Chapter 601: Cui Lao’s Gift!
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Even though Qin Dongxue tried to cover up as much as she could with words like predict and guess, Ling Yun knew that Cui Lao must have contacted her before. It seemed like Qin Dongxue didn’t want to tell that to Ling Yun personally.
This was indeed the truth. From Cui Lao’s perspective, Qin Dongxue was Ling Yun’s only elder now that Qin Qiuyue wasn’t around. Cui Lao’s trip here to meet Ling Yun was to tell him about his true ident.i.ty and to bring him back to Beijing’s Ling Family to meet Ling Lie. If he were to hide this from Qin Dongxue and tell Ling Yun the truth behind her back, it wouldn’t be nice.
Without mentioning the fact that the Qin Family wasn’t any weaker than the Ling Family… even if Ling Yun was with an ordinary family, he should still gain the approval of the family before bringing him back to acknowledge his biological family.
In order to not cause any misunderstandings or invoke any unnecessary trouble with Qin Dongxue, Cui Lao had really thought through everything and did everything according to his watertight plan. In the morning, when he arrived, he had already revealed his ident.i.ty and purpose in coming. He had explained everything in an extremely serious manner to Qin Dongxue.
Of course, Cui Lao wouldn’t discuss such an important matter in front of others. He used his telepathic communication skills to link up with Qin Dongxue outside the mansion to ensure no third party heard them.
The outcome of their conversation satisfied both Cui Lao and Qin Dongxue. As long as there was enough evidence to prove that Ling Yun belonged to the Ling Family and Ling Yun was willing to return to acknowledge his ident.i.ty, Qin Dongxue wouldn’t stop him. She wanted to leave this decision to Ling Yun himself.
At the thought of how close he was to learning his own ident.i.ty, Ling Yun suddenly had this mysterious feeling of excitement, as well as a deep worrying urge.
“Young Mast… Eh, Young chap…”
“Young… Ling Yun…”
Ling Yun recalled the very first time Cui Lao called him. It was almost natural or out of habit that he said “young…” before swallowing the words back into his stomach. Instead, he would replace it with “young chap” or “Ling Yun”.
In the past, Ling Yun didn’t bother too much about it, but now that he thought about it, Cui Lao appeared as though he was calling him “Young Master” every single time. However, he only stopped and changed his way of addressing Ling Yun when he realized that they weren’t close at that period of time. Or maybe he was fearful that he might cause Ling Yun to misunderstand.
“Aunty, if you have nothing else for me, I shall go meet Cui Lao now!”
Ling Yun could feel his excitement through his veins as he clenched his fist uncontrollably. He was desperate to know what kind of people his own father and mother were, as well as what on earth happened 18 years ago that they needed to abandon their own son!
“Go ahead, and when you get back, Aunty shall take you to see something!” Qin Dongxue replied gently.
“Aunty, I think you should follow me for such a huge matter. Among other things, you’re my elder, I believe you should be the one making the decision.”
Qin Dongxue treated Ling Yun better than most biological aunts. Now that his mother wasn’t around, Ling Yun really did hope that Qin Dongxue would be present.
Who knew that Qin Dongxue would give Ling Yun an angry glare before saying, “Since when do you let others make decisions concerning your own matter? This matter, from beginning to end, should be entirely decided by you and only you! Go quick and come back soon! Don’t make me wait too long!”
Qin Dongxue understood Ling Yun very well.
“Hehe…” Ling Yun scratched his head in embarra.s.sment before nodding and replying in a low voice, saying, “Aunty, I don’t think we should let Lingyu know about this matter immediately…”
“Don’t worry, I know what to do…” Qin Dongxue lifted her elegant hand to press on Ling Yun’s forehead as she replied with a smile.
Standing outside Mansion Number One, she watched as Ling Yun got in the car. Her gaze grew complicated and worried as she sighed. “Sigh… Little brat, you are really the descendant of the Ling Family… It’s good that you can acknowledge your birth family, but do you know how tough everything will be for you from today onwards? Especially as the son of Ling Xiao and the Devil Sect’s Holy Virgin.
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Ling Yun drove personally as he dragged Tang Meng along with him. He sped and arrived at where Cui Lao was staying in no time.
This was an extremely remote and ordinary courtyard in Qingshui City’s eastern suburbs. Slightly further in would be the desolate countryside, but the surroundings were very peaceful and refined.
“Brother Yun, Cui Lao lives here?” Looking at Cui Lao’s residence, Tang Meng questioned even before getting out of the car.
“What do you know! This is magnificent!”
Before Ling Yun stepped out of the car, he could feel a strong sense of familiarity. There was a very powerful spiritual energy, which was what shocked him the most!
Ling Yun didn’t turn off the engine as he got out of the car. “Go and do what you need to do, and later, when I give you a call, come back and pick me up.”
After Tang Meng drove off, Ling Yun took in a few breaths of air before walking towards the door and knocking on it.
The gate opened, and Cui Lao’s face was right there. Ling Yun could tell that Cui Lao was incredibly excited at this moment.
