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When everyone else was busy treating the thermotoxin, the days were passing by extremely peacefully in Hei Manor. Because everyone was worried about getting infected, they quarantined themselves within the manor. Every morning when Wu Ruo woke up, he would learn the jian and practice magic with Hei Xuanyi, otherwise they would fight with each other for Wu Ruo to gain practical combat experience. In the afternoons, he would either learn medicine from Nu Mu and refine pills or accompany his child. The days passed by very fulfillingly, and very serenely. There were no conflicts, and there were no physical altercations or killings. And most of all, there was no need to guard against anyone to get by. However, even if they didn’t leave the manor, it didn’t mean that things wouldn’t come knocking on their door.
That day, Wu Ruo, Hei Xuanyi and the others had just finished eating lunch and were about to return to their respective courtyards to rest when the guard on duty at the main entrance reported: “Madam, someone at the entrance identified you by name and said they wanted to meet you. They said that they had a letter that they had to personally hand to you.”
Wu Ruo really couldn’t figure out who would look for him, so he asked: “Did that person say who they were? And who wrote the letter?”
“That person didn’t say anything.”
Hei Xin worried that there was a trap outside and walked forth, and said: “Madam1My apologies for switching back and forth between using ‘Madam’ and the pinyin ‘furen‘. This translation has been going on for years and I cannot for the life of me remember why past-me made certain translation decisions. I’ll go back over the entire translation once I’m done and fix things retroactively. My apologies to readers who are following along as I post OTL, this old servant will go ahead first and figure out this person’s identity, then I’ll come back and report it to you.”
Wu Ruo nodded in agreement.
Just a moment after Hei Xin stepped out, a commotion came from the main entrance. Wu Ruo and the others hurriedly ran out of the main hall. Following after, someone entered holding a jian to Hei Xin’s neck.
Everyone was stunned and took a few steps forward.
Hei Gan shouted loudly: “Who are you? Why are you holding our steward hostage with a jian?”
That person walked out from behind Hei Xin. The moment Wu Ruo and Hei Xuanyi set their eyes on him, they realized that it actually turned out to be the man from the Mo2To make things easier on myself while formatting, I won’t be italicizing common terms like Yao, Mo and Gui anymore. clan that had come looking for Ji Xi a while back.
The man from the Mo clan looked at Wu Ruo. Originally, he had intended to trick this person out and then threaten this person to bring him into the manor. Who would’ve thought that the person who came out would be the steward of the manor?
Following that, he noticed Ji Xi who was by Wu Ruo’s side. The outline of his body flickered and he appeared in front of Ji Xi.
Ji Xi’s expression changed and he wanted to run away.
Yet, he was deftly caught by the collar by the man from the Mo clan.
He said coldly: “Still want to run?”
If it wasn’t because the manor had a massive array laid over it, he wouldn’t have had to take someone from the manor as hostage to come in and look for this person.
Ji Xi said angrily: “Ye Ji, let go of me quickly!”
Ye Ji half-narrowed his gaze and hugged Ji Xi, who had turned into a six-year-old child, in his embrace: “Why have you become like this?”
Ji Xi crossed his arms over his chest: “Why do I have to tell you?”
Wu Qianqing, who was hanging around on the other side and watching them, quietly asked Wu Ruo: “Do they know each other?”
Wu Ruo frowned slightly: “Probably. Dad, you and mum and the others should go back to your rooms to rest first. Xuanyi and I will stay back and figure out what’s going on.”
Wu Qianqing nodded and led Guan Tong and Wu Xi back to the courtyard that they resided in.
Nu Mu wasn’t interested in the affairs of two Mo clanspeople, so he yawned and said: “I’m also going back to my room to rest.”
Ye Ji glanced at them: “Where is the Three-Seven Stone?”
Ji Xi’s eyes flashed with a hint of guilt: “I’ve hidden it.”
“Hidden it?” Ye Ji laughed coldly: “I3Ye Ji is also using the same form of self-address as Ji Xi, A.K.A 本座 (ben zuo). think you’ve given it away for someone else to use.”
“What do you mean?” Ji Xi’s gaze was full of confusion. When he realized what Ye Ji meant, he said with an anxious expression: “You mean the Three-Seven Stone has been used by someone already?”
Ye Ji’s expression was chillingly cold; he was so angered by Ji Xi that he didn’t wish to speak.
