As soon as these words came out, the wives and concubines all looked at Chen An.

Chen An drank the porridge and said, "Don't look at me, drink the porridge, just wait for the people of the Red Fire Gang to collect the asylum fee."

Hearing this, the wives and concubines all withdrew their gaze and ate breakfast silently.

About half an hour passed.

A shout rang out from outside.

"Fellow Daoist who lives in House 8 of South Lane, please come out and pay the asylum fee!"

House 8, South Lane.

This is exactly the house where Chen An's family lives.

"I'll pay the asylum fee."

"Chen Danshi, I'll go with you."

"yes, okay."

Soon, both of them got up and walked out of the house.

A moment later.

Just hear a creak.

The gate of the courtyard opened.

Immediately, the Red Fire Gang that caught Chen An and Shen Qingyi's eyes was a male cultivator who looked a little ugly.

None of the facial features can be seen, and the face is covered with pockmarks, which is very ugly.

This male cultivator did not hide his strength, and his cultivation as high as the third layer of the foundation was unobstructed.

"Under the surname Chen, the old Chen is an alchemist, I don't know what to call you?"

Chen An took out 2 medium-grade spirit stones and handed them to the male cultivator, while asking with a kind smile.

The male cultivator took the spirit stone and said indifferently: "Introduce yourself, I am the steward responsible for providing shelter to the residents of Nanxiang and collecting shelter fees, my surname is Gao, Gao Shangao, you can call me a senior executive in the future."

"It turned out to be a senior executive's business, and the security in Baicao Lane is average, and you have to take care of the senior management in the future."

Chen An is very good at being a person, so he took out a bottle of Xiao Huan Dan from the storage bag with a thought, and handed it to the executive in front of him with a smile.

The executive took the medicine bottle and opened it to take a look, and found that it contained the second-order pill Xiao Huandan, and his originally indifferent face was instantly filled with a smile.

"Chen Danshi, it's good, it's very good."

"I've just come along the way, and I have hardly met a few who are refreshing, let alone expressive."

"If only the inhabitants of Hundred Grass Lane were as good as you."

"If you encounter any difficulties here in the future, just tell me that I can help."

The executive said enthusiastically, in stark contrast to the indifferent face just now.

After saying that, he quickly left and went to the next house to collect asylum money.

Chen An didn't rush back to the house, just stood at the door and watched the executives go to other houses to collect money.

The same is true of Shen Qingyi on the side.

In front of the next residents of Baicao Lane, the executives were not as easy to talk as they were when they faced Chen An just now.

If you encounter someone who is not happy to pay the money, you will be scolded lightly, and beaten if you are heavy, which is very brutal.

When he encountered someone who had no money to pay, he dragged him out of the house to the alley outside and beat him up in front of a group of residents.

After the incident, he had to take people away, saying that he was taken to the Samadhi Building to work as coolies.

Chen An knew that this high-level affair was deliberately shown to be so brutal, in order to warn the residents of Banban South Lane, so that he could collect money later.

The three fires of the new official taking office are nothing more than this reason.

Seeing the scene of the senior executives bullying the residents, Shen Qing committed the old mistake of being jealous and hateful again, and once wanted to draw his sword and rush over to punish the woman to eliminate the evil.

Fortunately, Chen An was by her side and stopped her brainless impulsive behavior in time.

The Red Fire Gang had just settled down in Baicao Alley, and they were worried that no one would be able to bring it to Liwei.

If Shen Qingyi dared to make a move, he would definitely be caught by the Red Fire Gang afterwards to make an example of chickens and monkeys, and he would be killed in public and used as a negative teaching material to deter everyone.

Time flies.

In a blink of an eye.

Half a month has passed.

At this time, Wen Zhiyun was already pregnant for ten months, but her belly showed no signs of giving birth.

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Village.

Wen Zhiyun looked down at her high and erect lower abdomen, and said with a worried face: "Husband, this has been ten months pregnant, why hasn't the child in this belly moved at all, will there be any problems?"

"Yun'er, don't worry, the husband has already probed with his divine sense, and the child in his belly is developing very well, and it is estimated that he will be born soon."

Chen An softly soothed.

But in fact, he is also a little worried now, afraid that his arrogant concubine is pregnant with Nezha, and it will be three and a half years after being pregnant.

