38 | Enjoying Flowers Through Red Clouds 3

Xie Ren stared at the red-clothed boy, said, “You ……”

He wanted to say something, however, now around countless pairs of eyes are looking at this side, Hua Cheng this attitude is very ambiguous, as if he knew him, but also as if he did not know him, Xie Ren did not know if he could not reveal in the ghost market with his acquaintance, intentional, but not good enough to say anything more, only said: “Thank you.”

Lang Qianqiu said, “Why thank him? He’s the one who opened this place, and he’s had bad intentions from the start.”

“……” Xie Ren whispered, “Your Royal Highness, quickly stop talking, hurry up and go.”

If he stayed any longer, he didn’t know what Lang Qianqiu was going to say. Besides, there was still business to attend to, so Xie Ren was not in a position to stay. He looked at Hua Cheng several times and pushed Lang Qianqiu out of the room. At that moment, Hua Cheng said behind him, “Wait.”

At the sound of the voice, Xie Ren stopped again and turned back. A voice among the ghosts said, “City Lord, we can’t just let them go!”

“This man is suspicious and powerful, and I’m afraid his origins are not simple. In my opinion, we should stay and interrogate him.”

“Not bad, I can’t say that this is a scout sent by which side to deliberately cause trouble on our territory!”

This last sentence is a solid one. Indeed is from the heavenly realm, but the intention is not to cause trouble, just intends to explore the situation. Xie Ren wasn’t sure if Hua Cheng had seen the trace of aura that Lang Qianqiu had leaked out in the heat of the moment, nor was he completely sure that he would still let them go if he had seen it, and his heart was slightly suspended by a few inches. However, he heard Hua Cheng leisurely say, “Aren’t you going to leave your bets behind?”

Xie Ren was slightly stunned and said, “Wager?”

Lang Qianqiu stopped in front of him and said vigilantly, “Are you trying to back out again?”

Xie Ren, however, thought to himself, “Sanlang doesn’t go back on his promises to people, so presumably he means something else?” So, he stood out from behind Lang Qianqiu and said, “But, just now we had a bet, didn’t I already win?”

Hua Cheng said, “It is true that brother Fang did win against me. However, don’t forget that you also lost a hand in front of you.”

Xie Ren froze and said, “But you said it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t count.”

Although it sounded quite cheeky to say that bets don’t count if you lose and only count if you win, Xie Ren was still brazen enough to ask. Hua Cheng said, “The games that you bet with me, losing certainly doesn’t count. What I’m talking about is the first hand you bet on down there.”

It was only then that Xie Ren remembered that, originally, Hua Cheng was talking about the hand that he had rolled two sixes on when he tried to compare the hours.

Lang Qianqiu said in a deep voice, “I told you that he was unsettled and didn’t intend to let us go just like that so cheaply. I won’t be locked up this time.”

Listening to him as if he was already ready to fight another round, leaping into action, Xie Ren hastily pulled him back and said, “It’s fine don’t be nervous, there’s no need to fight again.”

Over there, Hua Cheng cocked his head and said, “How? Brother, do you recognize it?”

Willing to gamble and admit defeat, what else could one do but admit obediently? Thus, Xie Ren nodded and said, “I admit it.”

Hua Cheng spread his left hand and said, “Then, give me the promised bet.”

…… said bet?

Hesitating for a moment, Xie Ren put his right hand into his left sleeve, touched it, and fished out half a steamed bun, a little unable to look straight at it, handed it out stiffly, and said, “Is …… this what you said?”

Seriously, when pulling out this half steamed bun, Xie Ren only felt that this face, which hasn’t crumbled in 800 years, suddenly trembled a little and couldn’t hang on.

The group of ghosts under the hall have long been speechless and quiet onlookers. The first time the lord of the city to gamble with people, the agreed bet is an uneaten steamed buns, then also even if, perhaps the lord of the city is playing around with fun. But the lord of the city actually also a serious to find people to recover this half steamed bread. No words, really no words. Some ghosts even can’t help but have a bold idea: either this half a steamed bun hides a shocking secret, or this person is really the city lord’s own brother!

Instead, Flower City took it with a smile, lifted it up to look at it, held it in her hand and shook it, saying, “The bet, I received it.”

Seeing that he really collected, Xie Ren did not know what to say. Only after a long time did she say, “That …… cold. Seems like, it’s a bit hard.”

Flower City said, “It’s okay. I don’t mind.”

