When Huang Xiao and his companions returned to the Envoy Residence, a guard commander who had stayed behind immediately approached and said respectfully, "Your Highness, Lord Huang, I received two invitations just now."
"Invitations?" Zhao Yuankan asked, somewhat puzzled. "From whom?"
Huang Xiao also looked at the guard commander, waiting for his answer.
"I do not know. The person only told me to deliver these two invitations to Your Highness and Lord Huang. Although he was dressed as a servant, his bearing was rather extraordinary. I presumed whoever was inviting Your Highness and Lord Huang was no ordinary person, so I accepted the invitations and waited for you to return and decide," the guard commander said.
After taking his invitation, Huang Xiao smiled faintly at Zhao Yuankan. "Could some young Khitan experts be looking to challenge me? Or perhaps it's from Yelü Mengdu."
"Then I have no idea what mine could be for. I don't know anyone here." Zhao Yuankan waved the invitation in his hand with a smile.
"Won't we find out once we take a look?" Huang Xiao smiled and opened his invitation.
"Hmm?" Huang Xiao frowned slightly. "Just who is this Miss Xiao Yan?"
"Lord Huang, it seems the same person has invited us both. If her surname is Xiao, she most likely belongs to the Xiao Clan," Zhao Yuankan said.
"Your Highness means Empress Dowager Xiao's natal clan?" Huang Xiao asked.
There were quite a few people surnamed Xiao in Khitan; it was one of the major surnames. However, the most famous among them at present was naturally Empress Dowager Xiao's natal clan, the Xiao Clan.
Because of Empress Dowager Xiao, many members of the Xiao Clan held positions at court. Of course, there was no denying that the Xiao Clan truly abounded in talent. Thus,