18 Blooming Phoenix Courtyard - 5.2 (1/2)

”The courtyard that has been prepared is the Blooming Phoenix Courtyard.”

When Fan Li Jie heard this, his grip on his cousin's hand tightened momentarily before it relaxed as if nothing happened.

Having felt his reaction, Fan Zhu Xia's interest was piqued, after all, from what she observed from Fan Li Jie before, her cousin seemed to be usually aloof and indifferent with a stoic demeanor and for her to get so many reactions from him, she really had to put in an effort yet when he heard Grandpa Guo say that she'll be staying in this particular courtyard, he reacted to it. Although his reaction was subtle and hard to discern, Fan Zhu Xia was able to notice because he was holding on to her hand.

Just what was special with this Blooming Phoenix Courtyard anyway?

Despite her growing curiosity, Fan Zhu Xia refrained herself from asking and instead surveyed their surroundings.

Indeed the Fan family residence was quite vast and magnificent, truly deserving to be otherwisely known as the Lei Palace.

It had numerous flowering gardens which pathways wound about leading to different courtyards, buildings and grounds which made everything interesting.

As they went to the inner part of the residence, they passed several smaller courtyards and Fan Li Jie opened his mouth and started talking while pointing to them.

”There are different courtyards here and if you look closer, you'll actually be able to tell. The ones with more elaborately decorated arches are usually prepared for guests and any unexpected visitors from noble families while the simpler ones are usually courtyards that we prepare for those who have simpler tastes or the army officers who come by to stay for a bit since the simpler courtyards have bigger spaces inside that's big enough to train in.”

Humming her acknowledgement, Zhu Xia turned to gaze at whichever direction Li Jie was pointing at while Guo Ji just silently walked in front with a faint smile on his face.

”Xia'er, do you see that building over there?”

”En... What's it for Big Brother?”

”That's one of the buildings where we store our weapons. It serves as our main armory while the other building we have which also contains some weaponry is located on the other side of the residence and is also our weapon smithery.”

”You have your own smithery?” Zhu Xia asked with a mixture of wonder and amazement.

”Mhmm, yes we do. We also have a rather sizeable courtyard where our head doctor stays with his two disciples that serves as our infirmary. Their courtyard even has it's own herb garden that they tend to, it's where our family usually gets its supply of medicinal herbs.”

”Really?”

Noticing her interest, Fan Li Jie nodded once and shot her a glance as he replied, ”Yes. Would you like to go and drop by later?”

”Oh can we Big Brother? Can we?” Zhu Xia asked with excitement, her eyes glittering as she looked at him.