“Young… young chap, you’re finally here! Come on in!” Cui Lao’s lips were even trembling slightly.
“Cui Lao, I only got home close to noon, so I’m sorry for making you wait…” Ling Yun entered the house but didn’t know what else to say.
When the two of them arrived in the living room, the enthusiastic Cui Lao called Ling Yun over to take a seat before offering to pour some tea for him.
“Cui Lao, I don’t need a drink, so you don’t have to…” Ling Yun hurriedly stopped him.
He had too many questions to ask Cui Lao, so why would he be in the mood to drink anything?
Cui Lao continued to busy himself as he chuckled. “Even though this isn’t my house, I managed to rent it for three months when I came here previously. I’ve finally managed to clean this place up…”
“This is your first time here, so how can I not serve you with some tea? These are the tea leaves I brought specifically for you, so you have to try it…”
Cui Lao was so excited that he didn’t know what to say, but his hands kept moving. Very soon, he finished brewing the tea for Ling Yun, and it was indeed a fragrant tea.
This was the Ling Family’s Old Master Ling Lie’s favorite Biluochun, so of course it was a good tea.
“Young… young chap, I’ve brought over quite a few gifts for you this time. Stay seated here while I get them for you…”
After Cui Lao served the tea to Ling Yun, he immediately went to his bedroom to retrieve the incongruous bag from yesterday. After putting the bag down, he turned and headed back in.
Traces of familiar and powerful spiritual energy was coming from Cui Lao’s bedroom.
“Even though this item isn’t huge, it’s really heavy…” Cui Lao carried out a wooden box.
Looking at this wooden box, Ling Yun was shocked for a while and stood up immediately!
This was because Ling Yun had seen this wooden box before. When Ling Yun and his family first moved into Qingshui Wharf Mansion, Qin Qiuyue got him to move the exact same wooden box!
One and a half meters long and about 30 centimeters wide!
The spiritual energy emitting from it was the same, but this wooden box was emitting even stronger and more powerful spiritual energy. It was incomparably pure, and it was an exuberant force of Wood Spiritual Energy!
“Cui Lao, this is…”
“Haha, young chap… don’t be so excited. Come take a seat, and I’ll go through it with you…” Cui Lao finally calmed himself down as he tried to calm Ling Yun down.
After saying that, Cui Lao bent over and took out that incongruous bag. He placed the bag between the two teacups, after which, he finally sat down.
Cui Lao extended his arm as he searched his pocket before taking out an ICBC bank card and handing it over to Ling Yun.
“This shall be a small gift for you. Hold on to it first…”
Ling Yun recognized the bank card because he owned one himself, it was a VIP card for the ICBC bank. Ling Yun smiled and didn’t reject it.
“There is five hundred million USD inside this card…” Cui Lao explained faintly.
“Eh!” No matter how self-restrained Ling Yun was, he was still dumbfounded. Five hundred million USD!
According to the current exchange rate, this was at least three billion RMB!
This was considered a small gift?
“Now look at this…” As Cui Lao spoke, he smiled and pulled open the zipper of the incongruous bag. Ling Yun looked in and saw a huge cloth and a book with black leather skin.
The cloth itself was enough to shock Ling Yun because he had seen the material before. The cloth used to make the clothes of the Tian Holy Virgin of the a.s.sa.s.sins Organization, who was also the Devil Sect’s Holy Virgin, as well as the two ribbons used by her, were made from this material.
However, there was a slight difference. The cloth that Cui Lao brought was weaved the same way, but it was much thicker than the Devil Sect’s Holy Virgin’s ribbon.
“G.o.d… That five hundred million USD is really considered a small gift when compared to this…” Ling Yun commented.
Cui Lao was elated. He smiled and replied, “Young chap, I noticed that your clothes were easily torn by others when we fought together. Every time you fight, you have to change clothes, which got me really worried, so I brought you these… What do you think? Are you satisfied with it?”
How could Ling Yun not be satisfied? This was a gift tailored to him.
Cui Lao continued, “This is woven from the silk of the Golden Black Devilish Silkworm, which isn’t comparable to anything else. Other than the Devil Sect, I think… F*ck, I think I’m the only one who can get you this!”
This was the love token given by the Devil Sect’s Holy Virgin back when she was dating Ling Xiao, so Cui Lao spoke with confidence.
“Hehe, thank you, Cui Lao. I’m really satisfied, absolutely satisfied…”
“So, what is this?” Ling Yun pointed at the book and asked Cui Lao.
Cui Lao smiled faintly. “This is a skill book, but I don’t know if you will have a use for it. However, you can bring it back and see if it’s useful to you…”
“Oh…” Ling Yun nodded, but he wasn’t very interested in the skill book. He didn’t lack techniques or skills.
At last, Ling Yun s.h.i.+fted his gaze back to the wooden box.
Even though he was at Physique Tempering Stage Eight with a more condensed divine sense and improved Yin-Yang Eye, he was still unable to discern what was in this mysterious wooden box!