
A headache. A headache. A big headache!
Seeing his mother's serious gaze, Cheng Xiao Xiao just wanted to turn around and run away. He's getting a splitting headache because of this!
"Mom, don't be in a hurry. Why don't we talk about this when dad's home?"
"Well, wait till he gets back and I'll ask him this!" Madam Cheng smiled. He thought he had managed to convince his daughter to listen to him. He had no idea that his daughter was too lazy to respond.
Cheng Xiao Xiao did not want to continue the topic. He looked at the steam from the boiling pot and asked, "Mom, do we have more tea leaves at home? Father will ask some villagers to come and help us. We will need to prepare more tea to serve everyone!"
"Asking the villagers to help? Oh yeah, mom vaguely heard part of your conversation about the bamboo forest. What the hell is going on?"
The mother had not been involved in this, so Cheng Xiao Xiao had no choice but to explain the whole idea of challenging the bamboo forest to her. Madam Cheng was overjoyed afterwards. He nodded in support, "This is good! Oh, and we have to slaughter some more chickens and ducks for them!"
"Well, whatever you like mommy!" Cheng Xiao Xiao replied with a smile, "Mom, I'll go get some more tea leaves."
"Go!" Madam Cheng looked gently at the back of her beautiful daughter and muttered to herself, "If only we were still with family, we would be able to find her a good husband. But in our current position, it will be difficult to find someone who will like Xiao Xiao. I definitely need to talk to him when he gets back. I wonder if it was serious when he talked about the match with Gu."
"Mom, ma'am, we don't have a lot of tea leaves left!" Cheng Xiao Xiao shouted from outside the kitchen. Madam Cheng was silent for a moment and got up.
The two met outside the kitchen. Cheng Xiao Xiao shook the ceramic container in his hand, "Mom, we may have quite two more servings. It's not enough to serve all the guests!"
"No more tea leaves? That's a problem. Even if we collect more from the mountain we still need to fry it. Unless we go and buy it from the city!"
Gathering tea leaves from the mountain?
Cheng Xiao Xiao's eyes were bright, if he could move the tea tree to the dimension …
Thinking that, Cheng Xiao Xiao was extremely excited. He handed the ceramic container to his mother and said, "Mom, I'll take the tea leaves from the mountain. I will ask Zheng Yuan back to help mother!"
Immediately acting on his thoughts, Cheng Xiao Xiao left the house empty-handed.
"This kid, go to the mountain again?" Cheng shook his head, he did not know what his daughter had in mind. But he didn't go to stop her either, so he let her go and did just that.
When Cheng Xiao Xiao passed through the bamboo forest, he sent his sisters home to help his mother and went to the mountain alone. He had heard his parents mention the location of the tea leaves before so he headed straight there.
At the same time, innkeeper Zhu became worried. The servants only saw him walking around in circles and were very confused. It was almost like he was failing at something big.
He certainly doesn't know what's going on. Innkeeper Zhu was very worried about others. He could not imagine how the two deacons, who had left in the middle of the night, had never returned.
He knew where they were going, but, with their skills in martial arts, how could they not have returned yet? Unless they had left Qing'an Province after the mission was completed?
That's not possible!
Master Cheng was only a Martial Master, he couldn't possibly go against two Martial Masters. So why are they still not back? Were they injured and they were hiding somewhere to take care of their injuries?
What am I supposed to do? Should I go to Cheng's residence to check on him? Or keep waiting?
All sorts of crazy ideas popped into his head. Innkeeper Zhu could not focus on his business. He continued to stare at the front door and hoped to see two familiar silhouettes.
Ning's house!
Young master Ning is finally back!
Not only has young master Ning Xunzong returned. He also brought along two other students from the School of Divine Condor. From their arrogant attitude, one could tell that they were of high status.
But the people at the Ning House did not mind that. After all, the Ning House was a place that was not important to them. It was already a great honor for them to accompany Ning Xunzong's return. The people in the Ning House could only do everything they could to please them.
Only Ning's parents weren't too happy about it. However, he did not mind it because of his granddaughter. After all, they were here as guests and it would not hurt to be polite to a guest.
After the butler placed the two arrogant guests into the guest room, old man Ning called his precious grandson into his study. The two have no real conversations.
Ning's parents asked about her days at the School of Divine Condor and Ning Xunzong described the events at the school excitedly. He looked envious and respectful, looking at those who came from high-status families and had high achievements in martial arts.
Old man Ning listened with a smile and did not interrupt but he sighed inwardly. Although his grandson was a novice Martial Master, but it sounded like he was only in the midst of the crowd in the School of Divine Condor. Many of his friends already had levels on it. And some of the older ones had reached Martial Spiritist, his grandson was not in any close achievements.
"Grandfather, your words sent to me are coming home soon. What's problem? I didn't see anything happening with the family, so why was I called?"
Ning Xunzong was confused. He thought something was going on with the family so he took a leave of absence from the instructor and rushed home. He didn't expect that nothing would happen at home.
After the question, old man Ning looked at his grandson and, with a gentle smile on his aged face, said, "This is good news. Grandpa asked you to come back because grandpa wanted to match you up with someone!"
"What's? The matchmaking? It can't be!" Ning Xunzong jumped up from the chair. His handsome face turned blue and white. Angrily, he said, "Grandfather, that's no joke. I don't want a match right now! I want to marry a woman of my choice!"
"Zonger ..." Old man Ning did not expect a strong reaction from his grandson. He frowned and said, "Zonger, let grandfather finish!"
"No, I'm not gonna listen. Grandpa, this is non-negotiable. I already have a boyfriend. I don't want a match!" Ning Xunzong said loudly and looked at his grandfather defiantly.
"Omong empty!" Old man Ning's face came down. Seeing the defiance and anger on his grandson's face, he began to soften.
After all, who wouldn't want to marry a woman of their own choice? Even old man Ning was so young, he understood how his grandson felt. But, he was unwilling to give up on what the Cheng family had as well.
"Zonger, sit down first. Let Grandpa tell you something!"