Chapter 1: The Ancient Family
It was getting late, and in a forest on the outskirts of the Yunzhong Mountain Range, a first-level spirit rabbit finally died with a kick on both legs under Gu Ruyan's last attack.
Gu Ruyan wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, put away the bronze sword, glanced at the gradually darkening sky in a panic, and hurriedly ran over to check the fur of the spirit rabbit, and there was a wound on the back.
Gu Ruyan exhaled a breath and frowned slightly, such a first-level spirit rabbit can only sell five spirit beads with fur on its body, and even if it hurts its fur, it can't sell a spirit bead even if it sells meat.
The spirit bead is used for trading in the immortal cultivation world and is used as a coin, and the spirit bead also contains a small amount of spiritual energy, which can be used for cultivation.
One hundred spirit beads are equal to one lower-grade spirit stone, one hundred lower-grade spirit stones are equal to one medium-grade spirit stone, and one hundred medium-grade spirit stones are equal to one high-grade spirit stone.
In a small town like Yunpu Town, most of the monks use spirit beads, and high-level things like spirit stones are only available to those who are high in cultivation or in the immortal cultivation family.
The fur of the spirit rabbit was damaged, and Gu Ruyan didn't even have the heart to clean it up.
Seeing that the sky was about to get dark, a little monk like Gu Ruyan who was in the second layer of the Qi cultivation period, if he stayed in the Yunzhong Mountain Range after dark, he would only have to feed the high-level demon beasts.
Because there is no storage bag to store materials, Gu Ruyan must take the hunted materials to Xiangyunzhai every day and dispose of them on the same day.
When Gu Ruyan rushed to Xiangyunzhai, he saw the store door that had been half-covered, and Gu Ruyan's heart suddenly became worried.
Three days ago, Xiangyunzhai entered a batch from outside, and the defective storage bags refined by the refining apprentices did not affect the use of the defective products.
Because of the small capacity and low price, those poor monks who usually can't afford to buy storage bags have come to buy them, and in less than a day, these storage bags are almost sold out.
When Gu Ruyan heard the news and rushed over, there was only one one left, and he took out all the valuable ones on his body and there were still fifteen spirit beads left to exchange for storage bags, Gu Ruyan relied on his familiar face to sell materials in Xiangyun Zhai every day, and immediately begged the shopkeeper Ma Zhengyun to help him stay for a day, and begged his partner Luo Hai to help him intercede with the shopkeeper, he must make enough spirit beads tomorrow, and gave all the one hundred and eighty-five spirit beads on his body to the shopkeeper, which is considered a deposit.
The shopkeeper couldn't stand the request of the girl who was originally born in the patriarch of the Xiuxian family, who was the eldest lady of the family, and couldn't even take out two hundred spirit beads, so he reluctantly nodded and agreed.
Gu Ruyan did not get the attention of the family because of the waste spirit root qualification of the five spirit roots, in order to obtain cultivation resources, he entered the Yunzhong Mountain Range at the age of eleven to live together, for the sake of a mere defective storage bag, to ask others in such a low voice,
As soon as he thought that as long as he could hunt three first-level spirit rabbits the next day, he would be able to exchange them for storage bags, and his heart was extremely high.
It's just that I didn't expect that it would be unfavorable to go out on this day, and it took me to find three first-class spirit rabbits after looking for a day, but because it was getting late, in order to leave the Yunzhong Mountains as soon as possible, I panicked and slandered the fur of the spirit rabbit, and seeing that I couldn't get together the spirit beads needed for the storage bag, Gu Ruyan didn't know how to intercede with the shopkeeper.
Shun Shun was gasping for breath because of the rush all the way, and then walked into Xiangyunqi.
Ma Zhengyun, the shopkeeper of Xiangyun Zhai, was burying his head in the account, and his partner Luo Hai was waiting on the side. The two found that someone pushed the door in, looked up together, and saw that it was Gu Ruyan, and the shopkeeper lowered his head and continued to count.
Guy Luo Hai greeted him with a smile, and while helping Gu Ruyan take off the back basket on his back, he asked familiarly: "I thought you weren't coming today, but the shopkeeper left a storage bag with you for nothing." Saying that, he glanced at Gu Ruyan and looked at the shopkeeper Ma Zhengyun.
