Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 173 Xuanyuan Hidden Clan (7)

On the ancient road, two fast horses galloped along the path.

"Master, please rest for a while, you haven’t closed your eyes for three days," Xuefei caught up to his master from behind and called out loudly.

"No need, we’ll be at Zhangzhou Prefecture soon, I can rest once we arrive," said Jueqing, anxious to reach their destination, which was less than a hundred miles away.

As the horses’ hooves thundered past, they kicked up a dust cloud, and finally, before dawn, they arrived outside the gates of Zhangzhou Prefecture.

"Master, drink some water, find a place to freshen up, and change your clothes," Xuefei said upon seeing his master’s sunken eyes, bloodshot from lack of sleep and a beard that had grown over the last three days without a change of clothes, looking completely disheveled.

Jueqing looked down at himself, indeed not a spot was clean. After handing his horse to a guard, he vanished with a flicker, and by the time he returned, he was dressed anew.

As the city gates slowly opened, Jueqing and Xuefei were the first to enter the city, mounting their horses and heading straight for the manor bought by Feng Xuxu, their excitement growing as the manor loomed closer.

"Miss, Jueqing has arrived," Baihe entered the room to find the young miss awake, she said, setting down the washing water.

"Why has he come?" After getting dressed and freshening up, Xuxu let Baihe comb her hair into a simple hairstyle before proceeding to the front courtyard.

"What’s happened to you?" asked Feng Xuxu, surprised as she saw Jueqing looking nothing like his usual dashing self. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

"Xuxu, I have something to discuss privately with you," he said, inviting her indoors, then standing beside her to speak.

"What’s so secretive that it needs to be discussed in private?" she laughed nonchalantly.

"Have them leave, this concerns your mother," Jueqing said seriously, so she turned and ordered everyone in the room to go out.

Squinting and with an unfriendly countenance, she warned Jueqing, "If you dare to use my late mother’s name in vain, beware that you won’t leave this room today!" With a wave of her hand, petals flew toward a vase in the corner, shattering it on impact.

"I had no idea your martial arts skills would become so profound after a few months," Jueqing said in amazement, wondering if this was the same Xuxu he had known before.

"Speak, what about my mother?" she sat in the Taishi Chair, waiting for Jueqing to tell her about her mother.

"Your mother was called Xuanyuan Huihui; she was my aunt and also the Holy Maiden of the Xuanyuan Hidden Clan. She was expelled from the clan for violating clan rules," Jueqing said, looking at Feng Xuxu on the chair, noticing she showed no emotion and he sighed internally.

"Grandmother is very ill now. The Divine Doctor has declared she won’t last the month... Grandmother hopes to see her niece and you before she passes," he said, bending over in the chair with his face buried in his arms, distressed by the thought of his grandmother’s condition.

Feng Xuxu still couldn’t believe that her mother was the Holy Maiden mentioned by Jueqing since she had never heard of the Hidden Clan.

"What evidence do you have that my mother is your aunt?" Seeing Jueqing’s melancholic aura, she couldn’t help but feel a pang of sorrow herself.

"You should have a hairpin that matches this one. When the two are brought together, they can prove you’re the one I’m looking for. Plus, you look very much like my aunt when she was young, even more beautiful," he said as he handed over the item and then sat back down in his chair.

Looking at the half of a phoenix tail in her hand and realizing she had the phoenix head, she covertly took her own hairpin from its space. Once the two pieces touched, they transformed into a complete phoenix.

"Can you believe me now?" he asked, his eyes full of hope as he looked at Feng Xuxu.

"Even so, what does it matter? My mother has been dead for a long time," she said, putting down the hairpin and looking at Jueqing.