I have the best bloodline

Once the phoenix successfully transforms into a luan bird, it will bring immense benefits to either the individual or their partner.

High returns come with high risks. Once the innate supernatural power is unleashed, the two will be inseparable for eternity. If anything happens to one, it will affect the other. At best, the foundation of cultivation will be shaken and the person will die slowly; at worst, the person will die suddenly.

Not all phoenixes are willing to take risks. As members of the mythical beast race, phoenixes can live a very comfortable life even without transforming into phoenixes. Therefore, in recent years, more and more phoenixes have chosen not to marry or reproduce, fearing that they might impulsively unleash their innate supernatural powers.

Or, like the Luanming County Princess, some female birds will spend money to find a male to solve their physiological problems.

The fox mother was used to the behavior of the phoenixes, but she simply didn't expect that the phoenix bloodline holders in Xia Yu City would also follow the customs of the phoenixes.

"what?"

After listening to his mother's story, Su Yan was filled with questions: "The entire clan chooses not to marry or have children? Will the Luan Bird Clan have any more children in the future?"

Why is there no next generation?

Fox Mom countered Su Yan's question, "They only partially choose not to marry or have children. A larger portion of them choose to skip the stages of getting to know each other, becoming acquainted, and falling in love, and jump directly to the stage of meeting, having children, and hatching eggs. After having children, they run away to avoid developing feelings and getting carried away."

"So little fox, you'd better be careful. That Princess Luanming is not a good match. Your mother doesn't want to see you two getting all lovey-dovey and jumping off a cliff to commit suicide."

"makes sense"

Upon hearing this, Su Yan couldn't help but admire her mother's imaginative ideas.

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Because of their conversation, the mother and son lingered briefly in the back hall of the government office.

Because she needed to meet her friends later, Su Yan didn't continue to hitch a ride in Lai Hu's mother's arms.

"Brother Zhou, what kind of look is this?"

Su Yan arrived at the backyard of the government office and immediately saw Feng Shiqi carrying the ends of two bamboo poles on her shoulders, while Zhou You was lying on the bamboo poles with her arms outstretched. At first glance, Su Yan thought that they were transporting corpses.

"Brother Su, sob sob sob."

Upon seeing his good brother return, Zhou You was stunned for a moment, then his eyes welled up with tears as if he were about to cry:

"Without you, brother, I'm suffering!"

Zhou You's upper body was lying on the bamboo pole, while his thighs were spread wide in an O-shape, not touching the ground. Su Yan thought his posture was strange no matter how she looked at it.

"He's just looking for trouble."

Upon seeing Su Yan, Feng Shiqi rolled her eyes at Zhou You and said, "This guy knows perfectly well that plant spirits exist in the mountains and forests, yet he still went to the flower field to find a flower fairy protected by a plant spirit to draw some kind of picture."

"Drawing pictures is one thing, but at the end, you even want to put someone else's flower fairy into a teacup to soak in water!"

"Even making tea shouldn't be like this, right?" Su Yan saw that after Zhou You landed on the ground, his legs were spread wide apart, like a crab, and he couldn't help but wonder what his good brother had gone through to end up like this.

Feng Shiqi didn't speak, but suddenly raised her right hand, which had been hanging by her side, to about the philtrum, then clenched it tightly, as if she were holding something, and dragged it around in front of Su Yan a few times.

"He was caught by the plant demon. If he didn't have the title of 'Flower Magistrate,' it wouldn't have been as simple as the plant demon keeping him at bay while he was out in the mountains."

"I was just curious, wasn't I?" Zhou You retorted to Feng Shiqi, seemingly unconvinced. "As Brother Su said, the Flower Fairy does indeed emit a strange fragrance when placed in water."

"How can I write a book without personally verifying everything? My entire book is written with the aim of being passed down through the ages! How can I include false content that hasn't been verified?"

"Hiss."

When Zhou You spoke, he became slightly agitated, which aggravated his swollen and painful wound, causing him to gasp.