Gu Ruyan was apprehensive when she heard this, knowing that the guy was hinting to herself, Xiangyunzhai had not closed at this time, and the shopkeeper was waiting for her. My heart warmed, but I was even more uneasy because I couldn't get enough spirit beads. Following the man's eyes, the shopkeeper was still buried in the account, and his head was not raised.
took out a cloth bag from the back basket, handed it to the guy, smiled embarrassedly on his face, and then mustered up the courage to whisper: "Brother Hai, I, I only have two complete first-class spirit rabbit skins today, and I still have five spirit beads to make up enough spirit beads, otherwise, you can help me talk to the shopkeeper, and help me keep the storage bag for another day, just one day, I will definitely be able to get a complete spirit rabbit skin to make up the spirit beads tomorrow." ”
Guy Luo Hai was stunned when he heard this, and secretly glanced at the shopkeeper again, not daring to say more.
Seeing this, Gu Ruyan had to rub to the horse shopkeeper stupidly, his face was red to the root of his ears, and he didn't dare to speak.
The shopkeeper glanced at the thirteen-year-old girl in front of him, and he naturally heard their conversation just now, and frowned. Still took out a palm-sized grass-green storage bag from his arms, threw it into Gu Ruyan's arms, and hummed: "Remember to send a complete first-level spirit rabbit skin tomorrow." ”
Gu Ruyan held the grass-green storage bag with daylily pattern in both hands, and nodded yes again and again, so excited that he forgot to say thank you. The shopkeeper swept the wind in front of him again, and the eldest lady of the ancient family, who was so excited for a storage bag, rolled her eyes, only felt that she was getting old, and she was less and less like a monk, where could she tolerate sympathy in the world of cultivating immortals.
Gu Ruyan was excited because he got the storage bag, and in front of the ancient shopkeeper and his partner Luo Hai, he immediately put his mark on the storage bag, and received the backpack he was carrying into the storage bag, said goodbye to the two with an excited face, and left with a smile on his face, not caring at all about the two of them looking at the eyes of idiots and watching themselves take the storage bag and carry the basket.
When he returned to Gu's house, it was already the middle of the moon, and as soon as he entered the small courtyard where his family lived, he suddenly heard the sound of a cup being smashed.
This was followed by his father's exclamation, "Sister Lan, what are you doing here?"
"What does he Gu Zhenfeng want, you just let him do it? He is just relying on Yu'er's spiritual root to be so arrogant, our Yan'er has parents like you and me, doesn't he also refuse to give her cultivation resources according to the rules of the family? Could it be that you, as the patriarch, and I, as an elder, deserve to sacrifice for the family?" The mother changed her usual gentleness and softness, and her voice trembled with anger and unwillingness.
It was the first time Gu Ruyan heard her mother speak in such a sharp tone, and she couldn't help but wonder what was going on. Listen more carefully.
The room was quiet for a moment, and then I heard my father's sigh: "Hey, Sister Lan, the second brother is such a person who loves to take advantage of some small advantages, besides, Yu'er is a genius, and one day Yu'er will definitely be able to play a vital role in the development of my ancient family, and now the second brother wants some benefits, let him go, Yu'er will definitely be able to think of the good of the ancient family when he grows up." ”
Gu Ruyan only heard a heavy slap on the table in the room, and there was no sound in the room.
Gu Ruyan knew that her mother must have compromised, and in Gu Ruyu, the genius of the new generation of the Gu family, her father always blindly backed down.
Gu Ruyan's father, Gu Qingfeng, is the current patriarch of the Gu family, forty-eight years old, seven layers of cultivation during the foundation building period, he is steady, upright, and can sacrifice all personal interests for the development of the family. Mother Liu Lan is the elder of the family, and at the age of forty, she has a three-layer cultivation during the foundation building period, and she is gentle and gentle, but there is always a kind of indifferent alienation in her daughter. The two usually spare no effort for the development of the family, but they seem indifferent to their only daughter.
Gu Ruyan once thought that she was unimportant in her parents' hearts, but now when she heard her mother's complaint, her originally calm heart had a ripple.
quietly walked back to his room, sat on the bed and guessed that the second uncle had asked the family for some great benefits, which made his mother so angry.
I couldn't help but sigh with emotion: Sister Ruyu is really good, not only is she born with a good qualification for the single spirit root of the water system, but also a good father who fights for resources for herself everywhere, which is like herself, born with a waste talent of five spirit roots, she can not get the support of her family, and her parents also ignore her own cultivation, just relying on the ordinary exercises that everyone in the family has, she has been practicing for five years, and now she is thirteen years old and only has the cultivation of the second layer of the qi refining period. Sister Ruyu, who was two years younger than herself, was only eleven years old, and she was already a sixth-level cultivator in the Qi refining period.
