Whenever he returned to Huaiyuan Prefecture, he had to make a trip to the Clan Affairs Pavilion of Huaiyuan Hall. Thinking of this, Zhang Tie could not help but feel something strange stirring within him.
Why did the family elders want to see him? Zhang Tie had pondered that question all along the way, yet it still seemed utterly baffling. If it was because of the Panacea Potion, then the people contacting him should have been from the Long Wind Merchant Group, not a deacon from the Clan Affairs Hall. Since a deacon from the Clan Affairs Hall had come forward, it could only mean that the family elders wanted to see him over an internal family matter. But what could a small fry like him possibly have that was worth the elders' attention now?
Zhang Tie did not know. When he asked the deacon, the man would not say anything, merely telling him that he would know once they reached the Clan Affairs Pavilion.
Could it be because of Lan Yunxi? Zhang Tie's thoughts ran wild. Could the elders of the Clan Affairs Pavilion be planning to warn him not to let a toad dream of eating swan flesh? But there was not even the slightest sign of anything between them yet. Surely the family elders were not bored and gossipy enough to meddle in something like this? If anyone were to interfere, Lan Yunxi still had her father. It was not the family elders' turn to step in.
Come to think of it, he seemed never to have seen what the current head of the Zhang Clan of Huaiyuan Hall, Earl Changfeng, looked like.
Since Deacon Zhang had said that the elders wanted to see Zhang Tie alone, his older brother had not come along. Even if he