Chapter fifteen
"Senior sister, I don't want to eat meat, it's too unpalatable." Lu Xiaoding was unwilling to do so. Compared with the soup he cooked, this kind of thing was so unpalatable that it was so unpalatable to the sky.
Lu Yaoxiang said calmly: "Senior Brother, we don't have the universe in our sleeves. Such a long snake cannot be preserved. Just take away the things that the senior brother likes, and then replace them with crystal fruit for both of us."
"Crystal Fruit?" Bai Zhen glanced at her faintly. He was really brave. He dared to bargain in such a place without a human. If someone died here, he would not be discovered even if he turned into a bone.
He has made the mistake of pretending to be stupid or using his cultivation level to suppress others.
I saw Lu Xiaoding pulling his senior sister's sleeve and saying pitifully: "Senior sister, we have nothing to gain when we come out this time. I'm afraid my parents' illness is impossible. And my senior sister's family will force you to marry the old man with all her teeth, just to exchange for some crystal beans and buy elixirs for your brother."
"We have a miserable life. Senior sister, I will be an orphan soon, and you will be occupied by that kind of old man. God is so unfair. Are we the only one who lives or dies at the senior sister?"
Lu Yaoxiang touched her head and smiled bitterly: "Xiaoding, you must live bravely. My life is over, but you have just begun. Don't worry, I will ask the old man to raise the bride price and take out the crystal beans to treat your parents."
"Senior sister, if we could pick up the corpse of the spirit grass or the wind-horned snake this time, we would not be so desperate. Unfortunately, we have no cultivation and can only be mermaid meat." After Lu Xiaoding finished speaking with a heartbroken voice, he buried his head in Lu Yaoxiang's chest and cried in dismay.
"Xiao Ding, we can only blame us for being useless!"
Bai Zhen looked at them speechlessly, and couldn't help but feel a little suspicious. Could it be that what he said was the real thing?
No matter how you look at it, it was a real thing. It was very sudden for me to propose such an assignment. Neither of them had a secret conversation. It could have been made up immediately. Forget it, let them get rid of this kind of life. Otherwise, they might have to curse themselves in this life. If they see it in the door in the future, it would be a little uncomfortable, anyway, it would not be much crystal fruit.
If Lu Xiaoding and the other two were quarreling, maybe Bai Zhen would take away the things directly, and if it was serious, he would beat them up. It wouldn't be even more murderous. It would be too inhumane to kill the two medicine boys.
Now they were crying for poverty and complaining, but Bai Zhen was embarrassed. Not only did they steal women's things, but they would also destroy their families, which might affect the heart of Taoism.
So, Bai Zhen said generously: "Forget it, let's share the wind golden horned snake equally. It's a problem for you to sell it. I'll give it to me the whole snake. The part I distributed to you is converted into crystal fruits, and this can always be taken away."
Lu Xiaoding raised his head so hard that he burst into tears and laughed, "Thank you, Brother Rookie, you are such a great person."
Lu Yaoxiang is also willing to divide it like this, otherwise it would be very troublesome to deal with those scales and other things. It would be better to take the crystal fruit and buy the martial arts and spiritual herbs you want.
Neither of them knew the price, but fortunately Bai Zhen was not a bad guy. He gave them a very kind price and distributed them twenty-six crystal fruits the size of pigeon eggs.
The crystal fruit is more valuable than the crystal beans that are only the size of soybeans. The larger the crystal fruit, the more valuable it is. The crystal fruit that is bigger than the pigeon egg is not big, it is the common type on the market. That's it, which also makes Lu Xiaoding, who has never taken the crystal fruit, excited.
After getting the things, Lu Yaoxiang decided to go back. As for Bai Zhen, they didn't have to worry about them at all. He planned to contact the people in the sect and directly asked the Taiyifeng disciples who were managing the sect's warehouse to come and buy them.
Although the price is not as high as outside, it is much more trouble-free and you don’t have to drag it out to sell it. Bai Zhen’s sleeves are not that big, and he can’t hold the entire Fengjin-horned snake at all. He only takes valuable places and can’t get it. If you throw it here, you will be picked up by someone else.
Lu Xiaoding followed his senior sister, holding a torch and walking back step by step. Seeing that he was almost done, he whispered: "Senior Sister, the laughter of the child I heard before was on the rookie senior brother."
"On him! Do you know what it is?" Lu Yaoxiang stopped and turned around and frowned.
"It should be the spirit herb that has become a spirit. It may have been put in a jade box and was banned. Even if I stand in front of me, I can't hear it. It was when he took out the crystal beads and gave it to us, and the universe in his sleeves opened and I heard it." The sound was too small. If I hadn't been staring at him, I would have missed the laughter.
After thinking about it, Lu Yaoxiang said, "It seems that the Fengjin-Horn Snake is guarding this spiritual herb. It happened that the spiritual herb was snatched by Bai Zhen, so it chased out. However, he didn't expect that the spiritual herb didn't keep it and almost brought himself in."
"Senior sister, let's forget about this, that rookie senior brother is very powerful." Fearing that she had any ideas, Lu Xiaoding persuaded him, her intuition told him that this person was very dangerous.
