Chapter 1923: Admitting mistakes

Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations

“Shut up!” Before the Seventh Elder had finished speaking, he was interrupted by the Patriarch harshly.

“Patriarch?” The Patriarch’s tone was much harsher than before, and the Seventh Elder was stunned, wondering why he was suddenly in such a rage.

“It is already our honour for the Young Princess to live in our house, how can we even harbour such an absurd idea upon the Young Princess?” The Great Elder said earnestly.

“But…” The Seventh Elder muttered, after he was reprimanded, he felt very aggrieved in his heart.

The Hua Clan were already faced with a great and formidable enemy. Especially after hearing the news that Hua Yu brought back, they felt that their situation was even more severe. Since the Young Princess was already staying with them before this, that would prove that they did not harbour any ulterior motive. And if they were able to convince her to help, then the crisis the Hua Clan was facing would not be a crisis any more.

“Seventh Elder, you must not mention that again.” The Patriarch said in a stern voice. “If I hear of such things again, you do not need to be the Seventh Elder any more!”

“Patriarch!” Everyone looked at the Hua Clan’s Patriarch in shock, unable to believe that the man would ever utter such words.

“Although the Young Princess is the King’s favourite princess now, what right do we have to ask her to extend a helping hand to us? Moreover, it is said that the Young Princess is highly eccentric. What are we going to do if she gets displeased with us if we go ask for her help? With just a mere sneeze, she would be able to blow all of us into the abyss, and the Hua Clan will disappear forever!” The Patriarch of the Hua Clan went on to explain it further. “Furthermore, the Young Princess was the one who saved Hua Yu and the others,and she was even willing to give a portion of the Snow Fungus to us. That makes her our benefactor and I am already very guilty that we were unable to repay her in any way, so how could we still dare to harbour any ideas towards her?”

The people in the house fell silent, and looks of shame showed on some of the people’s faces. It seems like they thought the same way as well.

When the Hua Clan’s Patriarch saw that his words had reached everyone, he did not want to dwell on the issue any longer and he went on to say: “Alright now, we’ll put a stop to this matter here. Let’s talk about the Zheng Clan’s situation next.”

When it came to serious business, everyone settled their minds and no longer dwelled on the previous topic.

“Patriarch, Wei Xing said that the Zheng Clan has already ama.s.sed people from other places, but we have never heard about it.” Hua Yu frowned, “If that’s the case, I’m afraid that the Zheng Clan is ready to deal the final blow.”

“Now that the Patriarch has recovered, it is not so easy for the Zheng Clan to deal with us!”

“That’s right. They thought that the Patriarch was bound to die this time, so they wanted to fight back and completely wipe out us at this time. But the Patriarch is almost healed, and the Zheng Clan will have to think twice.”

“I’m afraid things are not so optimistic.” Hua Yu said worriedly: “On the surface, the Wei Clan has a good relations.h.i.+p with us, but in fact they are in the same mess with the Zheng Clan. Wei Xing thinks we are bound to die, so what he said should be true. He doesn’t need to lie to us.”

“I also think that since Wei Xing was prepared to pull off such a huge thing like that, it means that the Wei Clan has already stated its position. Now that Wei Xing has not returned, and the Patriarch’s injury is healed, the Wei Clan will naturally guess that we already know their plans. If the two of them are united together, it will be very troublesome for us to deal with it.”

“I don’t think the Wei Clan will tear their faces directly with us for a while. As long as we don’t point out this matter first, the Wei Clan will pretend to behave for a while. And we should take advantage of this time to deal with the Zheng Clan.”

“This is a good idea.”

“We have been blocking the news of your return and the recovery of the Patriarch. We will use this to paralyze the Wei Clan first, pretending to not know anything.”

“Why don’t Hua Yuan and I head over to the Wei Clan to plead guilty, saying that since we invited Wei Xing to escort us to search for medicinal materials, but he met with an unfortunate mishap. Although we will pay the Wei Clan remuneration, we will also say that we are deeply sorry for them for having lost a top exponent.” Hua Yu said.

“But you two are fine, if you go like this…”

“Hua Yuan’s strength is low and she was too far away, so she was not injured. I just need to get some more injuries on my body. It can’t be too light, or they won’t believe it.”

“But like that…”

“I’m fine, this kind of thing can’t be faked, or else I can’t hide it from the Wei Clan.” Hua Yu said.

“You are going to suffer.”

“For the sake of the family, it’s alright for me to get hurt. However, we have to solve the Zheng Clan during this time.” Hua Yu said.

“This is natural.”

…

Sima You Yue listened to the conversation over there with a faint smile on her face.

“What funny thing did you say?”

Sima You Yue repeated their conversation.

“It seems that this Hua Clan is fairly upright. It’s just that their thoughts are too simple.” Mo Yu took a sip of tea and said lightly.

Judging from the news that scarlet bees had received over the past few days, the Zheng Clan was not at all what everyone saw on the surface. If they really want to fight like this, they really wouldn’t be able to hold on.

“If we knew this was going to happen, then there wouldn’t have been a need to even heal Hua Yu’s injury then. It would be better to take him directly to Wei Clan.” Black Shadow didn’t understand Hua Yu’s idea of self-harm.

“I think this person is pretty good.” Huan had a better view of Hua Yu and thought that he was quite responsible.

“Anyway, since we don’t have to do anything, let’s see what happens next.” Sima You Yue said, “However, the Zheng Clan has dealings with the Soul Clan. We still have to let the Hua Clan’s Patriarch know the depth of the matter.”

In the afternoon, Hua Yu and Hua Yuan were supported by the elders of the Hua Clan and several clansmen. When they saw the Wei Clan, Hua Yu and Hua Yuan cried in desperation.

“Uncle Wei, Wei Xing…” Hua Yu choked and knelt in front of the Wei Clan’s Patriarch, tears streaming down.

“We already know about Wei Xing. What’s going on?” The Patriarch of the Wei Clan went up to help him up, and when he grabbed his hand, he checked his injuries.

His pulse was messy, he was lacking blood and it seems that he was really severely injured..

“Grandfather Wei, Uncle Wei, he…all for us.” Hua Yuan cried with grief.

“What exactly happened that day?”

“We found the Snow Fungus, but we encountered a very powerful guardian beast. Uncle Wei was torn in half and eaten by it when he was fighting with it. Uncle Wei was also badly injured in the battle, if we hadn’t escaped… I’m afraid it will…” Hua Yuan wiped away her tears, “After we escaped and recuperated for a few days, my uncle can barely support his return.”

“Really?”

“Hmm.” Hua Yuan nodded, “I’m sorry, Grandfather Wei, if it weren’t for us, Wei Xing would not be dead. I am really sorry that it took so many days to tell you what happened.”

“Then did he say anything before he died?”

“No, everything happened so fast, he didn’t have time to say anything before he breathed his last.”

Patriarch Wei heaved a sigh of relief in secret when he heard this.