Chapter 18: Farewell
The days fly by, Xiao Jiu works on weekdays to gag, plays the flute and makes medicines, Mu Xiu goes shopping and buys things, and soon another month passes!
Early this morning, Xiao Jiu was stopped by the steward as soon as he arrived at the slaughterhouse.
"Wang Jiu, there is a message from the family, you come with me." The steward's surname is Yang, and he is a goatee.
Xiao Jiu was stunned, he had nothing to do with the upper echelons of the family. Seeing that the steward was still waiting, he hurriedly said, "Okay! β
Xiao Jiu followed Steward Yang on the crooked path in the middle of the house.
I only heard Steward Yang say earnestly: "Wang Jiu, if you have a chance to develop in the future, don't forget your Uncle Yang!" β
Xiao Jiu was suspicious in his heart, full of vigilance against this sudden thing, but his face did not show a point, and replied: "Steward Yang, look at what you said, no matter how developed I am, can I still be more developed than you?" I'm looking forward to your care! β
Just look at Steward Yang's goatee curled and smiled.
admonished: "Xiao Jiu's mouth is really sweet, this time it is rumored that you are a person from the family branch, it should be a good thing, you can respect the family branch later!" β
What kind of good thing can make Steward Yang call her different?
"Thank you Steward Yang for reminding me, Xiao Jiu must deal with it carefully!" Xiao Jiu leaned over slightly and replied.
After a while, they came to the door of a tall hall, and Steward Yang bent down to the gatekeeper in front of the door, leaned over and said, "Hello lord, Wang Jiu has already brought." β
"Well, I'll go pass it on first!" As he spoke, the gatekeeper turned around and entered the temple, and closed the door with his backhand.
Xiao Jiu and Steward Yang waited outside, and after only a while, the man reopened the door and said, "Wang Jiu, come in." β
Xiao Jiu followed into the main hall.
The interior is exquisitely furnished and spacious, with orderly layers.
Two men sat on mahogany chairs on either side of the round table in the middle. Both of them were wearing green shirts, and they looked a little fairy when they were sitting upright, and they were looking at her with looking eyes at this time.
On the round table in the middle was a disc-shaped object the size of a large plate, and on one side of the disc was a fist-thick pillar, about a foot high, with five equal vertical lines.
Xiao Jiu approached with the man who led the way, and the man sitting on the right waved his hand, and the person who led the way retreated.
The man sitting on the left said to Xiao Jiu: "You are Wang Jiu?" β
"Yes." Xiao Jiu replied respectfully, because she felt that the two people in front of her should be advanced immortal cultivators, and the feeling of coercion was at least higher than the third layer of qi refining.
The man didn't have any extra expression, but said, "Put your hand on the disc!" β
Xiao Jiu stepped forward and put his right hand on the disc on the table.
Suddenly, a stream of heat flowed into the palm of his hand, and Xiao Jiu was about to raise his hand, when he heard the man say, "Don't move, this is a normal reaction." β
Xiao Jiu stopped raising her hand, and the heat flow circulated all over her body, and after a while, the column began to emit light, bounded by vertical lines, and there were three long strips that became brighter and brighter to show different colors, they were green, yellow and Xuan.
"It's okay, you can take your hand away." The man on the left said.
The man on the right nodded and said, "Well, it's the three spirit roots of water, wood and earth, it's stronger than nothing!" β
After speaking, he waved his hand and said, "You go down, we will look for you again if there is something." β
Xiao Jiu retreated, and at the same time wondered in his heart: Is this testing her spiritual root? She is the three spiritual roots of water, wood and earth? She knew that she had a spiritual root, after all, she could cultivate, but listening to those words didn't seem to be a good spiritual root.
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Xiao Jiu went out and walked with Steward Yang for a while, and then heard Steward Yang ask, "Xiao Jiu, what's the matter with asking you to go?" β
"No, they asked me how I was doing!" Xiao Jiu replied casually.
"And how did you answer?" Steward Yang's tone was a little anxious when he asked this.
"I said yes! The big guys take good care of me," Xiao Jiu pondered the family's intention to test her spirit root, and said nonsense.
"Oh, that's it, then Xiao Jiu, do you want to increase your monthly profit?" Steward Yang seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and then said.
Rising monthly examples? Isn't that a year after the newcomer entered the house? But if it can really increase the monthly rule, it's a good thing, other people can not care about the silver, but she still cares, at least she can buy some good tea, good snacks, good clothes, etc., so that she can live a more comfortable life.
"Is that okay?" Xiao Jiu looked at him expectantly.
"Of course you can, I can see clearly during Xiao Jiu's arrival, and the work has been done very well. That's up to me. Steward Yang looked like he was packing tickets.
"Then thank you Yang for taking care of things!" Xiao Jiu smiled sweetly and thanked him.
Steward Yang looked at this girl with an ignorant look and said tentatively: "This is as it should be, is there anyone in the Xiao Jiu family who is an immortal cultivator of the Li family?" β
"This Yang steward, you can't stump me, you know the process of my entry into the mansion, even if I am alone, I don't know, otherwise I would have taken the initiative to contact it."
This is true, and there is no negative saying no, nor affirmative saying yes, it is all up to your own guess.
"Yes." Steward Yang pondered as he walked.
Back at the slaughterhouse, the workers were busy.
