Chapter 28, Golden Phoenix

Chapter 28, Golden Phoenix

Chapter 28, Golden Phoenix
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After Yao took her daughter back to the house, she took out the braised food, desserts, and fruits that she had prepared earlier: "I know your fifth sister is out, and you will definitely come back. These are all prepared for you by your father and your third and sixth brothers."

Hua Changxi picked up the braised pig's trotter and started to chew it: "Mother, you don't know that the food in the errand hall is not delicious at all. Look at me, I am so thin from hunger."

Yao looked at her daughter, whose face was even rosier than before at home, and said with a smile: "Since the errand hall is so bad, then you should go home."

Hua Changxi shook his head quickly: "I don't want it. I have to finish what I started. Now that I have entered the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall, I must make a name for myself."

"I want to show my grandparents that it's not just boys who can achieve success, girls can do it too."

Yao never discouraged her children's enthusiasm. She sat down next to her daughter and looked at her with concern: "It must be hard to work in the errand hall, right?"

Hua Changxi shook his head: "It's not hard. In the errand hall, I am responsible for cleaning the herbs. It's not hard for me at all."

Being a handyman means doing physical work, how could it not be hard? Yao thought that her daughter was unwilling to complain in front of her. Knowing that her daughter was strong-willed, she would not ask if she didn't say anything.

Hua Changxi didn't see Hua Minghe, so she couldn't help but ask, "Mother, where's father? Why can't I see him?"

Yao looked worried: "Your father has been assigned an errand and has left Beijing to handle a case."

Hua Changxi frowned and put down the pig's trotter: "Why are you leaving Beijing to handle a case again? How long will it take this time?"

Yao shook her head: "Your father didn't say anything, he just said he would be back after the case was completed."

At this time, Hua Liulang came in and first asked Hua Changxi how he was doing in the servants' hall, and then said, "Mother, grandfather asked you to go to the main hall."

When Hua Changxi heard this, his face fell: "Grandpa and grandma are going to scold me in public again."

Yao was silent for a moment, and pushed Hua Changxi's half-eaten pig's trotter towards her: "You eat first, and we'll go over after you finish."

Hua Changxi ate slowly and took more than a quarter of an hour before following Yao and Hua Liulang to the main room.

All the Hua family members were in the main room.

Old Master Hua looked at Hua Changxi, seeming to be hesitant to speak. Finally, he glanced at Old Madam Hua and signaled her to speak.

Old Lady Hua: "How are you doing in the Medical Department's Servants' Office?"

Hua Changxi immediately began to complain: "Grandma, I'm suffering a lot in the errand hall. Look, have I become thinner and darker?"

Old Lady Hua looked at her ninth granddaughter's fair and rosy face and really wanted to spit on her. She gritted her teeth and said, "You have really suffered a great sin."

Hua Changxi nodded his head vigorously: "It is suffering, but don't worry, Grandpa and Grandma. For the Hua family, I can endure hardships. I will definitely learn something in the errand hall."

"When I return from school, I will return home in glory, bringing honor to my ancestors and our family."

"So, grandpa and grandma, can you please stop focusing on the boys in your family and allocate some resources to the girls as well? Maybe your family can't produce a unicorn son, but it can produce a golden phoenix."

Old Lady Hua was amused: "Golden Phoenix? Are you talking about you?"

Hua Changxi was a little embarrassed: "Maybe it's me."

She is a time traveler, so it would be fine if she didn't get the opportunity to practice cultivation. But now that she can practice cultivation, it's not too much to dream of becoming a golden phoenix, right?
"So, grandma, you can invest in me now. Ask my third and sixth brothers to visit me more often and bring me some delicious food and drinks. When I become rich in the future, I can help support my family."

Old Madam Hua snorted coldly: "If you don't let your third and sixth brothers come to see you, will you not help your family?"

Hua Changxi said confidently: "Of course, Grandmother, you were born in a merchant family, you should understand that you can only get something if you pay. You want to get a share of the pie without investing, isn't that freeloading?"

Old Madam Hua's hands started to itch: "Mrs. Hua Jiu, you have really grown in ability. After working in the errand hall for a month, your face has become thicker and thicker. No, not only your face is thicker, but your mouth is also getting more and more poisonous."

"Tell me, what you said to your uncle today, was it right?"

Hua Changxi said calmly: "Why shouldn't I? I'm telling the truth."

Mrs. Hua was so angry when she saw that she was like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water: "Your mouth will cause trouble for the family sooner or later."

"Your eleventh brother is going to attend the martial arts academy with your uncle's grandsons, and we are counting on them to take care of Eleventh."

"And your fifth sister is also counting on the help of the Bo's Mansion. We can't have a say with the Bo's Mansion, so we can only ask your uncle to mediate."

"You are so good, you are trying so hard to offend them. Do you know that you are harming Wu Niang by doing this?"

Hearing this, Hua Changxi was annoyed: "I harmed the fifth sister? Who is harming the fifth sister? Who forced the fifth sister to be a concubine?"

"If the clan elders are the culprits, then you are the accomplices."

"If you hadn't let my fifth sister become a concubine, you wouldn't have been humiliated by the steward and the maid of the Marquis' Mansion today, and you wouldn't have dared to say a word."

These words touched Grandpa Hua's sore spot. Grandpa Hua's face turned pale, he picked up the teacup on the table and slammed it to the ground. His chest heaved up and down, and he stared at Hua Changxi with anger on his face, looking very angry.

When Yao saw this, she quickly gave Hua Liulang a look.

When Hua Liulang saw this, he gritted his teeth and stepped forward to grab Hua Changxi, and dragged him out of the main room.

When he was about to leave the main hall, Hua Changxi turned back and shouted again.

