Chapter 204: Adopted a Ghost Son

Chi Miao said with a strange expression: "What does this have to do with Tiger Girl Grandma? Ksitigarbha wants to record a merit for the Dragon King of the West Sea!"

"Uh, the underworld thinks the person who triggered the trend of worshipping foster fathers in Tianmen Town is the Dragon King of the West Sea?" Xiao Yu stayed for a while, feeling a bit awkward in her heart.

She clearly didn't want to be in the limelight, especially on the matter of worshipping foster fathers; she wished she could get benefits in secret without anyone noticing.

But seeing the Dragon King of the West Sea receive Ksitigarbha's praise, she was a little envious.

Merit has no meaning to her; now the Heavenly Emperor will never reward her with merit no matter what.

What she envies is Ksitigarbha's appreciation.

If Ksitigarbha's appreciation were directed at her, she would immediately ask the dog-meat Daoist to preside over the ceremony of worshipping a foster father—even if Ksitigarbha wanted to record merit for the Dragon King of the West Sea, she still decided to burn a foster father document to him.

At least he paid attention to Tianmen Town and didn't mind mortals worshipping him as a foster father at all; what if it worked?

"It's not the Dragon King of the West Sea, who is it? Dragon King Grandpa accepted Zhai Da Gou of Tianmen Town as a foster son, which triggered the fanatical worship of foster fathers by the people of Tianmen Town," Chi Miao said.

Xiao Yu quickly calmed her mood and asked curiously: "Why does Ksitigarbha not only not blame the 'Yama Crown Prince' but also praise this trend very much?"

Chi Miao said: "Ksitigarbha said he once made a great vow to save all living beings in the underworld, but few people in the world do good, and many do evil."

"Today he converts this one, tomorrow more people sink into the sea of suffering."

"And all the evil and wickedness in the world stem from a lack of awe."

"No awe for the retribution after death, no awe for the gods who hold the laws of heaven and earth, so they do whatever they want."

"The people of Tianmen Town worshipping foster fathers now, although they have interest demands, isn't persuading people to do good and hoping to get blessings in the next life also driven by interest?"

"Doing good and accumulating virtue in this life to seek reincarnation as a citizen of the Great China in the next life is also hoping to get benefits."

"So, worshipping a foster father is essentially no different from worshipping Buddha and gods."

"After all, respecting Buddha and gods is a good deed that belongs to accumulating merit."

Xiao Yu nodded and said: "I appreciate your talent and courage very much, and you have always called me 'Grandma,' and recently Tianmen Town is popular for worshipping foster fathers, why don't we become foster relatives, you come to be my son, how about that?"

Chi Miao was dumbfounded.

Recently Tianmen Town is indeed popular for worshipping foster fathers, but everyone worships immortals and Buddhas, and you are just a mortal!

"Why suddenly want to worship foster relatives? The little god has always respected Tiger Girl Grandma, there is no need to worship foster relatives, right?"

"'Tiger Girl Grandma' is too ugly," Xiao Yu said.

"The underworld doesn't have such rules..." Chi Miao muttered.

Xiao Yu restrained her smile and said lightly: "General Guan Huchen doesn't understand heretical arts, but he used a memorial to summon you and Song Dashing. Why didn't you talk about rules then?"

Chi Miao realized something: this shameless, greedy, fierce, and vicious "Tiger Girl Grandma" is not adopting a foster son, but recruiting a younger brother! She hopes to summon him like General Guan Huchen summoned Inspector Song, and then drive him to do things.

—At Hengsha Pass, we were colluding between humans and ghosts, protecting each other, now I am being watched by the Dayi Dayi Gongcao God of the Guan Chenghuang Temple!

Chi Miao wanted to shout this out aggrievedly.

But facing the cold eyes of "Tiger Girl Grandma," his lips trembled and he lowered his head.

Refusing twice just now was already the limit his ghost courage could bear, if he really angered this fierce tiger... anyway, it's just worshipping foster relatives, not wanting his life.

Chi Miao didn't dare to refuse anymore, and could only vaguely say: "Foster Mother is above, please accept the child's bow. Now I have official business, no time to think about other things."

—You actually called "Foster Mother," and still want to consider for two days...

Xiao Yu understood that he was worried about the "Guan family."

But it's useless for him to worry.

The appearance of the Guan family today was not a coincidence.

Even if it were another time, even if Chi Miao was careful and didn't expose any traces, the Guan family would still expose him when they came to her.

Xiao Yu shouted: "Better to choose a day than to hit a day, you hurry up and kowtow to your old mother, and then go handle the errand! Without this tiger skin, you are not worthy of being my son."

"Foster Mother is above, please accept the child's bow."

