"Hahahaha... You people deserve to die! To save yourselves, you even made up lies about your husbands cheating on you! Since that's the case, then I'll call your men out for a face-to-face confrontation!" The Yan family's daughter-in-law laughed in anger, the blood lines on her face increasing, her whole face looking like a piece of porcelain covered in cracks!
"Scream all you want! I don't believe my husband would abandon his wife and children for a slut like you. Besides, you've already killed our two families' youngest daughters. What more do you want? To kill our whole family?" Mao's wife shouted hoarsely at Yan's wife. She was betting that even if her husband came up, he would be on her side and wouldn't speak up for Yan's wife.
The woman from the Yan family waved her hands, and two dark iron chains appeared. The female ghost pulled hard, and a wail came from behind the chains. Two dark figures, their necks bound by the chains, stumbled to the front of the female ghost and looked at their junior sister sitting cross-legged on the altar with great fear.
"It hurts! Bao Qiong!" The women from Qiu and Mao's families exclaimed in shock. Seeing their men kneeling on the ground, panting heavily, with iron chains around their necks, they felt a pang of unease.
"You two, tell me! What your wives said is that I seduced you, and then, to protect my reputation, I killed you both to silence you! Is that right? Speak!" The female ghost flicked her chains, and the two shadowy figures began to wail in agony...
“Baoqiong, Danteng, you two don’t need to be afraid. We’ve invited a celestial master to deal with her. Don’t be afraid of her revenge. Just tell the truth!” said Qiu’s wife.
The two shadowy figures finally recovered and looked at their junior sister with great fear. Then they looked at their wives and children and saw their wives nod at them...
"Yan Hunlan is a scoundrel. He steals chickens and dogs in our village all day long, harasses young women and wives everywhere, and bullies his own wife for a long time. Sometimes we can't stand it, so we help Yan Hunlan's wife. After all, we are all neighbors, and it is wrong for a man to beat his own wife, especially since he is not very capable."
We were just trying to help out, but our wife, who's so shameless, thought we were both interested in her, and then... and then she started doing all sorts of things, openly and secretly..." Qiu Baoqiong's voice trailed off, and he looked at the female ghost with some fear.
"And then mud?" The female ghost's entire body began to be covered in blood, and her face showed shocking wounds that revealed the bone! She asked Qiu Baoqiong in a very sinister tone.
"Later... later, at first we didn't dare at all, afraid that Yan Hunlan would find out and kill us, but... but we two still couldn't resist this woman's repeated teasing and seduction, and we committed an unforgivable sin..." Mao Danteng continued.
"Immortal Master, you've heard it all! Look, look! This woman was unfaithful and promiscuous in life, and even after she's dead, she's still causing trouble for us and trying to kill our whole family! Please, we beg you to do us justice!" Qiu Mao's family knelt down and cried out.
"Aren't you two afraid that you'll be struck by lightning and your souls will be scattered before you even reach the Netherworld?" a very angry voice roared.
Upon closer inspection, everyone saw a dark figure riding on three smaller dark figures approaching the altar!
"Yan Hunlan!" Everyone looked up at the dark figure and shouted involuntarily.
"You sons of bitches, you got me drunk and then tried to steal my rice. Are you even human?" Yan Hunlan questioned Qiu Baoqiong and Mao Danteng.
"You were the one who drank alcohol and then told us to harvest rice in your family's paddy field. You even said that you're in charge in your family, and that even if the King of Heaven himself came, we wouldn't have to care. You're the one to protect us. And you still have the nerve to curse us here?" Mao Danteng blurted out.
"Rice paddies? Harvesting rice? What's going on?" The junior sister looked at the ghosts and humans with some confusion.
"What rice? It's just that Yan's wife was unfaithful, seduced both of my husbands, and then poisoned me to cover it up in order to protect her reputation!" Qiu Baoqiong's wife was getting agitated.
"Yes, yes, there's nothing to do with rice paddies. It's all that Yan Hunlan guy spreading rumors and nonsense!" Mao Danteng knew he had let something slip.
“Alright, since you both have a point, I’ll go and call the people from your village here and ask them what exactly happened. What do you say?” The junior sister asked, staring at the wives of Qiu and Mao’s families.
