Judging from the temperament of the Zhu family elders, their intentions were likely twofold: first, to force her to return home and be punished; and second, to arrange a marriage for her, using the marriage agreement to control her.
The other Zhu Yis are not afraid of anything from the Zhu family, but the fact that there is a Zhu Yi nameplate in the Zhu family ancestral hall is a more troublesome matter.
Zhu Yi wants to get her designer brand back.
She also wanted to visit the Foundation Establishment inheritance site. Zhu Yi was now mischievously wondering if she could obtain the inheritance from the Zhu family's proud inheritance site.
She was particularly eager to see what Zhu Qianying, who had always bullied her, would look like then, and what the elders of the Zhu family, who had always ignored her, would say.
I'm overthinking it.
The atmosphere was a little awkward.
Mu Yu lowered his eyes and sipped his tea. On the tea table in front of him were snacks from Zhu Yi's stall: fried small fish served with tea, enough to fill you up and not make you hungry.
"What do you mean by this? How dare you treat someone from the Zhu family with such disrespect?"
"Where is the neglect?" Mu Yu, whose face was usually expressionless, now feigned ignorance. She glanced at the teacup in Zhu Zhanchang's hand and said, "We prepared tea and snacks for you, but you didn't want them, did you?"
Mu Yu was clearly downplaying the main issue.
"I said, I want to see someone in charge of things. The sect leader or an elder are fine with me, I'm not talking to a junior like you!"
Zhu Zhanchang's voice was cold and low, clearly indicating his dissatisfaction with Mu Yu's hospitality.
Mu Yu didn't indulge him and said calmly, "As I have already said, the sect elders are in seclusion and it is not appropriate for them to come out now. As the senior disciple of Tianlan Sect, I am the sect leader's first disciple and help the sect leader handle sect affairs. If the Zhu family has anything important to say, they can tell me."
As Mu Yu spoke, he took a clean handkerchief to wash his hands, and slowly chewed the small fried fish in his mouth.
His polite yet slightly disrespectful demeanor was simply... incredibly cool!
Zhu Yi, ever the sycophant, took out some newly developed cookies from the jade food box and placed them in front of Mu Yu.
She gave him a fawning smile that Mu Yu understood, but her face remained calm and composed.
Zhu Zhanchang was furious! It was one thing that he didn't have much of a chance to show off when he was at home, but now that he was out here and about to deal with his own family, there were people who couldn't stand in his way.
Can't he still show off the Zhu family's power outside?
"What? My Zhu family is the second most powerful family in the cultivation world, yet we can't even get an audience with the sect leader of your mere Tianlan Sect?"
...
Zhu Yi was getting restless. She wondered why the Zhu family had sent out such a thing? And was it the guardian brother of her biological father?
According to seniority, should Zhu Yi call this idiot "uncle"?
Looking at the stupid look on the other side, I just couldn't bring myself to yell at them.
This time, Mu Yu truly displayed the demeanor of a senior disciple of a sect. He calmly sipped his tea without even raising his eyelids, and with just one sentence, he reignited Zhu Zhanchang's anger to its extreme: "Yes."
"Pfft! Heh... Sorry, I couldn't help it." Zhu Yi spat out her tea before she could even swallow it. Really... it was too pathetic to act like this in front of the Zhu family.
This is not presentable, and I feel a bit embarrassed.
"Zhu Yi, what kind of upbringing is this!" Zhu Luoying mocked. "Like father, like son! Your senior brother is unreasonable, and you're just as rude as a wild girl!"
"I was abandoned by the Zhu family. What kind of upbringing do you expect me to have? What kind of upbringing can compare to the two of you, father and daughter, eating and drinking loudly and behaving with such manners in our sect?"
"I'm speechless. Didn't you two hear what my senior brother said? Our masters are in seclusion and it's inconvenient for them to come out and see you. He's in charge of the sect's affairs, so just tell him what's on your mind!"
"It's you two who are like you don't have ears, the wicked accuse the guilty first, and keep finding fault with everything."
"Enough!" Zhu Zhan slammed his hand on the table, the prominent veins on his forehead indicating his anger. He hadn't expected the seemingly weak and submissive concubine's daughter to be so stubborn. "You unfilial daughter! Such lack of manners is a disgrace to the Zhu family! Hurry up and come back to the Zhu family to accept your punishment!"
Two guards in blue stepped forward, standing on either side of Zhu Yi, clearly intending to make a move.
Mu Yu didn't tolerate them. He flicked two chess pieces from between his fingers, one on each of their knees. The two guards immediately knelt down on one knee, and two gasps of shock echoed in Zhu Yi's ears.
Zhu Yi raised an eyebrow; this was the first time she had ever seriously seen her senior brother teach someone a lesson!
"It's not up to outsiders to make a move within the sect."
Mu Yu looked directly at the seven or eight members of the Zhu family and said coolly, "Junior Sister is a disciple personally taught by Master Yujing. She has performed the apprenticeship ceremony and drunk the apprenticeship tea. Within the sect, apart from Master Yujing, no one can easily decide Junior Sister's whereabouts or whereabouts."
Her two sentences were forceful and showed no regard for the Zhu family. Zhu Yi was secretly pleased. Seeing the Zhu family unhappy made her happy. After all, the original Zhu Yi had a tragic childhood.
Unloved by her father and mother, and bullied by her elder sister and stepmother, she also had to be mindful of the Zhu family servants' moods when eating. It was already the limit for that tragic little girl to live to the age of eight and survive until she could go to the Hehuan Sect to become an apprentice.
No, let's change our perspective. The original owner, Zhu Yi, is actually the other half of himself in the cultivation world!
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