Righteousness and pure love, yet you ask me to spread demons throughout the world?

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The 117th draft is too much! Why draw it so well?

Peach Girl said, "Didn't you say that the boy who dances with demons might cause trouble?" The constable opened his mouth, as if to say something.

The woman with the green pouch waved her hand: "Don't worry, don't worry! That old woman is just not good enough. With me here, I guarantee we'll be able to get away with it without anyone noticing. After all, I still want to live here in the future, so it's better to avoid trouble."

The constable shut his mouth again and said nothing more.

The elderly man in brocade robes pushed his wooden wheelchair himself and turned around: "I don't understand these things, so I'll leave them to you. I'll wait here for your good news."

**

The last rehearsal in the backyard of the Goddess Temple was actually not much to rehearse.

The scene was simply Fu Hai, playing a demon, straddling the central float with his head in his hands, while the little girls at the four corners playfully threw small lanterns at the demon. This was the final step after touring the entire city tonight, returning to the Goddess Temple.

This symbolizes the fairy finally subduing the demon, protecting everyone, and returning in triumph—a final stroke of good luck. The four little girls are all only six or seven years old, carefully selected, and each one is exquisitely beautiful.

Since they were just young girls, a recessed seat was made for them, secured to their waists with braces. With so much noise and activity during the parade, it wouldn't be good if they actually fell off.

When Tiger King was playing, the four little girls kept throwing their lanterns at him. Hearing their happy laughter, Fu Hai felt quite pleased. He really liked children.

"Very good!" Master Cheng clapped his hands and told everyone, "There's nothing to do this afternoon. Although we won't join the big flower caravan until after 5 pm, everyone should still arrive an hour early."

"Everyone must not drink alcohol tonight, lest it interfere with important matters."

He gave everyone a stern talk, then dismissed them, leaving them free time in the afternoon.

The people from the Goddess Temple also came over and took the little girl away. Fu Hai placed the demon robe on the float.

Cen Yao led the little girls, who looked very excited.

After a while, Cen Yao brought them over and looked at Fu Hai: "I'm taking them to the park, considering that we've all worked so hard these past few days and we don't have anything to do this afternoon."

"If you want to go, come along. It's on me."

She crossed her arms and proudly pouted. Fu Hai refused outright: "No, I don't have time."

He really didn't want to get entangled with this girl any longer, and seeing how arrogant she was at treating him, he figured she wasn't really that interested. He simply left.

"You, you." Cen Yao called out twice behind him, then turned around in a huff and went off to play with the other girls.

Master Cheng and some other elderly people watched from the sidelines, shaking their heads in disbelief. Fu Hai headed out of the city and returned to the inn first.

When they arrived at the backyard, he saw his junior sister standing there, glaring at him angrily. She followed Fu Hai wherever he went.

“Don’t follow me like this!” Fu Hai said. “You caused trouble in the city last night, shouldn’t you be punished? Look at other people’s junior sister, she was punished by kneeling at the door for most of the night, and she’s not allowed to go out today.”

Xia Yuelan put her hands on her hips: "But you can't draw on a girl's private parts like that."

"And you even tried to slash me with a knife," Fu Hai said. "You even broke the table." Xia Yuelan genuinely couldn't remember this.

She did dream that her senior brother was trying to harm her. She felt a tightness in her buttocks, as if he was about to use some kind of harmful martial arts on her. So she took a knife and slashed at him.

But the events in the dream couldn't be used as evidence; all that was left was that the table had actually broken when she woke up. "Senior brother!" she called out, craning her neck and turning her head to look at him from his left side.

"What are you doing?" Fu Hai looked down to his left, gazing at her beautiful face peeking out from the side.

"Senior brother, you seem to get along quite well with that senior sister from the Painting Immortal Pavilion. Could you go and talk to her and ask her to let her third junior sister go see the lanterns tonight? It would be such a pity if she couldn't get into the city after all this trip."

"You dare say that?" Fu Hai said irritably, "I'm already being lenient by not grounding you too, what right do you have to interfere with someone else's junior sister?" "But..."

“There are no buts,” Fu Hai said. “They are truly prestigious sects, and major sects have their own rules. Do you think we are a declining sect?”

It's just a small sect. If you make a mistake, they'll just give you a few taps on the head. It's no use me talking to them.

He's not stupid.

On the surface, it seemed that Li Xianrui was able to say a few words to him.

In reality, those young ladies didn't even notice him; they were just displaying the demeanor of well-bred ladies.