“Well, um… just ask! We have a valid reason, what are we afraid of!” Qiu Baoqiong’s wife said.
"Everyone's been watching the commotion outside for so long, come in! What's going on? Does anyone know?" the junior sister shouted to the onlookers.
"We know about this! That day, when a few of us went fishing by the river, we passed by Yan Hunlan's rice paddies and saw that the rice there was growing very well. We all marveled at how that scoundrel Yan Hunlan had managed to marry such a hardworking and capable wife."
Then Qiu Baoqiong said, "I have a way to turn all this rice into ours." So we discussed it and invited Yan Hunlan over. We got him drunk and told him we were brothers and wanted the rice from his family's paddy fields. The bastard, drunk, agreed without hesitation. Then we helped him to the fields.
I don't know who tipped off Yan Hunlan's wife, but she came to the rice paddy and saw us harvesting the rice she had worked so hard to grow. She tried to stop us, but we took advantage of her being a woman and pregnant, so we ignored her.
Unexpectedly, Yan's wife was so fierce. She killed Mao Danteng with a sickle in one go. We were scared half to death and ran away in a hurry. But Qiu Baoqiong was still not giving up. He was still harvesting there. Then he was about to push Yan's wife. Yan's wife only started to cut him when she picked up the sickle.
These people even chopped up other people's wives into minced meat, then put it in sacks, weighed it down with huge stones, and threw it into their own latrines, saying that they would ensure that the Yan family's wife would never be able to rise again! "A person who worshipped the memorial tablet of the Yan family's wife stepped forward and said.
"Yes, it was these two who instigated us to go. We were blinded by greed and believed their lies, becoming their accomplices. We now know we were wrong, and we beg the Immortal Master to give the Yan family's daughter-in-law justice!"
Several participants stood up and spoke, and only then did the villagers behind them learn the whole story.
"Hahaha, all of you are this woman's lovers. Otherwise, why would you set up a memorial tablet for her after she died?" Qiu Baoqiong's wife said with a loud laugh.
"Bullshit! I've done nothing wrong, I swear to God, if I've uttered even half a lie, may I be struck by lightning and die a horrible death! Do you dare?" the man questioned, pointing at Qiu Baoqiong's wife.
"So what if we swore an oath? Do you think I wouldn't dare? The Mao family swore an oath to them, which means what we said is true! What are we afraid of? We have a valid reason and evidence, we are not afraid!" Qiu Baoqiong's wife said to the Mao family's wife beside her.
"This..." Mao's wife, feeling exasperated, looked at Qiu Baoqiong's wife, then at her own husband, unsure of what to do.
"Hehe, you don't dare now, do you? As the saying goes, evil begets evil, and good begets good. It's not that retribution won't come, it's just that the time hasn't come yet. You two have guilty consciences. You won't swear an oath yourself, but you're encouraging others to be your scapegoats. You two are really a perfect match! It's like a dragon with a dragon, a phoenix with a phoenix, a louse with a bedbug!" A man said, looking at Qiu Baoqiong's wife.
"I'll fight you to the death!" Qiu Baoqiong's wife suddenly sprang to her senses, grabbing the magical artifacts from the junior sister's altar and throwing them at the Yan family's wife who was not far away!
"Ah..." A wail escaped as the magical artifact struck the shadowy figure. The instant the artifact hit the shadowy figure, runes on it flashed! Like clusters of purple flames burning the shadowy figure, it was soon consumed by the runes on the artifact, its soul scattered...
"Bao Qiong!" Qiu's wife wailed miserably, watching her husband being driven mad by her own actions. She sat down on the ground in a daze and then burst into tears.
The female ghost expressionlessly put away one of the ghost chains. Seeing Qiu Baoqiong's fate, Mao Danteng, ignoring the needle-like pain of the ghost chain around his neck, hurriedly scrambled to the other side, fearing that Yan's wife would use the ghost chain to drag him onto this magical artifact as well. He felt his bones tremble at the sight of this magical artifact!
"Master? Hahaha... Master! What kind of master are you? You took my money, refused to accept this female ghost, and even killed my man! You're a fraud! What kind of master are you? I'm going to beat you to death today!" The Qiu family woman, who was sitting on the ground, suddenly pointed at her junior sister and cursed loudly, trying to pick up a demon-subduing pestle from the ground and smash it on her head!
