Saturday noon.
Tiger Mountain.
The shadows of the trees in the mountains are mottled. Looking up, the trees are dozens of meters high.
After the spirit gathering formation was built, Jiang Ning decided to contract this piece of forest. He often mobilized spiritual energy to nourish the plants here, so the vegetation here grew quite vigorously.
Jiang Ning was strolling in the forest. A green robe with a flowing aura attached to his body. As he walked, it automatically isolated the surrounding grass and trees to prevent his clothes from being stained with color.
His clothes were picked out by Xue Yuantong the last time he went shopping.
The forest was silent, with only the occasional chirping of birds.
He did not walk fast, and looked around at the terrain. In fact, he did not need to do so. He only needed to use his spiritual sense to explore the surroundings clearly. There was no way to hide anything from him.
Jiang Ning looked at the forest. From today on, this forest belonged to him and he could show his skills here.
The Changqing Liquid Company has currently hired nearly a hundred security guards to be responsible for the security situation around Huqi Mountain. After all, it has been announced that this mountain will serve as a medicinal material cultivation base for Changqing Liquid.
We will continue to hire security guards to build Huqishan.
As Jiang Ning walked, a squirrel jumping on a branch in the distance, holding a nut, stared at Jiang Ning cautiously.
The gurgling stream flowed downstream. After drinking the water, the rabbit by the stream was satisfied and was about to leave. Suddenly, it saw Jiang Ning and was so scared that it hurriedly dived into the grass.
Jiang Ning raised his palm and grabbed lightly. Invisible spiritual power was released, and the rabbit that had originally escaped was pulled out from the bushes.
He smiled and let the rabbit go again.
The rabbit managed to survive and ran away.
Jiang Ning checked the spiritual mark and found that the rabbit was not fat enough. He would leave it alone for a few days and catch it when it was fat enough.
He continued to climb the mountain, and gradually, the vegetation in the forest became more lush, and before he knew it, fog had risen.
The fog was flowing through the woods.
The sun in the sky shines down, casting a glow on the fog, making it seem like a dream or fairyland, making it hard to tell the direction.
The fog grew thicker and I couldn't even see where I was standing.
It's like walking on clouds.
This was a large formation set up by Jiang Ning to prevent outsiders from coming in and disturbing his elixir.
Jiang Ning walked in the clouds and mist. After a few minutes, he came out of the mist and the scene in front of him became clear.
The sky is blue and the sun is not visible, but countless beams of light are shining down.
The fog surrounded a flat land of about two acres. The ground was divided by two streams. Each area was planted with colorful spiritual plants.
Spiritual plants are blooming one after another, some of them are glowing with a radiant light, and the stream water reflects them.
This is the spiritual field built by Jiang Ning.
In front of the spiritual field, there is a bench facing a coffee table, and opposite the coffee table is a lounge chair.
The light from the sky shone through the formation and enveloped the recliner.
Behind the bench stood a pitch-black figure, wrapped in a black robe, his face covered by a mask engraved with Luo Yun, and he stood motionless.
Jiang Ning tapped his fingers lightly, and the figure slowly walked over.
This is a puppet that Jiang Ning once refined. If this area suffers an unbearable invasion, the puppet will immediately collect the elixirs and detonate the formation.
After observing the growth of the spiritual herbs, Jiang Ning flipped his palm and took out two bamboo seedlings from the storage ring. He used his spiritual power to support the bamboo seedlings and flew them to the edge of the spiritual field to plant them.
This is the Yun bamboo from the world of immortal cultivation. After it is cultivated with spiritual energy and grows up, it is cut into cups. As long as you pour water into the cup, the water will become sweet and have the bamboo fragrance of the Yun bamboo itself.
Jiang Ning sat on the bench for a while, thinking about the planning of this place.
Two acres of land is definitely not enough, and it will have to be expanded in the future. The spiritual energy in the stream is too thin, and it is still far from being a real spiritual spring.
There are many areas that need to be supplemented.
Without external help, Jiang Ning's cultivation progress is very slow. He is still in the late stage of Qi training. It will take a long time for him to break through the foundation-building stage.
This spiritual field is the foundation of his practice.
…
1:30 pm.
Xue Yuantong sat at the door, chin in his hand, in a daze.
After staying for a while, she opened her mobile phone and saw many classmates in the class group sending messages.
