The years I was in the human world

"Mianmian, are you living such a hard life?" Xiao Fengzhuo looked at the Phoenix Terrace that looked like a swarm of locusts, curled his lips, and teased her mercilessly.

Lu Zhouxue was kneeling under the osmanthus tree burying the soil. Hearing this, she clapped her hands and stood up. She turned around and looked at the young man who was leaning against the pillar with his arms folded. She frowned slightly and said, "My name is not Mianmian."

His voice was soft and emotionless, but because of his frown and low voice, he looked submissive and obedient, and his rebuttal was not convincing.

This old god is quite cute. Xiao Fengzhuo's smile deepened. He nodded and said, "I know, but I just want to call you Mianmian."

Lu Zhouxue looked at him speechlessly. As for why this reckless guy in front of him appeared in Phoenix Terrace, the story started from when Xiao Fengzhuo stopped him under the kapok tree.

Xiao Fengzhuo claimed that he was sent by the Demon King to welcome the Phoenix back to its throne.

Even though the human race and the demon race dislike each other, and human-demon hybrids have a low status on both sides, the phoenix is ​​different from ordinary demons after all. It is the closest existence to the immortal god. Its ability to achieve nirvana proves the purity of the phoenix bloodline. Therefore, the demon race may look down on Yu Zhao, who had a mixed bloodline before, but they will definitely pay enough attention to Lu Zhouxue after his nirvana.

“Oh.” Lu Zhouxue responded indifferently, then walked around Xiao Fengzhuo. Xiao Fengzhuo raised his eyebrows and asked, “Why are you so indifferent?”

"How should I react?" Lu Zhouxue asked in amusement. It wasn't that he reacted too lightly, but when Zhu Huang Yuzhao was alive, no one wanted him. Now that he was here, everyone came up to him eagerly. Whether they really wanted to find the phoenix or had other purposes, everyone would understand. "Grateful? Crying bitterly?"

"Don't you want to go back and be with your people?" Xiao Fengzhuo thought for a moment and continued to persuade him, "Look at how much the human cultivators discriminate against the demons. You are not as free here as you are back in the demon tribe."

Xiao Fengzhuo's words amused Lu Zhouxue. He looked at the young man who was racking his brains to lure him back to the demon tribe. The young man was taller than him, so he had to look up to talk to him: "The demon tribe also looks down on human-monster hybrids. Are you taking me for a fool?"

Lu Zhouxue's stubborn attitude really worried Xiao Fengzhuo. He didn't force Lu Zhouxue, but said bitterly: "But the Demon King said that if I don't come back, I won't go back either."

"It's good to have the world as my home." Lu Zhouxue said. He didn't care whether Xiao Fengzhuo could go back or not. Now Yu Zhao's cause and effect had not been resolved yet, and he had no time to deal with the interpersonal relationships of the demon clan.

"No, I have nowhere to live if I go back anyway, you have to take me in!" Because Lu Zhouxue refused to cooperate with Xiao Fengzhuo to return to the demon clan, the young man from the demon clan just relied on him, followed him all the way back to Phoenix Terrace, and then laughed at his poverty.

"Mianmian, the little girl said she was hungry." Seeing that Lu Zhouxue ignored him, Xiao Fengzhuo went to bully Peacock. He forcibly woke up the little girl who was still taking a nap in the main hall, and then held the sleepy Peacock in front of Lu Zhouxue and swung her around.

The peacock was already very cautious when living under someone else's roof, so he didn't dare to say anything even when Xiao Fengzhuo deliberately woke him up. He just opened his grape eyes and looked at Lu Zhouxue pitifully, snuggling in Xiao Fengzhuo's arms and calling her "Mom".

Xiao Fengzhuo was immediately amused when he heard Kong Que addressing Lu Zhouxue. He pinched her empty little cheeks and said to Lu Zhouxue, "Is this your daughter? Why does she call you mother?"

As he spoke, Xiao Fengzhuo's eyes lingered on Lu Zhouxue's waist and abdomen with ambiguity, "Or is it that the Phoenix bloodline is hermaphroditic and can even give birth to children?"

"Are you hungry or is she hungry?" Lu Zhouxue snatched Kong Que from Xiao Fengzhuo's arms and put him on the ground, and asked softly, "Are you hungry?"

Kong Que nodded, and Lu Zhouxue rubbed her head and coaxed her: "You play by yourself for a while, and then we'll eat, okay?"

Kong Que obediently went to play in the yard by himself. Lu Zhouxue stood up and looked at Xiao Fengzhuo speechlessly: "Why are you messing with the child when you are bored?"

Lu Zhouxue was not angry with him, so Xiao Fengzhuo took advantage of the situation and put his head on Lu Zhouxue's shoulder: "She's protecting you like this, is she your daughter?"

