Chapter 17: Chenxiang: Fragrant, truly fragrant

"Achoo!"

Tang An sneezed violently and rubbed her nose.

"Who? Who is badmouthing me behind my back?"

Sun Wukong and the others said nothing, merely holding back their laughter.

In front of them, a few more pilgrims were walking toward them. Before they even reached them, they were already whispering.

"I'm telling you, I brought you here purely out of friendship. This place is truly effective for making wishes. But you have to be specific and clear when you make your wish."

"Otherwise, things will get very weird."

"Weird? How weird? Like wishing for eight babies in one pregnancy after getting married?"

"Hey, don't use foul language in a deity's temple." The girl quickly covered her companion's mouth. "If it actually comes true later, where will you go to cry?"

"Right, right, ptoo, ptoo, ptoo. May the bad things not come true, and the good things come true."

The girl on the far right asked, "Didn't you say last time you came to make a wish to find a soldier boyfriend? Did you really find one?"

"Hehe... that's why I said her wish-making is weird." Recalling the scene that day, the woman couldn't help but cringe.

"Guess what I ran into on the way home that day?"

"What? A wild soldier boyfriend?"

"No... I ran into a tank."

"..."

Silence, deafening silence.

"It seems our friendship is indeed as fake as plastic!"

What kind of decent best friend would bring them to such a weird temple!

"Achoo! Achoo! A..."

Tang An took some paper to wipe her nose. "Do I have a cold?"

Thinking about it carefully, she did play in the water a bit too much yesterday, so a cold was reasonable.

Chenxiang's mouth was almost twisted from laughing; he couldn't suppress the corners of his mouth at all.

"Godmother, why don't you go in and make a wish too?"

If she made a wish for herself, how weirdly would she mess herself up?

Tang An sneezed twice more in succession, then walked inside while holding onto the door frame.

After Yang Jian followed her in, he asked Tang An, "Master, do you still have any wishes?"

"Wishes, huh."

Tang An thought about it carefully; she really didn't have any wishes.

Her mother and grandmother were both in good health, and her mother had also found a doctor uncle worth entrusting her life to. She also had a father, who picked her up and dropped her off at school every day, making up for the fatherly love she had lacked.

As for friends, she had Nezha and Chenxiang by her side, as well as two big brothers who always appeared at critical moments to protect her.

She lacked neither money, nor love, nor friends, nor care.

Her life was quite smooth, and basically, everyone she met wherever she went was a good person.

"Then..."

Tang An took a handful of fruit candies out of her pocket and placed them on the offering table.

"I don't have any wishes. If I must make a wish, then my wish is: you've worked hard, so please take a break and have a candy."

Two An-Ans, lifting up their own rebirth.

At that moment, Tang An's kindness and healing energy made everyone's pupils tremble; they were so shocked they couldn't recover.

People who come to various temples to make wishes do so for themselves or their families. But she, however, told the immortal in the temple to take a break if they were tired.

It is likely that any deity who heard this wish would inevitably be moved.

Of course, this premise assumes she isn't making the wish to herself.

"Godmother, didn't you say you wanted to pray for the safety of your mother and grandmother?"

"I did." When Tang An came, that was indeed her goal. "But after I arrived, I felt that since deities have to deal with so many wishes every day, they must be even more tired than I am when doing homework."

Chenxiang was moved, "Godmother, you are too thoughtful. As expected, it's only natural that the God of Wealth is biased toward you."

Just imagine, if there were a little girl like Tang An under his statue making such a wish, he would absolutely want to protect her for a lifetime of peace and smoothness!

"Are we still going to the Guanyin Temple?" Nezha asked.

Tang An shook her head, "I'm a bit sleepy, let's go back."

"Alright."

The group returned to the resort, and after Tang An took a shower, she fell asleep as soon as she got into bed.

It was only two o'clock in the afternoon, but she slept very deeply, sleeping until two o'clock in the middle of the night.

Chenxiang was watching TV in the living room, and Wukong and the other two were also sitting there.

"Sure enough, people really shouldn't make random wishes for themselves."

"Godmother wished for herself to rest, and now look, she just fell asleep and hasn't woken up yet. She wouldn't have slept until she fainted, would she?"

"You guys aren't asleep yet?"

"Ah!!!"

Tang An suddenly appeared, giving Chenxiang a huge fright; his hair stood on end.

"God, Godmother? Why aren't you sleeping in the middle of the night?"

"Why aren't you sleeping in the middle of the night?" Tang An yawned and poured herself a glass of water to drink.

She had slept for twelve hours; although she had just woken up, she was indeed full of energy.

"Oh, by the way, have you seen Jiuyue? Why isn't she in my room?"

Jiuyue was there when she went to sleep, but she couldn't be found when she woke up.

Sun Wukong closed his eyes and sensed for a moment, "She's back."

"She's back?"

"And she brought back one more."

"Brought back one more?"

Hearing the rustling sound of claws touching the ground, Tang An stretched her head to look downstairs.

Sure enough, Jiuyue was back, and she had brought a... little red fox.

"Plop!"

The cup in Tang An's hand fell to the ground, "She, she went to give birth???"

Who!!!!

Who exactly defiled her little fox!!!!

Ah!!!

"I want to eat wild male fox meat now!!!" She bared her fangs and brandished her claws, gnashing her teeth; it didn't look fake at all.

Nezha knew Tang An was going to misunderstand, "The little fox looks like it's already several months old; it's clearly not born by Jiuyue."

"Then where did Jiuyue get the little fox?"

"Maybe Jiuyue went out to play, encountered an injured member of her kind, and saved her."

"Saved her?" Tang An looked closely at the little fox; there was indeed an injury on its ankle, and it was still bleeding.

In a trance, Tang An felt as if this scene had happened before.

"Oh my, Chenxiang, hurry, hurry and get the medicine kit."

Chenxiang didn't really care much about foxes; they could all transmit sound to each other, so he knew the little fox Jiuyue brought back was a little fox demon.

She had just arrived in the mortal world when she was caught by a trap set by someone, and her ankle was broken.

Jiuyue sensed the aura of her kind and noticed where she was injured, so she went to save the little thing and brought her back.

Actually, there was no need for a medicine kit; if Chenxiang wanted to save someone, he could use the Lotus Lantern to cast a spell and heal the little fox. But clearly, he didn't want to go through the trouble.

"Godmother, you don't need to be so nervous, she's fine..."

The moment Chenxiang stood up and saw the little fox, he froze on the spot.

Mortals couldn't see the little fox's human form, but he could!

What was going on? What were all those pink bubbles in front of him?

"Chenxiang?"

"Chenxiang?"

"Ah?" Chenxiang didn't react, "Fragrant, truly fragrant."

"Whack!" Tang An gave his head a hammer, "What fragrant? I told you to get the medicine kit."

"Oh, medicine kit, medicine kit." Chenxiang stumbled to get the medicine kit, stubbed his foot on the way, and almost hit his head.

Tang An was confused, "What's wrong with Chenxiang today? Is he sleepy and stupid from not sleeping in the middle of the night?"

PS:

My dears, a special note.

Tomorrow is my birthday, so I will take a day off and continue updating the day after tomorrow.

Thanks to Teacher M for the birthday art.

Thanks to Teacher LU for the birthday art. ===== CHAPTER 18 =====