Meng Gui: "Brothers, how about going to the department store pedestrian street as a group?"
Cui Yu: "I really want to go, but I don't have money."
Chen Qian sent two pictures: "Sorry, I'm in South City."
The picture shows an ancient and fragrant street. Chen Qian is standing in front of a time-honored dim sum shop with a confident smile.
Shan Kaiquan @ Chen Qian, sarcastically: "Amazing, really amazing!"
Chen Qian: "It's nothing special. I come here often."
Hu Jun: "Brothers, I found something interesting."
Hu Jun has been banned
Meng Gui: "Brother Cui, come on, I'll treat you to some grilled gluten."
Cui Yu: "Taiwanese rich man, please take me with you."
Wang Longlong said: "Can you take me with you? I will pay for it myself."
Xue Yuantong looked at the excitement in the group, which had nothing to do with her.
She and Jiang Ning had agreed to go to the department store pedestrian street to eat delicious food together this afternoon, but Jiang Ning stood her up.
'I'm so angry. If Jiang Ning doesn't appear in front of me within a minute, I won't forgive him!'
A minute later, it was still empty.
'Damn it! If it's one more minute, I really won't forgive him!'
Still no.
Xue Yuantong said angrily: "Third time is better than the last time!"
"What's the limit?" Jiang Ning asked her with his head down.
Xue Yuantong heard the familiar voice, jumped up from the stool excitedly, and said in surprise:
“You’re back!”
Immediately, she sat on the stool again and said seriously:
"You're late, you know that?"
"It's not late. Didn't you just finish eating not long ago?"
"cut."
"Let's go. I'll take you shopping for clothes." Jiang Ning shook the mountain bike keys.
Xue Yuantong was happy in his heart, but said nonchalantly: "What clothes are you buying?"
Jiang Ning said: "Children's clothes."
Xue Yuantong stopped in her tracks and immediately became furious. Even Jiang Ning bullied her.
Can the world ever be better
She was tired and didn't want to go anymore. She wanted to be quiet for a while.
Jiang Ning pushed a mountain bike and passed by her: "Hurry up and get on the bike."
Xue Yuantong still got in the car:
"You will pay for all the expenses today."
She had originally planned to split the money with Jiang Ning in half, but he turned out to be so presumptuous. Today, Xue Yuantong vowed to make Jiang Ning feel the pain.
The pedestrian street of the department store is the largest pedestrian street in Yuzhou City. It attracts a huge number of people on weekends.
In order to prevent congestion, this pedestrian street has been specially widened to 25 meters.
Xue Yuantong looked at the long line over there, which also led to the stinky tofu stall, and asked:
"Jiang Ning, do you dare to eat stinky tofu?"
Jiang Ning: "I don't dare. Do you dare?"
Xue Yuantong was a little excited, but the line over there was too long.
The two walked along the pedestrian street. Halfway through, they saw a young man about 1.8 meters tall and with a strong build standing in the middle of the road.
The young man was holding a stack of flyers in his hand. When he saw Jiang Ning, he immediately came over enthusiastically and blocked his way.
"Brother, do you want a haircut? We are doing a special offer right now. Free haircuts."
The young man smiled and pointed to a corner of the street, "Our store is over there."
As he spoke, he looked down at the little girl, not taking her seriously.
Then he stretched out his strong arms, wanted to put his arm around Jiang Ning's shoulders and take him to get a haircut.
Jiang Ning fanned his arm away and said calmly:
"Get away from me."
The young man was hit and pulled his arm back as if he had been electrocuted. He felt numbness and pain from his wrist to his shoulder.
He was angry at first and stared at me fiercely.
Jiang Ning's eyes were calm as he said, "Be more discerning next time before you extort money from someone."
As soon as the young man met Jiang Ning's eyes, he was startled and the ferocity on his face disappeared instantly.
Jiang Ning took Xue Yuantong past him and continued walking along the pedestrian street.
After walking a distance, Xue Yuantong asked, "Are they liars?"
Jiang Ning said, "Yes."
Behind them, next to the sturdy young man, there was another young man in a denim jacket. He smoked a cigarette and asked:
"What happened just now?"
"It's okay, I met a ruthless guy. Damn, my arm is still numb." The sturdy young man pinched his arm.
The young man in jeans glanced at Jiang Ning's back, then looked away and said:
"You go and guard the side, and I'll be the one soliciting customers."
