Before Hua Cheng even got close, Xie Lian had already pounced on him.

This pounce was so powerful that Hua Cheng didn't even take three steps back, and didn't even sway. He just put his hands on his back and chuckled without saying anything. Xie Lian was just feeling happy, but suddenly he remembered something and said hurriedly, "Wait a minute, Sanlang! Emperor... Junwu is quite afraid of you. You were supposed to be guarding the formation in the imperial city. He must have sent people to watch down there. If you just disappear like this, he might notice it. Besides, Master Feng is the only one guarding the formation. Will there be any problems?"

Hua Cheng said, "Don't worry, brother. This has been taken care of. There won't be any flaws for the time being."

Xie Lian guessed that he had probably plugged the eyes that Jun Wu had sent, or left a piece of fake skin underneath, and did not ask how he had dealt with it. At this time, Hua Cheng said leisurely: "It seems that my brother really misses me a lot."

“…”

Xie Lian recalled the messy things he had said when communicating with Jun Wu in front of him, and noticed that he was holding on tightly now, so he quickly let go and stood up straight, saying solemnly: "...Yes, yes. The person you said you needed help from turned out to be Master Yu."

Hua Cheng smiled and said, "That's right. The Rain Master is in the lower world all year round. It happened that the opening of the Copper Furnace Mountain alarmed her. It is very reasonable for her to go back to the Heavenly Palace to take a look. And if Jun Wu doesn't let her up, or can't come up with a strong reason, the Rain Master will definitely notice something is wrong. So of course he can only let the Rain Master up. Brother, it's okay, you can continue to pounce on her like you did just now, I don't mind."

Xie Lian coughed lightly and said, “Thank you, but no… But why didn’t he move the Rain Master?”

Hua Cheng said: "Brother, you don't know. Yu Shi Huang is the priest in charge of agriculture. Although this priest position seems to be shabby and unprofitable, so not many people are interested in it, it is very special. Currently, there is only Yu Shi Huang, the priest in charge of agriculture."

Xie Lian was thoughtful, having figured out the connection. Hua Cheng continued, "If we kill the Rain Master directly, and if we can't find a better replacement to take over farming, food is the most important thing for the people, and if farming doesn't go well, there will be chaos in the world. If you don't give people food, people won't give you food. In addition to being dissatisfied with the Rain Master, the people of the world may also be dissatisfied with the great god above the Rain Master, which means that the fire may burn him. If it is not properly controlled, it may cause a rebellion against the gods."

That is to say, they demolished his temple and toppled his statues, just as the people of Xianle Kingdom did in the past.

Hua Cheng added, "Besides, the Rain Master doesn't have a temple, doesn't stay in the Immortal Capital, has no desire to rise, and doesn't have any leverage. Externally, it's hard for him to find a suitable reason to demote the Rain Master, and it's hard to do it; internally, if the Rain Master continues to be in charge of farming, his position will be secure, so if he can avoid a quarrel, he won't. Hide it first, and then talk about it when he can't hide it anymore."

Xie Lian wiped his sweat and said, “I see. That was a close call. It’s really a timely help that Master Yu is willing to help. I hope her acting skills are superb. Oh, right, we have to go find the Imperial Master first! There are many things that we must ask him to clarify.”

The two of them left Xianle Palace without delay. As soon as they stepped out of the door, Xie Lian was startled by the row of guards guarding the door. Just as he was about to ask Ruo Xie to knock them out, he found that these guards were like wooden figures. Not only did their postures, but even their expressions did not change. They were actually frozen by Hua Cheng.

As they walked along the road, the silver light flashed from Huacheng's wristband, turning into silver butterflies, gradually fading and disappearing into the air. I'm afraid that at this moment, he has already spread hundreds of dead butterflies in Xianjing. Along the way, they went up and down, appeared and disappeared, and perfectly avoided all patrolling guards.

Hiding in an alley, watching the patrolling guards marching along the street, Hua Cheng said beside Xie Lian, "We've passed this section, let's go up the next section."

Xie Lian nodded and followed him onto the roof. The two of them followed one another, flying over the eaves and walls, leaving no trace. After a while, Xie Lian landed on a corner of the eaves, and suddenly stopped, looking back at Hua Cheng, as if thinking about something.

Seeing him stop, Hua Cheng also stopped and asked, "Why, did you notice something?"

Xie Lian frowned slightly, shook his head, and thought: “No. I just feel that this situation seems to be the same everywhere…”

Before he finished speaking, Hua Cheng suddenly grabbed him by the waist. The next moment, they both "fell" from the eaves.

Xie Lian suddenly felt the world spinning, upside down, and his hat slipped off his back, about to fall to the ground. He quickly grabbed it back with a dagger. But it was Hua Cheng who was holding him, and the two of them were hanging upside down under the eaves. On the eaves, something was crawling quickly.

