Chapter 751: Fox Book Rubbings

The ice room was very grand and had many customers, including merchants, scholars, and even the private rooms were filled with young men and women from wealthy families.

Gong Mengbi led the people in and the waiter came to greet them.

"You three guests are unfamiliar with each other. Is this your first time here?"

"Do you still remember which one you came back?"

"This is my unique skill. Guests who have served me will never forget it. We have Sushan, iced cheese, sweet bowls, hay ice drinks, ice-brewed rice wine, iced cold yuanzi, and iced sour plum soup. Here's the menu. What would you three like to order?"

Xiao Er was not very old, with a sweet and sharp mouth. When he smiled, he showed a row of snow-white teeth. His round and cute face reminded Gong Mengbi of Xiao Yier.

"Then let's have three bowls of rose ice cream."

"Great."

Miao Huhui's heart began to beat fast as soon as he glanced at the menu. He frantically groped in his sleeves, trying to take out the small change he had saved.

Gong Mengbi held his hand and said, "It's my treat."

Shao Huzheng looked around and said, "There are several ice cream parlors in Pengcheng too, all of which opened in recent years. The one with the best business is Mingyue Ice Cream Parlor, which also has a branch in Xiapi."

Miao Huhui, still feeling a bit uncomfortable with being treated to a meal by his superior, said, "Those of us who practice cultivation don't mind the cold or heat, and we rarely come to the ice room to enjoy ourselves. Today, we are in great need of Gong Huzheng's blessing."

Gong Mengbi said, "I didn't really ask you to come here to eat ice cream, just listen carefully."

The ice cream has been served, with cool smoke rising from the bowl. Rose jam is mixed with milk smoothie that looks like fine snow. The fragrance of flowers and milk comes together, making people feel sweet from the heart.

But after listening to Gong Mengbi's words, the Miaohu Society's attention was no longer on Bingru.

Gong Mengbi held up a white porcelain bowl and said, "In the private room upstairs."

Miao Huhui was concentrating, the laughter and chatter of the diners gradually faded away, and the sounds from the private room upstairs gradually became clearer.

Soon, he heard a very familiar name from several private rooms.

"Zhang Chengzu, please stop telling lies. It's either a fairy or a fox. Why didn't we see any fairies or foxes?"

"I really didn't lie!"

"Okay, okay, you didn't lie, we just heard it wrong, okay."

"Oh, I also snatched a rare book from the fox. If my mother hadn't taken it to Jingta Temple, I would have shown it to you."

"Look, it's the same again. Last time they said they met an immortal and got a magical treasure, this time they said they bumped into a fox and got a magical book. We didn't see the treasure, and we didn't see the magical book either."

"Oh, don't listen to his nonsense, Sister Wan'er, the iced fruit wine here is unique, try one."

Several young men and women made fun of him, and Zhang Chengzu's face turned red.

One of the older ones lectured him, "Chengzu, you're not a child anymore. Stop obsessing over these superstitious things. If you don't want to pursue academic studies, you should at least learn how to manage a household. Why are you still so unfocused?"

Zhang Chengzu got mad and slammed the table, saying, "I'll show you what I can do!"

He pulled out a stack of papers from his pocket, waved them, and said, "Look, this is a rubbing of my strange book. See if I'm kidding you!"

He placed the rubbing on the table. Young men and women gathered around to look at it. They saw foxes leaping and birds flying, and unrecognizable scribbles of words on it.

The reason why it is called text rather than scribbles is because there are so many things copied on it. Although it is incomprehensible, it is indeed some kind of writing.

"Did you really run into a fox spirit?"

"Keep your voice down!" Zhang Chengzu lowered his voice, but with a hint of pride, he said, "I told you I wasn't lying. That fox spirit came to ask for the book, but my parents thought it was an ominous sign and wouldn't let me keep it. They forced me to send it to Jingta Temple."

"Who am I? Should I deliver it if you ask me to? This is the text that my servant and I copied overnight. It's just that we were short on time, so we only copied the beginning."

"There are so many in just one beginning? Could it be some kind of heavenly book or scroll?"

"I don't know. I can't understand it." Zhang Chengzu shook his head and said, "Speaking of which, Master Shangyi is in Jingta Temple now. I sent the strange book to Jingta Temple. Master Shangyi should have read it. I wonder if he can recognize it."

"Then why don't you go to Jingta Temple and ask Master Shangyi!"

"Hurry up and go, don't eat anymore, come back and eat later, I'll treat you."

A group of people started to make a commotion, and they were even more anxious than Zhang Chengzu.

Zhang Chengzu stuffed a piece of ice cream into his mouth and said, "Why are you in such a hurry? Master Shangyi won't run away!"

Several young people hurried downstairs, and their followers immediately left their seats and followed them.

Miao Huhui looked unhappy and didn't even have time to eat the ice cream.

"How can I let this delicious food go to waste?" Gong Mengbi pushed the ice cream toward him and said, "There's no rush."

Miao Huhui sighed, and put the milk smoothie mixed with rose jam into his mouth with a snow-white porcelain spoon. The sweetness spread from the tip of his tongue, and the coolness dissipated the heat and slightly soothed his anxious heart.

Gong Mengbi leaned back in his chair, turned his head to glance at the door of the ice room, watched the young men and women leave, narrowed his eyes slightly, and then put on a nonchalant smile.

Miao Huhui quickly devoured the ice cream, his forehead aching from the cold. He said, "Gong Huzheng, let's go get the Fox Book back. At the very least, we have to get the rubbing back. We can't spread it around anymore."

“If only it could be solved that easily.”

"He took it away, can't we just take it back?"

"You are a ninth-rank immortal official."

"Yes."

"Do you know what the fate of a ninth-rank immortal official is?"

"Ninth-grade destiny?"

Gong Mengbi laughed: "Although we are all born as wild foxes, we are able to serve as immortal officials because we were chosen by the Queen Mother of Mount Tai and entered the immortal register. We are practicing the immortal way and have long changed our fate and destiny. We have a different world."

"No matter how good the fate of the Zhang family's child is, first, he doesn't have the fate of a dynasty, second, he doesn't have the inner fate of civil and military, and third, he doesn't have the fate of successful cultivation. No matter how good his fate and luck are, he is still a pile of loose sand and can't compare to you."

Miao Huhui was stunned: "So it's not me who has the problem?"

"I'm afraid someone is behind this." Gong Mengbi stood up and said, "I just don't know who they're targeting. Maybe it's you, maybe it's me, or maybe it's the Zhang family's kid."

"Follow and see."

Shao Huzheng and Miao Huhui followed Gong Mengbi's footsteps and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The waiter turned around and found that the person was gone. Just as he was about to look for him, he found a piece of loose change left on the table and he breathed a sigh of relief.

Several young people went to Jingta Temple in a horse-drawn carriage. When they arrived at Jingta Temple, Gong Mengbi and the other two had also arrived.

Gong Mengbi looked at it from a distance and could not help but admire it, "The Buddha's shadow is deep and profound."

Watching these young people enter Jingta Temple, Gong Mengbi said, "Let's go in too."

Shao Huzheng hesitated and said, "I just had a fight with the monks in the temple. Is it not appropriate for me to go like this?"

"Just follow me."