Chapter 361: Fu Yue Enters the Play

"Tianze, look, those flowers are really beautiful, do you still remember? Those were the flowers you personally planted fifty years ago..."

Fu family,

In a garden, Xu Xiuzhen and the blue-clothed man walked hand in hand.

Fu Yue, Fu Xue, and Lu Xun followed behind.

"Time really flies; in the blink of an eye, little Yue has grown up so much and even found her ideal partner."

While Xu Xiuzhen reminisced about the past, she occasionally glanced back at the three of them.

When she saw Lu Xun and Fu Yue, a relieved smile appeared on her face.

She actually didn't care much about the son-in-law's cultivation strength or such; instead, she valued her daughter's own wishes more.

As long as her daughter likes it, there's no problem.

As for Fu Xue's side, Xu Xiuzhen learned from Fu Old Master that it was to deal with Lu Chen.

After her gaze swept over the two daughters' faces, Xu Xiuzhen gently called Lu Xun: "Little Xun, when in love, boys should be more proactive, you know?"

Eh?

What does this mean.

Xu Xiuzhen raised her hand, which was tightly clasped with the blue-clothed man's.

Lu Xun instantly understood her meaning.

Was this meant to have Lu Xun take Fu Yue's hand?

"Mom, I'm much older than Lu Xun, so I should be the one to take the initiative."

Fu Yue, afraid Lu Xun wouldn't dare, took the initiative and grabbed Lu Xun's hand.

"That's right, little Xun is still young and thin-skinned; this is actually good, you can look after little Xun more."

After Xu Xiuzhen regained the nourishment of love, her whole person became gentle.

Compared to her former self knocking the wooden fish in that thatched hut, she is practically a different person.

Such a scene is obviously something Fu Yue is happy to see.

Even Fu Xue, who faintly sensed something was off, didn't think too much about it.

She likewise hoped everything would return to how it was.

Returning to how she was as a child, her father was kind and gentle, her mother warm and generous, managing their small family into a happy and blissful one.

Such a simple wish, in the past, was an extravagantly luxurious matter.

Now, at last, hope has appeared.

But even if the thought of 'sacrificing' herself existed, Fu Yue ultimately was holding a man's hand for the first time.

Lu Xun's body heat transmitted through their overlapped palms; Fu Yue inexplicably recalled the sip of strong liquor she had secretly drunk as a child, a burning sensation traveling from her fingertips to her chest.

Her attention also began to wander.

Being held by Fu Yue like this, Lu Xun only felt her small hand was soft and delicate, yet he did not deliberately take advantage of her.

"Little Yue, little Xue, do they look nice?"

At that moment, the blue-clothed man placed a flower on Xu Xiuzhen's head.

"Mm!"

The two girls nodded.

"Little Xun, you can be more proactive~"

Xu Xiuzhen reminded Lu Xun.

"Ah Yue, come~"

Lu Xun gently plucked a lovely flower and placed it in Fu Yue's hair.

"How come, it's gone already?"

Xu Xiuzhen turned her gaze to Fu Xue, the corner of her mouth curling with a teasing smile.

Well,

Lu Xun smiled helplessly, and had no choice but to reach out again, pluck another flower, and gently pin it on Fu Xue.

"Teacher, why do you blush so easily?"

This action, however, made Fu Xue blush.

"Wow, Uncle is accompanying the two little aunts strolling in the garden~"

"Uncle, uncle, when will you marry the two little aunts and bring them home? We're waiting for red envelopes."

"Little Aunt Xue, don't be fierce, or else once you give Uncle a little brother, we'll all gang up on him!"

As they walked, a passing little girl started to cause a fuss.

Perhaps because they rarely get a chance to tease Fu Xue ordinarily, these little girls always direct their remarks at her.

Fu Xue was made to blush and feel hot-eared several times.

"Tianze, it's been a while since we went shopping; let's go out for some shopping, and by the way buy Lu Xun a greeting gift."

In the afternoon, Xu Xiuzhen wanted to go shopping.

The blue-clothed man seemed to truly turn back into Fu Tianze, complying with her every wish and agreeing.

Fu Yue originally intended to accompany her parents, so she pulled Lu Xun along.

Thus, the group of five arrived at the liveliest District 49 of Xuanji City and began to stroll the streets.

Xuanji City as a whole has a total of 100 districts.

Among them, many districts belong to top-tier great clans.

For example, District 68 belongs to the Fu family.

Clans like the Liu family, which possess the Nine Realms, can also exclusively occupy a district.

As for the eighth realm, it is often shared with several other eighth-realm families in one area.

Basically each family occupies one level.

Even seventh-realm families, that level has to accommodate several of them.

This is not because they occupied resources, but because the area they occupy is something they themselves paid to build, or bought at great expense.

The purpose of building Celestial Mechanism City is naturally to preserve humanity's last spark.

If Lan Xing truly faces destruction one day, ordinary people and ordinary cultivators surviving would really be of no use.

On the contrary, these great families, able to survive in the vast starry sky in the form of families with cohesion, and bear the task of human propagation.

Of course, Celestial Mechanism City also has many areas not belonging to those great families, but are public.

For example, Area 49.

Many masters gather here.

Artifact forging, pill refining, formation arrays, puppets.

Thus, Area 49 becomes unusually lively.

The liveliest is none other than a street several kilometers long in the middle of Area 49.

On this street named Myriad Phenomena Street, all kinds of shops are packed.

The Fu family actually has a shop here too, selling many things, including spiritual talismans, spiritual pills, spiritual medicines, and so on.

"What you're best at is cultivating spiritual plants?"

"Well, many of the high-grade spiritual medicines and fourth- and fifth-grade pill-refining materials in Celestial Mechanism City are supplied by us."

