Chapter 411: 168. Huang Xuan

168. Huang Xuan's Choice

Ouyang Rong and Xie Lingjiang came to the Xunyang Prince's Mansion.

They went deep into the Prince's Mansion.

They stopped in front of a rockery garden with rippling blue waves and turned into a dense jungle.

Passing through the garden path, before their eyes, a brand-new study house appeared, as if coming toward them.

At the same time, it gave people a feeling of "the willow trees, the flowers, and another village."

It was the newly repaired Juxian Garden Study, where the eldest son studied.

Like the Xunyang Prince's study, this place where the Xunyang Prince's eldest son studied was not allowed to be approached by the maids and servants of the Prince's Mansion on weekdays.

Ouyang Rong was naturally not in this category.

When they arrived at the entrance of Juxian Study, the eldest son was holding a book and pacing in the long corridor.

Seeing Ouyang Rong, the eldest son put down the book in his hand and welcomed him with a smile:

"Why did Tanlang only come now? Uh, what's wrong with the injury on your head."

Ouyang Rong waved his hand, "I bumped it accidentally this morning, let's not mention it. Why is the eldest son outside."

The eldest son laughed:

"The study was given to Daoist Lu and Miss Huang Xuan. Daoist Lu seems to have something to say."

Ouyang Rong turned his head to look at Xie Lingjiang.

The two looked at each other.

Xie Lingjiang smiled lightly, not in a hurry.

As if hearing the movement outside, the study door opened, and Lu Ya and Huang Xuan walked out.

Ouyang Rong didn't ask what they talked about, but asked directly:

"How is Miss Miao Si?"

Huang Xuan's expression was nervous, and she turned to look at the paralyzed-faced Daoist youth beside her.

Ouyang Rong, Xie Lingjiang, and others also cast their gazes over.

Lu Ya shook his head and turned back to look at the figure of the little ink sprite on the sickbed in the next room.

The eldest son sighed:

"She hasn't woken up yet. Daoist Lu just went to see her and said to talk after Tanlang came."

Ouyang Rong's eyes were a bit worried.

He heard Lu Ya say before that the little ink sprite was called by her true name using the power of the Xiang Face, so she was seriously injured and fainted.

The true names of spirits and ghosts cannot be called at will.

Especially when using taboo objects.

Facing the gazes of the crowd, Lu Ya waved his hand:

"Let's talk later. Treatment is not urgent for a moment. I just chatted with Miss Huang Xuan about an important matter."

"What important matter."

"I want to formally invite Miss Huang Xuan to join the mountain gate of the Shangqing Sect of Mount Mao. I was originally following my master's last wish to go down the mountain to accept disciples, but Miss Huang Xuan said..."

"Said what?" Ouyang Rong asked.

Before Lu Ya could speak, Huang Xuan lowered her head and whispered:

"Miao Si is not awake, I want to hear Commandant Benefactor's opinion. I believe in Commandant Benefactor's... judgment."

Xie Lingjiang heard this and couldn't help but look at the little girl in the red jacket.

However, she was not unhappy, but smiled sweetly and rubbed Huang Xuan's forehead:

"If you choose the Confucian School, I will be your recommender, write a letter to recommend you to the Bailu Cave Academy, or follow your Commandant Benefactor's teacher to study."

Thinking about it, she added:

"If you really don't want to leave Jiangzhou, you can directly worship me, follow me to study and practice Qi. Hmm, this way you can see big brother every day, and big brother can also teach you.

"Big brother, don't you think so?"

Lu Ya discovered Huang Xuan's moved expression, which was a world of difference from the reaction when he promised the extremely high seniority of "Yuan Xuanzi" and the possibility of succeeding the Shangqing Sect Master in his lifetime.

Lu Ya sighed and muttered: "Clearly I came the earliest, but I caught the late market..."

But he didn't expect that Ouyang Rong didn't respond to Xie Lingjiang's words, nor did he stand up for her, but suddenly spoke:

"I want to say two things, let's go in and talk." He ordered: "Miss Huang Xuan, you wait outside with the eldest son."

Saying that, he took the lead and walked into the study.

"Oh oh."

Huang Xuan nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, and then looked curiously at the figures of Ouyang Rong, Xie Lingjiang, and Lu Ya entering the study again.

"Hungry?"