"She is Yu Zhao's daughter." Lu Zhouxue explained, raised her hand to push Xiao Fengzhuo's head away, lowered her head and rummaged in her sleeves, found a few fruits, stuffed one into Xiao Fengzhuo, and gave the rest to Yu Zhao.

"Her father doesn't care about her, why do you have to worry about her?" Xiao Fengzhuo took the fruit and took a bite, his mouth full of sweetness. Although most cultivators practice fasting, he is a demon cultivator and is more indulgent in his appetite. He felt comfortable eating Lu Zhouxue's fruit, so it must be no ordinary thing.

"Yeah." Lu Zhouxue responded indifferently, turned around and went back to the side hall to sort out the clues in Yu Zhao's memory. He suspected that there was another hidden story behind the disaster in Dongshan, but there was no other information in the document Ye Jin gave him. He had to start from Yu Zhao's memory and make preparations before going to Dongshan.

Seeing that he had finished Yu Zhao's lunch with a few fruits, Xiao Fengzhuo was a little bit incredulous: "No, you just stuffed a few fruits into her mouth and left her alone?"

Lu Zhouxue looked back at him. Although she didn't say anything, her eyes clearly said: "What else?"

Xiao Fengzhuo was speechless. This man looked like he was out of touch with worldly things, and in fact, he was really out of touch with worldly things. It was too rough for him to raise a child. Xiao Fengzhuo couldn't help but pinching his eyebrows when he saw Yu Zhao, who was wearing tattered clothes and had a dirty face with a fruit he was chewing.

The only child Lu Zhouxue had come into contact with in the past was Xiao Yueheng, but that guy not only took good care of himself, but also took good care of the lazy Lu Zhouxue. Therefore, he really didn't know how to raise a child. He thought that as long as he could keep the child alive, that was enough.

Lu Zhouxue's thoughts were almost written on her face. Xiao Fengzhuo took a deep breath and was about to say something, but when he looked down and saw Lu Zhouxue's casually tied hair and bare feet stepping on the mud, he was completely speechless.

This Snow Phoenix, let alone taking care of the children, he can't even take care of himself, Xiao Feng thought, gnashing his teeth, no wonder the entire Phoenix Terrace is empty.

"You two, I really don't know who is taking care of whom." Xiao Fengzhuo laughed, and Lu Zhouxue looked at him puzzledly: "What do you mean?"

"Nothing, I'm just praising you." Xiao Fengzhuo said, rolling up his sleeves and preparing to personally take care of these two lazy and ignorant people, "Where is the kitchen?"

"Why are you looking for the kitchen?" Lu Zhouxue had lived in seclusion for tens of thousands of years. To him, the kitchen was just a decoration that existed in his memory. Therefore, even though the peacock could not fast and needed to eat, he did not think of going into the kitchen. "The Phoenix Tower was built specifically to imprison Yu Zhao. How could there be a kitchen?"

"What else can I do? That little peacock wants to eat, do you really think that just giving him two fruits will do?" Perhaps he was extremely helpless, so when he heard that there was no kitchen, Xiao Fengzhuo was not surprised at all. He even joked with Lu Zhouxue, "Since you have to raise a child, you have to pay some attention to it, don't you think, mother?"

"What a nonsense name." Lu Zhouxue didn't think anything of Yu Zhao's calling him mother. But now that Xiao Fengzhuo, a tall and strong man, called him that, it sounded strange to his ears. He glared at Xiao Fengzhuo in dissatisfaction, flicked his sleeves and went to the side hall.

He didn't have time to waste with Xiao Fengzhuo.

The young man in black stood there and watched Lu Zhouxue leave unhappily. Suddenly, he lowered his head and smiled briefly, his eyes curved.

Why is this old god still having a bad temper, like a child? No, even worse than a child, at least the little peacock is obedient, Xiao Fengzhuo thought.

There was only a desk carved out of ice and snow in the side hall, with documents and manuscripts randomly placed on it. They were all the information that Lu Zhouxue had sorted out in the past few days. Today, he was still sorting out the details as usual, but he forgot that he was just a mortal now, and he could not compare to the unlimited energy he had when he was in Mount Buzhou. While writing, he actually fell asleep on the desk.

Xiao Fengzhuo came back over the wall carrying the fish, dug a pit in the yard, made fish soup out of the fish and sent it to him. When he opened the door, he saw Lu Zhouxue sleeping on the ice.

The beauty sleeping soundly is undoubtedly pleasing to the eyes, her chest rises and falls with her breathing, her red lips slightly open, and you can vaguely see the tip of her tongue. Xiao Fengzhuo simply leaned against the door with the fish soup in his hand. He turned around and waved to the peacock who was playing in the mud after eating. The little girl walked over obediently and looked at him with a puzzled look.

"Take it and drink it. Your mother has fallen asleep." Xiao Fengzhuo stuffed the bowl to Kong Que, then tiptoed into the side hall. Looking at Lu Zhouxue who was unaware, he smiled and said to himself, "She is sleeping soundly. She is a mortal, so she is not afraid of freezing herself to death."

