Chapter 478 Hongluan's Advice
Yu Zhiyi shook her head, not intending to kick someone when they were down, but also not intending to help Zheng Shi up.
Seeing the road ahead covered in sewage, she decisively changed her route.
Zheng was unable to spit out the taste in her mouth and was on the verge of collapse.
What's even more devastating is that when she looked up to look for Yu Zhiyi, she found that she was gone.
There was no kicking someone when they're down, no mockery, and no hysterical questioning as one might expect.
There was no helping hand or concerned inquiry.
She simply floated away.
Suddenly, tears streamed down Zheng's face.
Yu Zhiyi had no idea what Zheng was thinking.
When she returned to the entrance of Peach Garden, she used three cleansing talismans before she felt that the smell on her body had been cleaned up.
Shengjing was neither small nor large, and the street where Yu Zhiyi and Zheng met was not a remote alley. So the news that someone had overturned a manure cart and ended up with a mouthful of manure quickly spread throughout the streets and alleys.
The Jiang family wasn't idle in the afternoon either. After all, the whole family were martial arts practitioners and had plenty of energy. When Yu Zhiyi entered the palace, they also went out for a stroll and were fortunate enough to hear about this lively scene.
Fortunately, the whole family knew how to keep things in check, and they didn't bring up the matter before or at the dinner table.
After the family had all put down their bowls and chopsticks, Jiang Liuyun began to recount his experiences of the day with great enthusiasm.
Yu Zhiyi remained silent.
Sure enough, good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels fast.
Seeing Yu Zhiyi's strange expression, Xiao Qingxuan asked with concern, "What's wrong?"
Yu Zhiyi coughed lightly: "That person... is Zheng Shi."
The family's laughter stopped abruptly, and Xiao Qingxuan was also stunned.
But she quickly laughed again: "Heaven has eyes! This wicked woman deserves to be punished."
Jiang Liuyun nodded emphatically: "If it weren't for this woman back then, my sister wouldn't have been forced to separate from us for more than ten years. It's one thing to deliberately take my sister away, but to not treat her properly is far from enough punishment."
Yu Zhiyi thought for a moment and then said, "If I'm not mistaken, she probably wanted to push that manure cart into me."
The Jiang family members were immediately enraged: "That wretched old woman is disgusting!"
Even Jiang Siying, who was usually aloof and taciturn, frowned: "If she hadn't been so blinded by greed and taken my sister away back then, none of these things would have happened. It's all her own fault. What right does she have to take her anger out on others?"
Yu Zhiyi didn't say anything more.
She recalled the trajectory of fate she had seen on Zheng's face.
Yu Jiaojiao is dead.
She died a little over a month after she went to the Hidden Realm.
She had no feelings for Yu Jiaojiao and felt no regret, only a slight sense of melancholy.
For three lifetimes, Yu Jiaojiao's ending was never good.
Even though she learned the trajectory of her destiny through her rebirth, she still couldn't seize the opportunity.
If, after her rebirth, she hadn't tried to engage in petty and despicable activities, but instead focused on improving herself or helping the Yu family avoid crises, perhaps everything would have been different.
Suddenly, Zhang Xiang walked in and announced, "Miss, Miss Hongluan has arrived."
The Jiang family already knew that Yu Zhiyi had a good friend named Hongluan in the capital, and that this friend also had the surname Jiang, and that her father's name was very similar in structure to the names of the Jiang brothers, Jiang Yuchuan and Jiang Zhiyi.
Xiao Qingxuan and Jiang Liuyun had already met this legendary friend.
However, since it was Yu Zhiyi's first meeting with her friends after their reunion, none of them disturbed her.
"No wonder you insisted on buying this place back then. It is indeed a tranquil place, like a fairyland."
Although it was already past the third month of spring, the peach blossoms in the Peach Garden seemed to bloom forever. The shadows of the flowers swayed, and the pink petals fluttered down. The fragrance was not strong, but rather delicate and mysterious.
Yu Zhiyi chuckled: "Even if you hadn't come, I would have gone to find you anyway."
She brought a lot of things from the Hidden Realm, many of which were local specialties from the Hidden Realm to give to Hongluan.
There are also some protective magical artifacts.
Hongluan looked at the storage ring in front of her and hesitated.
"What? Are you dumbfounded?"
A hint of struggle flashed across Hongluan's eyes.
Suddenly, her expression hardened, as if she had made up her mind to something, and she looked at Yu Zhiyi seriously: "There is a green dwarf peony that has been blooming for eighteen years on Ming Mountain. Although it is not beautiful, you must find it."
Yu Zhiyi was taken aback: "What?"
Hongluan said no more, packed her things away, and hurriedly took her leave.
Watching her fleeing figure, Yu Zhiyi frowned.
Eighteen-year-old green dwarf peony on Mingshan Mountain?
Why would Hongluan ask her to find such a thing?
The male demon on her wrist suddenly floated out, scratching his head in confusion, and said, "Come to think of it, I do seem to have seen a peony like this before, growing near my house. I even thought about plucking it, but for some reason, I couldn't bring myself to do it."
“From then on, I restrained my demonic energy, not wanting such a tenacious peony to die in my home.”
Yu Zhiyi's expression shifted.
Where demons exist, the environment is generally cold and gloomy. Even if it looks no different from ordinary places, it is not suitable for the survival of ordinary crops.
However, there was no such hidden worry near the male demon's lair; everywhere was adorned with blooming flowers.
This is why she didn't initially discover that a demon was hiding on Ming Mountain.
At first, she thought that Mingshan was always full of flowers.
At Yu Zhiyi's current speed, a round trip from Shengjing to Mingshan would only take an hour or two.
She went out, but neither the people in Peach Garden nor those on Ming Mountain found anything unusual.
Only Li Rou noticed that a green dwarf peony had appeared in her young mistress's room.
"Miss, shall we lean this peony against the wall in the courtyard?"
Yu Zhiyi shook her head: "No need, just stay in the basin."
After letting Li Rou go out to rest, Yu Zhiyi looked at the peony in front of her, lost in thought.
In fact, three hours have passed since the peony was unearthed, and she has been observing it for three hours.
I couldn't see anything unusual or different about this peony.
But she was certain that Hongluan wouldn't lie to her.
She stopped thinking about things she couldn't understand, placed the peony by the window to receive the essence of the sun and moon, and then sat cross-legged to begin meditation.
She has accumulated a great deal of merit and golden light over the past few days; upon careful counting, it turns out to be several thousand.
Previously, when she was in the Hidden Realm, the spiritual energy was too rich, so she never touched these golden lights of merit.
Now that she has returned to the mortal world, her spiritual energy has been restored to its sparse state, and she can only temporarily refine the golden light of merit for her own use.
Overnight, she refined a full thirty strands of golden light, an efficiency that was incomparable to the previous day.
However, in contrast, her current golden core is like a vast ocean. The spiritual power transformed from the refined golden light is simply not enough in the face of such a vast ocean, and it seems to have little effect after being incorporated into it.
Fortunately, she was already mentally prepared and didn't feel disappointed.
Yu Zhiyi originally planned to go to the Hidden Realm after successfully resigning from her official post, but seeing how happily the Jiang family was shopping, she decided to postpone it for now.
Life shouldn't always be tense; we need to relax sometimes.
Actually, let alone the Jiang family, even she herself hasn't had a proper chance to explore Shengjing in recent years.
That evening, she unintentionally came across a long street filled with laughter and cheerful voices.
When she realized where she was, she wanted to turn around and leave.
But he froze when he saw a person in a building not far away.
Yu Sanlang, Yu Mingquan.
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