Chapter 161 Two-Headed Fish

Chapter 161 Two-Headed Fish

Chapter 161 Two-Headed Fish

The next morning, Tian Lin got up and heard a knock on the door.

He didn't need to look outside to know that it was the maid named Yu'er who was guarding the door.

Sure enough, after Tian Lin responded, the girl pushed the door open and walked into the room, holding a copper basin in her hand.

"You've been guarding outside for quite some time, haven't you?"

While washing his hands, Tian Lin said, "I don't have that many rules. You don't have to waste your time on me."

Yu'er immediately said, "This is the job that I do. If I don't serve the master well and don't know the rules, I will be the one who does it. I will be punished when the time comes."

Tian Lin asked her, "How many spirit stones can you get in a month?"

Yu'er said, "When I was in the mansion, I earned five low-grade spirit stones a month."

Tian Lin nodded. Five low-grade spirit stones were not a small amount in the Yulong Continent.

He then frowned and said, "When I was in the mansion, it was five low-grade spirit stones. From what you said, you are out of the mansion now?"

Yu'er immediately said, "I can still collect my monthly salary at the mansion."

Tian Lin understood——

Yu'er and Cui'er came to his yard, and according to the rules, their monthly salary should be paid to Tian Lin in the future.

However, if Tian Lin was too stingy to give them spirit stones, they could go back to the Tong family to ask for them.

If he just does this, others will laugh at Tian Lin for not knowing the rules.

"I forgot that you gave a spirit stone to that guy named Qiu Ge'er yesterday. You gave it to him on my behalf, right?"

Yu'er said hurriedly: "It was my own decision, please punish me, Master."

Tian Lin picked up the storage bag from the bedside, took out five low-grade spirit stones and handed them over:

"Except for the spirit stones you gave out yesterday, you can keep the remaining four spirit stones with you. If there is anything in the house that requires spirit stones, you can make an account and tell me later."

Yu'er took the spirit stone respectfully and put it carefully in her purse.

Seeing Tian Lin going to get his robe from the bedside, she quickly asked, "Why didn't you put on the new clothes the elder gave you yesterday?"

Tian Lin heard that she seemed to be hinting at something, so he picked up the clothes but was not in a hurry to put them on. He asked, "Besides keeping away dust and insects, what other uses does that piece of clothing have?"

Yu'er said, "Master is now a foundation-building expert. You must know the difference between immortals and mortals. It is better not to confuse him with mortals in terms of clothing."

Tian Lin spread out his clothes, which he brought from Yulong Continent.

Although it is not as good as the precious clothes given by the Tong family, the material is also of superior quality.

Yu'er smiled and walked over to the bedside, picking up the robe that the great elder had given her yesterday. She put it on Tian Lin and said,

“In addition to the cloud patterns on the clothes, the clothing of mortals and monks also differs in many colors.

Master, you are a strong person who has established a foundation, so you must have a gold border and jade beads as buckles. "

She said: "Others who see this gold-rimmed jade button will know that you are a foundation-building expert. You can go to places that ordinary people cannot go.

You can enter and exit freely in some places where strong foundation builders don’t need spirit stones. "

Tian Lin glanced at Yu'er's collar and looked at the silver cloud pattern on it: "Do Qi Refiners also have special clothing?"

Yu'er said, "There is a difference between immortals and mortals. This is the best way to distinguish between mortals and cultivators. It also prevents some mortals from being reckless and bumping into nobles and endangering their lives."

Hearing Yuer say this, these differentiating clothing is actually a form of protection for mortals.

While the two of them were talking, Cui'er came over from outside the house and said at the door:

"What do you want for breakfast, Master? If you want to eat spiritual rice, you can make some Yunzi porridge."

"What kind of spiritual rice do we have in our house?"

After Tian Lin asked, he heard Cui'er say at the door: "This time I brought a portion of each of the five kinds of spiritual rice from the mansion. It depends on what kind of spiritual rice you want to eat, Master."

Tian Lin asked Cui Er again: "Is the spiritual rice in our Pingyang City expensive?"

Although Cui'er was a servant, her job was not purchasing goods, and she was speechless for a moment.

Yu'er quickly said, "We have our own spiritual fields in our house, and we grow all five colors of spiritual rice. If you want to buy spiritual rice, you don't need to spend many spiritual stones to buy spiritual rice with your status as a worshiper.

