Peace in the fairyland (18): Calculation

When Immortal Song Fengyu’s airship flew over Qingyang City, he let the five young people down and said with a smile, “You have done a great job in this experience. Go and have some fun and relax.”

The Qingyang Sect’s management of outer disciples was still very strict. They were not allowed to leave Qingyang Mountain at will until they had achieved success in their training and were able to go out for training.

Murong Ruide and the other two were fine, as they had already had the opportunity to experience the secular world before. However, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian had been staying in the mountains for half a year and had never seen the prosperity of the secular world.

Murong Ruide fulfilled his responsibility as a senior brother and took Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian to stroll around the most prosperous street in Qingyang City.

Due to its proximity to Qingyang Sect, one could often see cultivators passing through Qingyang City. The largest store in the city, Duobao Pavilion, was backed by Qingyang Sect, selling genuine cultivation items. This not only attracted a large number of loose cultivators but also ordinary people who saved money to buy pills and other useful items here.

Several large restaurants in Qingyang City each had their own famous special dishes. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian tasted them themselves and confirmed that they were worthy of their reputation.

After lunch, the five of them separated. After all, Qingyang City was right under the Qingyang Sect, so there was no need to worry about any accidents. They just had to return to the mountain before dark.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were strolling into a handicraft shop. While they were admiring a jade carving, someone came over from behind, crying.

“Damn you, Aze! You’ve been missing for half a year, how come you haven’t even sent a letter home?”

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who had their backs to the newcomer, dodged almost at the same time, leaving the newcomer empty-handed.

The two looked over in confusion and found that it was a woman who threw herself at Xia Ruize. After missing the target, she paused awkwardly for a moment, then simply sat on the ground and started to complain loudly:

“Everyone, please judge for yourself. My poor sister-in-law and her husband passed away early, leaving Aze all alone. We kindly took him home and took good care of him until he grew up, but he ran away without a word and hasn’t been home for half a year or sent a letter!

My family has been worried about him and has been looking for him for half a year. What is he doing here? He is so heartless! As his aunt, I feel so sad!”

The woman’s loud crying attracted the attention of passers-by. Some felt sorry for the woman and wanted to criticize the young men, but suddenly noticed that Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were wearing the uniforms of Qingyang Sect disciples. They didn’t dare to say anything, but more people gathered around to watch the excitement.

Xia Ruize frowned as he looked at the woman who was crying with her face covered with a handkerchief. The malice in her made Xia Ruize unable to help but take two steps back and move away from her.

Then he remembered that he also had a background in this mission world, an orphan living in his maternal grandparents’ home with a large fortune. So, half a year ago, Cheng Huaiqian’s family came to cause trouble. Was it his turn this time?

Thinking of this, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian exchanged glances and decided to wait and see what the world had in store for them.

Xia Ruize then said to the woman who was still sitting on the ground and crying gently, “Don’t cry yet. Stand up first. We can talk slowly.”

The woman refused to give in and continued to cry and accuse Xia Ruize of being unfilial. At this time, several people from the crowd who were watching the excitement squeezed in. The old man in the middle interrupted the woman’s accusation and said, “Second sister, what are you doing? Aren’t you ashamed? Get up and follow me home first.”

After the old man finished speaking, he glared at the woman fiercely. The woman immediately stopped making trouble and silently got up and stood next to the middle-aged man behind the old man.

After scolding the woman, the old man looked at Xia Ruize again, with a complicated expression, disappointed and proud. He paused for a moment and said slowly: “Aze, go back with grandpa and tell him what you have been doing in the past six months.”

The old man ended the farce as soon as he appeared, and took the woman, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian back to a guest room in an inn.

A group of people sat down at the big round table in the middle of the guest room. Xia Ruize’s grandfather Feng Yingcai said to Xia Ruize gently:

“Aze, half a year ago you took the money from home and left without saying goodbye. Your family missed you very much, and your aunt was so excited because she was worried that you might have become a bad student.

Our family has been looking for you for a long time and finally heard that you entered Qingyang Sect, so we came together to look for you. We just arrived in Qingyang City yesterday, and saw you on the street today. This shows that the blood relationship between our family cannot be broken.