He replied like this, Xie Ren had no room to answer, what he could say had already been said, and turned around again, heading out. Just now, the ghosts in the gambling house gave way to him, all rushing to see that he was the first to go forward, a warrior. This time they gave way to him, but they were all looking at him with awe and curiosity. Xie Ren walked a few steps and heard the ghosts behind him saying, “City Lord, City Lord, where are you going next?”

Flower City lazily replied, “I’m happy today, going to Polar Place.”

Upon hearing this, the lobby was abuzz with joy, as if it was a New Year’s festival. Xie Ren couldn’t help but look back again, and happened to see Hua Cheng also turned around, holding that half steamed bun in his hand, tossed it around, casually lowered his head and took a bite, his gaze casting towards this side again.

Seeing this scene, Xie Ren gave a slight lurch on the soles of her feet, for some reason feeling that this place really couldn’t stay for a moment longer, quickening her pace and tugging Lang Qianqiu to run out quickly.

The two of them went out of the gambling house, ran wildly for a long time, on the way nearly knocked down all kinds of hawker stalls, easily arrived at a slightly secluded alley, Shi Qingxuan immediately emerged, and they met up. Shi Qingxuan wildly shook his folding fan, fanning his hair flying about, said: “Good danger, good danger, my mom, just now really scared my face is white.”

Probably rushing too fast, a heart of Xie Ren was also thumping. Lang Qianqiu said, “Yes, Master Wind Master, I think your face is white even now.”

Shi Qingxuan touched his face and laughed: ”Really? Hahahahaha, this one is not scared, this one is my natural …… cough! ”Cough, Qianqiu, you are at least a Martial God sitting on one side, how can you be so impulsive? This is in their ghost world’s territory, in case you are caught and your identity is exposed, and the word gets out that the Heavenly Realm’s Divine Officials in disguise sneaked into the ghost market to act strangely and disrupt the peace of the three realms, how can we explain this to the Emperor?”

Lang Qianqiu bowed his head and honestly admitted his mistake: “I’m sorry, I was impulsive.” He also looked up and said, “But those gamblers are too heartless, if you let that man open the cup, no matter win or lose the result is not good, either his daughter bad luck, or his peers suffer. I was angry, so I broke the cup.”

Shi Qingxuan said, “Then you don’t just rush straight out yourself.”

Lang Qianqiu froze and said, “Then, Master Wind Master, what is to be done? If I don’t rush out, no one else will.”

He asked seriously, Shi Qingxuan a bit hurt his brain to use the fan to warp his temples, said, “This ……”

Xie Ren smiled faintly and said, “Forget it.”

Lang Qianqiu raised his eyes to look at him. Xie Ren added, “I think that even if His Highness Tai Hua is caught, no matter how much torture he is subjected to, he will not tell the other party his identity. However, in order to avoid the other party pulling out any clues from the traces of words, Your Highness should be careful in the future and not get caught.”

Lang Qianqiu nodded, “Good! I know.”

Shi Qingxuan said, “Don’t say it don’t say it. Hey right, the Crown Prince ……”

With this “Your Highness the Crown Prince”, Xie Ren and Lang Qianqiu both turned their heads to look at him at the same time, and Shi Qingxuan said, “Oh, I’m calling the older one.”

“……”

Xie Ren rubbed his brow a little depressed, thinking, “Older …… well, it is a little older, but not much, why is it always talking about me as if I am talking about an old man?”

Shi Qingxuan said, ”Your Highness the Crown Prince, have the two of you ever met before in the Divine Martial Hall? If you haven’t, I’ll introduce you to each other again, this is Crown Prince Lang Qianqiu of Yongan Kingdom, the Martial God of the East. This is the Crown Prince of the Immortal Music Kingdom, Xie Ren, a Divine Magus who receives …… receives …… a great deal of reliance from the Emperor.”

The word he was stuck in the shell, do not need to say out Xie Ren also know what was originally connected to the back, collect rags well! But he forced himself to change his words in the middle of the sentence, not even caring about the flaws in the syntax. Lang Qianqiu heard this and looked at Xie Ren, wondering, “Are you the Prince who has ascended three times?”

It seemed that previously at the Divine Martial Hall, Lang Qianqiu had truly slept from head to toe, not even remembering who he was. If another person had said this in front of Xie Ren, it would have been a mockery. However, with this coming from Lang Qianqiu’s mouth, Xie Ren was completely convinced that this child really did merely find ascending three times to be rare. He smiled and said, “Yeah, that’s me.”