Ji Xi frowned: “Why aren’t you saying anything?”
Ye Ji still didn’t say anything.
Ji Xi thought of what Ye Ji had just said, then he hurriedly explained: “You don’t think I gave the Three-Seven Stone away to someone else for their use, do you? How could I do that? I only accidentally misplaced it! To put it accurately, it was stolen by someone.”
If it wasn’t because he didn’t want this person to misunderstand him, Ji Xi definitely wouldn’t have mentioned the matter of the stone being stolen. Because, in his opinion, this was an extremely embarrassing matter that he had actually given someone the chance to steal something from him.
Ye Ji could tell that he didn’t seem to be lying, so he asked: “You said it was stolen by someone, then what about this child?”
He looked toward Dandan, who was being held in Hei Xuanyi’s arms.
Ji Xi glanced at Dandan, perplexed: “What about Dandan?”
He blinked a few times and only understood what Ye Ji meant after a long time. He said in shock: “You’re saying…”
Ji Xi immediately denied it: “He isn’t.”
Ye Ji turned away from Dandan and looked back at Ji Xi.
Ji Xi explained: “He already existed even before the Three-Seven Stone was stolen away.”
Ye Ji fixed his eyes on the ground: “There’s no way, unless…”
It wasn’t clear what he thought of but he snorted coldly and carried Ji Xi towards the residential quarters.
Wu Ruo looked at Hei Xuanyi: “Xuanyi, do you know what the Three-Seven Stone is?”
Hei Xuanyi handed Dandan to Hei Xin, instructing Hei Xin to bring him back to his rooms before he said: “It’s a stone that has three ethereal souls and seven corporeal spirits4This is a very unusual thing. Only people are believed to have the three ethereal souls and seven corporeal spirits, and non-living objects do not have them.. It’s shortened name is the Three-Seven Stone. It can be used to conceive a child. As long as one kneads their own flesh and blood together with the Three-Seven Stone, and then use spiritual energy to nurse it for a period of time, it will naturally turn into an infant child, becoming a child that would have blood relations with one’s self.”
“Those words he said while looking at Dandan, could it be that Dandan came from a Three-Seven Stone?” When Wu Ruo saw that Hei Xuanyi was so familiar with the Three-Seven Stone, he thought that the Hei Xuanyi from his previous lifetime might have stolen the Three-Seven Stone and only then was able to produce Dandan. As for the matter of flesh and blood, Hei Xuanyi had probably used his own. Otherwise, how else could Dandan resemble Hei Xuanyi so much?
However, what kind of relationship did Dandan have with him?
Wu Ruo suddenly remembered that in his previous lifetime he had never seen his corpse again after Hei Xuanyi had brought it back home. Later on, he had thought that Hei Xuanyi hadn’t wanted him to feel anguished and irate at the sight of his own corpse, so maybe Hei Xuanyi had cremated or buried it, and thus Wu Ruo hadn’t probed deeper about the matter. Now that he thought about, Hei Xuanyi couldn’t have used his flesh to produce Dandan, could he?
“There is the possibility.” Hei Xuanyi’s gaze held a hint of confusion. It wasn’t possible to produce this child with just a little bit of flesh and blood. However, when had he ever lost such a massive amount of blood or lost any flesh from his body? On top of that, who could’ve made this child and sent them to Wu Ruo?
Wu Ruo asked: “Xuanyi, do you also feel a sense of some kind of kinship with Dandan? What I mean is, other than Dandan looking like you, do you feel a sense of being very close to him?”
“I do.” Hei Xuanyi nodded in agreement. This was also the reason why he had allowed Dandan to remain without questioning his origins.
Wu Ruo tugged on Hei Xuanyi’s hands agitatedly, even more certain that Dandan had been sent to him from the Hei Xuanyi of his previous lifetime: “Dandan is our child! You can’t let anyone hurt him!”
He didn’t know the reason why the man named Ye Ji from the Mo clan was looking for the Three-Seven Stone, but now Dandan was already his child. There was no way that he would return Dandan to Ye Ji. Moreover, Dandan had been sent over from another lifetime. Even if Ye Ji wanted to look for the Three-Seven Stone, he should be looking for the Three-Seven Stone of this world.
“Hn.” Hei Xuanyi pulled Wu Ruo into his embrace and frowned: “I heard that the Three-Seven Stone is the Mo Emperor’s divine artifact.”
