Since Du Ruoyun had already agreed on the terms with Shen Hongyuan, Pei Xuan had no excuse to stay and had to follow Du Ruoyun away.
"What did you promise this time?" Pei Xuan asked Du Ruoyun in a low voice, "Again, tax cuts?"
"Yes, but Shen Hongyuan's appetite is much greater than Jiang Zhongzhi's," Du Ruoyun replied. "He immediately asked for a 50% reduction, and even used your incident of flirting with your daughter as leverage. I cut and chopped, and in the end, I could only reduce it to 40%."
"A 40% reduction a year isn't bad." It wasn't Pei Xuan's money anyway, so he didn't feel bad. "We're going to Hundred Flower Valley next. Are their Valley Master and Madam here yet?"
"I heard they're all here," Pei Qingyu replied, taking over the conversation. "Not only did Valley Master Situ Yi and his wife Liu Xin come, but even their daughters Situ Yingyue and Liu Xunyun came as well."
Baihua Valley is the only sect among the six major sects whose main members are women. They only recruit female disciples. Since ancient times, the men in the valley are either the husbands or sons of the disciples.
The problem is that most men who are willing to marry into a family are marrying up, and their cultivation and qualifications are not high. As a result, it is difficult to produce outstanding offspring.
In addition, in places like this where women have been in power for a long time and are in the majority, there are also many lesbians, almost a 50-50 ratio.
Therefore, Baihua Valley has long been funding research on dioecious reproduction in the medical school within its sphere of influence, and it finally achieved success more than a hundred years ago.
From then on, not only did lesbian couples in Baihua Valley give birth to offspring together, but even straight women no longer got married. Instead, they simply found male lovers outside and then paired up in the valley to give birth to their own children.
Over time, there was no man left in Baihua Valley, and it truly became a country of women.
The current owner of Baihua Valley, Situ Yi, and his wife Liu Xin, are an openly lesbian couple. They once held a grand wedding and invited countless court officials and fellow jianghu people, which caused a huge sensation and also attracted considerable controversy.
Their daughters were conceived from each other's eggs, which then formed embryos and were implanted in the mother's uterus to grow. The daughter born from Situ Yi's pregnancy is named Situ Yingyue, and the daughter born from Liu Xin's pregnancy is named Liu Xunyun. They are both eighteen years old this year.
"A family of four is here..." Pei Xuan said excitedly, "I wonder how beautiful they are..." Although Situ Yingyue and her sister Liu Xunyun are both among the Five Gates and Seven Fairies, Pei Xuan has seen their photos and videos, but with the development of technology these days, photos and videos may not be consistent with real people, but since they are called fairies, they must be pretty good.
What's more, this is the daughter born to two mothers, which makes Pei Xuan even more covetous.
Soon, Pei Xuan and others arrived at the villa where Baihua Valley was located, and the elite disciples in the valley welcomed them in.
Seeing that these female disciples were all good-looking, Pei Xuan was even more excited about the Valley Master Situ Yi and his family.
As soon as he entered the reception room, Pei Xuan's eyes lit up. He saw a pair of tall and plump middle-aged beauties standing there quietly, their bodies pressed against each other intimately and naturally, revealing their decades of sincere love.
The beautiful woman facing the door looked calm, with her head held high and chest puffed out, standing with her hands behind her back, looking like a master. The beautiful woman next to her was a little shorter, leaning sideways against her wife, with a warm smile on her beautiful face.
"I'm Du Ruoyun, the director of the Imperial College, and I'm the imperial envoy sent by the court to participate in this Prison Fox Conference." Du Ruoyun entered the room and exchanged greetings with Situ Yi and Liu Xin. "Greetings to the Valley Master, and to the Madam."
"I apologize for not welcoming the Imperial Envoy." Situ Yi, the Valley Master, simply returned the greeting. His wife, Liu Xin, replied, "I wonder what advice Fairy Du has for your late-night visit?" Du Ruoyun smiled faintly. "I'm here hoping to persuade the Valley Master and his wife to side with the Imperial Court at tomorrow's Prison Fox Conference."
"Oh?" Liu Xin smiled back. "Then may I ask what the court's stance is?"
"The Nine-Tailed Fox injured someone in the Misty Forest, violating the law and should be handed over to the court's judicial authorities for punishment," Du Ruoyun explained. "Furthermore, the Nine-Tailed Fox was once the consort of His Majesty, the Flower King Yunshang, in ancient times. Now that Yunshang is in the imperial capital, it's only right that these two lovers be reunited, isn't it?"
"That makes sense, but..." Liu Xin shook his head, "But the Imperial Envoy doesn't know that the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox is the founder of our sect. How can we just give him up and let others bully us?"
"This... Everyone in the world knows that the founder of your sect is the Immortal Qinghe..." Du Ruoyun was stunned. "I wonder where the madam is getting this from?"
The six major sects have a long history and have always been part of the publicity when recruiting students. For thousands of years, no one has ever heard of the story of the Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox creating the Hundred Flowers Valley.
"The envoy doesn't believe it?" Liu Xin smiled, took out her mobile phone, opened a favorite page and handed it to Du Ruoyun, "Please look at our evidence." Du Ruoyun took it and saw that it was a page of the Hardware Encyclopedia. The entry opened was "Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox". In the column of "Later Legends", there was a short sentence written: "Some people believe that the true identity of the Immortal Qinghe is the Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox, and therefore the founder of Baihua Valley is the Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox."
"What does that statement even mean?" Du Ruoyun frowned. "It's groundless, without any basis or proof. It's just one of the countless ridiculous rumors circulating. The Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox and the Immortal Qinghe are completely unrelated. How could they be the same person?"
"Your Majesty, you may not know that the palace where the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox lived when she was with Her Majesty Yunshang was called the Bihe Palace," Liu Xin explained with grace and grace, oblivious to how far-fetched her words were. "Later, when the Grandmother founded the Hundred Flowers Valley, she named it after the palace where she once lived in order to avoid drawing attention. Isn't that logical?"
"Madam, you are so unreasonable. Do you really think your fellow martial artists will agree with you?" Du Ruoyun snorted coldly, "Let alone others, even if it is your sect's founder, the Immortal Qinghe, I wonder what she would think if she knew that her descendants would fabricate her identity for a little profit?" At this moment, Situ Yi, who had been silent all this time, spoke softly: "The dead are gone, and the living are the most important." After hearing Situ Yi's voice, Pei Xuan and others realized that although she was the Valley Master, her wife Liu Xin had been speaking for her. It turned out that Situ Yi's voice did not match her calm and dignified appearance. Instead, it was an ambiguous
The voice is so gentle that if you only listen to the sound, you would think it is a lover whispering in your ear.