Chapter 544

Noon.

Liang Qu woke up and practiced martial arts after his nap.

Long Yao and Long Li each carried several large jars into the courtyard, followed by a few small river otters, half a head shorter, with oily mouths.

"Where did you go? I haven't seen you all morning."

Liang Qu inserted the Fubo.

"Strolling on the street, buying a few glass jars!"

Long Yao held up the transparent glass bottle in her hand.

The little river otter held up the pig head meat wrapped in oil paper in its arms.

Liang Qu patted the river otter's head: "Catching fireflies?"

"Yes!" Long Yao added, "To take back to Chen Xiu."

Long Li nodded: "The fireflies on the back mountain of Linggu Temple are so big, as big as a little finger, fat and round, completely different from the ones in Pingyang Prefecture. Send one jar, release two jars; maybe there can be some in the home garden in the future!"

Chen Xiu, Aunt Zhang's daughter, came to work and do chores at home earlier than Long Yao and Long Li, and her presence wasn't strong.

Thinking that he only brought the Dragon Girls and left Chen Xiu alone at home, and usually didn't interact with her, it felt somewhat like isolation; he really felt a bit embarrassed.

"It's good as a gift."

"Then can we stay one more day?"

"Hard to catch during the day?"

Liang Qu's spear tip pried open the blue bricks piled up at the corner of the wall.

The fireflies were stimulated by the sunlight, spread their wings, and crawled into deeper crevices.

"Not easy to catch."

Long Yao and Long Li shook their heads in unison.

"Hey, waiting for me here?"

"Elder~"

"Just for tonight; we shouldn't leave tomorrow, but we should also open it up and let others come to the back mountain. Such a good scene, we can't monopolize it forever." Liang Qu felt that privilege was great and hard to refuse, but he couldn't be privileged forever.

"Without the Elder, others wouldn't be able to see the Flowing Light Sea; we didn't monopolize it."

"That's true..."

Last night passed.

The relationship between Liang Qu and the Dragon Girls was clearly much closer.

The Dragon Girls came from the tribe to be maids and guardians, more or less with the awkwardness of parents bringing two children and forcing them to play together.

Coupled with living elsewhere, how much restraint and awkwardness derived from that.

After a month or two of getting along, accompanied by mutual familiarity, this feeling gradually weakened, but it always appeared vaguely.

Now he could finally experience that this sense of discomfort had completely dissipated.

Beautiful girls are truly wonderful.

Watching the Dragon Girls return to their rooms.

Liang Qu had no heart for cultivation, picked up the Fubo, returned to his room, and called Long Binglin and Long Eying to discuss the ideas he had shelved last night and brainstorm.

Room.

Three people, three cushions.

"Reason for sending the treasure..."

Long Binglin pondered a little, his gaze jumping back and forth.

"I asked you to think of a way, why do you keep looking at Eying?"

Long Binglin said: "Elder, I have a plan; whether it can succeed depends on whether Eying agrees."

Long Eying was surprised: "Me?"

Liang Qu was curious: "Tell me."

"You and Eying are in mutual love and are betrothed; the Great Elder loves his granddaughter and wants to use our tribe's treasure as a dowry, but the Second and Third Elders flatly refuse. Who would have thought the Great Elder would abuse his power, bypass the Second and Third Elders, and secretly open the treasury to steal the treasure."

After speaking.

Long Eying fell into silence.

Liang Qu frowned: "What is all this? Messy, what a crooked idea!"

Is it crooked?

Long Binglin didn't think so; he felt he had killed three birds with one stone.

First, provide a reasonable excuse for Liang Qu to advance to Great Demon, reverse-feed into human form, and have his martial bones manifest.

Second, spread discord within the Dragon People, reducing the attention of the Jiaolong when Long Yanyui advances.

Third, if they can really marry, they will be deeply bound and worry-free; if they can't marry, retreat to the next best thing, create ambiguity, and maybe they can marry in the future.

Sometimes rumors become true as they spread.

When learning martial arts in school as a youth, at fourteen or fifteen, love buds, and there are often troublemakers spreading rumors that such-and-such Dragon Girl and such-and-such Dragon Person are ambiguous, intentionally making people awkward; who knew that as they talked, the parties involved actually fell for each other and got married when they grew up.

All things in the world have the same principles.

Pondering for a moment.

Liang Qu asked: "Is Eying the Great Elder's granddaughter?"

Long Binglin was surprised: "Elder, you didn't know?"

"How would I know?"

