Nonsense! How could my adopted son be a villain?

It was half a month later that everything in Fengling City was finally settled.

Qin Long took over as the head of the Ten Thousand Beasts Manor and spent almost all of his family fortune treating and comforting the civilians, cultivators, and their relatives who were injured or killed in this great disaster.

He then voluntarily resigned from his post as the garrison commander of Fengling City, returning the management of Fengling City to the imperial court.

After that, the Manor of Ten Thousand Beasts closed its doors to visitors and held a very low-key funeral for Qin Kan, thus bringing this matter to a close.

After attending the funeral, Xu Lingguang told Dongyang Li Chaifeng and then went to find Grandpa Muyun.

Grandpa Muyun remained in the city and did not leave.

When Xu Lingguang arrived, he was surprised to find that Nie Yuqin, who had been missing for a long time, was also there.

After emerging from the underground cave, he first went to find the others to reunite with. However, he only found Dongyang Li and Chai Feng, but not Yu Yun and Nie Yuqin.

For the next two weeks, he had people keep an eye out for them, but there was still no news of the two. He never expected that Nie Yuqin would appear here.

Xu Lingguang asked him, "Why didn't Yu Yun come with you?"

Nie Yuqin remained silent, dejected like a lost dog.

Grandpa Muyun gave him a disappointed look and said sarcastically, "Don't pay any attention to him. He'll only embarrass me if I say anything. What a good-for-nothing!"

Mu Yun, who was perched on top of Xu Lingguang's head, became excited when she heard her uncle being scolded. She craned her head and watched the spectacle with glee.

If Xu Lingguang hadn't raised his hand in time to steady him, he would have almost fallen off Xu Lingguang's head.

Nie Yuqin, who looked like a little cabbage, noticed his movements. She looked up and saw her nephew with his eyes wide open and his hairy face full of excitement. She couldn't help but glare at the heartless little thing.

Mu Yun immediately glared back defiantly, then turned to complain, "Grandpa glared at me!"

Upon hearing this, Grandpa Muyun immediately glared at his son and said, "You still have the nerve to glare at him? Muyun is so young, yet he has better judgment than you. He knows how to find people worth befriending. Look at yourself now, what have you become? You look like a stray dog ​​that someone threw on the roadside."

Nie Yuqin remained silent, her head bowed.

Xu Lingguang then learned that after the seal on Fengling City was lifted, Nie Yuqin originally intended to leave with Yu Yun, but she drugged him when he wasn't looking and left first.

Nie Yuqin, who had fallen into a coma after being drugged, was picked up from the roadside by Grandpa Muyun.

Xu Lingguang's eyes immediately showed sympathy.

However, he didn't come to see Nie Yuqin make a scene today; he came to see Mu Yun off.

Now that Mu Yun's grandfather has been found, he can't very well keep clinging to someone else's grandson.

This trip was specifically to bring Mu Yun back. Afterwards, he planned to visit Jiuzhuan Mountain Villa with Dongyang Li and the others for two days before returning to Ailao Mountain.

He was actually a little reluctant to let Mu Yun leave.

But despite his reluctance, he didn't have the audacity to compete with a grandfather for his grandson, so he took the initiative to suggest that Muyun go home.

To everyone's surprise, Mu Yun reacted even more strongly than him. She jumped up, leaped onto his shoulder, and burrowed into his clothes through his collar, shouting, "I don't want to go back! I don't want to go back!"

Xu Lingguang awkwardly held him down and looked at Grandpa Muyun embarrassedly.

To everyone's surprise, when Grandpa Muyun saw that Muyun was unwilling to go home, he showed no sign of anger at all. He casually waved his hand and said, "Since he likes to follow you, then you can take him away."

After saying that, as if afraid that Xu Lingguang would not be willing to help him raise his child for nothing, he handed over a Sumeru Ring: "Young friend, you have taken good care of Muyun, and I will not let you suffer any loss. This is a small token of my appreciation. Please take it."

Xu Lingguang: ? ? ?

Isn't it a bit too quick for you to give up?

Before Xu Lingguang could react, he tried to decline, but Grandpa Muyun smiled and pushed him out: "No need to decline. I'm taking this unfilial son back to our clan now. I'll come to see you and Muyun again when I have time."

Xu Lingguang: "..."

Fine.

Xu Lingguang returned to the Ten Thousand Beasts Manor with the Sumeru Ring and the soft, cuddly cub in his pocket.

After packing his luggage, he and Dongyang Li Chaifeng set off to return to Jiuzhuan Mountain Villa.

Xu Lingguang spent three days as a guest at Jiuzhuan Mountain Villa. After buying a bunch of random little gifts in Lihuo City and stuffing his storage bag and Sumeru Ring to the brim, he bid farewell to Li Chaifeng of Dongyang and set off back to Ailao Mountain.

When he was away from home for a long time, he was fine when he didn't want to go back, but when he thought about going back, Xu Lingguang was extremely eager to return.

He sat on the flying boat, chatting with Mu Yun: "I've been away for so long this time, I wonder how Yu Rong and the others are doing on the mountain?"

After saying that, he realized he was overthinking things: "With Lan Jian and You Yu around, there shouldn't be any problems."

Eager to return home, Xu Lingguang traveled day and night, and returned to Ailao Mountain in four days.

On the way back, he had many worries. He worried that the cubs hadn't eaten well and might have lost weight; he also worried that the cubs might be angry because he had been away for so long, and how he would coax them if they were angry...

However, once the airship reached the cabin, Xu Lingguang saw Youyu crouching in front of the billowing stove, clumsily trying to start a fire, his handsome face smeared with soot. Outside the yard, three chickens and a donkey were running around wildly, their crowing and braying echoing, while three dirty little calves chased after them, shouting angrily, "Go back now! If you don't behave, I'll eat you all!"

Although he had considered many possibilities, Xu Lingguang felt that this scene was still somewhat beyond his imagination.

He remained silent for a while before maneuvering the flying boat to land in the courtyard.

The flustered little ones then noticed that he had returned.

Youyu, who was closest to him, was startled by his sudden return. He stood up awkwardly and wiped his face with his hands, unaware that he had smeared all the black ash from his hands onto his face. His once fair face was now streaked with black and white, a truly pitiful sight.

The three little ones were even more exaggerated. When they saw Xu Lingguang, they first felt guilty, and then they looked aggrieved.

Yu Rong was the first to complain, her fur standing on end in anger: "These chickens and donkeys are so disobedient! Once we let them out, they refuse to come back!"

Yunfeng nodded in agreement. Her hair, which had been styled into pretty braids, was now a mess. Since she didn't know how to braid her hair back, she just tied a strand of hair haphazardly around her ear with a hair tie, which looked quite comical.

Because Zhaoling is a phoenix, her feathers don't have down that's easily ruffled, making her appear the cleanest and most presentable of the three cubs. However, the color of her fiery red downy feathers looks much duller, and she's not as round and plump as before.

He probably had a lot to say, but he would stop if he got anxious, flapping his wings and chirping incessantly at Xu Lingguang.

Xu Lingguang looked at the four little ones whose faces were completely different and didn't know what to say for a moment. Finally, he touched each of them with heartache and asked, "How did you end up like this?"

The little ones who were so pretty and chubby before he left now look like refugees fleeing a disaster, and they don't even look much better than Ah Mei.