Chapter 20: The Diners
Send off old friends and welcome new neighbors.
Chen Wenbing's departure, the only one who is familiar with his house is Xia Yan.
He could only lead Tu Su to see the house.
Chen Wenbing's words were matched before, and he was afraid that the other party would misunderstand, so he pulled Gu Zhantang into the same place.
Chen Wenbing's house is similar to Xia Yan's, a set of courtyards.
Half of the house was seen, and Jiang Xiaoai came to the door.
She agreed with Tu Su last night to come to see the house together today, and the two shared a house.
The first is that it is relatively cost-effective, and the second is that Jiang Xiaoai can ask for advice on the practice of "Drilling Sword".
Originally, the little girl came early today and saw off the landlord with Tu Su, but she drank some wine last night and overslept.
In fact, helping the girl move, Xia Yan was quite empty, and he didn't know much about some of the applications of his daughter's house.
Gu Madman didn't understand it even more, this guy looked at Tu Su, put his hand on the hilt of the sword, and held back to fight with Nan Yujian.
But Tu Su's legs and feet are not so convenient for the time being, and he really needs someone to help.
Jiang Xiaoai came, and Xia Yan was relieved.
Don't look at this little girl, she really has the strength to move the entire fifth floor of the Hidden Sword Pavilion.
So Xia Yan directly said goodbye and went home to practice.
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In the preliminaries of the campus of the school palace on the sword, the matchup table came out on the first day, and Xia Yan saw it.
Jiang Xiaoai's cultivation in the early stage of the quadruple is very high among the participating students, and he is regarded as the top eight seed.
Xia Yan defeated her, and in fact, she got the status of the top eight seed.
The next few rounds of opponents are relatively weak.
It wasn't until the battle of the Eight into Four that he would re-encounter the opponent of the Quadruple Cultivation.
However, even if these weaker opponents are cultivated, their cultivation is higher than the current Xia Yan, and they are at least in the early stage of the triple, not something that Xia Yan, the peak of the twofold, can despise.
Yesterday, he practiced swordsmanship with Gu Zhantang for an afternoon, and at the end of the fight, he already had a faint feeling of breaking the mirror, and he was still a breath away.
This morning, he was going to make up for it.
Back in his study, Xia Yan entered a state of inward vision.
Zhu Xianjian looked quite bored at this moment, and drew a few straight lines horizontally and vertically in his dantian, and the hilt of the sword rushed down and the tip of the sword was facing upward, and he was jumping up and down the grid.
The corners of Xia Yan's mouth twitched, thinking that his sword type was really different from others.
In his previous life, when Xia Yan refined it, he didn't find that it actually had spiritual intelligence, and now it seems that its intelligence will increase.
Two days ago, it looked like a dog, but now it looks like a child, and it looks like a human being.
"Xiao Zhu." Xia Yan called it with his mind.
Zhu Xianjian stopped jumping, straightened up, and leaned back with the tip of the sword, as if he was looking up at Xia Yan.
Xia Yan ordered: "Yinyuan." ”
The tip of Xiao Xu's sword trembled, and a huge heaven and earth vitality instantly filled the entire dantian, and then rushed out along Xia Yan's meridians.
The first time he experienced this, Xia Yan almost died on the spot, and he was no longer afraid at this time.
The eight main veins have long been connected, and there are branch veins that flow throughout the body.
These meridians have been tempered by internal strength, and their strength has long been different from what it used to be, and the internal organs and six organs are also protected by internal strength.
These heaven and earth vitality then honestly followed the meridians, traveled throughout the body, and finally seeped out from the pores all over the body.
After trying it again without any stagnation, Xia Yan was determined.
From this moment on, the absorption of his own heaven and earth vitality is not a rhythm of inhaling once and using two days.
Instead, it can be absorbed anytime and anywhere, and the vitality of heaven and earth runs in the meridians, and finally returns to heaven and earth from the pores of the whole body.
This situation has a metaphor in the wilderness, which is like the pretreatment of ingredients when cooking, which is called "pickling thoroughly".
If it is thoroughly pickled, it means that the acquired triple initial realm.
And in this world, Xia Yan's situation is very special.
The cultivators of this world, at least the cultivators of the secular realm, do not know that there are branches.
Therefore, the vitality of heaven and earth only goes through the main vein, and it also oozes out along the pores, and finally it can achieve the effect of entering and exiting the balance.
However, first, they did not absorb the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi as quickly as Xiaozhu, and secondly, there was no branch diversion in the path, resulting in the throughput of the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi being far inferior to Xia Yan at this moment.
Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi has the effect of refining the physical body, and the greater the throughput of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, the better and faster the effect of quenching.
So next, the matter of realm cultivation, before the innate realm, Xia Yan didn't have to pay much attention.
With Xiao Zhu here, Xia Yan can be completely hosted, waiting for the realm to improve.
The three-fold building of the yuan, the four-fold washing of the marrow, and the five-fold exchange of blood are all the results of the continuous refining of the physical body by the vitality of heaven and earth, and it is a matter of course.
The practice he has to do is that he can't fall behind in swordsmanship, and he has to constantly adapt to his increasingly strong body.
As soon as he thought of this, Xia Yan stood up from the study and was about to go to the sword practice room to practice swordsmanship, when he heard someone knocking on the door outside.
When I opened the door, I saw a petite girl with braided hair outside.
Jiang Xiaoai looked at Xia Yan with a dissatisfied face: "Why are you like this, you said that you would move for us, why did the people run away?" ”
"No, let's be reasonable." Xia Yan said helplessly, "You Jiang Xiaoai is fierce, do you still need my help to move?" ”
"But I'm not familiar with this place, and I don't know where to buy things!" Jiang Xiaoai said.
Xia Yan heard the same, but there was no solution to this matter.
