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Chapter 389 City Lord’s Mansion

Sure enough, not long after they came out, they heard a noisy sound coming from the direction of the courtyard where they lived before. These people were all sharp-eared and heard a woman in the courtyard asking,

"You lazy bitches, why didn't you even clean up the house? Luckily I thought of taking a look first. Look... The bedding in this room is not made, and even the bathtub is still there... If the old lady knew about this, it would be strange if she didn't give you a beating!"

A maid responded,
"Mom, this is unfair! The servants clean this yard every day, how come there are bedding that is not made and bathtub that is not taken out..."

"You still dare to be so stubborn? Look for yourself, am I wronging you?"

After that, there was a snap, and a little girl's crying voice was heard.
"Mom, I was wrong!"

There was another flurry of noise. Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.

"It seems that they are not suspicious!"

Pu Yanlan frowned.

"What are these monks doing in the City Lord's Mansion?"

Gu Shiyi thought for a while and said,

"Most of the secular government officials here are in collusion with the cultivation sects, and some are even the cultivation sects themselves. It seems that the Moon City is the same..."

Then he asked the fox,

"Have you found out what sects those monks belong to?"

It’s better not to be one of those most prominent sects!

The fox thought for a moment and said,

"I saw a toad with its mouth opened embroidered on the hem of the monks' robes..."

"Toad? Could it be from the Toad Clan?"

Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan looked at each other, both of them were a little confused, but it was not a good idea to leave the house at this time, so they could only stay in the plum forest. Fortunately, the old woman who was guarding the forest was transferred to the front to serve because the monks entered the house. She did not come out until dark.

Gu Shiyi then released the old horse in the plum forest and told it,
"Now that there are monks nearby, we dare not open the secret realm and let you in at will. If you make too much noise, you will be easily found. Don't run around in the woods. If someone spots you, they will catch you and kill or chop you up. We can't guarantee that we can save you!"

Old Ma nodded, and walked around the forest casually, eating some grass. That night, Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan took turns to keep watch, but nothing happened. The next morning, the old woman who was guarding the plum forest came back. Gu Shiyi asked her to charm the old woman and ask her questions. The old woman walked straight into the hut, sat on the stool, and thought she was back home, and started talking to her sisters.

"His aunt, tell me, what is going on..."

"what's wrong?"

Gu Shiyi was lying on the bed with his legs crossed. The old woman said,
"The old city lord died in a strange way. He hasn't even been buried yet, but these young masters have already started making trouble. The old lady was so angry that she fainted several times. The eldest young master teamed up with the garrison commander, and now the second young master has lured all the immortal cultivators here!"

"Oh...were those immortal cultivators invited by the Second Young Master?"

The old woman replied,

"That's right. The second young master invited these immortal cultivators into the mansion, saying that they would stay and mobilize people to help them find some rare treasures. The maids and women in the front yard all said that finding some rare treasures was just an excuse, and most likely they wanted to use these adults to suppress the eldest young master. It seems that the position of the city lord will fall to the second young master!"

"Exotic treasure?"

Gu Shiyi sat up and looked at the old woman with a raised eyebrow. The old woman stood up and poured a glass of water.

"They said that these adults were chasing us all the way from the western desert, and asked our second son to send people to look for us. They also said that if we find them, there will be a big reward. The second son wanted to mobilize the soldiers guarding the city to look for them, but the eldest son was unwilling to do so, saying that the soldiers were there to protect the people, and that the adults were looking for treasures, so how could ordinary people recognize them?"

Hmm! This young master is quite eloquent and good at debate!
"What happened next? Did the Second Young Master find someone?"

The mother-in-law said,
"The eldest master refused, but one of the adults looked cold and asked, 'Young master, do you want to go against our Jinchan Sect?' The eldest master didn't dare to say anything, and immediately ordered to close the four gates and let the soldiers search for people door to door!"

Gu Shiyi asked again,

"If you want to find a treasure, then the treasure should be big or small, gold or silver, it should have a certain shape, right?"

The old woman shook her head blankly.
“I don’t know…”

What’s the point of looking for it if you don’t know!

Gu Shiyi asked again,

"What sects do those adults belong to? Are they very powerful?"

The old woman replied, "I heard it's called the Golden Toad Gate. I also saw an adult holding a three-legged toad in his hand. His mouth was very big and wide open, and he shouted at me..."

Oh, it turned out to be a golden toad!
Gu Shiyi turned her head and glanced at the red fox lying on the bed. The red fox grinned at her.

"Hmm... Isn't a toad just a toad?"

It has three legs! The one with three legs is a golden toad, not a toad!

Gu Shiyi rolled his eyes at her and asked the old woman,

"Then... those adults will stay here and not leave?"

