Chapter 440 (1/2)

Chapter 440: Jadewind Zither

Translator: GravityTales Editor: GravityTales

Tang Xiu led Mu Wanying back to the car. She hadn’t spoken a word from the start. After leaving the Everlasting Feast Hall, the duo just sat in the car, and only then did Mu Wanying say with a smile, “Tang Xiu, the more I get to know you, the more I think you’re unfathomable. I know some things about the Everlasting Feast Hall. I heard that its headquarters is on Jingmen Island, but it also has branches in Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong, and its business is very prosperous. It’s just that it never came to my mind that you were the Everlasting Feast Hall’s owner.”

“I’m nothing but your average layman, if you ask me,” Tang Xiu replied.

“If you were nothing but an average person, I’m afraid that there are no powerful figures in this world, no? Anyhow, I’m really curious about something. Aside from the Magnificent Tang Corp. and the Everlasting Feast Hall, how many industries do you have exactly?” Mu Wanying asked with a smile.

“Well, I only have those two,” Tang Xiu answered her easily.

“I don’t believe you.” Mu Wanying shook her head as she smiled. “If anything, I must get along well with you more in the future and learn more of your secrets. You know, you’re someone I’m most interested in, there’s no else.”

“Have you ever heard the saying that a woman won’t be far from having her heart captured once she’s interested in a man?” Tang Xiu grunted.

“To fall in love with someone as outstanding as you, is not a bad thing, no?” Mu Wanying laughed lightly, “Needless to say, though; a marriage is always the most important event in all one’s life. Like this, the issue is solved right away!”

“The current era is an age of materialism, where people crave worldly things. Nowadays, people’s minds and hearts are fickle and unable to endure their desires. So to speak about a femme fatale, the more outstanding the women around men are, the more troublesome things they will encounter. I myself have liked living a chaotic and tumultuous life. I want it to be peaceful and tranquil, so that I can do my own things without worries. Therefore, I dare not have any thoughts toward the capital’s first beauty, as well as the Shanghai University’s first campus flower. So please find another man if you want to get married,” stated Tang Xiu.

“Tang Xiu, how come the words you said make me feel like I’m just one of those sorts of venomous serpents and wild beasts?” Mu Wanying coquettishly feigned anger.

“You’re better than any vipers and beasts, though; because your looks are more eye-catching than they are,” Tang Xiu chuckled in reply.

“Pfft… Hahaha!” Mu Wanying couldn’t help but burst into laughter, laughing till she swayed and trembled.

After a short while, she looked at the passing scenes outside the window, and then asked, “You already asked that couple to help you find a zither, so where are we going next?”

“I can’t put all hope on them, so I might as well prepare for both eventualities.” Tang Xiu noted thoughtfully. “Though they are anxious and in a hurry, there’s nothing that can be done about it if their old friend’s wife doesn’t want to lend it out. Anyways, let’s surf the internet once again! See if there’s a shop selling zithers nearby.”

“All right!”

Mu Wanying took her mobile phone out and began browsing the internet.

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_At the outskirts of Shanghai…_

Inside the fruit orchard, Wei Jiangping and Chun Xiu had just returned and got out from the tax. They saw Han Jintong and his wife, Yin Yue’e, waiting in front of a black Audi car.

Wei Jiangping strode up to the Han Jintong couple and said with a bitter smile, “Old friend, sorry for troubling you.”

“Brother We, we naturally won’t sit still since you have troubles.” Han Jintong shook his head and said, “Anyhow, we also brought the Jadewind Zither. It’s in the car.”

Showing his gratitude and relief, Wei Jiangping said, “I know that Jadewind Zither is Yue’e’s favorite thing. It’s fine if you don’t want to sell it, though. He said that he only wanted to borrow it for one night.”

“Who is this ‘he’?” Han Jintong asked in surprise.

“Tang Xiu!” Wei Jiangping replied with a sigh.

Han Jintong frowned and asked, “Brother Wei, what had happened exactly? Did the two of you go to Jingmen Island, investigate the Everlasting Feast Hall’s information, and then meet Tang Xiu there?”

Wei Jiangping shook his head with a bitter expression.

“We didn’t meet Tang Xiu at Jingmen Island,” Chun Xiu faintly sighed, and said, “After we followed the investigation track, we found that the Everlasting Feast Hall was very mysterious. But unfortunately, just as we only got a bit of information from our investigation, the people from the Everlasting Feast Hall found us. We did repel two of them who warned us, but we were then finally surrounded by their ten experts. Those ten were only in their thirties or forties, yet their joint forces were able to deal with us easily. We were caught and detained, and they sent us to the Everlasting Feast Hall in Shanghai.”

“What?” Han Jintong and Yin Yue’e looked at each other. They knew how strong Wei Jiangping and Chun Xiu were. In this current age and time, the number of people who were their opponents were very few and far between. How could only ten people of the Everlasting Feast Hall be able to capture them?

This… Wasn’t this way too inconceivable?

Wang Jiangping forced a smile and said, “What Chun Xiu said is all true. We were injured and captured by them. In actuality, we could sense that their cultivation levels were inferior to us. But their moves and styles were very sharp, swift and fierce, and they also used exquisite killing moves. If they were to fight at close quarters with weapons, perhaps they would only need five people to beat us, and we might be killed in a very short time.”

Han Jintong shivered inside, and asked, “How many experts does the Everlasting Feast Hall have exactly?”

“I’m not sure.” Wei Jiangping shook his head and said, “There were more than thirty people just from the number when they surrounded us. Some of them who seemed like not your ordinary experts and had some status didn’t even act.”

Han Jintong was silent for a period of time and faintly sighed, “We always felt that our strength was already amazing enough, and had reached the extreme point after obtaining that cultivation technique and practicing it for decades. We always thought that there were only a few existences in this world who could become our opponents. Only now did we finally realize that we had been looking at the sky from the bottom of a well.”