Chapter 174: Senior Sister Bai, looking forward to my brother’s return
A few days later, Xuanxing Sect Tianyun Peak. Early autumn had arrived, and the Xuanxing Sect had now reached the day of its annual spiritual fruit and herbal harvest. The mountains and fields were full of spiritual energy, and the fragrance of medicine and fruits was everywhere. But not all disciples could enjoy the fruits of the autumn harvest.
Although the sect would generally take care of the cultivation progress of the inner sect disciples and distribute necessities such as elixirs and spirit stones for free, it was not a charitable organization after all. Regardless of the elixirs or spirit stones, they could only guarantee the minimum expenses of the disciples.
In other words, it was just the level of starvation. If anyone wanted to improve their cultivation and rely on the resources regularly distributed by the sect, unless their luck was against the heavens, their cultivation would be slow.
About this question, disciples from aristocratic families would have their families’ help and support so they wouldn’t worry. But those disciples only accounted for a tiny part.
Most of the parents of Xuanxing Sect’s inner disciples, some Daoist companions in the foundation-building or core-formation stages, were even inferior to their children regarding qualifications and cultivation, and the help they could provide needed to be improved.
And cultivators like Bai Yuexin, born in ordinary households, needed to be careful and economize on expenses. For example, during the autumn harvest, she would go to the spiritual field and ask acquaintances for work picking spiritual fruits or harvesting spiritual grass to earn extra spiritual stones.
Sometimes if she were lucky, the disciples there would give her some good things like spiritual fruits.
“Huh – Junior Sister Bai, come here today. We have almost harvested this acre of land.”
“Good!”
Bai Yuexin picked the last fruit from the red fruit tree before her, threw it into the frame, and dropped it back to the ground. She loosened the straps that tied her sleeves and looked at Senior Sister Feng, who was walking over,
“Well, Senior Sister Feng, are you still alive tomorrow? It should be broadcast after the collection is finished. I think…”
Senior Sister Feng smiled bitterly, hugged her chest, and shook her head,
“You are a disciple of the Tianyun Peak and have never learned to sow. Spiritual plants are easy to harvest but difficult to sow. The sowing method of each spiritual plant is different, so you can’t do it.”
“Ah… Then I can help fetch water. You have to go to the lake to fetch water!”
“Last year, the elder created a puppet specializing in transporting liquid from the spirit pool. One puppet can support five or six disciples on weekdays, and it only consumes five or six spirit stones day and night, so this year, all the work of fetching water has been given to the puppet.”
“Ah, this…”
Bai Yuexin listened and frowned slightly, showing a little helplessness. She remembered that she could earn nearly five or six spiritual stones last autumn by fetching water for the disciples in the spiritual garden.
Last year, she got nearly 10,000 additional spiritual stones in just over three months by fetching water. As a result, this year, her job of fetching water was gone, and her annual income suddenly dropped sharply.
“Ok, I get it.”
Bai Yuexin took off the straps on her shoulders dejectedly, put a basket full of red spirit fruits on her back on the ground, and bowed to Senior Sister Feng with her hands in hand,
“Senior Sister Feng, I’ll go back first. If there’s anything you can do, please call me. I’ll be on call.”
After saying that, she summoned the flying sword and prepared to leave but was stopped by Senior Sister Feng.
“Wait.”
“Huh? What’s wrong?”
Bai Yuexin turned around and saw Senior Sister Feng reaching into the bamboo basket at her feet, grabbing five average-looking Red Spirit Fruits, and holding them in front of her.
“I don’t dare to give it to you if it’s in very good condition. You can use these for your cultivation, or you can go to the market to exchange for some money. You should be able to sell this fruit for 10,000 spirit stones.”
“Ah…”
“Hey, go on~ The elder can’t see it, don’t worry.”
Bai Yue’s heart was trembling. After hesitating, she took it and put it in her storage bag without shirk.
“Then… Thank you, Senior Sister Feng.”
“You’re welcome~”
Then, she bowed again and hurried back towards the Tianyun Peak with her flying sword. Riding the clouds and waves, Bai Yuexin was in a good mood because she got a few spiritual fruits today. She circled the roller in the sky with her sword and came to the mountainside of the Tianyun Peak. She happened to see the triple courtyard with the door still closed below. After hesitating for a while, she flew away.
Took out the token from the storage bag, unlocked the courtyard door, and pushed the door open.
Squeak——
She walked to the stone table in the courtyard, ran her green jade fingers across the table, and pinched it. When her fingertips turned black again, she sighed and hurried to the backyard to remove a broom and linen cloth and start cleaning.
Every four days, Bai Yuexin would come over to take a look. Before Xiao Yunluo and Feng Yudie left the clan, she took the initiative to say that she could help take care of the weeds and dust in the yard before they came back.
Xiao Yunluo and Feng Yudie naturally agreed happily, gave her some spiritual stones, and then handed her the Door key. However, for Bai Yuexin, this matter was about earning spiritual stones and a thought.
