Chapter 60: The Two Immortals, Cloud Madam

  It wasn't until Yun Cong asked that he found out that the two young ladies of the Ning family each had two personal maidservants, who were all chosen by Old Lady Ning from good families and were of the same age as her daughters. They grew up with the two young ladies from a young age and were extremely close to them because they shared the responsibility of protecting the young ladies in times of crisis and often had to handle various tasks on their behalf in the Jianghu world, so their martial arts skills and literary talents were all top-notch after rigorous training.

  Later, Ning Xianzi married the sword god Shui Youhan, who appeared out of nowhere. The two fairy maidens also got married soon after to the young master of the Cloud family, Yun Leng. According to custom at that time, these four personal maids should have followed their masters and become concubines, but Shui Youhan was a strange person who only wanted Ning Yuemei, so one maid married Bei Shan Cang Feng and the other married Nan Gong Yin Hai. Later, Yun Leng also did the same thing, so Ning Yuting's two maids ended up marrying Dong Fang Sui Bo and Xi Men Wang Shan. This way, it was quite "fair", with each of the four major sword pavilions - East, South, West, and North - getting one family, no one losing out.

  Yun Cong pondered in his heart, this marriage seemed to be a deliberate arrangement, and he didn't know if the other party was willing or not - presumably the four masters should be happy, after all, a high-ranking personal maid with good looks and demeanor couldn't be done without. It's obvious that getting a wife with both good looks and demeanor without even trying isn't a bad thing. The main issue is whether these four maids are willing or not, how could they say that originally they had the opportunity to marry a better husband, but now it suddenly lowered their status... Of course, there are also benefits, after all, being promoted from a concubine to a formal wife isn't bad either. Isn't there a saying, "It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix"?

  Yun Cong didn't know about the past, so his guesses weren't very accurate. In fact, those four maidservants who claimed to be slaves were actually close friends with the two young ladies and had been handling many affairs on their behalf for a long time, and their actual status in the Jianghu was quite impressive. If they really didn't want to, they would never have "submitted" to the four masters.

  Of course, this is the previous talk, don't say much. Yun Zhēng mainly thought that Beishan Wuxue's mother was her aunt, and her aunt had passed away early, but her mother didn't seem to care about Jian Ge's affairs in the past... So why did her mother show the intention of adopting Beishan Wuxue as her goddaughter now?

  It's definitely not a bad thing, that's for sure. The attitude of taking Beishan Wuxue as a goddaughter is, no matter how you look at it, a kind of closeness or even fawning. And back then, the relationship between my mom and her sister was quite close, because Auntie's sudden death had caused some unpleasantness with Master, so it's clear that they wouldn't have any bad intentions towards Beishan Wuxue.

  Yun Cong was a bit confused for a moment, and since he didn't understand, he just let it be as long as it wasn't a bad thing. He continued to chat with his mom and Bei Shan Wuxue without a care, until Bei Shan Wuxue stood up to bid farewell.

  "No need to rush back to Hejian, Nai's mother has already arranged for a quiet and elegant courtyard to be cleaned up for you. You can stay there first, and I'll take care of sending word to your parents. Don't worry about these things." Cloud Madam said with a smile, taking North Mountain Wusuo's hand.

  Beishan Wuxue hesitated for a moment before nodding: "Alright, Aunt Ning. I'll listen to your instructions."

  "Look at you, child. What are you saying? Ning Yi likes you and lets you stay here to keep an eye on things from time to time. Does that count as an order?" Madam Yun said with feigned anger.

  "Alright, alright. Yun Xue has agreed, so let's get some rest early. These past few days have been tiring... Come to think of it, I haven't properly thanked Yun Xue yet. Next time, I'll definitely find an opportunity to express my gratitude."

  "General is being polite." Beishan Wuxue thanked him lightly and then said to Yun Furen, "Ning Auntie, I'll take my leave first."

  "Alright... Xiang Qin, take Wu Xue Miss to that small courtyard prepared for her and arrange for ten more servants to go over. Hmm, just arrange for maids and old ladies, don't send any men to avoid startling Miss, understand?"

  That clever and nimble Xiang Qin was originally a smart person, and the lady's arrangement had already treated this Beishan girl as her own daughter. She naturally wouldn't be slow to respond, and hurriedly led Beishan Wuxue away.

  The snow on the northern mountain had melted and gone far away, only then did Yun Furen look at Yun Qing and suddenly ask: "I heard that during this battle in Jiaxi Gou, you met a princess from Liao Guo?"

  Yun Cong's heart skipped a beat, and he thought to himself: Could it be that I performed too poorly in front of Xiao MM, and now my mom has an opinion about it and wants to settle the score?

  He hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "There is such a thing..."

  Yun Madam did not have the expected anger, but only furrowed her brow and asked: "Xiao Yun's daughter?"

  "Huh? Who is Xiao Yun?" Yun Zheng was taken aback.

  Madam Yun was taken aback, then said: "Xiao Jun is the younger sister of Empress Xiao of Liao. The number one beauty of Liao in those years. Don't you know even now?"

  "Oh, I see." Yun Zhuang wiped his sweat and said, "I just didn't know her name was Xiao Yun."

  "Hmm... his daughter... what do you think?"

  "What does this mean?" Yun Cong's eyes widened: "Uh, what's going on?"

  Madam Yun glared at him: "What else can be how, looks how, temperament how, character how!"

  "Hmm, about this matter..." Yun Ting was momentarily unclear about his mother's meaning. She shouldn't have any reason to care about the affairs of a Liao Kingdom princess, but she kept asking about it, and Yun Ting didn't dare speak rashly. He carefully said: "She looks good, has a gentle yet firm temperament, is clever, can take charge... As for her character, that's hard to say, but one thing's for sure, she's definitely someone who won't hesitate to deceive people."

  Yun Madam gazed at Yun Ting with a thoughtful expression, smiling as she said: "In the past, to deceive you, it would take someone like your master, a high-ranking martial artist, to come out and trick you. Now that Little Ting has grown up, it's easier for him to be deceived by pretty little girls?"

  Yun Teng's back of the head was sweating, and this old mother actually had the nerve to laugh at her own son like that. Luckily, he had a thick enough face not to blush too much, but still couldn't help but show a small red face as he bitterly smiled: "Mother... look at what you're saying, it's just one or two unexpected things."

  "Unexpected? Hmm, is that so? Then, can you guarantee that such unexpected things won't happen again when facing the lord of Qionghua in the future?" Madam Yun still wore a smile.

  "This...Xiao Qiong is a very astute person, and it's hard to guarantee that her son won't be the same." People with thick skin naturally have thick-skinned behavior, Yun Zhong didn't fall for it at all.

  However, Yún Fūrén had long expected this to be the case, and was not surprised. She didn't dwell on the issue either. Suddenly, her expression turned serious: "I just saw your father, what did he say, and what was his attitude like?"

  Needless to say, Mrs. Yun is going to start helping her son analyze his father's mindset again.

  Division line

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