Because the guests in the entire Wushan Town are all men.
Therefore, all the services in terms of clothing, food, housing and transportation here are aimed at this group of people.
The things of my daughter's house, it's not that there's nothing here, Cuihualou.
That place was a weathering place, and Xia Yan felt that if he said it, he would probably have to learn Jiang Xiaoai's giant sword again.
I can definitely fight now, but I can't do it.
So Xia Yan scratched his head, and then said: "Chen Wenbing's house is fully furnished, and the things that are missing, you can honestly move them from the school palace, and use the old things first, anyway, you will only live for three months, and you can make do with it." ”
"Then we have to have dinner at noon." Jiang Xiaoai blinked her big eyes, "How do you buy vegetables here?" ”
"Grocery shopping, I'll take you." Xia Yan turned around and closed the door, and led Jiang Xiaoai to the vegetable market.
Xia Yan is familiar with the vegetable market, Chen Wenbing likes to cook, the two used to have dinner, Chen Gongzi made a skill, and Xia Yan produced the ingredients.
The butchers and vegetable vendors in the entire vegetable market, Xia Yan knows them all.
took the little girl to the vegetable market, two green vegetables, and the vegetable seller asked for one or two or five dollars of silver.
Xia Yan made a price for the little girl, cut one or two, and then turned her head to look at Jiang Xiaoai, the little girl's expression was as if she had seen a ghost.
Xia Yan reminded: "What are you doing in a daze, give money." ”
Jiang Xiaoai came back to her senses and said with a bitter face: "It's so expensive? ”
The vegetable seller was not happy when he heard this: "Hey, how did the little girl speak, our Wushan Town is like this." ”
Speaking of this, the vegetable vendor looked at Xia Yan: "Young Master Xia, your newly bought maid still has to continue to be trained, and if you are not sensible, you will be embarrassed to bring it out." ”
"No, no, no." Xia Yan hurriedly waved his hand, touched his waist bag, and found that he didn't have a silver ticket, so he had to say, "Uncle Wang, I'll take the vegetables first, and I'll give the money tomorrow." ”
"Hey, I can't believe it yet, Xia Gongzi, just take five and go, look at this green and watery one, I count you two taels of silver."
"Okay." Xia Yan nodded, took five green vegetables, and gave them to Jiang Xiaoai.
"Oh my God, five greens and two taels of silver." Jiang Xiaoai took the green vegetables, the whole person was stupid, and began to doubt life, "In my hometown, you can buy a cow here." ”
Xia Yan pulled her aside first, and said softly: "The guests in Wushan Town are all wide, and the family is not short of money, and they pay attention to a row when they go out. So don't compare the prices here with other places. ”
Speaking of this, Xia Yan faintly felt bad in his heart, and asked, "Speaking of which, can you two afford to eat here?" ”
"I definitely can't afford to eat, Sister Tu Su is poorer than me." Jiang Xiaoai stuffed the vegetables in her hand into Xia Yan's arms, and said with a sad face, "I'd better go back to the dormitory of the School Palace, there is no money for food there." ”
Xia Yan looked at the little girl, felt very helpless, and said: "Okay, anyway, it's only three months, you can start a gang with me in the future, I have a lot of food, and I don't miss your two pairs of chopsticks." ”
"Really?" Jiang Xiaoai's expression perked up.
"Cooked." Xia Yan rolled his eyes, "I'm here to buy vegetables, you go back and call Tu Su first, and go to my place to eat." ”
"Great!" The little girl answered, and went away happily.
Xia Yan walked around the vegetable market, relying on his own face to give credit everywhere, and gathered a table of ingredients, both meat and vegetarian.
As soon as he walked to the door of the house with the vegetables, Tu Su and Jiang Xiaoai came.
Jiang Xiaoai looked very interested, bouncing around Tu Su's arm.
Tu Su lowered his head and walked slowly, muttering softly: "How embarrassing is this......
Then the woman seemed to be aware of it, looked up at Xia Yan, and asked, "Threefold, so fast?" ”
Xia Yan smiled and pointed to the living room inside: "You can sit down for a while, and you will be able to eat soon." ”
used to cook in the kitchen with Chen Wenbing, Chen Wenbing was in charge of the spoon, and Xia Yan gave him a hand.
Chen Wenbing is a broken mouth, and he likes to show off, what is particular about each dish, he said while doing it, over the years, Xia Yan has learned almost.
Sometimes Chen Wenbing is lazy, and Xia Yan himself is on the stove, and it is not a problem to stir up the two.
It's just that Chen Wenbing is leaving, if it's just one person eating, Xia Yan is a little too lazy to do it, it's too troublesome to make a fire in the earthen stove.
Now that there are two new diners at the table, my cooking skills are also useful.
At the two girls' house, Xia Yan estimated that the amount of food would not be too large, so he simply made four dishes and one soup.
White chopped chicken, braised paddling, stewed mutton, stuffed tofu, green vegetable ball soup, and stewed some rice.
After a busy hour, when the meal was served, the two girls sat up straight at the table, looking at each other.
Sit down and eat together.
Xia Yan took a few bites, and then was a little stunned.
I saw that Jiang Xiaoai ate as if her head was pressed, she didn't even need to dip it in water, and in the blink of an eye, a plate of mutton and a bowl of rice were in her stomach.
When it was time to add rice, the girl looked up and exclaimed with rice in her mouth: "This is also delicious!" ”
Nan Yujian Tu Su, the person is delicate, and the eating appearance is also exquisite, a chopstick clip.
The cultivator of the innate realm used chopsticks like a sword, and after a while, the plate of braised paddling was solved by her.
The fish bones were spit out and placed on the table, neatly stacked.
Xia Yan saw this posture and silently put down his chopsticks.
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