Plot Recap: As mentioned previously, the Vice-Minister went to the Capital City vegetable market to buy a free-range chicken to butter up Li Rufeng. But because he was deathly afraid of chickens, he ended up being chased all over the streets by a rooster—a spectacle far more pathetic than the rice monster attack.
Li Rufeng stepped in to help and accidentally triggered a series of amusing quests.
Ayina rode Tiedan past them, adding an even more absurd touch to the farce.
The rooster finally snatched away the Vice-Minister's beard, leaving him weeping in anguish, while Mei Yuxin silently noted Li Rufeng's love for free-range chicken. That very night, she stewed a soup for him, stubbornly insisting she only made it because she pitied him kneeling on the rice.
Additionally, Li Rufeng noticed the rooster's eyes flash with the same golden light as the Woman in Yellow, and he faintly heard a whisper of "Heaven's secrets must not be leaked," seemingly tangling him up in another mysterious clue.
On the twenty-fifth day of the sixth lunar month (July 16th), the scorching sun baked the earth of the Capital City until it felt as though it were about to smoke.
Inside the Vice-Minister's estate, however, the atmosphere was bustling. The Vice-Minister was plotting something in secret with a strategist.
This strategist was normally famous for his exceptional tactical mind, but he had a strange quirk—extreme mysophobia, completely intolerant of a single speck of dirt on his person.
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Chapter 499