How great would it be to wait for Ye Anping to come back and see his house clean? When she came back, she should call her Sister. Oh, by the way, there was also Junior Sister Pei. Sister Bai also sounded so sweet. She also got five red spirit fruits today and wondered if Ye Anping and Junior Sister Pei would use them. They could just share one among them.
The physical therapy center was also waiting for his return to reopen. Do they want to redecorate it?
By the way, the rent was due. Then she went to talk to the landlord of that store and asked him to give Ye Anping some discounts.
“Hmph~~”
Bai Yuexin finished caring for the yard, wiped the sweat from her forehead, looked up at the sky, and saw that the sun was about to set. For a moment, a trace of disappointment flashed in her eyes, and her heart was blocked. She was inexplicably worried and complained,
“It’s been more than half a year. Didn’t you say I’ll be out for five or six months? It’s been almost a whole year.”
Huhu——
The autumn wind blew against her face, blowing her long black hair. Bai Yuexin raised her hand and pushed the hair from her left ear back, letting out a long sigh.
Suddenly, the aura of two flying swords rose from behind the Baixiang Peak next door.
Bai Yuexin opened her eyes wide and stared at them for a while. She didn’t believe it, so she rubbed them and looked again.
Rub it and look again. Until her eye circles were red. The young man took the girl with him and went down with his sword, picking up a pile of fallen leaves on the ground and surrounding him.
The young man looked at Bai Yuexin in front of the gate of the triple courtyard, his eyes slightly turned into two upward crescent moons, full of tenderness, but the girl next to him was one step ahead of him, smiling and waving,
“Sister Bai, we are back.”
Bai Yuexin seemed to be relieved. She crossed her arms and turned her head,
“Hmph, we agreed that we would only go out for five or six months. How many months have it been now? If I hadn’t supported you, Elder Qin would have lost contact with you two. Do you still want to send me away with these things? Tsk? Do you think I’m a beggar?”
“…”
Ye Anping was stunned for a moment, and before he could react, he said, “Then… What does Senior Sister Bai want?”
“Hmph.”
Bai Yuexin snorted again, reached out to rub Pei Lianxue’s head, then moved it to her neck and asked with a smile, “Junior Sister Pei, I haven’t seen you in a year. Have you grown taller?”
“Um…”
Seeing how friendly she was to her junior sister and how harsh she was to him, Ye Anping immediately reacted and reluctantly called out in a low voice, “Sister…”
“Huh?” Bai Yuexin pretended not to hear, but the smile on her face changed, and she turned her ear, “What did you say? The wind is too strong.”
“Sister.”
“When you taught Junior Sister Pei to speak so loudly, you ended up speaking so quietly… tsk tsk tsk.”
“Sister!!”
“Why!!”
After answering, Bai Yuexin reached out and took the brother and sister into her arms, hugged them together, buried her face between their heads, and pressed their backs tightly.
“It’s good to come back, it’s good to come back! I have seen it many times before. How many disciples in the sect went out to travel and promised to return with their brothers and sisters in half a year, but in the end, they never returned? You two have worried me for several months. Ah, there was no news at all.”
Ye Anping and Pei Lianxue turned their heads sideways and watched two crystal tears squeeze out of the corners of her eyes. They were stunned for a while, but they didn’t say anything and were still held by her.
“Um-huh.”
After an unknown amount of time, Bai Yuexin let go of the two of them, turned around and wiped the corners of her eyes, then turned back and said,
“The house has been tidied up for you. You can make a bed and sleep in it soon.”
Ye Anping looked at the triple courtyard, pretending not to know, and prepared to inquire about the news, and asked,
“Well… Where are Senior Sister Xiao and Senior Sister Feng? Have they gone out?”
“Well, they went to Chilong Mansion. I heard something big happened in Chilong Mansion, but I don’t know the details. I only know that it was related to the demon cultivator. Because of this incident, Elder Lei was arrested by the sect leader and was kicked to the border of the Western Region.”
“Border…?”
The southeastern border of the Western Region, and the Moon Shadow Sword Sect that Ye Anping had been thinking about for the past few days, were on the northwest border of the Southern Region and were not far apart.
“This is too much of a coincidence.”
Moreover, Ye Anping remembered that after the incident at Chilong Mansion, Si Xuanji threw Lei Wanjun to the border, but only to the desert area of the Western Region.
“Are we going to report to Elder Qin now?”
“I’ll accompany you to talk in a while, and you can talk alone. It’s just an hour or two of training at least.” Bai Yuexin smiled, took two red spirit fruits from his storage bag, and said, “By the way, this is for you guys…”
“Red Spirit Fruit! No need, we don’t need it, and there is no shortage of spirit stones. Sister, you can keep it for yourself.”
“Huh… you are rich, so you think my sister is poor, right? You don’t look down on your sister’s gifts anymore.”
“We have accepted your wishes, but aren’t you poor, sister?”
“I… Hiss – you stinky boy! Forget it, don’t pull me down! Go, find Elder Qin. You only dare to choke your sister. Will you try to choke Elder Qin later? See if she will let you kneel on bamboo pieces.”
“… “
