Attacked by the Female Demon at the Beginning-Chapter 249 - Taking Your Surname

Chapter 249: Taking Your Surname

That afternoon, Cheng Chou and the others returned.

“Master, Lord Rabbit is back, and I’ve brought you some gifts.”

The rabbit hopped over to Jiang Hao and presented a bunch of fruits: “Master, have one.”

Looking at the dozen or so green fruits, Jiang Hao picked one up and started eating.

It was surprisingly bitter.

Fifteen spirit stones just eaten away.

Xiao Li came to Jiang Hao with her head lowered, offering a bag of pastries.

“They’re left by grandma, I didn’t dare to eat them.”

“Why?” Jiang Hao took the pastries and asked.

Xiao Li, clutching the corner of her clothes, said softly.

“Grandma always said she would make more after I finished them, I’m afraid she won’t make them anymore if I eat these.”

“I see.” Jiang Hao put them away and said,

“Then I’ll eat them.”

“This is from Grandpa...” Xiao Li handed a bamboo shoot to Jiang Hao.

“Can Xiao Li plant it?”

“I’ll help you plant it.” Jiang Hao remembered this bamboo shoot.

It was dug under the guidance of Xiao Li’s grandfather, said to be the tenderest.

If Xiao Li couldn’t plant it, he would do it.

There were many things in his yard, one more bamboo shoot wouldn’t make a difference.

“There’s also...”

Xiao Li hesitated for a while, then said, “Grandma said that Senior Brother will be my family from now on. She told me to take Senior Brother’s surname, to be called Jiang Xiaoli.”

Jiang Hao was quite surprised, but still nodded: “If you’re willing, that’s fine.”

“Really?” Xiao Li seemed excited:

“Then Senior Brother, just like Grandpa and Grandma said, you’re my brother now.”

With no choice, he could only nod.

After sending off the rabbit and Xiao Li, Jiang Hao turned to Cheng Chou and said, “Tell me about the journey back.”

This time Cheng Chou came back a bit disheveled, but without any injuries.

“Senior Brother, after you left, Lord Rabbit suddenly arrived. With the help of the villagers, the funeral went smoothly, but throughout the process, Junior Sister Xiao Li kept saying, ‘What if Grandpa and Grandma wake up in a few days?’”

“She said her Grandpa loves to sleep. No one else had any idea what to do; if it weren’t for Lord Rabbit, I wouldn’t have known how to handle the situation. After the burial, Xiao Li stayed inside the house, refusing to come out, not speaking or laughing.”

“She was like a completely different person, but fortunately, Lord Rabbit stayed by her side. Later, she tearfully gave away the chickens and ducks that Grandpa and Grandma had raised. She also gave away the fishing boat and nets. She didn’t give away the farm tools or furniture, saying that if Grandma and Grandpa came back, they would be sad without furniture. She said she accidentally broke Grandpa’s vase once, and Grandpa was upset for many days.”

Jiang Hao quietly listened while eating red bean cake.

“After that, we cleaned up, washed the bedding, closed the door, and left. Junior Sister Xiao Li kept looking back every ten steps, as if she was looking at Grandpa and Grandma who used to see her off. They wouldn’t go back into the house until we reached the end of the road,” Cheng Chou sighed.

“I carried a tree back with me. That tree was one that Xiao Li’s Grandpa asked me to transplant to where Xiao Li lived, It was a Jujube tree. He said they planted it together, and from then on, Xiao Li could eat from it every year. Having something to eat, they could rest easy.”

“What happened after that?” Jiang Hao asked. freewёbnoνel.com

After leaving, it was supposed to be the rabbit’s home turf.

“On the way back, everything went smoothly, but just before we arrived, Lord Rabbit, in an attempt to cheer up Junior Sister Xiao Li, went to pick some fruit. It was only when we returned that I learned it seemed to have gotten into a fight with someone. Fortunately, no one pursued us. Then, because it was too bitter, Junior Sister Xiao Li wouldn’t eat it, so...”

Cheng Chou was referring to the bitter fruit that Jiang Hao had just received.

