"I told her a few things that were half true and half false."
Jiang Man did not hide anything in response to Old Yellow Ox's question.
Instead, he truthfully told him what had been said.
Hearing this, Old Yellow Ox asked curiously, "Half true and half false? Which part was true? Which part was false?"
"The first half should be true. The second half was definitely false," Jiang Man said seriously.
Giving you children was true, but there being a problem with finding you a wife was false? Old Yellow Ox narrowed his eyes at Jiang Man.
Human greed was plain to see.
"What do you think, Brother Ox?" Jiang Man looked at Old Yellow Ox.
"She still hasn't found my true name, so she's very curious about my origins." Old Yellow Ox continued chewing the grass in his mouth. "Opening the Magpie Bridge would indeed benefit her, but she wouldn't be able to harm you two."
"How can you tell?" Jiang Man asked.
Old Yellow Ox asked casually, "Why did you let her go?"
What she said back then was just too pleasing to the ear, Jiang Man thought.
Then he understood.
If that fairy really had been so confident, how could she have offered to leave him descendants?
She probably would have come over long ago and let him experience the chill seeping through her words.
That bone-piercing chill alone could have killed him.
Jiang Man said no more.
Things had come to this. He could only take one step at a time.
As for what these people said, he did not need to pay it too much heed for now.
True or false, it was all much the same. There was no need to dwell on it.
First, he would make a name for himself in the