Song Huaying, who was sitting in front of the door of the house teaching her daughter to play the piano, also spoke to comfort when she heard the voice: "Sister Wen, don't worry, you are a fairy, it is normal to be pregnant a little longer than a mortal girl, the longer you are pregnant, the better the talent of the child in your belly."

"Silly Ying'er, how can there be such a statement, fairies are also human, and they are no different from mortals in terms of pregnancy, otherwise they will go against the sky and give birth to freaks."

Wen Zhiyun said with a smile.

When Song Huaying heard this, she immediately said "Baba Bah" a few times, and then said, "Sister Wen, don't talk nonsense about this kind of thing, you must be pregnant with a fairy fetus, so you won't be a freak."

"You're superstitious."

Wen Zhiyun walked up to Song Huaying, smiled and flicked her head and said.

Chen An looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but smile.

These two people are usually commensurate with each other, but at this moment, the tone of the arrogant concubine talking to the little wife sounds like a mother talking to her daughter, which is also disobedient enough.

But when I think about it, I don't think there's anything wrong with it.

After all, according to the current age of the two, the tsundere concubine, who is now almost forty years old, can indeed be the mother of the little wife who is not yet twenty years old.

Thinking of this, Chen An's eyes couldn't help but fall to Shen Qingyi, who was sitting under the tree and chatting with Gu Xinyue on the other side, and suddenly felt a little strange in his heart.

Shen Qingyi is now fifty-five years old, and according to the premature birth and early childbearing trend of this era, she is already at the age when she can be Wen Zhiyun's mother.

However, now, Song Huaying, who is less than twenty, Wen Zhiyun, who is less than forty, and Shen Qingyi, who is fifty-five, are commensurate with sisters on weekdays, which is really weird.

"It's not good in the world of cultivating immortals, it's just that it's good that no matter how old a woman is, as long as she is an immortal cultivator, her appearance can always remain the same as when she was young."

Chen An sighed silently in his heart.

Unconsciously, another half a month has passed.

On this morning, Wen Zhiyun was really anxious.

She sat on the edge of the bed in her room, and asked Chen An with a very worried face, "Husband, I have been pregnant for ten and a half months, why is the child in my belly still not moving?"

"Use your divine sense to help me investigate again!"

"Okay, I'll check it out again."

As Chen An spoke, he spread out his divine sense, penetrated into Wen Zhiyun's belly, and probed the child in his womb.

After some probing.

The result is the same as before.

The child is fine and healthy.

But somehow, there was no sign of going into labor.

It's weird.

"Husband, how did it turn out?"

Wen Zhiyun asked anxiously.

Chen An smiled and reassured: "It's okay, there is no problem with the child in the belly, Yun'er doesn't have to worry too much, just wait a little longer, just let it be, the child will be born soon."

"I hope so."

Wen Zhiyun looked at her big belly, her willow eyebrows had been wrinkled and never let go, and she was so worried that she couldn't do it.

At this time, it was the same as last month.

The voice of the leader of the Red Fire Gang sounded on the other side of the Samadhi Building.

The sound was extremely penetrating, spreading throughout Baicao Alley like ripples in water.

"All the residents of Baicao Lane, the month of January has arrived, please consciously prepare the asylum fee and sit at home and wait, there will be a steward to collect it soon!"

Chen An ignored the voice.

Seeing Wen Zhiyun's sad face, he decided to dispel her sorrows.

About half an hour later.

[Fire Spirit Root Qualification +3] x5

Chen An sat with his back against the head of the bed, looked down at Wen Zhiyun who was snuggled in his arms, and asked her softly, "Yun'er, do you feel better?"

"Well, it's much better."

Wen Zhiyun's face was still a little flushed.

Chen An kissed her and said slowly, "The steward of the Chihuo Gang who is in charge of collecting money should be coming soon, so you can rest in the room for a good rest for your husband."

After saying that, he quickly got dressed and got out of bed, and came to the courtyard outside.

As soon as I arrived, the voice of the executive sounded outside the courtyard.

"Chen Danshi, come out and pay the money!"

As soon as the words fell.

Chen An opened the gate of the courtyard with a creak, handed over the two medium-grade spirit stones that had been prepared, and said with a kind smile: "Senior executive, long time no see."

"It's okay, I'll see you every month in the future."

The senior management lost the enthusiasm of last month, took the spirit stone handed over, and after dropping such a sentence, he turned around and left.

Chen An looked at the back of the other party leaving, and couldn't help frowning slightly.

This executive affair seems to have a bit of an appetite and is insatiable.

