Chapter 24 Could this be Youyou’s father?
Mu Weiting saw that her fingers were still pressing hard against the incision of the empty potion, and worried that she would be scratched, so he gently took the empty potion from her hand and put it back on the table.
"You Qing, this potion was one of the things you asked me to keep. At that time..." Mu Weiting said, looking at the golden little fur ball in her arms, "You wanted to go into seclusion to concentrate on hatching Shang You. When you gave it to me, you only asked me to keep it safe and didn't tell me anything else."
Shang Youqing stared at the senior brother in front of him, but did not give up. "Senior brother just said that this potion is just one of the things to be kept. So, senior brother also kept other things, right?"
Maybe among the other things there are clues to the information about the human she slept with.
Just as Lu Jingchi said, she really couldn't understand herself back then.
She considers herself to be efficient.
Since she couldn't control herself and broke the rules, she had already slept with him. As the phoenix god on Wutong Mountain, she could afford to sleep with him. At most, she would give humans the gifts and rewards they deserved after sleeping with them. There was no reason for her to get involved with others.
Why did she forget everything that happened when she came down the mountain after the retreat? There was not even a trace left of the human being she had slept with?
She didn't think it was a big deal at first, and she hadn't even taken this little thing to heart in the past three years.
But the current situation is that this forgotten human being is closely related to the safety of her baby.
She could no longer put her baby's life in unknown danger.
This is the first time that the baby has shed her tail as a little phoenix. Fortunately, her senior brother has kept this potion containing the baby's biological father's blood for her, so that the baby can successfully survive the danger of her first tail shedding.
What about next time?
Before reaching adulthood, Shangyou will have to go through several more molting processes.
Since a phoenix must be fed with blood from its parents to successfully survive its first molting, Shang You must also need the comfort and companionship of her parents every time she molts before the end of her childhood, so that her feathers will not be in such burning pain as this time, and her life will not be in danger at one point.
That is to say, before the baby really grows up, before the baby is able to temper the shed tail on his own, she must find the human she slept with that year, no matter what, to ensure that the baby can safely go through every shed tail in the future.
Mu Weiting looked at her for a moment and was very clear about her determination at the moment.
"Come with me."
Mu Weiting took off his white protective suit and took Shang Youqing back to his family compound.
As soon as he entered the room, Mu Weiting noticed that little Shang Youyou had fallen asleep in Shang Youqing's arms, curled up in her golden feathers that had transformed into something even more fluffy and beautiful. He then opened the guest room door and said, "Youqing, let Youyou sleep in here for a while. I'm going to the study."
Shang Youqing nodded: "Thank you for your hard work, Senior Brother."
When Mu Weiting came out of the study with something, Shang Youqing was already sitting in the living room waiting for him. When he saw him come out, his eyes were immediately fixed on the box in his hand.
Mu Weiting knew that she was anxious, so he gave it to her directly.
"Youqing, the things are here."
The box was an old-fashioned tin gift box. Shang Youqing couldn't wait to open it as soon as he took it.
Unexpectedly, there was only a plain circular ring inside.
Shang Youqing picked up the plain ring and looked at it for a while in confusion.
The surface of the plain ring was very rough and had not been polished, as if it was forged from some scrap copper and iron.
Shang Youqing quickly noticed something unusual. Three letters were engraved on the inside of the ring. "J, H, Z?"
Mu Weiting lowered his eyes to look at her and said calmly, "Could this be the abbreviation of Youyou's father's name?"
However, Shang Youqing stroked the inside of the ring and suddenly denied it the next second: "No."
She then looked up at Mu Weiting, "Brother, the ring has been tampered with."
The inside of the ring is severely worn, and by rubbing it with your fingertips, you can feel some slightly blurred indented marks on the characters. It is obvious that someone has deliberately erased the original appearance of the characters.
Mu Weiting's expression paused slightly, "Is that so?"
Shang Youqing nodded and basically concluded, "The original characters here were deliberately erased, and 'JHZ' was newly engraved."
Mu Weiting was silent for a moment, and explained softly: "You Qing, I have indeed never opened this box."
"Of course I don't mean to doubt my senior brother. He has helped me so much, and there is absolutely no reason for him to do this."
Shang Youqing pondered for a moment, then added, "Perhaps someone knew I had left my belongings with you, and guessed I might come back to retrieve them later. So, while you were away, they deliberately carved these letters to mislead me."
Mu Weiting stared at the circular ring in her hand for a long time before he said regretfully, "If that's the case, the clue is broken again."
"No, I'm not completely clueless." Shang Youqing turned the plain ring on his hand again, his attitude still very optimistic. "The material of this ring looks ordinary, but it is actually a relatively rare metal on the market. If my guess is correct, it should be forged from some rare gun parts."
At this point, Shang Youqing hummed and pondered, "Anyway, thank you, Senior Brother. I'll go back and investigate the rest myself. It shouldn't be difficult to find."
As the two were talking, they suddenly heard the anxious cry of the little Fengchu baby in his sleep from the guest room.
“Chirp, chirp…”
Mu Weiting: "I guess it's because Youyou just finished her first tail molt and her condition is not very stable yet. She needs Youqing to accompany her at all times."
Shang Youqing put away the ring and nodded, "Well, then I'll go into the house and accompany the baby first. Brother, call me if you need anything."
Mu Weiting nodded in agreement and watched Shang Youqing walk into the guest room. He stood there in silence for a long time before turning around and walking out of the house. He closed the door, took out his cell phone, and made a call to faraway North America.
After a long waiting tone, the call was finally connected, but apart from the heavy breathing, no other sound came in.
Outside the railing of the corridor was lush greenery. Mu Weiting took his hand out of his coat pocket, holding a cigarette between his white fingers. He slightly suppressed the restlessness in his eyes, looked ahead and said lightly.
"You know how smart You Qing is."
"I can't hide it from her for much longer. You should find a way to return home as soon as possible."
After saying that, Mu Weiting hung up the phone without waiting for the person on the other end to speak. Just as he was about to lower his head to light a cigarette, he suddenly remembered something, turned his head to look inside the door, and finally restrained himself and put the cigarette back into his pocket.
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