Okay, I won’t talk about the past. No matter how your uncle and aunt treated you, they raised you. Now that you have become successful, we don’t ask you to repay your family in any way, as long as you can take care of your younger brother.

Grandpa is very happy to find you today. Come, second brother, go order a table of good food. Let’s have a good meal with Aze to celebrate our family reunion.”

Feng Yingcai spoke in a gentle tone and smiled brightly, and he seemed happy to have found his grandson.

If he didn’t regard “Xia Ruize” taking the money left by his parents as “stealing” money from home, Xia Ruize might have believed it more.

The middle-aged couple and their twenty-something son next to them had unhappy expressions, staring at Xia Ruize with eyes full of hatred. Strangely, there was a hint of suppressed joy and expectation in their eyes.

Due to Feng Yingcai’s power, Xia Ruize’s uncle and his family did not dare to resist and went out to order a banquet.

When the food and wine were served, the old man smiled and invited Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian to eat and drink, and raised his glass to clink glasses with the two young people.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other, too lazy to refuse, so they raised their glasses and drank a glass with Feng Yingcai. In fact, the wine had already turned into space before it even entered their mouths.

“This smell is the smell of Wailing grass…”

Xia Ruize sneered and said in his heart. He became more curious about the purpose of this family’s appearance and decided to cooperate with their performance.

In this world, Wailing grass was basically a forbidden herb, because it was the main ingredient of an elixir called Wailing Pill, and Wailing Pill was extremely harmful to immortal cultivators. It would destroy the immortal cultivator’s dantian and affect the cultivator’s path from the root. In serious cases, the cultivator’s cultivation would be completely wasted and would never be able to practice again.

Under the order of the Immortal Realm, the amount of wailing pills in the entire world was limited, for fear that the unrestricted circulation of Wailing Pills would harm the immortal cultivators.

Xia Ruize followed Immortal Luo Qi to study the art of making pills in depth, so he naturally learned how to distinguish which materials and pills were extremely harmful. As soon as the wine glass approached, he could tell the smell of the wailing pills hidden under the smell of the wine.

This was even more interesting. How did Xia Ruize’s family get wailing pills, how did they find them so accurately, and why did they destroy him without hesitation?

After exchanging a tacit look, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian quickly both lay down on the table, looking drunk.

The room suddenly became quiet. Xia Ruize’s uncle Feng Gaoyang carefully bent down and looked at the faces of the two young men. He saw that Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian had frowns and cold sweat on their faces, and they seemed to be in great pain.

“Dad, it’s done!”

Feng Gaoyang shouted in surprise.

“Hmph, there’s nothing your father can’t handle if he takes action. You two are so short-sighted that you can’t keep your cool. Dad has already said that he will give you justice, so why are you still angry with him? Hmph, my plan was almost ruined by you two fools.

Forget it, forget it. Go, second brother, call the Cheng family over. They promised us that we should settle the matter properly. “

Feng Yingcai leisurely took out another pot of wine and started eating with the delicious food on the table, completely ignoring the two people lying next to him who had just been drugged by him.

Feng Gaoyang ran out of the room excitedly, and soon a group of people followed him in. They closed the door tightly and gathered in the room where a large table was placed in the middle.

Xia Ruize scanned with his mental power, and hey, they were all acquaintances. The people coming were none other than the family members in the background character of “Cheng Huaiqian”, Cheng Longhai and his wife, and their two legitimate sons.

What a surprise!

If Xia Ruize had not been very sensitive to malicious intent and had not been vigilant towards these “relatives” who suddenly appeared, he would never have thought that they would team up to drug himself and Cheng Huai and destroy their future?!

After waiting for a while and seeing that no one entered the room, they heard them happily discussing how to divide the storage bag between the two. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian could no longer endure it. They sat up leisurely and looked at Cheng Longhai and Feng Yingcai who were arguing.

Cheng Longhai thought that it was a reasonable distribution method for each family to take one person’s storage bag, but Feng Yingcai insisted that the Feng family did it themselves, which would take a greater risk and they should get more rewards.