Last month, I gave him a bottle of Xiao Huandan, and I greeted him with a smile.

I didn't give it this month, so I looked indifferent.

It's kind of hard to do.

"Chen Danshi, what's wrong?"

Shen Qingyi didn't know when she walked out of the house, and when she saw Chen An frowning slightly, she couldn't help asking.

Chen An didn't want to talk to Shen Qingyi, who was so jealous and hateful, lest she get sick again and draw her sword, so she just said lightly, "It's okay."

Seeing that Chen An didn't want to say anything, Shen Qingyi didn't ask more questions without being bored.

stood silently with Chen An, watching the scene of senior executives in the alleyway collecting money from door to door.

At this time, the executive's protection money was received in front of a widow's house.

The widow lived not far from Chen An's house, only one or two hundred meters away.

Quite beautiful, no children and no daughters.

It is a living by selling spirit fruits, and the economic situation is not so good.

The asylum fee of up to 2 medium-grade spirit stones per month is a bit stressful for her.

Now they are living on their savings.

When the savings are used up, they will not be able to pay the asylum fee at all.

Therefore, this widow has been looking for a wishful husband for herself since the day the Red Fire Gang announced that they would be stationed in Baicao Lane in the future.

The reason why he is still single now is simply because his vision is too high and he doesn't look down on the monks in the Qi refining period.

Even if it was a monk in the foundation building period, she didn't want it if her appearance was not handsome enough.

Very picky.

During this period, he came to hook up with Chen An, but unfortunately Chen An was not interested in widows, and in the end, he didn't do it.

In front of the widow's house.

The executive walked to the stall that the widow had placed at the door, glanced at it, and finally landed on the spirit grape in front of the widow, and asked:

"Boss, are your grapes sweet?"

"Sweet, my grapes are so sweet!" The widow said with an enthusiastic expression.

The executive shook his head, "Forget it, I like sour."

"In this case, then take a look at the other spirit fruits and see if there are any that suit your taste?"

The widow's face was still warm.

Soon, the executive looked at the spirit peach behind her and said:

"Boss, are your peaches sweet?"

"Sour, my peach is sour, do you want to buy some and taste it?"

The executive shook his head again and said, "No, I like sweet peaches."

"Huh...... Hehe, executive business, your taste is really a little different.

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The widow said enthusiastically with a forced smile on her face.

At this time, the senior executive pointed to the spirit loquat in front of the widow and said, "Boss, is your loquat sweet?"

This time, the widow remembered for a long time, and instead of saying sweet or sour, she asked, "Executive, my loquat is sweet and sour, I don't know what kind of loquat flavor the executive likes?"

"No, I'll just ask, I don't like loquats."

"Then take the liberty of asking, I don't know what kind of flavor of spiritual fruit do you like to eat?"

The widow endured as much as she could, and asked passionately as she always did.

With a smile on his face, the executive grabbed the widow's smooth jade hand and asked meaningfully, "I like to eat a spirit fruit called the widow, I wonder if the proprietress sells it here?"

"Executives, please respect yourself."

The widow pulled her hand back and took a few steps back, minding the executives touching her hand.

The executive was so ugly, she was disgusting.

Seeing the disgusted expression on the widow's face, the senior executive was poked in the sore spot, and he was directly annoyed and angry, and raised his hand to give the widow a slap.

"Smack!"

"***, I gave you face?"

"Lao Tzu wants to talk to you well, you and I are pretending to be here, do you have to do it?"

The executive said with a fierce face.

The widow was slapped so hard that blood spilled from the corners of her mouth, and she trembled with fright and did not dare to speak.

Not far away, Chen An saw this scene and couldn't help shaking his head, feeling that the world was hot and cold.

The widow was very pitiful, but he did not want to be nosy.

He is the head of the family, and he has a wife and daughter to take care of at home, so he can only stand by and watch this kind of thing.

Heroes save beauty or something, it's no longer suitable for him now.

"Shen Daoyou, let's go back to the house."

In line with the idea that out of sight is pure, Chen An said to Shen Qingyi beside him.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, there was a sudden sound of "Cangchang" beside him!

It's the sound of a sword unsheathed!

Shen Qingyi couldn't bear it anymore, pulled out the saber at his waist, and rushed towards the senior executive who was a hundred meters away with a "buzz"!

PS: Set the bowl and ask for a recommended ticket for a monthly pass!