Xie Lian was not unfamiliar with that voice; it was the sound of the fetus crawling!

I don't know if it's patrolling in Xianjing or doing something else. At this time, another voice came from below: "Wrong, wrong, wrong?"

gladiolus!

Xie Lian felt bad. The fetal spirit was still guarding the eaves, but Jian Lan was coming from below. Wouldn’t that mean Jian Lan would be discovered no matter what? Xie Lian didn’t dare to say how Jian Lan would react. Would she miss Hua Cheng’s life-saving grace, or would she shout for help?

The frivolous and messy footsteps were getting closer and closer, and were about to turn the corner. Thank God, at this moment, the fetal spirit finally jumped down from the other side of the eaves.

The two of them immediately climbed up to the roof. Xie Lian breathed a sigh of relief.

Jianlan stuck half of her body out from behind a corner of the wall, and when she saw her son jumping to the ground, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "No, no! Don't run around everywhere. This place is unfamiliar and scary. If you get lost, I don't know where to find you... Why are you here?!"

She glanced casually and saw the plaque of the hall, and took two steps back. Seeing her reaction, Xie Lian remembered that the golden hall under their feet seemed to be the Nanyang Hall.

In other words, Feng Xin is now locked in!

Jianlan must have known this, her face twitched slightly, and after a while, she lowered her head to teach the fetal spirit a lesson, scolding: "What are you doing here!"

The fetus was holding a thick, fat white thing, and was still "crunching", as if chewing it. Jianlan said again: "What is that? What are you eating? Spit it out!"

Xie Lian took a closer look and found that it was a big, thick white radish. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She didn't need to tell him that the fetal spirit also thought the taste was bad. It spat out the radish with two vicious "Puh" sounds and screamed as if it was in a rage. Jian Lan hurriedly went up to it and picked it up, coaxing it, "Okay, okay, you're wrong, be good. If it doesn't taste good, don't eat it. These are things that poor boys and fool gods like to eat. We don't eat them."

Only a biological mother could hold such a deformed and horrible thing in her arms and comfort it so gently. The fetus twisted its fat and white body in her arms, making comfortable gurgling sounds. Xie Lian looked at this scene and couldn't help but feel inexplicable pity, but also wondered: "How can there be such a big radish in Xianjing?"

Hua Cheng raised his eyebrows and said, "Brother, have you forgotten? Master Yu brought you some local products grown in the fields."

“…”

It turns out that this is the gift that the Rain Master gave him!

Xie Lian tried to imagine what Jun Wu’s expression would be like when he opened the wooden box and saw a large white radish inside, but he felt that it was impossible to imagine, and his attempt failed. It seemed that after Jun Wu checked and found that there was nothing suspicious, he fed the large white radish to the fetal spirit.

It's like feeding a dog.

After the fetus vomited it, it kicked the radish away with its legs in disgust. After hearing Jianlan's words, it seemed to be thinking about something. It jumped down from its mother's arms, hopped over, picked up the radish, and hopped into the hall. If you don't look carefully, it really looks like a naked, hairless white dog. Jianlan said, "Don't go in! That's..."

The guards guarding the Nanyang Palace probably had been told by Jun Wu that the fetal spirit was his pet or hunting dog, so they stared at it intently and did not try to stop it. As a last resort, Jian Lan followed in. The fetal spirit seemed to be very hostile to Feng Xin. Xie Lian was worried that it might harm Feng Xin, so he turned around and asked, "San Lang?"

A transparent butterfly perched on Hua Cheng's fingertips, and he said, "The Death Butterfly has attached itself to her."

Xie Lian nodded, and the two of them monitored the situation in Nanyang Palace together. Jianlan crouched down and tiptoed into the palace, as if she didn’t want to be discovered, and whispered, “Wrong, wrong—”

However, it was impossible not to be discovered. The fetal spirit jumped into the main hall, where a man was meditating. When he opened his eyes, he saw her face to face, and both of them were stunned.

Feng Xin was stunned at first, then happy. He stood up and said, "Jianglan! Why are you here? Are you okay? Good thing you came. Help me..."

At this moment, the fetus suddenly screamed, jumped between the two, spat the radish onto the ground, and kicked hard with its hind legs. The large white radish that it had nibbled a few times flew up and hit Feng Xin in the face, making a loud "bang" sound!

After it kicked, it was still arrogant, barking and laughing sinisterly, as if waiting for its mother to praise it. Feng Xin was almost knocked unconscious by this thing, and a blood ran down his nose on the spot. He wiped it with his hand and said angrily: "What are you doing?! Be quiet!"

