Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

Hua Yu suddenly appeared behind Gong Yuanzheng when Gong Shangjiao and Gong Yuanzheng entered the room. "No matter how you look at it, he looks exactly like Yuanbao. What's going on?"

Gong Shangjiao was also startled when he saw the person who suddenly appeared behind his brother, but he immediately took his brother behind him and drew his sword to fight.

Hua Yu flicked Gong Shangjiao's knife and said, "Don't be so nervous. If I really want to harm you, you won't even have the chance to draw your knife."

Gong Yuanzheng didn't understand what the young man in front of him said, "What do you mean by looking like Yuanbao?"

Gong Shangjiao protected Gong Yuanzheng behind him, not letting the young man in front of him get any closer. But before he could do anything, the knife in his hand was knocked to the ground by a black iron knife flying from behind.

"Don't worry, we have no ill intentions. We just heard from Ying Zhao that there is an abyss here, and black gas is coming out of the abyss. That black gas can turn people into living dead. So we came here to investigate." Hua Yu returned to his seat and explained their purpose to Gong Shangjiao and Gong Yuanzheng in a good mood.

"Yes. However, after we opened it, we found that someone had built a house in this abyss. I originally wanted to sneak in to investigate, but my paper man told me that there is someone at your palace gate who looks very similar to my Yuanbao. So, I went back to take a look last night." Hua Yu looked at Gong Yuanzheng who was hiding behind Gong Shangjiao.

Zhang Qiling took back his long sword, held a white handkerchief and wiped the blade, occasionally smearing some milky white grease on it.

"Who is the Yuanbao you are talking about?" Gong Yuanzheng walked out from behind Gong Shangjiao.

"You may not believe what we say, so you'll have to see it with your own eyes." Hua Yu threw out a photo stone.

Gong Shangjiao reached out to take the stone that was thrown at him, "A stone?"

Hua Yu raised the hand holding the teacup and said, "Sit down and take a look. The pastries made by my paper figurines are quite good. You can eat while watching."

Gong Shangjiao and Gong Yuanzheng sat down half-believingly. The stone also flew into the air, and suddenly a light screen appeared. The person on it was almost exactly the same as Gong Yuanzheng, except that the person was two or three years older than Gong Yuanzheng.

Gong Shangjiao was the person in charge of the palace's foreign trade and economics. Everything he used, ate and saw were of the best quality in the palace. However, after tasting the tea brewed for them by the owner of the house, he was shocked to find that everything he had used and eaten before was not as good as the cup of tea in his hand.

"Brother, this pastry is so delicious." Gong Yuanzheng beside him could no longer resist the aroma of the pastry. He pinched it with both hands and stuffed it into his mouth, his cheeks puffed up, and leaned close to Gong Shangjiao's ear and said.

Gong Shangjiao turned his head and looked at Gong Yuanzheng, who still had some crumbs of pastry at the corners of his mouth. Gong Shangjiao took out a handkerchief from his bosom and wiped the crumbs from the corners of Gong Yuanzheng's mouth.

"Mr. Zheng, if you like my cakes, I'll ask my paper figurines to make more for you when you leave later." Hua Yu looked at Gong Yuanzheng, who looked like Yuanbao, and felt a little melancholy. His Yuanbao was good in every way except that he was too reserved.

"You two,..." Gong Shangjiao didn't know what to say. After all, with the unpredictable methods of these two people, if they really wanted to do something to their palace, they would be powerless to resist.

"Hmm? How about letting me test Mr. Zheng's soul?" Hua Yu thought of what her brother said after coming back last night, that they would visit him today, and whether they were twins or not, they would know by testing their souls.

Before Gong Shangjiao could say anything, Hua Yu had already grabbed Gong Yuanzheng with one hand and tapped his forehead with the other. Gong Shangjiao wanted to go forward and grab his brother back, but a big hand behind him pinned him down on the chair, and he couldn't move at all.

Gong Shangjiao could only watch as a circle of fluorescent light surrounded his brother and the young man. When their figures reappeared, the owner of the hand behind them had already supported the shocked young man.

"It's too much! It's too much! This little idiot has messed himself up!" The boy cursed and muttered something, while the people behind him kept nodding in agreement.

"What did you agree to? It's okay now, right? That little idiot at home got himself into trouble before he was even born. I was wondering why he was a little dragon when he was born, but turned into a human in a short while. After that, he completely lost his magical powers." Hua Yu was helped back to her seat, with the teacup brought by Zhang Qiling in her hand.

Gong Shangjiao also supported Gong Yuanzheng, wanting to comfort him but didn't know where to start.

"What should I do now? Brother, am I really not a human being anymore?" Gong Yuanzheng suddenly came to his senses and looked at his brother Gong Shangjiao with tears in his eyes.

