Chapter 272: Humans are insidious

Wen Rui stopped talking, poked the two gods in the heart a little, and changed the subject: "That's off topic. I'm here just to reminisce about the past and meet old friends."

The Emperor Dongyue nodded slightly, without returning to the throne, he led Wen Rui and the Rakshasa woman to the back hall, and Huang Tianhua followed.

A banquet had already been set up in the side hall of the rear hall, and Wen Rui was received very solemnly with the standards of a family dinner.

During the Western Zhou Dynasty, banquets were divided into separate meals. There was a table with food in front of each person. Huang Feihu sat at the top, Wen Rui and Rakshasa sat at the bottom, and Huang Tianhua sat opposite Wen Rui.

The Rakshasa woman had lived for so long, but she had never thought that she would become a guest of honor of the Emperor Dongyue.

You must know that Dongyue Emperor sits in Mount Tai, and one of his duties is to defend the earth from ghosts and demons.

She was feeling a little excited, but also very nervous and reserved. She knelt stiffly, trying her best to act like a lady.

"Over the years, I have gathered the remnants of the Shang Dynasty and led the people of my homeland to make a living in the Great Zhou. With the care of Uncle Bigan and Grandmaster Gongming, I have lived a good life."

During the meal, the atmosphere gradually became harmonious, and Wen Rui half-truthfully told Huang Feihu about his experiences after the Conferred God Tribulation.

Huang Feihu said: "You are still unwilling to give up."

"Brother Huang, the remnants of the Shang Dynasty have been deprived of everything and reduced to barbarians. If I don't step forward and lead everyone to do something, everyone will not be able to live a decent life."

Wen Rui said sternly: "Even if Emperor Xin committed a serious crime, what guilt did the people of Shang have? I am not unwilling, I just can't bear it."

"Brother Huang, how do you feel about being the emperor for the past five hundred years? Is it interesting?"

Huang Feihu said calmly, "I was given a mandate by heaven to protect yin and yang and bless the people. I will just do my best."

Wen Rui turned to Huang Tianhua and said with a smile: "Brother, what about you? What have you been busy with these years?"

Huang Tianhua said unhappily: "I was assisting my father and fulfilling my duties, unlike you who are just fooling around!"

"You are not sincere, are you?" Wen Rui said with a wicked smile, "I have watched you grow up since you were a child, and I know that you are a person who can't sit still. You haven't been out of Taishan for five hundred years, right? Are you going to be sick of holding it in?"

“I don’t feel suffocated!”

Huang Tianhua immediately retorted loudly, then raised the wine cup and drank it all in one gulp.

"My dear brother, it has been five hundred years. You are already quite old. Are you married?"

Huang Tianhua remained silent.

Wen Rui pretended to be surprised and said, "No way, you have been conferred the title of Duke, but you still need to abide by the heavenly rules that forbid you from having worldly desires?"

He turned his head and said to Huang Feihu: "Brother, this is where you are wrong. The union of male and female is the righteous way of yin and yang. Tianhua is already an adult, why doesn't he ask Yue Lao to help him get married with a fairy?"

"Stop pretending to be a good person!"

Before Huang Feihu could speak, Huang Tianhua flew into a rage and said, "Didn't you just say that you were not married yet? Why are you mocking me here?"

"I'm different from you. I just believe in not getting married. I'm always surrounded by witches, demons, and little dragon girls."

Wen Rui said slyly, "But what kind of people are around you? A bunch of grown men, guarding Mount Tai for five hundred years. If they continue like this, all the straight men will be exhausted."

Huang Tianhua naturally didn't understand the meaning of "straight" and "bend", but he knew it was not a good thing. Seeing Wen Rui's smug and evil face, he felt so angry that his teeth were itching.

“Brother Huang, you and Tianhua are both mortals who were deified. Compared to those cultivators who became immortals early on, it is not so easy for you to adapt to the loneliness of immortality.”

Wen Rui changed the subject again: "Not to mention the soldiers of the Huang family army who ascended with you and became immortal heavenly soldiers and generals. I don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing for them."

Huang Feihu remained silent, Huang Tianhua asked: "What do you mean by this?"

