Chapter 383

"Weixian Ling..."

Tang Anzhi instinctively wanted to ask Wei Yuan if he hadn't woken up yet; otherwise how could he say such a thing?

Just thinking that he, after all, was an attendant in Wei Yuan's mansion, enjoying extremely high benefits, even more than the salary he got as an Immortal Official of Qingyang County, the words on the tip of his tongue were swallowed back.

Tang Anzhi changed his words: "Weixian Ling, when I came here I already checked it once, and besides there's Yu Die, I think it's very safe, there won't be any danger!"

Someone like him, an older cultivator, is the most cautious and careful.

Because they have seen many many incidents of capsizing in gutters, when they came to the Zhang family, even though he knew the Zhang family would have no danger.

Whether it's him or Wei Yuan, they have no conflict with the Zhang family; let alone the Zhang family being just an ordinary household, even if they happened to have a Mountain God.

How could they possibly deal with them?

Even if the Zhang family is a reclusive clan that never shows itself, normally when there's no conflict they wouldn't do anything to him and Wei Yuan.

Moreover, Wei Yuan is still the magistrate of Qingyang County; to a high-level cultivator, a petty county magistrate is nothing, but at least he represents the court's dignity; people may not care about his life or death, but they at least have to care about the consequences of offending the court.

Yu Die curiously asked: "Weixian Ling, do you have any discovery?"

"Discovery? Naturally there is a discovery!"

Wang Ping'an secretly gave a cold snort; just now Wei Yuan noticed his gaze, he felt something was very off; before Wei Yuan finished speaking, he already knew what Wei Yuan would say.

Nothing other than words belittling him and his mother!

He wasn't a masochist who enjoyed hearing others belittle him, so before Wei Yuan finished speaking, he employed some special means.

To scare Wei Yuan.

The effect of the scare was not just good!

"I, I, I..."

Wei Yuan opened his mouth, about to say how he had almost been scared out of his wits just now, but in his peripheral vision he noticed pairs of curious gazes around; obviously his earlier abnormality had been noticed by these people.

If he admitted he was scared, who knows, these people might laugh behind his back!

He knows that rumors mostly come from idle mouths, and he doesn't want to become the laughingstock of the whole Qingyang County.

Wei Yuan changed his words: "I just had a faint feeling that there seems to be an extremely fierce person nearby!"

"Impossible..."

Yu Die instinctively retorted; her vigilance might not be as good as Tang Anzhi's, but her alertness is certainly stronger than Wei Yuan's; she didn't even notice any extremely fierce thing lurking around, how could Wei Yuan possibly know?

Moreover, let alone.

Even Tang Anzhi at that time had no reaction!

Tang Anzhi interrupted: "Yu Die, you might not know, our Weixian Ling's investigative ability is extraordinary; even I feel inferior to him; he said there might be an extremely fierce thing lurking around, maybe there really is; why don't we listen to Weixian Ling and carefully check the surroundings?"

As for Wei Yuan's abilities, he looks down on them in every aspect, except one—his talent for detecting danger; even he feels inferior to that.

He has been an attendant in Wei Yuan's mansion for not just a day or two; he often goes out with Wei Yuan, having encountered several dangers before; before he even noticed the danger, Wei Yuan had already sensed its approach.

Thanks to Wei Yuan's special talent, they have managed to dodge one deadly trap after another.

Yu Die was about to refuse, but she isn't even a resident of Qingyang County, nor is she Wei Yuan's subordinate; she has no time to play along with Wei Yuan.

This place is just an ordinary poor mountain wilderness, though there are monsters occupying the mountain range, but it's not some extremely fierce person; at least Zhang Chengyong never told her that the monster occupying Shizi Ling had violently broken into Zhang Family Village and harmed lives.

If someone were lurking around, she suspects it might be Zhang Deben; although in broad daylight, without having refined the Mountain God Token, merely as a ghost Zhang Deben shouldn't appear under the scorching sun, otherwise he'd likely be harmed by the sun.

But no one dares to guarantee whether there will be an accident, or perhaps Zhang Deben is hiding in a place where the sun doesn't see, lurking.

Even if Zhang Deben were lurking, it couldn't be an extremely fierce person lurking.

Suddenly.

A figure appeared in Yu Die's mind, recalling the mysterious person who saved her life, settled the monster occupying Shizi Ling, and now even toyed with the Du family father and son; she changed her tone: "Alright, I'll listen to Weixian Ling and go check!"

"Attendant Tang, don't go too far!"

Wei Yuan watched the backs of Tang Anzhi and Yu Die leaving one after another, hurriedly shouted, and then enthusiastically said to Wang Lin:

"Old Brother Wang, I know you might resent Wang the Top Scholar for doing foolish things, but you should think for Wang the Top Scholar: he's ultimately just an ordinary person; if he couldn't climb onto the high branch of the Prime Minister, even though he's this year's Top Scholar, he'd hardly have a bright future!"

Wang Lin doubted: "Magistrate, why are you telling me this? I don't even know the Wang Top Scholar you're talking about, what he does, and what does it have to do with me?"

"Short-sighted old thing!"

This novel you have arrived at

Wei Yuan secretly cursed, his face still full of smiles, he sighed: "Old Brother Wang, in the world, which parent doesn't wish their children well? I hope you can think it over well!"

Wang Ruhai's actions, he being the magistrate of Qingyang County, Qingyang County having produced a Top Scholar, concerning news of Wang Ruhai, he is more concerned than anyone, naturally he first learns of what Wang Ruhai has done.

He divorced his childhood sweetheart wife, married the Prime Minister's daughter, and even took as wife a Prime Minister's daughter who was pregnant before marriage with another's child.

He didn't mock Wang Ruhai; instead he envied Wang Ruhai.

What does a true man have to worry about not having a wife?

Whether it's a childhood sweetheart or a wife of tied hair, ultimately just a woman; to sacrifice a great future for the sake of children's affection is what he looks down upon.

He only hates Wang Ruhai's parents, who lack brains, don't know the treacherous officialdom, thinking Wang Ruhai's being a Top Scholar means he'll smoothly rise in his official career, not realizing that in the many years of Daxia's founding, not only Top Scholars but even Zhuangyuan often have a tumultuous life.

Wang Ruhai?

He is merely a son of a farmer, without any heavenly background; even if he lucked out—no, relying on his own talent to become a Top Scholar, without a backing, in the officialdom he's still walking on thin ice.

However.

Wang Ruhai becoming the Prime Minister's son-in-law is out of the ordinary; thereafter soaring to great heights is just a matter of time.

Yet this pair of short-sighted parents didn't think of that; they only knew that this woman giving birth to a child for their old Wang family was not easy, they made the decision to sever relations, refusing to acknowledge Wang Ruhai as their child.

He really wanted to crack open Wang Ruhai's parents' heads to see what they were thinking; their family had finally produced a qilin child, and they just gave it up like that?

Perhaps...

The Prime Minister, upon learning of Wang Ruhai's parents' actions, would die laughing!

Wang Lin coldly looked at Wei Yuan, gave no response; since Wang Ruhai sent back a divorce letter from the capital, regardless of whether he severed father-son ties with Wang Ruhai or arranged a funeral for him, he has never regretted, saying:

"Weixian Ling, I'm not you; I'm just an ordinary farmer, I have no grand dreams, I only hope that my children, whatever they do, can face their own conscience!"

(End of chapter)