Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

Early the next morning, Wen Xiao and Pei Sijing took Zhuo Yichen to the Shen Mansion where their daughter was about to get married. Zhao Yuanzhou was waiting in the inn and protecting Bai Jiu and the little mountain god Yinglei and others.

"Mr. Shen, you were the ones who went to the Demon Collection Bureau to report the case a few days ago, right? We came from Tiandu. My name is Wen Xiao, and the one next to me is Pei Sijing." Wen Xiao was sitting in the hall of the Shen's mansion, looking at the pale-faced middle-aged man who was walking slowly towards her. She stood up, bowed, and introduced herself to him.

"Yes, please, Lady Goddess and Lord Pei, please save my daughter!" Ever since Master Shen learned that his daughter was favored by a demon, he has been having trouble eating and sleeping. If he didn't have a big family to support, he would have probably stepped into the coffin long ago.

"Master Shen, please tell us in detail."

Wen Xiao helped up Mr. Shen who was about to kneel down.

Master Shen slowly stood up with the help of Wen Xiao, "This is what happened. A year ago, my daughter accompanied her mother to a temple in the suburbs to burn incense. On the way back, she rescued a seriously injured demon boy who had fallen to the ground.

We are not extreme people, unlike those who want to kill demons indiscriminately. After all, we all live under the same world. They do have demons who kill people like crazy, but we also have people who kill people like crazy, right?

At first, life was good.

Until a year ago, when the Chen family came to propose marriage, things took a different path.

My little girl and the eldest son of the Chen family can be considered childhood sweethearts, and they love each other. On weekdays, they also go out together, and they will go together if there are any activities in Funing County.

Moreover, my little daughter is also willing to marry the eldest son of the Chen family.

But who knows......"

Master Shen sighed with a sad face, "But who would have thought that the marriage that both my Shen family and the Chen family agreed to, and the young people on both sides were also satisfied with, that demon clan boy got to know about this from somewhere, and he thought that we, as parents, forced her to marry.

That young demon imprisoned my daughter in her embroidery tower and spread the word that he had taken a fancy to my daughter.

We definitely don't want this. After all, no matter how much we like the demons, humans and demons are different! The demons have a lifespan of tens of millions of years, but my daughter only has a short lifespan of a hundred years.

Who can guarantee that the demon boy will be faithful to my daughter? And how can we guarantee that he will not fall in love with someone else after my daughter is no longer young? "

Wen Xiao didn't expect that there would be such a thing in it. Now she is a little full from eating too much melon.

"Master Shen, could you please let us meet Miss Shen?" Wen Xiao was still interested in this kind of drama of forcibly seizing a woman? He had no way to repay the life-saving grace, so he could only pledge his love to her, but he might be biased if he only listened to one person's words.

"Of course you can, but we dare not get close to the embroidery tower. We are afraid that the young demon will find out. Our Shen family has lost a lot of servants in the past year, and they have not been found yet. I think they are in great danger." Of course, Master Shen wanted the masters of the Demon Collection Bureau to rescue his daughter as soon as possible, but they dared not get close to the embroidery tower where his daughter was.

"Master Shen, don't worry. The sword in our lord's hand is specifically designed to defeat such demons and evil spirits." Wen Xiao took a few steps forward, pointing at Zhuo Yichen and introducing him to Master Shen.

"I wonder if this is Commander Zhuo of the Tiandu Demon Collection Bureau, Lord Zhuo Yichen?" Mr. Shen looked in the direction of Wen Xiao's finger, and suddenly looked at Zhuo Yichen with shining eyes.

Zhuo Yichen was not good at handling such interpersonal relationships. Even when he was in Tiandu, he could not refuse the various banquets hosted by the aristocratic families.

Zhuo Yichen looked at Mr. Shen with pleading eyes, forced a smile with a stiff face, and nodded.

Mr. Shen wanted to kneel down and beg Zhuo Yichen to save his daughter. "Master Zhuo, please save my daughter!"

Wen Xiao and Pei Sijing supported Master Shen who was about to kneel down, "Master Shen, please send someone to show us the way, and we will rescue Miss Shen as soon as possible."

Mr. Shen was so excited that tears were streaming down his face. "Old Hu! Hurry up and take the adults to the young lady's embroidery building!"

"Lady Goddess, this is the steward of my Shen Mansion. You can find him if you have any questions!"

When Old Hu walked in, Zhuo Yichen frowned secretly. This person was not the one he and Zhao Yuanzhou saw in Shen's Mansion last night.

"Wen Xiao, come here for a moment." Zhuo Yichen walked behind Wen Xiao and tugged at the corner of her clothes.

"What's wrong with Xiao Zhuo?" Although Wen Xiao was confused, she still followed Zhuo Yichen's request, and the two of them came to a place far away from Master Shen and the others.

"Last night, when Zhao Yuanzhou and I were secretly visiting the Shen Mansion, we heard people from their mansion talking again. Zhao Yuanzhou said he wanted to talk about the mansion's eldest young master and housekeeper." Zhuo Yichen raised his eyes and glanced at the housekeeper standing over there, "But, the person we saw last night was not this person."

