If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 827: Xi Juan Falls into a Trap
Thinking of Xi Juan, Xiaoyu felt inexplicably happy and open-minded.

But when she heard that Xi Juan was going to be invited, the carp spirit Li Hong panicked, "Master Yu, Xi Juan from Xiaoxi Village is not a good person! He is very evil, I dare not go to see him."

"Don't waste your words. I've gotten to know Xi Juan very well while I was pretending to be you."

Xiao Yu looked up at the sky, calculated silently for a moment, and said, "Open your eyes wide."

Li Hong was puzzled, but still kept her two fish eyes wide open.

Xiaoyu drew out the Qiaoshi sword and threw it upwards.

"Ang~~~" The Qiao Shi sword turned into a snow-white five-clawed dragon.

The dragon roared and turned into a beam of lightning, pounced towards Li Hong's face, and "swish" drilled into his left eye.

"Ah, Immortal, please don't kill me, I will be obedient~~~"

As soon as Li Hong let out a shrill howl, she felt a sharp pain in her left eye.

It was as if a beetle had flown into his eyelids. He could not help but close his eyes tightly and rub them hard.

Xiao Yu smiled and said, "Don't howl! Although you are loyal to me, I still don't trust you.

What if you take the opportunity of going out to invite guests and sneak away, and run to the Yellow River God, how can I hold my Da Ze Banquet?

I just used a magical technique. It's not really a magical technique, it's just a magical martial arts technique.

I will shoot a mirage dragon god into your eyes and into the door of your heart.

If you dare to think of defecting, I will know it immediately and cut you into pieces.

In addition to guaranteeing your loyalty, the Lord of the Mirage Dragon can also help you complete the task of inviting Xi Juan."

The eyes are the windows to the soul, so she can use the innate magic energy in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to open up a magic eye ghost area in front of the door to the soul (inside the eyes).

Other people’s eyes are also the windows to their souls.

Xiaoyu hid the immortal god transformed by the Qiao Shi sword in the gap at the door of Li Hong's heart.

Before she mastered the third move of the Demon Eye Technique - Demon Eye Ghost Realm, she could never use this method, not even think of it.

Now she could do it with ease, without worrying about hurting Li Hong's heart by failing. It's not that she was 100% sure, but she was not afraid of failure, because it was not her own heart after all.

After she had used it a few more times and mastered the technique, Li Hong no longer felt the intense pain of a beetle flying into her eyelids.

He won't feel anything.

"How can I invite the guests by myself? What excuse should I use and how should I explain it to them?" Li Hong did not show any despair.

He had been locked up in the Demon Eye Ghost Realm and had been tortured for more than half a month. He was already extremely desperate and frightened and dared not go against her will.

"In the past, when we invited distinguished guests, would they pull you aside and interrogate you?" Xiaoyu asked.

Li Hong shook her head and said, "I only need to report my identity and background and hand over the invitation. They are all overjoyed and almost happy. At most, they ask when to leave and whether they can bring family and friends.

But the invitation will state the general reason for inviting them.

If the immortal has an invitation, I will not say anything and let them read the invitation themselves. If there is no invitation, I have to explain it clearly to them. "

Xiao Yu first tortured the Dragon King Ao Yu in the Demon Eye Ghost Realm.

After a moment, she stretched out her hand and took out a stack of "Dragon Patterned Jade Books" from the Dragon Palace treasury: they looked like jade, did not get wet in water, did not burn in fire, and felt like paper books written on silk.

She first asked Dragon King Ao Yu to write an invitation letter in the ghost realm. Then her right hand turned into a dragon claw, picked up the "Linjiao Dragon Beard Pen" of Da Ze Dragon King, injected dragon nature into the pen and ink, and quickly wrote an invitation letter to invite Xi Juan and his son.

"Alas, Prime Minister Bai died so early that I have to copy it myself!"

Xiao Yu put down his pen, looking impatient, and said, "Go and call those dragon girls over and ask them to copy 500 copies. Just write 108 copies to make up the number of Tian Gang and Di Sha.

According to the three criteria of great merit, great fortune, and great reputation, thirty-six distinguished guests of the Heavenly Gang and seventy-two distinguished guests of the Earthly Evil will be selected. Each guest can bring at most two relatives, friends, or servants. "

Originally, she planned to have as many as possible, but after naming Xi Juan, she had a distinct feeling: as long as she could trick Xi Juan into coming, she would be worth hundreds or thousands of celebrities and gentry of the human race.

Xiaoxi Village, just after lunch.

