Chapter 25 The Old Mansion (1) Up

  No matter how reluctant or unwilling, Ao Yuan's decisions are basically unchangeable. Xia Yifei almost used up all his strength to try and change his decision to go to the old mansion together, but every method ended in failure.

  When the last effort also ended in failure with a perfect period, Xia Yu Fei could only hang his head and walk out the door with Ao Yuan: "Damn it, why didn't you die from being bitten by that stupid dog?! How am I supposed to explain this to Old Man now?!"

  Ao Yuan looked at her with a rather strange expression, and Xiaoyan saw that look and almost wished she could drive directly into the roadside utility pole to knock herself out: "Do I have to say that this is the local specialty I brought back from my trip? This explanation seems pretty good."

  Based on this sentence, Ao Yuan also knew that this guy was probably stimulated and started to indulge in self-destruction: "Is it really that hard to tell the truth?"

  "Difficult?" Xia Yu Fei heard this and laughed, "Not difficult at all, just a matter of the upper lip touching the lower lip. But after saying that, I estimate I'll be considered crazy."

  Xia Yanfei has not explained to Ao Yuan until now why she did not directly reveal his identity, and she does not know how to explain to this Qinglong God who has spanned so many years the era of missing faith.

  In this world, she is clearer than ever that the so-called gods are no longer believed in and worshiped by people like they were in the era of Ao Yuan, while those objects carrying history are uniformly labeled as antiques, either being priced for auction or stuck with a cold label under the dim light of a museum, silently watching people come and go.

  Xia Yifei couldn't be clearer, nor more understanding, because there are many things that she has seen turn from the vessels of history into commodities tainted with the stench of copper.

  But she never felt guilty about it.

  Her slender fingers tapped the steering wheel in rhythm with the music, no longer responding to Ao Yuan's question: "Do you have any leads on that curse?"

  Ao Yuan didn't dwell on the initial question either, because he found that Xia Yifei obviously didn't want to continue with this topic: "What's the story behind the dragon pattern on the knife in your study?"

  "I didn't expect that Ao Yuan would bring up the fact that Xia Yu Fei's family crest is a dragon pattern. My family, as well as the Fang and Lan families, and even the Zhang family from Xiangxi, all use this as our emblem."

  At this point, Xia Yifei had nothing to hide. The items that the four families brought out, whether genuine or fake, would all have this dragon pattern in a hidden place. Only those who were truly from the Taoist community knew how intimidating it was to bring out this dragon pattern.

  And their hidden dragon-like techniques are also extremely ingenious, unless they are specifically pointed out, no one can see that these things still carry them.

  "That's the yin-yang dragon pattern, it's the yin-yang dragon jade." Ao Yuan frowned and leaned against the carriage seat, saying, "If I'm not mistaken, the dragon pattern on your knife is the grain of yang jade, which explains why you have yang jade on you."

  "But that pattern has been used for more than one generation......" As she said this, Xia Yanyi suddenly remembered the past that only the patriarch and the next patriarch of the four families could know. She wasn't without doubts about how the four major families came into being, everything she could understand seemed to indicate that the four major families appeared overnight and suppressed others.

  Xia Yifei felt as if she had fallen into a bottomless whirlpool, everything familiar seemed to have changed and was now surrounded by sinister and cunning smiles that were rapidly rotating around her, she couldn't catch her breath and didn't know what was true and what was false.

  He seemed to know what she was thinking and gently patted her shoulder: "I'm here."

  I am here, no matter where you go, whether it's up the mountain or down to the sea, no matter where you are, no matter what you see is true or false, I am here, by your side.