The disciple of Yue Lao

Chapter 191 "Protecting one's shortcomings", Yue Lao is serious!
Back in the room, Lan Tian received a message from Qin Mohan, asking him whether he would go to celebrate her birthday tomorrow.

At first, Lan Tian was afraid of Yan Lan and did not agree to the appointment. Now, Yan Lan has gone back and has forgotten him, so he doesn't have to be "worried" anymore.

I will definitely go, but...

Lan Tian wanted to give Qin Mohan a "surprise", but he cruelly rejected her, saying that he was busy with something.

……

In Li Jian’s villa.

Xia Yu felt guilty and worried that what she had done would be discovered. After sending Yan Lan away, she immediately ran to Li Jian's house to inquire about the news.

"Second brother, how did you convince the master? Also, does the master know about my stealing the elixir?" Xia Yu asked.

Li Jian was too lazy to explain anything and directly cast a spell to replay some scenes that happened in heaven in front of Xia Yu.

Xia Yu sat on the chair. She raised her head slightly, and a white cloud in front of her suddenly turned into a "hollow" shape, and scenes from the [Marriage Palace] flashed through it.

The screen is as follows:

The Green Spirit Boy who was borrowed from the Tushita Palace to help was suddenly no longer under the Marriage Tree. Yue Lao was unable to free himself to leave, so he had to stay in the Marriage Palace alone.

Not long after they sat down under the marriage tree, Taishang Laojun came over holding his two loving boys.

"Yue Lao~"

Taishang Laojun came in shouting, and directly controlled the two boys with magic, forcing them to separate a certain distance, then pointed at them and said to Yue Lao: "Yue Lao, look at what your little apprentice has done!"

As soon as Yue Lao saw the "universal marriage thread" on their wrists, he quickly cast a spell to collect it and restored their relationship to normal.

After the two woke up, they had no idea what had happened or why they were in the [Marriage Palace].

"Grandpa Laojun..."

"grandfather……"

Why are they here?
What about Xia Yu?
what happened?
When Jin Lingtong and Yin Lingtong saw Taishang Laojun standing behind them, they hurriedly turned around and kowtowed to him twice.

"Who tied the 'marriage thread' for you two?" Taishang Laojun asked the two boys condescendingly with his hands behind his back.

The two of them panicked and kowtowed twice more. Jin Lingtong did not dare to raise his head and explained: "Replying to Grandpa Laojun, yes... yes..."

"It's Xia Yu." After saying this, Yin Lingtong turned around and looked at Yue Lao.

"Xia..." Yue Lao was well-known in the Heavenly Palace for "protecting his shortcomings", and he immediately defended his beloved disciple: "Could you two have made a mistake? Xia Yu is usually the most well-behaved child, how could he tease you?"

Taishang Laojun didn't look too happy either, and asked Yue Lao directly: "So you're saying that your 'red string' flew into their hands by itself?"

"This..." Yue Lao was speechless. He was indeed in the wrong.

Who did it?

"Old Master, you know that my ninety-nine disciples are all carrying out missions in the mortal world. They are all very busy. Who would have time to come back to heaven and play a trick on them?"

Yue Lao's words reminded Jin Lingtong and Yin Lingtong, and they both remembered the "purpose" of Xia Yu's return to heaven this time.

Oops!

The elixir!

The two of them thought of this problem at the same time, took out the golden gourd and counted it, and found that there were indeed two missing.

I’m dead this time!
"What's wrong?" asked Taishang Laojun in a low voice.

"Grandfather..." Jin Lingtong put away the golden gourd and immediately kowtowed to Taishang Laojun several times, saying repeatedly: "Tong'er deserves to die, please punish me, Grandfather."

"The elixir...two of them were stolen by Xia Yu." Yin Lingtong replied weakly.

"This... stealing the elixir?" Yue Lao was so scared that he stood up from his chair, and he couldn't believe it. "She... why did she steal the elixir?"

Upon hearing this, Taishang Laojun also looked at his two children, as if he wanted to hear their explanation.

The two did not dare to hide anything, and when Yue Lao asked, they told him everything.

"She said...she needed the elixir to save the father of one of her friends."

"Ah, just a mortal."

"We asked her to wait for Grandpa Laojun to come back, but she said she couldn't wait, so..."

"Tong'er failed to take good care of the elixir. Please punish me, Grandpa Laojun."

The two boys begged for mercy and accepted punishment from Taishang Laojun in front of Yue Lao. Yue Lao couldn't save his face, so he had to apologize to Taishang Laojun on behalf of Xia Yu, hoping that he would not punish the two boys.

"It's okay not to punish them." Taishang Laojun flicked the whisk in his hand, and he turned the two boys back into the alchemy room in [Tushita Palace].

"Thank you, Laojun..." Yue Lao bowed to express his gratitude.

"Hey... don't thank me." Taishang Laojun stopped Yue Lao and replied, "I have to report this matter to the Queen Mother."

"No need for it?" Yue Lao suddenly touched Taishang Laojun with his shoulder, deliberately getting closer to him, and said with a smile: "That girl was also trying to save people, she didn't mean to take your elixir, Laojun, please forgive her this time!"

Taishang Laojun remained unmoved and even cited the example of "The Weaver Girl stealing the elixir" to show his selflessness.

"Yue Lao, everyone knows that you favor that little disciple, but you can't confuse public and private, right? Back then, the Weaver Girl only stole one elixir for the Cowherd, and as a result, the chance to meet him 'once a year' was lost. Now your beloved disciple has stolen two of my elixirs. If you let this matter go, how can you convince everyone?"

"There is a saying in the mortal world that 'the law is merciless and there is love outside the law'. Is the Heavenly Court less open-minded than mortals? It is wrong for Xia Yu to 'steal the elixir', but human life is at stake and she had to take the initiative in an emergency. She was also trying to save people. Isn't this 'excusable'?"

"You are making a farce."

"Laojun, after all, your elixir saved people, which is a blessing for you."

"you……"

"No matter how powerful your elixir is, it's useless if it's there. You can't use up all the elixirs you make every year, so why keep it for show? It came to the mortal world and saved a mortal's life, and that's what it should do."

"Yue Lao, when did you become so unreasonable?" asked Taishang Laojun.

Yue Lao looked innocent: "How can I be unreasonable?"

"If that mortal's life span has ended, and Xia Yu uses the elixir to forcibly save him, making it difficult for the King of Hell to do his job, you will see that he will complain about you to the Queen Mother!" Taishang Laojun reminded.

"This..." Only then did Yue Lao realize the seriousness of the matter.

……

The news that "Yan Lan was sent back to the underworld by the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demon" soon reached Li Jian's ears. He thought that it would take more time to trick Yan Lan into drinking the "Love Water", but he didn't expect it to be so fast.

However, his master really dotes on Xia Yu.

Li Jian recalled that when he returned to heaven to see Yue Lao, Yue Lao was holding a "universal marriage thread" in his hand and studying it over and over again.

"Disciple greets Master."

Hearing this, Yue Lao immediately put away the "universal marriage thread" in his hand, looked up at Li Jian, and said kindly: "Second brother, why are you back?"

"Come back to see Master." Li Jian said with a smile.

Come back to see him?
These young kids are all used to being free outside, who would think of coming back to see him?

One day, Xia Yu secretly returned to heaven just to steal someone's elixir.

He also didn't think that Li Jian came back specially to see him.

(End of this chapter)