"What hour is it, and you’re still not asleep?"
Mo Hua looked up, realizing the sky was very dark, it was well past midnight, probably already 2 a.m.
It seems it’s a bit late...
However, Mo Hua said, "Uncle Gu, you’re not asleep either?"
Gu Changhuai: "The Taoist Court is quite busy..."
Mo Hua: "Weren’t you ’sidelined’?"
Gu Changhuai: "..."
Mo Hua was taken aback, suddenly realizing, "Uncle Gu, you’re... not courting that Instructor Hua and developed feelings, so you can neither eat nor sleep, right?"
"What nonsense are you spouting?!"
Gu Changhuai was so angry his teeth itched.
If Mo Hua were in front of him, he would have tugged his ear off.
"The Taoist Court has a new Supervisor, kind of troublesome, lots of things to handle..." Gu Changhuai said.
"New Supervisor?" Mo Hua was startled, "Who is it?"
Gu Changhuai was speechless, "Telling you wouldn’t help, also, don’t snoop around about the Taoist Court’s matters."
"Oh."
Gu Changhuai continued, "It’s so late, what do you need me for?"
Mo Hua was about to speak but suddenly recalled the words of the elder from the Water Prison Sect named "Yu Canghai", and felt a slight chill in his heart, asking:
"Uncle Gu, is the Gu Family considered ’upright’?"
Gu Changhuai frowned, thought for a moment, and slowly said:
"I don’t like those two words ’upright’. Cultivators of the Taoist Court ought to follow the Taoist Law, seek truth from facts, arrest who needs arresting, kill who needs killing, act impartially, no such thing as being upright or not."
"However, in the eyes of others, our Gu Family seems indeed viewed as ’upright’..."
Mo Hua nodded, his heart understood, and then he began to speak:
"I encountered someone related to the Yu Family’s Water Fort. He said the Yu Family’s Water Fort was annihilated by Evil Cultivators incited by the Gui Water Sect."
"Moreover, this person is also a descendant of the Water Prison Sect..."
It was deep into the night; Gu Changhuai had been busy all day, initially looking tired, but upon hearing this, his expression immediately shook.
"Really?"
Mo Hua was speechless, "When have I ever lied to you?"
You’ve lied to me plenty.
Gu Changhuai thought inwardly.
But now wasn’t the time for idle chatter, Gu Changhuai then asked, "Where are you now?"
Mo Hua: "I’m in the small fishing village."
"The small fishing village by the Mistwater River?" Gu Changhuai frowned, "Why are you there?"
"It’s a long story, I’ll explain more when we meet." Mo Hua said.
The Letter Token is too slow to explain it.
Moreover, he still needed to consider what can and cannot be said.
"Alright!" Gu Changhuai pondered for a moment then said, "I’m currently at the Taoist Court in Qianxue State Boundary and can’t leave right now, I’ll come and find you after handling the matters in hand tomorrow morning."
"Alright." Mo Hua nodded.
After the conversation, Mo Hua put away the Letter Token, crouched on a big tree at the village entrance, and pondered alone.
This matter is too significant, involving many influential bodies.
Going it alone and fishing in troubled waters might be fine, but to hold it down, he didn’t have the capability yet.
Even to ensure the well-being of that Water Prison Sect elder exceeded his capabilities.
Thinking it over, he could only rely on Uncle Gu.
But there was a problem.
Mo Hua himself trusted Uncle Gu very much.
Though he had a bad temper, a sour face, his words were sometimes harsh, and he wasn’t gentle or considerate, but he was indeed a good person.
However, that old man from the Water Prison Sect, perhaps not.
He was very wary of the cultivators from the Taoist Court; if he knew of Uncle Gu’s identity as a Supervisor of the Taoist Court, he might not want to cooperate.
"Forget it, we’ll talk about it when the time comes..."
Mo Hua thought to himself.
Besides, that old man might not be a good person either, and not everything he said might be true.