"Exactly! Hahaha! I didn't expect that even though my wife isn't in Chang'an, she's still so well-informed!"

Old Hu clapped his hands and laughed: "The ins and outs of this matter are so convoluted and bizarre. It is only because I have a past relationship with the messenger who often goes to Chang'an to collect souls that I know about this matter."

Speaking of the young master of the Wei family, he is the handsome young man who came to my old man's house for a banquet when my eleventh daughter got married.

Back then, my daughters even fought over this man!

Young Master Wei was intelligent from a young age. He learned many principles from the man who is now a judge, Master Wei. He could compose a poem in seven steps and speak eloquently. Even the current emperor praised him.

But when Wei Langjun was thirteen, he did something foolish. At that time, he had just learned some poems about cuckoos and knew the interesting fact that cuckoos like to lay their eggs in the nests of nearby birds.

The cuckoo's nature is simply following the natural cycle of life, and it does not cause any harm to others.

But upon hearing this, Wei Langjun became enraged. He ran to his garden and, seeing a cuckoo nesting in a tree, smashed the nest, killing all the chicks inside.

Hearing this, Xu Milu already had a vague guess, and A Qing couldn't help but interject:

Was Wei Ying's first wife the reincarnation of that dead cuckoo?

"Ah Qing's words are half right."

Old Hu continued, "It turns out that the cuckoo that laid its eggs in the tree was a cuckoo spirit. When she saw that her three sons and daughters had all fallen to their deaths, she was filled with grief and indignation and crashed into the tree to her death. Her soul went to the underworld and met Wei Zheng, who would soon become a judge."

Wei Zheng was an upright and incorruptible man. After hearing the whole story, he was indeed furious. He then decreed that the cuckoo bird should be resurrected by borrowing the body of the Xu family's wife and marry Wei Langjun. The cuckoo bird died three times after marrying, intending to make him also taste the pain of being separated from his own flesh and blood.

The three cuckoo chicks that died were reincarnated into the Wei family to collect their debt, becoming cuckoo girls born of a human and a demon.

Ah, I see.

Xu Milu suddenly realized.

She wondered why Xu Fangnian had been so hostile towards her for no reason. She had thought it was just a jealous young lady throwing a tantrum, but it turned out that Xu Fangnian was afraid that she would find out her background.

However, judging from Old Hu's expression, the other party probably didn't know that these three children were all Wei Ying's biological children.

True biological parents in the physical sense.

No wonder the Wei family was so secretive; they were afraid the news would get out.

However, secrets don't stay hidden forever. While mortals may not know, the news must have spread among the fairies.

Upon hearing this, Xu Milu couldn't help but sigh at the unpredictability of life.

Good and evil are merely the fixed standards that people set for themselves. The cuckoo taking over the nest is simply a case of the strong preying on the weak, a natural cycle. It is truly inappropriate to judge animals in nature based on human values.

However, when we looked at Wei Ying and Xu Fangnian, it seemed that the two of them were not completely heartless. If Wei Ying had not been willing, he would not have endured the pain of childbirth for her. It can only be said that it was a coincidence and fate.

If this story were set in modern times, it would absolutely blow away all romance novels.

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Old Hu's peach blossoms bloom for a long time without fading, and there are peaches to eat all year round. The tree is quite old. It is said that it was planted by Emperor Yang of Sui during the Sui Dynasty and became a spirit. It lived with a fox to avoid disaster.

Although this peach tree has developed sentience, it is still far from being able to speak human language; its only magic ability is to conjure peaches.

Therefore, it is common to see large, pink peaches ripening on tree branches before the peach blossoms have fallen.

When Xu Milu left, she specially asked the old peach tree for a basket of peaches and a basket of peach blossoms to take with her.

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Xu Milu slept soundly again that night, only climbing down from the sycamore tree when she heard the vendors' cries on the street.

The shop door was half open, but there was no sign on it. Through the window, one could see that in the hazy morning light, there were already many people on Chang'an Avenue.

Aqing and Daizi were sitting on the threshold, engrossed in something. They were so focused that they didn't even notice Xu Milu walking up behind them.

Upon closer inspection, Xu Milu realized that the two girls were playing with toys.

The virtual city model, with a diameter of half a meter, has four options on the right: "Sunny Day", "Rainy Day", "Drought", and "Flood". It also features day and night cycles and the changing of the four seasons.

Within this virtual city of buildings, countless alien life projections roam freely, each with a different expression and action, creating a vivid, technological version of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival".

If you look closely, you'll find that there are no repeated virtual scenes on the sand table. If you reach out and touch them, the virtual figures will make expressions like "anger" or "fear".

—Although it is a children's toy used by four-year-olds to develop their spatial awareness, it is ingeniously designed. Not to mention that Dai Zi, who lived in the Tang Dynasty, loved to play with it, some children in modern times probably have never even seen it.

Aqing and Daizi agreed to take turns flipping the switch, one time each, which was very fair.

"I haven't been to the mortal realm for so long, I didn't know there were so many fun things to do there. This magic weapon is really interesting. I want to buy one for Senior Sister Mingyue and have the messenger crane take it back to her."

When Aqing saw Xu Milu, she couldn't help but sigh:

"This place is so much fun, I don't want to go back."

"Then don't go back. When the time comes, send a letter to Senior Sister Mingyue and say that you want to stay with me for a while longer. I think Senior Sister Mingyue won't mind."

Xu Milu said casually, and when she turned her head, she saw Chen Xiang appear in her field of vision carrying two large food boxes.

"Senior sister, come and have breakfast, it's still warm!"

Chenxiang went to the street and bought some food. The honey-fried cakes and fried dough sticks from the fried dough vendor in the east of the city, the delicious steamed buns and pancakes from Huasheng Temple, and the freshly ground soy milk from the tofu vendor Liu's shop were all still steaming hot.

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