"That's right. There are too many adults and not enough people to serve. I came back to get the quilt, and I have to serve in the front for a while!"

At this point, the old woman seemed to remember that she had something to do. She stood up, rolled up her quilt on the bed, picked it up and left. She locked the door when she left. After leaving Merlin, the old woman seemed to wake up suddenly, stopped, looked around, and murmured,

"I was just talking to someone for a long time, how come in just a few words, I'm here!"

Thinking back now, the part about going back to the house to get the rolled-up quilt is so vague that I can’t remember it at all!
The old woman did not suspect anything, she slapped her forehead and

"Hey! Look at me, my memory is so bad... Maybe I'm getting old and my brain is getting muddled. I should go to the clinic on the corner and buy some mind-clearing pills to eat when I have time!"

The old woman went out with the quilt in her arms. Gu Shiyi felt a little conflicted.

"Yan'er, what should we do? Should we go out at night?"

It is not impossible to hide your figure and breath and slip away unnoticed!

Pu Yanlan frowned.
"If I go out now, the city will be in chaos. If I fly out of the city, I'm afraid it will arouse suspicion!"

What are you talking about looking for rare treasures? Rare treasures don’t have legs. Most likely you are looking for someone who possesses the rare treasure!
At this time, aren't they going out to be targets? If they meet someone whose realm is not as good as theirs, it would be easy to deal with. But if the Golden Toad Sect has masters of the Nascent Soul stage or even higher-level monks, it will not be so easy for the two of them to escape!
So it is better to stay still than to move. It is better to hide here and take a look at the situation outside first!

Gu Shiyi nodded after hearing this.

"Yan'er is right. It is better to be still than to move!"

Anyway, the old woman who takes care of Merlin won't be back for a while, so why don't they stay in this forest and see what happens?
So they stayed in the plum forest for another three days. During this period, no one entered the house deep in the plum forest to check. Instead, the red fox went out from time to time, bewitched the maids and old women passing by, and asked them to come in and rest. They would then bring in news from outside from time to time.

"The four gates of the city have been closed, and the adults are leading the soldiers to search one by one. This search is going to be a big deal..."

There were rumors like the daughter-in-law of the east family was caught cheating, the two old men of the west family were sleeping in the same bed and were seen by the adults, and one of them ran out naked, the Zhang family's cellar had a lot of gold, silver and jewelry hidden in it and they were dug out, and the adults really caught an evil ghost in the haunted house in the south of the city. There were endless rumors like these, and the maids and the old women were gossiping with saliva flying around. Gu Shiyi was so excited when he heard the gossip that he laughed at Pu Yanlan.
"Haha, luckily you didn't say you were leaving, Yan'er, otherwise...where would I go to listen to all this gossip?"

Pu Yanlan rolled her eyes at her and frowned.
"Eleven, it's been a few days, why is the noise getting more and more serious? What exactly is the Golden Toad Sect looking for?"

Gu Shiyi smiled and said,
"It doesn't matter what they are looking for, as long as it's not us!"

By the way, the monks from the Golden Toad Sect were also very depressed. They were almost digging deep into the city. They checked everything they thought was suspicious, but they still found nothing!
If they had not tried to take the golden toad out of the city to look for it, and the golden toad would turn around and quack towards the direction of Moon City no matter which gate it went out of the city, they would have thought that the rare treasure had been taken away!

"Where is the strange treasure?"

I can’t figure it out, I really can’t figure it out!
"Senior brother..."

A fellow student questioned,

"Brother, could it be that there are a lot of gold and silver treasures in this city? Maybe the golden toad is calling for them?"

"impossible!"

The senior brother glared and said,
"You have seen it, this kind of gold and silver treasure, will the golden toad croak non-stop when it sees it?"

That's true. In the past few days, they relied on the golden toad to plunder a lot of wealth in the city, but when the golden toad saw it, it would close its mouth tightly. Occasionally, when it saw a rare object, it would just croak lazily, and then it would be silent!

This rare treasure must still be in the city!
The monks of the Golden Toad Sect racked their brains, and finally a clever junior brother suddenly slapped his head and said,
"Brother, we have searched the entire Moon City, but there is still one place we haven't found yet!"

"Oh... where?"

"It's the City Lord's Mansion!"

"Yup!"

The monks stood up and said,
"That's right! We are really in the dark. This City Lord's Mansion has never been searched before!"

As a result, the City Lord's Mansion soon became lively, and first the old lady fainted from anger!
This old lady has really suffered!
When he was young, this man was lustful and had women one after another, and had children one after another. Now he is dead, his head is missing inexplicably, and he also scared a concubine to death and drove another concubine crazy.
"Bah... You old man, you want to sleep with two men in one night... If you don't lose your head, you will go crazy sooner or later!"