"Eying and I are both third-generation Dragon People, but unlike other third-generation Dragon People, we were born of second-generation and first-generation, and both are excellent second-generation and first-generation, so our bloodline is more excellent than ordinary second-generation."

Liang Qu was shocked.

Second-generation and first-generation?

Backcrossing?

"Elder, don't misunderstand. As first-generation, the degree of bloodline is not the same; the Dragon Lord's enlightenment also has a sequence, separated by dozens or hundreds of years, which is very normal, not like breeding... and the Dragon Lord's essence blood enlightenment, as long as the breeders are different, will not form a close relative relationship."

Liang Qu understood instantly.

A thirty-year-old nephew, a three-year-old uncle.

Generations differ, but ages are similar, and there's no blood relationship.

"Eying is the Great Elder's own granddaughter, the most beautiful Dragon Girl recognized by our tribe." Long Binglin emphasized the second half of the sentence inexplicably.

Long Eying: "..."

"And you?"

"The Great Elder is my grandfather; Eying and I are cousins. Most Dragon People within three generations, due to generational reasons, have this kind of relationship; Yanyui is about the same. Elder, how about it? Eying, how about you? Actually, you don't have to really marry, it's just a statement on the surface."

Long Binglin was worried that the progress was too fast, so he retreated to the next best thing, first using a fake relationship to create ambiguity.

Long Eying struggled for a while, thinking of the fireflies yesterday: "If I can help the Elder, of course, I don't mind."

"It doesn't have to be that troublesome." Liang Qu didn't feel that after less than two months of getting along, their relationship had reached that point, and he rubbed his chin. "Since Eying is the Great Elder's own granddaughter, then directly..."

After finishing the plan.

Long Binglin was quite disappointed.

"That works too."

The Dragon Girls carried bottles and jars onto the boat.

In the pitch-black cabin.

The fireflies in the glass bottles bloomed with ghostly light, like large green lanterns.

"Magistrate Liu, please stay, no need to see us off anymore!"

"Huazhu and Pingyang are not far apart; I truly hope Master Liang will visit often when you have time!"

Liu Wenzhu saw them off to the deck, his words full of reluctance and retention.

This was, of course, polite talk.

After dealing with it a little, Liang Qu let Tatta Kai set sail.

Just as they were about to leave the shore, there was a sudden commotion on the pier; several simple villagers in plain clothes, holding hemp cloth in their arms, intended to pass through the obstruction of the officials and approach the large ship. Seeing the treasure ship was about to leave, the leading old man uncovered the hemp cloth and shouted loudly.

"Master Liang, stay! Master Liang, stay!"

Liu Wenzhu saw what was under the hemp cloth and was greatly astonished.

A huge umbrella made of red satin, with a circle of curtains hanging from the edge of the umbrella ribs, covered in writing.

Ten Thousand People Umbrella?

This...

Are there really people who voluntarily send it?

"Let them go."

It didn't look like they were causing trouble, so Liu Wenzhu waved his hand, the officials let them pass, and the old man was able to bring the young and strong forward, standing on the shore and calling out.

Liang Qu let Tatta Kai stop the ship temporarily, jumped onto the shore, and looked at them twice.

A little old man with completely white whiskers, his beard trimmed neatly, full of spirit.

Very familiar.

"Is the old man... Rong Hanwen, Elder Rong?"

"Yes, yes, at the grand sacrifice yesterday, I was in the procession!" Rong Hanwen was inexplicably excited to see Liang Qu remembered him.

Liang Qu thought for a moment and remembered everything.

Last year's Huazhu flood, the fist-saving people were rumored to be the incarnation of the Jianghuai River God, specifically coming to punish the Black Water River God; this year, the flood retreat was faster than in previous years, and the source was what this Rong Hanwen said!

The disaster relief in Rong Family Village was also much faster than in other villages, and they even organized a fleet to follow him afterward.

When he participated in the King's Boat sacrifice, Liang Qu went to this village.

Rong Hanwen handed over the Ten Thousand People Umbrella, chattering on.

"Master Liang, your status is noble, you live in luxury, the villagers can't take out anything decent, they just knew you were coming in August, so every household contributed fabric, rushing to sew an umbrella for you.

It was finally finished today, and I heard you were leaving, so I rushed to send it over! It was a close call, but we made it!

I haven't read many books, so I don't know if this umbrella is suitable for you, or if it would be offensive, but the villagers' hearts are in it."

"Yes, my lord, please accept it!"

"Accept it! My lord!"

Behind Rong Hanwen, several young men who followed responded enthusiastically.