Jiang Zhu shook her head embarrassedly. Just as she was about to say, "No need to thank me," an exquisite jade box was placed in her hands:
"Take this."
Jiang Zhu froze for a moment and asked instinctively:
"Ah? Teacher Ye, what is this?"
"Something good." Ye Qifeng smiled faintly but did not explicitly say that it was an Immortal Grade Herb. "I picked it especially for you."
With a gentle smile on his face, Ye Qifeng looked softly at Jiang Zhu, whose eyes had widened slightly in a daze:
"Keep it for now. When Sister Er Long has time, have her protect you while you consume it. It will benefit you."
"As for what it is, you'll find out then."
Jiang Zhu was no fool. She immediately realized that the jade box likely contained something extremely precious. She wanted to refuse, but Ye Qifeng gave her no chance and forcibly shifted the conversation elsewhere:
"By the way, Jiang Zhu, has anyone come to bother Sister Er Long over these past few years?"
Liu Erlong had once mentioned something in a letter—she had reconnected with two old friends she had once traveled the continent with, but whom she had not seen for over a decade, perhaps nearly twenty years, after they had gone their separate ways.
Ye Qifeng knew who those two old friends were at a glance. Other than the remaining two members of the Golden Iron Triangle—Four-Eyed Cat Owl Flender and Trash Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang—who else could they be?
Ye Qifeng cared somewhat about this.
However, Liu Erlong had not said much in her letter about how the Golden Iron Triangle had reunited. She had merely mentioned it in passing. Ye Qifeng did not know the specifics; he only knew that things between them had apparently not ended