He had met some wealthy and powerful men before, and these men, being of high status, would speak politely to ordinary people when they were out in public. It was the lackeys who truly bullied people.

That young lady Xianrui acts much like those wealthy gentlemen. She may seem like she can get a word in edgewise, but in reality, no one takes her seriously at all.

Although Fu Hai was young, he knew that there could be no true equality in this world, unlike the world he used to live in, where everyone was a successor to society.

Hearing her senior brother say that, Xia Yuelan had no choice but to give up.

Although I fought with Li Xiangtao last night, we actually started to appreciate each other a little as the fight went on. But as my senior brother said, this is a matter for other major sects.

"Don't get in my way," Fu Hai said irritably. "Aren't we going into the city with Xiao Ye? Remember this: don't run around this time, and don't cause any trouble. If Miss Die brings you back again, it won't be as simple as just painting flowers."

Xia Yuelan muttered, "What you drew isn't a flower, it's a carp. And you even drew its mouth in that place. How can you be a senior student like that?"

He grumbled a bunch of complaints and then went up the mountain.

Back at her lodgings, she found a new pomegranate-red dress on the couch. She removed it, pursed her lips, and stripped naked. She lowered the bronze mirror, looking at the lifelike carp below her navel reflected in it; it was quite cute.

Spreading its legs apart, the carp's downward-facing mouth opened wide, as if it could feed something inside. "Damn senior brother!" he couldn't help but yell again, "Why did you draw it so well? You can't bear to erase it." That damn senior brother is really getting more and more hateful.

Fu Hai helped out at the inn at the foot of the mountain for a while when suddenly, Junior Sister Lingyue floated to the backyard: "Senior Brother, Miss Die is here to see you." "At this hour?"

Fu Hai put down his work and went to the main hall, where he saw Murong Die waiting there.

Murong Die clearly had many important matters to attend to and didn't have time to linger. Upon seeing him, she went straight to the point: "We've found Granny Liu, but she's already dead."

"It looks like he committed a crime and hid for two days, then fled the city with a large group of people. He didn't dare take the main road, and while walking in the dark, he fell. His body was discovered outside the city!"

Chapter 118 A woman with a pomegranate-red skirt, pipa sleeves, and a cat-like appearance.

Fu Hai said, "Dead? Then why did she want to harm Uncle Ping'an and me? Wouldn't that make it impossible to find out?"

Murong Die laughed and said, "That's normal. There are many unsolved mysteries in this world. Since the person is dead, there is naturally no way to investigate them further."

“Grandma Liu has always been a loner. At least, we haven’t seen any accomplices yet. That’s good, so you won’t have to worry about her plotting against you during the lantern festival tonight.” Fu Hai nodded helplessly.

He felt that not knowing the specific reason was quite unpleasant.

But as Butterfly Girl said, it's impossible to get to the bottom of everything in this day and age. There's no surveillance or high-tech means. For an elderly woman living alone, it's difficult to find a witness to accuse her.

Such cases are naturally dropped once the person dies and the lights go out; the Six Doors (a government agency) won't even record a single detail.

Ultimately, besides the fact that he fell off the car for no reason and felt that something unseen was holding him back, what other evidence could prove that she had committed a crime?

With Granny Liu's death, if it were truly recorded, it would be difficult to say whether Granny Liu had been practicing evil magic or if it was just my imagination. Fu Hai, being kind-hearted, ultimately felt sorry for the death of an old woman.

Having lived in this world for over a decade, I know that many things are unavoidable. Although it's not as safe as the other world in many ways, it's still a rare period of peace and prosperity.

Seeing that Murong Die was turning her horse around again, he said, "Sister Die, are you leaving already? Won't you sit for a while?"

"Where do we find the time?" Murong Die looked very troubled. "These past few days, the gangs in the city have quieted down, but the sudden emergence of the 'Cleaver Gang' and 'Mommy Gang' has given us a headache again."

Fu Hai hurriedly said, "Yue Lan hasn't entered the city yet today, and the third junior sister from Huaxian Pavilion has been confined to the inn by her senior sister and hasn't even left her room."

Murong Die said, "I know, but they were the ones who started it from the beginning." Fu Hai said, "This..."

“Ah, I wasn’t talking about them,” Murong Die shook her head. “That book is really strange. After reading it, they all cried, and after crying, they went around asking people to recommend it to them. Yesterday alone, three people recommended it to me.”

"I don't know who wrote that book, it's a bit weird. I've never encountered anything like this before. Now, everyone wants to rescue the author and throw him into the midst of those 'kitchen knife party' and 'mommy party' groups."