The only thing is, you can only use this magical rice for yourself, and you can’t sell it.”

After she finished speaking, she continued, "I wonder if the master needs to buy some spiritual rice. I'll go downstairs and ask the housekeeper later."

Tian Lin now has only more than eighty low-grade spirit stones in his pocket, thirty of which were given by the Tong family.

He didn't know how much he would have to spend on spiritual stones next, so he hesitated for a moment and said, "Don't rush to buy them, just eat the spiritual rice sent by Tongfu."

He ate the spiritual rice for the sword spirit. If he really wanted to enhance his cultivation, he might as well drink the "spiritual liquid" directly.

However, the spiritual liquid plays a great role in the Qi Refining Stage, but does not have much effect in the Foundation Building Stage.

"I heard that there are many spells for sale on the street, even the Five Elements Golden Elixir Technique."

While Tian Lin was drinking porridge, he asked Yu'er beside him.

Yu'er smiled and said, "Because the Five Elements Golden Elixir Technique is an orthodox cultivation method, the most people practice it. Also, because there are so many people practicing it, this technique is no longer a secret.

If you want this magic, you don't have to buy it outside. I will ask the housekeeper and send you a copy later."

Tian Lin put down the spoon and couldn't help but praise: "The Tong family is really rich and powerful."

His praise was sincere, and Yu'er couldn't help but say with some pride:
"Our Tong family has gone through two thousand years and has indeed accumulated a lot of family property. All of this is thanks to our ancestor Tong Yao."

Rely on ancestor Tong Yao?

They probably rely on a small Qi-refining family like Zhou Qing's. Otherwise, where would they get so many spiritual fields to grow spiritual rice?

Tian Lin actually didn't have much good feelings towards the Tong family. Perhaps he had interacted with the Zhou family too many times in the illusion, so he felt somewhat sympathetic towards Zhou Qing and his wife.

But he would not stand up for the Zhou family. As a person born in Huahualang family, how could he feel sorry for those children from aristocratic families?

Tian Lin wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, stood up and said to Yu'er, "I'm going out for a while. If anyone comes, tell them that I won't be back until the evening." Tian Lin left as soon as he said that, and walked out of the house in a few steps.

After he disappeared, Cui Er, who was cleaning up the dishes, couldn't help but curl her lips and said:

"He's old, but he eats more than a pig. He gave us five bowls of Yunzi porridge, but he didn't leave any for us."

Her sister Yu'er said with a smile: "How can a servant be so concerned about the master's leftovers?"

Cui Er said indignantly: "When we were serving the young ladies in the mansion, we were always given a bowl of spiritual rice.
I thought being assigned to serve a foundation-building cultivator was a good job, but I didn't expect that this foundation-building cultivator was not only old and ugly, but also knew none of the hundreds of arts of cultivation and was so stingy.

If we follow him, let alone enjoy a good life, I'm afraid our life will be worse than that of the mansion."

After hearing this, Yu'er also frowned.

She had fought hard to get this job, and spent a lot of spirit stones on it.

I thought it was a good job, but it turned out to be a hell of a job.

Judging from Mr. Tian's attitude, he might not even be able to support himself in the future, so how can he support his two girls?

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Tian Lin didn't think much about the two girls at this time. He just walked around the shops on the street and then left Pingyang City.

Yu'er was right about what she said; this outfit saved him from a lot of trouble.

Not to mention that ordinary people who saw him on the street would actively give way to him, even when he was entering and leaving the city, the soldiers guarding the city were extremely polite to him and would not question his identity or origin.

He remembered what the man called "Seventh Master" said yesterday, that it is best not to fly with a sword in or outside the city to avoid misunderstanding.

Fortunately, Pingyang City was not far from Chenxiantang, and Tian Lin used the wind-walking technique to reach the coast in no time.

On the coast, the Sanhe Gang’s ships were about to set sail.

The leader was the man with the square scarf who threw a harpoon at Tian Lin yesterday. The man with the square scarf's face changed slightly when he saw Tian Lin. He had already seen Tian Lin's cultivation level from his clothes.

"I was blind yesterday and offended you, Senior. Please forgive me."

The man with the square scarf did not hide. Instead, he got off the boat and knelt in front of Tian Lin.

Tian Lin was not here to show off. He smiled and took out the Tong family's offering from his storage bag and said, "I am going out to sea to fish just like you guys."