Outside the door, the eldest son handed a plate of snacks to Huang Xuan.

Huang Xuan shook her head, looked around, and went to the sickbed next door to visit Miao Si.

Yesterday, Commandant Benefactor seemed to have escaped the encirclement of the golden-haired big sister and her companions with the help of the array left by the Astrological Bureau Qi-refining cultivators.

They were teleported to a ruined temple outside the city.

If the calculation was not wrong, it was about 180 miles away from the courtyard where Huang Xuan collapsed.

It might be because the snow-white long sword was not carried, and subsequently, their whereabouts were not exposed.

Huang Xuan and the fainted Miao Si were also quietly brought to the Xunyang Prince's Mansion by Commandant Benefactor and stayed for one night.

At this moment, Miao Si was still seriously injured and fainted. Originally, Huang Xuan had no intention of leaving Xunyang City and leaving her father's side.

But everyone told her that after the female scribe Rong Zhen woke up, she would likely look for her. It didn't matter if her father didn't know anything, but if she were caught, it would be difficult to avoid being forced to confess about the Master of Butterfly Loves Flowers and the specific truth of what happened that day. The degree of persistence of that female scribe Rong Zhen in investigating cases was indeed outrageous.

The most critical thing was that if she stayed in Xunyang City, not only would she attract bees and butterflies because of her innocent spiritual eyes, but it would also affect Commandant Benefactor.

It would be a flaw for the latter.

Huang Xuan knew that she was walking evidence. Right now, going out to avoid the limelight and hiding was the rational choice, at least not letting that female scribe Rong Zhen find her.

So even if she didn't want to leave Xunyang, where she was born and raised, Huang Xuan still had to leave. Just where to go became a tangled problem.

Soon, the study meeting dispersed, and the three walked out one after another.

Huang Xuan didn't know what Ouyang Rong, Xie Lingjiang, and Lu Ya had talked about.

However, after coming out, the paralyzed-faced Daoist youth's eyes were surprised, and he looked at Ouyang Rong from time to time.

As for the noble girl who was smiling sweetly before, she had a straight face, her expression calm, and she looked at someone from time to time.

Huang Xuan looked up at Ouyang Rong, who was standing in the middle of the two, and his words were also neutral:

"I asked Daoist Lu and junior sister to understand the conditions each side could give for accepting disciples, and found that their arrangements were actually quite good.

"In addition, there is one point. If you choose the Confucian School, Huang Xuan, you can't stay by junior sister's side, you have to go to the academy or to my teacher Xie Xun. This is for safety."

Ouyang Rong smiled and nodded:

"So actually both are good, I have no objection, it depends on Huang Xuan's own choice, or ask your father."

Lu Ya snatched the answer: "Ask Brother Huang, it's quite good. Miss Huang should listen to the opinions at home."

Xie Lingjiang also said gently:

"Miss Huang, joining the Bailu Cave Academy, you are the junior of big brother and me. It will be convenient to carry you in the future. Although it is also leaving Xunyang City, you can contact us from time to time. Bailu Cave is not far from Xunyang City."

She couldn't help but look at Huang Xuan's black pearl-like eyes, which she liked very much.

Lu Ya looked at Xie Lingjiang, Xie Lingjiang smiled, not looking at him.

The two were fighting openly and secretly.

Lu Ya immediately said:

"If Miss Huang misses her father or Commandant Ouyang, she can also send letters. Our three mountains of the Three Pure Ones share the same body, and the post station can be shared. As long as it is in the Jiang Nan region, sending letters is not simple."

Ouyang Rong nodded:

"Daoist Lu makes sense. Whether you are in the Confucian School or the Daoist School, you can send letters back. Visiting from time to time is also possible. It shouldn't be the thing that dominates your choice."

Lu Ya breathed a sigh of relief.

Xie Lingjiang glared at her big brother slightly, but the latter ignored it.

Huang Xuan hesitated and asked: "Did Commandant Benefactor also study beside Xie sister's father before?"

Ouyang Rong nodded.

Xie Lingjiang's eyes brightened slightly when she heard this, adding: "That's right, you can also be our junior sister."

The little girl in the red jacket couldn't help but look at Ouyang Rong with a look of admiration.

Ouyang Rong saw this and pursed his lips:

"Miss Huang, choose according to your own heart, don't worry too much."