The instant he grasped the vajra in his hand, he realized he wasn't holding a vajra made of jujube wood at all, but a needle! The sharp needle pierced his skin and then through his bones!
The Qiu family woman let out a scream and immediately threw away the demon-subduing pestle in her hand, clutching her other hand in excruciating pain!
"Junior Sister, are you alright?" The young man rushed over to ask if his junior sister had been hurt by this wicked woman.
"What do you think?" If a powerful expert at the fifth level of the Earth Realm were to be injured by a mere mortal, wouldn't that be incredibly shameful?
"Hehe, it's good that you're alright, it's good that you're alright..." The junior sister snorted coldly as she looked at her junior brother's obsequious manner.
"We cultivators are here to eliminate demons and protect the righteous path, to punish evil and promote good. You called us here because you said there were unclean things harassing your home, and that's why we came. We didn't come because you gave us money, so we're here to help the wicked and act as your accomplices! We don't want your money, you can keep it!" The junior sister looked at the Qiu family woman with a gloomy face, and then threw all the money that the Qiu family woman had given her back to her.
"Whether you are a benevolent ghost or an evil ghost, you all have to come with me, because this is not a place for you to stay for long. Come in!" After the junior sister finished speaking to the female ghost, she opened a black umbrella, and the five members of the Yan family, along with Mao Dantong's troubled soul, all floated into the black umbrella...
"Everyone, disperse. There won't be any more unclean things from now on. Now we need to go back and report our mission. Everyone, go back!" the boy shouted to the crowd.
"Master, you're not going to take this Yan family daughter-in-law back and kill her, are you?" At this moment, the old doctor came out and asked the junior sister.
"I don't know either. I was just following my master's orders to bring her back. Only my master knows what to do with her," the junior sister replied.
"Alas... this poor child..." the old doctor said, then left the crowd.
"Master, we have successfully brought the female ghost back to you," the junior sister quietly approached the armchair, humming a tune and swaying back and forth comfortably while sipping her tea. She then shouted, but this shout was mixed with a soul-shaking incantation.
The old man, who had been leisurely, suddenly started coughing violently, almost scared out of his wits by his apprentice.
Having finally calmed down, the junior sister smiled as she looked at the old man who, whether from anger or fright, had become somewhat disheveled. He was a man with white hair and a youthful face, exuding an ethereal aura, but now he was a mess, his silver beard still trembling slightly.
"You little devil, are you trying to scare me to death?" The old man looked at his precious disciple with some resentment, then took the black umbrella from his junior sister's hand and left.
"Give it to me!" The junior sister opened her palm and stretched it out to her junior brother.
"Sigh... Master, can't you just hit her once? Even if it's just for show, it would be fine," the junior brother said reluctantly as he took out a few copper coins from his pocket and handed them to his senior sister.
"Give it to me!" The junior sister snatched the copper coins and happily skipped away, leaving the junior brother there, looking utterly dejected, contemplating life...
"It's you? What happened to you?" The old man opened his black umbrella and was somewhat surprised when he saw the woman.
"Immortal Master, we meet again. I promised you I would never set foot here again, but now I've broken my promise." The Yan family's daughter-in-law said with a wry smile, then bowed to the old man.
"Alas! I never imagined that our reunion would be after death. What happened?" The old man sensed several souls still inside the black umbrella and asked.
"It's like this..." The female ghost began to recount her entire life story from childhood to adulthood to the old man...
The next morning, the junior sister and junior brother had just finished their morning lessons. The junior sister was about to spar with her only junior brother when she was called away by their master.
The junior disciple bowed deeply to his master's retreating figure, expressing his gratitude for being saved from dire straits...
"Huh? Master, you released them all?" The junior sister looked at the room with some confusion. Apart from herself and her master, the only living people in the room were ghosts. In particular, the female ghost looked at her with a strange gaze, as if she were seeing a long-lost relative, with tears welling up in her eyes.
"Master, what's going on?" The junior sister looked at the female ghost and the three little ghosts beside her with a bewildered expression.
"Ahem, child, do you know how you got into my Taoist temple?" the old man coughed lightly and then asked.
