When Ouyang Xueqing and Ling Xiaochen entered the study room, they found Ling Wenfu sitting while reading some documents with a frown on his face. It was Ling Xiaochen first that shouted: "Daddy, we're here!"
Ling Wenfu raised his head and nodded. "Good day to you, Princess."
Ouyang Xueqing smiled in return. Since their first interaction more than a year ago, she had kind of grasped what kind of person Ling Wenfu was. He was the exact meaning of 'merchant through and through'.
He would do any kind of transaction as long as it benefitted and it didn't harm him whatsoever.
In a sense, he was similar to her father, Ouyang Chunxia. Her father too was a famous merchant that had a medicine chain store all over the mainland. The difference was, if her father was akin to harmless teddy bear, then Ling Wenfu was a cunning eagle.
He was a predator that could bid his time patiently if he has set his eyes on something.
Those traits of his was then passed down to her daughter, Ling Xiaochen.
Fortunately, she was allied with them. Or else, these kind of terrifying people, one even didn't know how they would get disposed if one had dared to offend them!
"You have the report?" She asked impatiently.
"Yes." He nodded with a faint smile. "Please take a seat while I present it to you slowly. It…might take some time though."
Ouyang Xueqing sat down on a couch as she raised her eyebrows in confusion. "Why?"
"Hehe." Ling Wenfu chuckled with mirth. "This Mo Yujian of yours…is a little special ah!"
"What? Aiyah, come on, tell me quick! I am almost dying in curiosity!" She groaned in frustration as she urged the man hurriedly. She didn't even touch the snacks in front of her. Her fists was clenched as she felt her heart thumping wild in excitement.
"Calm down." Ling Wenfu sipped his tea leisurely. Humph! He must have done it deliberately! "Let me explain to you the situation first so that you can understand why our information is obtained after so long."
Ouyang Xueqing nodded repeatedly and gestured him to speak.
"We have thought that the human that could trespassed into our mainland and passed through Sheng Li's protective array must not be some common man you could find. At first, we expanded our search on the first rank countries."
"Human's mainland was divided onto five influential empire, they are; Holy Supreme Empire, the biggest empire that was built on the honor of The Supreme Emperor Sheng Li. As for the remaining four, they were named after the wide reputation of four of the generals that fought side by side with him in The Great War. They were Shark Eye Empire, Undead Empire, Venom Crown Empire and Thousand Form Empire.
"Those empire was reigned by a king respectively and consisted of many countries in them, they ranked from first to fifth in terms of strength and wealth. Supreme Empire had the most first rank countries of all. That's why, we began from there. Yet, after three months of searching, we couldn't even found anything lest the person himself."
Ouyang Xueqing butted in. "Then, where did you find him?"
Ling Wenfu pursed his lips as he looked amused. "Almost two years of searching, and we would never have thought that we would find him in the lowest fifth rank country in the Undead Empire."
"Is that a bad thing?"
"Nope. Just a little unexpected." He shook his head and leaned back sighing. "But have you ever thought, Princess, if a person from fifth rank country could pass through Sheng Li's protective array that not any other person could do, why would his country remained as the lowest rank of all?"
A sudden conjuncture formed in her mind. "That means…he is hiding his strength!"
"Exactly." Ling Wenfu was pleased by the Princess intelligence, unlike his idiot daughter that could only chased after a snotty brat all year long yet didn't even succeed in getting him. "Then, do you know why he would hide his strength?"
"Hmm…" Ouyang Xueqing thought really hard, yet she couldn't seem to find any answer. "Why? Does he in any kind of bad situation that force him to hide?"
At this point, she was so anxious that even her tone of voice was filled with worry and anxiety. Of course, at that moment, Ouyang Xueqing herself didn't even realize why she would be so concerned about a certain someone she had just met once.
"We have confirmed for sure that Mo Yujian is the third young master of White Owl country. His father, Mo Shengnian is an administrator which hold considerable strength in the country. He had one main wife with three mistresses who produced three sons and two daughters."
Ouyang Xueqing blinked in shock. "One man…and four women?!"
Ling Wenfu guffawed so hard that he almost rolled on the ground at the girl's expression. "It is kind of surprising huh? It's normal for humans though. Unlike us the beasts, human didn't have the loyalty to stay with one partner for their whole life. Well, there were some exceptions in which they vow to only love one person in a lifetime but it was very, very rare."
"Your Imperial Father, Wang Ze, also has more than one woman in his life."
Ouyang Xueqing defended his Imperial Father almost immediately. "Nonsense! Our kind is such an affectionate and loyal creature. Imperial Father is a different case! His wife had died a long time ago, and he had left the Empress' position empty ever since. The concubines were just the result of the ministers' force, yet in Imperial Father's heart there will only be the Empress!"
She hadn't met The Empress since it was recorded down in history that she had died soon after giving birth to the Third Prince, but Ouyang Xueqing was sure that she was a wonderful and dedicated woman!
A woman that could tie her Imperial Father down, how mighty she was!
"Sure, sure." Ling Wenfu smiled in amusement. "The point is, human were different from us. They were greedy, wicked and villainous. Especially the men, they were the worst of all kind, they could have a lovely wife waiting for them at home, yet they would still flirt left and right and play with another in brothels."
"Jerk!" Ouyang Xueqing raged.
"And this kind of jerk you said is exactly what your Mo Yujian is."