Riding on the Qionglin Tiger King back to Huaxi Valley, Jiang Yuebai buried his head in the tiger's soft and comfortable fur.
There is nothing that can be done about Lin Suiwan’s matter for the time being.
She couldn't be sure that the Supreme Elder would trust her and help her, so she couldn't say it.
The only thing to do now is to pretend that nothing happened, treat Lin Suiwan as usual, and wait and see.
"Anan and Xie Jingshan are not here either, so there is no one to discuss things with."
Jiang Yuebai rubbed the tiger's fur and sat up.
"Shanjun, I just saw you use your claws, and your aura was sharp. Is your blood of gold attribute?"
Oh~
Jiang Yuebai's eyes lit up, "As expected of you, Lord Shanjun, you are mighty and domineering, with the demeanor of the king of beasts. Just now, the White-tailed Phoenix looked powerful, but he was just a show-off. Lord Shanjun slapped him and sent him flying. You are so powerful."
The Lord of Qionglin Mountain held his head high with pride and walked briskly.
"It is said that once a spirit beast forms a demon pill, it can try to transform. Why doesn't the mountain king transform into a human form?"
The Lord of Qionglin Mountain sneered, seeming to be disdainful of the transformation, so Jiang Yuebai did not ask any more questions.
It was already dusk when they returned to the entrance of Huaxi Valley. Jiang Yuebai did not wait for Qionglin Shanjun to say anything, but took out two gourds of spiritual wine and presented them to him.
"Thank you for your help today, Mr. Shan. Please accept this small token of my gratitude."
The Lord of Qionglin Mountain glanced at the pond in the distance, opened his mouth, sucked away the two gourds of spirit wine, and left triumphantly.
"I don't have much spirit wine left. I need to brew some new ones quickly."
Quack~
When they reached the pond, the toad that guards the valley popped its head out of the pond. Seeing that the light and shadows were about to flash on the surface of the pond again, Jiang Yuebai's forehead twitched and he quickly shouted to stop.
"Your Excellency Toad, don't try to threaten me with this matter again. If you want spiritual wine, you should form a demon pill as soon as possible. Then I will offer you a whole jar of the best spiritual wine."
Gulp~
The big toad sank to the bottom of the pond. Jiang Yuebai didn't know whether it agreed or not. It had been in the late stage of foundation building for a long time. It would be great if it could form a demon pill before she completed her Qi training.
"Spiritual wine, spiritual wine, you need to improve the recipe and brew more."
More than a month later, Jiang Yuebai stepped into Huaxi Valley and saw at a glance the brand new house built on the hillside in the distance under the afterglow of the setting sun.
White walls and black tiles, carved gatehouses, vines and green bamboos are dotted around. Next to the courtyard is a stream that flows down from the top of the mountain, passing through layers of terraces and into the valley.
At this time, the valley was barren, with only waves of green grass, one layer upon another.
The house and the hundred acres of terraced fields below are her private property. When the time comes, she will set up a large formation to keep out the scoundrels.
Below the terraced fields, there are two large courtyards standing on both sides, one for farmers to live in, and the other... is of great use.
The house has not been fully completed yet, and carpenters are still busy working on it.
The old village of Gukou had not been demolished. Jiang Yuebai went to look for Guo Zhen and walked to the gate of his house. He saw neatly arranged green bamboos outside the yard and the sound of sawing wood came from the yard.
"Master, what's the point of doing all this? Spring is almost over. If we don't plant crops now, it might be too late."
"Stop talking nonsense. Miss Yuebai is in charge of Huaxi Valley now. You should do whatever she tells you to do. She is a capable person, unlike Elder Tao. It's right for us to follow her."
"That's right, but Xiao Ankuo is clearly against us now, I'm just worried..."
"What's there to worry about?"
Jiang Yuebai pushed the door open and Guo Zhen put down the saw and looked over.
"Senior Sister Jiang, you're finally back!" Shi Xiaowu dropped the bamboo piece in his hand and grinned.
Jiang Yuebai looked around the courtyard and saw various puppet parts. He nodded with satisfaction, "Not bad. You two are good carpenters."
Shi Xiaowu came over and said, "That's right, Senior Sister Jiang, you don't know, my master and I have nothing to do these days, so we go to the mountainside to learn crafts from those carpenters. The foreman Tang Shengcai is a kind-hearted person and taught us a lot of things. I found it quite interesting."
Guo Zhen smiled foolishly, not knowing what to say.
"Senior Brother Guo, are you familiar with Tang Shengcai?" Jiang Yuebai asked.
Guo Zhen nodded, "I've been visiting him quite often recently, so I'm pretty familiar with him."
"That's good. When the house is finished, please ask Senior Brother Guo to introduce me. I will treat him to a drink."
"Okay, leave it to me."
"Where's Lu Ying? How is she doing lately?" Jiang Yuebai turned his head and looked at the yard opposite. The gate was closed, and neither Lu Ying nor Song Pei'er was there.
Guo Zhen scratched his head. "Xiao Wu and I have been watching her recently. Lü Ying seems to be absent-minded in everything she does. Other things don't seem to be a big deal, but Senior Sister Song is getting worse. By the way, she said that she will wait for you to come back and ask you to go see her."
"Okay, I'll be there in a minute."
Guo Zhen took out another storage bag and frowned. "This was sent by Qi Ming, the servant under Lin Xiangtian. He said that Lin Xiangtian asked you to plant some spiritual herbs. There is a list and seedlings."
Jiang Yuebai took out the list and scanned it, but did not see those special spiritual medicines. He wondered if Lin Xiangtian did not take the bait
As soon as he finished speaking, Guo Zhen raised his leg and kicked him, "What are you talking about? How can you talk like that!"
