1024 Protective Qiaoqiao

"There are some things that you probably know already." Duan Siren sighed lightly and said, "His mother is my youngest aunt, a normal person without mystic energy."

"Ever since Youngest Aunt and someone…" said Duan Siren vaguely, "gave birth to Fourth Brother, he and his mother were held in contempt by our clansmen."

"Fortunately, Grandpa had always doted on them dearly. With Grandpa's protection,Youngest Aunt and Fourth Brother got by not too badly."

"Ever since Fourth Brother's talent was discovered, Grandpa became even more fond of him. A rumor even started circulating in the clan that Grandpa intended for Fourth Brother to inherit the position of the next patriarch."

At this, Qiao Mu swept an icy gaze at her before lightly asking, "So some of you couldn't restrain yourselves and made a move?"

"Correct! Because of Grandpa's attitude, some clansmen targeted him and his mother." Duan Siren recounted quietly, "Several years ago when Grandpa went into closed-door cultivation, some of the people in the clan took advantage of the fact that he wasn't home to injure Aunt, even deriding and humiliating her. That's why in a fit of anger, he renounced the Duan Clan's <anno data-annotation-id="9f1db874-09f6-4b8f-9dca-f6fc1d8f97c5">surname</anno> and brought Aunt away from the clan to settle down somewhere else."

"Right now, Grandpa brought him and his mother back again, but the gaze with which he looks at my clan brothers every time is very scary. Besides, he treats me…" like a stranger and turns a blind eye to me.

Yet Qiao Mu merely gave a harrumph before continuing to toss a preserved fruit into her mouth. "The reason you told me this is for me to persuade him to reconcile with you all?"

"At that time, some clansmen were young and aggressive, and they didn't know how to control their temper, so…"

"Are you joking. If someone humiliated, derided, and beat up my mother, I would have long turned him into ashes. Right now, Duan Yue is only letting you people live in consideration of Old Patriarch Duan. You're not deeply grateful and instead dare to grumble about it?" Qiao Mu berated irritably, "Shameless!"

After saying her piece, she was unwilling to waste her breath on Duan Siren anymore. She directly patted the war hawk's head to urge it forward, immediately leaving Duan Siren far behind her.

After gawking at the young girl that cast her away upon not liking what she heard, Seventh Miss Duan squeezed her fingers aggrievedly.

"Dummy," Qiao Mu, however, was mumbling to herself.

He was always grinning cheekily and looked like a carefree idiot. He never said anything, so she simply didn't know about this matter at all.

If he had said that that Duan Youbing was his foe, then she would have dealt with him in the competition. How would she have given him a chance to be carried home?

Sixth Zheng and the rest did not know what had happened between the two girls.

They only saw Qiao Mu flying far away from Duan Siren all of a sudden. With a pat on the war hawk's head, she made it speed up with a flap of its wings and rush to the front at once.

Dou Fengchi suppressed the anger in her eyes.

She steered her war hawk next to Seventh Duan and pretended to ask inadvertently, "What's wrong, Seventh Duan. You quarreled with the crown prince consort?"

"It's nothing." Seventh Duan shook her head. She didn't want to talk, so she gave a gentle cry to urge her war hawk forward.

They flew like this for nearly two days, only stopping occasionally to eat and relieve themselves.

The war hawks' strength was nearly spent.

Hence, their riders discussed landing and going by foot. After all, they were not far from the adventurer base in the Mystic Beast Forest's periphery.

Afterall, it would only take them five minutes to walk from here.

Yet just as they prepared to land, another hawk squad appeared on the horizon.