[Task: Escort the Phoenix Alliance’s gift to Lengyue Palace. (Completed)]
[Reward: Calculating...]
Leaving Hanxi Building along with Wei Ziyi,
Su Mo then saw the system prompt on his side.
At this moment, he slightly relaxed.
Having the escort masters aside help with the inventory count and entrust the delivery of the goods, he finally considered it complete.
However, whether the precondition that he must escort the entire journey is another matter.
Next time, perhaps he could try accepting a mission and let someone else do the escort?
To see if he could still receive a reward in the end?
If possible, wouldn’t that make things much easier for him?
While his thoughts were tumbling about, occasionally he glanced back to find Wei Ziyi looking ponderously troubled, prompting him to cough softly:
Wei Ziyi was taken aback, then couldn’t help but snarl at Su Mo.
"What a pity, there’s no one around, otherwise I really wanted to let the female heroes of Lengyue Palace see your true nature."
Wei Ziyi rolled her eyes, then asked, "What did master tell you?"
For a moment, Su Mo was speechless, he couldn’t just tell Wei Ziyi that her master asked if he liked her.
Did it mean she wanted to push this enchantress onto him?
Although Wei Ziyi had a broad horizon, hearing such words repeatedly would probably not sit well with her.
Immediately, he smiled, "Nothing much, just discussed some past events."
Wei Ziyi was startled, "What past events could you have had with my master?"
"Don’t underestimate me, isn’t that so?"
Su Mo said, "Actually, I have long been acquainted with your master, it’s just that you didn’t know."
Wei Ziyi was dumbstruck, "Master hasn’t left Lengyue Palace for nearly twenty years, even if you truly met before, you were just a baby waiting to be fed at that time, weren’t you?"
"That’s none of your concern."
Su Mo smiled, "If you’re capable, go ask your master."
Wei Ziyi got a bit moody.
She understood Grandfather’s wish to marry her to Su Mo, and she had no intention of resisting.
But... why couldn’t they be upfront with her?
Acting all secretive, as if her knowing would ruin some grand plan.
Now, her master was doing the same, keeping secrets from her.
She sighed, "Things and people change, things and people change."
While they were talking, a cry of an eagle suddenly came from the sky.
As Wei Ziyi looked up, she saw a hawk circling the air before swooping down sharply.
She promptly stretched out her arm, and the hawk landed steadily on it.
Wei Ziyi was stunned for a moment, and took a letter from the Messenger Eagle.
Bringing it close to her, her mouth twitched: "Personal letter for Su Mo..."
Su Mo was also surprised, but as he saw the handwriting on the envelope, his eyes lit up: "Hand it over."
Wei Ziyi asked while handing the letter to Su Mo.
With a flick of her hand, the Messenger Eagle had already taken flight and vanished in a blink of an eye.
Su Mo offhandedly mentioned as he opened the envelope and gave it a gentle shake.
Wei Ziyi, curious, peered over.
Su Mo did not stop her.
But after seeing only the first two sentences, Su Mo’s mouth began to smile.
Wei Ziyi, however, gave an ’Ay ya’, flushing crimson.
She covered her eyes, "It hurts!"
Su Mo knocked on her head lightly, "Go hurt by yourself."
Wei Ziyi did not resist and ran off to wait by the side.
She thought that Yang Xiaoyun’s letter to Su Mo would contain some specific content, but it actually started with "Thinking of you, I can’t sleep."
These lovesick men and women truly had no reservations.
Wei Ziyi asked herself, she could never write no matter whom she was writing to.
And until now, she had never felt the kind of longing that kept her from sleep.
She came to Lengyue Palace too young, and even the feeling of missing her mother had long become unclear.
On the other hand, Su Mo was carefully reading through Yang Xiaoyun’s letter word by word.
There wasn’t much to say about the content: one part expressed longing, the other reassured Su Mo that everything within the escort agency was normal.
The emphasis, however, was in the last two sentences.
"A startled swan’s shadow falling, lone shadow flying south..."
Su Mo let out a light breath.
Jing Hong... He pondered for a moment and thought of Jing Hong Feixue.
A startled swan’s shadow falling, undisturbed by flying snow!
As for the lone shadow flying south, that was a homophonic pun.
"Lone" corresponds to "of", indicating traces of Yang Yizhi.
Flying south itself wasn’t the crucial point.
What mattered was that there was a lead concerning Yang Yizhi.
Combining the context, it meant Xu Lu was coming, and there were clues related to Yang Yizhi.
Su Mo organized the content a bit, but then frowned:
"How did Xu Lu get involved with him?"
Back then when Su Mo lied to Xu Lu about poisoning the wine, in reality, he duped him using the Suffering People Scripture.
Afterward, revealing information about the Three Extremes Sect was to hope he would investigate further.
Xu Lu went to investigate the Three Extremes Sect, while Yang Yizhi should have gone with the Heavenly Gate Master to Xuanhu Pavilion.
Did the two of them meet because their investigations converged at the same point?