Both Wu Hei and Lord Cai seemed shocked at this revelation and have not expected this. From the information that Wu Hei had told Lin Mu, he remembered that they had at least ten more days till the marriage ceremony. For some reason, they had switched back to an earlier date.
"What Elder brother? How did this happen?" Wu Hei questioned.
This matter was actually quite important to Wu Hei too, and he needed to make appropriate changes in the plans that he had made, if the ceremonies were going to be hurried up. Wu Teng sighed again before speaking.
~Sigh~
"Mother said that father deserves what has happened to him and even if he doesn't return, we will be having the wedding. It doesn't matter to her if he even gets punished by the king." Wu Teng stated.
"I see…" Wu Hei muttered upon hearing this.
'Looks like mother found out something as well… but what could it be? Perhaps she suspects father as well?' Wu Hei thought to himself.
"I must congratulate on the finalization of the date then, Lord Wu Teng." Lord Cai spoke.
"Ah, yes. Thank you." Wu Teng replied before picking up another cup of wine and gulping it down.
"Now that the date of the marriage ceremony has been confirmed, when will the tournaments be starting?" Lin Mu questioned curiously.
~Tap~
Wu Teng placed the cup down and thought for a bit before answering.
"Mother said something about finishing up the smaller tournaments first and keeping the martial tournament for the very last. So I guess they will start from tomorrow afternoon. Mother is sending out the invitations as we speak right now." Wu Teng answered.
"Wait a minute, elder brother! Is that why you are here? Did you skip out on work?" Wu Hei questioned with a strong gaze.
"Ehehe~ Umm… yeah…" Wu Teng responded awkwardly, like a child that was caught doing mischief.
Wu Hei rubbed his forehead in frustration and knew the problems this would cause later. If mother got pissed, it would fall upon his head to resolve whatever happened, which was not something that he wanted to do at all.
Just as they were speaking about this, a Steward approached Lord Cai.
"Lord Cai, there is something for you," The steward said.
Lord Cai took the item from the steward, which was an ornate box. He opened the box and saw the scroll inside. As soon as he saw it, he knew what it was.
"Looks like I got the invitation too," Lord Cai said as he opened the scroll and read it.
Wu Hei suddenly felt the communication jade slip lightly buzz on his waist as well, and he held it in his hand before closing his eyes. About ten seconds later, he opened his eyes and nodded his head.
"Was that mother?" Wu Teng questioned.
"Yeah, it was her. She told me about the updated dates of all the events and also told me to come to meet with her as soon as possible." Wu Hei answered.
Wu Teng's eyes went wide as soon as he heard this and he almost japed up.
"Little brother, you absolutely cannot tell her where I am right now. I don't want to hear another one of her lectures again…" Wu Teng stated.
Wu Hei was about to protest, but then simply sighed.
"Fine, but you need to return home quick too and you cannot spend the night here." Wu Hei said before looking at Lord Cai. "Elder brother shall not stay here for the night, ensure this." He ordered.
~Gulp~
Lord Cai could faintly feel the threatening aura coming from Wu Hei and knew better than to disagree with him.
"As you wish, Lord Hei," Lord Cai replied with cupped hands.
"Hmm, wait does the Tri cauldron peony sect know of this? I mean, won't they have to get ready for it?" Lin Mu asked, feeling curious.
"They should know about it by now as well. Mother should have informed the peak master and Ye Zi Jin too. But you don't really have to think about them getting ready, they have always been ready." Wu Teng replied.
"Oh… I see." Lin Mu said before nodding his head.
Seeing that silence had descended again, Lord Cai remembered what they wanted to discuss before.
"Oh yes, Lord Mu Lin, you wanted to know about the Gu Legion," Lord Cai said.
Wu Teng's ears perked up upon hearing about this, and he turned to look at Lord Cai.
"You know about the Gu Legion?" He questioned in a straight tone.
"Yes, elder brother. Both Lord Cai and brother Mu Lin have been offended by the Gu Legion." Wu Hei was the one that answered the question this time.
"You too? I had a conflict with them as well when I was coming to the City from the capital." Wu Teng replied.
"What? How did I not know of this?" Wu Hei questioned.
"Father didn't inform you? I already told him a while ago and I thought he must have told you as well, that's why I never talked about it." Wu Teng answered.
"Dammit, father!" Wu Hei silently cursed under his breath.
Wu Hei's men had been rather concentrated around a few areas of concern recently due to which his information network had been slowed down. Otherwise, there was no chance that he would have had not known that the Teng Battalion had a conflict with them.
"What exactly happened in the conflict, tell me?" Wu Hei questioned again.
"Well, nothing too much really. A few of their men sneaked into one of the towns we were resting in and I noticed them. They were killing one of the patrons of the inn that I was staying at, and I sensed them. Regardless, they were dead soon and couldn't even bear a couple of blows from me." Wu Teng answered.
"But how did you find out they were from the Gu Legion?" Wu Hei questioned.
"They told me themselves. Those bastards thought they could fool me with cheap tricks. Can you imagine, they called father master; hah, the audacity!"