Chu Mu's eyes darkened.
It was a change of less than half a second, but the sharp-eyed Qiu He noticed it.
The smug look on the woman's still charming face became more and more obvious:
"You don't know, that little Su is very fair and clean, and looks very well-behaved. Ji'er likes her very much too."
"Really?" Chu Mu's expression had returned to normal. "Hearing what you said, it seems that Fan Ji is marrying above his station."
Qiu He's original intention was to use Xiao Su to annoy Chu Mu, but the other party actually said that Fan Ji was not worthy of the lowly thing raised in Chenjiazhuang.
"...Master Chu is really good at lying with his eyes open," Qiu He, who had been the mistress of the family for a long time, could not bear any anger. "Everyone knows that Chenjiazhuang depends on our Fan family for survival. Anyone who comes out of there, even if they want to die, has to ask our Fan family for consent."
"Oh?" A dagger suddenly appeared in Chu Mu's hand, and he swung it up and down to play with it.
Qiu He thought of the disastrous defeat in the last battle and shuddered:
"...But this is the custom of our Southern Fan Family. I'm not too sure about the Northern ones...but I think they're pretty similar."
Chu Mu had no interest in dealing with her anymore and asked coldly, "Which City God Temple did they go to?"
There is a City God Temple in each of the four directions of Taiping Town, which means guarding the four directions.
The City God Temples were all built by the Fan family, and all the temple priests were also from the Fan family.
Whenever the Fan family has any happy events, big or small, they will report them to the City God.
When Fan Ji took that little Su to the City God Temple, Chu Mu couldn't help but think too much.
"In Zhuxi City God..." Qiu He felt cold all over when Chu Mu stared at her, and couldn't help but regret why she had provoked him again.
After getting the answer, Chu Mu put away the dagger and turned away.
Qiu He patted his chest and thought to himself, "What an unlucky evil spirit! If it weren't for the fact that we were in the north... humph!"
Her voice was almost like talking to herself, but Chu Mu, who had already walked away, heard every word.
[There is something fishy indeed.]
In front of Chu Meng, Chu Mu didn't dare to communicate with Lao Ba at all. Now that the God of Killing was not around, he could try to communicate with the system.
What did he promise the Fan family?
Lao Ba carefully confirmed that there was no power from the old gods around before answering:
{The Fan family in the south has always wanted to replace the north and move to the imperial city, the center of power.}
Lao Ba said that in the real past, the Old Temple took a fancy to the ambitions of the Fan family and chose them to be the minions of its destruction.
The Fan family finally rose to the center of power. Not only did they go to the imperial city, they also became the masters of the imperial city.
However, their final outcome was that they were used by the old gods and became scapegoats under Chu Mu's sword of judgment.
What Xi Meng is doing now seems to overlap with the real history of the past.
The difference is that in the past, the gods never took the initiative to come down to the mortal world to induce the Fan family. Everything was an opportunity that the Fan family actively offered and prayed for.
This life, with Chu Mu's intervention, is different from before.
【Destiny can be changed, even by God.】
Chu Mu led Fan Ji's horse over, with a quiet look in his eyes.
Mortals can kill gods, and mortals can also become gods.
"drive!"
Chu Mu kicked the horse's belly and flew out like an arrow.
…
At the entrance of Zhuxi City God Temple, Fan Ji was leading a thin and slender young man down the stairs.
“Whoa—”
Chu Mule stopped his horse and met Fan Ji's gaze from across the crowd.
Fan Ji paused for a few seconds, then held the hand of the young man next to him even tighter.
The two of them walked quickly towards Chu Mu.
"Master," Fan Ji smiled and introduced the boy to Chu Mu, "This is Xiao Su, he is also from Chenjiazhuang."
The young boy was wearing a moon-white Confucian robe, with his hair half-tied up. He had a pretty and well-behaved appearance, and his eyebrows and eyes were quite similar to Chu Mu.
"Haha," Chu Mu laughed, "What a boring trick."
Fan Ji frowned.
The young man named Xiao Su timidly approached Fan Ji and asked, "Master Aji, who is this young man?"
"He is my master."
"Ah!" Xiao Su's face flushed with pink. "Hello, Master."
He also calls Chu Mu "Master".
Fan Ji looked at Xiao Su without any emotion, but did not refute his address.
Chu Mu touched the whip in his hand: "When did you come to Taiping Town?"
Xiao Su looked a little nervous: "I arrived yesterday."
"Are you alone?"
"No, there are several brothers and sisters from Chenjiazhuang traveling with us."
"Fan Ji is interested in you?"
Chu Mu asked directly and bluntly, and the blush on Xiao Su's face became even more rosy.
Fan Ji moved the man behind him and said, "Master, Xiao Su is inexperienced and easily shy. Please don't tease him."
Chu Mu continued twisting the whip in his hand: "I didn't realize that our Young Master Fan is more adapted to his current status than I thought."
The corners of Fan Ji's lips were tightened into a serious straight line. He seemed to be about to say something, but swallowed it back because of the sudden noise coming from the City God Temple.
"Run! The City God has turned into a monster!"
"Help! The City God is going to eat people!"
Behind him, the townspeople who came to burn incense were pushing and shoving each other as they rushed out the door.
Xiao Su was frail and was bumped several times by the townspeople who were frantically fleeing for their lives. She lost her balance and fell under Chu Mu's horse's hooves.
“Whew—”
The horse was frightened, raised its front hooves and stood up, about to step on Xiao Su.
Seeing this, Fan Ji stepped forward and kicked the horse in the belly, causing the Ferghana horse, which had once carried him and Chu Mu, past the ferocious beast Taowu, and galloped on the streets of Taiping Town, to fall sideways to the ground.
Chu Mu's face turned completely cold. He grabbed the reins and sent his divine power to the horse under him.
With the help of this divine power, the horse stood firmly, and looked at Fan Ji with a pair of dark eyes full of sadness.
Fan Ji clenched his fists and stood opposite the man and the horse, protecting Xiao Su.
There were people all around them still crying and running away, except for these three people, no one moved.
"I'm sorry," Xiao Su was the first to speak, "Aji didn't mean it, he just wanted to protect me, Master, please don't be angry."
Chu Mu had a blank expression on his face, and his calm eyes showed no sadness or joy.
He ignored Xiao Su's apology and just looked behind him——
Above the City God Temple, a huge golden statue of the City God was breaking out of the temple, and the flying debris and broken walls hit the people who had no time to escape.
Many lives were lost in an instant.
The City God took a step forward, and those who had managed to escape to a distant place were all enveloped in its huge shadow.
“Help!”
"Master City God, please don't eat us. We will definitely offer you some incense!"
The cries of begging for mercy and crying became one and the same.
"Don't be afraid, everyone." Chu Mu suddenly said, "Young Master Fan is here, everyone hide over here."
Chu Mu used his internal energy to spread these words, and even in such a chaotic scene, they were clearly heard by everyone.
The townspeople seemed to have found a life-saving straw and ran towards Fan Ji.
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