Guo Zhen wanted to fight again, but Jiang Yuebai raised his hand to stop him.
"Okay, Xiao Wu is right again. It's easy to dodge an open attack but hard to guard against an arrow from the dark. If we follow his lead, our lives will be better."
Guo Zhen nodded, "That's right, Junior Sister Jiang is enduring humiliation and bearing heavy burdens, you little brat don't understand shit!"
Jiang Yuebai looked at Guo Zhen, "Brother Guo, I like Xiao Wu's straightforwardness, but you should know that his temper is not good for him. You should teach him more."
Guo Zhen was awed, "Yes, yes, I usually spoil him too much, I will definitely be stricter in the future."
Shi Xiaowu didn't care at all and sat down. "You guys are really not in a hurry. That bastard Xiao Ankuo secretly threatened Ling Gengfu. They didn't dare to come to Huaxi Valley. I looked for my former friends and talked them to death, but no one dared to come."
"We are still giving Lin Xiangtian spiritual herbs to grow. We don't have any people, so what can we grow? We also have a lot of spiritual herb seeds and spiritual grain and wheat seeds, but they are deliberately making things difficult for us and not selling them to us. Senior Sister Jiang, you don't even bother to tell the sect about it. What should we do?"
Jiang Yuebai said, "If we ask the sect to solve this little thing, wouldn't it be too incompetent for me as a spiritual cultivator? It's useless even if I ask them, and who said we want to grow spiritual herbs?"
The two turned around in surprise and looked at Jiang Yuebai.
Jiang Yuebai smiled and said, "Apart from the 500 acres required by the sect and the ones Lin Xiangtian needs, we don't grow spiritual herbs, but spiritual vegetables and fruits."
"Spiritual vegetables? But spiritual vegetables are very easy to get infested with insects. They need to be watered every day. Some species have to be harvested every day when they are in production. It is tiring and difficult to take care of them." Shi Xiaowu was worried.
Jiang Yuebai explained, "There are at least 100,000 people in the sect who need to eat in restaurants, but because spiritual vegetables are difficult to grow, there are only two valleys in the entire Tianyan Sect that specialize in growing spiritual vegetables, and it is a mandatory requirement."
"So-called spiritual vegetables are nothing more than vegetable seeds from the mortal world, cultivated and planted using the methods of cultivators, adding some spiritual energy and reducing the foul air. Compared to spiritual medicines that are produced only once every few years, spiritual vegetables are produced every month. The price is not high, but the quantity required is huge. Even if they cannot be exchanged for contribution points, with the consumption of several restaurants in the sect, there is no problem in exchanging them for spiritual stones."
"In addition to spiritual vegetables, we can also grow spiritual fruits and make wine, dig ponds to cultivate spiritual fish, and raise some poultry and livestock. The manure can be used as fertilizer and the meat can be eaten. It will not be a problem to completely take over the supply of all the restaurants in the sect."
Guo Zhen's eyes lit up, "This is also a way. It seems that earning spiritual stones is faster than growing spiritual grains and spiritual medicines. Why didn't I think of it before?"
Jiang Yuebai's eyes darkened. In fact, she had this idea when she was six years old. She told her grandfather about it at that time, but her grandfather rejected it because it was troublesome.
Shi Xiaowu added: "But we have to water them every day, keep an eye on the pest control, and we don't have enough people to harvest. If we really want to plant them, we can stop practicing and sleep in the spiritual fields."
"That's not a problem. Just follow my list to buy vegetable and fruit seeds, dig a few ponds, and build livestock pens. I'll let you earn spirit stones without doing anything."
Jiang Yuebai handed the jade slip he had planned to Guo Zhen, and also handed over a bag of spirit stones.
After leaving Guo Zhen's house, Jiang Yuebai went to the mountainside for a tour. The carpentry work in the yard was indeed very fine, but it was very troublesome to clean up such a large yard.
"It seems I have to find a servant to help with the trivial matters."
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At that time, in the secret room in the basement of Song Peier's house.
"I was wrong. I won't do it again. Please forgive me. Please forgive me..."
Lu Ying fell to the ground and curled up into a ball, trembling all over and begging with tears in her eyes.
The elderly Song Pei'er sat in the middle of the secret room, coughing, holding a straw doll in her hand, with a vicious look in her eyes, poking it with a needle.
"ah!!!"
Lu Ying's painful voice resounded throughout the secret room again. Every time Song Pei'er was stabbed, she screamed in pain and her whole body convulsed. Her wet hair stuck to her face and she looked like she had been fished out of the water.
"I won't dare to do it again, I really won't dare, please..."
Song Pei'er stopped, "Are you really afraid?"
Lu Ying was trembling and crying, she was extremely frightened, Song Pei'er sneered.
"If I hadn't carefully cultivated you over the years, how could you reach the sixth level of Qi training so quickly with your four spiritual roots? You are also lucky. Originally, I had no choice but to wait until you reached the seventh level of Qi training to possess your body. Unexpectedly, Jiang Yuebai came back at the right time, which saved you from being possessed by me. But what are you doing?!"
Lu Ying curled up tightly, bit her lip and said nothing.
"I was going to spare your life, but you didn't appreciate it. I'll give you one last chance this time. Let Jiang Yuebai come here to see me. Otherwise... even if I don't use your body, I will make you live a life worse than death, and your soul will fly away. Do you hear me?"
Lu Ying trembled all over and burst into tears.
"Pack up and get out. If you don't see Jiang Yuebai before midnight tonight, you know the consequences!"
Song Pei'er raised the straw doll in her hand. Lu Ying looked sad and struggled to get up.
She held onto the wall and walked step by step from the dark room into the cold night.
(End of this chapter)