As the New Year approached, all matters were handled by other officials. Rong Baichuan, the nominal Minister of War, had nothing to do, so he resigned early and returned home.
Just as he was slowly looking around on the street, a familiar figure caught his attention.
——It was Jiang Lingyu who was carefully disguised!
If the dagger stuck in his waist was not a gift from Rong Baichuan in his early years, he really would not have recognized him.
Jiang Lingyu was walking hurriedly, hiding here and there, as if he was tracking someone?
Recently, Jiang Lingyu has been in the limelight. He has successively investigated and confiscated many court officials, and without exception, they were all those who had been revealed in advance by Chaoxi to be involved with the eldest prince.
Rong Baichuan is now becoming more and more satisfied with this young man. He knows some unknown information all thanks to Chaoxi's ability to see through people's destinies.
However, Jiang Lingyu figured it out through his own reasoning and outstanding investigative skills.
Such a talented person has a bright future.
Thinking of this, Rong Baichuan followed, wanting to see what Jiang Lingyu could find out this time.
You also need to study hard and not rely on your ability to know everything overnight.
That would make him seem like a useless father.
Rong Baichuan followed Jiang Lingyu's footsteps carefully and moved forward.
Gradually, they left the bustling streets and unknowingly arrived in the west of the city.
The environment here is dilapidated, the streets are narrow, and as the sun sets, the light becomes dimmer.
Finally, Jiang Lingyu walked into a deep and secluded alley, and in the blink of an eye, his figure completely disappeared from Rong Baichuan's sight.
Rong Baichuan began to look around carefully with confusion.
After searching for a while, he found a secret door hidden in the shadows in an inconspicuous corner.
——It’s the entrance to the ghost market!
Rong Baichuan frowned slightly, wondering why he came to this place.
The ghost market is a mixed bag, with bandits, killers and evildoers everywhere, making it difficult to distinguish between right and wrong.
Rong Baichuan also went there once when he was young and almost fell down.
Jiang Lingyu actually broke into such a dangerous place alone.
Too reckless.
Rong Baichuan raised his hand to push the door open, but seeing his bright clothes, he knew that he would be surrounded, snatched and torn into pieces as soon as he entered.
He climbed over the wall, tore off a piece of coarse linen in the yard next to him and put it on. He left a silver ingot, turned around and went back to the black market.
…
Wutong Courtyard.
Rong Chaoxi was fighting with Hai Yan for the ball, "Wow, wow..."
"Miss Chaoxi, can you let them rest for a while? They are tired from rolling around..." Hai Yan grabbed the two fish eggs tightly and looked at their dim luster during the day, feeling extremely distressed.
He looked at Rong Chaoxi's wrinkled face and advised kindly,
"Besides...your weight will crush them. They're not wheels. You can't put a board on them and let them carry you. Can I make you a cart?"
Hai Yan was tired.
He would come every morning to check whether the two fish eggs were still alive.
Every morning the two eggs would bloom with soft light, radiating brilliance. But after being played with by Rong Chaoxi all day, they would become dull and wilted at night.
Hai Yan was afraid that in a few days, the two mermaids would die in the egg.
He is the descendant of the Sea God. He cannot bear to watch two intelligent beings die in front of his eyes. He would feel even more sorry for the divine power given to him by the Sea God.
"I'll take care of them for two days, give them some divine power, and then return them to you, okay?" Hai Yan took a step back and begged.
The Dongwu capital city is some distance away from the Xumi Island, and he originally did not want to mobilize his divine power in such a far place.
The farther away from the place where the divine power is stored, the more mental energy is consumed to mobilize it.
But in order to save the two mermaids, he had no choice but to do this.
"No... damn..." Rong Chaoxi shook his head and refused.
"I use my spiritual energy to nourish them every night, so they won't die..."
[And mermaid eggs are very hard, otherwise they would have been strangled by the different air pressures between the two worlds when they crossed over.]
"Hmph!" Rong Chaoxi pouted her chubby little lips and snorted heavily at Hai Yan.
She is not a bad person, she would not kill such a cute baby!
"Young Master Hai, don't worry. Although Chaoxi is naughty, she won't kill anyone at will." Rong Yubai saw that the two were deadlocked and began to persuade them.
Hai Yan told them on the day he confirmed that the "Night Pearl" was a mermaid egg.
Originally, they wanted them to persuade Chaoxi to take the fish eggs back home to raise them.
As a result, the whole family persuaded him that he could recover day and night.
But she wasn't raising it at all; she was just playing with it as an ordinary night pearl.
Every day it either rolls on the ground, rolls in the water, or is thrown into the air.
And I do it in front of him every time.
During the days that Hai Yan came to the Rong family, he could not feel at ease for a single day.
"And don't you think that the light you see every morning is getting brighter day by day?" Rong Yubai had noticed long ago that the light emitted by the fish eggs was getting brighter and brighter.
At first, there was only a faint glow on the surface, but now it can be used as a candle.
Of course, except for the night after a day of tossing and turning.
Hai Yan also noticed the change, of course, but...
"But it's not lit now... Oh..."
Although Hai Yan was listening to Rong Yubai's words, he did not hold back his strength in grabbing the fish eggs.
At this moment, Chaoxi let go of his hand, and the opponent instantly lost his strength, and Hai Yan fell on his back with his limbs spread out.
[Dad and brother-in-law are in danger...]
Rong Chaoxi turned over and lay down, crawling out using his hands and feet, and disappeared from the house in a flash.
Rong Yubai also stood up from his chair and chased after Chaoxi.
Hai Yan looked bewildered. "Where are they going? Isn't it... Isn't Ah Bai's legs weak? How come he seems to be running faster than me?"
Although Rong Yubai rarely used a wheelchair at home, he always walked slowly. Except for a few trusted people, no one knew that he was fully recovered.
Rong Yubai followed Chaoxi to the phoenix tree, only to see the little guy with his hands on the tree trunk, his eyes closed, and muttering something.
"Little sister, daddy will be back soon. Let's go to the front hall to eat. After you're full, come back and play with the big log, okay?" Rong Yubai wanted to find out where his father was from Chaoxi's thoughts so that he could send someone to rescue him.
[No, no, Daddy and my brother-in-law are surrounded by bad guys. Daddy will be dead by the time we finish eating...]
[Ah… I found my dad and brother-in-law… Big Wood, hang those bad guys up and spank them!]
The little guy sounded very angry.
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