After Chen Ziyuan and Chen Zihao left, they hurried off to buy candied hawthorns.
Before long, they had bought a huge pile and were finally satisfied.
By then, the baskets on their backs were full too.
At that moment, their little mouths were stuffed with treats.
“Sister, so sweet.”
“Right, we have to keep some and bring the sweetness to Daddy and little sister.” Chen Ziyuan faithfully maintained her absolute no-leak policy.
As for whether Mother was a stone, they had temporarily forgotten about that. But deep down, they had already started to believe that they did have a normal mother.
Just then, an old woman with a warm smile approached them, looking just like a kind grandmother next door.
“Children, are you two alone? Did you get separated from your parents?”
Chen Ziyuan turned to look at her in confusion. Everyone kept saying they had parents, but they only had a father and no mother, which made her suspect that their mother must be a real person after all.
“Grandmother, we didn’t get separated from Daddy and Mother. Our Daddy and Mother have always been with us.”
The old woman’s heart sank. Were they? How had she not noticed?
Then, without the slightest panic, she said, “Then where are they? How could they let you leave on your own? That’s very dangerous. You just happened to meet a kind person like me. Otherwise, you would be very easy to fool.”
“Daddy and Mother have always been in our hearts.” Chen Zihao said honestly, still stuffing candied hawthorn into his mouth.
He had also started to doubt that their mother was a stone. Otherwise, why would everyone say the same thing?
Daddy was such a big trickster! He was bullying little children!
The old woman froze for a moment, then was filled with rage. The little brats actually dared to play her for a fool!
But she still smiled. “What good children you are. Then let Grandmother escort you to see your parents, so nothing unexpected happens. I can’t bear to see something like that.”
Chen Ziyuan suddenly found that the candied hawthorn no longer tasted good.
After thinking it over, she felt that this sounded like a scam. Daddy had said not to trust strangers easily!
“Grandmother, don’t you have any grandchildren? Why aren’t you taking care of them? How do you still have time to help us?”
“That’s right, Grandmother. If something unexpected happens to you, nothing will happen to us.” Chen Zihao honestly repeated himself, telling the truth.
The old woman’s face stiffened.
These two little brats were so hard to fool! It looked like she had met her match.
“I don’t have any grandchildren, but I like children. So when I saw that you were in danger, I couldn’t help wanting to protect you.” As she spoke, she even began to cry.
If she were not afraid of drawing attention, she would have knocked the two kids out right there. But with so many people around, that obviously wouldn’t work.
Chen Ziyuan was startled inside. It seemed they had indeed met their match.
“I see. Then thank you, Grandmother, for helping us.”
The old woman finally breathed a sigh of relief. She had fooled them at last. Just wait. She would sell them later!
Now she had to find a quiet place to make her move! Otherwise, she might alert the people from the city lord’s mansion.
“Then where is your home?”
“Grandmother, we’ll take you there.” Chen Ziyuan smiled innocently.
The old woman quickly nodded. “Good, good, good.”
Chen Zihao also realized something. Looking at the candied-sugar figurine stall not far away, he showed a look of delight. “Grandmother, if you like us, why don’t you buy us some sugar figures to eat?”
The old woman’s mouth twitched. “Fine, Grandmother will buy them for you.”
Her face was full of smiles, though the smile was forced.
A while later.
Chen Ziyuan and Chen Zihao were holding their sugar figures and eating them.
“Grandmother, this sugar figure is really sweet.”
The old woman smiled. “I’m glad you like it. Hurry up and go now. Grandmother still has things to do after escorting you home.”
“Oh.”
Then they headed off in one direction.
But as they walked, the old woman noticed something was wrong.
Wasn’t this the direction of the city lord’s mansion?
What a coincidence…
This was not good at all. She had to find a chance to strike! Otherwise, this job would be completely wasted, and she had even spent money on two sugar figures!
At the same time, she received a telepathic message from the others. “Old woman, this is bad. The guard troops from the city lord’s mansion are coming our way.”
“What? How could we have been discovered…” The old woman thought with alarm.
The city lord’s mansion maintained order, so of course it did not allow child trafficking.
She immediately sent a reply by telepathy. “Don’t panic. It’s just a coincidence.”
Chen Ziyuan and Chen Zihao had also noticed something. There were other people sneaking around nearby!
They didn’t look like good people!
