Recap
Yan Zhao’s eyes flashed with surprise, and his Rong Rong seemed… not a mortal.
Rong Yu seemed to have seen the funniest joke in the world. If he had to use other methods, his mortal body might have a headache. What’s the idea of using fire to deal with him?
Even if the power is sealed, the soul in this body is always the most powerful flame. That’s why only he can withstand Yan Zhao’s body temperature, no matter if he is a god as hot as the sun or a ghost king as cold as an iceberg.
If he is a real mortal, he will never be able to adapt to the cold ghost energy in his life. He has a fiery soul, so he is the only exception.
Without the permission of the Red Lotus Karma Fire, no flame dares to burn in front of him.
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If Rong Yu’s method of dealing with the three Taoists was still within the scope of mortal understanding, then this snap of fingers to extinguish the flames in the entire venue was truly inhumane.
The servants had long been frightened, throwing away the extinguished torches and running away: “Ghosts, ghosts!!!”
“You, you guys, come back! Why are you running?” Landlord Hu was stunned and wanted to call them back. When Rong Yu walked silently in front of him, he realized and thought of running away.
A drop of cold sweat fell on his forehead.
Landlord Hu rolled and crawled to escape, and the red chain snake that removed the illusion swam down along Rong Yu’s clothes, hissing and spitting snake tongue at him with a cold and dangerous look in his eyes.
Landlord Hu’s legs trembled, and he suddenly didn’t even have the strength to get up.
“Please let me go; don’t kill me.”
“I can let you go.” Rong Yu was easy to talk to. “But you asked someone to splash dog blood on my door; how can I live here?”
Landlord Hu: “I’ll ask someone to clean your door.”
“Hmm?” Rong Yu narrowed his eyes, more terrifying than the red chain snake that had been staring at him.
Landlord Hu’s body shuddered: “I’ll install a new door for you; no, no, I’ll repair the whole house for you!”
Rong Yu sighed lightly. “I don’t like to wait too long.”
Landlord Hu wanted to cry but had no tears: “You can stay in Hu’s house first.” This was simply inviting a wolf into the house, but there was no other way at the moment.
“I don’t like living under the same roof with others.”
Landlord Hu was very polite this time: “We will all move out and let you live alone!” He didn’t want to live under the same roof as this unknown existence!
“Since the mansion belongs to me, bring the house deed to me.” Rong Yu pressed step by step.
Mr. Hu hesitated for a moment. That was his ancestral home. The whole family lived here. If he gave the mansion to him, where would they live?
He had planned to delay the war and let Wen Yichu live in the mansion temporarily, and then he would invite other masters to come and subdue him. If the house deed was handed over, I don’t know if I can get it back.
“You are reluctant to give it, and you are still thinking about coming back to live here?” Rong Yu said, “It just so happens that those little ghosts miss you too and want to keep you forever.”
Thinking of the haunted house last night, Mr. Hu’s face turned pale. “Give it to you! The house deed is in my room; I’ll take you to get it.”
The house is gone, but there is still money. They can still manage the house somewhere else. Losing their lives is really not worth it.
Rong Yu snorted lightly, and the red chain snake climbed up his black hair again, turning into an ordinary red hairband in Mr. Hu’s eyes.
Mr. Hu was trembling with fear, and he dared not play tricks anymore.
The poison of the red-chain snake is not strong, and it can almost be regarded as a non-venomous snake. But this little snake, combined with some magic, is enough to scare people like Mr. Hu.
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“Mr. Wen, please come in.” Mr. Hu smiled and took Rong Yu to the door of the Hu family mansion.
The two servants guarding the door looked at each other in surprise. They only knew that the master brought almost all the servants into the mansion with torches and walked aggressively towards the Wen Dao Academy, leaving only the two of them to guard the door. Not long after, someone fled back in a panic, saying that Wen Yichu was now unknown. None of the three Taoists who went there were useful, and they could extinguish the torch with a snap of their fingers… It was so magical that they didn’t believe it without seeing it with their own eyes, but when they saw that Mr. Hu actually respectfully invited the “person” back, they suddenly believed it.