"It's really worrying." Xiao Fengzhuo sighed lightly and took off his outer robe to cover Lu Zhouxue. As for why he took off his outer robe, the Phoenix Terrace was so empty that there was not even a decent bed, so naturally there were no bedding, cloaks or the like.

Xiao Fengzhuo thought to himself what a big deal this was, he had to pick someone up and take him back to the demon tribe, and he had to act as a nanny.

Not wanting to disturb Lu Zhouxue's sleep, Xiao Fengzhuo covered him with clothes and quietly closed the door. He sat at the door with his legs spread out, staring at the ground in a daze. The peacock, who had eaten his fill and had another bowl of fish soup, hid behind the osmanthus tree and peeked around. It seemed that he was very curious about Xiao Fengzhuo, but did not dare to get close.

"Little kid, come here!" Xiao Fengzhuo naturally noticed the little peacock hiding behind the tree. He waved at the little girl. Maybe it was because he fed her with fish soup, the peacock was shy, so it came over without any resistance when he called out to it.

When the little girl came closer, Xiao Fengzhuo patted the seat beside him and smiled warmly: "Sit down, what's your name?"

"Kongqing." Peacock replied.

"That sounds good." Xiao Fengzhuo nodded, pointed his thumb at the door behind him and asked, "Did he give you this name?"

"My mother gave me this name." Kong Que's expression darkened. She raised her head and looked at Xiao Fengzhuo with her dark eyes, "Brother, are you from the demon tribe?"

"Yes." Xiao Fengzhuo nodded, noticing how Kong Que addressed him, and he felt the wicked pleasure of teasing the little girl. He continued, "You call her mother, but you call me brother. I am a generation younger than you, for no reason."

"..." Peacock was silent for a moment, then changed his words and said, "Uncle."

"..." Xiao Fengzhuo shot himself in the foot. Why did his uncle sound so weird? He pinched his nose and said, "Forget it, just call me brother."

Peacock: “Oh.”

"Brother, are you powerful among the demons?" Peacock asked softly. She sat with her arms folded, as if she had a lot on her mind.

"Not that great." Xiao Fengzhuo shook his head. He looked at the languid Peacock with amusement. "He's just a little demon who obeys orders. If he doesn't complete his mission, he can't go home."

"Mission?" Peacock tilted her head. Lu Zhouxue didn't tell her this, so she knew nothing.

"Yes, the task the demon king gave me is to take your mother with me." Xiao Fengzhuo got a piece of dogtail grass from somewhere and held it in his mouth, lying on his back with his head resting on his arms, feeling so comfortable. "But your mother doesn't agree to me, it's difficult, how about you help me persuade her?"

"Brother, I can't help you." Unexpectedly, the timid and cowardly Peacock rejected him. Xiao Fengzhuo was interested now. Although he just said it casually, he was really surprised that the Peacock rejected him without hesitation: "Huh? Why?"

"If he leaves Zhongting, they will bully him." Kong Que said slowly. It was true that she was young, but she also knew that people of mixed blood were not tolerated by the world and most of them had a miserable fate. In Zhongting, Lu Zhouxue still had a place. "Brother, you are not strong enough. You can't protect him."

"The little girl is quite knowledgeable?" Xiao Fengzhuo looked at Kong Que in surprise. She was Yu Zhao's child. He originally thought that the little girl would feel resentment because Lu Zhouxue replaced her mother. But now it seems that the girl not only does not hate him, but seems to be very worried about Lu Zhouxue?

"Brother, you don't have to test me." Kong Que said in a sullen tone. She paused and did not call Lu Zhouxue "mother". "She... is very beautiful, you know, with that kind of face and body, and she is a human-demon hybrid. If there is no protection behind her, she will easily be made into a furnace."

That's right. Xiao Fengzhuo quite agreed with what Kong Que said. Just because Lu Zhouxue brought him home without any precautions and even dared to sleep there in public, if he was let out, he might be abducted by some powerful cultivator without knowing it.

This is also the reason why Xiao Fengzhuo did not force Lu Zhouxue when she refused to go back to the demon tribe with him.

"Brother." The two were silent for a while, and Peacock asked again, "Why didn't you come before?"

What Peacock was asking was why didn't the demon clan send anyone to pick up Yu Zhao when she was alive and suffering, but instead waited until Yu Zhao passed away and was replaced by Lu Zhouxue before coming?

"Who knows?" Xiao Fengzhuo was just a little demon, how could he guess the demon king's thoughts? He was just following orders. "Maybe the previous Yu Zhao was not worth taking back."

He just made up these words casually, but the speaker did not mean it, but the listener took it to heart. These words were like a thorn that pierced Peacock's heart, which was already broken by the loss of his mother and the lack of love from his father and brother.