Chi Miao had no choice but to kneel down and kowtow nine times respectfully to Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu smiled and nodded, "My son, go. Mother is a kind mother, will often miss you, remember to check the 'family letter' I burn for you."

Chi Miao crawled up from the ground and hummed: "Foster Mother, 'family letter' cannot guarantee that it will be received every time. After all, the child is busy with official business and cannot stay near Tianmen Town day and night."

"If it is too far away, the child may not be able to smell the incense you burn or hear your call, and will not be able to check the 'family letter'."

Xiao Yu said coldly: "Don't find excuses! As long as you are willing to put your heart into it, there are always more ways than difficulties."

"As long as you have your old mother in your heart, even if separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, a filial son can always feel the call of a kind mother."

It's not that this "kind mother" is too harsh.

Whether the distance is far or not, whether the incense is smelled or the call is heard, is all said by the foster son himself.

If he is unfilial, clearly received the "family letter" but excuses that he doesn't know, what should she, this poor "little·old mother," do?

However, the ghost son's words also make sense.

At Hengsha Pass, Huchen made a big scene to summon Inspector Song, which even alarmed Old Ghost Qin at Feixian Ferry hundreds of miles away.

With such a battle, the ghost god was finally attracted.

If she wants to summon the ghost son, she can't make all the ghost gods within hundreds of miles know.

"You have to think of more ways, Mother will also think of ways with you, the two of us work together, and we can always solve the difficulties," she softened her tone to appease.

Chi Miao glanced at the Guan Chenghuang Temple in the distance and said: "Foster Mother, I will go catch the hanging ghost Zhang Xiaoqiao first, and after sending her back to Wangsi City and finishing the errand, I will come back to discuss the 'family letter' with you, okay?"

Xiao Yu smiled and said: "My son, go."

"Foster Mother, I am going!" Chi Miao turned into a gust of yin wind and disappeared into the alley.

"Qiong brother, Qiong brother, it's me, Old Chi, please come out and meet!"

Chi Miao didn't immediately track Zhang Xiaoqiao.

Instead, he floated toward the Guan Chenghuang Temple in Tianmen Town for the first time, calling Guan Qiong while floating.

He had been a deputy inspector for decades, and he basically knew all the ghost gods with names in the Western Shu realm.

Guan Qiong was worried about being discovered by Xiao Yu just now and didn't show his face completely, but Chi Miao recognized his voice.

"Old Chi, you shouldn't have talked so much to Heavens Yu Fengxian."

Guan Qiong held the "Cold Moon Sword" in his arms, standing on the roof, bathing in the cold moonlight, his face hidden in the shadows, like a peerless expert independent of the world.

"Qiong brother, you saw it very clearly on the side, was there more joy or helplessness and fear on my face?" Chi Miao said helplessly.

Guan Qiong said lightly: "You don't need to fear her, she dare not kill you."

—If you don't fear her, why don't you reveal your true body? Why were you scared to hide hundreds of steps away after being suspiciously glanced at by her?

Chi Miao sneered in his heart, his fat face revealed a kind smile, and said: "Qiong brother, let's say I'm cowardly, okay?"

"Do me a small favor, don't report tonight's matter to Guan Chenghuang Grandpa."

"You worshipped Heavens Yu Fengxian as a foster father," Guan Qiong frowned.

"This is nothing, Song Tou is still the godson of Feng Nipo!" Chi Miao said.

"Feng Nipo can drive gods and ghosts, Song Ruhai is the little ghost she raised back then, calling her 'Grandma' is reasonable. But what is Heavens Yu Fengxian, and you are not a little ghost, what is the significance of flattering her?" Guan Qiong said.

"I don't want to flatter her..." Chi Miao said a sentence, suddenly felt it was very difficult to explain clearly, and it was too shameful after explaining clearly, so he said impatiently: "Guan Qiong, in the past when your Guan family asked me for help, I never pushed back, now you must make me embarrassed?"

Seeing him get tough, Guan Qiong softened instead, saying: "Brother, don't be irritable! I am not targeting you, but Heavens Yu Fengxian."

"What's wrong with her?" Chi Miao asked.

Guan Qiong opened his mouth and hummed: "She beheaded a god at the government office entrance, don't you know?"

Chi Miao said dismissively: "What beheading a god, Ge Qing and Zhu Tong are just the most ordinary heavenly soldiers and generals."

"Every year, just me seeing it, there are hundreds of heroic souls of human soldiers selected from the underworld."

"Looking at the world, how many tens of thousands should there be?"

"I heard that when the year is not good, it is common for the heavenly court to lose millions of heavenly soldiers and generals in a year."

Guan Qiong sneered: "Brother looks down on Ge Qing? You were his subordinate before."