Although the young man in red clothes was smiling, they didn’t dare to look up.
Landlord Hu brought Rong Yu to his bedroom, took out the house deed from the bottom of the box, and reluctantly handed it to Rong Yu.
Rong Yu took the house deed, but still felt it was not enough, so he glanced at the pile of papers in the box: “What else is in the box?”
Landlord Hu did not dare to hide: “All are some silver bills and land deeds.”
The fields planted by the villagers are theirs. Farmers collect rent, and they have been doing so for generations.
Rong Yu asked, “What percentage of rent do you collect?”
Landlord Hu’s heart skipped a beat, and he said cautiously, “10%.”
Rong Yu smiled. “Do you really think I am oblivious to the outside world and only read the books of sages?”
Before he finished speaking, Yan Zhao cooperated and blew a gust of wind into the room. The doors and windows were clearly closed, but the bead curtains moved without wind and jingled.
Landlord Hu was terrified to the extreme and immediately told the truth: “10%… give it to them, and we take 90%.”
This is more than just skinning and sucking blood; this is swallowing bones and not even leaving ashes.
Rong Yu said in an amazed tone, “The court dare not collect taxes like this.”
“No, no! From now on, we will take 70%… No, 50%! 30%!” Landlord Hu looked at Rong Yu’s unchanged expression and gritted his teeth. “10%, we take 10%, and 90% for them!”
This surname Wen loves to meddle in other people’s affairs when he is alive, and he wants to haunt him after he dies. Landlord Hu’s heart was bleeding, but he dared not show it.
Rong Yu said, “I am a little greedier than you.”
Landlord Hu was stunned. What does this mean? Could it be that Wen Yichu is not fighting for those ignorant people but is a fellow traveler who wants to share the tribute?
He said, There is no one in the world who is not greedy for money, so innocence and integrity are all illusions.
“I want all of it.” Rong Yu added.
Landlord Hu took 90%; he was a little greedier, and he wanted 100%.
Yan Zhao, who had already understood Rong Yu’s intention, flicked his sleeves, and the box in Landlord Hu’s arms flew into Rong Yu’s hands.
“My treasure chest!” Landlord Hu shouted out in pain, because it contained all his belongings!
“What do you mean, yours?” Rong Yu said, as a matter of course, “It’s mine now.”
Landlord Hu was so heartbroken that he couldn’t breathe. This was even more robbery than him. He now hoped that Wen Yichu’s innocence and integrity were not an illusion, which was better than this greedy truth!
“Mr. Wen, these things in the world are just a pile of waste paper for you. I will burn paper money for you, pay for the temple and repair your golden body, and you return the box to me.”
“If your old mother doesn’t come back to life in seven days, she will really die. Do you want to buy your mother’s life with money, or do you want this box?” Rong Yu gave him a choice.
A dark light flashed in Landlord Hu’s eyes. Although his mother was good to him, she was also strict, which always made him afraid from the bottom of his heart. It is natural for a mother to love her son. The things in the box are gone; he has nothing, and there is no hope for the rest of his life. Which is more important? It is clear at a glance. If it were a mother, she would not be willing to let him live a hard life if she loved her son so much.
“My mother is old and has lived enough. It is a happy funeral for her to die at this time.”
The implication is to choose the treasure box.
Rong Yu clapped his hands twice: “If you really choose your mother, I will still think you are a filial son. I believe she must have been very touched when she heard you curse her behind her back.”
“Oh, not behind her back, but in front of her.”
Landlord Hu had a bad feeling in his heart. He looked up and saw that Mrs. Hu was standing in front of him with a gloomy face.
As early as when Rong Yu asked the choice question, Yan Zhao had captured the old lady’s soul and waited until she heard her son’s rebellious words before letting her show up.
Landlord Hu was instinctively afraid of his mother: “Mom, no, listen to me.”
Mrs. Hu was so angry that she hit him with a cane: “Rebellious son!”
Rong Yu saw the mother and son fighting and said without interest, “I don’t want to watch it anymore.”
