This thought startled her, causing her to abruptly lift her head to look at Lady Huo on the Luohan bed.
However, Lady Huo seemed to not notice the word play of her son, and was quite puzzled at her son’s refusal to marry Miss Mu Family.
"So you won’t marry her, and you won’t break off the entanglement, you unfilial son. Are you dissatisfied that our Huo family’s reputation is too good and wish to ruin it?"
As she continued her rebukes, a green parrot with a red beak suddenly flew into the window, circled the room, let out two squawks, and then flew out again.
"Where did this parrot come from? It’s not afraid of people at all."
This spectacularly colourful parrot captivated Lady Huo. She completely forgot about scolding her son and instead glued her gaze to the parrot fluttering about in the courtyard.
"Quick, someone catch it. Keep it to keep Madam entertained..."
Seeing the madam’s interest in the bird, Aunt Gao, who was by Lady Huo’s side, quickly beckoned the maids and women serving in the courtyard to find bamboo poles and brooms to bring down that good-looking parrot for the lady to play with.
Huo Yuan, watching the cheeky parrot’s antics, began to laugh delightedly. He stood up and strode to the outside.
"I’ll catch it. It would be a shame if such a beautiful bird were to be damaged by your hands!"
Huo Yuan, with his sights locked on the parrot, said this as he left his mother’s courtyard...
The letter from Cai Wei shocked him. He hadn’t expected that Jin Guifei would reach out to King Jing and come up with such a cruel and harsh scheme to kill the mother to seize the child. King Jing, Nangong Qi, was his sister’s only kin and her only hope in the latter half of her life. He, as her brother, would never allow his sister to be harmed or his nephew taken away...
For the next several days, Cai Wei stayed in the army camp, to be precise in the space, diligently researching the techniques of glass-burning. From the proportion of two types of ores to the control of the temperature during the burning process, she meticulously performed experiments for three whole days. Although she produced many pieces of glass, none of them met her high standards.
Originally, she planned to keep on experimenting until she met Tuoba Kui, hoping to perfect her glass. However, tomorrow was Cai Fei’s eleventh birthday, and she wanted to personally celebrate her sister’s birthday. In addition, it had been a long time since Brother Ying and Chang Mei had been in the space. They relied on the spiritual energy there to achieve longevity and become Divine Beasts. The prolonged absence from the space was detrimental to their cultivation. Thus she had to return to the Capital. Firstly, to celebrate her sister’s birthday and secondly to recall Brother Ying and Chang Mei back into the space.
At night, dark and gusty under the silent moon, she quietly rode the white tiger and left the army camp. Chai Feng was used to her riding away on the tiger, no longer finding it strange. After she left, he quickly found a horse and galloped towards the city of Kash where his master was located.
Cai Wei reached the outskirts of the Capital when the sky brightened. The first thing she did upon arrival was to summon Chang Mei and Brother Ying back and enclosed them together with the white tiger in the space. She brought out the horse she had raised in the space and rode it into the city with ease.
Today was a beautiful day; a dazzling sun in a sky so blue that not a cloud was to be found. A delicate blue satin spread endlessly; the sporadic silhouettes of sparrows made one feel refreshed and comfortable.
Once inside the city, Cai Wei found a quiet alley, placed her horse back into the space, and walked out of the alley with discretion. She planned to stroll around the streets before collecting the diamond head decorations she had ordered for Fei’er. Now that Fei’er was eleven, a girl much more gentle and fond of beauty than her, she would surely be delighted with such exceptional head decorations!