The widow folded clothes while she kept complaining, "Your Xi family has lived in Xiaoxi Village for generations, and your ancestral graves are all here.

We live well, our neighbors are friendly, the village elders pity us and take good care of us, and even recommend you to work in the government. Why do you want to leave?"

The young Xi Juan was repairing an ox cart in the yard. Hearing this, he said without even looking up, "Didn't you say it yourself, mother? We are an orphan and a widow, and life is hard. It would be better for us to go to Teng County and live with our uncle."

The widow sighed, “Three years ago, when the news of your second uncle’s death came back from the north, I did think about it.

You have no one to rely on at home and no relatives in the village, so you might as well go to Teng County and live with your second uncle.

After all, your second uncle is a city chief, and my mother and I don’t expect him to support us.

As long as we can protect you a little and prevent you from being arrested by the headman and forced to perform labor service, it should be possible.

Now that we have finally made it through, and you have also made some progress in your internal skills, you have been recommended by the village elders to work in the county, which is equivalent to performing corvée labor. You will no longer be captured by the head of the village to fight the Huns, or to go to Xianyang to build palaces and mausoleums.

There is no need to trouble your second uncle.

How many people can he protect as a city leader? How many cousins ​​do you have? "

Xi Juan also didn't want to leave his hometown, so he took his old mother and traveled thousands of miles to live with his second uncle whom he had never met.

People are humble when they leave their hometown.

The world is unstable now, and it is very inconvenient for him, a grown-up child, to take care of his old mother.

Besides, he is very satisfied with his current life, and the big lake next to him is simply a treasure trove.

Ever since the old immortal with white beard taught him how to catch magical fish, he and his mother have never been hungry again.

But he dreamed of the old immortal with white beard again last night.

The old immortal warned him that something strange had happened in the mainland and the surrounding area was very unsafe, so he should leave quickly.

Although his words were incoherent, Xi Juan believed what the old immortal with white beard said.

"Mom, I dreamed of the old immortal with white beard again last night." Xi Juan told his mother the truth, "The old immortal said that there has been a change in the Great Lake, and we can no longer stay here to fish for spirit fish, we should leave quickly."

Although his mother was not very knowledgeable, she was very smart. The magical fish he caught from the big lake, the widow had only seen and eaten them once, and she immediately knew that they were extraordinary creatures.

Xi Juan was a filial and honest child. When his mother asked him, he told her.

If it were Xiaoyu's previous life, he would have heard what his son said, helped the sloppy old man on the way back to the village, and dreamed that the old man turned into a god and told him things in his dream at night. The widow would definitely not believe it and might even spank her son.

In this era, beliefs in ghosts and gods are so common that they can be considered a part of people's lives. When the widow saw the magical fish her son caught with the strange bait, how could she not believe it?
"Did we catch too many spirit fish and angered the Dragon King?" the widow worriedly asked.

Xi Juan pursed her lips and said, "In any case, we just need to leave as soon as possible."

He felt that it had nothing to do with the Dragon King, but the Dragon King did send the River God (Li Hong) to warn him in his dreams.

As the mother and son were talking, Aunt Wang from the neighboring house suddenly ran to the front door, her voice so loud that the seven or eight families around could hear her, "Sister Di, we are going to do good deeds in the village, let's go quickly!

Sister Zhou, are you home?
My hometown is giving out blessings today. I heard that they will give out eggs and hand-rolled noodles as gifts. If you go too late, they will be gone.

Ergou's mother, what are you still busy with? The village elders are giving alms, go quickly~~"

When she heard about the delivery of eggs and soup noodles, the widow subconsciously put down the work in her hands and ran out.

Xi Juan was inexplicably anxious and said, "Mom, we are all leaving, what are you going to do?"

The widow stopped and said, "Didn't you hear Aunt Wang say that the villagers are distributing blessings?
Maybe I can get a few big eggs and bring them back to make egg soup for you."

"You'd better pack up your things at home quickly so as not to delay your departure." Xi Juan said.

The widow hesitated.

"Sister Di, what are you daydreaming about?" Aunt Wang shouted at the door.

The widow hesitated and said, "We will set out tomorrow to go to Teng County to seek refuge with Juan'er's second uncle."

Aunt Wang said, "Even if you don't want the eggs, the village elder is distributing blessings. If you don't accept them, won't he be unhappy?"

The widow did not hesitate any longer and immediately walked out of the house, wondering, "What's wrong with the old man? Why does he want to give away his blessings for no reason?"

The village elder also has the surname "Xi" and is of a very high generation.

