Bai Xiaowen immediately thought of the phrase, "Gold is melted by the mouths of many, bones are destroyed by accumulated slander." Could Xia Feng have believed that everything was merely others slandering him? Was that why he had chosen such a strange name for his fief?
But Xia Feng had indeed seized Snow Li Fief during a fief war.
Jian Yu's words corroborated what Lord Candice had said. That made Candice's other claim—that Xia Feng had killed Hua Xueli during the fief war—far more credible.
Since Xia Feng had done such a thing, why put on a hypocritical show with the phrase "bones destroyed by accumulated slander"?
Of course, that was only speculation. Perhaps Xia Feng had simply regarded Snow Li Fief as a graveyard for burying his archrival. The bones being destroyed might have referred to nothing more than Hua Xueli's remains.
Suppressing his urge to question her further, Bai Xiaowen smiled and said, "What is the background of this Lord Xiao Xing? He shouldn't be a Lord himself, right?"
Jian Yu said, "Lord Xiao Xing is a Lord, but he lost his original fief and became a wandering Lord. Later, he earned Lord Xia Feng's favor and was promoted to become the new Lord of Bone-Melting Fief... In any case, his status is far above ours. If he steps down in the future, he can directly take up a post among the upper ranks of Great Xia Fief."
Bai Xiaowen nodded slightly.
To use an example from the colonial era, Xiao Xing was not an oppressed native king, but a governor appointed to a colony.
Bai Xiaowen continued, "Then Xiao Xing should be subordinate to Great Xia Fief and count as your superior, right? Would it be inappropriate for you to tell me that he is heading to