Grand Elder Su Kun was nearly seventy. His head of silver hair was combed meticulously, and he wore a silver crown inlaid with creamy white jade. His face was covered with wrinkles like knife cuts, and his cloudy eyes made him impossible to read.
"Qingyi wants to marry! Sigh—"
He gave a soft sigh.
For a woman to marry was only right and proper, and the Azure Sky Sword Sect had no sect rules forbidding marriage. It was just that Yu Qingyi was, after all, the sect leader they had chosen. For the sect leader to marry left him feeling somewhat troubled.
"She has someone she likes?"
Hua Jinqiu, seated at the very end, asked.
Hua Jinqiu was the youngest of the four elders, having just turned fifty this year, and she was also the Azure Sky Sword Sect's only female elder.
She wore a dark-blue, wide-sleeved over-robe, with a white fox-fur forehead band like a crouching rabbit on her head. Her features could not be called delicate, but she still retained a trace of lingering charm.
"Mm. This is the letter she sent. She intends to marry Yang Zhengshan, the Garrison Commander of Anyuan City."
Su Kun handed the letter he had received that morning to Hua Jinqiu. After Hua Jinqiu finished reading it, she passed it around to Cao De and Xue Linfu.
After the three of them finished reading, Cao De said, "I have heard a little about this Lord Yang."
"Oh! You've heard of him?" Su Kun was somewhat surprised.
Cao De thought about it and said, "Didn't I make a trip to Chongshan Pass before? I heard about this man at Chongshan Pass."
"I only heard a few scattered words. They say that during the Battle of Chongshan Pass, he once led three hundred cavalrymen