"Didn't you say that I suddenly floated down the river in a wooden tub while you were traveling?" The junior sister vaguely sensed something.
"No, it was I who lied to you. I wanted you to leave behind the mortal world, so I lied to you. I never expected that fate would play such a cruel trick on you. Your family is still reunited, and in this way. Sigh..." The old man sighed deeply.
"What on earth is going on?" The junior sister looked at the female ghost with a hostile expression, feeling that her master had been deceived by this female ghost!
"Child, I'm also reluctant to part with you, but if I send you here, your heartless father will kill you like your three older sisters did. So I have no choice but to do this..." The female ghost began to recount her past...
"Where is this man now?" the junior sister asked bitterly, her voice filled with tears.
Everyone's eyes turned to the back, where they saw Yan Hunlan's spirit cowering and hiding, unable to face his daughter!
"Die!" The junior sister leaped up and struck her father with a palm!
As a result, his own master neutralized his signature move in an instant, shaking his head at him.
"Child, if you strike with this palm, you can vent your anger and avenge your mother and sister, but your future path will be ruined. Parricide is a major taboo in our cultivation!" The old man said, patting his junior sister's head.
"Master, but if I look at him and don't kill him, my Dao heart won't be stable!" The junior sister said through gritted teeth, looking at her biological father with hatred.
“We can make him atone in another way, which is to have him take care of your three older sisters. If he is even slightly negligent, your mother can directly punish him. What do you think of this?” the old man asked. This was also the result of his discussion with the female ghost last night. If the junior sister really killed Yan Hunlan, she would definitely die when she underwent her tribulation, and there would be no chance of survival!
The junior sister looked at her mother, who nodded gently, and she agreed. The three older sisters timidly approached their younger sister, who looked much taller than them. The junior sister held her three sisters' cold little hands with tears in her eyes. If her mother hadn't secretly sent her here, she would be wandering around like a lost soul, just like her three sisters...
"Seeing your family reunited makes me very happy. Do you know why I didn't give you a name and Taoist name? It's because I know that one day your body and hair will be given to you by your parents, so your parents should give you a name," the old man said with a smile.
"A teacher for a day is a father for life, so let Master name me?" the junior sister said, looking at the master who raised her, and then gave Yan Hunlan, who was hiding in the corner, a look of disgust.
"This humble woman is of limited talent and lacks the experience of a celestial master. I would be grateful if the celestial master could bestow a name upon my daughter," the female ghost said.
"We want some too, we want some too," the three little ghost girls said, clinging to the old man's arm in a coquettish tone.
"Hahaha... Alright, then I'll gladly accept your offer, hahaha..." The old man looked at the three little ghost girls' adorable appearance and laughed heartily.
"Junior Sister, congratulations!" The junior brother looked on with envy at his junior sister's family reuniting, but he didn't know where his own family was, and his master never mentioned it.
This time, the junior sister didn't roll her eyes at her junior brother. She just smiled and nodded at him. Seeing his junior sister's beautiful smile, the junior brother was momentarily mesmerized...
"You're the eldest, so you'll be called Yan Rumeng."
“Okay, my name is Rumeng. Thank you for bestowing this name upon me, Immortal Master,” the eldest sister of the junior sister said happily.
"Since you're the second oldest, you'll be called Yan Ruhuan."
"Yes, my name is Ruhuan. Thank you for the name, Father." The second sister of the junior sister was very happy.
"You're the third child, so you'll be called Yan Ruxue."
“Hehe, my name is Ruxue, I have a name now, hahaha…” The third sister of the junior sister held her mother’s hand and shook it very happily.
"What about me? What about me?" The junior sister looked at her three older sisters and felt a little anxious.
"You shall be called Yan Ruhuan. I will only bestow a Daoist title upon you when you reach the Xuan level. You must work hard!" The old man patted Ruhuan's little head affectionately.
"Yes, you must work even harder so that my three older sisters, my mother, you, and my junior brother will never be bullied again!" Ru Huan said, clenching her little fists.
Yan Hunlan looked at the children he used to despise with a complicated expression. Now they had all grown up, and he didn't know how to face his four daughters. He could only follow silently behind them, and the guilt in his heart grew wildly like weeds...