Wu Ruo looked at him in shock: “Are you saying that man just now is the Mo Emperor?”
Hei Xuanyi shook his head slightly: “I don’t know. I’ve never met the Mo Emperor. But you don’t have to worry. If he was really aiming for the Three-Seven Stone, then he wouldn’t have left so easily the last time.”
That night, Ye Ji remained at Hei Manor for a meal and decided to stay at Hei Manor for a period of time.
When Wu Xi heard about this, she swallowed the food in her mouth and said: “I realized our manor can host a Four Clans Festival dinner party already.”
The manor only had a few hundred people but there were humans, Yao, Gui and Mo living there. Which manor would house the people of so many different clans?
Everyone: “…”
Nu Mu cackled: “Well said!”
After the meal, after everyone else had left, only then did Wu Ruo say to Ye Ji: “You can stay but you can’t have any designs on my child.”
Ye Ji said: “I only want the Three-Seven Stone. I’m not interested in children.”
Ji Xi snorted but didn’t say anything. Yet internally, he thought to himself that it was no wonder that Dandan could learn the magic of the Mo clan and was so similar to the Mo clan’s children who loved going around everywhere to cause havoc. It turned out that he was a child that had been nursed from the Three-Seven Stone.
Wu Ruo asked Ji Xi: “When did you misplace your Three-Seven Stone?”
“A few humans took the opportunity when I had been injured and stole the Three-Seven Stone away. Until today, I haven’t been able to retrieve it.”
Wu Ruo rolled his eyes: “You hang around in the manor every day, how would you retrieve it?”
Ji Xi: “…”
Wasn’t it because he didn’t know how to account for it to Ye Ji, that’s why he hid himself?
Hei Xuanyi asked lightly: “Do you know who was the person that stole the Three-Seven Stone?”
“My injuries at that time were quite severe. When I felt that someone was taking away the Three-Seven Stone and opened my eyes, I was only in time to see the side profile of a young man. At that time, that person was wearing white robes and had long, flowing hair. He appeared very gentlemanly. If I see him again, I’ll definitely be able to recognize him!” When Ji Xi said this, his tone was especially cold and ruthless: “These blind and foolish creatures! They stole something from me and even wanted to kill me to shut my mouth. If it wasn’t because I was blessed and fortunate enough to escape death because someone saved me, I’m afraid I would’ve already died by their hands now.”
Ye Ji asked: “Who saved you?”
“It was a human.” When Ji Xi mentioned this person, his expression softened a fair bit: “That person shouted at the others to stop. Those others ran away because they were guilty. After that, the person who saved me carried me and left. Later, we ran into the Mo clanspeople who had injured me again. When he found out that those Mo clanspeople were out to find me, he used a piece of equipment to hide my presence and hid me among the undergrowth. Then, he lured the Mo clanspeople away.”
He took out a piece of equipment that was shaped like a small lantern from his sleeve and placed it on the table: “That person used this equipment to help me to hide from the Mo clan’s murderous pursuit.”
Hei Xuanyi narrowed his gaze in that instance.
Wu Ruo picked the equipment up and looked at it: “This equipment looks very familiar.”
Following that, he noticed that the three characters ‘Hei Xuanyi’ were carved onto the bottom of the equipment. If one didn’t look closely, they wouldn’t know that there were these characters there at all.
He suddenly raised his head and looked at Hei Xuanyi in disbelief: “This… Xuanyi, is this a piece of equipment that you forged? Could it be that the person who saved Ji Xi was my dage?”
Hei Xuanyi took the equipment over to verify it: “This is a piece of equipment that I forged.”
Wu Ruo hurriedly asked: “Ji Xi, did the person who saved you look very charming? Did they look… uh… that’s right! Did they look somewhat similar to my dad?”
Ji Xi carefully recalled the appearance of the person who had saved him: “After hearing you say that, that person did indeed look like your father.”
“Then it was definitely my dage! Does this mean that he’s been captured by the Mo clanspeople?” Wu Ruo stood up agitatedly: “Or does it mean that my dage has already been killed?”
“He probably wasn’t killed.” Ji Xi said: “Those people will probably use your dage to lure me out.”
Wu Ruo looked at him: “Why do those people want to kill you?”
Ji Xi glared at Ye Ji irritatedly: “Ask him.”
Ye Ji didn’t mention the reason: “I will save your dage.”
