Chapter 196: Don't Interfere with Your Summoning

The Qin Yan Hou's wife nodded in appreciation, signaling Qin He to continue summoning.

"Thank you for your hard work," the Qin Yan Hou's wife said.

Qin He smiled and observed the sky. "It's not windy yet. When the wind picks up, I'll seize the opportunity to summon. As long as there is wind, my summoning ability will be more certain."

When these words were spoken, the wives in the Marquis Manor looked at the sky; there was no wind or rain.

He Shi and Zhu Shi went under the tree to cool off. In any case, the plan for today was to summon rain, and it could be summoned at any time. Since Qin He wanted to wait for the wind, then they would just wait.

"When will Sister Qin Bi summon?" Qin Yan asked the guard.

The guard replied, "She was just preparing to summon when I left."

Qin He heard this and said, "Preparing to summon."

Everyone retreated to the side, trying not to hinder Qin He's summoning. Qin He checked the summoning artifact while observing whether there was wind in the sky. She would summon once the wind picked up. Qin He dawdled and still hadn't started summoning.

Cui Shi sat at the table that had been set up, took a sip of tea, and hid the doubt in her eyes.

Qin He wasn't in a hurry, and neither was Qin Bi. As the Princess, she simply set up a table on the veranda and under the tree, prepared tea and melon seeds, and discussed how to summon while eating and drinking.

Qin Yan was a bit restless. Today was the day for summoning; how could they summon rain just by sitting there?

Prince Rong came out of the room and saw Luo Bi looking like she had forgotten to summon. He couldn't figure out what this woman was going to do. Qin Bi's personality was to keep her word; it wasn't like her to treat the promised summoning so lightly.

Prince Rong's pampering of his wife wasn't just talk. He sent someone to the palace to ask the Great Yan Emperor for pastries made by the imperial kitchen.

The Great Yan Emperor had brought his ministers to summon rain; how could he have time to care about the imperial kitchen? Eunuch Fu dismissed a little eunuch to the imperial kitchen to give instructions, and the guards of the Rong Prince's manor waited for the pastries to be made before taking them away.

At this time, the dark clouds dispersed. The Great Yan Emperor's summoning only brought a light rain, and this light rain only fell in the palace; the entire Jingcheng couldn't get a few drops of rain, and it stopped once it left the palace.

"Your Majesty," the Prime Minister said, "it stopped again."

The Great Yan Emperor withdrew the summoning artifact and sighed. "Sigh, Great Yan urgently needs rain!"

Thinking of something, the Great Yan Emperor said, "I heard that the Rong Prince's Princess and the Xue Prince's Princess are both summoning rain today. Two days ago, when the Rong Prince's Princess summoned rain, it was also windy. At that time, Fubao was ill because of the high consumption of spiritual power during summoning. Could this weather be summoned?!"

The Prime Minister was surprised. "The Rong Prince's Princess also summoned two days ago?"

"Ah, I heard she did." The Great Yan Emperor stammered and played dumb.

The Prime Minister and the Minister of War exchanged a glance. So she did summon. Both times, the summoning coincided with such dark clouds covering the sky; it was suspiciously coincidental, but it wasn't necessarily true that someone had summoned the strong wind.

Even the sect's summoning couldn't achieve such a large formation. How could someone with low cultivation summon pitch-black clouds that covered the sky?

For the strong wind days two days ago and today, the Prime Minister and the six ministers actually hoped it was the Rong Prince's Princess or Fubao who summoned it. But in the cultivation world, there was cultivation suppression; even if someone with low cultivation exhausted their spiritual power, it was impossible to achieve this.

Moreover, seeing Fubao's spiritual power exhausted and her falling ill, one knew the consequences of insufficient cultivation.

The Rong Prince's Princess wasn't even a disciple of the sect; it was unrealistic for her to summon weather that actually rained.

"How about..." the Minister of War discussed with the Great Yan Emperor, "sending someone to investigate?"

