The Mystical Biological Mother Returns, the Villainous Sons Stand Up Straight – Chapter 81

Ch 81: Not Completely Mad

Gu Qingyin sat down and started browsing her phone while eating. Only then did she see the message Huo Xingye had sent her. Her heart stirred, and she looked up at the person across from her. “You want to go out with me?”

“Yeah.” Huo Xingchen reluctantly replied, “Big brother told me to go.”

Gu Qingyin scoffed, “You’re such a grown man, you have no opinions of your own. If someone tells you to go, you just go. He’s only older than you by a few minutes?”

Huo Xingchen paused. “What do you mean?”

Gu Qingyin said seriously, “You don’t have to go if you don’t want to.”

Huo Xingchen choked. “…I didn’t say I didn’t want to go.”

“Oh.” Gu Qingyin’s tone was calm but full of sarcasm, “If you want to go, then don’t blame it on your brother.”

Huo Xingchen: …There’s no way she’s my mom!

After finishing their meal and cleaning up, the three of them and Mao Mao went out.

“Where are we going?” Huo Xingchen asked, only remembering to ask after getting in the car.

Gu Qingyin looked at Liu Ergou.

Liu Ergou pulled out his phone. “Let me check where the entrance to Yuncity is.”

Entrance? Huo Xingchen was a little confused. What entrance?

Gu Qingyin, however, understood. She had been to the Mystical Arts Association a few times before and knew a little about it.

“The place we’re going to is called the Mystical Arts Association, or Mystical Arts Association for short. You can think of it as an official organization that manages Taoist Masters, responsible for Taoist Master exams, task assignments…” At this point, Gu Qingyin’s eyes glazed over for a second, and she added, “etc.”

Huo Xingchen was listening attentively, but almost went crazy when he heard that. You can’t remember, can you!

Gu Qingyin ignored him and continued, “The Mystical Arts Association doesn’t exist in this space. It’s an independent small space outside this world, but major cities have built entrances and exits leading to the Mystical Arts Association.”

Huo Xingchen’s eyes lit up, and he exclaimed from the bottom of his heart, “Cool!”

Gu Qingyin glanced at him. Compared to his two older brothers, this child was indeed a bit childish, and he also gave off a very chuunibyou vibe.

“Twenty years ago, the Yuncity Mystical Arts Association entrance was in an old alley in the Old District. I don’t know if it’s been changed now.”

“It’s been changed.” Liu Ergou’s expression was strange. “It’s been moved to the City God Temple.”

Gu Qingyin was stunned, and her head was filled with question marks. “Which City God Temple?”

“The one you’re thinking of.”

Gu Qingyin’s eyes widened. “Isn’t that a tourist attraction? Are the people from the Mystical Arts Association mad?!” Staging a live transformation in broad daylight, are they trying to add hype to the scenic spot?

Just imagine, tourists are sightseeing, and as they’re looking, they suddenly realize that the person in front of them has disappeared! They rub their eyes again, and suddenly a few strangers appear, who might even grin at you.

My god, seeing ghosts in broad daylight, how exciting!

“They’re not completely mad,” Liu Ergou said, “The Mystical Arts Association’s opening hours are staggered with the scenic spot’s opening hours.”

Gu Qingyin’s expression was blank. “What do you mean?”

“It means they only open at night.”

After Liu Ergou finished speaking, the three people in the car fell silent.

“It’s not even noon yet.” Huo Xingchen’s expression was indescribable. “Did we come too early?”

Gu Qingyin sighed. “Now that we’re here, let’s go take a look at the City God Temple. Twenty years have passed, I wonder if there have been any changes.”

There were changes, but not many.

The temple was still the same temple, but it had obviously been renovated and looked much brighter. Many new things had also been added outside, such as a wishing pool, a lotus pond, a brush-washing pond…

Gu Qingyin looked along the way and suddenly realized, “Isn’t this just one pool? But it’s divided into several sections… Tsk tsk tsk, they really know how to make money.”

Huo Xingchen nodded in agreement.