He was fierce, but the fetus spirit was even fiercer, screaming and spitting out its tongue at him. Feng Xin rushed forward to take it, but it opened its bloody mouth and bit his arm, and he couldn't get it off no matter how hard he tried. This familiar scene was both terrifying and funny. Feng Xin couldn't get rid of it, and became even angrier: "I'm fucked!!! I'm really fucked!!! Are you looking for a fight?! What the hell!"

Jianlan also came back to her senses and said, "Stop it! What qualifications do you have to hit him and scold him?!"

Feng Xin was stunned by her yelling, and his momentum dropped a little. He defended himself, "He...he recognized the thief as his father?! How could he be on the same side as Jun Wu...how could he become like this?!"

Jianlan spat, "How could this happen? It's all because of you! It's the father's fault for not raising and educating his child. If it weren't for you being such an incompetent father, your own son would have been dug out of his mother's belly and made into something like this? What the hell, the ghost you gave birth to!"

She cursed, and Feng Xin took a step back, his voice became much quieter, and said: "But...but I didn't know at all. And at that time, you were the one who told me to get out first..."

Jianlan said, "Ha! I told you to get out, I am fulfilling your wish! You come to me every day with a depressed face, and I don't know what you are thinking when I sleep next to you! You have to serve your prince, and collect money for my redemption, you are so exhausted and annoyed! If you are embarrassed to leave by yourself, then I will just give you a ride!"

Feng Xin said: "I was very tired at that time! But I didn't bother you! I wanted to redeem you!"

Jian Lan poked his chest and said, "Come on! Redeem me, redeem me. You know in your heart that with your ability at that time, can you redeem my worth at that time?! You want to spend every penny in half every day, perform on the street every day to honor your father, the prince, the emperor. I am lucky enough that I don't pay for it. How can I expect you to redeem me? It will take a long time!"

Feng Xin said, "That's not what you said at the beginning. We clearly agreed on it! I will definitely keep my promise..." Jian Lan interrupted him and said, "There are so many verbal promises, but think about it, what have you given me? What can you give me? Apart from that gold belt, I can still show it off. Oh, that gold belt, you even told me not to sell it!"

Feng Xin took a step back after being poked by her, his face stiff and embarrassed. Jian Lan became more and more angry as she spoke: "Is it that broken amulet? I was so blinded that I believed that your shitty amulet could bless people. I have no good luck at all, but bad luck all the time! You have less and less money, and your temper is getting worse and worse. What else can I do if I don't let you go? Am I going to wait you out like this?! Wait until you start to complain that I hate you, annoy you, and don't want to see me anymore?!"

“…”

Not only Feng Xin, but even Xie Lian who was in Nanyang Palace at that moment didn't know what to say.

Oh I see.

Xie Lian recalled many things. Feng Xin who went out early and came back late, looking tired, Feng Xin who was inexplicably happy and inexplicably sad, and Feng Xin who once struggled to borrow money from Xie Lian.

All the previous minor anomalies suddenly had an explanation.

Feng Xin was Xie Lian's attendant, his good friend, but not his vassal. He could have had his own home and family, and he had already met these people, but it happened during the time when Xie Lian was first demoted and they were in the most difficult period.

At that time, Xie Lian could hardly save himself, so how could he care about these things?

He was in agony, Feng Xin was in agony too. Everyone was in agony. In the end, the two of them could no longer endure it. Perhaps Jian Lan had foreseen this consequence.

However, even at that time, Feng Xin still tried his best to support him. He even gave Jianlan his amulet that few people wanted, telling her that it could bring good luck, so Jianlan carefully put it away and put it in the clothes of her unborn child.

Of course, it turned out that the amulet didn't bring them any luck at all.

Jianlan seemed to realize that she had said something she shouldn't have said, and picked up the fetus on the ground and was about to leave. Feng Xin said: "Jianlan!!!!"

He scratched his hair and sighed, a rare expression on his face.

Feng Xin said, "You...you should come back. I still...ah, I think I, I...want to take care of you. I should take care of you. I have a responsibility. I promised you."

Jianlan turned around, stared at him for a long while, hugged the fetus tightly, and snorted, "Forget it. I know you despise your son, and he is just a ghost in your eyes. It's okay, I don't despise him."

Feng Xin finally came to his senses and retorted: "I don't dislike it!"

Jianlan asked, "Then why are you so mean to him every time? Do you really treat him as your own son?"

Feng Xin said: "As long as it can be improved, why can't I?"

Jianlan sneered and said, "Then let me ask you again, you are a priest, do you dare to recognize it?"

Feng Xin was stunned.

This was natural. The fetus lay in its mother's arms, baring its teeth at him, like an ugly, half-grown poisonous insect, or a disabled beast cub, but not a human being.

Which priest would dare to agree to such a thing? To acknowledge such a ghost as his own son? This would definitely be a huge stain, and the believers, incense, and prestige would all be damaged!