Chapter - 373 East And West are Forever APart Like Orion And Antares (7) (1/2)
In his utmost delight Xie Xun stood up, then knelt down on the small boat's deck; ”Subordinate Jin Mao Shi Wang Xie Xun pays his respect to Jiaozhu,” he said.
Zhang Wuji hastily also knelt down to return his respect. ”Yifu,” he said, ”Please don't be overly courteous. Yang Jiaozhu had left an order for Yifu to take the interim Jiaozhu position. It is very hard for your child to bear this heavy responsibility. With the Heaven's blessing Yifu has returned, safe and sound; it is truly our Cult's good fortune. As soon as we reached the Central Earth, I am going to ask Yifu to take over the Jiaozhu position.”
Xie Xun sadly said, ”Your Yifu has returned, but his eyes are blind. So you cannot actually say 'safe and sound'. How can a blind man take the leadership of the Ming Cult? Miss Zhao, didn't you say you have two things you do not understand?”
”I want to ask Miss Xiao Zhao,” Zhao Min said, ”Who taught you the 'qi men ba gua' [strange/wonderful gate, eight trigrams] and 'yin yang wu xing' [yin and yang, five elements] techniques? You are very young, how did you know all those extraordinary skills?”
Xiao Zhao replied, ”They are my family heritage. It is not worth Junzhu Niang-niang's [Princess] attention.”
”Who is your honorable father?” Zhao Min asked further, ”The daughter is this good, your father and mother must be world famous masters.”
”My father has buried his name and lives in seclusion,” Xiao Zhao replied, ”Why did Junzhu bother to ask? Could it be that you are going to cut my fingers to force me to show you my martial art?” She was young, but surprisingly did not show the slightest degree of submission toward Zhao Min. By bringing up the finger cutting affair, it was obvious that she was trying to incite Zhou Zhiruo's anger; pulling her to her side to face a common enemy.
Zhao Min simply smiled; she turned her head toward Zhang Wuji and said, ”Zhang Gongzi, that night we met at the small inn in Dadou for the second time, Ku Toutuo Fan Yao came to take his leave from me. When he saw Miss Xiao Zhao, he said two sentences; what were those?”
Zhang Wuji had already forgotten this matter; now that she brought it up, he had to think for a moment before answering, ”Ku Dashi [Reverend Ku] seemed to say that Xiao Zhao's appearance looks very much like someone he knew.”
”Correct!” Zhao Min said, ”Can you guess to whom did Ku Dashi think Miss Xiao Zhao look like?”
”How can I guess?” Zhang Wuji said.
Throughout this discussion, the small boat was approaching the LingSheIsland. They that saw a row of ships were moored on the west of the Island; there was a large red blazing fire painted on each one of their main sails, there was also a black ribbon hanging from each sail. Zhang Wuji wrinkled his eyebrows and said, ”The Persian Central Cult dispatches their armada; the number of people coming in must be a lot.”
Zhao Min said, ”Let us take this boat to the back of the island and land on a secluded place. Don't let them see us yet.”
”Yes!” Zhang Wuji nodded his head.