Liu Ergou was speechless. When it comes to making money, who can be better than your son?

Apart from the scenic spots, the biggest changes were the stalls, with all kinds of food, drinks, and souvenirs, almost filling both sides of the aisle.

It was so exaggerated that even Huo Xingchen was shocked. “Is this still the City God Temple? It’s almost become a pedestrian street!”

But Gu Qingyin accepted this very well, wanting to buy everything she saw, and asking “What is this?” from time to time.

Liu Ergou, an old man who had been living in seclusion in the mountains for many years, didn’t know anything about these things and looked blank whenever he was asked.

Gu Qingyin disdainfully pushed him aside and only asked Huo Xingchen.

At first, Huo Xingchen maintained his composure and responded very coldly. Later, when he saw something he was also interested in, he didn’t even need to be asked, and he would talk non-stop for ten minutes without stopping.

Time flew by quickly while strolling, eating, and strolling.

During this time, Liu Ergou was also mistaken for a Taoist priest from the City God Temple and was pulled to take many photos. He tried to explain at first, but was moved by the price of fifty yuan per photo from a tourist, and then took on many private gigs.

Gu Qingyin and Huo Xingchen sat in the nearby coffee shop, watching Liu Ergou take orders and earn a thousand yuan in an hour!

The scenic spot closes at six o’clock in the evening. Before that time, loudspeakers began to broadcast reminders in a loop, and security guards also began to patrol various places, reminding tourists to go to the exit as soon as possible and not to stay.

Everyone was walking outwards, except for Gu Qingyin and the others, who were walking against the flow of people. When asked by security guards, they said they were going back to look for something and would leave immediately.

Until they reached the main temple of the City God Temple—yes, the scenic spot had been expanded. Taking the original City God Temple as the center, a large circle of commercial streets and play areas had been expanded around it. Commercial activities were not allowed in the proper temple.

“Where’s the entrance?” Gu Qingyin was tired from walking all day and just wanted to finish her business quickly and go home to sleep.

Mao Mao, perched on Gu Qingyin’s shoulder, chirped weakly.

Huo Xingchen lowered his eyes and looked at it. “What’s wrong with it? It was chirping and asking for food just now, why is it so listless now?” He frowned and asked worriedly, “Did it eat too much?”

Gu Qingyin rolled her eyes unhappily. “It secretly drank the rice wine from the glutinous rice balls stall just now and got drunk.”

Huo Xingchen: …

This afternoon, Mao Mao relied on its small size and stole a lot of food.

At first, Gu Qingyin was afraid that it would damage its body by eating things from the mortal realm, but later she found that this little thing’s stomach was like a bottomless pit. No matter how much it ate, there was no change, and there was nothing abnormal about its body, so she let it go.

Now it was good, Mao Mao became even more rampant, wanting to taste anything it was interested in.

Gu Qingyin was embarrassed and could only follow it behind to pay the bill, but she couldn’t keep up with Mao Mao’s speed of stealing food.

If she had known that a mouthful of rice wine could make it quiet, she should have bought glutinous rice balls earlier!

“We’re here.” Liu Ergou compared it with the picture on his phone and nodded repeatedly. “It’s here.”

Gu Qingyin looked up. It was a wall with an abstract painting of the loyal and righteous God of Wealth.

Why was it called an abstract painting? Because it shouldn’t look like this normally.

Looking at its green face and fangs, which proper immortal would be so scary?

Liu Ergou took out something that looked like a waist card from his Taoist robe. It was black and uneven, as if some patterns were carved on it.

Huo Xingchen glanced at it. Before he could see it clearly, Liu Ergou pressed the waist card against the wall.

A faint light flashed across the wall, so fast that it seemed like an illusion.

“You can go in now.”

Liu Ergou put away the waist card and smiled at Gu Qingyin and Huo Xingchen. “You go first, I’ll go in last, I still have to close the door.”

Gu Qingyin was about to step forward when Huo Xingchen grabbed her. “Are you sure he’s not tricking us into running into the wall?!”

（End of this chapter）