"What...what?" Gong Shangjiao was also surprised by Gong Yuanzheng's words. How come in just such a short while, his delicate and soft brother said that he was not a human being?

"What on earth did you do to brother Yuanzheng?" Gong Shangjiao was furious, pointing the tip of his knife at Hua Yu and Zhang Qiling who were sitting in their seats.

"Your brother is a strand of the soul of my Yuanbao. They were originally the same person, but because... because Yuanbao was not well-behaved in the eggshell, a strand of his soul escaped. He was inadvertently attracted by the original spiritual energy of heaven and earth here, and was unable to escape from the abyss that followed. In the end, he was born in the belly of the wife of the previous Palace Master of Zheng Palace." Hua Yu was also very upset. He did not expect that this would be the case.

Gong Yuanzheng was only a thirteen-year-old child after all. When he suddenly realized that he was not a member of the palace, he could no longer hold back his tears and burst into tears instantly.

Hua Yu also felt sorry for this child who had been separated from his soul for a long time. She snatched him from Gong Shangjiao's arms, held him on her lap and comforted him softly, "How could Yuan Zheng not be from Gongmen? You and they are still relatives connected by blood, but your soul is different from theirs."

Gong Yuanzheng slowly stopped crying as Hua Yu kept comforting him. "Really? Then can I still live with my brother?"

Hua Yu originally wanted to bring Gong Yuanzheng back to Tiandu and raise him together with Zhuo Yichen, so that even if Zhuo Yuanling and Zhuo Yixuan died, Gong Yuanzheng, his brother, would not be too sad. However, he was not sure now, because Gong Yuanzheng had lived here for thirteen years and was raised by Gong Shangjiao for five years. This was a cause and effect that no one could break.

"Then, Yuanzheng, don't you want to meet your spiritual brother? He is alone now, and his father and brother are still seriously injured and unconscious." Hua Yu looked at Gong Yuanzheng and mentioned his half-brother Zhuo Yichen.

Gong Yuanzheng didn't know what to choose. On one side was the palace where he had always lived, and his brother Gong Shangjiao who treated him very well. But on the other side was his other half, and the world outside the palace that he had always longed for.

"Brother." Gong Yuanzheng turned his head and looked at Gong Shangjiao.

Hua Yu knew that it was not the right time for Gong Yuanzheng to make a decision yet, so she handed Gong Yuanzheng to Zhang Qiling and said, "Brother, take Yuanzheng to the back to change clothes and wash your face. The fabric of this outfit is just ordinary. I have a few more sets of shark silk. I originally asked someone to make some clothes for mermaids, but I couldn't find them for a while, so I put them aside."

Gong Yuanzheng was held in Zhang Qiling's arms and walked towards the courtyard at the back. Gong Shangjiao wanted to follow, but he could not move at all. He could only watch his brother being taken away by a stranger.

Hua Yu controlled Gong Shangjiao who was under control to sit back in his original position. "Mr. Jiao, don't panic too much. Since Yuanzheng is the other half of my Yuanbao, I will naturally not do anything to him."

"What do you want?" Gong Shangjiao had already lost his mother and a younger brother, and he couldn't afford to lose another younger brother.

Hua Yu looked at Gong Shangjiao's bloodshot eyes and said, "I won't take Yuan Zheng away by force, but I won't let Yuan Zheng stay in this damn place of yours forever." Hua Yu looked outside with some disgust.

"You have nothing here. The things are not refined or spiritual. The clothes and jewelry are all crudely made junk. The people in the palace are really blind and there are very few truly useful people." Hua Yu commented on Gong Yuanzheng's current clothes, food, clothing, housing, transportation, and the people in the government one by one.

"If Yuanzheng is really allowed to stay here, I'm afraid that Yuanzheng will fly back to Yuanbao with injuries in a few years." Hua Yu's abilities have been greatly improved in this world, and naturally he can know some things that will happen in the future.

Gong Shangjiao calmed down after hearing Hua Yu's disdain for them and her concern for Yuanzheng's safety.

"What do you want me to do?" Gong Shangjiao was a smart man. He knew clearly that he could not hurt the person in front of him at all, but he would not do anything to Yuan Zheng.

"Yuan Zheng can continue to stay in Gongmen, but he can only stay in Gongmen for half a year. If he stays in Gongmen for the first half of the year, then he will have to go back to Tiandu in the second half of the year." Hua Yu would not require Gong Yuanzheng to stay in Tiandu every moment of every year. He could accept that Gong Yuanzheng spent half of the year in Gongmen.

After all, he was confident that Gong Yuanzheng would stay in Tiandu willingly, rather than being in Tiandu but with his heart in the palace.