Do not engage in underworld operations in the human world!

Noon, hotel restaurant.

"What's wrong with you?" The performer stared at the black cloth stuffed in Jiang Lu's mouth with a strange expression.

"Woo woo woo." Jiang Lu hummed indistinctly and gestured with his hands.

Scythe calmly pushed a cup of tea over and said, "How about you write it down?"

Jiang Lu dipped his hand in water and wrote a few words on the table:

I'm doing the shut-up training.

After finishing writing, Jiang Lu felt sad.

If he couldn't control his mouth and was afraid that something might go wrong, why would he resort to such a desperate measure?

Fortunately, the stockings in his mouth were the ones that Hong Yi had just worn. If they were made of other fabrics, he didn't know if he could hold on.

"What's wrong?" The performer said jokingly, "Although you can't say anything nice with your mouth, you should learn to shut up, but you don't have to train while you're eating, right?"

Jiang Lu thought about it and wrote a few more words -

Give me some noodles and I’ll sip it through my nose.

The performer kept shaking his head and said, "You are so disgusting!"

Sickle looked at Jiang Lu who had started working early in the morning, and then looked at Jin Yao who seemed to be pretending to be calm for some reason. He always felt that something was not right today.

Jin Yao, who was chewing slowly on the side, might have noticed the suspicious look of the sickle. She deliberately changed the subject and said, "Eat quickly. The materials for foundation building should arrive in the afternoon. Gather in Jiang Lu's room then. I will tell you how to build the foundation."

"Okay." The sickle and the performer expressed their understanding.

Jiang Lu was shocked and quickly wrote down: You guys can just build it in your own room. I haven’t practiced enough yet, so I won’t join in.

Jin Yao narrowed her eyes and said, "No, even if you can't build a foundation now, it will be helpful for you to see what others do. You must be there."

Seeing that he couldn't escape, Jiang Lu had no choice but to write down: I don't want that for now, I'll go back and clean it up.

"What's there to clean up in your room?" Jin Yao asked.

Jiang Lu replied immediately: I'll wipe the door.

Jin Yao blushed instantly: "Then go quickly."

Jiang Luru felt as if he had been pardoned and ran quickly to his room.

"What does wiping the door mean?" Looking at Jiang Lu's back, the performer and the sickle were confused.

Click!

With a crisp sound, the two turned around and saw that the chopsticks in Jin Yao's hand had broken into two pieces.

"Are you guys free? You might as well spend this time consolidating your cultivation. If you fail to build your foundation later, you might die on the spot!"

"But, didn't you say a few days ago that you would prioritize our safety no matter what?"

"Haha, cultivating immortals is against the will of heaven, so it's not surprising what happens."

The sickle and the performer nodded slowly, their expressions gradually becoming solemn, and they only dared to communicate with each other with their eyes.

"Have we offended her?"

“I don’t know, but it should be.”

“Bad, bad, bad.”

Jiang Lu pushed the door open and walked straight into his room.

"What's wrong?" Hong Yi was putting on makeup. When she heard the noise, she turned around and asked curiously.

Jiang Lu was just about to ask her to help clean up, but when she looked up, she was stunned.

Hong Yi, who had originally put on makeup to look like a mature young woman in order to fit her character and make it easier for her to move around the casino, had now removed her bright makeup and replaced it with light and elegant makeup.

Although she lacks some charm, she looks more pure and gentle, full of the feeling of a good family, which forms a sharp contrast with what she had done before with Jiang Lu.

Even Jiang Lu couldn't help but be amazed: "She looks like a great wife!"

Hearing this, Hong Yi covered her mouth and chuckled: "As long as you like it."

"Oh no, now is not the time to talk about this." Jiang Lu reacted and quickly started to tidy up the messy bed. When he found that he couldn't clean it by himself, he quickly called room service.

Seeing him so anxious, Hong Yi realized something was wrong.

"What happened?"

"It's what I told you this morning." Jiang Lu tried his best to tidy up the room, trying to make it look more like he lived alone, while explaining: "They want to build a foundation, and then they will come to my room, so I have to pretend that I live alone."

Hong Yi was stunned for a moment, then asked cautiously, "Am I really that embarrassing?"

"What are you thinking?" Jiang Lu said helplessly, "It's just that we can't let them see you now. It's very troublesome."

"But you can't hide forever." Hong Yi sighed: "Didn't you say you would take me to Kunlun Mountain? But if I want to go with you, I will meet them sooner or later. What should I do then?"

"Hmm" Jiang Lu was silent.

