he fees, it depends on the specific auspiciousness or misfortune. And I don't have time to travel around. If you need to appease the stars, come to this place and find me."I looked at the address and...I looked up at him from under the dresser and glared. "Don't look for this junk! Just find that letter, the one supposedly hidden in a makeup box..."

"How can this be useless It means your mother really took care of you, and she even kept all your childhood things so well." He smiled and placed the swaddle gently on the table next to him.

"What are you taking that out for" The swaddling cloth looked thick and had simple embroidery; it wasn't the kind of large floral fabric I imagined.

"... It can still be used." Mu Wanchen glanced at my belly as if it were obvious.

What He wants to take it home and wash it

"This, this, this! Such a place where evil spirits run rampant, even things inside the main house shouldn't be used indiscriminately!" I protested.

“Mu Xiaqiao’s family treats everything that's been used before as reusable, so what's wrong with using an old bed curtain” Mu Wanchen smiled and said, “The world loves new things and dislikes old ones. Little do they know that old things are the essence of inheritance. Nothing can buy that.”

"...Just a bed and some swaddling clothes, do I need to hear lectures from you" I muttered quietly.

I know Mu Wanchen was trying to advise me. The saying goes that filial piety comes first among a hundred virtues. If I don't even understand this, what kind of blessings can I accumulate It's just that I'm still putting up a tough front right now.

"Hmm... is this it" Mu Wanchen took out a jade box from a small drawer. Inside the box was a small jar, just like the kind used to hold lip balm in the old days.

"My goodness, if it's put like that, even the most reliable message would be shattered to pieces!" I hurried to grab the can.

Mu Wanchen slightly pulled back, raising it higher so that I couldn't reach it.

“Let me do it,” he said, frowning. “You’re too rough. You’ll hurt yourself.”

He spoke as he leaned closer to the lamp, twisting open the can's lid. Inside, an old piece of cloth filled the entire can; he pulled it out, and beneath it lay a yellowed letter paper.

Very old-fashioned, the letter is still written vertically. The handwriting is both smooth and powerful. The signature is a code name, definitely not her real name.

"Whose handwriting is this elder's" I took a closer look and found that the small piece of paper contained a lot of information.

"... It's known that Madam Gao Yi, single-handedly defends this treacherous and unpredictable place... Any assistance needed can be relayed to me through XXX. Anything you require will be provided without hesitation... Whose code name is this" I don't understand what those numbers mean.

"We needn't delve into these confidential matters. As long as we deliver this letter, they will naturally verify who the code name belongs to." Mu Wanchen folded the letter and placed it in a small jar.

"What if the person with that code is already gone"

"It doesn't matter if he's not here, we can check his identity in the database. That proves what he said is true, and besides, this needs to be resolved."

Mu Wanchen comforted me a few words, then urged me to go home and rest quickly, leaving the fox demon Mu Mu here to watch over Taipo recuperate.

I stayed up all night thinking about going home for a nap. Who knew that after passing through the portal, I would see a group of people at my house upon my return.

In a suit and tie, though without a tie, he looked like a well-trained follower at first glance.

My father stood outside the courtyard anxiously pulling me, whispering: "Little Lu'er! Young Master Mu brought someone to our house, saying they were visiting Ruyi. Ruyi drove me out and let them talk inside. They've guarded the courtyard gate, what are they talking about"

"Young Master Mu Is it Uncle Yun Fan" I was stunned. "Uncle Yun Fan is so busy, how did he suddenly come over"

"How should I know! He even brought a man with him..."

"Alright, alright, father, don't worry. Master Yunfan is very capable and knows what he's doing. This isn't a feudal society anymore. There's no reason why your wife can't be seen."

"I, I'm worried they might know something… after all, Ruyi was born in such a chaotic place. Even within the Yin-Yang Circle, it's a murky place, and wouldn't advertise itself readily." My father mumbled, rubbing his hands together.

"Don't worry, I'll go take a look." I rubbed my red eyes. Pregnancy insomnia really takes a stubborn amount of willpower to get through.

"I'll go with you." Mu Wanchen pulled my hand and led me to the small attic, opening the door.

This method of ours avoided the men in black suits guarding the courtyard. As soon as I stuck my foot out, I heard Ms. Xue’s voice from behind the screen inside the house——

In short, the situation now is that our clan in that area can no longer maintain its ties.

“Starting from my grandmother, the women in our Xue family have been inextricably linked to these strange and eerie phenomena. It all began during times of war when we needed some sort of ability to exorcise evil spirits to survive. The great elder also remembers our family and has remained there ever since.”

"But now I can't hold on any longer. My grandmother, who is almost a hundred years old, might just fall asleep one day and never wake up, and I—"

Ms. Xue paused for a moment.

A man's voice came from inside the house: "Aren't you in your prime"

Ms. Xue let out a cold snort: "As you can see, I'm seriously injured now. The little wolf I raised turned against me and almost killed me. Now I'm weak to the point of..."

She continued, “Don’t expect anything from my daughters either. My two daughters have nothing to do with these things since they were young. They neither practice cultivation nor have blood charms; they are just ordinary people. So at most, they will just last until the day I die, and then it will become a lawless place.”

"Heaven doesn't care, Earth doesn't care, people don't care... whatever the consequences will be, I am powerless to do anything about it."

"Let them handle it themselves. Either they find a successor to keep watch, or they follow my suggestion."

"You've also seen my daughter. Anyone can check. My daughter has hardly ever been to that place since she was little. If you really want them to guard it, I estimate they would be exposed in less than two days."

She smiled and continued, “From the moment I became pregnant, I never intended for my child to stay there, guarding a promise with no end in sight. To be frank with you, first, I don't want my child to remain there any longer; second, it's simply no longer tenable.”

Could it be that Ms. Xue made up her mind twenty years ago to sever ties with her descendants and have nothing to do with them, which is why she's so bold now in playing hard to get and refusing to work

I stood in the corner of the room, staring blankly at the scene before me.

Master Yunfan and Mr. Lin Yan, son of the Lin family, sat at the Eight Immortals table in the main hall, talking to Ms. Xue in the west wing bedroom through a screen.

Ms. Xue leaned against the headboard, her hair falling loose. Although she looked frail and weak, she still possessed that defiant and aloof air about her.

"Senior Brother, have you been preparing for this for twenty years already Sending out the two little sisters Yinluo..." Master Yun Fan laughed.

"What else Should we let them stay there There's already an old woman and me, enough to squander one more youth. Why bother." Ms. Xue snorted coldly: "Our family has always kept our promises. Now, it's your turn to keep a promise."

She paused, and shouted at me, "Luo girl, have you brought your things"

"Ah" I was startled.

Yun Fan and Lin Yanhuan were also taken aback.

"Holy crap, Xiaolu and the others, when did you come in! How come you didn't make a sound, you almost gave me a heart attack!" Uncle Yunfan jumped up from his stool.

“I, I…” I opened my mouth twice, trying to calm myself down, and retorted: “I, I secretly came here to listen, see if you were bullying my mother!” hate and everything in between. I really wanted to know what he was thinking deep down, but he was very tight-lipped and hardly ever told me anything.Occasionally, a few words slip out. Though brief,...