Morning Star

Chapter 345: What is New Year’s money?

"They like to kowtow?" Mo Xinglan understood after a little thought, but pretended not to understand.

He even added curiously: "This is the first time I've seen someone who likes to kowtow."

Chujiu's mouth twitched, and he just wanted to say that he was the only one who could do such a thing to insult others.

However, Shi Yuan, who was standing by, told Mo Xinglan the whole story.

After listening to this, Mo Xinglan's scarlet lips curled up into an evil smile, but his eyes were cold and sinister.

As soon as he gave the order, someone knowingly violated it. Did he think his order was just a verbal decoration?

He looked down at the two maids kneeling on the ground, his lips curled up a little deeper, but his eyes became colder. He said casually, "If that's the case, just follow my orders. If you encounter such a situation again in the future, don't ask me, just kill them directly."

"Yes." Shi Yuan instantly transformed into a female guard and nodded in reply.

The two maids finally panicked and quickly begged Mo Xinglan for mercy.

Chujiu was stunned and stepped forward to stop him: "It doesn't have to be so serious, right?"

When Mo Xinglan mentioned the order, Chujiu didn't understand what was going on. It was not until he heard him say to kill them directly that he roughly understood.

Although they didn't know what orders Mo Xinglan had given them, the fact that they were going to be killed just for talking about her behind her back was really serious.

Mo Xinglan looked up at her with dissatisfaction without answering, and Shi Yuan also stopped what he was doing.

Seeing that Mo Xinglan was unhappy, Chujiu felt a little uneasy. She pointed at the two maids who were kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, crying loudly, and said weakly, "They just said it, and didn't do anything to hurt me. Giving them a certain degree of punishment is enough. We don't need to take their lives, right?"

Hearing Chujiu pleading for them, the two maids felt particularly complicated and were so ashamed that they wished they could find a hole to crawl into.

A hint of red flashed in Mo Xinglan's dark eyes, and then he curled his lips and smiled softly: "Okay, I won't kill them."

Chujiu breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at him.

When the two maids heard that Mo Xinglan would not kill them, they kowtowed to express their gratitude. However, Shi Yuan looked puzzled.

Based on her understanding of the Lord during this period of time, she knew that the Lord was not someone so easy to talk to.

At this moment, Mo Xinglan's eyebrows curved but not in his eyes, his voice was cold and intimidating: "Since you said it with your mouth, then cut off your tongue, destroy your cultivation and throw you into the Hopeless Cave."

As soon as these words were spoken, the two maids' eyes, which had just shown a glimmer of hope, were instantly filled with despair, and their faces looked as pale as death.

This result would be worse than just killing them.

Hopeless Cave? That place is full of people who committed crimes and had their cultivation destroyed and thrown in. Not only that, the environment there is terrible. Once you enter, there is no possibility of escaping. There is only one way to die. I heard that some people even want to die but can't. It's simply worse than death.

They would rather die than go to that place.

Who is the only one who can save them now?

Only then did they realize that Mo Xinglan only cared about Chujiu's opinion. It would be better to ask Chujiu for help than to Mo Xinglan.

So he kept praying for the ninth day.

"Girl, girl, we really know we are wrong this time. We will never dare to disrespect you again. Please don't let the Lord throw us into the Hopeless Cave."

"Girl, please, don't let us go to the Hopeless Cave. Girl, we were wrong, we were wrong... You can punish us in any way you want, please don't let us go to the Hopeless Cave..."

Chujiu was stunned for a moment after hearing what Mo Xinglan said, and looked at the two tearful people: "You might as well just kill them directly."

Mo Xinglan kept smiling: "Then kill him."

"No..." Chujiu was a little annoyed.

How did he manage to say such a daunting thing with a smile? Was he really going crazy again?

There is no cure for his mental illness. If you encounter such a situation in real life, you must run away quickly. Don't learn from her.

With a sigh, she took his hand and patiently advised: "It's wrong for them to speak ill of others behind their backs, but they don't deserve such a severe punishment. A light punishment and a big warning will be enough, right?"

The smile on Mo Xinglan's face disappeared instantly, and it was obvious that he was not satisfied with Chujiu's words. He was totally different from the person who just smiled and said scary words.

He glared at her angrily: "They said that about you, and you still plead for them? What are you thinking about all day long?"

"I miss you." Chujiu answered without thinking.

Mo Xinglan's face froze and he stopped talking.

Chujiu: "Look, you threw them into the Hopeless Cave today because they said bad things to me behind my back. There are so many people in the Demon Realm who are dissatisfied with me. Are you going to throw them all into the Hopeless Cave? If so, wouldn't the Hopeless Cave be overcrowded? Don't you think so? And this will only make everyone respect me on the surface, but they may be thinking about how to kill me behind my back."

"What do you want?"

Seeing that he was finally willing to give in, Chujiu thought for a moment and said, "Then... why not punish them by sending one to the laundry room and the other to the manor to farm. These two jobs are not easy either."

“…That’s it?” Mo Xinglan was very dissatisfied with the result, his face turned gloomy.

Seeing that he was unhappy, Chujiu added weakly, "How about...each of us get 20 slaps in the face as punishment?"

Mo Xinglan took a deep breath and glared at her for a while, while she stared at him innocently. He sighed, "One hundred slaps each, and then sent to the place the girl said."

"Yes." Shi Yuan replied with a fist.

I sighed in my heart, it turns out that only girls can treat the master.

When the two maids learned that they did not have to die and did not have to go to the Hopeless Cave, they kowtowed to Chujiu and expressed their gratitude.

Chujiu's eyelids twitched, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he turned and ran away, pulling Mo Xinglan.

I let him go only after he ran a long way.

"Why are you running?" Mo Xinglan asked puzzledly.

Chujiu glanced at him, the corners of his mouth raised meaningfully: "In the world I live in, we generally don't kneel down to worship living people."

"Living people?" Mo Xinglan murmured, somewhat confused, "You only bow down to the dead?"

She nodded: "Yes. The world I live in is one where people only bow down to their elders who have passed away."

“We will also kneel down to pay respect to the elders who passed away earlier.” He kneels down every year on his birthday.

“But you can kneel down to a living person. If you combine the two things, imagine that wouldn’t you feel scared when someone kneels down to you?” Chujiu stared at him with a gloomy and terrifying face.

Mo Xinglan was stunned for a moment, and actually started thinking about what she said.

"It seems... a little bit."

Even if she didn't say it, he wouldn't feel it. In the future, we should change the rules of the Demon Realm, so that they don't kneel to living people for no reason, especially not to kneel to him.

Chujiu saw that he was frowning and could probably guess what he was thinking.

Smiling slyly in my heart.

She would indeed feel uncomfortable if someone suddenly knelt down to her, but since she lived in this world, she should adapt to it.

I said that on a whim, because I thought it was fun.

The only thing she didn't expect was that Xingxing actually thought what she said was okay.

Why do I feel a little warm inside?

She smiled and suddenly remembered something: "Oh, that's right. It's not that we don't kneel to living people. But we only kneel to elders during Chinese New Year. But the elders who receive the kneeling will give New Year's money. I got a lot of New Year's money when I was a child."

"What...is Lucky Year's money? Why do we give Lucky Year's money?" Mo Xinglan tilted his head.

This word sounds familiar, as if I have heard it somewhere a long time ago, but I can't remember it for a while.