"Mother, what was your name before?" Ruhuan asked her mother.
“Ziyuan.” Her mother smiled faintly.
“Purple Iris, it feels so poetic,” Ru Huan said.
"Master, I..." The junior brother looked at his master with a hesitant expression, then looked at his senior sister's family reunited, which suddenly reminded him of why his parents had abandoned him!
“Your name is Sanlang. I will take you back later, but it’s not the right time yet. When you reach the Xuan level, I will take you to find your parents. Just don’t blame your master then!” The old man looked at Sanlang with a face full of guilt and said.
"Mother, you haven't been dead for long, how come your strength is so high? You're almost as strong as me!" Ruhuan voiced her doubts.
"Sigh, it's quite a coincidence. To prevent me from seeking revenge, these people chopped my body into pieces, put me in a sack, and then slammed me down in their latrine with a huge rock. I didn't expect that their latrine was an extremely yin place. When I went down there, my resentment was so strong that I absorbed all the yin energy that had become so dense that it turned into yin flames."
After the yin energy was completely absorbed, they discovered a corpse inside. This corpse looked just like a living person, but it wasn't breathing. As a result, this lifelike corpse was crushed to pieces by the boulder, and all the luck and yin energy on its body were absorbed by me. If they hadn't accidentally thrown me in there, otherwise, if this thing had come out a hundred years later, this area within a hundred miles would have been completely devastated, with not a single blade of grass left!" Zi Yuan said with a smile.
"Thank goodness, otherwise, at my age, I would have to go out and fight the corpse demon. This is good, this is good, hahaha..." Hearing that Ziyuan had accidentally broken the corpse demon's trap, the old man was very happy. He never expected that he had been guarding this place for so long, just waiting for this thing to be born, but this time it really happened.
"Now that things are settled here, I, the old man, am also preparing to leave. Three Wolves, pack your things tomorrow, and we'll get ready to leave!" the old man said.
"Ah? Is it in such a hurry? Then, will Junior Sister come with us?" Sanlang asked Ruhuan with reluctance.
"No need. Your senior sister is already reunited with her family. Besides, it's better for her to stay with her mother and family than to climb mountains and wade through rivers with us and go through all that trouble." The old man looked at Ruhuan with great reluctance.
“I’ll go with you! Wherever you go, I’ll go. We’re family, we can’t be separated!” Ruhuan said.
“Yes, we are family, we can’t be separated,” Sanlang was so happy to hear his junior sister’s words that he almost jumped for joy!
"Then your mother and the others..." the old man hesitated.
"I'll go with you. Reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles. I also want to go out and broaden my horizons," Zi Yuan said with a smile.
"Yes, we want to go too! We want to go out and explore!" Ru Meng, Ru Huan, and Ru Xue chimed in excitedly.
"Alright, let's set off tomorrow!" the old man decided immediately, and everyone cheered...
"Master, where are we going?" Sanlang asked the old man riding a donkey, carrying very heavy luggage.
"Hehe, that 'Boundless Heavenly Venerable,' heavenly secrets cannot be revealed," the old man stroked his silver-white beard, looking unfathomable.
"I think he's just a headless fly, running around aimlessly!" Ru Huan, carrying a black umbrella and a cloth bag slung across her shoulder, looked at her master's leisurely demeanor and knew that the old man was unreliable.
They said they were going out to make their way in the world, but after seven or eight days, they hadn't made any progress or even managed to find anything, not even a single bandit.
The two young people were initially very enthusiastic, thinking that the outside world was full of demons and monsters, or at the very least, evil people. But in the end, there was nothing there! They felt very disappointed.
“Heh heh, young people are just so restless and impatient. What’s wrong with peace and tranquility? Why do we have to fight and kill every day, causing widespread suffering? Look at this mountain, look at these trees, look at that fox!” The old man pointed to a snow-white fox not far away, looked at the three of them, and said.
"A fox? Where is it?" Three Wolves' eyes lit up. After so many days, they finally saw something to keep them entertained.
"Look! That's not it!" The old man pointed casually, and the three wolves immediately darted out, then pounced on the fox as soon as they saw it.
The fox, seeing the silly creature rushing towards it, didn't run away at all. Just as the three wolves' hands were about to touch it, it suddenly and gracefully dodged, leaving the three wolves empty-handed.
