Chapter 209: Just How Stingy Have They Become?

This cloud bank—good heavens—the dark, heavy clouds were thick and dense.

Anyone with eyes could see that the rainfall would be astonishing. The Qin Yan Hou brothers, along with Qin Yan, Su Yan, and a crowd of juniors, had expended a great deal of effort to push the cloud bank into the sky. As the clouds merged into the air, the heavy mass spread out to cover the entire sky.

Even after spreading, the dark clouds continued to roll.

What followed was lightning and thunder. With a "Crack!", everyone was startled, then filled with a mix of surprise and joy. This was a summoning and natural rainfall happening at once; it was simply incredible.

Bean-sized raindrops began to fall. The crowd stood happily in the rain, looking up at the sky and taking deep breaths, savoring the downpour. Even as they were soaked to the bone like drowned rats, they remained delighted.

Qin Yan Hou came to his senses and ordered his guards, "Go and check the area covered by the rain."

The guards left quickly; they went fast and returned just as fast.

The guard's expression was strange: "Marquis, the rain is limited only to the farmland of the Marquis Manor and the Yan Guogong Manor."

Everyone was stunned. When a summoning and natural rain happen together, they shouldn't distinguish between whose is whose; it should be a torrential downpour everywhere. Yet, what did the guard say? It was only raining on the Qin Yan Hou Fu and the Yan Guogong Manor.

He Shizi did not believe it and went to check for himself.

Then, he returned with a speechless expression.

"It's only raining on the two manors," He Shizi said, finding it amusing.

"I'll go take a look too," Qin Lang said, and he left with Qin Xun.

Since the farmland was already being watered, there was nothing left for Qin Bi to do. She didn't want to get soaked, so she prepared to take Rong Yang and the Little Imperial Prince away: "Rong Yang, let's go back. This rain is too heavy; standing in it makes us look like fools."

"Mother, you go back," Rong Yang said, waving his little hand. "I'm not leaving."

The Little Imperial Prince Yan Xun also said, "I'm not leaving either. What a big rain!"

Qin Bi was dumbfounded. She looked at her father and brother: "I'm going back by myself?"

Clearly, no one else had any intention of leaving.

Qin Di laughed: "Qin Tang, escort your sister back."

Qin Tang nodded. Qin Bi didn't want to leave alone: "Let the rain fall on its own, let's all go!"

"It's not easy to get a rain like this," Qin Tan said. "Your father and I have to keep watch. If the rain lightens, my elder brother and the others can still reinforce the summoning to make it last a little longer."

Qin Bi knew the volume of this rain: "There's no need to watch it; it won't stop for a while."

Qin Tan and the others dared not leave. They hadn't seen anyone leave while their summoning was still active; even when the Xian Sect summoned rain, they watched it the whole time. Qin Di waved his hand, and Qin Tang called for Qin Bi to leave.

When Qin Lang and Qin Xun returned from checking the rain's coverage, Qin Bi handed Rong Yang to Qin Xun: "Rong Yang isn't leaving, Second Brother, keep an eye on him."

Qin Lang waved his hand: "Don't worry."

Qin Lang was so full of thoughts he didn't know what to say. Qin Bi and Qin Tang left, but Lin Yao stayed to watch the excitement. After all, it was raining—it was raining on his own He Shizi's fief, and it was raining here at the Marquis Manor. He could watch it all day and not get enough.

This rain was interesting; it even distinguished between relatives and non-relatives. It only fell on the fertile fields of the Qin Yan Hou Fu and the Yan Guogong Manor. It wasn't that the other families didn't get a drop, but it was close enough; at best, they just got the ground wet.

Qin Yan Hou was excited and couldn't sit still. He walked along the edge of the fields to inspect them. After looking, he couldn't help but twitch his mouth. He looked up at the dark, heavy cloud bank; it really had the nerve to be this stingy.

This rain should have been pouring down everywhere, but it insisted on falling only on the two manors' farmland.

Qin Yan Hou laughed loudly: "Good, good, that's satisfying."