Chen Ziyuan asked suspiciously, “Grandmother, what’s wrong? You look a little pale.”
The old woman’s expression stiffened again. “Do I? I’m just old, and my body isn’t feeling very well.”
“Let’s go…”
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
A group of city lord guard troops rushed over in a hurry, and their target was very clear.
“Old woman, let go of those two children!”
They were actually a little baffled too, but the city lord had suddenly ordered them to do this.
And by pure coincidence, this old woman had brought the two children this way, so they naturally ran into each other.
“Damn it, we’ve been exposed!” The old woman was no fool. One look at the situation told her that she had already been exposed.
When had this happened?
There was no time to think it through. She could only go all in and try to grab Chen Ziyuan and Chen Zihao first, then escape this disaster. In a head-on clash with the city lord’s mansion, they absolutely were not a match!
Then she casually reached out, only to discover that, as a dignified Foundation Establishment realm cultivator, she could not lift the two children at all!?
The city lord’s mansion guard troops saw this and their faces changed drastically. “You’re asking for death!”
Save those two kids! This had been ordered by the city lord!
They immediately charged over!
But right before their eyes, the little boy grabbed the old woman’s wrist with one hand and performed a simple, brutal over-the-shoulder throw. The old woman, a Foundation Establishment realm cultivator, was spun through the air on the spot and slammed heavily to the ground.
Would you believe it?
“…”
They seemed to have arrived too late.
Everyone stared in stunned silence.
The old woman, shaken and dazed from the fall, looked at Chen Ziyuan and Chen Zihao in disbelief.
“You…”
She had been played! These two children actually had higher cultivation than hers, or there was no way to explain what just happened!
She was practically vomiting blood.
Could they be at the Tongxuan stage?
Chen Zihao put his hands on his hips, still biting the sugar figure, looking smug. Daddy had told them to stay steady, but when it was time to act, they still had to act! After all, it was the other side that had come after them!
Chen Ziyuan pouted. “Grandmother, you’re a child trafficker, aren’t you? You were trying to kidnap us… How vile. I thought I could lure you to the city lord’s mansion, but I didn’t expect the city lord’s mansion troops to already be here…”
She had not been sure before, but now the situation made everything obvious.
She just didn’t know how the city lord’s mansion people had found out.
…She got it. It had to be because they had kindly sent that guard back to the city lord’s mansion earlier!
After the city lord’s mansion guard troops recovered from their shock, they immediately shouted, “There are accomplices nearby! Go after them!”
The old woman did not dare stay any longer and tried to flee.
But to fall into her own prey’s hands was truly a curse on all her ancestors for eighteen generations.
Who could have guessed that the two little brats were actually stronger than her in cultivation? She had missed the best timing.
Just then, thunder rumbled overhead with a crash, followed by lightning flashes.
In an instant, several streaks of sword qi descended from the sky!
Boom.
The old woman had no ability to resist at all. She was cut into flying ash and had nowhere to run. The hidden child traffickers were also directly wiped out, unable to escape the lock-on.
A precise hit, one might say, with the force controlled just right.
The guard troops were stunned again.
They seemed to have arrived too late again…
When they came back to their senses, there was no sign of Chen Ziyuan or Chen Zihao anywhere.
Had they been struck dead by mistake as well?
At the entrance of the tailor shop.
After the shopkeeper sensed those sword qi, he shivered all over.
“This is…”
He took a sip of medicine to calm himself down.
But what on earth was the background of those two children… to have such a powerful person secretly protecting them?
Still, he could naturally tell that those sneaky bastards earlier had been targeting the two children.
Don’t even think about ruining the city that this city lord governs!
But in that case, it would make the city lord’s mansion look like it was meddling.
By the roadside.
Sword Emperor Changgeng did not take it to heart.
He only murmured, “You are still young and not suited to be stained with blood. Then let this old man do it for you…”
…
Immortal Realm.
Somewhere.
While traveling, Chen Junye slapped his forehead.
“Seriously, once a wife is pregnant, a man gets stupid for three years…”
The Eternal Night Immortal Emperor making trouble had nothing to do with Chen Junye looking for his wife!
“His wife doesn’t even know that it’s the Eternal Night Immortal Emperor looking for her, so how could that possibly cause any movement and bring trouble…”
After realizing it, Chen Junye silently cursed himself for being foolish.
Then he released his senses, enveloping the Immortal Realm as he searched for his wife…