Zhang Xiaoke's face changed, thinking that Tian Lin was blaming them for not allowing him to fish yesterday.

Zhang Xiaoke gritted his teeth, pulled out the dagger from his waist and offered it with both hands: "I was at fault for what happened yesterday. If you want to punish me, just punish me."

Behind him, some of the fishermen were standing on the boat, while others were standing on the shore. They looked at Tian Lin with fear in their eyes, while some dared to be angry but not to speak.

"I don't mean to blame you. I just want you to teach me how to fish."

Zhang Xiaoke frowned, looked up at Tian Lin's serious face, and then he was sure that Tian Lin was not speaking in a sarcastic way.

But he still found it incredible, and after being helped up by Tian Lin, he bravely said:
"With your cultivation level, why would you bother fishing to earn spirit stones?"

Tian Lin said: "I don't know any of the various arts of cultivating immortality. Thinking carefully, it seems that only fishing can supplement the family income."

Zhang Xiaoke was silent for a while, and then he said:
"Senior, if you want to learn how to fish, I naturally have nothing to say. There is only one thing, if you can't catch any fish, please don't take your anger out on us."

Tian Lin followed Zhang Xiaoke onto the boat. He just watched these people operate the whole time and didn't say much.

After the thousand-year-old wooden boat drifted along the coast for a day, a group of people returned with only two sea fish on the huge deck.

Zhang Xiaoke sighed and said to Tian Lin:

"If you had come six months earlier, you might have been able to earn some spirit stones. But six months ago, that unknown great man carried out a massacre, and the already scarce sea fish on the coast became even fewer."

Tian Lin knew that he was talking about the Nine-Life Immortal.

To be honest, half of the reason why Jiu Ming Zhenren appeared in Chen Xiantang was because of Tian Lin.

However, Tian Lin himself did not know why the Nine-Life Immortal suddenly gave up on killing him for no reason and instead ran to Chenxiantang to "make trouble".

Near dusk, the fishing boat finally docked.

Although they got two two-headed fish, no one in the group was happy.

Zhang Xiaoke said to Tian Lin, "When fishing in Chenxian Pond, you cannot use a flying sword, as it will sink when it enters the water.

The fish monsters near the shore are very cunning and often hide in the water several feet below the sea surface. True Qi cannot penetrate the water surface, and spiritual consciousness cannot enter the water to attack the sea fish.

The only way is to use a harpoon made of thousand-year-old wood - but a harpoon made of thousand-year-old wood is difficult to break through the scales of sea fish. In short, even if you are a foundation-building cultivator, it may not be easy to earn spirit stones by fishing. "

From what Zhang Xiaoke said, he wanted to persuade Tian Lin to give up fishing.

But Tian Lin only asked Zhang Xiaoke: "How much can a two-headed fish like this sell for?"

Zhang Xiaoke thought for a moment and said, "The meat of this two-headed fish is poisonous and cannot be sold as spiritual meat. Fortunately, its scales can be sold to weapon refiners, and its internal organs can be sold to alchemists.

By this calculation, this two-headed fish can be worth about seven or eight low-grade spirit stones."

Seven or eight low-grade spirit stones were not a small amount, but in order to catch this fish, Zhang Xiaoke and his companions dispatched four or five small boats, involving more than a dozen people.

If so many people were to share seven or eight low-grade spirit stones, how much could they get?

What's more, half of these seven or eight low-grade spirit stones have to be handed over to the Tong family.

How much can remain in their hands?

"A talisman maker can earn dozens of low-grade spirit stones a day. If I can catch ten fish monsters like this in a day, I think the spirit stones I earn will not be less than that of a talisman maker."

Tian Lin muttered something, then smiled and said to Zhang Xiaoke, "I need your help to teach me which fish are valuable and which are not these days."

After Tian Lin left, the fishermen of the Sanhe Gang looked at each other, and finally one of them couldn't help but say:

"Is this old man crazy? He is a strong foundation-building expert, why is he here to join in the fun? Is the spiritual stones he earns from fishing enough for him to buy a Water God Pill?"

Zhang Xiaoke shook his head, retracted his gaze from the direction where Tian Lin disappeared, and said coldly:
"There are no fish in the coastal waters now. Are you still afraid that he will steal your catch? Save your energy and think about how to report to the Tong family."

They had received an order to go to sea, and as the year was coming to an end, they had to pay an additional amount of spirit stones.

(End of this chapter)