon. We'll talk when we meet," Wei Zhao said.
"Sun Jingyan?" After Wei Zhao hung up, Gu Mengyao's brows knitted slightly. "You're going to see her?"
"Yes. I promised her I'd accompany her to a certain place to uncover the mystery of her birth parents," Wei Zhao said.
"Oh..." Gu Mengyao answered faintly, seeming less than pleased about it.
"Arrow-brand Bro, Sister Yaoyao's angry now! Do you actually like Wang Xinyan or Sun Jingyan? You can't keep a foot in two boats forever, you know. Or you could just pick Han Jingyi!" Shen Yushu asked the question on Gu Mengyao's behalf.
"What... what relationship do Jingjing and I have..." Han Jingyi said, flustered and blushing. "I'm only following Brother Wei Zhao to learn alchemy."
"I needed something called pure yellow jade, and it just so happens Sun Jingyan has a piece—something her parents left her..." Helpless, Wei Zhao could only explain with a bitter smile. "Sun Jingyan gave me that jade, and by a strange twist of fate, inside the pure yellow jade we found a fragment of a map..."
Wei Zhao had never gone into detail about these matters with Gu Mengyao and the others. But since they had asked, he did not hide it. Everyone in the car was someone Wei Zhao trusted, so naturally he had no reason to be cagey.
"So that's how it is. She was even willing to give you her parents' keepsake—then you'd better not let her down..." Gu Mengyao sighed. It seemed Sun Jingyan really did treat Wei Zhao well, which only made things more of a headache.
Feng Xiaoxiao had set the quota for official wives at one. Right now Wang Xinyan and Han Jingyi were already competing for it, and now along came Sun Jingyan. This was going to be tricky, by the look of it.
"It's just that she's a girl alone, and going off into the deep mountains and wilds by herself isn't convenient. I'm only accompanying her," Wei Zhao said. "It's not as complicated as you make it out to be..."
The group arrived at the school. Meanwhile, at the hidden Zhao family of Donghai.
Old Master Yu and Old Master Zhao had quarreled furiously and parted on bad terms. Afterward, though Old Master Zhao had told the truth and made clear that the Qi-Gathering Pill was a gift that Yu Huoxing had taken the initiative to give the Zhao family, the whole affair still left Old Master Zhao somewhat in the wrong.
Even if Yu Huoxing had offered it of his own accord, the hidden Zhao family still should not have concealed it. After all, this treasure was a treasure of the highest order, exceedingly rare and precious, and the two families were joined by marriage. By any reasonable reckoning, Old Master Zhao should have at least given Old Master Yu a heads-up.
To quietly keep it all to themselves was somewhat indefensible no matter how you looked at it. But since the Qi-Gathering Pill had been given to the hidden Zhao family personally by Yu Huoxing, Old Master Yu wanted to argue his case and yet could find no fitting grounds. When words fail to agree, half a sentence is too many, and the two families could only part in discord.
Zhao Qibing had just bought himself a car, a reward for his diligent cultivation over this period. After the Hidden World Families Summit ended, he had wanted to unwind a bit, but never expected the car to be snatched away by Wei Zhao. Seething with anger, he returned to the hidden Zhao family.
Still, Zhao Qibing did not dare conceal anything. He told Old Bi and Old Master Zhao everything that had happened with Wei Zhao out there, exactly as it occurred. After all, Wei Zhao was now the Zhao family's public enemy, and anything concerning Wei Zhao absolutely could not be kept back.