Chapter 778 - 225: Divine Crows and Community Drums, Why Must One Return as a Youth?

Chapter 778: Chapter 225: Divine Crows and Community Drums, Why Must One Return as a Youth?

Unknowingly, Shanbao County has become so prosperous.

Lady Yama, rewarding goodness and punishing evil, this reputation has long spread. Many homeless and suffering people choose to come here, and once they arrive, they don’t want to leave.

Xie Yu looked at the crowded streets, worriedly saying, "We... won’t we be able to buy a house?"

Li Yuan coughed lightly and said, "I still have an old house here, no need to buy one."

"Huh?" ℴ

Xie Yu was stunned.

Then, Li Yuan wound through the roads, parking the carriage in front of a secluded old house by the Silver Creek.

The location of this house is excellent, one of the few places in Silver Creek Square that can touch the Third Grade Meat Field Remnant Vein.

This house, of course, was specially left for him by Lady Yama.

And from the moment Li Yuan and his family moved into this house, many eyes were already looking over with astonishment and shock.

"Connections, and with a very strong background connection..."

"This house is finally occupied."

"I wonder who this revered personage is."

Some knowledgeable outsiders sighed.

Xie Yu is of the Sixth Grade, her hearing is good, naturally, she heard it all.

Sensing lightly, she didn’t feel anything.

But after circling around, she found that under the apricot tree in the southeast corner of the house, there was an extremely strong presence of blood aura, so terrifyingly strong, a presence she had never felt even in the Xie family of Mingyue Prefecture.

This was evidently the blood aura of the Third Grade Meat Field.

She looked at her own man in surprise, exclaiming, "Husband, is your old house this good?"

Li Yuan put his hands together, bowed towards the sky, and then said, "Thank you, Lady Yama. If it weren’t for her, this house of mine might have been gone long ago. Tomorrow, we’ll go to the Divine Temple to burn incense and pay respect to the lady."

Xie Yu nodded.

Then she happily began tidying up the house, talking about how this side needs to be transformed into something, and how that side should be.

The next morning...

Li Yuan took Xie Yu out to breakfast, and as soon as they stepped out, they saw a couple across the street waving kindly at them.

As they walked further, the surrounding neighbors were exceptionally friendly towards them.

Once no one was around, Xie Yu remarked oddly, "The reputation of your old house is really big..."

Li Yuan said, "Thanks to the lady."

Xie Yu asked, "Where do you want to eat?"

Li Yuan said, "I’ve long heard of the famous Hengwu Restaurant, let’s go there."

"Hengwu Restaurant..." Xie Yu thought for a moment, saying, "This place is indeed quite famous. I remember quite a few powerful forces buy wine from here, my family too, but can we even have breakfast there?"

Li Yuan said, "Let’s go take a look."

When they arrived, they found Hengwu Restaurant bustling with people, with many outside sitting on stools in a long line.

Li Yuan was speechless, looking up at the bustling old establishment, feeling a strange sense of time passing.

He didn’t enter, but took Xie Yu to a nearby noodle shop for a meal, then headed to the Divine Temple.

The Divine Temple was crowded.

The two lined up, burned incense, and paid respects to the statue of the lady.

After Xie Yu bowed, she curiously looked at the two small statues at the foot of the lady’s statue.

They were a chubby young boy and a quiet young girl.

Xie Yu said, "I know Lady Yama, but are these her children?"

Li Yuan said, "I’m not sure, they probably are..."

As he spoke, he suddenly turned his head and saw, through the red-painted wooden window, two crows perched on the newly sprouted green tree outside, tilting their heads at him.

Xie Yu looked over curiously as well.

The crows suddenly flapped their wings, flew in from afar, and landed on the altar, directly eating the offerings on the table.

Xie Yu was taken aback, but seeing the surrounding guards of the Divine Temple remained unmoved, as if accustomed to the crows eating the offerings, perhaps even permitted somehow.

Nearby, some worshipers began to cheer.

"Divine Crow, it’s the Divine Crow!"

"The Divine Crow has manifested!"

"Quick, pray, it’s most effective now!"

Seeing the excitement of the people around her, Xie Yu was also swept up in the atmosphere, hastily pulling Li Yuan to continue praying.

The crows cawed loudly.

Outside the temple, the sound of drumming suddenly started, the rhythmical beating of the drums.

Xie Yu curiously asked, "What is this now?"

A nearby worshiper said, "That’s the Community Drum for worshiping the lady, it happens every day!"

Xie Yu pulled Li Yuan, curiously standing by the red railing, but so many people were there, she couldn’t even squeeze to the front.

Li Yuan directly lifted her, raising her high so she could see the line of burly men drumming in the distance.

The burly men were shirtless, with red belts around their waists, swinging drumsticks, opening and closing.

"How festive... it happens every day." Suddenly, Xie Yu felt at ease.

...

In the days that followed, Li Yuan took Xie Yu around the Shanbao Twelve Districts.

Little Ink Workshop was their last stop.

He drove the carriage through familiar woods, listening to the spring breeze rustling through the leaves, and then gently guided the reins to Little Ink Workshop.

Little Ink Workshop had also changed from before, as there were too many people in Silver Creek Square, it started to become prosperous here as well.

The appearance of the village was slowly disappearing, with more vendors along the once empty yellow dirt road.

In the distant fields, someone was carrying dung buckets to fertilize the land, preparing for the seedlings in April to be better nourished.

The carriage slowly rolled by, and Xie Yu was somewhat immersed in the scene before her, like an ink-wash painting.

Li Yuan was watching casually too, but suddenly... his pupils contracted tightly.

Because he saw a thin man with short white hair fertilizing too, the man’s face was destroyed, making it unrecognizable. But... how could Li Yuan forget his past enemies.