The fox looked at the three wolves with a mocking expression, then stood upright, watched the three wolves wave their front paws, and then shook its head, as if to say, "You're no good, don't embarrass yourself."
"Hehe, this is interesting," Three Wolves licked his lips as he looked at the fox, then, no longer as impatient as before, he slowly began to approach the fox.
The old man and Ruhuan watched as the man and the fox leaped and bounded across the mountain ridge. No matter how hard the three wolves tried, they just couldn't catch the fox.
"You forced me to do this!" Three Wolves grinned wickedly, his whole body crackling and popping, his speed many times faster than before! But he still couldn't catch the agile fox.
"Alright, alright, stop teasing the child. What exactly do you want here?" The old man asked the fox, seeing the increasingly frustrated Three Wolves.
"Is this simpleton your apprentice?" Ru Huan only felt a blur before her eyes, and a white fox was perched on her shoulder. But before Ru Huan could react, the white fox seemed to be startled by something terrifying on her shoulder and quickly jumped off, leaping onto the old man's donkey.
"He may be a bit simple-minded, but I think he's an honest man, unlike those cunning ones," the old man said.
"This little girl is quite interesting, and her potential is also good. Can I have her?" The white fox lay on the donkey, its eyes fixed on the black umbrella that Ru Huan was carrying.
"Sure, but we'll have to ask if they agree first," the old man said casually.
"Never mind, I want to live for a few hundred more years. Where are you going? Can you take me with you?" the white fox asked.
"Let's roam the world and find poetry and distant places!" the old man said.
"Tch!" The white fox scoffed, then lay down on the donkey and remained silent.
On the day of Bing Shen, at noon, the Tiger is in the south, the Fetal God is in the north of the furnace room, the sky is clear with clouds, there is a light breeze, and at the Wuxin City gate, everyone is queuing up to enter the city.
A group of very strange people came from behind. An old man was riding a donkey, leisurely and carefree. A delicate little girl was carrying a black umbrella as thick as an adult's arm on her back and a cloth bag slung across her shoulder. Another little boy was carrying very heavy luggage, on which a white fox was dozing off.
The soldiers guarding the city had already spotted them and sent someone to inform the city lord, asking if they could be allowed to enter the city.
"Don't you guys think the way these people are looking at us is weird?" Sanlang asked.
"Hehe, what's so strange about that? They were attracted by my charm. I'm still the same boy I always was, without the slightest change!" the white fox said self-satisfiedly.
"You? I feel like they're looking at my junior sister. She's so beautiful, she's captivated their eyes and souls," Sanlang said.
"It seems your luggage isn't heavy enough. Shall I add some more for you?" Ru Huan said with a smile to San Lang.
"Hehe, thank you for your concern, Senior Sister, that's enough, that's enough!" Sanlang said with a grin.
"Do you know why this place is called Heartless City?" the old man asked his two apprentices and the white fox behind him, riding backwards on his donkey.
"This is just a legend, it's not credible," the white fox said, wagging its tail.
"I don't know if it's believable, but I do know that Heartless City cannot allow any fox into the city, whether it's dead or alive. If anyone brings one in, they will be beheaded and their heads displayed to the public!" the old man said.
"Why? Could it be that someone in the city lord's family was harmed or eaten by a fox?" Three Wolves asked.
"Are we really that cruel? We even eat people?" The white fox smacked the three wolves hard on the head.
"Legend has it that this is the place where, a hundred years ago, after Bi Gan, the prime minister of the Shang Dynasty, had his heart removed, he came here with the life-saving talisman of Jiang Shang. He was then transformed by the goddess Da Ji into a peasant woman selling hollow vegetables. When Bi Gan came here, he asked the peasant woman, 'Vegetables can grow if they are hollow, but what about people?'"
The peasant woman said, "Vegetables can live without a heart, but people die without a heart." Upon hearing this, Prime Minister Bigan immediately collapsed and died! To commemorate Prime Minister Bigan, the people built a city here, which is this Heartless City! " the old man said.
"Hehe, that's good, you can't go in now, so you might as well come down. Don't drag us all down with you. Don't worry, we'll definitely bring you some good food when we come out. You can just enjoy the cool breeze outside the city, hahaha..." Three Wolves said gloatingly.
