"There's a path!" Niannian's eyes suddenly lit up.
Discovering a path here was enough to prove how insincere that woman was in her supposed gratitude.
"That auntie is so mean. She didn't even give us a single hint," Niannian pouted and complained.
"Right, she's really bad. She even deceived our little Niannian. After we get out, Senior Brother will avenge you," Shen Weixun said with a smile as he stroked Niannian's head.
He had already made arrangements. He guessed that the woman must be in a complete mess outside by now.
...
In the Hu Family Mansion, an old man with white hair and beard was sitting in the main seat. He was dressed in a tailcoat and wore white gloves. Every move he made exuded elegance.
This was the butler grandpa of the Shen Family.
He was sitting in the main seat, sipping tea, while the woman, the head of the Hu Family, was sitting below, wearing a fawning smile.
"I assure you that they will never get close to the dangerous core. The entrance to that place is very well - hidden. One has to put in a lot of effort to find it. I've already sent people to look for them. As soon as they're found, I'll bring them back immediately. And the Soul - Reviving Grass that I promised the young Taoist friend before will surely be presented with both hands," the woman said with a fawning smile, her eyebrows lowered and her posture extremely humble.
Her face was almost stiff from smiling.
Who could have thought that the seemingly imposing child was actually the head of the prestigious Shen Family in the imperial capital?
Although the Hu Family was a family of metaphysics, they still had to make a living in the mortal world. Especially since they had to support such a large family and maintain the dignity of a noble family, money was needed everywhere.
They had to do business and negotiate cooperation. Everyone in the business circle knew about the Shen Family.
They had heard that the new head of the Shen Family was quite young recently. But they could never have imagined that the new head of the Shen Family would be a twelve - or thirteen - year - old boy!
It was as absurd as a genius who got a Harvard doctorate before the age of ten and then became the world's richest man a few years later.
Originally, there was no connection between the Hu Family and the Shen Family. One was mainly in the business circle, and the other was mainly in the metaphysics circle.
When they met, they would just greet each other. If there was cooperation, it would be great to talk about it. There was no question of who was superior or inferior.
But the problem was that she had stupidly lured the head of the Shen Family to such a dangerous place.
A place where one could lose their life at any moment.
If she caused the death of the new head of the Shen Family, who was also the only direct heir, the Shen Family would surely mobilize the entire family to attack the Hu Family.
The Shen Family might not have many people with metaphysical skills, but they had money. They could crush the Hu Family with money.
The woman now regretted it so much that she could chew her own intestines. But it was too late to say anything now.
She could only be grateful that in order to prevent the two children from really getting the Soul - Reviving Grass, she had deliberately not told them the real entrance.
As long as they didn't step into that place, there was still room for maneuver. After all, there was no danger in the outer area. Even if there was, with the skills of those two kids, they could surely solve it easily.
"Our family head took the position at the age of twelve. He didn't live in the Shen Family for five or six years and was practicing outside.
Our family head has a strong personality and is very smart. He learns everything quickly and wants to be the best at everything. I believe that even if you don't say anything, our family head can find things out by himself," the butler grandpa clearly didn't buy the woman's words.
While boasting about Shen Weixun, he was also warning the woman.
Their family head was the best! It didn't matter how well - hidden the place was. With their family head's intelligence, any mechanism was just useless.
"I know that anyone who can become the head of the Shen Family is extraordinary. But the younger generation of our Hu Family is not very talented in finding people. You're also not willing to tell me the family head's birth date. We can only use the most stupid method to look for them. We've already been very fast..."
The butler grandpa didn't want to play word games with the woman. He cleared his throat and interrupted her.
Every word he said was blunt and merciless.
"Why should I tell you his birth date? You dared to lure our family head to such a place. Who knows what you'll do after getting his birth date? Although I don't know much about these supernatural things, I still have a sense of awe.
The Hu Family is specialized in metaphysics, right? It's so difficult for you to even find a person. Is there any need for such a family to exist? The metaphysics circle should be for the capable, shouldn't it? How can the Hu Family still rank third?
If your younger generation is useless, don't you have any elders? Or is even you, the family head, useless?"
The implication was that he wanted the woman to go and look for them herself.
The butler grandpa had been maintaining this attitude since he arrived.
He had received a text message from Shen Weixun.
The content of the text message was: The Hu Family in the East City went back on their word and lured Niannian and me into a dangerous situation. There might be a life - threatening danger. Don't let the head of the Hu Family go.
When he received this text message, he almost jumped out of his house.
He rushed here without stopping. On the way, he started to check Shen Weixun's itinerary in the past few days and found out everything about the metaphysics exchange conference clearly. This naturally included the fact that the Hu Family had gone back on their word during the feng shui competition.
The last sentence of Shen Weixun was very clear.
Since the Hu Family had made things difficult for him and Niannian, the Shen Family would make things difficult for the Hu Family.
In this day and age, money could make the world go round. No matter how many underhanded means the Hu Family had, they couldn't compete with the power of money.
"I was injured before and haven't fully recovered..."
The woman's face changed, and she opened her mouth to defend herself, but once again, she didn't finish her sentence.
"As far as I know, our family head was also seriously injured by your family's kids, right? He just got better and then went to your so - called forbidden area," the butler grandpa retorted, leaving her speechless.
That teenage boy was injured by the Hu Family's unethical behavior just a short time ago. Not long after he was cured, he went to the dangerous forbidden area because the Hu Family had gone back on their word and didn't want to give out the Soul - Reviving Grass.
No matter how you looked at it, it was the Hu Family that had behaved badly. How could she use her physical weakness as an excuse?
"You have one hour. I can tolerate you for at most one hour. If I still don't see the family head after one hour, Hu Jinmei, you'll see the consequences," the butler grandpa's eyes suddenly became extremely sharp. The coldness in his eyes made one's scalp tingle.
"Although I'm just a butler, I still have some say. I hope the head of the Hu Family won't test my patience. Although the old master has been in good spirits and has a better temper these years, it still depends on the matter. Do you understand?"