After speaking, Ouyang Rong looked left and right and suggested:

"Why don't junior sister and Daoist Lu chat with Miss Huang for a few words?"

Xie Lingjiang and Lu Ya immediately agreed, each taking Huang Xuan into the room to chat.

Huang Xuan was actually a bit confused after what happened yesterday.

She didn't know what she was thinking wildly.

She just felt that her whole life had been disrupted, and next, her decision, the choice of where to practice Qi and cultivate, would involve the future.

This is a choice that will affect a lifetime.

Huang Xuan actually wanted to hear Commandant Benefactor's opinion, but Commandant Benefactor didn't dominate her, but instead handed the initiative to her.

Huang Xuan felt some pressure. Following Xie Lingjiang and Lu Ya into the room, she was dazed the whole time.

What they said, what preferential conditions they promised, and the promised Qi-refining resources and future prospects, Huang Xuan didn't listen to much of any of it.

After chatting and walking out the door, the little girl in the red jacket suddenly said to Ouyang Rong:

"Commandant, do you have anything to say?"

Ouyang Rong was stunned and nodded:

"No matter what you choose, I will give you a word."

"Benefactor, please speak."

"Without poverty, one cannot become a person; without setbacks, one will never be innocent."

Ouyang Rong looked at her innocent and lively eyes and said softly:

"No matter where you go in the future, look back often, look at that initial starting point, and never forget that original intention."

Huang Xuan lowered her head and chewed.

Just as she hesitated to speak, Lu Ya suddenly turned his head and signaled Ouyang Rong to the sickroom next door.

Ouyang Rong nodded, didn't say anything more, and turned to walk toward the sickroom to visit the fainted Confucian-robed little Daoist nun.

Xie Lingjiang also followed tacitly, but she was squinting at the back of a certain person who was fair but bad.

Lu Ya was the last one. After Ouyang Rong and Xie Lingjiang entered the door, he stepped in. However, when passing by Huang Xuan, he suddenly dropped a sentence:

"Miss Huang, Commandant Ouyang already has a junior sister. After you go over, you are indeed a junior sister, but you are not his junior sister, you are Xie girl's junior sister."

Huang Xuan first looked at him, and then followed the gaze of this paralyzed-faced Daoist youth to look inside the sickroom.

Only to see that the Xie noble girl was close to Commandant Benefactor. She seemed to have quietly reached out from her sleeve. Commandant Benefactor gasped and held his waist, seemingly lowering his voice to beg for mercy. The Xie noble girl, who didn't know why she was cold-faced, hummed and pouted.

The back of these two senior and junior siblings secretly playing around fell into the eyes of Huang Xuan and Lu Ya.

After saying this sentence, Lu Ya acted as if nothing had happened, left Huang Xuan's side, and walked into the sickroom with big strides.

Ouyang Rong was bending over to check Miao Si's condition.

"Commandant Ouyang, talk over here."

"Okay."

Lu Ya took Ouyang Rong to the side, as if talking about something.

It seemed to be about the injury of the fainted little ink sprite, and Ouyang Rong's expression gradually became serious.

Xie Lingjiang seized the opportunity, turned and left the sickroom, and came to Huang Xuan's side, chatting easily.

Huang Xuan also smiled and responded.

So one big and one small, one gentle and one obedient, the two girls were in harmony.

But at some point, the little girl in the red jacket turned her head and looked at the side face of the Xie noble girl who was confident and talking eloquently beside her.

She seemed a bit dazed.

"Xie sister."

"Hmm? What's wrong."

"You... you are really nice. Why is there such a gentle and excellent woman like you in the world."

"You flatter me, but our Bailu Cave Academy is indeed a good place to teach and educate people. After you go, being our junior sister, you can also be like this."

Xie Lingjiang touched her chin and thought for a while, her tone sincere:

"But you are so young and encountered a rare ink sprite. It is said that you have talent and can become a famous talented woman in the world. Maybe you will be stronger than me."

Huang Xuan lowered her head slightly, rubbed her pair of spiritual eyes hard, and whispered:

"Is that so..."

Xie Lingjiang nodded affirmatively:

"Hmm!"

The little girl in the red jacket suddenly raised her face and smiled at her.

"Understood, Xie sister."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 412 =====