The next day, Su Jingyang wanted to go out and try his luck again before Rong Ci came back, he wanted to see if he could collect a little more energy than the last time. However, the results weren't as expected. He wandered around the streets of Rongcheng for a long time, but nothing was gained.

It was lunchtime, he was hungry but didn't have any appetite. He casually bought biscuits on the street, sat in the corner, and gnawed at it. The strong sun was warm and comfortable.

The four guard's Rong Ci assigned to him saw this and looked at each other for a while, one of them walked up to him and said, "Madame, there's a restaurant not far in front. Why don't you go in there and have something to eat? If you eat just this, the City Lord will blame us if he knows."

Su Jingyang's cheek moved, he squinted at him, swallowed what was in his mouth, and smiled: "I want to eat this now, he won't blame you, don't worry."

The people around Su Jingyang was always changing these days, only he hasn't been changed. Su Jingyang knew his name is Yun Qi, he wasn't old, but he was serious and pragmatic in dealing with things. He seemed to admire Rong Ci very much, and often praise Rong Ci.

After that Yun Qi tried to persuade him only to be rejected with another sentence, he had to retreat and stand aside.

Su Jingyang continued to gnaw the cakes and basked in the sun, he exchanged a few words with the system no. 1 who came out after working hard.

No. 1 told him that since he became pregnant, no. 2 had begun to drag other people to another world for "punishment."

Su Jingyang's expression changed and he cursed frantically, "What going on with that dog?!"

No. 1 said with a heavy and sad tone: "Now that the situation's getting more and more unfavourable, the chance of me overpowering it is too small. So I'm here to tell you... if all else fails, I can only destroy it myself, and take it down with me."

Su Jingyang held half of the unfinished cake in his hand and froze, destroy itself? Hearing what no. 1 said, he was a little sad and surprised. After all, the original intention of the system was good, and perhaps it had helped many people before. However, the world was unpredictable, and the only way left was to self-destruct, even if no. 1 does its best, it may not have any other choice.

Su Jingyang asked: "You want it to disappear, so you have to disappear yourself?"

"Yes, I am one with it."

Then there was no way, Su Jingyang said again: "Then you'll be gone, am I right? You can..."

No. 1 had deep guilt in its tone: "Because I can only come out for such a small amount of time, I don't have much confidence. I don't know when the self-detonation program will be loaded. I've also mentioned before that our concept of time is different. Maybe it'll be 20 years, 30 years, or even longer for you when I finally succeed."

Su Jingyang only felt cold, his eyes were dull. After a long time, he cast his eyes down silently and said, "Then you might as well not tell me about it." With 20 or 30 years, he would spend most of his life here.

No. 1 sighed:

Su Jingyang said: "I won't give up."

"No matter what, I'll work hard and try my best to make it as early as possible. Jingyang, you can help save more time too."

Su Jingyang remembered something and said: "Hey, can you tell me a little about where the protagonist is, for example, are they near me? Number one, number one?"

System no. 1 didn't answer, it went offline again.

Su Jingyang lowered his eyes, looked at his stomach, and sighed in dismay. He ate the remaining cakes and continued walking aimlessly on the street.

When he reached a high platform that seemed to be used for sacrificial worship, he started to climb up on a whim. When the people guarding the altar saw him, they all bowed respectfully and didn't stop him.

Su Jingyang panted and climbed onto the platform, looking at the rolling mountains in the distance that seemed to be surrounded by a faint blue mist. He couldn't help but exclaim, and asked Yun Qi, "That's Wuqun Mountain?"

Yun Qi replied: " Yes, Madame."

Sure enough, Su Jingyang remembered that Rong Ci went to Wuqun Mountain this time to renew energy. Although he didn't know how they did it, he still couldn't help but say with emotion, "Rong Ci as the patriarch is not good enough. Dedicating oneself is a great responsibility."

