"Greetings, Senior Brother!" Dui Qimeng descended and bowed in salute. Without waiting for Cui Hongshen to speak, she said, "Hongshen was cultivating quietly in the residence when he received an inexplicable communication talisman. It only said that someone closest to us was waiting here and told him to come alone! Yet it did not say who it was! It also said... that he could not tell Master's Wife, Senior Sister-in-Law, or the other senior brothers, or else harm would come to the person waiting—and it might even... bring harm upon our Myriad Thunder Valley! We thought about it for a long time but could not guess who it was. We had not intended to come, but... we feared delaying something important..."
"This little brother nearly took that communication talisman to Zhen Thunder Palace!" Cui Hongshen said with a laugh. "The tone in it was truly outrageous. It said that if this little brother leaked a word, it would demand the lives of more than a dozen people from our Myriad Thunder Valley as payment..."
"Alas!" Xiao Hua sighed. There was no need to say it—was this not Zhang Qingxiao's way of doing things?
"But this concubine suddenly thought of a possibility~" Dui Qimeng said with a smile. "Who else could possess such ability and such a mysterious manner, if not Second Senior Brother? Since it was Second Senior Brother, surely he would not be angry that this concubine accompanied her husband here?"
"Mm, Qi Meng feared that something might happen to this little brother, so she came along! I ask Second Senior Brother for forgiveness!" Cui Hongshen hurriedly said.
Xiao Hua smiled and waved his hand. "No matter. This Xiao did not realize that the two of you had already held the dual cultivation ceremony, so there was an oversight