Yan Zhao immediately sent Mrs. Hu’s soul back to her body and pushed the mother and son and the Hu family out of the mansion. As for how they continued to make noise outside, it had nothing to do with them.
The Hu family has caused so many people to be broken up, and now it is just a matter of time.
Everyone felt a gust of cold wind, and the surrounding environment changed. They were outside the Hu Mansion, and the door could no longer be opened.
Of course, no one dared to break into this haunted house again.
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“It’s a waste of my life to deal with this mob.” Rong Yu chose the most comfortable and gorgeous bedroom, lit the candle, and asked Yan Zhao to perform a cleaning spell. “Let’s continue.”
Before being disturbed by this mob, they kissed in the room.
Yan Zhao did not move but only bowed his head slightly: “Rong Rong.”
“Hmm?”
“Why can you control fire?”
Their gaze seemed to have been separated by a hundred years, but in fact, it was only a moment.
Rong Yu: “Secret.”
Yan Zhao: “I won’t ask.”
The two sentences were spoken at the same time, and the voices overlapped.
Yan Zhao paused and repeated, “I won’t ask.”
Rong Yu has a secret that he doesn’t know.
Perhaps that secret was the reason for his anxiety.
Rong Yu didn’t want to talk, so he didn’t ask.
He just felt very depressed that he didn’t get the other party’s full trust. This made Yan Zhao feel a little depressed. He felt heavy in his heart and didn’t want to talk, so he wanted Rong Yu to go to bed early.
Rong Yu didn’t let him go: “Are you going to kiss me?”
“…”
“Kiss?”
“…”
“Yan Zhao?”
Yan Zhao still pressed the man on the couch and kissed him thoroughly.
This man is really… I think he is cute, but he is helpless.
Yan Zhao kissed him so hard that he almost accidentally fired the gun. When he held the man in his arms, he found that the young man was trembling slightly with cold, and then the alarm bell sounded, and he quickly separated.
He pursed his lips and wrapped Rong Yu tightly with the quilt, with a look of self-blame on his face: “Sorry.”
“What’s there to be sorry about?” Rong Yu was calmer than him. “I’ll still hold you to sleep.”
The bed in the Hu Mansion is bigger than the one in Wen Yichu’s house. Two people lying together will not feel crowded, and there is more than enough space in the middle. But Rong Yu is still the same and likes to find a place to sleep in Yan Zhao’s arms.
“I won’t have to touch your gold bars after taking the Hu family’s silver notes.” Rong Yu was very satisfied with today’s gains.
He will stay in this world for three years, and he will definitely need money everywhere. He can’t stand the original owner’s poor quality of life. Fortunately, Yan Zhao’s burial objects are rich, with gold, silver, and jewelry. Just taking out a few of them is enough for him to live comfortably.
Yan Zhao said, “You can use it; don’t save it for me; my entire tomb is yours.” I am yours too.
He still remembered that when visiting the tomb, Rong Yu was just a passing glance at everything else but only stayed a few steps longer when looking at the gold and silver jewelry, and he silently remembered it: Rong Rong liked glittering and precious things.
“Do you think I’m being polite to you? What’s yours is mine. Why should I touch my own when I can spend other people’s money?” Rong Yu said.
This was said bluntly, but Yan Zhao’s lips curled up when he heard it. Rong Rong treated him as her own person—no, her own ghost—which was the happiest thing for him today.
“Remember to build a ghost wall so that people who shouldn’t go out can’t leave Yuexi Town.” Since the rectification has begun, Rong Yu will not cause any trouble. The Hu family still has some friendship with the government office, so he has to stop them from reporting to the government just in time to solve the other families. As for the county magistrate who beat Wen Yichu and drove him out of the government office, it is better to wait until he becomes an official to settle the account. A higher official can crush people to death, and it will be more permanent at that time.
Yan Zhao: “Don’t worry, I promise that I can’t even walk out.”
Rong Yu: “Then I’m not too sure.”
Yan Zhao asked: “Are you going to close the door and beat the dog?”
“Almost.” Rong Yu said.
“Beat the landlords and divide the land.”
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