They do provide haircuts, but not for free.
Enthusiasticly trying to win over customers along the way, many of whom are thin-skinned and find it difficult to refuse, but also want to take advantage of the customer.
They bring customers to their barber shops, apply some hair care products when cutting their hair, and boast about high-end treatments. It’s not too much to charge three or four hundred yuan, right
Dare you not to pay
Would you like to see how many strong men there are in our store
…
Xue Yuantong was craving for stinky tofu and wanted to try it, but she didn't dare to tell Jiang Ning. If Jiang Ning knew that she wanted to eat stinky tofu, how would Jiang Ning look at her
He would definitely laugh at her.
Xue Yuantong bought a plate of fried tofu, which was made by frying the tofu on an iron plate and then sprinkling it with cumin, chili powder, and green onions.
A bowl costs only three yuan, which is cheap and delicious.
She tasted two pieces, picked up another piece with a bamboo stick and put it into Jiang Ning's mouth.
After eating tofu, Xue Yuantong took a fancy to another snack, which was rock sugar cherry tomatoes. Cherry tomatoes are small tomatoes coated with a layer of sugar.
Jiang Ning bought her one. Xue Yuantong took a bite. The sugar coating on the outside was crispy and the inside was sour.
Xue Yuantong was very satisfied. She had a free meal with Jiang Ning today and she was thinking about how to compensate Jiang Ning.
The two passed by a scratch-off lottery stall. The staff were wearing red work clothes and there were many customers in front of the stall scratching the lottery tickets.
Jiang Ning took her there.
Xue Yuantong was a little resistant. She never played anything that involved gambling and didn't like the feeling of loss.
But Jiang Ning went, so she had to follow.
"Play one?" Jiang Ning said.
"No, no." Xue Yuantong quickly waved her hand to refuse. Ten yuan was required for one scratch, which she thought was too expensive. The fried tofu and sugar-coated cherry tomatoes she had just eaten cost less than ten yuan in total!
"Then I'll play one." Jiang Ning's consciousness penetrated the scratch card.
He took out ten dollars, pointed out the one he wanted, and asked the staff to take it out.
"You shave it." Jiang Ning said.
"No, no, no, I'm afraid I won't win." Xue Yuantong was unwilling, for she was afraid of ruining Jiang Ning's luck.
Jiang Ning was convinced. This was the scratch ticket he had chosen personally, a sure win. He opened it for her, but she didn't want to. She was usually so arrogant, but now she was so timid
Jiang Ning said, "How about this, I'll shave half and you shave the other half."
Xue Yuantong thought about it and then agreed.
The staff member was a young man. He looked at the interaction between the two and wanted to laugh. Is it worth giving up a scratch card
I can’t win anyway.
"It's your turn." Jiang Ning gave her the remaining half.
Xue Yuantong carefully scraped it open, and then she was stunned. She didn't believe it, so she looked at it again and shouted excitedly:
"Jiang Ning, I won five hundred dollars!"
"What?" The staff came over and checked, and it turned out to be correct.
Winning five hundred out of ten dollars, what luck!
Jiang Ning nodded: "You shaved well."
Xue Yuantong pushed back and said, "You made the right choice, haha."
"Then we both have made contributions, so let's share the happiness. I'll give you half." Jiang Ning concluded.
"Hehehe." Xue Yuantong was overjoyed. Five hundred yuan!
After receiving the bonus, the staff asked:
"Still playing?"
Xue Yuantong quickly pulled Jiang Ning away. She didn't want to play. It was a great luck to win once. She wouldn't be greedy.
"Jiang Ning, it's my treat today." Xue Yuantong patted her wallet, looking like a wealthy young lady.
“You can eat whatever you want on this street!”
"Okay, okay." Jiang Ning agreed happily.
…
Pedestrian street, the other end.
Ma Shicheng, Wang Longlong and Meng Gui got together to play the ring-tossing game. Meng Gui took a fancy to a racing car and instigated them to help her to toss it.
Cui Yu hadn't eaten lunch and was very hungry. He took the 50 yuan funding from Meng Gui and looked for food in the snack street.
Meng Gui gave him fifty yuan, but he could only spend ten yuan because Meng Gui had no change on her.
Suddenly, Cui Yu saw a tricycle. This tricycle was modified and there was a stall on it.
It was a tall, golden pastry that looked delicious.
Next to it is a sign that says 'Osmanthus Chestnut Cake'.
