Xu Rui looked at Hu Yuan, who had stayed behind, and immediately stopped himself from saying what he was about to say.
Some things are better discussed when it's just the two of you.
"It's alright. The Supreme Elder said that the woman will be locked up, so we don't have to worry about her harming our child anymore."
At this, Tang Baozhu perked up. "Tell me honestly, who is that woman? Why is she so hostile towards us, mother and children? When we came out of the formation, we could feel that hostility was particularly strong. Did you somehow attract some unwanted romantic attention?"
Xu Rui felt that this label was a bit too much for him to bear.
"Honey, you can't wrong me. You know I don't like anyone but you. I don't even know who that person is."
Hu Yuan watched the spectacle for a while, never expecting that Brother Xu would actually be in this situation. He had always been so carefree for thousands of years, yet he was actually flustered by a single question from his own wife.
"Yes, yes, I can testify to that. Brother Xu has always been completely untainted. He probably doesn't even remember what those people looked like or what their names were."
Tang Baozhu saw Hu Yuan beside her and then restrained herself a little, not wanting to embarrass him in public.
When Xu Rui heard that someone was testifying, he breathed a sigh of relief. He couldn't bear the blame, or his wife would hold a grudge for life.
"Honey, believe me, I don't even know that person. How about I go and find out why he's so hostile towards our family? Did I accidentally offend someone?"
Tang Baozhu looked at him as if he were a fool. If she didn't know he was telling the truth, she would have thought he was fooling her.
Hu Yuan coughed and said, "I know that person, but Brother Xu might not remember her. She entered the sect in the same batch as us. Back then, she always found excuses to get close to you, but you rejected her every time. Later, you simply avoided her. Maybe because you haven't found a Daoist partner for over 1000 years, she's been coveting you for over 1000 years. Maybe she can't accept it now that you've married a Daoist partner and have children."
Xu Rui had actually forgotten about such a person. It was only after Hu Yuan reminded him that he remembered there was indeed such a person in his distant memories.
She kept pestering him, even though he had already refused. It was as if she couldn't understand him; she clung to him like a leech. But he clearly remembered that she didn't look like this.
"I remember that person didn't look like this. In my memory, that person was plain-looking, not as ugly as a fox now."
"I know that. I remember you were probably annoyed by her pestering you back then, so you just said something hurtful and called her ugly without even looking in the mirror. That probably hurt her pride, so she went into seclusion and started cultivating. When she broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, she looked like this now."
Tang Baozhu never expected that Xu Rui, who seemed so refined, would actually swear. It was clear how desperate that woman had been.
That woman was quite something, managing to make him swear.
"Since we know it has nothing to do with you, you still need to be more careful in the future. Who knows if there are still people out there who are after you? What if they can't deal with you, and instead target our child? Don't you think so?"
Looking at her husband's appearance, Tang Baozhu didn't believe that there was only one person who cared about him; there must be others who hadn't yet shown their faces.
Those that are too well hidden are the dangerous ones. Who knows when they might strike you in the dark if you're not careful? You won't be able to escape them then.
Xu Rui nodded repeatedly. Now that he had a family, he couldn't be as careless as before. Although the Supreme Elder had just said that he would prepare protectors for the children, he, as a father, also had to consider things more carefully for them.
"Don't worry, wife, I'll be careful. I'll make a few more puppets so they can stay with the children and we won't have to worry about their safety."
"Yes, as long as you know it."
After seeing that Tang Baozhu and Xu Rui had finished speaking, Hu Yuan stepped forward and said to Tang Baozhu, "Cultivator Tang, let me check you to see if there is anything wrong with your body."
"I don't feel uncomfortable at all. The afterglow of the lightning tribulation just now directly restored all the bad things in my body. But it would be good to get checked out, so I can feel more at ease."
Tang Baozhu originally thought that she didn't need to be checked, but then she thought that it was a token of their goodwill, so she simply didn't refuse.
After returning to the house, I sat on the stool in the living room and directly reached out my hand for him to examine.
Hu Yuan checked for a while and only stopped after confirming that there were no problems. "Tang Xiushi's body is in the best possible condition now. He even seems to be about to break through in his cultivation. Congratulations!"
"Thank you, Dr. Hu."
Hu Yuan waved his hand. There was no need to say more about his relationship with Brother Xu; they were just too familiar and too close.
"You're welcome. Since there's nothing else, I'll head back now. I imagine you'll have plenty of work to do, so I won't bother you any longer."
After Hu Yuan finished speaking, he left the small valley, leaving Tang Baozhu and her family behind.
After everyone had left, Xu Rui quickly activated the array in the small valley so that he wouldn't have to worry about anyone sneaking in when they weren't looking.
"Quickly bring the children over for me to see. I don't even know if they're boys or girls yet. At least I can finally take a look."
Tang Baozhu couldn't wait to lift their blankets. She had held back when there were too many people, worried that if a girl was inside, it would be bad if she were exposed and everyone saw her naked.
The eldest is a son, the second is a daughter, the third is a daughter, the fourth is a son, and the fifth is also a son.
The five elements are metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Metal, fire, and earth represent sons, while wood and water represent daughters. I don't know if there's any specific interpretation of these elements.
"Honey, look how lucky we are! We have a son and a daughter. We really don't have to have any more children if we want to. But having one child is such a big event, let's not have any more. These children are enough."
Xu Rui had long since become a silly dad, smiling from ear to ear as he looked at his five children. At over 1,000 years old, he had finally become a father, and he was overjoyed.
Tang Baozhu didn't laugh at him. After all, he was a father now because of her. If he hadn't always been thinking about her, he probably would have had a house full of children and grandchildren long ago.
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