Yun Qi thought he was distressed and said: "Madame, don't worry too much, the patriarch is very powerful. After Madame gives birth to an heir, our patriarch's share of the worries will be lessened."

Su Jingyang tugged at the corner of his mouth and gave a dry laugh, but he couldn't answer this.

Thinking of something, Su Jingyang turned his face slightly and asked him again: "By the way, He didn't bring even a few personal guards when I saw him off. Is this always the case? Is there any danger?"

"Madame, please rest assured. Only the Rong family's direct blood can get close to Wuqun Mountain. Even the wizard and saint can only guard the ceremony at the foot of the mountain. Moreover, our patriarch has very high martial ability, and he generally doesn't take guards very much when he travels." Yun Qi said with special pride in the tone.

Su Jingyang gave a sigh of relief and said, "No wonder Rong Ci didn't take me with him." Before Rong Ci left, he was very curious and wanted to follow along. Rong Ci refused to let him go, saying that he should stay at home and take a good rest, it turned out to be because of that.

"That's not true." Yun Qi blinked, he then looked at him and said: "If the Madame's pregnant with Rong's blood, they can go freely. The City Lord was probably afraid that the Madame would be tired because of their pregnancy on the road, so he didn't take you."

"..." Su Jingyang raised a hand to cover his stomach and felt a little guilty. He pressed his mouth tightly and decided not to speak anymore.

Su Jingyang went back to accompany Ling Li for a while, he then returned to Water and Sky Palace. The attendant told him that the matriarch had sent someone to bring some things over. Su Jingyang looked at what supplements were there.

After he married Rong Ci, she often asked people to bring things over, but Su Jingyang didn't touch any of it. She dared to harm even Rong Ci, let alone him, who knew what kind of evil intentions were hidden in these things.

People were taking the things away when he heard the voice of the attendant outside: "Madame, the second Young Master is here."

As soon as Su Jingyang turned his head, he saw Rong Xia suddenly walking in with his hands behind his back. He was only ten years old and was dressed in a snow-blue round-necked brocade shirt. His features were still childish, but he always deliberately put on an old-fashioned and solemn look, that Su Jingyang found very funny.

Su Jingyang said: "Oh, what are you doing here?"

Rong Xia stood at the door, frowning and watching people take away all the things that Madame Ru had sent, he suddenly turned to Su Jingyang unhappily and said, "What do you mean? You don't like what my mother sent?"

Su Jingyang picked up the teacup and shook it, he said: "Yes."

"You!" Rong Xia was so angry that he didn't follow common sense and said with a vicious expression: "You're really hateful, you're not worthy of my brother!"

After speaking, he turned around and sat down at the doorframe of the room, not going in because of anger.

Su Jingyang didn't care about what he said, "Why're you sitting there? Come in."

Rong Xia turned around and glared hard at him: "Don't pretend to be kind! I'm here to wait for my brother, not to look for you." He pursed his lips with red eyes, his voice was a little depressed and resentful, "Since you got married, he's ignored me and didn't take me out to play... I'll be here waiting for him to come back. Leave me alone!"

Su Jingyang laughed neither lightly nor severely, "Whatever, it's up to you. You can wait there."

This wasn't the first time Su Jingyang has come into contact with Rong Xia. At first, he thought that this child would be like Madame Ru, with a bad character. It was only later that he realized that the child was nothing like this except for his temper, a little bit irritable and a little bit of a brother-con.

At least, he hasn't shown his fox's tail yet.

Su Jingyang said that he didn't care about him, and really didn't. After eating dinner on his own, he went out for a stroll in the garden and came back, took a bath and tried to sleep. He laid on the bed not asleep yet when he heard Yun Qi outside the door persuading Rong Xia to go back. Rong Xia replied angrily: "Don't bother me!"

Su Jingyang opened his black eyes and looked at the slightly open door of the room. Looking around, he saw Rong Xia's stubborn back, there were no more sounds for a while.