"You should take your medicine first!"

Su Yan shook his head helplessly and said, "I met the Fairy Doctor on my way back. She said she had an urgent matter to attend to and asked me to bring the ointment to you."

As she spoke, Su Yan took out a glass bottle and some ointment for Zhou You, who was unable to close his legs due to poisoning by an unknown cause.

Plasters are used to reduce swelling and bruising, while pills are highly effective in relieving pain and detoxifying.

Normal handling wouldn't cause this much trouble. Zhou You is, after all, a Golden Core cultivator. But the problem is that the plant demon Zhou You encountered is poisonous, causing his wound to swell to the size of a fist.

The Fairy Healer had run out of medicinal herbs, so she went to the Crimson King's mansion to purchase more; otherwise, Zhou You might have no heir.

"I cannot express my gratitude enough. Once we return to Xia Yu City, Wan Hua Ge will be mine."

After taking the medicine from the Fairy Healer, Zhou You felt that the unbearable stinging pain had disappeared and the pain was fading away.

Zhou You, with her nimble legs, did nothing but waddle to the outhouse. After leaning against the door, shivering, and applying ointment, she finally showed a relaxed expression and smiled at Su Yan.

If Su Yan hadn't returned in time, Zhou You might have actually wet his pants. Feng Shiqi's care only included helping Zhou You walk, but it didn't include taking him to the toilet or helping him pull up his pants.

As the saying goes, men and women should not touch each other. If Zhou You dared to make such an unreasonable request, Feng Shiqi would strangle him.

At the very least, Zhou You cannot escape the castration punishment. Only by turning Zhou You into a sister can the shame be washed away!

Zhou You was deeply grateful that Su Yan arrived in time and saved his life. Otherwise, he didn't even dare to think about what he would have done if he had actually wet his pants. Therefore, Zhou You felt that he had to treat Su Yan to a good time drinking with women!

It would be worth it even if it cost hundreds of pounds of spirit stones, because without Su Yan, his lifelong reputation would be ruined!

"Who is this?"

Zhou You smiled as she looked at Su Yan, then at the fairy beside Su Yan.

"My mother"

Su Yan introduced Fox Mom to Zhou You and Feng Shiqi. Zhou You's smile froze, and after glancing back at Fox Mom, she gave an awkward smile.

"Haha, Auntie, I was just saying that casually. There's absolutely no way I'd go to Wan Hua Ge."

"Ok?"

When Feng Shiqi saw Fox Mother, her eyes lit up immediately, and she almost abandoned her composure, blurting out "Mother-in-law."

Uh, this chapter was originally quite long, but after taking a look back, I felt it definitely wouldn't pass the review, so I deleted it and rewrote it, which caused the update time to be much later.

After all, the earlier part interrupted the custom of describing the phoenix, and later it was Zhou You's turn to carry the flower fairy to make tea, and he even suffered the misfortune of being taken to the mountain forest by the plant demon.

I wrote something too explicit before, and I'm afraid the reviewer might not be able to handle it.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 267 Ugh, it doesn't look appetizing at all.

Chapter 267 Ugh. It doesn't look appetizing at all.

"Where's Qingya? I haven't seen her at all?"

Su Yan helped Zhou You sit down in a chair, and took out the seafood from his storage ring, handing it to the spirit monkeys who had recently joined the Flower Bureau, instructing them to cook it in the kitchen before bringing it out.

Su Yan looked around curiously, but couldn't find the nine-tailed fox with earlobes, Qingya.

"She said she needed to go into seclusion for a while, and is currently cultivating at the Fairy Doctor's Manor."

Zhou You sat sprawled out in the chair, answering Su Yan's question, "By the way, we've already prepared everything you mentioned. You can go and check it out to see if it works."

Before taking leave, Su Yan asked Zhou You to help find some craftsmen to build a stove. No, calling it a stove might not be appropriate; it should be called an old-fashioned oven.

