Chapter 376

The Fire Rain agate Lady Hu spoke of was not the token of love Li Kai had given her back then. Although what Li Kai gave her was also Fire Rain agate, that was only because Fire Rain Manor produced agate, and Li Kai, being at Fire Rain Manor at the time, had no way to find anything else to use as a token, so he asked the craftsmen of Fire Rain Manor to carve a pair of Fire Rain agate beads to give to Lady Hu as a token.

Although the Fire Rain agate Li Kai gave Lady Hu was of decent quality, it was just ordinary Fire Rain agate carved into the shape of a pendant. The Fire Rain agate her father, Lord Fire Rain, gave her was a bracelet.

After her father died, this item became Lady Hu's only memento of Fire Rain Manor. She never wore it on her wrist again, but instead kept it carefully tucked away.

At this moment, facing Su Xuan, Lady Hu quickly went to retrieve the item.

Su Xuan "230" picked up the Fire Rain agate handed over by Lady Hu and examined it carefully.

"The quality of this Fire Rain agate is indeed very good. As expected, you business people all like to keep the best things for yourselves."

Su Xuan commented on Lord Fire Rain's actions from back then.

However, there was nothing to criticize.

Fire Rain Manor was rich in agate; it was understandable for Lord Fire Rain to keep the best agate for his own daughter.

"Mr. Su, is there a problem with this agate?" Lady Hu asked Su Xuan hesitantly.

Nongyu stood to the side, quietly listening to the conversation between her mother and Su Xuan. At this moment, she also looked at Su Xuan, waiting for his answer.

"There is no problem with the agate itself. Although the quality is excellent, in the end, it is still just agate. However, there is indeed a secret hidden upon this agate..."

This statement from Su Xuan left the mother and daughter, Lady Hu and Nongyu, confused.

What did this mean?

Su Xuan was saying it was just ordinary agate, yet also saying there was a secret hidden on it?

Soon, they understood.

"For agate of such superior quality, you didn't use precious threads like gold wire to string it together, but instead used the cheapest hemp thread. Don't you find this combination strange?"

Upon hearing this, Nongyu and Lady Hu were stunned.

Indeed, this combination was truly quite strange.

As Su Xuan spoke, he easily snapped the hemp rope stringing the Fire Rain agate, removed the agate from the rope, and handed it to Lady Hu, while he himself carefully untwisted the broken hemp rope.

As the hemp rope was untwisted, a piece of fine cloth, thin to the extreme, fell out from the middle of the rope.

"This is..."

Seeing this, Lady Hu and Nongyu were shocked once again.

There really was a secret hidden within this Fire Rain agate; the secret was hidden on the thread that strung the Fire Rain agate.

Su Xuan looked at the tiny piece of cloth in his hand. The entire piece of cloth was not even as wide as a sheet of paper, and its length was only as long as a finger, but it gave him a strange feeling.

So, do those people all like to hide secrets on threads?

He couldn't help but think of the scroll of the "I Ching" found at the Little Sage Virtuous Manor; the secret of the Qi Guo Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon was hidden in the thread binding the bamboo slips.

If someone thought that the books or the Fire Rain agate were the main carriers of the secret and studied them thoroughly, they would not know that the things they ignored were the ones truly hiding the secrets.

Returning to reality, Su Xuan carefully examined the small piece of cloth in his hand again. There were several lines on it. Su Xuan matched it with the map in his mind; it could indeed fill in a portion of the map Tian Ze had given him, but it was only a portion, and some parts were still missing.

Fortunately, because of Lady Hu's words, Su Xuan also knew where the remaining piece was hidden, so he was not in a hurry.

Through the relationship between Lady Hu and Nongyu, Su Xuan soon found Hu Meiren and obtained another piece of Fire Rain agate from her. Using the same method, he easily extracted the small piece of cloth hidden inside that piece of Fire Rain agate.

Next, he only needed to return to the Yin-Yang School and fill these two small pieces of cloth into that map, and the map related to the Zheng Guo Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon would basically be considered pieced together.

Su Xuan prepared to return.

But before he left, Lady Hu suddenly called out to him.

"Mr. Su..."

Lady Hu's expression was somewhat complex.

"Does the Lady have anything else?"

Su Xuan glanced at Lady Hu. Even though he was extremely intelligent, there were some things he could not guess, especially since the person before him was a woman.

A woman's heart is a needle at the bottom of the sea.

"I hope Mr. Su can treat Nongyu well. Nongyu is my daughter, yet I have never raised her for a single day; she has suffered so much..." Lady Hu said softly.

The more he listened, the more strange Su Xuan's expression became.

This was simply because Lady Hu's tone was that of entrusting Nongyu to him.

Since when was he vaguely developing into a trend of being righteous and loyal?

Han Han Feizi had entrusted his sister to him, Lord Lord Changping had entrusted his daughter to him, and now, Lady Hu was also entrusting Nongyu to him.

With some inner grumbling, Su Xuan did not say it out loud, but responded to Lady Hu in a deep voice, "I will."

After returning to the Yin-Yang School.

Even though Su Xuan had already completed the map in his mind by combining the lines on these two small pieces of cloth, he still found the original map and attached the two pieces of cloth to it.

It must be said that the mapmaker from back then indeed had some skill.

When these two small pieces of cloth were missing, the entire map became incomplete, making it difficult to determine where it was a map of. Even with just one small piece of cloth, it was not enough to complete the map, but when both small pieces of cloth were present, the entire map became completely different.

After completing the map, Su Xuan did not have the thought of following the map to find the hidden items immediately.

Mainly because he didn't know how long it would take to personally go and find the items on it.

At the same time, as the Sect Master of the Yin-Yang School, he didn't need to do everything himself.

Thus, Su Xuan began to shake up his tools.

"Consort Yan, I have something I want to entrust to you!"

Earlier, after Su Xuan revealed his intention to go to the Daoist School to observe the Heaven-Human Sword Debate, Consort Yan felt her own weakness and had originally made up her mind to go into seclusion. However, upon receiving Su Xuan's summons, she still rushed over immediately.

"I wonder what you would like me to do, Your Excellency Master Xuantian?" Consort Yan asked softly.

No matter what Su Xuan entrusted to her, she would do it.

She also began to guess in her heart what Su Xuan was entrusting to her.

Could it be related to the Daoist Heaven-Human Sword Debate?

Immediately after, she realized she had guessed wrong.