"Xiao Jiu, you're back, see you're not here, we don't have the usual work anymore!" It was Zhang Da who spoke.
"You have a greasy mouth, I haven't heard of you working that day before I came!" Xiao Jiu replied with a smile.
"Don't pay attention to him, he's just a slippery head" Master Huang said, handed her a duck that had just fallen into breath, and then asked Xiao Jiu in a low voice: "Why did Steward Yang call you over?" β
"He said he was going to give me a silver increase." Xiao Jiu took the duck and replied.
"You've only been here for two months and you've given you a silver increase? This is not the usual style of Steward Yang! I think you'd better pay more attention to yourself, lest he hit you with any ideas. Master Huang's face was a little serious.
"Well, I see, I'll pay attention."
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Today's busyness continued into the afternoon.
At the beginning of Shen, a rare figure came to the slaughterhouse. It was Steward Li who Xiao Jiu had seen on the day he first came.
Xiao Jiu now also knows that he is the chief steward of the Li family, and he is a mortal who belongs to the Li family's bloodline without spiritual roots, and his status is as high as heaven in the hearts of these subordinates.
I heard the voice of Steward Yang from afar: "Rare guest! Rare guest! What kind of wind blew Steward Li to me! Sit in the house, sit in the house! Steward Yang lowered his hand and stretched out his hand.
"No, you call Wang Jiu over." Steward Li raised his hand.
"Wang Jiu? Okay! Wait a minute. I thought: It seems that this Wang Jiu is indeed going to have a good life, and I don't know what kind of good thing it will fall on a newcomer who has just entered the mansion.
Steward Yang walked straight towards Xiao Jiu.
"Xiao Jiu, come over here, Steward Li is invited."
"Okay." Xiao Jiu patted the hair on his body, said hello to the person next to him and followed.
"You are Wang Jiu? Two months ago, right? "Steward Li still looks so capable.
"Yes, you have a good memory." Xiao Jiu replied respectfully.
"It's nothing to call you here, it's just that the family has arranged another job for you, you go back today to prepare, and someone will come to pick you up tomorrow morning." Steward Lee was kind.
Xiao Jiu pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Xie Li is in charge!" β
"Then you go back first, I'll have someone bring you dinner!" Steward Yang next to him interjected.
"Okay, Xie Yang is in charge."
Over there, Steward Yang was still pulling Steward Li and saying something.
Xiao Jiu came over here, and ten pairs of eyes looked at her in unison.
Master Huang was even more anxious: "Steward Li came in person, what did you ask you to do?" β
"It's said that I will change the job to do, and it shouldn't be a bad thing to see that his attitude is quite kind!"
"So you're elevated?" Next to Zhang Da enviously spoke.
"As long as you are a mortal, what kind of work you do in the Li family is different!" It was Yuan Si who spoke.
"That's still different, it's easier to work a little better and marry a man from a family with spiritual roots, isn't it?" Zhang Da was not convinced.
"Okay, okay, I don't know what kind of work it is, it's too early for everyone to think so much!" Xiao Jiu stopped the noise at the scene.
He added: "I'm going to go over tomorrow morning, and I don't have much time, so I'll go back to my residence now, and I'll come back to see you when I'm free." β
"Then you usually pay more attention." Master Ren said.
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When I returned to the house, there were not many things to be cleaned up, so I pulled them out: two sets of clothes, four gray clothes, a set of animal skin clothes, and more than 100 of the medicines made during this time were packed in porcelain bottles, and there were still about ten taels of silver left after Master Huang bought porcelain bottles and other things during this time, and the rest was a flute, a bamboo strip that had not been thrown before.
When Chunhong came back in the evening, Xiao Jiu told her about the job change.
"Steward Li said that he wanted to change your job, and someone would come to pick you up early tomorrow morning?" Chunhong stared at a pair of apricot eyes.
"Well, so you'll have to live here alone in the future."
Chunhong's face changed: "I began to feel that I had to be with someone like you who couldn't even speak every time, and I was inferior to your momentum, so I was a little unhappy." Now that you're leaving, I'm a little uncomfortable! β
"It's like parting from life and death, isn't it just a change of work? It's not still in this Li family! β
Chunhong's nose was a little sour, and she was a little annoyed when she looked at this girl who didn't care: "Do you know how big this Li family is?" You see, more than a dozen of us came in before, did you see any sisters who were assigned elsewhere? Besides, you have to do your own things every day! β
Xiao Jiu also knew that the mortals of the Li family had been passed down from generation to generation, and they were naturally widely distributed.
She also felt that although Chunhong was a little hypocritical from time to time, she was also a good girl to befriend.
Then he said calmly: "Then you have to obey the order, don't you?" I'm leaving early tomorrow morning, and thanks to you, I've made these things in bottles and cans. I thought that those weeds were all grown with elixir, and they must have their extraordinary, maybe they were weeds for immortal cultivators, maybe they would be useful to us mortals. I'll leave you a few, so keep a souvenir! Xiao Jiu said and picked up some from the baggage and gave it to her.
Chunhong looked at the porcelain vase handed over by Xiao Jiu, and said angrily: "Didn't you say a few?" That's a dozen! β
"Didn't I see you uncomfortable? It's also a thought to leave you a little more, isn't it? If you don't, pay me back! β
"How can there be something given to someone else and then taken back!" Chunhong quickly took the porcelain vase.
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