The two old foxes were arguing about this point, but they found that each other’s family members were looking to the side in horror. Their hearts skipped a beat and they turned to look to the side, and saw Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian sitting at the table with their arms folded, looking at them with a smile.

There was a sudden silence in the room.

Cheng Longhai and Feng Yingcai stared in amazement at Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian who seemed to be safe and sound. Their minds were blank and fear was already tinged in their eyes.

What happened? How come these two people were fine? They were immortals, would they come back to take revenge?

Cheng Huaiqian answered the doubts of everyone in the room with practical actions. He threw out several jade spells engraved with talismans. These jade spells flew out and hung around the room, covering the entire room in an isolation formation.

Once the formation was activated, the ordinary people trapped inside would not be able to leave on their own. Even the sounds in the room inside the formation would not be able to get out.

“Who gave you Wailing pills?”

Xia Ruize’s eyes were fixed on Cheng Longhai’s eyes, and the voice that slowly flowed out was filled with an inexplicable temptation that made people feel cold.

“I bought it from a traveling merchant…”

Cheng Longhai only felt that Xia Ruize’s eyes seemed to be spinning, and he answered with the answer in his mind without knowing why.

Xia Ruize raised his eyebrows and continued to ask: “Who asked you to use Wailing pills on us?”

“Not only are you disobedient, but you may also turn against your family. It would be better to just destroy you…”

Cheng Longhai continued to say the most cruel words in a dull tone, and Mrs. Cheng, who was standing by, was so anxious that she wanted to step forward and cover Cheng Longhai’s mouth. Cheng Huaiqian flicked his finger, and the wine glass on the table hit the back of Mrs. Cheng’s hand, and she dared not move anymore.

Just like that, under the hypnosis of Xia Ruize’s [Divine Language Messenger] skill, several people confessed their truest thoughts, and Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian finally figured it out.

It turned out that half a year ago, after Cheng Longhai and his family returned to the Cheng family, they were ostracized by the family. The family was about to give up the idea of ​​​​letting them show goodwill to Cheng Huaiqian.

Cheng Longhai and his wife were filled with anger after knowing this. Mrs. Cheng knew that if Cheng Huaiqian took a tough attitude, she, as the mistress of the family, would be in trouble. So she kept whispering in Cheng Longhai’s ear, making Cheng Longhai not think about repairing the relationship with the illegitimate son, but only think about ruining his future.

As a result, the Cheng family paid more attention to the news about Cheng Huaiqian. In the process, they met the family of “Xia Ruize”. At the same time, they learned that Xia Ruize’s relationship with his family was not very good. The two families got together and decided to take action together.

And then there was the scene today, where the Feng family, who had not yet torn their faces with Xia Ruize, stepped in and used wine soaked with Wailing pills to ruin the two young people’s path to immortality.

Half an hour later, seeing that they could not get any more information out of him, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian did not waste any more time and prepared to leave.

However, before leaving, Xia Ruize generously fed each of them a pill that he had refined.

Amid the horrified and desperate eyes of the Cheng and Feng families, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian left the room without any reluctance.

“Only relying on them, they should not be able to grasp so much information about us, including our close relationship, our recent outing for training, and our return to Qingyang City today, etc.” Cheng Huaiqian laughed, “It seems that there are also people in Qingyang Sect who can’t stand us doing well.”

“In previous mission worlds, our enemies were mostly other species. This world is interesting. The people who are ‘closest’ to us want to kill us…

Is this a warning to us that we should not only be on guard against other races, but also be on guard against our own races?”

Xia Ruize guessed.

The two sat side by side on the roof of a tall building, staring at the room where Cheng Feng and his family were, trying to see if there were other people involved in the poisoning incident.

Not long after, a waiter ran to the clinic to find a doctor at the request of the Cheng and Feng families. It seemed that the Cheng and Feng families, who were in a panic, wanted to seek medical treatment.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian watched the doctor leave the room patiently, and were then stopped by a passerby in an alley to inquire about the patient being treated.

The passerby didn’t get the news he wanted, so he let the doctor leave with a serious look on his face. When he turned around, his eyes widened in horror, because Xia Ruize was standing two meters in front of him, smiling at him.