Indeed, hiding for a while is not a problem, but hiding forever is impossible.

The reason why he agreed to bring Hong Yi was, firstly, to express his sincerity, and secondly, he thought that he had to bring Dong Wanggong along anyway, so it didn't matter if he brought one or two, so he could just make up a reason when the time came.

Now, the reason why he doesn’t want Hong Yi’s existence to be discovered is actually because of three words: procrastination.

As he anticipated that it would be difficult to come up with a reason to bring the two people along, he would of course think that it would be better to do this troublesome task as late as possible.

Although it has to be done sooner or later, every second counts.

But now Hong Yi's words gave him inspiration.

He hadn't been able to think of any reasonable reason to bring the two people with him, but at this moment he suddenly came up with a good idea.

The more Jiang Lu thought about it, the more he felt that the plan in his mind was feasible. He immediately hugged Hong Yi excitedly: "You are right, I must introduce you to everyone openly!"

Listening to his words that were between a declaration of sovereignty and an expression of sincerity, Hong Yi's face couldn't help but be filled with a happy smile.

After all, this kind of willingness to make an official announcement on the circle of friends is extremely safe for girls no matter what era or world it is in.

But it was too early for Hong Yi to be happy.
after an hour.

Jin Yao knocks on Jiang Lu's door with a sickle and a performer.

Jiang Lu opened the door for them, nodded and greeted them as if nothing had happened.

In order to prevent himself from accidentally telling the truth again, he stuffed the pair of stockings into his mouth again, so now he was unable to speak again.

"Is it so strict?" Scythe couldn't help but say.

"Who cares? It's not a bad thing for him to not talk." The performer didn't think so. Instead, he thought it was better for Jiang Lu not to talk. "I didn't expect you to live so far away from us. If Jin Yao hadn't brought us here, I'm afraid we would have been lost in this big yard."

Before he could finish his words, he was stopped by Scythe.

"What's wrong?" He didn't understand, but saw Sickle lowered his head, quietly pointed at Jin Yao, then pointed at the living room of the suite, and then began to play deaf and dumb.

When the performer saw what was happening, he immediately followed his example and turned his gaze to a painting at the door, pretending to be very busy and taking emergency shelter.

At this time, Jin Yao was standing at the entrance with a gloomy face and without saying a word. On the sofa opposite her, Hong Yi was leisurely sipping the tea that she had just brewed.

"Who is she?" Jin Yao didn't even look at Jiang Lu, but everyone knew who she was questioning.

Upon seeing this, the performer immediately pulled the boy, who was lowering his head blankly, and started to appreciate the painting together with him, as if he was the one with polio, and he was still talking confidently, saying things like "What a beautiful painting" and "This is a chrysanthemum, right?" and so on.

"This sunflower." Scythe corrected.

"Shut up!" Jin Yao shouted, and the two of them became quiet instantly.

Although she looked much younger than the two uncle-looking guys, they didn't even dare to breathe in front of her innate aura and her status as half-teacher to them.

It was so embarrassing that they wanted to turn around and leave, but they couldn't.

Fortunately, Jiang Lu came to the rescue at this time.

He introduced calmly, "I was just about to tell you that she is a follower of the person you met in the supervision room yesterday. In layman's terms, she is a secretary. This time she came to see me specifically."

When talking about the supervision room, the three of them all remembered it vividly, and their impression of Dong Wanggong was particularly deep.

"That guy's followers?" The performer was puzzled: "Isn't he a serious criminal? Then isn't his secretary also clean? Shouldn't we call the police and have her arrested?"

[His identity is not as simple as you think.] Jiang Lu wrote mysteriously on the writing board he had just prepared.

Jin Yao didn't want to cooperate with him, and asked directly: "What's going on?"

At this moment, Hong Yi finally put down his teacup and said, "Don't be nervous, I mean no harm, let's sit down and talk."

Jin Yao glanced at Jiang Lu and confirmed again that the situation before her was not what she had imagined. Only then did she calm down a little and took a seat first.

After sitting down, she calmed down.

Think about it carefully, if Jiang Lu really cheated on someone, how could he dare to do it so openly in front of me?
Well, I must have been overthinking it.

And with her statement, Scythe and the performers also sat down with doubts.

Jiang Lu poured tea for everyone and then began to take control of the situation.

"Then please explain to them again what is going on," he wrote.

"Yes." Hong Yi nodded, and then calmly told everyone the whole story: "The man you saw in prison yesterday was just a criminal who opened a casino, but in fact, he was a man of destiny like you."

"The man of destiny?" Both the sickle and the performer were puzzled.

