Chapter 176

Qin Bi's eyes widened, and she turned to look at Qin Lang and Lin Yao: "I thought it was a fox spirit."

Shouldn't the one bewitching people's hearts be a fox spirit? It was actually a demon rat that everyone wanted to beat.

"My older sister, any demon is scary." Qin Lang looked terrified, his face pale as he huddled toward Lin Yao and Qin Bi. He was still holding Rong Yang, his eyes fixed on the gray-furred demon rat in General Zhenyuan's arms.

Lin Yao moved his mouth, protecting Qin Bi and the little Heir.

The maids and nannies had all fainted, but the guards had not. The guards were martial cultivators who had been through many battles at the border with the Rong Heir; fainting in the face of battle was absolutely not allowed, but the guards' complexions were very ugly.

The surroundings were in chaos. Those who saw Liang Yan reveal her true form scrambled away.

Those far away didn't know the situation. Seeing these people panic, there were many busybodies who excitedly grabbed one of them: "Hey, hey, what's wrong? Like you've seen a ghost? Is there some excitement?"

The person grabbed was like a frightened bird; suddenly being grabbed, they let out a "yowl" and jumped up, breaking free and running away.

Now it was great; people who liked to watch the excitement headed toward the crowd. In the center of the excitement, those who could run had all run away. Those who hadn't run, besides the Great Yan officials, were those who couldn't run and had collapsed to the ground.

Scared stiff, their legs wouldn't listen to them.

There were quite a few of these people, all scared silly.

"What's going on here?" a young scholar asked curiously.

The crowd following to watch the excitement grew larger and larger. One group had just left, and another arrived. This group hadn't been bewitched and hadn't seen Liang Yan reveal her true form, so their expressions carried the excitement of watching the fun.

"Yeah, yeah, isn't there excitement to watch? What's the matter? Is someone fighting?"

"Oh, why are they still sitting on the ground and not getting up?"

The group that left ran faster than rabbits, and the group that arrived wasn't any slower than rabbits.

In the blink of an eye, the Minister of War and the Censor were still in shock and didn't answer. General Zhenyuan was awakened by the noise of the crowd and suddenly threw the gray-furred demon beast in his arms away, as if throwing away something dirty.

The gray-furred demon rat let out a sharp "squeak" and rolled to a cluster of flowers, seemingly a bit out of it.

The demon rat was cunning and fierce. The scream when it was thrown was very piercing, making people's scalps tingle. Those who were scared silly were crying as they scrambled to run; they wanted to leave but couldn't run. The people who came to watch the excitement didn't understand what was going on!

"Heh, there's actually another demon rat?" This person jumped in fright.

It was just a fright, and they subconsciously jumped. The young scholar wasn't really that scared; everyone hated demon rats. Demon rats liked to run all over the ground, and humans hated them from the bottom of their hearts.

"Demon, demon, demon, the demon rat has become a demon..." a woman said, pointing at the demon rat with trembling fingers.

How funny! The young scholar didn't believe it at all: "You can really talk nonsense..."

Just as these words fell, that demon rat suddenly changed unpredictably—one moment Liang Yan, one moment a demon rat. Qin Bi's ability to subdue demons wasn't quite there yet; beating Liang Yan back to her true form wasn't thorough.

The young scholar's words came to an abrupt end, his eyes widening like copper bells: "Demon, demon..."

Now it was exciting. The crowd that had rushed to watch the fun didn't make the trip in vain; they saw with their own eyes what it was like for a beast to become a demon and turn into a beauty. Some martial cultivators hurriedly raised their swords to kill the demon rat.

The demon rat bared its teeth fiercely and jumped up to bite people.

The crowd was terrified, and suddenly there was chaos. The demon rat squeaked and ran everywhere.

Now even those who had fainted couldn't help but crawl up and jump around to avoid it. The Minister of War, the Censor, and others immediately swarmed up, raising their swords to kill the demon rat. But the demon rat wasn't large and was very cunning, running extremely fast.

