Chapter 2985 — Aunt Qing Arrives
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Aunt Qing frowned. Her position as elder was in fact much the same as Yu Yi's: Yu Yi attended specifically on Old Master Yu, while Xiao Qing attended on Bingtang. Their standing was very similar, though Aunt Qing had never made a point of flaunting it.
But since Yu Yi had put it that way, Aunt Qing felt inclined to teach him a lesson. She smiled faintly and said, "It seems our positions really are much the same. I am Xiao Qing, and I am nothing but a maid in attendance on our Ice Palace Mistress. That I muddled my way to the rank of elder is only because I raised the Ice Palace Mistress single-handedly from childhood—I got the post entirely through connections."
Aunt Qing's words sounded like self-deprecation, but to Yu Yi's ears they struck like a thunderclap, and his face flushed crimson at once! He had said what he said earlier to save face and keep from appearing too weak before Aunt Qing, but the consequence he had never anticipated was that he had only brought humiliation upon himself!
Aunt Qing's standing in the Ice Palace was second only to the Mistress herself, roughly equal to his own place in the Yu family. Yet Aunt Qing had been courteous throughout, while he had done nothing but put on airs—and now he truly wished the ground would swallow him.
"Senior, your coming here is..." Yu Yi, afraid of losing more face, hastily changed the subject.
"Our vice-palace mistress, Feng Xiaoxiao, is Mr. Wei Zhao's girlfriend. When she heard Mr. Wei Zhao had been injured, she sent me to see whether any clown was making trouble!" Aunt Qing spoke the plain truth. "Elder Yu Yi, have you seen any?"
"Elder Qing, just call me Yu Yi. Before you, what kind of elder am I!" Yu Yi said, his old face reddening. "I did see a few clowns..."
Yu Yi held nothing back from Xiao Qing. He recounted everything he had seen—the Zhao family coming to make trouble and the Dark Night Palace coming to make trouble—including that the first time he himself had stepped in to resolve it, and the second time Tian Canbian, the young sect master of the Mystic Elixir Sect, had stepped in to resolve it.
"Tian Canbian came too?" Aunt Qing was startled at Yu Yi's words. She naturally saw nothing wrong with Yu Yi taking action; seeing that Yu Bing cultivated in the Ice Palace, she had assumed the hidden Yu family and Wei Zhao were on excellent terms, and she had not imagined the complications involved. Her only suspicion was about Tian Canbian's purpose.
"Indeed. Young Sect Master Tian said it was to preserve the fairness and impartiality of the Mystic Elixir Sect's trial!" Yu Yi said.
"Fairness and impartiality? When has the Mystic Elixir Sect ever been fair and impartial? We should count ourselves lucky if they do not bully others," Aunt Qing snorted coldly, plainly harboring no small criticism of the Mystic Elixir Sect.
Yu Yi did not dare say anything. Matters of the ancient stratum were not for a mere elder of a hidden family to comment on, so he could only pretend he had not heard.
"Never mind, let us drop that subject. Apart from this, did you see anything else?" Aunt Qing waved her hand and pressed on, clearly unwilling to dwell on the matter of the Mystic Elixir Sect.
"After that, Zhao Qilei came, but the people in Wei Zhao's villa did not drive him out—they let him in..." Yu Yi told Aunt Qing truthfully.