Chi Miao's ghost face turned green, and he shouted: "What's the use of comparing with me? Killing a ghost runner like me, who can make it look very luxurious?"

"Killing Ge Qing is not special, but Ge Qing—"

Guan Qiong opened his mouth, but finally didn't dare to say words like "representing the Heavenly Emperor" or "representing the will of heaven."

Not to mention him, even Guan Chenghuang Guan didn't dare to talk nonsense.

Guan Chenghuang Guan also strictly exhorted them that no matter who they face, they must keep their mouths shut on this matter, and even more so, keep Heavens Yu Fengxian at a respectful distance.

Besides fulfilling the previous agreement with the Li family of Western Shu—tracking Heavens Yu Fengxian to ensure she doesn't leave Yingxiang Mansion privately—now the Guan family and Wen family are absolutely not allowed to participate in anything related to Heavens Yu Fengxian.

Thinking of this, Guan Qiong suddenly felt very meaningless.

"Forget it, worship if you want, my Guan family is the most loyal, and will definitely not report brother, just joking!"

Chi Miao smiled and bowed, "Brother, help me with another favor, I want to find the hanging ghost Zhang Xiaoqiao."

"Brother has sharp eyes, have you noticed her whereabouts?"

"She went outside the city and ran all the way north, you follow the Lianghe River north to find it, she might have gone home," Guan Qiong said.

"Home... is it Shuanghe Village or Qinghe Village?" Chi Miao's face changed slightly, "Her home is near the Lianghe Beach battlefield in the north, it's very uneasy there recently!"

"Brother, you are the local Dayi Dayi Gongcao God, familiar with the road, how about accompanying me for a trip?"

Guan Qiong despised him for being a coward in his heart, but his face only showed a slight hesitation, and he nodded: "Brother came to Tianmen Town to handle errands, brother will naturally help with all his strength."

Even if he had to track Heavens Yu Fengxian, he wouldn't just stand near her house and be dazed.

As a Dayi Dayi Gongcao God, he not only has the duty of patrolling the streets and recording the words and deeds of the people of Tianmen Town, but also has the divine power to cross hundreds of miles in an instant and see a street at a glance.

He tracks Heavens Yu Fengxian, and doesn't need to be her follower at all.

Even when she was at Whistling Villa, he didn't delay the divine duty of "Tianmen Town Dayi Dayi Gongcao God."

Forty miles of road, ordinary people riding horses would take an hour, he could run back and forth in a few breaths.

Whether it is Shuanghe Village or Qinghe Village, it is less than a hundred miles from Tianmen Town, which is really a "few steps" for him.

... small matter.

"Strange, where did the Guan family run?"

Xiao Yu had returned to Tianbao Residence for more than an hour, had completed today's internal power practice, and was preparing to go to bed, but she habitually took the opportunity of closing the window to scan the location of the "Guan family," but didn't see a ghost shadow.

Actually, she had long discovered the abnormality of the Guan family.

On the way from Little Jingxuan back to Tianbao Residence, the Guan family never appeared.

When explaining Xiao Qiang's "spirituality" to the Black Girl and Sister Shao Yao, the Guan family was not seen outside the pavilion.

"In the past, even if they would leave for a period of time from time to time, they had never exceeded half an hour... Could it be that the Dayi Dayi Gongcao God of the Guan family had an accident?"

The Dayi Dayi Gongcao God patrols Tianmen Town once, which doesn't take a quarter of an hour.

Therefore, the "Guan family" leaving Xiao Yu's "Heart's Spiritual Eye" range never exceeded half an hour.

Even when she was diving in Feng Hou Bay, that guy was floating back and forth on the river surface.

He couldn't see her at the bottom of the river, but she could clearly see his helpless and suspicious expression.

As for whether the "Guan family" got off work... Ever since her Heart Sea Formula updated to the "Heart's Spiritual Eye" version, which was the first time she saw the Dayi Dayi Gongcao God of the Guan Chenghuang Temple, they only changed shifts and never got off work.

The next afternoon, a middle-aged man with a slightly fat face who called himself the "East Pavilion Libationer" of the Qinghe Commandery Prince's Mansion came to Tianbao Residence and directly said he wanted to see "Great Qin Nobility Heavens Yu Fengxian."

"Has Miss Yu received the news? Something happened at the Lianghe Beach battlefield in the north, the Ten Thousand Ghosts Daily Walk may be imminent, and His Highness the Young Master intends to invite you to participate in the 'Shudong Martial Arts Assembly'." ===== CHAPTER 205 =====

"Miss Yu, have you received the news? Something happened at the Lianghe Beach battlefield in the north. The Day of Ten Thousand Ghosts Walking might be right before our eyes. His Highness the Heir Apparent intends to invite you to participate in the 'Eastern Shu Wu Lin Assembly'."