"Oh my!" The crowd ran around with the demon rat.

Liang Yan hated Qin Bi to the extreme and bared her teeth as she darted toward Qin Bi's side.

"Older sister, older sister..." Qin Lang held Rong Yang and jumped, fearing the demon rat would run under his feet.

In front, Lin Yao held his sword to block the demon rat. Qin Bi was also scared; she wasn't afraid of beasts turning into humans to bewitch people—she had plenty of ways to make them reveal their true form—but after it revealed its true form, Qin Bi was scared.

Without a handy tool, Qin Bi suddenly had a thought: "Hit it with a shoe sole."

"Ah?" Qin Lang was stunned.

Qin Lang had one good quality: he was obedient. He immediately put Rong Yang down beside Qin Bi and nimbly took off his shoes. Qin Lang couldn't care about being scared anymore; he held a shoe and ran to Lin Yao's side to hit the demon rat.

Qin Bi hesitated about whether to take off her shoes. In a moment of distraction, the little bun Rong Yang took off his shoes and hit, hit, hit.

Liang Yan dodged Qin Lang and rushed to Qin Bi's side. Rong Yang used his shoes to hit the angry demon rat hard, rolling it far away, its nose even bleeding.

"Use your shoes, use your shoes..." Lin Yao reminded everyone.

The ladies took off their shoes and hit whenever they saw the demon rat. Liang Yan became a demon rat in the street.

Rong Yang was very capable; he took his shoes and followed Qin Lang, chasing and hitting. Qin Lang went from being scared at the beginning to being excited. When the Minister of War, the Censor, and the other officials saw this, they didn't care about anything else—they took off their shoes and hit the demon rat.

The wife of Duke Su and the wife of the Minister of Revenue were also heroines among women. They took off their pearl-inlaid shoes, holding a shoe in one hand and a handkerchief in the other. When the demon rat ran under their feet, they panicked and hit it with their shoes.

Most of the maids and nannies had fainted—oh my, seeing a demon rat made their scalps tingle, let alone one that had become a demon. But the ladies of each family were more capable than the last, swinging their shoe soles around to hit the demon rat.

"Father..." Liang Yan's son begged General Zhenyuan: "Save my mother."

General Zhenyuan retreated: "That is a demon rat."

Liang Yan's son opened his mouth; he wanted to say that his mother wasn't a demon rat and that there must be some misunderstanding, but these words were too pale and weak. The youth's face was pale, and he was panicked and at a loss.

The legitimate eldest son of General Zhenyuan finally came to his senses and ran over to stop them: "Stop hitting, stop hitting, she didn't harm anyone..."

The Minister of War was so angry his nose was smoking, and he pulled the legitimate son of General Zhenyuan away: "You just stay aside, you bunch of idiots. For so many years, your General's Manor has actually been raising a demon rat."

The Minister of War had long heard that General Zhenyuan's family pampered their concubine and destroyed their wife. If he had known earlier that Liang Yan was a demon rat, he would have managed it long ago.

As everyone worked together to hit the demon rat, the Great Yan's fortune and luck values appeared in the void, flickering in and out of sight. The Minister of War looked up, his expression changing drastically. So, so, the beast becoming a demon had affected Great Yan's fortune and luck values.

He had said so—the two little Heirs had already been born, so why hadn't the fortune and luck values risen?

"Do not let this demon rat escape." The Minister of War ordered.

Martial cultivators gathered all around. The demon rat panicked and ran without a path. The Great Yan people had no other weapons, so they took off their shoes and hit it. Liang Yan jumped into the flower bushes in frustration and ran away. The Minister of War brought martial cultivators to search, but the Great Yan officials had no experience in killing demon rats, and they let the beast run away.

When the dust settled, Qin Bi walked up to the Censor and asked: "Censor, where is the impeachment memorial you wrote?"