Chapter 84 Ren Jiapei (2/2)

Now, Zhou Donghuang was already thinking about something else.

Earlier, the Ren family junior said that his young mistress had instructed them the day before to bring Yang Zixi to the receiving chamber and alert her to go over if Yang Zixi came looking for her?

This meant that Young Mistress Ren already knew since the day before that Yang Zixi would be expelled from the Ren family.

The young mistresses of the grand families who are usually so close to Zixi obviously also knew about this, which is why they instructed their family juniors in advance to turn Zixi away at the door.

Zhou Donghuang’s eyes narrowed at this thought. It’s that Patriarch Yang, could he have made arrangements with the daughters of the other grand families in advance for them not to take Zixi in?

Or could it be… the tycoon Shi family?

At this point, Zhou Donghuang could already make several intelligent guesses.

Huh?

Suddenly, with a slight movement of Zhou Donghuang’s ear, he heard the sound of hesitant footsteps drawing closer, and although they were still some distance away, he still managed to detect them.

This was the reward of practicing the Lord of the Four Supremes. While building up his store of qi, practicing the Lord of the Four Supremes also greatly increased the acuity of his eyesight and hearing.

Just as Zhou Donghuang was looking out of the receiving chamber.

“Sister Zixi!”

A crimson figure entered, accompanied by a melodious and delicate voice.

It was a young lady wearing a figure-hugging crimson outfit, about fifteen or sixteen years old, with an alluring figure. Her pretty face was captivating, as it seemed delicate and mature at the same time. This apparent contradiction gave the young lady an attractive sense of uniqueness.

“Sister Zixi, it’s been ten years, and you’ve grown even more beautiful.”

The young lady in crimson immediately came up to Zixi with a brilliant smile, two small dimples appearing intermittently, her gaze softening.

“You are… Sister Jiapei?”

Seeing the young lady in red, Yang Zixi’s expression froze. She could not reconcile the slender and elegant young lady with the alluring figure with the little girl from many years ago who cried so easily.

“What? Don’t you even recognize your sister?” Ren Jiapei asked with a smile.

“No… it’s just that, Sister Jiapei, you have changed so much.”

Yang Zixi gave a bitter smile.

“It has been ten years after all, big changes are normal. In the month since returning, my level of practice has been on the verge of a breakthrough, which is why I have not looked you up. I intended to do so after I had broken through.”

Ren Jiapei stopped there and hesitated, and a cold gleam flashed through her eyes. “But I never imagined that before I could break through, someone from the Shi family came looking for me, putting on the air of being a tycoon family and telling me politely but with an implied threat that if you were expelled from the Yang family, I must not take you in. At first, I thought that the patriarch of the Yang family could never expel you from the Yang family… but I never imagined that he would actually do it.”

As she finished, a hint of anger appeared on Ren Jiapei’s face. “From what I know, if your parents had not sacrificed their lives that year, he would have died at the hands of the bandits. What an ungrateful scoundrel!

“It appears that the Shi family has offered him substantial benefits.”

Ren Jiapei got angrier as she spoke.

However, when Ren Jiapei looked back at Yang Zixi, there was no trace of anger on her face. “Sister Zixi, from now on, the Ren family is your family, stay as long as you like… others may be afraid of the Shi family, but I, Ren Jiapei, am not afraid!”

“Many thanks to Sister Jiapei.”

Yang Zixi thanked her with an expression full of emotion.

“No need for thanks between us… that year, I would have been crushed by that carriage that suddenly appeared from nowhere if not for you.”

Ren Jiapei shook her head with a smile.

“Sister Jiapei, I don’t have to introduce Aunt Mei, you have met her in the past.”

Yang Zixi looked at Zhou Donghuang, and introduced him to Ren Jiapei. “This is Big Brother Zhou Donghuang, he is a medicine master, my first uncle…”

At this point, a pained look came over Yang Zixi’s face, and she corrected herself, “The poisoning that Patriarch Yang Yunji of the Yang family was suffering from was purged by Big Brother Zhou himself.”

“Big Brother Zhou.”

Ren Jiapei followed Yang Zixi in calling Zhou Donghuang “Big Brother,” and Zhou Donghuang, who was quite positively inclined towards Ren Jiapei, returned her greeting with a smile. “Young Mistress Ren.”

“Sister Zixi, this is not right.”

Ren Jiapei looked at Yang Zixi with a slight frown. “These two days, the news spreading in the Chu royal city is that… the poison that Patriarch Yang Yunji of the Yang family was suffering from was purged by one of the ten great medicine masters of the Chu royal city, Xiao Chen. That Medicine Master Xiao Chen’s stock has skyrocketed because of this, and he has already eclipsed the other nine of the ten great medicine masters in the Chu royal city because they had been helpless against the poison that Yang Yunji was suffering from,” Ren Jiapei said.

“It’s not like this!”

Yang Zixi shook her head. “My first… Xiao Chen had nothing to do with the poison that Yang Yunji was suffering from! I personally witnessed the whole process of detoxification, and only Big Brother Zhou was involved.”

“But… the news, many people have verified that it comes straight from the mouth of Patriarch Yang Yunji of the Yang family.”

Ren Jiapei knitted her eyebrows again. “One more thing… that Medicine Master Xiao Chen is now a part of the Shi family, and is now in service to the Shi family as their medicine master. Many people find this odd because previously, he refused to be a part of the Shi family when he was less renowned. Moreover, although the Shi family is a tycoon family, it is a tycoon family at the bottom of the hierarchy of tycoon families in the Chu royal city, where there is no shortage of tycoon families.”

As she finished, Ren Jiapei had a perplexed look on her face because it really did not make sense.

“Yang Yunji himself said that it was Xiao Chen who purged the poison from him?”

Yang Zixi’s expression changed completely.