Cui Yu thought, the name sounded good and it looked good, so it must be delicious.
Cui Yu came over and asked: "Boss, how much is this?"
"Two dollars for two taels." The boss was a middle-aged man in his fifties, wearing a torn coat, of medium build, with his eyes flashing from time to time.
Two yuan for two ounces, doesn’t sound expensive… The pastries looked very filling, and Cui Yu felt good about it.
"Cut two taels for me." Cui Yu said.
The boss said in embarrassment: "This is not easy to cut. How about this? You tell me where to cut it, and I'll cut it for you."
Cui Yu asked: "Why is it difficult to cut?"
"It's just not easy to cut. Just point and I'll cut as much as you want," said the boss.
"Okay." Cui Yu didn't think there was anything fishy.
He pointed at the pastry: "Cut from here."
As soon as he finished speaking, the boss raised his knife and cut off a long strip.
Cui Yu said: "A lot more."
The boss put the cake into a plastic bag and skillfully placed it on the electronic scale:
"Not much, 48 dollars in total."
Cui Yu was confused, and he quickly said: "I don't want that much, and it's too expensive!"
"This is what you wanted to cut. Why, are you changing your mind now?" the boss asked back with a stern look on his face.
Cui Yu stiffened his neck and said, "You are not honest, I regret it!"
As soon as these words came out, the boss grabbed the cake-cutting knife, stomped on the eucalyptus board, and said sternly:
"I want to eat a free meal!"
Cui Yu paid 48 yuan in humiliation.
He left the tricycle with an extremely depressed mood.
48 yuan, enough for his food for two or three days.
On the way to find Meng Gui, Cui Yu took a bite of the so-called osmanthus chestnut cake with hatred. He couldn't stand it after one bite. He had never eaten such a disgusting cake.
Cui Yu found Meng Gui and Ma Shicheng and said sadly:
"Brother Ma."
"What's wrong, Cui Yu?" Ma Shicheng saw that he was not in a good state.
Meng Gui and Wang Longlong came over.
Cui Yu recounted everything that had just happened.
Wang Longlong blurted out: "Fuck, isn't this the place selling cakes?"
"You cheated my brother!" Meng Gui said angrily.
"What should we do?" Cui Yu said. He couldn't swallow this!
Wang Longlong: "Fuck him!"
Ma Shicheng nodded: "This kind of person is too arrogant, we must deal with him, we have to think of a good way."
"Tell me what happened again and tell me about the boss in detail."
After several people discussed it, they finally decided that Ma Shicheng and Meng Gui would appear on stage. Because Cui Yu had just left an impression on the boss, it would be unlikely for him to show up again.
As for Wang Longlong, Ma Shicheng asked him to appear, but not in public, otherwise the boss might not dare to cheat him when he saw three of them.
Wang Longlong took Cui Yu's cake and put it in his pocket.
Ma Shicheng and Meng Gui pretended to be strolling and came to the boss's stall.
"Boss, how much do you sell this for?" Ma Shicheng asked.
The boss had just ripped off 48 yuan and was in a very good mood: "Two yuan for one tael."
"I want three taels." said Ma Shicheng.
The boss showed an awkward expression again: "This is hard to weigh, why don't you point it out and I'll cut it for you."
After listening to this, Meng Gui took a deep breath and calmed down. He found that Ma Shicheng beside him was not nervous at all.
Ma Shicheng thought about it and said:
"Okay, you cut it from here."
The boss cut off a large piece with his knife and put it on the electronic scale:
"52!"
Ma Shicheng was shocked: "So expensive?"
Meng Gui accused him: "Aren't you cheating people?"
The boss's face changed, his expression became fierce, he stretched out his hand towards the knife, and shouted with great momentum:
"Would you like to buy it?"
He was selling chegao in the first place, a business that defrauded people, and his anger was really intimidating!
Suddenly, a hand reached out from behind him and took the cake cutter.
The boss felt empty and said, "Fuck, where's my knife?"
Just as he said this, a hand came from behind and slapped a handful of golden cake on his face, covering his eyes.
Ma Shicheng shouted, "Fuck him!"
Meng Gui gathered all his strength, kicked up high, and knocked Daqiegao down with one kick.
The sinful cake rolled onto the concrete floor, covered in dust.
"run!"
Ma Shicheng dragged Meng Gui and ran out.