The Fierce Farm Girl Has A Secret Space

Chapter 1245: Chapter 1245: Miss of Wanren Villa (5)

The young miss of Wanren Villa?

Yang Ruxin’s eyes flickered for a moment. When they arrived, Dao Xuzi did introduce them to the situation of Wanren Villa. In those years, Dao Xuzi had even saved the life of the old madam of the villa owner, but she has been dead for almost forty years now, so that favor could no longer be mentioned.

Moreover, the old villa owner had also passed away.

The current villa owner, Wan Song, maintained a neutral stance in the Jiangnan martial world, never involving himself in conflicts between good and evil, and was said to be obsessed with collecting weapons.

The name Wanren Villa originally stemmed from the myriad blades it housed. It was rumored that unless a weapon was in someone else’s possession, any armament one had heard of could be found within its walls. Among the collection was a peerless divine weapon known as the Blood-drinking Sword, which was said to be able to slice through iron as if it were mud and would recognize its owner through blood—although many had heard of it, few had actually seen it.

There were many in the martial world who ventured into the villa to steal, but nearly all of them never returned.

However, at that time, the Wan family’s ranks were not very prosperous. Later on, a wise man suggested that the character for ”blade” carried too much malevolent energy, which hindered the flourishing of their lineage. Hence, they changed the name to the current Wanren Villa, and the mountain took the name Wanren Mountain too.

As for the original name of the mountain, it had long been forgotten.

Indeed, the Wan family flourished after the renaming; up to three generations before the old villa owner, lineage had been passed on through only one son. No matter how many wives were taken, there were no children—except for the old villa owner, who had one wife and one concubine, each bearing him a son, hence the next generation had a step-brother.

But the old villa owner, deeply in love with his wife and having never taken a concubine, had only one son, the current villa owner Wan Song. His step-brother, however, had two sons.

And now, Wan Song himself had taken only one wife, yet had successively had four sons, named with the aspiration of embodying both the literary and martial arts. Adding his two step-nephews, each with two sons of their own, this generation of the Wan family could be described as exceedingly prosperous.

Strangely, though, the Wan family hadn’t produced a single daughter for several generations.

Wan Song had his daughter at the age of forty, while his wife was thirty-eight. It really was a case of having a daughter in their later years. Both parents cherished her as if she was a precious treasure, and her four elder brothers, along with her four step-brothers, didn’t necessarily get along well with one another, but they unanimously doted on their little sister. Thus, Wan Jiaojiao was showered with a myriad of affections.

”Young master, what does it mean to ’throw the Embroidered Ball for a martial contest matchmaking event’?” Yang Ruxin was hearing for the first time about combining the throwing of the Embroidered Ball with a martial contest for matchmaking.

”Don’t you know about that?” The waiter, Xiao’er, laughed, ”Our Miss Wan is not just anyone—she’s considered the number-one beauty in Jiangnan. Since she came of age last year, those seeking her hand in marriage have been flooding Wan County...”

Yang Ruxin nodded, showing great surprise.

”Whom will the villa owner accept or reject, right? Hence, the news was released that this year, on the young miss’s sixteenth birthday, there will be an Embroidered Ball throwing cum martial contest matchmaking event. There will initially be ten Embroidered Balls thrown...”

”Ten Embroidered Balls?” Yang Ruxin furrowed his brow, ”Surely not to have the ones catching the balls fight each other in a contest?”

”You’re pretty sharp, sir. Those ten will draw lots to compete against one another, and the final five will have to pass through the Steep Mountain Array. After that, they must accept challenges posed by Miss Wan herself. As long as they pass Miss Wan’s tests, she can choose one of them for her husband. The ones who are not selected can choose one weapon from the Arsenal to take with them as compensation...”