Chapter 17: Uncle and Brother
Xiaoqiu didn't stop when he spoke, and in less than a stick of incense, he dug up half a basket of bamboo shoots.
Ding Zhengyi followed her and became a leisurely listener, without helping anything.
Look at the almost dug up, the voice of the Wu family in the distance also sounded in time, Xiao Qiu Xiu was low and couldn't hear clearly, Ding Zhengyi listened for a while, and then knew that a guest was coming, and the Wu family was greeting.
Without any further delay, Ding Zhengyi gestured to Xiaoqiu, bent down and lifted the bamboo basket and walked towards the bamboo building, Ding Zhengyi, who was carrying half a basket of bamboo shoots, had an inexplicable feeling at this time, this trip finally helped.
Out of the bamboo forest, Ding Zhengyi saw three people standing outside the living room from a distance, except for his mother Wu, the rest were the nineteenth uncle and the seventh brother, although the two people were one generation apart, but they were both in their twenties, and there was no barrier.
After a while, Ding Zhengyi took Xiaoqiu to the front of the bamboo building, and after handing over half a basket of bamboo shoots to his mother, he took over the work of entertaining the guests, said hello to the two of them, and led the way into the living room in front.
Uncle Nineteen is the youngest son of the Great Elder, belongs to the old man, he is only twenty-seven years old this year, and he has the qualifications of the four innate spiritual apertures, and it is said that he is now only half a spiritual network away from the five spiritual apertures and has not been dredged, but because the bottleneck in the middle stage of qi cultivation has been delayed for two years, he only cultivated to the fifth level of qi cultivation more than a year ago.
The seventh brother is the son of the third uncle, he is twenty-three years old this year, and he is also born with the qualification of the four spiritual apertures, but fortunately, he has a fake spiritual aperture with only two blocked spiritual networks, so it was dredged more than two years ago, and he has reached the cultivation qualification of the five spiritual aperture of the day after tomorrow.
Seventh Brother's cultivation had just broken through to the fifth level of Qi cultivation a few months ago, of course, this was all thanks to the large amount of cultivation resources funded by the third uncle, after all, as a foundation building monk who sat in Xuannan City for the Xuanshan faction, he could not only get more resources, but also a relatively high grade.
In addition to the two of them, the twelfth and sixteenth brothers were also invited to the party, both of them were selected from the secular clansmen, and they were both innate with the qualifications of the Four Spiritual Skills, although they were a few years older than Ding Zhengyi, but their current cultivation still failed to break through to the middle stage of Qi cultivation.
This is not only a gap in qualifications, but also because their secular families are not capable of providing cultivation resources, and their own qualifications can only be regarded as ordinary in the core strength of the family, with only a small amount of additional subsidies.
Moreover, after they graduated from the clan study, they began to rent the spiritual field within the race, relying on the harvest of the spiritual field to accumulate resources for cultivation, but cultivating the spiritual field wasted a lot of their cultivation time, which eventually led to the backwardness of cultivation.
Although the Nineteenth Uncle and the Seventh Brother are both the sons in law of the family leader, there will be no shortage of normal cultivation resources in normal times, but just like that, the cultivation resources in the family will always be scarce.
None of them have the conditions to develop pampered habits, except for the impetuousness of some young people from time to time, they treat their cultivation as hard as Ding Zhengyi, so although they are only congenitally qualified by the Four Spiritual Skills, the progress of their cultivation is not slow.
Although the twelfth and sixteenth brothers belong to the poor family in the family, their living environment makes them very resolute, and they are not humble or humble to people and things.
At this time, the twelfth and sixteenth brothers have not yet arrived, they should be in a hurry to cultivate, Ding Zhengyi is not in a hurry, just can talk to the nineteenth uncle and the seventh brother first, after all, their sources are more extensive than Ding Zhengyi.
Ding Zhengyi asked Uncle Nineteen and Brother Seven to find a place to sit down in the living room at random, at this time Xiaoqiu had already brought three cups of spiritual tea and handed them to the three of them one by one, these spiritual teas were produced by the family, and as the lowest level of spiritual tea, in addition to being able to calm the mind and calm the qi, the help for cultivation was really limited.
"Hey, little eighteen, you have practiced qi at the fifth level!" Uncle Nineteen, who had just sat down, picked up the teacup and suddenly sensed that there was something wrong with the spiritual pressure fluctuations on Ding Zhengyi's body, which was the result of Ding Zheng's deliberate convergence.
