"Of course!" Sima Yongheng said. After that, he put on a pitiful look and looked up at her. "Xuan Jie Jie, by asking this, do you not want to take me with you?"
Wei Shuxuan couldn't help feeling that she had taken in a really troublesome person.
She rubbed her forehead and looked at Sima Yongheng, who was looking at her pitifully. "I don't mean that. I just want to know if you're sure you want to come with me. After all, we've only just met. If you don't want to come with us, I won't force you."
Sima Yongheng shook his head. "No, there's definitely no such thing! I'm very willing to hit the road with Xuan Jie Jie and Brother Wei. At least... I don't have to beg around anymore."
Looking at Sima Yongheng's sad face, Wei Shuxuan rolled her eyes. "What about your family?"
"I used to rely on my mother. But she died of a serious illness six years ago. Then I had to beg on the streets by myself."
"What a poor child," Wei Shuxuan stroked Sima Yongheng's head. "Your mother? What about your father? Don't you have any other relatives?"
Wei Shuxuan followed up on Sima Yongheng's words, but he shook his head. "I don't know. My mother never told me anything about my father or if I had other relatives. All she left me was a jade pendant."
"Jade pendant?" Wei Shuxuan was stunned when she heard these two words. She remembered that Xin Zizhao also had a mutton - fat white jade pendant carved with dragon patterns. Could it be that the jade pendant left by Sima Yongheng's mother was the one with dragon patterns?
"Yeah."
Children's minds are not as complicated as adults'. No matter how vigilant they are, they can't help but let their guards down when they meet someone kind to them.
Watching Sima Yongheng take out the jade pendant hanging around his neck from his collar, Wei Shuxuan found that the jade pendant in front of her was different from the one she saw on Xin Zizhao.
Sima Yongheng's jade pendant was a special purple color. It wasn't carved with dragon patterns, but some very special patterns. It looked a bit like characters, but if they were characters, she couldn't understand what they were at all. If it was a flower pattern, it was somewhat similar.
Wei Shuxuan glanced at Wei Wei, who gently shook his head. If even Wei Wei couldn't understand it, there was no way she could.
"Yongheng, put your jade pendant away. Don't let others see it, okay?" Wei Shuxuan whispered to Sima Yongheng.
"Okay, Xuan Jie Jie."
After seeing Sima Yongheng put away the jade pendant, Wei Shuxuan urged the two of them to finish their breakfast quickly. They were about to hit the road.
"Yongheng, I left my bag in my room. Could you go and get it for me?"
Wei Shuxuan realized she had forgotten to bring her bag downstairs after breakfast. She didn't originally plan to ask Sima Yongheng to get it, but she had something to ask Wei Wei, and it wasn't convenient to do so with Sima Yongheng around.
"Sure."
Watching Sima Yongheng trotting upstairs, Wei Shuxuan held her chopsticks, not looking up or making eye contact with Wei Wei. "Wei Wei, do you know the origin of that jade pendant?"
"I'm very sorry, Miss. I really don't know the origin of the patterns on the jade pendant. But purple jade is a unique mineral in Qiangfeng Kingdom. I think this Sima Yongheng may be related to Qiangfeng Kingdom."
"Really?" Wei Shuxuan didn't think so. Although the three men didn't reveal the real identity of the boy last night, from their words, it could be heard that they didn't know the boy was related to Qiangfeng Kingdom. They were just ordered to capture the boy and report back.
"What do you think, Miss?" Wei Wei noticed that Wei Shuxuan's expression was a bit different.
"I think the person related to Qiangfeng Kingdom is Yongheng's mother. After all, the jade pendant was left to him by his mother, and Yongheng was only nine or ten years old at that time. Maybe they left Qiangfeng Kingdom even earlier."
Wei Shuxuan picked up a shrimp dumpling and ate it with relish. "Let's not dig too deep into this. We'll figure it out eventually."
The sound of footsteps clattering downstairs came into their ears. Sima Yongheng came over with Wei Shuxuan's bag. Seeing Wei Shuxuan and Wei Wei still eating breakfast on the table, he asked, "Haven't you finished yet?"
"We need a bit more time. We can't waste food, Yongheng. You too. Hurry up and sit down to eat."
"Okay."
Since Sima Yongheng didn't know how to ride a horse, Wei Shuxuan thought it was useless to buy another horse. They could buy one after he learned how to ride. It was better for Wei Wei to take him on his horse.
"Yongheng, you can share a horse with Wei Wei. Brother Wei will protect you well."
"Huh? Why can't I share a horse with Xuan Jie Jie?" Sima Yongheng looked at Wei Shuxuan innocently.
"Are you stupid? There should be propriety between men and women. Haven't you heard that? If you were five or six years younger, I might consider it."
Wei Shuxuan looked at Sima Yongheng with amusement. Although Sima Yongheng was a bit disappointed, he still obediently got on Wei Wei's horse.
When the three men woke up in the morning, they found the sack was gone.
"Damn it! We've been tricked! Tian Wu, were you discovered?" The man in the round hat looked angrily at the man who was responsible for capturing Sima Yongheng.
"No! Big Brother Tian Yuan! I'm innocent! When I came back, the people in Bird - Cry Town were already sound asleep!" Tian Wu shouted his innocence.
"What should we do now?" the man with an eye patch asked.
"Go back and tell the master first, and then see what the master decides."
"Yes, Big Brother!" The two men replied in unison.
Before setting off, the man called Big Brother Tian Yuan sent a message to their master with a carrier pigeon. The man with an eye patch asked worriedly, "Big Brother Tian Yuan, will the master really not blame us for this?"
"There's nothing we can do about it, Tian Wen. We don't know who took that kid away."
Tian Yuan felt really annoyed just thinking that the prey that was about to be caught had been snatched away. A cold chill came from his black eyes under the brim of his hat, which made Tian Wu and Tian Wen extremely scared.
In the palace, because the bride disappeared on the second day of the wedding, Ge Long'an almost turned the palace upside down.
"I don't care. I want my god - daughter to come out and see me!" Ge Long'an started to throw a tantrum.
Xin Zizhao walked out from the inner room. "General Long'an really has a lot of energy. How dare you throw a tantrum in the emperor's palace?"