The Tiger Tally must be quite important to Lu Baichuan. I wonder if there's any chance of exchanging the Tiger Tally for the Pangu Jade?
Just as he was considering these things, he suddenly heard the sound of a door closing behind him, and Jiang Jiuniang's impatient voice rang out from behind: "Have you seen enough? If you have, put it down."
Xun Yi was stunned, completely unaware of when Jiang Jiuniang had appeared beside him!
He turned his head and saw Jiang Jiuniang leaning against the door, arms crossed, looking at him with an impatient and disgusted expression.
"Lan Jiu, you..."
He opened his mouth, a chill running down his spine.
He thought he had hidden himself well enough and hadn't alerted anyone, but who would have thought that Lan Jiu had been following him all along!
"Stop with the 'you' and 'me' stuff. Tell me, what do you want the Pangu Jade for? What is the use of this thing that makes you go to such lengths and cause me trouble time and time again?"
Jiang Jiuniang sat down at the table with ease, poured herself a cup of tea, but didn't give Xunyi any.
Xun Yi knew that with Lan Jiu here, he couldn't take the tiger tally away today. He could only awkwardly put it back and said with an unnatural expression, "Of course, it's for the legendary treasure. I heard it's a huge fortune. Who wouldn't want it?"
Do I look like someone who's easily fooled?
Jiang Jiuniang was almost in no mood to deal with him anymore. She was already busy these past few days, and now she had to find time to deal with this annoying guy. It was no wonder she couldn't have any patience.
"If you tell the truth, I might let you go back; otherwise, don't blame me for not showing any mercy."
Jiang Jiuniang spoke casually, but she put invisible pressure on Xun Yi; she was serious.
Xun Yi knew he was no match for Jiang Jiuniang. If he didn't tell her, he would have a hard time leaving this door today. So he took a deep breath and said, "There are two jade pendants in the treasure trove. They are treasures of my Xun clan. I was ordered to come and retrieve them."
"How could the treasures of the Xun clan be in this ancient treasure trove? Are you kidding me?"
Jiang Jiuniang remembered the two missing jade pendants and instantly became interested.
It's quite strange that Xun Yi knew there was a jade pendant in the treasure.
Isn't this an ancient treasure?
Xun Yi was very proud: "Because that treasure was left by my Xun clan ancestor. Many years ago, my Xun clan ancestor was one of the first people to travel here. He created this world! It is clearly recorded in my Xun clan genealogy. The family heirloom jade pendant was hidden at that time. I came here this time to take the jade pendant back."
Jiang Jiuniang looked at him and saw that he was speaking very seriously, so she didn't expose him. Instead, she continued to ask, "Do you mean that you know the whereabouts of the treasure and that you only need the Pangu Jade to open it?"
Seeing that she believed him, Xun Yi nodded and said, "That's right, so the tokens from other countries are not important. As long as I have the Pangu Jade, I can open the treasure!"
In reality, this is also a lie; he hasn't even seen a trace of the treasure yet.
"Then tell me where the treasure is."
Jiang Jiuniang continued to ask, but Xun Yi did not intend to continue: "This is a treasure of my Xun clan, and I cannot let you know about it."
Jiang Jiuniang rolled her eyes: "I can cooperate with you. You take me to find the treasure, and I just want some gold and silver jewelry. You can take those two jade pendants with you, how about that?"
Xun Yi immediately became wary: "But you're not short of money."
Who would complain about having too much money?
That makes some sense, but why didn't he remember Lan Jiu being such a money-grubber before?
But if we could really cooperate to find the treasure as she suggested, it wouldn't be so bad.
"How's your consideration going?"
Jiang Jiuniang couldn't help but urge him on, and he nodded hesitantly.
"Then tell me, where is the treasure?"
Xun Yi shook his head: "I don't know the exact location, I only know it's in the mountains."
"So you just dug up graves all the way?"
Jiang Jiuniang was speechless, but she finally understood their original intention in digging up the grave.
She had initially thought there was some kind of conspiracy, but now it seems she had overestimated Xunyi.
Xun Yi nodded: "The treasure is in the mountains, probably someone's burial item. My Xun family ancestors went to great lengths to prevent the jade pendant from being lost..."
"Alright, alright, you can say that to others, but don't try to fool me. Besides, I have another condition for cooperating with you: you have to deal with things in Japan first. You know I hate Japanese people, and I absolutely refuse to share the treasure with them. You figure it out yourself."
After saying that, Jiang Jiuniang started to drive people away, and Xun Yi had no choice but to leave the Lu family quickly.
This trip wasn't entirely fruitless; at least Lan Jiu was willing to cooperate with him.
His only goal was those two jade pendants; he didn't care about the other treasures.
As for the mysterious space on Lan Jiu's body, let's talk about it after we get the two jade pendants.
However, Lan Jiu's request was to resolve the trouble caused by the Japanese, which was indeed a bit of a hassle, since resolving the trouble would require a trip back to Japan, and he didn't want to go.
In this era of inconvenient transportation, a round trip would take several months, and his time was running out!
After returning home, Xunyi locked himself in his room, determined to come up with a perfect solution to resolve the matter.
Jiang Jiuniang then excitedly went to find Lu Baichuan and told him about how she had caught Xun Yi red-handed at her home.
“The islanders were brought by Xun Yi, so let him deal with it himself. Anyway, the Pangu Jade is in my hands. He has to do whatever I tell him to do. If he doesn’t do it well, he can forget about getting any benefits from me.”
It's definitely better to avoid war if possible. The country has just begun to develop, and people's lives have just started to improve. If we go to war again, we'll be back to the level of a few years ago, which will certainly be detrimental to development.
It would be great to deal with Xunyi; let them fight like dogs, and Beiyan can reap the benefits.
Lu Baichuan had just returned home after a busy day and was somewhat incredulous upon hearing his wife's words: "He agreed?"
That simple?
He had no other choice.
Jiang Jiuniang was very determined. Originally, when Xunyi stopped in the garden looking at Sun Shi and Xiangxiang, she already thought Xunyi was a dead man. But when she saw him enter the study, she gave him a way out.
Xunyi was no match for her; unable to defeat her, he had no choice but to submit.
Lu Baichuan was quite pleased: "In that case, the two countries won't have to go to war, and the people won't have to suffer. You really have a way with ideas."
Jiang Jiuniang was delighted by the praise and even hummed a little tune.
Lu Baichuan added, "It seems the defenses in the manor are still insufficient. I will arrange for some more people."
Jiang Jiuniang stopped him: "No need, there are already enough people. It's just that we can't stop Xun Yi. But I know his whereabouts, so it's not a big problem. You don't need to worry about this."
Lu Baichuan thought about it and agreed that it was true, so he stopped worrying about it and started talking about something else.
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