Before Chi Meng and Yi Rong descended down to the mortal realm ( Fan Ren Shi Jie ), from afar Yu Fei shouts to them, "Tai Zi, please hold on !"
Chi Meng swifts his head over in an instant, "Zai Xiang Yu Fei ? Is there any problems ?" Chi Meng asks with a confused tone.
Yu Fei pants loudly, "H-his Majesty... has i-instructed me to pass you these clothing. *cough cough* I apologise for my rudeness. Ahem, His Majesty wants Tai Zi and the young man to wear this when you are in the mortal realm. " Yu Fei says, as he tries to grasp for his breath.
"Oh, I see... Thank you Zai Xiang, and there's no need to apologise." Chi Meng says while lightly patting Yu Fei's back as Yu Fei passes over the clothings to Chi Meng.
"Thank you for your concerns Tai Zi. Well, I shall return back to my duties, may you achieve your goal ! (马到成功, ma dao chen gong — Chinese idiom for good luck)" Yu Fei says with jubilant and has hope in Chi Meng, while waving off as he returns back to his premises to advice His Majesty.
Chi Meng then unravels the clothing given to them. In Chi Meng's eyes, it looks no more that rags, but what could've you hoped for ? He lived in a privilege childhood, his parents were the Heavenly Emperor and Empress ! Constantly spoiled, but how could you imagine a prince living like mere common people ? You'd probably think that kingdom was impoverished !
"What's with that sour look on face, you look like a dried up prune !" Yi Rong laughs. "Those clothes are nothing compared to what the mere commoners wear."
"How would you know ? You're literally the reason why we have to go down." Chi Meng says with an annoyed look as he glares down at Yi Rong.
Yi Rong chuckles," I dressed up as a beggar once, in Zhou Yu city, I was the same as the commoners, where as in other cities like Huang Lian city (黄连大城), I'm know as a beggar, I've even fooled a rich man once ! He gave my 3 big gold yuan bao's ! (元宝, Olden days currency of China; a big gold yuan bao is roughly 10 grams, total would cost about ~¥28,710[CNY] today)" Yi Rong cackles loudly.
"You didn't just fool a rich man..." Chi Meng says softly
"What, pardon me ? I didn't catch what you said." Yi Rong trying to catch on what Chi Meng said.
"That 'rich man' that you fooled, wasn't an ordinary rich man." Chi Meng said firmly.
"How do you know ? Were you there ? Hmm... I don't remember that man having any accompaniments..." Yi Rong says, while knocking his head, trying to remember what happened that day.
"That rich man was me." Chi Meng said, with a dead expression.
"Oh... Well couldn't you've just said that from the beginning ? Then I we wouldn't have needed to waste so much time. You know as they say, an inch of time is an inch of gold, money can't buy time. ( ' 一寸光阴一寸金, 寸金难买寸光阴 ' — a common Chinese phrase)"
Chi Meng clearly annoyed, throws a pair of clothing at Chi Meng and simply walks off to go change.
"Hey, what was that for ! I was simply just spitting facts. Or is it that Tai Zi cannot handle such wise words in his delicate brain ?" Yi Rong mocks.
After a while, Chi Meng comes back in his new clothings to fit in with the commoners.
"You barely even changed." Says Chi Meng.
"What do you mean ? Of course I did, I only didn't change my top. 'In a sarcastic tone' Ohh... God forbid a man to wear the clothings from his late friend." Yi Rong says, as he playfully cries.
Chi Meng's expression says it all, he couldn't even handle 3 minutes alone with Yi Rong, he's second thinking to bail out now and ask his father to find another god to follow Yi Rong down. 'How on earth am I gonna survive living with the man...' Chi Meng thinks to himself, as he sighs and grabs Yi Rong tightly and close to him.
"Hey ! What the hell are you doing ! Let go of me you fool ! Do you prehaps have separation anxiety or what !" Yi Rong screams in terror.
Chi Meng completely blocks out Yi Rongs screams from his ears, he then pulls out the summoning paper and chants to descend them down to the mortal realm, in Zhou Yü city. As they are descending down Yi Rong finally calms downs and asks Chi Meng, "Quick question, how many years do I have to be down in the mortal realm ?"
"..." Chi Meng lost in thought.
Yi Rong wails, "Are you gonna answer me ? Or have you turned into a wooden stick ?" He says sardonically.
"Almost 130 years." Chi Meng says with a deadpan expression.
Yi Rong stares in disbelieve, he's more reluctant and wants to change his mind, he'd rather go insane inside Zi Jing Fan She than live with Chi Meng for the next 130 years of his life ! But he's already signed the contract and is midway of descending down to the mortal realm. He swallows his thought, and silently cries.
Whereas in Chi Mengs thought... 'How could he been the beggar from that day... that was over 1,000 years ago... Not to mention, when I closed his mouth shut earlier, I felt no air coming out from his nose nor mouth, he's definitely a fallen spirit...last time I check, the oldest life span of fallen spirits is the ghouls, that live up to 6,000 years. But by the looks of him, he looks way younger... How could it been possible ? If he's really a ghoul, he should be looking way older than he is now... more like a middle aged man... if he looked that young then...what else could he be ?' Chi Meng sinks in deep thought, unable to wrap around his finger on what creature Yi Rong is, even the records of scrolls listing about Yi Rong doesn't mention what category of creature he belongs to...
Meanwhile in the city of Zhou Yü, many villagers spot the the bright light shinning from above in the sky, it was clearly brighter than the Sun ! Many believe that it is a sign from the Heavenly deities, perhaps they've taken pity upon them and decided to spoil them with the help of a Heavenly deity. Soon the bright shining light reaches the ground and slowly dims away, dust fills among the atmosphere, many villagers gather around and murmur to one another. As the smokey atmosphere slowly clears away, as disappointment fills the expression of the villagers. It was Chi Meng and Yi Rong, one of them was a high god, but with the clothes they were wearing, it had killed the villagers mood. they look no more than a commoner from another more well off city. Surely the clothes they wore were way better that what the people from Zhou Yü would wear, but it's nothing compared to what the Heavenly Deities would wear.
The crowd disappears in a heartbeat as they spread around telling each other that they were just commoners. As Chi Meng and Yi Rong stood in awe, but there was one person left from the huge crowd ! Or should I say a child. Amazed at the site, Yi Rong and Chi Meng stared down at the child, though they didn't mean anything, within a blink the child started crying and ran off.
"Oh boy.. what a great start, heh" Yi Rong says sarcastically as his lightly bumps agaisn't Chi Meng's shoulder. Chi Meng still bamboozled by making the child cries, he wonders if they'll bring fortune or rather misfortune...