Chapter 2707 — Things Lost
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"That? It is perfectly normal!" said White Leader. "In the Five Luminaries Sect today, only Xuan Chen and I have disciples; Xuan Zhen has none. But a thousand years from now, the sect's disciples will still honor him as a patriarch. That is entirely normal. Having no disciples simply means he had no inheriting disciples—it does not mean he had no fellow disciples."
"So that is how it is." Wei Zhao nodded. "Teacher White, you—which of the items here is the treasure used to test constitutions?"
White Leader looked around the room, and Yu Xiaoke carefully examined the objects inside as well. Before White Leader could speak, Yu Xiaoke spoke first: "Male Thief, someone has been here too!"
"Oh?" Wei Zhao was not especially surprised. Given the precedent of the Record of Strange Tales and Curious Matters having been taken out before, it was only natural that things here had been disturbed. What Wei Zhao worried about was whether the thing he sought had been taken.
"Here, it has been moved..." Yu Xiaoke had a good memory and a keen eye. She pointed at a shelf before Zhang Lifeng's bed and said: "Here, there seems to have been something like an incense burner, but it was taken away! You two—there are traces here of things having been taken as well!"
"Oh? An incense burner?" Wei Zhao and White Leader both looked in the direction Yu Xiaoke pointed. Sure enough, on the shelf there was a round mark with no dust on it, while all around the round shape was covered in dust—proof that something had been placed here, but had now been taken away.
"Yes. The things in this room seem not to have been touched at first. Apart from the two books you took, Male Thief, no one else took anything from in here..." Yu Xiaoke said after a moment's thought.
Wei Zhao nodded. That was indeed so. Old Black had taken quite a few things from the display room earlier, but had taken nothing here. Yuhuoxing had come with a purpose, so naturally he had taken nothing either. Yu Xiaoke could not have taken anything—otherwise she would not have said so. Qiu Lingshan and Chen Yuxuan were even less likely to have touched anything. So the thing Yu Xiaoke mentioned really had been taken by someone who came later!
Wei Zhao frowned. An incense burner... Suddenly, something struck him! There had indeed been something like an incense burner placed here, but it was not an incense burner—it was a medicinal cauldron!
Back then, Wei Zhao had not been thinking of becoming an alchemist, so he had not paid much attention to the cauldron. Otherwise, he would certainly have pocketed it rather than leaving it behind! At this thought, Wei Zhao regretted it immensely, because he had suddenly remembered something very important.
Back then, when Right Coiled Tiger had traded things with him, he had given Wei Zhao a battered old medicinal cauldron! (To be continued...)