In the middle of the night, Rong Xia fell asleep outside. After falling asleep, he fell headfirst on the floor. Su Jingyang was awakened by his painful exclamation, he finally showed compassion and let him sleep on the couch in the room.

Rong Xia was probably really sleepy, he didn't argue with him and fell asleep wrapped in a blanket while touching his aching head on the couch.

After waking up with such fuss, Su Jingyang returned to the bed but couldn't sleep anymore. He simply closed his eyes and calmed down. He didn't know how long it took, but the sound of footsteps suddenly sounded in the room.

Su Jingyang's heart pounded, his eyes rolled under his eyelids, but he didn't open his eyes.

Not long after, someone took a cautious breath and climbed onto the bed. After a while, Su Jingyang felt that his little hand finally reaching over. With a soft noise, Su Jingyang suddenly opened his eyes and firmly grasped his wrists, only then did he see with the unextinguished lights in the room that what he was holding in his hand was a pair of scissors!

And he was still holding a bunch of freshly cut hair in his other hand!

Rong Xia was full of astonishment, "You— you were pretending to sleep!?"

Su Jingyang sneered looking at him: "Boy, you think you wouldn't be caught by me?" He then raised his voice: "Yun Qi, come in!"

Su Jingyang learned from Rong Ci and learned that the witches only need human hair to cast evil curses. Su Jingyang asked him with wonder at the time, wouldn't people prone to hair loss be cursed to death then? Rong Ci smiled for a long minute before telling him that only a few hairs would not be enough, at least a bunch of hairs were needed, and not everyone was capable of casting evil curses.

Rongcheng also strictly forbids casting evil curses. If one were found out, they'll be sentenced to death.

Su Jingyang looked at the hair in Rong Xia's hand. He didn't think that this kid sneaked up to cut his hair in the middle of the night for fun and excitement. At a young age, it was really undesirable to have harmful thoughts.

Yun Qi broke into the door with the other guards. Su Jingyang had already grabbed the small scissors in Rong Xia's hand, pushed him out of the bed, and threw him to the ground. He pointed to him and commanded Yun Qi: "Take him down, lock him up and guard him well."

"Yes!" Yun Qi looked cold, dragging Rong Xia up, ready to take him away, but Rong Xia waved the hair he was holding in his hand and threw it all away while struggling, staring at Su Jingyang with red eyes and shouting: "Why are you imprisoning me! Who are you! I'm the second Master of Rongcheng! You'll regret it if you move against me! You have no evidence, when my brother comes back, he won't believe your nonsense!"

Su Jingyang's cold eyes looked askance at him, "That's fine, we'll wait for him to come back and see if he believes you or me. "

Su Jingyang had the confidence to act like a bandit, because Rong Ci will definitely believe without even thinking about it.

But he also remembered that Rongc Ci had said that the old City Lord seemed to have owed Madame Ru, so even though Madame Ru had cursed Rong Ci before, she wasn't put to death for her antics. Rong Xia was her son, she won't stand to him being treated like this, still, Su Jingyang was unwilling to let him go just like this.

Moreover, Su Jingyang thought about it a while ago and felt that this child was likely instigated. As for who did it, it was very obvious.

"Yun Qi, wait." Su Jingyang got off the bed, he walked to Rong Xian's side, raised the small scissors in the air and clicked it twice. He curled up a corner of his mouth and smiled at Rong Xia.

Rong Xia's eyes widened and he panicked: "Y-You, what do you want to do?!"

He was restrained, unable to break free, so Su Jingyang easily cut off a large amount of hair without any resistance.

Rong Xia saw the hair in his hand, thinking that he was about to be bombarded by evil curses, and almost fainted. He said with a roar: "Big bad guy I hate you!!!"

"Big bad guy!?" Su Jingyang patted his pale face with his free hand, and smiled: "Little friend, it's not polite to speak to your sister-in-law like that, you must pay attention to your words in the future."

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