It turned out to be leftovers; I thought it was really picked for me, Jiang Hao thought with a sneer.

Jiang Hao was now aware of the general situation.

The rabbit wasn’t too reckless, it had some sense of measure, it was just too weak, and someone recognized it.

In the future, it would be better to release it further away.

After that, he went to the Candlelight Alchemy Court sect, met with Lian Daozhi, and presented the bitter fruit.

The other party gave him two hundred spirit stones.

Then he spent two hundred spirit stones to buy their Foundation Establishment pills.

After returning, he casually handed the pills to Cheng Chou.

The two hundred spirit stones were supposed to be divided into three equal parts, one for each of them.

But the rabbit and Xiao Li didn’t need them.

And Cheng Chou had indeed done well over the years.

Jiang Hao didn’t feel right selling these pills, so giving them to him was justified.

Upon receiving the pills, Cheng Chou was overjoyed.

He only got twenty spirit stones a month, and it would take a year of saving to buy so many pills.

Saving spirit stones was not easy; every cultivator had many places to spend spirit stones.

So the money for these pills might have taken him two years to dare to buy like this.

After doing all this, Jiang Hao then found Han Ming and explained his intentions.

Upon hearing this, Han Ming was overjoyed; he never liked the task of planting spiritual herbs, preferring to gain experience over farming.

If he could have refused, he would have left long ago.

Now that someone was willing to take over, he couldn’t ask for more.

Afterward, Jiang Hao went through the procedures, and everything went smoothly.

In the evening, Jiang Hao successfully took over the sect mission.

He would depart in the middle of next month.

......

Tiannan Prefecture.

Bi Zhu sat in the hall. She was waiting for follow-up news.

From the “Jing (Well)”, she learned that the Flood Dragon was indeed in the Huangsha River.

But upon closer observation, there was nothing outstanding about the Huangsha River.

There was no reason for the Flood Dragon to go there.

Fortunately, the specific address was about to arrive.

Even if delayed, it wouldn’t be by many days.

“I never believed he was so capable as to complete the task first.”

Bi Zhu sat quietly.

Because she wanted to confirm the truth, the wait made her somewhat anxious.

At that moment, a crane’s call came. Bi Zhu smiled.

“Finally, it has arrived.”

She quickly walked out and indeed saw a crane landing in the courtyard.

As she approached, the crane flapped its wings, dropping a parchment scroll to the ground.

Picking up the item, Bi Zhu tossed a bottle onto the ground, then returned inside.

The crane looked at the bottle on the ground: “...”

In the end, it obediently picked up the item and left.

But as it left, it angrily called out toward the house.

Boom!

A bolt of lightning struck, plucking half of the crane’s feathers.

“If it weren’t for the sake of your master, you would be my dinner tonight.”

Bi Zhu’s voice came from inside.

The crane cried out mournfully and quickly fled.

At this moment, Bi Zhu sat at the table, opening the scroll.

What caught her eye was a map of Youzhou Prefecture, with a circle at the top and a sentence next to it.

“The specific location of the Flood Dragon.”

The circle indeed encloses a river.

And this river, she had observed it several times before.

The current location is in the middle to upper reaches.

“Middle to upper reaches of the Huangsha River?”

Looking at the marked location on the map, Bi Zhu felt surprised.

He had actually guessed it right.

“Does this mean that the thing I’m looking for is here?”

After hesitating for a moment, she decided to set off immediately to see if the thing she was looking for was indeed there.

If it was...

This “Jing” is not simple.

......

Back at his residence, Jiang Hao took out a stone tablet to examine for a while.

He found out that Fairy Gui had finally received the specific address.

Gui: “I’ve received the address, Jing was right, now I’m going to make a trip to the Huangsha River.”

Liu: “It’s indeed quite impressive, I’m still cultivating my clone, and it’s not easy to start over. I’m looking for a better way.”

Watching them chat, Jiang Hao actually wanted to tell him that there indeed was a better way.

But he couldn’t explain it.

Maybe next time.