"What's going on? This is infuriating! It's a holiday, everyone else is having a good time, and we're all busy doing nothing, and they're even giving us more to do?" Fu Hai whispered, "I heard they're all girls, they shouldn't cause any serious problems, right?"

Murong Die said angrily, "The real problem is that they are all idle young ladies. If it were a real battle in the martial arts world, a gang fight, or a murder or two, no one would care."

"If these book-loving young girls were to cause a death at the Lantern Festival over a worthless book, what would that be like? Now you know how despicable your Yuelan and Li Xiangtao's actions were, right? Arguing is one thing, but resorting to violence?"

When Fu Hai heard what she said, he looked up at the sky and thought it was quite nasty.

"Oh, never mind, it wasn't your Xia Yuelan who started it, or even the argument itself." "I see."

"She just added fuel to the fire, provoking them to attack first." "Oh, I see!"

Murong Die complained a few times, but since she didn't have time to linger, she quickly mounted her horse, put on her waist badge and official goose-feather saber, and rode towards the city gate.

Before they even entered the city, a conflict seemed to have broken out at the city gate, forcing her to dismount and deal with it. Fu Hai thought about it and still felt uneasy.

After returning to the main hall and telling Junior Sister Lingyue, he went back to the mountain first.

Beneath the Moonlit Pavilion, I saw Junior Sister Moonlit and Little Sister Xiaoye standing together.

Both of them changed into new clothes. The junior sister wore a beautiful pomegranate skirt. To be fair, a pomegranate skirt that reaches the chest is indeed the easiest way to accentuate a young girl's figure.

Moreover, it's relatively easy for Yue Lan to wear, but if it were Ling Yue, the dress might not stay up properly on her chest.

Xiaoye wore a front-opening dress with pipa sleeves, which looked a bit like the puff sleeves from another world's anime. It did look quite cute on her.

Upon seeing him, Xia Yuelan remembered the carp she hadn't yet wiped off her belly, and immediately put her hands on her hips: "Senior brother, you..."

"What do you mean, 'what do you mean, 'what do you mean'?" Fu Hai gave her a flick on the forehead. "I'm warning you again, once you're in the city, just go see the lanterns. Don't go to those garden parties or book fairs, don't get into any conflicts with people, and absolutely do not get involved in those Setsuna Party or Touma Party stuff."

Xia Yuelan covered her head: "Oh... but what if someone hits me? There are so many people in the city, what if I encounter a bad guy?" "Report it to the police!" Fu Hai said, "Besides, Xiao Ye is here."

He looked at Xiaoye and said, "If she causes trouble again, bring her back directly. Don't give her any face." Xiaoye raised her pipa sleeve, half-covering her face, and said, "Okay."

Fu Hai thought for a moment, but was still worried: "Why don't you just stay on the mountain and watch?"

Fu Yuelan quickly took his arm and tried her best to please him: "Don't worry, senior brother, I won't get involved in that mess of your book anymore, I absolutely won't get involved in that mess anymore."

Fu Hai felt mocked and wanted to knock her on the head again, but she didn't seem to mean it, which made him even angrier.

Little Ye looked up: "Brother, are you also going into the city? Be careful." Fu Hai said: "Yes! You are too."

Xia Yuelan and Xiaoye bid him farewell and walked towards the mountain gate together. Xia Yuelan asked, "Xiaoye, are you a Setsuna supporter or a Touma supporter?" Fu Hai turned around instantly and glared at her again.

Sensing her senior brother's gaze, Xia Yuelan quickly glanced back, then grabbed Xiao Ye and ran.

Fu Hai finished his meal early at the inn and went into the city. When he arrived at the Goddess Temple, he was quite early, as Cen Yao and many others had not yet arrived.

The brothers Zheng Yi and Zheng Zhi were both here, but they usually helped out at the Goddess Temple.

Having nothing else to do, Fu Hai went to the main gate of the Goddess Temple. Normally, incense sticks here had to be purchased, but the abbess, Sister Jinglian, gave him three because he was one of her own.

He lit incense and went inside the temple to offer incense to the goddess. Suddenly, he seemed to hear the cry of a baby.

Just as I was wondering, I turned around and saw two cats and a swaying, pale-faced girl jumping over the threshold, making sounds that sounded like a baby crying.

The girl, dressed in a loose, obviously ill-fitting white cloud-patterned dress, moved to his side and looked up at the goddess statue: "Ah, this is the fairy, meow!"

Chapter 119 Meow, the Lantern Festival has finally begun!