Wen Rui smiled and waved his hands, saying, "Nothing, I'm just judging the gods with my mortal heart, just asking out of curiosity." "The heavenly rules prohibit this and that, but it doesn't mean that the gods are really free of desires, otherwise there wouldn't be so many gods who want to descend to the mortal world."

Wen Rui continued, "I didn't come here empty-handed this time. I brought some souvenirs. They can help the mountain guards to relieve their boredom without violating the Heavenly Law."

As he spoke, he took something out of his bag and pulled out a large wooden box.

Inside the wooden box were neatly stacked pirated handheld game consoles and the game cartridges that went with them.

"If you are too rigid, you will break easily. If you stretch a string too tight, it will break. It's a pity that the Huang family soldiers who were originally mortals followed you and your son to ascend to heaven, but they are trapped in the small world of Mount Tai for eternity like prisoners. If you don't find some way to relieve it, a group of men staying together for too long will really cause problems."

Wen Rui didn't care whether the two of them understood or not, and said with a hint of meaning: "Playing games will never violate the heavenly rules, but don't force the soldiers to start playing with themselves, otherwise it will bring shame to your Huang family."

"What exactly do you mean by this?" Huang Tianhua asked with a gloomy face.

"If you understand, then that's what you understand."

Wen Rui continued to be witty: "Don't disbelieve it. If you hold it in for too long, even the Marshal of the Tianhe Navy will be mad and lustful, and dare to lay a dirty hand on Chang'e, let alone a mere soldier."

"Anyway, I've delivered the gift. It doesn't matter whether you accept it or not. I just gave you this reminder out of good intentions to prevent any trouble from happening."

After putting down the box, Wen Rui stopped beating around the bush and just held up the wine glass to drink with Huang Tianhua and toast to Huang Feihu. During the meal, they only talked about family matters and past events, just like relatives and friends visiting.

……

Every feast must eventually come to an end.

After saying goodbye to the Huang father and son, Wen Rui led the Rakshasa woman out of the Taishan Mountain Gate.

The two walked a long way, and the Rakshasa woman could no longer hold back her curiosity, so she asked quietly, "Master Wen, have you forgotten to mention to His Majesty the Great that he would allow us to pass through the Gate of Hell and go to the Underworld?"

Wen Rui stopped and looked at her like an idiot, saying, "You really don't understand anything. Do you say that in public? If I said it to her face, the Emperor Dongyue would definitely not agree. Not only would he not agree, he would also drive me down the mountain."

"Eh?" The Rakshasa woman was stunned and asked, "Then why did we come to Mount Tai? Just to visit a friend and show off your rich background to me?"

"Am I so superficial in your eyes?" Wen Rui said angrily, "The last time you passed through the gates of hell, you did it by smuggling. Do you remember the smuggling route?"

The Rakshasa woman said blankly: "I do remember it, but the successful smuggling was also due to luck. What if we are caught by the guards?"

"Are you stupid?" Wen Rui rolled his eyes at her again. "We knocked on the door and entered. In front of all the Taishan heavenly soldiers and generals, the Emperor of Dongyue and the Crown Prince personally welcomed us and set up a family banquet to entertain us. We had a great time during the banquet."

"After this incident, all the soldiers guarding Mount Tai know that we are the emperor's guests, but they don't know what we talked about in the back hall."

"I also gave gifts. If these gifts were distributed to the soldiers as welfare, the soldiers would speculate that we had reached some unspeakable deal with the emperor."

"After this operation, let alone sneaking across the river, we can even walk through the main gate of Ghost Gate with open arms. Not only will the soldiers guarding the gate not stop us, but they will also salute us!"

"What if it's exposed? What if the Emperor Dongyue finds out?"

The Rakshasa woman was almost confused by Wen Rui. She finally sorted out her thoughts and spoke in a hesitant voice.

"I have a backup plan. I secretly instilled some bad ideas into Huang."

Wen Ruiyin smiled and said, "Thoughts are like this. Once the hole is opened, a flood of beasts will pour in and it will be hard to stop. I don't have the ability to drag the Emperor Dongyue into the water, but it's not difficult to corrupt him."

"You humans are so insidious!"

The Rakshasa woman was like a little saint at the moment, looking at Wen Rui as if she were looking at a great devil: "Who did you learn these dirty tricks from?"

(End of this chapter)

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