"Those three kids couldn't have been stolen by her, could they?"
"If they weren't born to her, they're either relatives' kids or stolen ones. Who wouldn't want to steal such cute kids?"
Feng Yuqin was utterly speechless upon hearing this.
She turned to glance at the three little ones. The older two boys clearly resembled Mo Xuanye.
As for little Ling'er...
Actually, upon closer inspection, Ling'er did bear a faint resemblance to Feng Yuqin.
It was just that she was still too young, and her features hadn't fully developed.
Moreover, these people assumed from the start that Feng Yuqin was too young to be their mother.
"Mother, these people are so scary. Let's leave quickly," Ling'er said. She had originally planned to check out the fun things in the city after entering with her mother.
But seeing all these onlookers, she instantly felt that her mother's space was a much safer place.
The older boy's face was cold and solemn. Although the younger boy was lively by nature, he felt the air around them turn unpleasant with so many people staring at them, so he also pursed his lips and said nothing.
With a thought, Feng Yuqin produced four masks in her hand.
The older boy immediately took one and put it on, and the younger boy and Ling'er quickly covered their faces with the masks too.
After the one adult and three kids put on their masks, they continued walking forward.
The people behind couldn't follow them forever. So after they walked a certain distance, the people in front had no idea what they looked like, and gradually there were fewer people around them.
Feng Yuqin seized the opportunity to slip away.
Then she found a secluded place and stuffed the three little ones into her space. She took off her mask, changed her appearance to that of an ordinary person, and walked back onto the street.
But as soon as she came out, she bumped into two familiar faces...
"Hey, mother, aren't these two the Xing siblings from the Outer Realm?" Ling'er recognized the siblings at a glance.
She never expected to run into Xing Zhuojia and Xing Zhuohua so soon after arriving in the Inner Realm.
Seeing the two of them in a hurry, she narrowed her eyes and quietly followed them.
After following them for a while, Feng Yuqin saw the Xing siblings enter a restaurant.
Since Feng Yuqin was in disguise, she followed them in without arousing any suspicion.
She took out some spirit stones and gave them to the waiter before going upstairs.
Just as she reached the stairs, she saw the siblings knock on a door at the end of the corridor.
The moment the door opened, Feng Yuqin, along with the three little ones and the spirit pets in her space, saw the people inside.
Feng Yuqin pointed to the private room next to the one the Xing siblings had entered and asked the waiter behind her, "Is this private room occupied?"
"No," the waiter replied with a smile. "Do you want to enter this private room?"
Feng Yuqin nodded and directly entered the next private room.
However, Feng Yuqin tried to sense and found that the next private room had a barrier. When she tried to break it, she realized that the person's strength was stronger than hers.
She glanced at Xiaoying. "You go and eavesdrop."
Xiaoying was just curious. Hearing her master's words, she responded and slipped out.
"Master, I want to go too," Hun Bing said. With her mind - reading ability, she could gather information as well as Xiaoying if she could see the people.
"Go," Feng Yuqin nodded.
After they left, Ling'er said, "Mother, I feel like I've seen those two people somewhere before."
"So it's not just my illusion?" Feng Yuqin had thought it was just her imagination that both of them looked familiar.
"No," the older and younger boys said in unison.
Feng Yuqin called the waiter to serve the food, and then she started discussing with the kids and spirit pets in her space.
"That young man's identity is easy to guess," Feng Yuqin said. "He looks a bit like the Xing siblings. If I'm not wrong, he should be the son of Xing Zhuohua's aunt, Xing Mengyao."
When she was in the Outer Realm before, she had learned from Li Song and others that a daughter of the Xing family had married into the Inner Realm, which was why the Xing family in the Outer Realm had been so arrogant.
Later, the Xing family in the Outer Realm was exterminated, but the Xing siblings managed to escape.
She never expected that these two would end up in the Inner Realm, and judging from their situation, they seemed to be doing quite well.
"What about that middle - aged man, mother? Do you remember where you saw him?" Ling'er asked.
Feng Yuqin frowned. "I just thought about it. I've never seen that middle - aged man in the Outer Realm."
However, she was sure that she had seen this face or someone similar.
Someone similar?
A flash of inspiration hit Feng Yuqin. "Do you think that middle - aged man looks a bit like your Aunt Xiaomian?"
As soon as she said this, the three little ones reacted.
"Yes, that's right. I knew he looked familiar. It turns out he looks four or five tenths like Aunt Xiaomian," Ling'er and the others finally realized.
It was just that the resemblance wasn't very strong, and no one had thought of Chu Xiaomian, so they hadn't connected the dots before.
After all, the Chu family was now in the Mandala Valley, living in seclusion. No one would have thought that there would be someone outside who looked like Chu Xiaomian.
"So what's the relationship between this middle - aged man and Aunt Xiaomian?" The younger boy was now interested.
The older boy also looked at his mother curiously.
Feng Yuqin spread her hands. "Actually, I don't know either. But we can make a guess. This person doesn't look like Lord Chu or your Grandma You, so he might be from Xiaomian's father's clan."
The three little ones all rested their chins in thought.
Ling'er said, "Aunt Xiaomian and I chatted a lot back then. I remember she said that if it weren't for her father's clan being too excessive, she should have been surnamed Wu. So now we need to figure out this person's identity."
Just then, the waiter knocked on the door and came in with the food...
Feng Yuqin glanced at him and casually tried to get information. "Is the traffic in private rooms like this in your restaurant usually high?"
Mentioning the restaurant's business, a look of pride flashed across the waiter's face. "Of course. You're lucky today. There just happened to be an empty private room here. The others are all full, and they're all occupied by big shots like Master Wu next door."
"Master Wu?" Feng Yuqin asked in confusion. "Sorry, I just came from the Outer Realm and don't know much about the situation here. So who is this Master Wu?"
Maybe the person hadn't deliberately hidden his identity, so the waiter didn't hesitate to tell Feng Yuqin about Master Wu next door.
Feng Yuqin then learned that the middle - aged man next door was indeed surnamed Wu, named Wu Anbang, and he was an alchemist.
Wu Anbang's father was the head of the Wu family and also an elder of the Soul - Severing Sect.
She also found out that the young man, Xing Mengyao's son, was named Xia Xuefeng, and learned about their situation in the Xuan Yu Realm.
To avoid arousing the waiter's suspicion, Feng Yuqin asked about several private rooms around.
So she managed to gather quite a bit of information.
Not long after the waiter left, Xiaoying and Hun Bing came back.
However, both spirit pets looked rather solemn.
"What's wrong?" Feng Yuqin asked.