The Naughty Senior Sister
Senior Brother Decided to Compromise
"Your Majesty, the Servant is here by order of the Emperor. It would be hard to explain to the Emperor if I came back like this."
"Recently the foreign tribes were too calm on the southern continental border. The emperor was worried that they were planning something that would endanger your safety. Your Majesty, let the Servant accompany you on this expedition. After His Majesty returns to the sect territory safely, Servant will return."
Wang Jia Li frowned slightly. There was a hint of frustration on his usual flat face without emotion.
Mo Li spoke up to persuade him.
"Junior Brother Jia, we will go to the southern continent. It was a dangerous place prone to clashing with foreign tribes. With General Lao with us, there will be more people looking after you."
Yan Xu suddenly took part in their conversation and said, "Junior sister Mo Li, did you know this general before? I've never heard news of him before."
"Yes, that's right." Mo Li glanced at Yan Xu and smiled. "Junior Brother Jia and I grew up together since adolescence. We also entered the sect at the same time."
"The full name of this general is Lao Guang. He was the Emperor's confidant and acted in secret in his every move."
"After the Emperor succeeded to the throne, General Lao was given the task of guarding the southern continental border in secret and his achievements would never be made public by the imperial family to the world."
"Seeing that General Lao was sent to escort Junior Sister Jia, it was obvious that the Emperor was worried that there would be a scheming scheme planned by a foreign tribe."
'So they are also childhood friends, really mismatched couples, ' Yan Xu thought.
Yan Xu cupped his hands together and said, "Sorry, I talk too much."
A moment later, Lao Guang frowned and shouted, "Your Fifth Prince Highness, please reconsider!"
Wang Jia Li turned his head to look at Su Yueyin who was flatly looking at the situation. There was a pleading expression on her beautiful man's face.
"Since he's your guard, he can come but only to the outside of the forest. When in the forest of chaos, everything is up to you" said Su Yueyin who did not want to bother.
He called General Lao and told him to come in the big pumpkin.
Su Yueyin firmly said, "You may join, but you must also obey the rules of the sect in order not to interfere in the disciple expedition. I won't hesitate to break your whole body when I find something suspicious."
It was obvious that Su Yueyin did not trust General Lao and had already drawn a line between them.
General Lao cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Elder Su Yueyin."
As soon as he finished talking, the old man floated into a huge gourd. Su Yueyin pointed to one side of the formation array to open a gap for her to enter.
While paying attention to the situation, Yan Xu took two steps to the side expressionlessly. Then, he walked from the side towards the front of the large gourd and cupped his hands together, "Aunt Yueyin, can the Disciple sit behind you?"
Su Yueyin did not know whether to cry or laugh.
"Why? You're over a hundred years old, isn't it okay to sit near strangers? Ah, after all he's not really a stranger ..." Su Yueyin sighed and pointed to the side behind her signaling approval.
"Senior brother Yan, please sit here." Wang Jia Li willingly gave his place. He smiled at Yan Xu who apologized while moving and taking three steps back.
"Thank you," Yan Xu said as he sat down. He did not care about the two sharp gazes from behind him.
Those two gazes came from Lin Qintian and Bai Lien'er. It was clear that they were offended because of Yan Xu's shameless attitude. They must have thought that she was not behaving gracefully as expected of Immortal Sect disciple Luo.
Still, Yan Xu from beginning to end would not care about them, unless the two people held his life-and-death condition.
The large pumpkin again moved at high speed towards the southern continent.
However, General Lao was a fairly quiet person. The conversation between the three of them was extremely awkward and they quickly ran out of topics to talk about.
Yan Xu realized that General Lao seemed to have been observing him ever since they traveled together, so he immediately spoke up to the main point.
"Is there something General Lao wants to talk about with this lowly disciple?" asked Yan Xu firmly.
Both of General Lao's old eyebrows shot up, it was obvious that this disciple named Yan Xu already knew that he was being watched by him.
Based on Yan Xu's remark regarding having never heard of him, General Lao thought that Yan Xu was different from the other four disciples.
He even opened the conversation in a disrespectful manner according to the manners at hand, but it was common for soldiers who often spoke straight to the point.
He decided to try talking to the student.
"Brother Yan, what do you think of the current state of the southern continent?"
Yan Xu frowned slightly and quickly replied, "Too calm, like there will be a big storm after the calm ends."
Yan Xu only knew that the foreign tribes had not tried to attack the border for the past five years.
If he recalled how arrogant the foreign tribe was, they would unlikely bow their heads to the imperial family. There must be an elephant behind the rock, it's just that the elephant hasn't appeared yet and is still waiting for the right time.
"Hoo .. does according to Brother Yan most likely there will be a great war after all this time they did not attack?" General Lao felt increasingly interested in talking to Yan Xu.
"No, rather than a great war I would call it a grand scheme."
"Great scheme?"
"Well .. who knows, there may be secrets unknown to outsiders, other than some insiders themselves."
"If I were to become General Lao, I would rather deny the Emperor's order than to leave the border which is clearly an important point to guard the residents" Yan Xu said in a mocking tone.
General Lao chuckled amusedly ignoring the ridicule and said, "Isn't protecting a member of the imperial family an important task as well?"
Yan Xu's reply came out in a cold tone through his voice transmission technique, "Don't cutting off the head of the imperial family also matter?"
Yan Xu rolled his eyes, disgusted by the obvious scheme even though he knew the other five people had yet to understand their true situation.
Before General Lao could speak, Yan Xu again continued with a stern warning, "I'm just a disciple who wants to go through this expedition smoothly."
He gave a code that he would not interfere, unless they first attacked him.
General Lao laughed out loud and said, "Water and oil can't come together but they can still share containers and not interfere with each other, well, well." General Lao nodded in satisfaction a few times.
Yan Xu could feel that General Lao's pressure was starting to diminish against him yet he would never relax his defenses, nor would he be willing to look at the face of a wolf in sheep's hair.
Before he followed the expedition this time, Yan Xu had already pondered over the various things along with the upcoming variables.
However, he still did not suspect that there was a member of the imperial family from one of the disciples who had come along. According to Yan Xu's beliefs, everything that concerned the imperial family was a bad thing and should be avoided.
It was too late for Yan Xu to come out of the mud as the hunting wolves were already near the mud pit, preparing to pounce. So, he would compromise with the wolf, let him pounce on the target and let it go.