Wu Ruo asked again: “Where would they have captured my dage to? The Mo clan?”
Ji Xi shook his head no: “I’ve already sent people to investigate. Your dage hasn’t been brought back to the Mo clan. If he hasn’t been brought back to the Mo clan, then this matter will be much easier to handle.”
Hei Xuanyi could tell from his words that the identity of the people who wanted him dead were not average, so he put down the equipment and asked: “The people who want you dead, is their status in the Mo clan very high?”
“Hn. The other party is the Mo clan’s princess.”
Wu Ruo was seized with the impulse to strangle Ji Xi to death: “How did you provoke her?”
Wasn’t provoking the Mo clan’s princess equivalent to going against the entire Mo clan? If his dage had been brought to the Mo clan, then it would really be very difficult to rescue him out of there.
Ji Xi glared at Ye Ji again: “Ask him.”
Wu Ruo glanced at Ye Ji, who had a very attractive appearance, and he could hazard a guess for the reasons why.
Hei Xuanyi held onto Wu Ruo’s hand: “As long as we know dage‘s whereabouts, everything else will be easy to handle.”
Wu Ruo held onto his hand and calmed down quite a bit. What surprised him was that Wu Zhu’s disappearance also had something to do with Ji Xi. Following this, he thought of a matter: “I think I know who stole the Three-Seven Stone.”
Ye Ji’s gaze flashed with a cruel viciousness: “Who is it?”
“Wu Yu.” Ever since meeting Wu Yu after arriving in Huangdu City, Wu Ruo always felt that his dage‘s disappearance had something to do with Wu Yu. Combining that with the things that Ji Xi had told them, he dared to be certain Wu Yu was definitely tied to the person who had stolen the Three-Seven Stone somehow.
“Who is this person?”
“It’s someone from our Wu family. He’s my wuge5五哥 (wu ge): gentle reminder that Wu Ruo calls Wu Yu this because he’s fifth in the overall birth order of all the male cousins in Wu Ruo’s generation. Wu Zhu is fourth and Wu Ruo himself is sixth..”
Ji Xi was a little speechless: “The person who wanted to kill me was your wuge, yet the person who saved me was your dage6To be clear, Ji Xi isn’t confused about their birth order. He’s just like WTF that two people from the same family could have such opposing goals.?”
Wu Ruo said indifferently: “Our relationship with Wu Yu isn’t very good. Actually, we should probably say that our relationship with everyone from the Wu family isn’t good.”
Ji Xi had lived with them for a period of time. Naturally, he knew about about their matters.
Ye Ji asked: “Where is Wu Yu now?”
Hei Xuanyi said: “Ever since he went to the Yao clan during the Four Clans Festival, he hasn’t been back. Because there’s someone helping him, my people who were following him have been shaken off. Right now, we don’t know his whereabouts.”
Ji Xi’s expression darkened: “Then that means we have to wait for him to return from the Yao clan before we can settle scores with him7处帐 (chu zhang): once again, the wonderful JYB uses a term that doesn’t exist according to multiple dictionaries and a Baidu search. I have made a guess based on the context and what I think the typo might mean. If you think you know for sure what JYB meant, please leave me a comment and let me know..”
Wu Ruo: “It seems like that’s the only way. A few of those who are close to Wu Yu also went with him. They probably also have a part in stealing your Three-Seven Stone.”
“We can’t just sit around and wait like this either. We don’t even know when they’ll come back.”
“They aren’t Yao clanspeople. Sooner or later, they’ll be back. Perhaps they will come out of the Yao clan at the next Four Clans Festival. Right now, I only want to know my dage‘s whereabouts.”
Ye Ji spoke up to guarantee to Wu Ruo: “I will definitely help you to find your dage.”
“If you know my dage‘s whereabouts, I hope you can immediately inform us.”
“I will.” Ye Ji thought about it, then added: “Protect your child properly. The Mo clan’s princess might act against your child.”
Wu Ruo’s chest tightened: “Because of the Three-Seven Stone?”
Ye Ji nodded.
“Both of you stole the Three-Seven Stone from the Mo clan’s princess?”
Ye Ji: “…”
Ji Xi snorted: “He obtained it through marriage fraud8A.K.A Ye Ji promised to marry the Mo clan’s princess, then ran away when he received the Three-Seven Stone as dowry..”
Ye Ji: “…”
Wu Ruo: “…”
Hei Xuanyi: “…”
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