Gu Ruyan played with the storage bag that he had just obtained in Xiangyun Zhai, and inadvertently glanced at the one on his left wrist, a beautifully carved bronze bracelet, the milky white glass beads on the bracelet flashed with a faint light, and he couldn't help but show a burst of helplessness on his face.
The ancient family is also strange, it is obviously a family of cultivating immortals, but the magic weapon passed on to future generations is still mixed with such mortal jewelry, Gu Ruyan used the aura several times to sense this bracelet and glass beads, but there was no response, so he was willing to believe that the things inherited by the family were indeed mortal.
Because he got the storage bag, Gu Ruyan lay on the bed and was excited all night, until the sky revealed a trace of fish belly white, and gradually fell asleep. In the dream, I sat in the Meng School, listening to the fifth uncle Gu Qianfeng's preaching, a dust purification technique was made extremely pure by himself, the fifth uncle Gu Qianfeng smiled and nodded at himself, very satisfied, like smoke was extremely happy, revealing eight white millet teeth, and two shallow dimples. Sister Ruyu gave a thumbs up to herself.
When Gu Ruyan was awakened by a ray of sunlight shining in from the window, and when he opened his eyes, he found that he had just had a dream, and he couldn't help but feel depressed. Thinking of a complete first-class spirit rabbit skin that was still owed to Xiangyunzhai Ma Shopkeeper, he hurriedly got up from the bed, cleaned himself up, and walked out of the room lightly, only to find that his parents had gone out.
I went to the kitchen and found something at random to satisfy my stomach before I was ready to go out.
Gu Ruyan walked out of his yard, went all the way around the back mountain, and saw the Lingtian not far away, a piece of green, which was very beautiful.
Although the ancient family has a lot of resources, it is still very poor, the whole ancient family only has three spiritual fields, these three spiritual fields have always been planted with the highest survival rate and the highest yield, but the most ordinary white spiritual rice with the most spiritual energy, and these small spiritual rice, but only distributed to the best children of the spiritual root in the family, as the patriarch's father finally got the hand, in fact, it was pitiful, and what was even more pitiful was that the second uncle would run to his house every time he finished distributing the spiritual rice and told the patriarch's father that Ruyu's sister especially likes to eat food made of spiritual rice, and the spiritual rice at home is not enough to eat, Yu'er has a bad appetite recently, and then his father will let all the spiritual rice in the family out。
Of course, no one will take it into account, in fact, Gu Ruyan also likes to eat food made of spiritual rice.
Gu Ruyan looked at the Linggu that was about to be harvested in the spiritual field, and endured the saliva that was about to drip out, even if he could really eat a few bowls, it would be able to satisfy his hunger.
Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard the sound of someone talking, Gu Ruyan looked for the voice, and saw Gu Changfu and Gu Changgui walking towards Lingtian with tools, only to hear Gu Changfu say: "Changgui, have you heard, the patriarch has divided a whole piece of Lingtian to the second elder's family?"
When Gu Changgui heard this, he nodded, and said with a very reluctant expression: "Yes, I also heard that it was because Miss Ruyu likes to eat spiritual rice that the patriarch decided to do so." ”
Gu Changfu looked disapproving: "Who doesn't like spiritual rice, even if Miss Ruyu's spiritual roots are good, it is the future of the Gu family, and the family allocates a lot more spiritual rice to Miss Ruyu every year than others, and the Gu family originally only had three spiritual fields, which were handed down by the Gu family." As he spoke, he glanced around, but he didn't notice the smoke hidden by the grass stack.
Finding that there was no one, he said again: "The three fast Lingtian of the Gu family have never been assigned to a certain person's name, but the second elder relied on Miss Ruyu to be a genius and forced Lingtian, and the patriarch had to do this in order to appease the second elder." ”
Gu Changgui hurriedly stretched out his hand to cover Gu Changfu's mouth, his eyes quickly glanced around, and he made sure that no one was careful and said: "Changfu, is it said by people like you and me? After speaking, he took away the hand that was tightly covering Gu Changfu's mouth.
Gu Changfu realized that he had said the wrong thing, but fortunately no one else heard it, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and the two quieted down and stopped talking, and began to work in the field.