Wen Xiao opened his mouth in surprise, "What do you mean?"

Zhuo Yichen nodded slightly.

Wen Xiao patted Zhuo Yichen's hand and said, "Leave it to me."

After Wen Xiao put away her expression, she walked over to Pei Sijing and said, "Master Shen, may I ask, how many children do you have?"

Although Mr. Shen was puzzled, he still answered Wen Xiao truthfully, "My wife and I only have this one daughter. We have one or two concubines in the mansion, but they all had children, so they all left the mansion to live the life they wanted."

"Ah?" Wen Xiao didn't know what to say. Should he say that Mr. Shen was indeed a rare man in the world, or what should he say about him?

"My Lady Goddess, life on earth is but a fleeting hundred years. After a hundred years, there will be no you and no me. We can't take away anything from this world, nor can we take away the love we once had. It is better to see what you want to see, eat what you want to eat, and live the life you want while you are still young and can still walk."

Mr. Shen is a free and easy person. He doesn't seem to care that the woman who used to be his runs away to find someone else.

"Mr. Shen is really the most free and easy person I have ever met." Wen Xiao couldn't help but admire Mr. Shen. After all, no man nowadays would be willing to live with a wife and a daughter.

"My Lady Goddess, I am being too arrogant to say this. At my age, who knows when I will die? I have experienced a lot in my life, and I have also lost a lot.

But isn’t life a cycle of loss and gain? We don’t have infinite life like demons, nor do we have ageless looks. We just need to live our own lives, live in the present, live up to ourselves and our families, and that’s enough for us.”

Wen Xiao seemed to have suddenly become enlightened, "Thank you, Master Shen, for your advice!"

"What's the point of giving advice? It's just an old man's heartfelt words." Mr. Shen waved his hand and sat back in his chair with the help of Butler Hu.

Wen Xiao and the others, led by Butler Hu, came to the embroidery building. "Lady Goddess, Master Pei, Master Zhuo, this is my young lady's embroidery building. The demon boy has set up a barrier around here. Once someone steps in, they will never come out again."

After thanking Butler Hu for leading the way, Wen Xiao followed Pei Sijing and Zhuo Yichen into the territory of the Embroidery Tower.

"Xiao Zhuo, Sister Pei, how much truth and falsehood do you think Mr. Shen said?"

Wen Xiao held Pei Sijing's arm and huddled behind her, but he looked as relaxed as if he was strolling in a garden.

"Seven percent true, three percent false."

"Xiao Zhuo, what do you think is the true 70% or the false 30%?"

"His daughter and the eldest son of the Chen family have been childhood sweethearts. The truth is that they love each other, but the lie is that they have no prejudice against the demon race."

Wen Xiao: "Wow~, Xiao Zhuo is really amazing now!"

Wen Xiao's praise made Zhuo Yichen's ears hidden in his hair red. "Last night, Zhao Yuanzhou dragged me into the embroidery building. He said he smelled a scent of aquatic creatures hidden under the makeup of women here."

"The breath of water creatures? There are many kinds of water creatures. Does he know which one it is?" Wen Xiao asked anxiously.

"I don't know. He said it's not the aquatic creatures in the sea. It should be the aquatic creatures in the lakes. But there are also many aquatic creatures living in lakes."

Zhuo Yichen became angry whenever this matter was mentioned. Not only did Zhao Yuanzhou use this news to take advantage of him last night, but he also spoke ambiguously.

"Zhao Yuanzhou is unworthy of being a great demon!"

"Zhao Yuanzhou is the leader of all the monsters in the Great Wilderness, but he doesn't even know this?"

Pei Sijing complained expressionlessly about Zhao Yuanzhou's dereliction of duty.

"Hey, hey, hey! How can you talk like that? How could I be so arrogant as to think I was a great demon? There are tens of thousands of demons in the wilderness, how could I possibly remember the aura of every single one of them?"

Zhao Yuanzhou's nonchalant voice came from in front of the three of them.

Zhuo Yichen and the others looked up and saw Zhao Yuanzhou, who had just been scolded by them, half lying on the table, chewing a peach that came from nowhere.

"Zhao Yuanzhou! Didn't I ask you to protect Xiaojiu, Yuanzheng and the others? Why did you come here? And where did the peach in your hand come from?" Zhuo Yichen walked quickly to the table, looked Zhao Yuanzhou up and down, and pulled his long hair.

"Your brother Yuanzheng is going to use me to test poison. If I don't run away, wouldn't I be a fool?" Zhao Yuanzhou got angry when he mentioned Gong Yuanzheng. He and Bai Jiu agreed to use him as a test subject.

Who is this Zhao Yuanzhou? What kind of monster is he that could allow two little brats to be his test subjects?

"Xiao Zhuo, since this monkey is here, it's a good opportunity to let him do some work." Wen Xiao looked at Zhao Yuanzhou who was sitting cross-legged on the table with a smile.

"Ape! White ape! What monkey! I am the noble white ape!" Zhao Yuanzhou waved his arms as he watched the three people leaving.