Lang Qianqiu said, “Fang really thank you! Otherwise ……” he remembered something and hurriedly lowered his head to put his belt away and tied it tightly with a palpitating face. He obviously didn’t think too much about the connection between Xianle Kingdom and Yongan Kingdom, Shi Qingxuan also felt that the introduction was almost enough, and said to Xie Ren: ”Your Highness, doesn’t this Blood Rain Scout recognize you? Why did he act as if he didn’t know you well?”

Lang Qianqiu tied his belt and said, “Is that one really Blood Rain Scout? Is it this honored one?”

Before Xie Ren could say anything, he heard Shi Qingxuan say, “How can it be the original? Hua Cheng must have changed more than a hundred skins, no one knows what his true self looks like. The last time I went to Half Moon Pass, he looked almost the same, so it must be a fake skin. Fake fake fake.”

Xie Ren, however, always remembered the sentence Hua Cheng said to him in the Bodhisattva Guan, “When I see you next time, I will use my original appearance to meet you,” and said, “It’s true.”

However, this of course was not said. Seeing that everyone else had decided that it was a fake skin, and only he knew that it was the Blood Rain Scout’s true appearance, it was as if he knew a little secret that was too good to be true. On second thought, ”This appearance of Sanlang’s is not much different from before, as if he is just a little bit bigger and taller. In that case, when he first met me, he actually used almost his real face as well.” Inexplicably, there was some small amount of happiness again.

Over there, Shi Qingxuan added: ”Everyone says that Hua Cheng is eccentric, it seems to be really eccentric. It’s obvious that he’s letting you off the hook, but he also has to pretend to be unrecognizable in a serious manner, I don’t know what kind of medicine is in his gourd. Could it be to make us let our guard down?”

Upon hearing this, Xie Ren coughed several times in a row. Sure enough, anyone could see that just now in the gambling house, Flower City had let the water out. It was no wonder that rather than releasing water, it was better to just say that the floodgates had been opened. It was only Lang Qianqiu who couldn’t see it anymore and frowned, “Did he release the water? Why?”

The other two patted his shoulder and tacitly chose not to explain more to him, leaving Lang Qianqiu alone to stand in place and ponder why Flower City was giving Xie Ren a free pass, was it because they knew each other. The two of them turned around and walked away, Xie Ren said: ”Right now our whereabouts are sort of exposed, right, what should we do next? Change skin and come back? I am not suggesting to change the skin, it’s useless, with His Highness Tai Hua hitting out with such a slap, Ghost City should step up a round of vigilance next.”

Shi Qingxuan said, “To be honest, I thought I would be exposed, but I didn’t think I would be exposed so quickly.”

Xie Ren sighed, “I understand, I understand.”

Shi Qingxuan said, “If it’s exposed, it’s exposed. Since it’s exposed, otherwise, you can just go on the ground openly and honestly.”

Xie Ren had vaguely guessed in his heart what was meant by “open and aboveboard”. Sure enough, Shi Qingxuan added, “If you still want to tell a lie, you can only go to Hua Cheng openly and honestly, and tell him that you came to see him specially. He knows that you are a Divine Officer of the Heavenly Realm, right? If he knows that, it makes sense that you brought a few of your Heaven Realm’s juniors with you.”

Who knows, before Xie Ren could reply, Lang Qianqiu heard it and said, “No!”

Shi Qingxuan said, “Why not?”

Lang Qianqiu said seriously, “Your Highness Xianle, do you know the Blood Rain Seeker? If I heard you guys talk like that, you and him are considered friends.”

Xie Ren nodded. Lang Qianqiu said, “Of course that won’t work. Although I don’t think this Ghost King is a good person, he should be giving you a break because he considers you a friend. Since that’s the case, one must never lie and cheat a friend.”

Shi Qingxuan said with a headache, “Heya Qianqiu, you’re such a deadhead!”

Xie Ren, however, smiled and nodded, saying, “It’s quite good. His Highness Tai Hua said so.”

Lang Qianqiu laughed, “You agree with me, don’t you?”

Shi Qingxuan said, “What’s so good about it, we at least have three Magi, if we come out on a trip and return empty-handed, word will surely get back that we’re even less efficient than the Spirit Man Hall, shame on us.”

Xie Ren guffawed, was about to speak, but heard a burst of ghosts and wolves behind them, the three could not help but look back in unison. Only to see outside the alleyway entrance, a group of demons and ghosts chasing and fighting ran over, yelling: “That little masked boy? Where is that little masked boy?”

Seeing that the other two looked wary, Xie Ren said, “It’s fine, it’s not looking for us.”

As soon as the words left their mouths, a mournful yell cut through their ears and pierced them sharply.