Chapter 454 - Someone Familiar

Chapter 454 - Someone Familiar

“Cock-a-doodle-doo~”

The rooster crowed, and everyone in Cowheart Village gradually woke up and had breakfast.

Normally, farming families didn’t eat breakfast unless it was harvest season when they needed the extra energy to work. Usually, most people only had two meals a day.

However, that wasn't the case in Cowheart Village. Everyone got to eat breakfast. This was also one of the reasons why everyone was grateful to Bai Lingmiao. She fed them and let them study for free, and she even granted them a portion of the crops that they planted. There was no better employer than her in the world.

Lu Zhuangyuan knocked on the door of his eldest son incessantly. “Wake up! The porridge at the top of the pot is the thickest! If you aren’t fast even when it comes to eating, what else can you do?”

“Father, we have money now. We can cook our own breakfast,” Lu Juren’s wife, Luo Juanhua, said.

She was dissatisfied that she couldn’t sleep in even though they had money now. Read latest chapters at novelhall.com Only

“Do you think you're rich?! How dare you even say that you won’t eat the free breakfast and want to use your own money to buy food! Preposterous. Get up!” Lu Zhuangyuan scolded his daughter-in-law.

Then he headed out to knock on the rooms of his disciples.

Naturally, he was not there to call them to eat breakfast but to wake them up to practice their basic performance skills.

Lu Zhuangyuan was strict to them just like how his master had taught him. If they didn’t practice enough or their performance was subpar, they were not allowed to eat breakfast.

Most performers started training at a young age. Most of his disciples were already over ten years old, so they needed to practice even harder.

While his disciples worked on their dissonant singing, Lu Zhuangyuan brought his family to the Bai family estate.

Upon entering, they saw Yang Xiaohai ordering two people to carry a pot of porridge into the hall. Lu Zhuangyuan smiled and walked inside.

However, he then frowned when he saw his rebellious youngest son, Lu Xiucai.

He had done everything to educate Lu Xiucai. He beat and scolded his youngest son, but nothing had worked. Lu Xiucai continued to curse at Lu Zhuangyuan, saying stuff like “Just you wait” or “One day, I will kill you!”

As for Liu Xiucai's wife, Tao’er, she followed faithfully behind Lu Xiucai and kept quiet most of the time. She seemed to be lost in her thoughts.

“Aiya, aiya, everyone is here,” Puppy said loudly in his jarring voice.

“You won’t die, but doesn’t it hurt? Are you addicted to pain now? I get frightened when I see you at night.”

Bai Lingmiao nagged at Li Huowang until he was done eating.

Li Huowang swiftly finished his breakfast and ran towards the back of the estate. Li Sui was already waiting there for him.

The two of them, one tall and the other short, walked up the path towards Cowheart Mountain.

Just as they left the village, white fog surrounded them in the forest. Li Huowang frowned and immediately unsheathed his purple-tasseled sword.

He called out, “Who’s there? Come out!”

The murderous aura his sword emitted spread out in a wave and dispersed the white fog.

A man in a wooden mask appeared out of thin air.

He said, “Well, aren’t you a familiar face? Is that you, Er Jiu?”

“Liu Zongyuan?” Li Huowang uttered.

He was surprised to see the man with the wooden mask. He remembered the man as one of the members that Tuoba Danqing had recruited to find the Muddled One.

The work of the Surveillance Bureau was very unpredictable. Out of the five people who had joined that mission, only two of them were still alive. Ji Xiang and Xinchi were dead, while Tuoba Danqing was stuck forever in the realm of the Muddled One.

Now, the two surviving members had reunited once again, and they felt much closer to each other than before.

Since Liu Zongyuan was here, Li Huowang could not go and cultivate today anymore. Instead, he brought Liu Zongyuan into the guest room and served some tea.

After taking a sip, Li Huowang asked Liu Zongyuan with curiosity, “Brother Liu, you're all the way out here... Do you have a mission around here today?”

Even though Liu Zongyuan was also in the Surveillance Bureau, Li Huowang was sure that Liu Zongyuan wasn’t here because of the big mess that occurred in Shangjing. Li Huowang had used Bei Feng’s body, so they shouldn’t know that Li Huowang was the mastermind.

Liu Zongyuan’s words confirmed Li Huowang's guess.

“Aiya~ I heard that there were people staying here again and thought it was probably another group from the White Lotus Sect. That’s why I ran here to check it out, but to my surprise, it's you.”