Chapter 1381: Sixth Aunt-in-Law’s Mourning

Yun Cang shook his head slightly: “No clue. The matter of Suisui is beyond human intervention. Kuo’er, you should set off!”

“Ah…”

Yun Kuo was caught off guard, wondering why his father suddenly wanted him to leave home.

“Go to the Capital City and represent me in visiting your aunt. If she has any wishes, help her fulfill them as much as possible.”

“Ah…”

Yun Kuo inexplicably felt a sense of panic arise within him.

So he hurriedly asked: “Why doesn’t Father go himself? After all, your cultivation is…”

“I have my reasons for sending you. Hurry up and set off! If you’re late, it will delay important matters!”

Yun Cang urged, and with that, he turned and went inside the house, not giving Yun Kuo a chance to object.

Yun Kuo, with no other choice, obediently left.

By the time he arrived in the Capital City, it was already the cold winter season. Snowflakes as big as goose feathers were falling from the sky, and the streets were bustling with people. The water in the open-air tea tents was boiling noisily, and a storyteller was narrating tales about the Little Lucky Star. Somehow, the news leaked that Xiaosuisui was once a wild girl from the countryside and that she had lived a life of unbearable hardship, even suffering abuse, in her original family.

The storyteller, when recounting the hardships, gnashed his teeth in anger.

But when he spoke of how Suisui brought good fortune to people, his smile widened to almost reach his ears.

Yun Kuo ordered a bowl of tea and listened as the storyteller said, “No wonder the current Emperor bestows such love on our Princess Chang Rongshun, the Princess Shunhe. One must know she is our Great Han’s Little Lucky Star! Just think about the current state of our Great Han.

Now our Great Han has united five nations! The world is at peace!

Ladies and gentlemen, consider this: since ancient times, the land has been fractured and divided. Has any king from any nation been able to achieve the ambition of uniting the world?”

“Oh yes! There’s much to say about that. The world had been fragmented for thousands of years until a little over thirty years ago, when our Great Han saw the rise of a War God General. He vanquished many small states, assisted the late emperor, and strengthened the borders, rendering immeasurable merit for our Great Han. By the way, wasn’t this War God General from the Ji Mansion, the old General Ji?

Alas! It’s a pity. Rumor has it that over ten years ago, old General Ji died in a foreign land while chasing a traitor. Otherwise, our Great Han would have unified the world long ago!”

The patrons sipping tea inside the tea tent chimed in with the conversation, sighing twice when lamenting came to that point!

“Oh my, dear patron, you only know part of it without understanding the whole. It’s said that indeed, old General Ji was pursuing a traitor when he perished in a foreign land, but that’s not the whole truth!”

“Ah! Is there perhaps a hidden story? Sir, do you know what the hidden story is?”

Someone loudly asked.

“There is indeed a hidden story! You may not know this, but my ninth grandmother had a nephew, and this nephew had another nephew who worked at the Ji Mansion. According to that nephew of my ninth grandmother’s nephew, just a few months ago, the War God of our Great Han, old General Ji… returned!!”

With a clattering sound, the tea bowl in Yun Kuo’s hand fell to the ground and shattered.

The onlookers around couldn’t help but turn their heads to look at him, making him somewhat uneasy under their gaze.

Yun Kuo quickly stood up, apologized to the shop owner, and hastily offered silver before leaving the tea tent.

Once outside the tea tent, Yun Kuo was filled with uncertainty. The matter of Uncle’s return was supposedly not to be announced publicly, but now the storyteller in the tea tent was proclaiming it so loudly. Is this the Ji Family’s intention, or has something happened unbeknownst to him?

With doubts in his heart, he headed to the Ji Mansion. At that time, snowflakes drifted everywhere, and thick snow covered the whole of the Capital City. The gates of the Ji Family were usually guarded by gatekeepers, yet today not a single person was present.

Yun Kuo initially thought of entering uninvited and flying directly to Ji Youzhi’s courtyard to find him, but this was after all his aunt’s home, and entering without using the main entrance was quite impolite. So he approached and knocked on the door.

After knocking for a long time, a person finally rushed out hurriedly from inside.

“Coming, coming, who’s there? Not staying comfortably at home in this heavy snowfall, running here for what?”

The servant who came to open the door mumbled, and upon seeing, “Cousin, Cousin Young Master! Why have you come? Quickly come in, look at this, such heavy snow and this bad weather, why didn’t you choose a nicer day?”