Just then, Tianning finished eating the last of the sunflower seeds. Instead of replying, she carefully collected the shells from her handkerchief, knowing that littering was unacceptable.
Just when the elders were so anxious they wanted to pry her mouth open, Tianning finally spoke.
She pointed directly to the only two people behind the elders who hadn't come out to compete for her; the boy in the warm yellow shirt standing next to Qin Mingcheng:
"I choose him."
The elders were furious!
"No! Absolutely not!"
"How can someone with innate sword talent be taught by trash from Sword Guardian Mountain? That's a complete waste of talent!"
"Girl, Jing Shu is a cripple now, he can't teach you anything!"
The elders earnestly advised them.
The young man spoke somewhat uneasily, "I'm sorry... I'm just Master's eldest disciple, my name is Fu Hongming. Master... is not able to attend this kind of occasion, so he sent me here."
"I am not qualified to accept apprentices on behalf of my master, and..."
The Sword Protection Mountain branch of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect was completely destroyed five years ago.
This is a fact that everyone accepts.
"Girl, there was some accident at Sword Guardian Mountain in the past, and the current elders can't teach anything at all." Sect Leader Xiao came out to explain the reason. The current group of personal disciples at Sword Guardian Mountain are just there to make up the numbers.
"Father said it was all arranged, and I was to choose." Tianning didn't care about that; her choice of the young man wasn't solely based on his character.
"This..." Sect Leader Xiao hesitated.
This girl's eye for choosing people is just as bad as her spiritual root...
"Ning'er, you're still young and don't understand the importance of choosing a sect." The Wen family head regretted his words.
Qin Mingcheng suddenly said lightly, "Since it's her choice, why are you interfering?"
Sect Leader Xiao looked at him with displeasure. How could such a promising talent be wasted?
The group of old folks argued for an hour, but none of them were willing to back down. Tianning naturally didn't give in either. She just liked Sword Guardian Mountain; she wouldn't choose anything else.
Left with no other choice, Sect Leader Xiao had to temporarily have her join the Sword Guardian Mountain.
That's right, it's only temporary...
Sect Leader Xiao firmly believes that the little girl will regret following Fu boy to the Sword Protection Mountain within three days!
We'll give her another chance then and let her choose a different master!
The elders had no objection to this.
These old fogies have lived long lives and are all shrewd. They've already planned it all out: they'll secretly cultivate a good relationship with the young girl behind her back and lure her to their own mountain.
Everyone had their own plans, except for the boy in the pale yellow shirt who looked completely bewildered.
He just came out for a short while... and brought back a junior sister for his master?
"Junior Sister," he rummaged around for a while before finally pulling out a decent-quality hairpin from his storage bag: "This is a gift from your senior brother!"
"My name is Fu Hongming, and I am the chief disciple under my master."
Seeing how meager the gifts he gave out, the elders became even more confident.
"Thank you, Senior Brother!" Tian Ning gladly accepted the gift.
The head of the Wen family said he would take Tianning back to pack her things first, and then send the little girl to the Wanjian Sect in a few days.
Sect Leader Xiao readily agreed.
On their way back, the father and daughter received a message on the jade slip of the Wen family head, probably about something important. He dropped Tianning off at the door and left in a hurry.
Upon hearing that the master of the house had left, a servant who had been standing guard at the door turned around and went back to report.
"You mean, Father was so angry that he just saw my sister to the door and left?" Wenren Xue repeated the servant's words in surprise.
"I told you long ago that she's a good-for-nothing!" Wenren Yang said angrily. "I'm afraid Father was so angry because he lost face at the Ten Thousand Swords Sect this time!"
Although Madam Wenren, who was seated at the head of the table, did not speak, her thoughts were the same as those of the brother and sister.
"Alright, after all, she's still your sister. As long as she behaves well, follows the rules of the manor, and doesn't cause any trouble, the Wen family will naturally give her food and support her."
Tianning had no idea what some people were imagining. When she returned to the courtyard, she saw rows of maids with their heads neatly arranged.
"Sixth Miss, you're back!" Mo Ran greeted her happily. "Then we servants can begin reading the storybook!"
Unlike her, Cuizhu wasn't foolish enough to only care about immediate gains.
"Sixth Miss, how did your trip to the Myriad Swords Sect with the Patriarch go today? Did you become a disciple of the Immortal Venerable?" This time, she didn't forget that she was there to gather information, and... what she cared about even more was...
If the Sixth Miss is indeed favored by the Ten Thousand Swords Sect and no longer resides in the Wenren Mansion, then they will lose the opportunity to read storybooks!
“I’ve joined,” Tianning said without hiding it, as it wasn’t a secret. “You guys go out first, I need to pack my things, you can come back later to read the storybook.”
After the maids left, the little sparrow flew back to Tianning's room and began to report the clues it had asked the birds to find.
After listening for a while, Tianning noticed what Cuizhu was saying to another maid.
What kind of feelings exist between Wenren Xue and Wenren Yang?
Tianning felt that Wenren Yang's personality meant he probably didn't have the concept of love yet, and the idea of a forbidden sibling relationship was an overestimation of his abilities.
Moreover, it had been less than a month since the Wen family discovered that Wenren Xue was not a member of their family by blood. Before that, the two were siblings. How could they have developed feelings for a blood relative that crossed the line?
Upon thinking about it, Tianning realized that if Wenren Xue was truly an outsider, she should have known long ago that she was not a child of the Wenren family.
That's why she hugged and cuddled with Wenren Yang without any restraint?
Otherwise, how could Cuizhu, who had only heard some stories, suddenly start talking about those things?
However, these are just speculations and require further verification.
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