Not reasonable at all!
Miao Tong found it utterly unreasonable.
What did he mean by that?
He’d made him wait for so long, and now they were going to rub it in his face?
That was too much!
But facing Lu Yaoyang’s open and honest gaze, Miao Tong couldn’t muster any temper, so he could only roll his eyes, sit down, and say, “You said that before landing on the island, the Lu, Miao, and Tang families needed to have another meeting. If you have something to say, go ahead.”
“Wake Er Ya up first,” Lu Yaoyang said, walking towards the cabinet where the luggage was placed.
Miao Tong rolled his eyes again, reached into his pocket, and pulled out a semi-transparent bead. He waved it in front of Er Ya’s nose.
“Ugh…” Er Ya was fast asleep. Suddenly, she smelled the odor of dead insects, incredibly foul and pungent.
She woke up abruptly, jumped half a meter away, and after gagging a few times, glared at Miao Tong furiously, shouting, “Miao! Are you trying to die! Don’t think I won’t do anything to you just because you’re wearing my man’s face!”
“So loud,” Miao Tong said, covering his ears. “He told me to wake you up.”
“What’s going on!” Er Ya glared at Lu Yaoyang again. “Don’t think I won’t do anything to you just because you’re Qing Tian’s man!”
“I only asked him to wake you up,” Lu Yaoyang said as he found a brocade box from the luggage. He opened it and addressed Miao Tong and Er Ya, “This is the Lu family’s heirloom token. Where is the Tang family’s?”
“Heirloom token? Then go ask Da Ya, how would I know?” Er Ya yawned, glanced at the brocade box, and then froze.
“How could an heirloom token be handed over casually?” Miao Tong said defensively. “The heirloom tokens of each family’s head have always been kept by the family head for inheritance purposes, so naturally, they wouldn’t be with us.”
Especially since his grandfather had never given him the heirloom token. His grandfather had passed away rather suddenly, and his second uncle had caused a huge scene at the time. No one knew where the heirloom token had gone.
“Is this it?” Er Ya reached into the pocket of her overalls and pulled out a white jade dice. “I always thought it was just a trinket to pass the time. Turns out it’s an heirloom token, hehehe.”
“!” Miao Tong’s eyes widened immediately, and then he said, “You are the Tang family’s Hidden Master after all, so it makes sense for it to be with you… but the Miao family’s…”
“The Miao family’s is with Qing Tian,” Lu Yaoyang said, taking Er Ya’s white jade dice and placing it with his. “Tomorrow, remember to ask her for it.”
He had forgotten to mention this to Qing Tian just now. He would let Miao Tong handle it tomorrow.
“!!!” Miao Tong’s eyes widened even further. “My Miao family’s heirloom token is with Xia Qing Tian! That doesn’t make sense anymore! What’s going on!”
“Why are you so jumpy?” Er Ya said speechlessly, digging into her ear. “It’s so annoying. Can we get a different Miao next time we have a meeting? This one is so noisy!”
“Is there anything strange about it?” Lu Yaoyang looked at Miao Tong and said, “The Lu family’s heirloom token was also obtained from Qing Tian.”
At the Lei Corporation’s auction, Xia Qing Tian had bid 2.8 million to acquire this white jade dice.
At the time, he hadn’t known it was their family’s heirloom token.
However, this might be considered a destined fate. The Lu family’s heirloom token was managed by the Lu family’s matriarch. It made perfect sense.
“But…” Miao Tong still felt something was a bit off.
But Er Ya was already yawning. “Is there anything else? I’m so sleepy!”
“Tomorrow, when we search for the treasure, this dice might be the secret key to opening the treasure’s mechanism. I wanted to ask if you know how to use this dice,” Lu Yaoyang said. He had done a lot of research and even returned to the Lu family’s old mansion, but he had found nothing.
All he could deduce was that these three dice were related to the treasure, but he didn’t know how to use them.
“I’m not even the Miao family head, why would they tell me secrets like this?” Miao Tong’s lips twitched. If he could, he wouldn’t want to deal with this mess.
It was just that his eldest brother had been smitten by the Tang family’s wild monkey, and his parents felt guilty and were unwilling to force their eldest son.
They were all their children.
If the eldest brother didn’t want to be the family head, fine, no problem, the whole family supported him.
If he didn’t want to be the family head, they would break his legs, kick him out, and threaten him.
Damn it!
Lu Yaoyang turned his gaze back to Er Ya.
“I used this thing to play games of chance with my brothers, where the loser gets slapped,” Er Ya said, taking back her dice. “Third brother’s ears were the sharpest; he could always guess accurately. Sixth brother wasn’t good, his face swelled up from our slaps.”
“Doesn’t your village have any other forms of entertainment?” Miao Tong’s lips twitched.
“Yes, does catching kidnappers count?” Er Ya blinked. “Kidnappers and thieves often come to our village. Once caught, we drag them home and test them for poison. We would each poison them, and then antidote each other. Master would then grade us. The loser would have to chop firewood for a month, it was so tough.”
Miao Tong and Lu Yaoyang fell silent.
There were too many points to criticize, and they didn’t know where to start.
“After a few rounds of testing, the kidnappers and thieves would beg us to send them to report themselves,” Er Ya said proudly. “Our village’s police uncle said these people behaved particularly well in prison, and they didn’t want to leave when their sentences were reduced!”
This was probably the first time Miao Tong felt sympathy for criminals.
“Let’s talk about it after we land on the island,” Lu Yaoyang said, looking at Er Ya. “Keep your dice safe. I suspect they might make a move tomorrow.”
“Don’t worry, they’ve been with me for so many years, and I haven’t lost them,” Er Ya said after thinking for a moment. “There was one time, an outsider tried to trade me for candy. After I traded it, Xia Shang helped me get it back.”
Er Ya held the dice in her palm, her eyes as gentle as water, with a look of a young girl. “That was the first time Xia Shang lost his temper. He’s such a quiet person, but he argued with an outsider for me. That’s when I knew I had to marry him… Oh my, how embarrassing!”
“Get some rest early,” Lu Yaoyang said, ignoring Er Ya’s bashful posture with her hands cupping her face. “After we land tomorrow, we’ll act together.”
“Okay, I’ll be going then,” Miao Tong replied, casting a look of disdain at Er Ya before turning to leave.
“Back then, I thought Xia Shang hated our village, hated me!” Er Ya was still chattering. “It was only then that I realized Xia Shang didn’t hate me; he just didn’t know how to express his emotions. He’s so gentle…”
“Oh, yes, yes, yes,” Lu Yaoyang said, picking Er Ya up by the collar and dropping her outside the door before letting go. “It’s getting late, and as a girl, you shouldn’t be in my room. Go back and rest.”
“No! I haven’t finished talking yet!” Er Ya said, trying to stop Lu Yaoyang from closing the door.
She tried, but it was no use.
“Honestly! Such a killjoy!” Er Ya snorted and turned to leave. This Lu Yaoyang didn’t understand the romance between her and Xia Shang at all.
She really didn’t know how Xia Qing Tian judged men, with such taste?
It was definitely not as good as hers!
In this world, her Xia Shang was the best man.
Thinking of this, Er Ya’s face turned flushed. Humming a little tune, she walked away with a peculiar dance step.
Around the corner, the disguised Xifu watched Er Ya, and the corners of her mouth curled downwards in disdain. How could the Tang family’s Hidden Master be such a lovesick fool?