It was easy to deal with the Xue Prince's Princess; she was in the Marquis Manor's fields, so just send someone to take a look. The difficult one was the Rong Prince's manor. If you sent someone to investigate the Rong Prince's manor, you had to weigh Prince Rong's temper.

"That wouldn't be good, would it?" The Great Yan Emperor held his chubby hands.

The monarch and his ministers looked at each other. Thinking of the guards from the Rong Prince's manor waiting for the pastries made by the imperial kitchen, the Great Yan Emperor's eyes lit up, and the Prime Minister and the six ministers also revealed crafty smiles.

When the guards took the pastries and returned, the little Prince Yan Xun followed.

When they arrived at the Rong Prince's manor, Prince Rong only glanced at the little Prince.

"Brother Rong Yang," the little Prince ran to find Rong Yang, "the pastries from our imperial kitchen are delicious."

The little Prince shared the exquisite little cakes he brought with Rong Yang. Rong Yang thanked him, took them, and ate them. The adults didn't care about the children's interaction. Two plates of freshly baked pastries were placed on each table.

The advisors were all weak scholars; they tasted the pastries and nodded slightly.

Qin Bi also tasted a piece of cake. Qin Yan really couldn't sit still and asked Qin Bi, "When will you summon rain?"

Qin Bi looked at the time. It was almost noon. "In the afternoon."

Qin Yan nodded to show he understood and activated the teleportation array to go to the Marquis Manor's fields. Qin He was holding the summoning artifact under the sun, summoning. The air was stiflingly hot, and the fields were especially scorched.

Qin He was sweating like rain, and her face was sunburned red.

"Qin He, stop summoning. You've consumed too much spiritual power." Qin Yan stopped her.

Qin He immediately withdrew the summoning. Large beads of sweat dripped down, and her hair stuck to her face. "Eldest cousin, you're here. Sigh, it's my spiritual power that's insufficient. I am concerned for the people of Great Yan, but I didn't expect to only summon a light rain."

Yes, Qin He hadn't done it for nothing. She had summoned a light rain all morning. The area was small, and the rain stopped after a while, but Qin He had paid the price, so naturally, she had to mention it.

"Sigh." Qin Yan also sighed. "Great Yan has few cloud clusters with rain; it's normal not to be able to summon rain."

As they talked, Qin Yan helped Qin He to a stool under the tree to sit down. Everyone was fanning themselves because of the heat from the sky and the ground. Everyone frowned, and several wives couldn't even drink their tea; the more they drank, the thirstier they became.

Qin He rested for a while before her complexion improved a little. She said with a serious face, "What's wrong with Sister Qin Bi? Didn't she say she was going to summon? I even summoned a light rain, but she hasn't even summoned a trace of wind."

Zhu Shi spoke up, "Summoning at home probably won't have any effect."

"Summoning rain is such a big deal, and she treats it like child's play," Qin He accused righteously.

Qin Yan had no choice but to say, "She hasn't summoned yet."

The wives: "..."

Qin He: "..."

"Hasn't summoned all morning?" He He Shizi's wife blinked and asked.

That wind in the morning probably didn't count. Qin Yan nodded. "Hasn't summoned."

Qin He's brain went "boom." She stood up angrily and said, "What does she mean? We agreed to summon together today. I tried my best to summon rain for the Marquis Manor, and she's just sitting there waiting to reap the benefits."

The wives looked sideways, sizing up Qin He; she was over-excited.

Qin Yan was silent. After a moment, he said, "The light rain you summoned is yours. Qin Bi didn't say she summoned it, so how can you say she's reaping the benefits? Qin Bi hasn't summoned yet. Don't interfere with your summoning."

Qin He was stunned, then angrily said, "She treats summoning too lightly. We agreed to summon."

"Just take care of yourself." Qin Yan stood up and said meaningfully, "Why do you always interfere with Qin Bi?"

Qin Yan said a word to the wives and activated the teleportation array to return to the Rong Prince's manor. ===== CHAPTER 197 =====