"I just got lucky to break through today, but it took me a lot of energy. Ding Zhengyi didn't say much, he felt that talking too much would make people feel like showing off.
"The eighteenth brother is five years younger than me, and Xiuwei has already caught up with me, alas!" Although the seventh brother pretended to have a sad face, the smile on the corner of his mouth betrayed him.
"Don't mention this, is there any good news lately?" Ding Zhengyi then changed the subject.
"The family went to the shallow sea to search for a lot of spiritual objects, isn't this good news?" Uncle Nineteen quipped.
"Of course this is good news, but isn't everyone in the family aware of this good news?" Ding Zhengyi was a little puzzled, Uncle Nineteen would not usually make such low-level jokes with him.
"Of course it's not what it seems, but my father is one of the elders who led the team this time. Uncle Nineteen took a sip of the teacup and paused, as if waiting for Ding Zhengyi to ask.
"Isn't it the dragon beard grass, my father is asking the alchemist of the Xuanshan faction to refine it" The seventh brother only picked up the words, a little disapproving.
"What, Dragon Whisker Grass! This is the main medicine as famous as Silver Silk Grass, and the Dragon Whisker Pill refined is very valuable, and it has a strong auxiliary effect on the cultivation in the middle and late stages of Qi training, so how many strains will you get this time?" Ding Zhengyi suddenly became interested, stared at the two and asked.
"Although the demand for spiritual energy of the dragon beard grass is not as high as that of the silver silk grass, the lower grade spirit veins at the bottom of the sea are also in line with the conditions for growth at the spiritual eye, and a total of nine plants have been found this time, and there are many monks in the clan who are stuck in the bottleneck of the sixth layer of qi training, and a dragon beard pill may be able to make them break through to the late stage of qi training, so the patriarch personally explained that it should be kept secret for the time being. Uncle Nineteen saw that the seventh brother had already broken it, so he stopped selling Guanzi, and said it all in one breath.
"That's right, the silver silk pill is not easy to buy in the market, and the price is more than a hundred low-grade spirit stones, ordinary family monks not only lack the way to buy, but the lack of spirit stones is also a key problem" Ding Zhengyi continued with the words of the nineteenth uncle, and at this time, he recalled in his mind the meaningful words of his grandfather when he exchanged spiritual objects at the miscellaneous office.
"But these have little to do with us, after all, with our current cultivation, it is not a matter of three or two years to break through to the peak of the sixth layer of Qi cultivation. Seeing that Uncle Nineteen was talking about the Tao, the seventh brother added a sentence not to be outdone.
Ding Zhengyi nodded slightly, pondered for a moment, and thought that it was impossible for his grandfather to let him exchange for the Dragon Beard Pill for his usual cultivation, which would be too extravagant, far from being something that the small family could afford.
However, his father Ding Zhongyuan has been cultivating to the sixth level of qi training for some years, although there is no hope of building a foundation in this life, but in the later stage of qi training, whether it is planting spiritual fields or going out on business, it is much more convenient and safe, so Ding Zhengyi has already made a decision in his heart that he must get a dragon beard pill for his father.
At the end of the conversation, the twelfth and sixteenth brothers finally arrived, and apologized to the three of them for a while, sure enough, the cultivation was delayed, and then the five of them exchanged some recent things inside and outside the clan, and talked about the insights they had gained in the process of cultivation.
At the end of the chat, Ding Zhengyi took out a stack of fireball talismans drawn by himself and gave each of them ten, although it was not worth many spirit stones, but it also expressed a heart, and the four of them did not refuse, and happily put it away.
"Young masters, it's time to eat" Xiao Qiu's crisp voice also came from outside the door at the right time.
Ding Zhengyi beckoned a few people to the dining hall to dine together, today's meal was much richer than usual, not only braised green carp, stir-fried purple bamboo shoots.
There are also several kinds of demon beast meat that were hunted and killed from the shallow sea some time ago, these are specially exchanged by my father from the miscellaneous office for this party, and it took more than ten contribution points, and several kinds of demon beast meat were fried and fried by the Wu family, and five or six exquisite dishes were obtained.
A few people were not polite, the food was hearty, the atmosphere was happy, and the parents and the descendants of these families also talked and laughed, as if they were several years younger, and they were happy.
Lunch was eaten for half an hour, and when everyone dispersed at the end of the song, after everyone said goodbye to each other, Ding Zhengyi's home returned to its former peace.