Chapter 155: Chapter 155 : Consulting Zhou Guiying (3)
Chen Yaoyao -- no, Zhou Yunng, had no one else left in her village. It took Zhang Fengxi and Zhou Guiying a lot of persuasion to make her agree to co and visit Qingyuan Palace.
"Yunng, you have to at least et your other biological elder brother." Zhou Guiying insisted. "Unfortunately, our parents left the world years ago. Before our father passed away, he asked us to keep looking for you. Brother Guizheng is going to be very happy to see you."
Zhou Yunng pressed her lips together in doubt.
"You are not trying to kidnap , are you?" She asked innocently.
"Little Miss, if we wanted to kidnap you... we would have done so an hour ago," Zhang Fengxi said.
"Just once."
Zhou Guiying clapped his hands together in front of his face. "Please, co to see the ho you left behind. If you still prefer to stay in this village, we won’t force you."
"... Really?"
Zhou Yunng eyed her supposedly elder brother with suspicious eyes.
"Yes, really!"
The girl nodded firmly.
"Okay, then I will go with you just one ti."
They were lucky that Qingyuan Palace was currently floating above the water surface. Otherwise, Zhou Yunng might freak out if she had to dive underwater. As a person from the tiger clan, Zhang Fengxi empathized with her.
"Yunng...?"
Like his younger brother, Zhou Guizheng the Qingyuan Palace Master was also skeptical about the foreign girl who Zhou Guiying brought back.
"Impossible."
The search for the long-lost sister went on for ten years and counting. In his heart, Zhou Guizheng gave up a long ti ago.
He no longer wished to et the little baby in this life. All he prayed for, day in and day out, was for the little baby to grow up safely and live a happy life, wherever she was.
Zhou Guiying took Zhou Yunng’s jade pendant and showed it to their eldest brother.
"Big Brother, look. Father personally carved Yunng’s na into this jade pendant. Take a look. Is this not Father’s handwriting?
Zhou Guizheng stared at the three characters for a long ti. As he rubbed his fingers against the carved characters, he could almost see his parents a long ti ago, just after Yunng was born.
The then Qingyuan Palace Mistress was so happy when she gave birth to a little princess.
"Let’s na her Yunng," she said to her husband with bright eyes that were glistening with happy tears.
The forr Qingyuan Palace Master nodded in agreent. He held the little princess in his arms and recited the poem from which her na hailed from, "Vast clouds and mists entwine the deep forest trees; autumn bathes in the clear river."
"Yunng..."
Zhou Guizheng extended his arms to the girl and pulled her into a hug.
"I am your eldest brother," his voice was hoarse from overflowing emotions. "You are our little sister. You are finally back..."
Zhou Yunng did not know how to react. She gingerly put her hands on Zhou Guizheng’s back.
It was enough for the Qingyuan Palace Master. He raised his head and looked at his younger brother.
"Guiying, you disappoint
almost every day, but today I have never been prouder of you. Thank you for bringing Yunng back."
Zhou Guiying grinned from ear to ear.
"Well, now that I brought her to you, please take care of her, Big Brother."
"Wait."
Zhou Guizheng furrowed his brows.
"Where are you going? Yunng just got back."
Zhou Yunng blinked at Zhou Guiying cutely. Zhou Guiying pinched the adorable girl’s cheeks playfully.
"I would love to stay and get to know Yunng better, but I have to fulfill a promise to a friend first."
At Qingyuan Palace’s entrance hall, Zhang Fengxi sat on a blue coral chair and leaned his hand against his palm.
Beneath his feet was a thick and transparent crystal plate that seamlessly extended across the hall.
The alpha was lost in thought as he watched the various sea creatures that flourished under the surface, hidden away from curious eyes.
It must be great to be able to swim underwater like that...
"Sorry for the wait, Brother Fengxi."
Zhang Fengxi was startled out of his daydreams.
Zhou Guiying ca back with a palm-sized pearl of exquisite and rich luster. The prince of Qingyuan Palace held the pearl between two fingers at Zhang Fengxi’s eye level.
"Do you know what this is?"
"A giant pearl?"
Zhou Guiying grinned.
"Correct."
An exquisite pearl it might be, but it still paled in comparison to Lady Song’s daily hair accessories, for example.
"It is an excellent ingredient to make all sorts of dicine, but how is it useful to ?"
Zhou Guiying grinned.
"You are mistaking this pearl with the ones that hail from Giant Oysters. This pearl, my good brother, is the essence of an oga rmaid’s tears."
Zhang Fengxi’s lips parted slightly in surprise. He knew that the rfolks were able to turn their shed tears into pearls. These pearls were extrely rare because the oga rmaids did not like to distribute them. Instead, they were given to their loved ones as tokens of affection.
"Which oga rmaid did you deceive to obtain this pearl?" Zhang Fengxi asked.
"Brother Fengxi, a gentleman’s kiss is not spoken of," Zhou Guiying answered with a wink.
"This pearl is a lot more than just a thoughtful gift from an oga to an alpha. It is quite literally a curse."
"..."
Excuse him?
He brought the youngest princess of Qingyuan Palace back to her family, and Zhou Guiying planned to repay him with a curse. If that was not the greatest joke in all three realms, Zhang Fengxi did not know what was.
When he saw the look on Zhang Fengxi’s face, Zhou Guiying laughed so hard that he almost dropped the pearl in his hand.
"Brother Fengxi, ah, I am not such a horrible person. Let
explain properly. Have you ever heard that a rmaid’s love is pure and unyielding? A rmaid only wishes for her lover’s happiness, although it ans that the lover will spend the rest of his life by another woman’s side.
Well, oga rmaids are even more persistent in this trait."
Zhou Guiying patted the pearl in his hand fondly.
"This pearl will give birth to a specific creature. It will be your most loyal companion, your most trustable ally. It will treat your friends with kindness, and your foes with enmity."
Smiling, Zhou Guiying then added, "Most importantly, it can tell you when soone is lying to you."
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