In one's position, one should fulfill one's duties and exert one's utmost effort. The southern region of Huahua is rich in various types of rice and sugarcane, while the high-profit crops related to spiritual plants are monopolized by the Red King.

Therefore, if we want to increase fiscal revenue, we must reprocess the primary processed products to obtain higher profits. This move can also bring more job opportunities to the people of Flower City.

Su Yan doesn't need to do anything particularly good. They just need to spend six months creating a feasible business model for Grand Tutor Jin to review, and make it better than the other students in the same year.

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Su Yan didn't really know much about ovens, but he had seen kilns used for roasting chicken and duck, so his oven design was basically based on brick kilns.

It's basically a cylinder standing on the ground, with a hollow semicircle built on top of it using bricks and stones, plus a chimney.

The bottom of the oven can hold charcoal, and the hollow semi-circular brick kiln has an opening with a platform inside. You can put the food that needs to be roasted inside, close the iron door, and roast the food.

The kiln was rudimentary, but it was still usable.

"cough cough"

Su Yan tested the kiln's seal and saw that the inside of the kiln was already preheated. He also inadvertently glanced at the three spirit monkeys who had finished processing the seafood and were just sitting down to have a sip of tea.

Su Yan coughed lightly twice to get the monkey's attention, then smiled and asked, "Can you knead dough?"

The clever monkey nodded subconsciously.

"Come, come, let me teach you how to make sponge cake!" Su Yan said patiently.

Su Yan doesn't know how to make Western-style pastries, but there are similar things to cakes in Chinese culture. There's something called a sponge cake in Su Yan's childhood memories.

The method is simple: just put in some eggs and flour and stir vigorously into a batter, then add a deadly amount of sugar and continue stirring.

Now that the oven is ready and Fox Mom is sitting outside drinking tea, it wouldn't be right not to make some snacks for her, would it?

"Eh-"

Under Su Yan's command, a clever monkey took a brand-new pot scrubber and frantically whipped the egg mixture. Then it added flour and sugar, and after completely whipping up the egg mixture, the monkey was half dead.

Su Yan tasted it and felt it was too sweet, so he asked the spirit monkey to add some lemon juice before sending it to the kiln.

Su Yan looked at the other two monkeys and said, "It's not time to rest yet. You two, play rock-paper-scissors. One of you will carry a cow back for me. Remember, it must be a cow. Of course, if you can, you can also use a cow demon. The other one will go find some fruit, fresh fruit that's sweet and sour."

The two monkeys looked at each other and swallowed simultaneously.

Finding fruit isn't difficult, but stealing a cow, or even a cow demon, is a life-or-death gamble. Rock-paper-scissors can be considered a game of life and death.

The two monkeys, their faces filled with sorrow, began to use rock-paper-scissors to decide who would sacrifice themselves for their master.

What are you doing?

Su Yan wanted to take out spirit stones from his storage ring and have the two spirit monkeys use them as payment. By the time Su Yan found the broken spirit stones, the spirit monkeys had already started writing their wills.

Their actions left Su Yan stunned.

"I told you to buy it, and you want to rob me? Where did you learn such bad habits? It's not like it's anything rare."

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After teaching the monkeys how to make sponge cakes and cream, Su Yan returned to the courtyard of the government office and sat down at the table to eat.

"What were you fiddling with just now? It took you so long." Fox Mother asked with curiosity when she saw Su Yan return.

Just now, from the kitchen, the monkeys' shrill screams could be heard from time to time. Even when the fox mother used her divine sense to look, she couldn't understand what Su Yan was doing. She saw the monkeys frantically stirring a lump of batter as if they were insane.

"Is it a local specialty?"

Su Yan said with a grin, "It's a product used to create impressive political achievements for the dean's inspection."

"Of course, there are other things besides these, such as chewing gum to replace chicken tongue flavor and some fruit wine, but we're just getting started and can't do that much yet."

In front of Fox Mom, Su Yan, with his nose in the air and a face full of pride, told her about his business plan.