"Believe it or not, based on your attitude today of leaving everything to Hua Tai and his wife to handle, if something happens to Fifth Sister in the Marquis' Mansion, the Marquis' Mansion will only notify Hua Tai and his wife, and by the time Hua Tai and his wife inform us, it will be too late."

Seeing that his sister was still fanning the flames, Hua Liulang used all his strength to pull the girl away: "Jiu Niang, how come you are so strong? I can hardly pull her anymore."

Hua Changxi paused for a moment and said, "Maybe you've done too much chores." Hua Liulang said, "Isn't it said that people who do chores will be bullied? Why didn't you learn your lesson after entering the chores hall? Instead, your temper has gotten worse and worse?"

Hua Changxi said meaningfully: "People are different from each other."

Why is she so confident today?

It's because her realm point has broken through 1000 and her martial arts value has increased a lot. When her realm is further improved, even if the Marquis' Mansion has high-level warriors guarding it, she will dare to attack.

Speaking of warriors, Hua Changxi grabbed Hua Liulang and said, "Sixth brother, let's go to your room."

Hua Liulang was puzzled: "What are you doing in my room?"

Hua Changxi: "The several martial arts secret manuals at home are all with you, I want to take a look."

Hua Liulang smiled: "Why, do you still want to practice martial arts?"

"Can't you?"

Arriving at the room where Hua Sanlang and Hua Liulang lived together, Hua Changxi pushed the door open and walked in: "Sixth brother, don't underestimate me. Be careful that one day I will become a martial arts master and scare you to death."

Hua Liulang didn't take Hua Changxi's words to heart at all. He smiled and went to get the books. Soon he took out three books from the bookcase, namely "Interesting Stories of Kyoto Martial Arts Academy", "Lingbo Weibu" and "Wuzhi Mountain".

"Five Finger Mountain?"

Hua Changxi first flipped through "Five Finger Mountain" and said, "The name of this technique is quite domineering."

Hua Liulang looked puzzled: "How can it be so domineering? It looks quite ordinary to me."

Hua Changxi said "Oh" and said casually: "I have read a storybook before. In the storybook, there was a monkey who was suppressed by the Five Finger Mountain of the Buddha."

"Sixth brother, the Kung Fu you practice in the yard every day, isn't it this Five Finger Mountain?"

Hualiu Lang: "Yes, I practiced Five Finger Mountain."

Hua Changxi showed regret: "Then the power of the Five Finger Mountain is a bit weak. I see that you usually practice in the yard, but you haven't achieved anything."

Hua Liulang was speechless. "Five Finger Mountain is very powerful. My father copied this from the library of the Ministry of Justice after making great contributions. It is said that when the master uses Five Finger Mountain, he can kill anyone he wants within fifty meters."

"I, your sixth brother, am only a first-grade warrior who is still training his blood. Of course, I cannot use the power of the Cloud-Splitting Palm."

Hua Changxi read "Five Finger Mountain" and "Lingbo Weibu" before reading "Interesting Stories of Kyoto Martial Arts Academy".

"The first level of warriors trains blood, the second level trains bones, the third level trains internal organs, the fourth level clears tendons and veins, the fifth level cleanses the marrow, the sixth level opens shackles, the seventh level transforms internal strength into qi, the eighth level releases qi externally, and the ninth level master can borrow the power of heaven and earth."

"The ninth rank can borrow the power of heaven and earth."

What does this mean?
Is it possible to practice like her by borrowing the power of heaven and earth?

Hua Changxi looked thoughtfully at the introduction of warriors at the beginning of "Interesting Stories about Kyoto Martial Arts Academy".

Seeing that his sister didn't move, Hua Liulang stretched out his hand and waved it in front of her: "Are you stunned?"

Hua Changxi came back to his senses and looked at Hua Liulang with a smile: "Sixth Brother, this book "Interesting Stories of Kyoto Martial Arts Academy" was brought back by big brother, right?"

Hua Liulang looked at the "Anecdotes of Kyoto Martial Arts Academy" with some disdain: "I begged big brother for a long time to bring me two more martial arts secret manuals, but big brother only brought back one copy of "Anecdotes of Kyoto Martial Arts Academy" to get rid of me."

Hua Changxi flipped through "Interesting Stories of Kyoto Martial Arts Academy": "The stories in this are quite interesting."

Hua Liulang snorted: "What's so interesting about this? It's just about people from the martial arts academy fighting. I'm not a child who likes to read stories. I want to practice martial arts."

Hua Changxi looked at him with a smile: "Sixth brother, I have a way to quickly improve your martial arts skills."

Hua Liulang's eyes suddenly widened: "Really? How to improve?"

Hua Changxi: "Take the pill."

After hearing this, Hua Liulang's face suddenly fell: "I know that taking medicine can quickly improve martial arts, but the question is, do I have the money to buy medicine?"

"Do you know that the Qi and Blood Pill used by a first-grade warrior costs five taels of silver? Given our family's situation, can we afford it?"

Hua Changxi didn't say much. She could make any elixir below the sixth grade, but she didn't have any herbs to use right now. "Sixth brother, you have to be nice to me. Maybe I can really get some elixir for you."

After hearing what his sister said, Hua Liulang finally had some hope: "Am I not good to you?"

Hua Changxi shook his head: "No, I have been in the errand hall for a month, and you haven't come to see me."

Hualiu Lang scratched the back of his head: "Grandpa and grandma wouldn't let me."

Hua Changxi snorted: "If they don't let you go, then don't go. I was expecting you to come and see me."

How could Hua Liulang not know what his sister was thinking: "You are expecting me to bring you something delicious."

Hua Changxi: "Just tell me you're coming to see me?"

Hua Liulang nodded quickly: "Go, go, I will definitely go."

(End of this chapter)