Along the way, Lu Xun learned a situation from Fu Yue.

The Fu family's spiritual plant cultivation is impressive; they devoted an entire layer to cultivating spiritual plants and medicines, expanded the space inside, set up formations, to accelerate the growth of spiritual plants.

At the same time, they injected a huge amount of Dark Energy into it.

Moreover, the Fu family also has some spiritual plants obtained from Ancient Path Nodes that are aged.

For example, several Enlightenment Trees over a thousand years old, and even more several-hundred-year-old Enlightenment Trees.

"If only we had known earlier."

Lu Xun couldn't help but think.

If we had known earlier that the Fu family also cultivated spiritual plants and medicines, we could have just bought directly from them at the start.

However, the Fu family's cultivation of spiritual plants and medicines is relatively high-grade; they are basically used to refine fourth- and fifth-grade pills, with very few below fourth-grade.

They mainly supply Celestial Mechanism City, where demand is huge; it can be said that supply falls short of demand, so there may not be much left for the Lu Clan Group.

Although Celestial Mechanism City doesn't have many people, its consumption power is incredibly strong, far surpassing the surface of Lan Xing.

"Perhaps we could borrow some people from them to start a spiritual plant cultivation garden."

Lu Xun had a plan.

He intended to build his own spiritual plant cultivation garden, so as not to be bottlenecked.

But building a spiritual plant cultivation garden is not that easy.

Spiritual plants are all delicate; their growth also takes time.

Even spiritual plants that take ten or eight years need ten or eight years to grow.

"That Earth Core Secret Realm, although cultivating inside poses hidden dangers, if we placed spiritual plants inside to cultivate, wouldn't that be wonderful?"

Lu Xun suddenly had this idea.

However, upon second thought, opening the Earth Core Secret Realm requires a huge amount of primordial source, letting Lan Xing consume so much primordial source to cultivate spiritual plants... that's not very cost-effective.

Truly high-end spiritual plants and medicines are not cultivated slowly by oneself; seeking them in Ancient Path Nodes is the proper way.

"Please come in, these few pieces of treasure clothing are all our treasured treasures..."

This time out shopping, Lu Xun clearly felt the difference.

Previously, when he wandered here, others would see he wasn't from Celestial Mechanism City and lose interest in receiving him.

This time, as soon as the few of them arrived, every shop greeted them with smiling faces.

"Unfortunately they are all sixth-grade treasure clothing; Tian Ze, let's go ask the He family later to see if we can have them custom-make an eighth-grade or higher treasure clothing for Lu Xun."

Okay.

Xu Xiuzhen wanted to give Lu Xun some meeting gifts, but found it not easy to find something suitable.

"Have you heard? The Fu family's twin beauties have been taken by the same person."

"Who?"

"Someone you would absolutely never guess, hehe."

"Stop being coy, who exactly is it?"

"Lu Xun!"

"What?"

As they were strolling, they heard someone discussing matters related to them.

"Now everyone knows."

Fu Yue knew, the news would spread to everyone under heaven.

Now, not even jumping into the Yellow River, let alone the sea, could wash it clean.

"Huh, isn't that the Fu family's twin beauties?"

"It's Lu Xun!"

"They're holding hands, looks like there's no doubt~"

At this moment, someone noticed them, and many gazes were cast upon them.

Fu Yue's face flushed, and she subconsciously wanted to loosen her hold on Lu Xun's hand.

Fu Xue is thin-skinned, and she actually put a thin gauze over her face.

Let's go back.

She said.

She somewhat regretted coming out to shop.

"Little Xue, the Lu family may not give up; doing this will settle things, so they won't keep daydreaming."

Xu Xiuzhen instead thought this was pretty good.

So, Fu Xue could only grit her teeth and continue shopping.

Along the way, quite a few people recognized them.

As time passed, Fu Xue gradually steadied her mood and began to ignore others' gazes.

Fu Yue had even grown accustomed to holding hands with Lu Xun.

She even began to enjoy this feeling a bit.

"How did our fingers get interlocked..."

She suddenly realized that, without noticing, she and Lu Xun had interlocked fingers.

Fu Yue's heartbeat quickened a bit, but she didn't dare to deliberately let go.

At that moment, Fu Yue also noticed that her father, upon turning back, seemed to have seen this scene, his face showing a relieved smile.

This encouraged Fu Yue.

"Little Yue, have Lu Xun try this treasure clothing."

"Hmm."

In another treasure clothing store, Fu Yue proactively helped Lu Xun take off his outer garment and helped him try on the clothes.

This treasure clothing is a middle layer, meaning it's worn as the second layer.

Its quality was surprisingly high, reaching upper seventh rank.

Such treasure clothing, being thinner, tends to be more expensive.

"Lu Xun, come."

She picked up the treasure clothing, walked behind Lu Xun, and had him put on each sleeve.

Then she reached out to smooth the few stray strands of hair on Lu Xun's forehead, fastened his buttons, stepped back two paces, and admired him.

"The style is not bad."

Fu Yue's eyes lit up.

"Indeed it looks good; let's take this one."

Xu Xiuzhen hammered the deal and paid.

This is her meeting gift to Lu Xun.

Big families are big families; even a casual meeting gift costs a few thousand square of Dark Energy.

Of course, not everyone is worthy of them giving a meeting gift.

"Lu Xun, this place's roast goose is delicious, try some~"

At dusk, in the restaurant, Fu Yue and Lu Xun sat side by side, and she actively served him some dishes.

"Sis, are you getting into character?"

On the side, Fu Xue observed silently.

She found that after today, Fu Yue had somewhat gotten into character, seeming to really regard herself as Lu Xun's girlfriend.

Often it didn't look like acting at all.