This made Lu Yaoxiang smile speechlessly, "You look down on me too highly. I am just in the early stage of Qi refining, and there are not many magics. How can I beat him? Let's go, we will go to Luxing City at the foot of the mountain to buy things tomorrow." I didn't think about my own level, no matter how arrogant I was, I wouldn't have the idea of forcing my robbery. Ten lives are not enough to die.
"I'm afraid that you will do whatever you want. If others are, I won't care." Lu Xiaoding was relieved. She was really afraid that her senior sister would do irrational things.
The road was even harder to walk at night. The two of them walked until the fog was bright, and they saw the mountain road when they came. They didn't plan to go back to Wuyaotang, so they went directly to the mountain gate and reported to the disciples on duty that they wanted to go down the mountain.
But the two medicine boys went out, and they were Yu Daojun's man. The disciples on duty just took a moment to remember and let them go out.
Luxing City is located outside the Fangjing Mountains, only half an hour away from the Yunjian Sect. It is easy to walk, and it will be faster if you ride a horse. Lu Xiaoding and the others don’t have horses when they go out. They go out at most once a year, which means buying some miscellaneous items. If the road was not straight, there was no fork and followed her senior sister, she would have worried that she would have been lost.
There were not many pedestrians on the road, and there was no expansion in the sect. The tax was collected by the Yunjian Sect. There were no mortals coming. The pedestrians on the road that were more than wild cats were all low-level disciples of the Yunjian Sect, and most of them went back to Luxing City to visit their relatives.
Lu Xiaoding said in confusion: "Senior sister, are all disciples of Yunjian Sect from Luxing City?"
"There are many. Every year on the third day of the Lunar New Year, Yunjianmen will send people to Luxing City to see the spiritual veins of children under the age of eight. As long as they find that their natural spiritual veins meet the entry requirements, they will ask the other party's family what they mean. If they agree to go directly to Yunjianmen when they grow up, they will give the elixirs to take, and when they grow up to eight, they will become new disciples." Lu Yaoxiang knew a lot about these, so she explained them to her.
Those who did not directly agree to the entry will not provide elixirs and will be kept at their own homes. They will conduct a training test when they are eight years old. This is not a training test for the Yunjianmen family, but a training test for the entire cultivation world. Whether it is a famous sect or a evil demon or a crooked sect, they will recruit disciples under the age of sixteen in the cultivation test.
To enter a sect, in addition to passing the requirements of this sect, the people who enter the sect also have to agree to it themselves. Of course, the evil sect sometimes forcefully snatch the people they like, while the righteous sect uses various benefits to tempt it.
Yunjian Sect is only a second-rate sect, but he majored in swordsmanship. Not to mention other magic, his strength in light swordsmanship is very strong. In addition to being poor, he is rarely bullied outside. Because the sect teaches well, he does not deliberately cause trouble for others.
Many children who like to fight and kill will come here to be sword cultivators from afar. Of course, the most disciples recruited by each sect are the children of ordinary families within their sphere of influence. Sects should protect the safety of towns and residents in their power, and taxes should be collected, so the disciples naturally collect more in their own territory.
Often, in several towns in the territory, half of the people have various relatives who are turning around and practicing in the sect. If there are suitable children in the family, they will naturally be booked in advance. Once the age comes, they will be introduced to the sect. After the new entry two years, they will enter the peaks.
Children under the age of eight do not require entry, and they cannot take care of themselves in their lives. They are responsible for eating, drinking, bathing and shit all day long, and they are not allowed to torture their seniors to death.
"So that's the case. No wonder those who were picked up like me can only be a medicine boy but not a disciple." After a long time of nepotism, Lu Xiaoding nodded with deep insight.
Lu Yaoxiang immediately gave her a blank look, "It's not the reason, it's because you are too stupid. You don't have a single spiritual vein. Who would let you be a disciple?"
"How could I have something like spiritual veins?" Lu Xiaoding looked at her disapprovingly, patted her chest and said, "I am full of spiritual energy, what kind of spiritual veins do I need."
"Don't tell others about this kind of thing. They will capture you as a furnace." He is such a careless guy, and he said something like this that would kill him without restraint.
Lu Xiaoding stuck out his tongue and said with a smile: "I just told my senior sister that I won't tell anyone else."
"I really can't do anything to you. Luxing City is coming soon, you have to say less." There were more people on the road. They had already walked to a place where there was a village outside Luxing City. They would enter the city after walking for a moment.
For Lu Xiaoding, this was her first time going to a town. The things in the shops on both sides of the street made her dazzled, and they were completely incomparable to the small market of the sect. Apart from the things used by monks, half of them were mortals' food, clothing, housing and transportation, which made her unable to use them even when she saw them. Everything was novel.
"Senior sister, come and see. The sign of this store has the word "soul" written on it. Is it the soul of selling people? Let's go in and buy some and make up for me." Lu Xiaoding discovered a strange store, and there was a soul on the flag at the door. She ran in excitedly.
This is the territory of Yunjianmen. How could anyone sell souls? Lu Yaoxiang quickly chased in, "Xiaoding, this is not a soul-selling person. Come out quickly, the things here are very expensive..."
As soon as she called out the word "Gui", she followed her into the store and saw that the shopkeeper was holding something and wrapped around Lu Xiaoding.
Chapter completed!