At this time, Jiang Lu couldn't help but lower his head and laugh.

"Yes, destiny man."

There was no trace of emotion on Hong Yi's face, which completely matched everyone's imagination of a professional and elite person:

“Not only you have received the revelation from heaven to send this young lady who was reborn from the stone to Kunlun Mountain, but my master is no exception.

However, he was not as lucky as you. He did not break the seal on Mount Gaishi so quickly, but wasted many years on it.

As his savings gradually ran out, he started some quick-money businesses to earn money to support himself while looking for ways to break the seal.

Recently, he noticed that something had happened on Gai Shi Mountain, so he immediately went to Gai Shi Mountain to check, and then found that the seal had been broken. He then traced all the way to Nanjiang City, and found Mr. Jiang through the aura on Gai Shi Mountain.

But we didn't know whether he was an enemy or a friend when we first met, so in order to test him, my master pretended to fall into Mr. Jiang's trap and was caught by the law enforcement bureau. Otherwise, I am not bragging, even ten thousand law enforcement bureaus could not trap my master.

The moment I saw this young lady, my master had already guessed your identities and sent a message to me, asking me to come and meet you and explain everything clearly."

After saying that, Hong Yi picked up the teacup, lowered his eyes and sipped the tea silently.

Except for Jiang Lu, no one noticed her trembling hands.

She was very nervous. This was the first time she lied in front of so many people, not to mention that she was facing Jiang Lu's ex-girlfriend.

Although Jiang Lu had already written the lines long ago and she knew them by heart, the more she feared making mistakes, the less confident she became.

Fortunately, she finished memorizing it successfully, and she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This backfired. Her expressionless face, which was deliberately made to hide her anxiety, and her action of lowering her head to drink water after she finished speaking, actually made a few people believe her a little, because this expression was somewhat similar to the stereotype of the cold and capable secretary beside the big boss.

But Jin Yao was not fooled. She keenly grasped the doubts: "Then why doesn't he come by himself?"

Hong Yi's hand holding the teacup trembled, and she didn't react when the water droplets splashed on her face.

Because she is very panicked now.

Yeah, why doesn't he come by himself? I don't know. No one told me why. Is this beyond the scope? Help me, help me, help me.

She slowly put down the teacup and subconsciously went to see Jiang Lu.

Fortunately, Jiang Lu reacted quickly, pretending to pick up something, and "accidentally" knocked over the teacup in her hand.

"oops!"

Jiang Lu, with something stuffed in his mouth, immediately stood up with an apologetic look on his face, grabbed the tablecloth and started to wipe the wet hem of her skirt, while motioning for her to go to the bathroom to clean up.

After Hong Yi stood up and left awkwardly, Jiang Lu took over her position as the commentator and wrote on the writing board: [I just asked her this question, and she said that if her boss escaped from prison now, it might affect our plan to go to Kunlun Mountain, so she would wait until we set off before meeting up with us.]

"Meet up?" Jin Yao frowned. "He's going with us?"

The performer also shook his head with a hint of disgust: "I don't like that guy."

Jiang Lu spread his hands helplessly and continued writing: [What should I do? If I refuse him and he forces me into a corner, what if I escape from prison and something happens at the law enforcement bureau so that we can't go on the journey smoothly? And he has already made this decision and seems so confident, maybe there is something he hasn't told us that we don't know. I think it's safer to meet him. Anyway, if it doesn't work out, we can cut ties later.]

"That makes sense." Scythe nodded thoughtfully.

Jin Yao thought about it and agreed reluctantly: "Okay, let's just pretend to be nice to him first. It would be bad if we push him too hard and cause trouble for us."

[That’s what I thought, too.] Jiang Lu agreed.

At this time, Hong Yi, who had tidied his clothes but was still thinking about how to answer, finally walked out of the bathroom with a stiff expression.

"Then, let's temporarily agree to let him go with us." Jin Yao said to her lightly.

Hong Yi was stunned, and immediately showed an expression as if he had been saved.

"Huh? What are you laughing at?" Jin Yao narrowed his eyes and stared at her warily.

"I didn't." Hong Yi shook his head: "I'm just happy that my master has won your recognition."

"Is that so?" Jin Yao didn't say much, and ordered them to leave: "We have important things to do here, please do as you please."

After relaxing, Hong Yi didn't react for a moment, and said, "Hmm," "Then you guys go ahead and do your work. I'll go help Mr. Jiang wash his clothes."

Having said that, he turned around and walked into the bathroom again.

For a moment, the whole room was eerily quiet. (End of this chapter)