The "old man" the widow mentioned refers to a higher generation. Her son has to call the village elder "grandfather" rather than referring to his noble status.

"He must have encountered some great joy. I saw that his face was flushed and his mouth was almost crooked with laughter. He kept saying, 'May God bless us and may great fortune befall Xiaoxi Village. We, the villagers, are all blessed people.'" Aunt Wang said.

"What do you mean?"

Sister Zhou also came out of the house and said, "No matter what he means, it must be a happy event. Hurry up and leave. If you go too late, the eggs and soup noodles will be gone."

Half an hour later.

Xi Juan was still adding a roof to the ox cart. Aunt Wang's face was flushed, her mouth was almost crooked with laughter, and her legs were running like a wind-fire wheel. She rushed into the Xi family and yelled, "Juan'er, your family is rich! Your mother and you are going to the county town to attend a dinner at Master Long's house!"

Xi Juan put down the hammer in her hand and said in surprise: "Aunt, what are you talking about? What Master Long? Where is my mother?"

Aunt Wang pulled him to run towards his hometown, saying quickly as she ran, "It's getting dark, you have to hurry. The county's Lord Long is a great nobleman, and he wants to assess your moral character and martial arts, and he will most likely grant you an official position."

Xi Juan asked in confusion, "I want to go to Teng County with my mother to seek refuge with my second uncle. I don't need the village elders to recommend me."

Aunt Wang shouted, "You are such an ungrateful child. Didn't you go to your second uncle for your future?
Now that the future is right in front of you, wouldn’t it be stupid to go far away instead of near?

Hurry up, your mother and the village elders have already set out, you have to go by boat with Xi Lao Er."

The village elder lives at the other end of Xiaoxi Village, not far away.

After a while, Xi Juan arrived at his hometown.

The conditions at home of the village elder are pretty good. There are two blue brick and tile houses. There is a stream not far from the door, which directly connects to the Dalu Lake.

At this moment, there was a small boat parked in the stream, and the second son of the village family was standing on the boat holding the pole, with an anxious look on his face.

"Juan'er, come down quickly!" Seeing Xi Juan running over, he immediately stretched out his hand to greet her.

Xi Juan leaped forward, spanning a distance of four or five feet, and landed directly on the boat.

"Juan'er is so good at Qinggong. No wonder the great nobleman in the county also knows his reputation!"

"That's right. Juan'er is only eleven years old, but he looks taller and stronger than boys of eighteen or nineteen. You can tell at a glance that he is a warrior."

The surrounding villagers were talking about it. After Xi Laoer and Xi Juan got on the boat, they immediately pushed the bamboo pole hard, and the boat shot into the distance like a sharp arrow.

"Uncle, what's going on? Where's my mother?"

Xi Lao Er's face was flushed, and his mouth was crooked with laughter. "Don't worry, it's a good thing, a great thing! Your mother and my father have already gone, we will be there later."

"Who is Master Long? I've never heard of him before." Xi Juan asked puzzledly.

"No, you have heard of it, and you have heard it many times!" Xi Lao Er said with a smile.

Xi Juan thought about it carefully for a moment, and still shook his head and said, "I have never heard of it. I only know that there is a coach named Long in the Panshi Martial Arts School. He is very good at iron crotch kung fu. I have always wanted to learn it, but the apprenticeship fee is too high."

"Hey, this time we went to Master Long's house. Even if the apprenticeship fee is ten or a hundred times higher, you can afford it." Xi Lao Er said with a longing look on his face: "Master Long, that's the Dragon King of Daluze next to our village!"

Xi Juan was shocked, "What? Master Long is the Great Lake Dragon King, and he tricked my mother away?!"

Xi Lao Er looked at him in confusion, "What nonsense are you talking about? Lord Dragon King invited you to the Daze Banquet, why would he lie to you? What good would it do to lie to you?"

Xi Juan calmed down and asked, "The village elder and my mother knew that it was the Dragon King who invited us? Why did they lie to me and say it was Master Long?"

Xi Lao Er said, "It is such a blessing to be invited by the Dragon King. But if it gets out, it will be too shocking. Of course, we have to keep it a secret from the villagers."

Xi Juan stared at the dark water surface and asked, "Besides my mother and the village elders, have you invited anyone else?"

"We should have invited a lot of people. You will know it when we get to the Dragon Palace." Xi Lao Er said.

Xi Juan sighed and stopped talking.

My mother has been taken to the Dragon Palace, what else can he do?

Even if it is a dangerous place, we must go there.

(End of this chapter)