Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

Hua Yu looked depressed sitting on the train, and Er Yuehong didn't know how to comfort him.

Er Yuehong stayed in Hua Yu's carriage, accompanying him silently.

Hua Yu couldn't muster any energy along the way. She leaned her head against the car window, looking at the scenery outside that kept moving backwards, and then she arrived at Shacheng.

After arriving in Sand City, Zhang Qishan and Qi Baye were picked up by Zhang Xishan. Er Yuehong and Hua Yu also left in the car sent by Emperor Xin.

"Hey, what's wrong with you, little ancestor? You're so depressed. Did you encounter something that you can't solve, or?"

Fu Guang arrived the moment Hua Yu returned home and saw the listless Hua Yu. She was fine when she was there, but now she looks like she lost her soul.

"Master Qin, the young master didn't come back with us. He said he had something to deal with."

Fu Guang knew what was going on after listening to Er Yuehong's explanation.

"Xiao Hong'er, you are also tired from the long journey. Rest here for a night and go back tomorrow!" Fu Guang suggested to let Er Yuehong stay overnight in the house.

"Let Chenpi take back the herbs and other things of yours later."

"That's fine. Chenpi should be back by now. I'll ask him to take it back later."

Er Yuehong was exhausted after taking the train all the way. Following Qin Fuguang's advice, he stayed overnight at the mansion and returned to the mansion tomorrow. As for the herbs, Chen Dai could only take them back.

"Go wash up and have a good rest. Leave the herbs to us for safekeeping, and when Chenpi arrives, I will give them to him personally."

"Thank you, Mr. Qin."

"Don't be so polite. Just keep telling me to call me Fu Guang."

Qin Fuguang looked at Er Yuehong's tired appearance, took the herbs he handed over, and asked the housekeeper to take him downstairs to rest.

After everyone left, Qin Fuguang and Di Xin returned to the study to discuss matters.

"A small bronze bell actually attracted so many people."

"Immortality is a great temptation. Who doesn't want immortality? When you were in power, you were obsessed with immortality and even spent lavishly, leaving behind a series of infamy."

"Then I have a reason! What about you? You have been scolded for thousands of years for no reason, and the charges against you have been written into the will."

"Why are you still talking about dirty stuff? Didn't you want to live forever in the first place?"

"What do you mean by 'making up a dirty account'? Weren't you the one who brought it up first?"

"Okay, okay, I'm afraid of you. Let's talk business."

"We broke the cunning Wang family apart, so how come another group of people showed up?"

"Perhaps those who wanted immortality already existed long before the Wang family or the Zhang family appeared."

"Are you talking about the fifth-generation King Mu who destroyed your country?"

"I have heard of him. He even wrote a poem: 'Eight steeds travel thirty thousand miles a day, why doesn't King Mu come back?' Have you heard of the Queen Mother of the West at that time?"

"In my time, theology was very popular. There were all kinds of gods, demons, and ghosts."

"But I have never heard of it, otherwise I wouldn't have been deceived by someone asking for money and people, and ran to the sea to find Penglai Island."

"If the Queen Mother of the West really has the secret of immortality, how come you and I have never heard of it, but someone between us has heard of it?"

"We both knew about the Queen Mother of the West from the Shanhaijing (Classic of Mountains and Seas) written by later generations. However, the Queen Mother of the West looked like a human, with a leopard's tail, tiger's teeth, and the ability to howl. She also had disheveled hair and wore a crested bird crown. How could King Mu have the heart to eat her?"

"Maybe he has some special fetish!"

The topic between Qin Fuguang and Emperor Xin eventually deviated to the appearance of the Queen Mother of the West, and they teased King Mu in a rather strong way.

"However, if the Queen Mother of the West is really alive today, then why has she disappeared since the generation of King Mu? This doesn't make sense!"

"What logic do you want to conform to?"

"Then why do they want to live forever? Isn't it just the same old three things: power, money and status!"

"What's the purpose of her disappearing immortality? Fun?"

"Perhaps the price of her so-called immortality is too high, which has held her back."

"Then why is she called the Queen Mother of the West? I heard from Uncle Yang that the Queen Mother of the West is a deity, so there is no need for her to study immortality."

"It's just a gimmick. It sounds nice and it can sell well."

Qin Fuguang and Emperor Xin discussed the matter of Queen Mother of the West and King Mu for a long time, but in the end neither of them convinced the other.

It was not until Chenpi came to get the herbs that the two stopped bickering and returned to being the mysterious masters of Wanchongshan in the eyes of outsiders.