"Hmph! I can get in without you. If I don't go in, you'll all die inside, believe it or not?" the white fox said.
"I think we'd die if we went in with you!" Ru Huan teased the white fox.
"We're here! Let's see how you got kicked out! Hahaha..." Three Wolves carried the luggage and walked ahead, then quickly headed towards the city gate.
“I don’t know it well. You can chase it away or catch it. We will thank you,” Three Wolves said, pointing to the white fox on its back as it approached the city guard.
"Hurry up and get in, there are so many people queuing up behind you!" the city guard said to Sanlang in an annoyed tone.
Three Wolves glanced at the white fox on the luggage, then at the city guards, and with a puzzled look in his eyes, he was kicked into Heartless City by Ru Huan...
At the Yuelai Inn, the waiter, seeing these three strange people with a white fox, wondered how they had entered the city and quickly greeted the guests.
"Eat first, and also feed my donkey some grass!" the old man instructed the waiter, then found a seat by the window and sat down.
"Little fox, judging from the way these people look at you, I have a feeling you won't survive tonight," Three Wolves joked.
The white fox completely ignored the three wolves, simply staying close to the old man and watching the pedestrians coming and going on the street and those who were looking at her with malice.
"Brother, I told you you should have bet on small, but you insisted on listening to the second brother and betting on big. As a result, you almost lost everything, even your underwear," a man with a very rough voice walked into the inn. His voice was like thunder, as if it would shake the entire inn to its core.
"What would you three like to eat? A meal or a room?" The waiter hurriedly came forward to greet the guests as they arrived.
"Hey, a new face, never seen her before. Tsk tsk tsk, this little girl is really pretty!" Three burly men who looked like thugs pushed aside the waiter and came to Ru Huan and her companions. Regardless of whether Ru Huan and her companions were happy or not, the three men sat down without any hesitation.
"Is this your daughter?" The burly man with a full beard pointed at Ruhuan and then asked the old man.
"No!" The old man shook his head, then picked up his teacup, took a small sip, and said.
"Is this your lover?" The bearded man glared at Sanlang, as if he would tear Sanlang apart if he agreed!
"No." Sanlang suppressed his anger, then pretended to be very scared, shook his head frantically, and secretly looked at his junior sister.
"Hahaha... little friend, aren't your parents worried about you coming out alone? Let me tell you, there are lots and lots of bad people in this Heartless City. Why don't you come with me? Look at this skinny old man, the kind that could be blown away by a gust of wind. And look at this silly little punk, how could he possibly be worthy of you? And look, wow, there's a fox here? And a white fox at that, just like that one!" The burly man with the stubble was initially captivated by Ru Huan and hadn't even noticed the white fox beside the old man, so he exclaimed in surprise.
"Hehe, old man, don't you know that bringing a fox into Heartless City is a capital offense? Don't you know?" The burly man looked at the group with some pity. Luckily, he had good eyesight and saw the white fox. If the little girl had really gone with him, wouldn't he have been beheaded just like them?
"Hey everyone, I just remembered I have a baby at home that I haven't breastfed yet. I have to go back and feed my baby. Sorry for bothering you, hehe. Goodbye, goodbye. Until we meet again, hehe." The three burly men hurriedly ran away while bowing. When they left the inn, they saw that the people inside were still looking at them. They quickly bowed again, but unexpectedly, they stumbled and fell flat on their faces, making the people on the street laugh out loud...
"Judging from this, you're really in grave danger," Sanlang said to Baihu, but Baihu ignored him completely, silently watching the bustling street, lost in thought.
"Why has it been so long? The food still hasn't been served. Waiter, what are you doing? Did you go hunting because there's no meat in the shop?" Sanlang shouted.
"Well... gentlemen, our manager said that if it were you, we could serve you rice and dishes, but... well, our shop has low profits, so please, please be kind and go eat at another restaurant!" The waiter pointed very subtly at the white fox and said with a bitter expression.
"Hehe, it's nothing. We just came in to rest because we were tired. Now that we've rested enough, we'll take our leave." The old man stood up and left the inn with Ruhuan and Sanlang...
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com