Qin Tan and Qin Di were also all smiles. It was indeed satisfying. Before the Qin Yan Hou Fu became a cultivation family, their farmland lacked water. They had tried to negotiate with neighboring cultivation families for irrigation, but it had been an exhausting effort.

They had said all the nice things, but the others couldn't be bothered. Bah, what were they acting so high and mighty for!

Now, it was a different story. The rain they summoned made its own decisions. It could fall however it wanted on their own fields, and it wouldn't go to the neighboring families. It was stingy, truly stingy.

When this rain needed to be generous, it was truly generous; it poured down steadily until noon.

The Prince Anyuan Hou Fu and others also had farmland nearby. Hearing the news, they rushed over. Seeing the rainfall, they were surprised, and then seeing the coverage area, the young masters of the noble families turned green. They pursed their lips, not wanting to talk to He Shizi or Qin Shizi anymore.

Usually, their relationships were decent, so how could they be so stingy?!

If the rain you summoned stopped at the edge of the field, the Prince Anyuan Hou Shizi wouldn't say anything. But the heavy rain didn't even reach the edge of the field. The only reason the Yan Guogong Manor's farmland had rain was because it had overflowed.

The rain was too heavy on the main fields; if the volume had been any lighter, the soil at the edge of the fields would have been dry.

"Brother, one shouldn't act like this," Prince Anyuan Hou Shizi said. "Qin Shizi, learn from your cousin, Xue Shizifei Qin He. She cares for everyone in Great Yan and even vomited blood from exhausting her spiritual power to summon rain."

At this, Prince Anyuan Hou Shizi glanced at the edges of the fields. On one side, the water was overflowing; on the other, the dry dust was kicking up. Just looking at it made one's throat feel parched. The land was so dry that if you poured a basin of water on it, it would dry up instantly.

Comparing the farmland on both sides, the veins on Prince Anyuan Hou Shizi's forehead throbbed: "Look at you, just how stingy have you become? What, would it kill you to let a little rain fall on our side?!"

Qin Yan stared at the edge of the field: "..."

He had nothing to say. He opened his mouth, but what was there to say?!

"The summoning ability is limited," Qin Yan said. "I hope Prince Anyuan Hou Shizi will forgive us."

"I suspect you did this on purpose, afraid we'd take advantage, so you kept the rain right at the edge of the field," Prince Anyuan Hou Shizi said, getting angrier the more he looked. He pointed at the edge of the field: "Look at how petty you've been; the rain didn't even reach the edge."

Qin Yan had nothing to say and let Prince Anyuan Hou Shizi and the others vent their bitterness.

They were the ones who brought this rain; it was good enough that it could fall like this. Did they expect this rain to be neighborly and share a little with this family and a little with that one? Who had ever seen such a sensible rain?

He Shizi simply hid to the side; they were all good friends, and he didn't know how to handle this.

A group of people stared at the rain. Prince Anyuan Hou Shizi and the others didn't leave. In a Great Yan where rain was so scarce, the sudden heavy downpour in this area soon became known to everyone in Jingcheng.

Qin Yan ran happily to the Xue Wang Fu, rushing to report the good news to Qin He: "Qin He Jiejie, our Marquis Manor's fertile fields are raining. I heard it's a huge rain; it's been falling for half a day."

Qin He struggled to climb out of bed, her eyes bursting with surprise: "I summoned it."

Exhausting her spiritual power without summoning rain was embarrassing. With this rain, she had regained her face.

Xue Wang Fei followed and said: "It must have been summoned by you."

Qin Yan blinked. Qin He coughed, took a pill, got out of bed, and said: "I must go and see. This is a rain I summoned through hard work and exhausting my spiritual power."

Qin Yan and the maids immediately went to support Qin He. Qin Yan advised: "Qin He Jiejie, your spiritual manor is injured; you should go another day. Why rush over now?"

Qin He narrowed her eyes, took a deep breath, and said: "If I don't go, Qin Bi will steal my credit again." ===== CHAPTER 210 =====