Chapter 486 — Feng Xiaoxiao and Her Father
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"He must have known he couldn't cure it, so he hid himself away!" Feng Xiaoxiao was unconvinced. "Those so-called divine doctors are all the same. And that so-called Divine Doctor Kang — what can he do besides make a wound salve? And people call him a divine doctor! It's laughable!"
"You were young then; you don't understand what kind of man Divine Doctor Lin is. He's a man of persistence. For your mother's sake, he risked going to the Miao lands to study the Gu sect." Feng Tianlong could not bear to scold his daughter, but he still had to teach her a thing or two. "You must not disrespect him."
"Fine, fine..." Feng Xiaoxiao waved her hand. "But if he was so persistent, why did he go into seclusion?"
"Your mother's illness — how could it be so easy to study?" Feng Tianlong smiled bitterly. "For a while now I've been trying to contact him, but I haven't been able to reach him... Captain Yang, who led me on missions back then, was on close terms with Divine Doctor Lin, but he went into seclusion too."
"You know it's hard to study, and yet you still brought me here for tests?" Feng Xiaoxiao frowned.
"The results will take a few more days. Let me show you around Yanjing these next couple of days — it'll do you good to get your mind off things." Feng Tianlong did not answer his daughter's question directly. He knew as well as anyone that this round of tests would probably leave Doctor Zheng at a loss too, but hope was better than no hope.
"Oh..." Feng Xiaoxiao answered faintly, neither agreeing nor refusing. Clearly she was not very interested.
"Someone gave your father a few invitations to an auction. Want to go take a look?" Feng Tianlong suddenly remembered that the Yu family's auction was in a few days, and he had received an invitation as well.
The organization Feng Tianlong belonged to was called the Mysterious Investigation Bureau, a very special agency, and it had close ties with the Yu family, who hosted the auctions. So every time the Yu family held an auction, they sent a great many courtesy tickets to the Bureau. But most of the Bureau's people had no time to attend; the invitations were merely a matter of courtesy.
"An auction? Then let's go take a look!" Feng Xiaoxiao had never been to an auction in all her life. Hearing her father mention it, she rather wanted to see one — otherwise she would die without ever having been to an auction, and what a waste that would be!
"But if you take a fancy to something, your father won't have the money to buy it." Feng Tianlong smiled regretfully. "My salary is high enough, but I still can't afford auction pieces that go for hundreds of thousands or millions at the drop of a hat."
"Heh..." Feng Xiaoxiao finally smiled. What she wanted was that feeling of novelty, the feeling of her father taking her out to have fun. Whether they bought anything or not was beside the point.
Her father had said before that he would take her around — she had heard that kind of talk plenty of times, and every time some urgent assignment had come up and he had stood her up several times over. But this time he had mentioned an auction and even produced the invitations, so presumably he would not stand her up. "No standing me up!"
Seeing the smile on Feng Xiaoxiao's face, Feng Tianlong was happy too. "I won't. There are three sessions in all — I can at least sit through one with you."
"Mm." Being able to see one was enough for Feng Xiaoxiao. For her, that was already plenty.