Chapter 42: Rescue the 'Daughter-in-law'

"Not everything you think is good is good. I hope you will know when to stop."

Qi Xu didn't want her to continue being stubborn. Since he had just "fooled" the younger one, it should be easier to "fool" the older one.

"Why? Why? No! No!"

"Yes! I still have a daughter-in-law! I still have my daughter-in-law to accompany me!"

Perhaps because she would never see her son again, the aunt placed her so-called "emotions" on the girl who fainted from crying at the door.

Qi Xu took a step sideways, blocking the girl with his entire body. "She is free now, and is no longer your daughter-in-law."

"Who allowed this? Her parents took my money, so she's destined to be my daughter-in-law for the rest of her life!"

The old lady clenched her hands, raised her head and looked at Qi Xu with bloodshot eyes, resisting in vain.

"Yo! Are you sure what the police will do to you if they find out you're trafficking people?"

"Today's society will never tolerate your private trafficking of human beings. Do you want to spend the rest of your life in prison?"

"Besides, if you don't do good deeds in the remaining half of your life and don't accumulate enough merit to atone for your sins, you will end up with a miserable death."

"Even so, you still want her to continue to be your daughter-in-law?"

Qi Xu's words were like a lingchi knife, cutting into the aunt's body and flesh, causing her to fall down without support in an instant.

“I, I…”

"Master, am I going to live alone for the rest of my life?"

She didn't want to give up yet and wanted to hear the last glimmer of hope from Qi Xu.

"No one says you'll be alone for the rest of your life. As long as you don't cling to anything, do good, and accumulate merit, someone will surely come to live with you."

Qi Xu knew exactly what her aunt was thinking, but she didn't say anything final. Besides, the cycle of cause and effect in this world was not something she could control, and there might be a different ending in the future.

"Ugh~ Master, Master, please save me. I don't want to marry a dead person."

The girl who had fainted on the threshold just woke up and looked up to see Qi Xu's tall figure blocking the light in front of her.

In a trance, I saw that she seemed to be covered with a layer of golden light. The girl seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw and grabbed her trouser legs tightly.

"How much did you spend to buy this girl?"

"Five, five hundred dollars."

The aunt seemed to have figured it out. She closed her eyes and spoke with pain, "Tong Xiuyuan, please go."

Tong Xiuyuan, who was originally lying on the ground, thought she was hallucinating. It took her several seconds to react before she managed to stand up. She bowed in the direction of Qi Xu and the aunt, then staggered out the door.

The aunt looked at her son's coffin, as if she thought of something, and went back to the house to take out an envelope.

"Thank you for clearing up my confusion, Master. This is my service fee."

Qi Xu took the envelope and saw that there were two thousand yuan in it, and took out three hundred yuan.

"After what happened, your family doesn't have much savings left. I should have charged 800 yuan for my services, but I'll consider the remaining 500 yuan as my repayment to you on behalf of Tong Xiuyuan."

"Remember, keep good thoughts in your heart, live a good life, and things will turn around."

After saying that, Qi Xu turned around and left. While she was still lamenting the impermanence of life, a figure suddenly rushed out from an alley and knelt down in front of her.

"Master, please save me. My parents have taken the money they earned from selling me and abandoned me. I have nowhere to go. Please accept me as your disciple. I will serve you for the rest of my life."

After Qi Xu lowered his head and looked carefully, he saw clearly that the person kneeling on the ground was Tong Xiuyuan.

"Although you have a connection with this path, you don't have the opportunity to cultivate it. You need to achieve great things. Perhaps if you continue eastward, you will find a new way out."

"These two hundred yuan will be your travel expenses for now. Don't be embarrassed. I may need your help in the future."

Qi Xu raised his hand and touched his mustache again, and continued to speak while looking at Tong Xiuyuan who lowered her head without any reaction.

"Tong Xiuyuan, you must believe that everything you are going through now is a stepping stone for your future achievements. Don't deny yourself easily."

Until this moment, Tong Xiuyuan raised her head in disbelief and looked at her with great suspicion, feeling that everything she said was so unbelievable.

"What? It seems you still don't believe me. If you don't believe me, why don't you take the money and go to the East to prove that I'm not telling the truth?"

She found that Tong Xiuyuan was not someone who would obey orders blindly, so she could only find ways to provoke her.

"Thank you, Master, for pointing me in the right direction. I will definitely return after completing my studies."

Hmm? It really worked. Qi Xu was secretly delighted, but on the surface he remained indifferent and just handed the money forward.

Tong Xiuyuan took the money and wanted to continue kowtow to her, but she stopped her by grabbing her sleeve.

Qi Xu looked at the position of the sun hanging in the sky and guessed that it was getting late. He didn't bother with Tong Xiuyuan anymore. He nodded slightly to her and turned to leave.

Nothing was more important than her coming home to cook. When she got home, Qi Hong had already prepared half of the meal.

"Sorry, Grandpa, I got delayed on the way and came back late."

Qi Xu entered the yard, put down the backpack, walked into the kitchen, washed his hands, rolled up his sleeves and joined the cooking team.

After dinner, she said hello to Qi Hong as usual and went out for a walk with the two wolves.

In Qi Xu's mind, everything can be delayed, except meditation and the circulation of mental power.

However, this meditation brought her another unexpected gain.

She didn't know when her meditation broke through a level, and in the meditation space she vaguely saw golden merit points.

She didn't know why the merit points suddenly appeared, but it was indeed good news.

As long as merit points appear, it means that her current low-level cultivation of this body can be improved to a higher level.

Without thinking too much, Qi Xu continued to practice the body shield with the little baby spirit, while Xue Niang continued to improve the opening of her spiritual intelligence, and the little wolf cub was thrown into the spiritual spring by her to activate the healing power.

I didn't let the wolf cub in before because I was a little worried that the wolf cub was too small to digest the healing power of the spiritual spring in a short time.

During this period, the little wolf cub had grown a lot stronger due to eating meat every day, and naturally it had grown a lot taller. Now that it was placed in the spiritual spring, its half-grown body could still use its two little paws to cling to the stone wall beside the spring.

Another meditation made her mental strength stronger. All the mental strength she had consumed today was replenished and even more abundant.

I returned to the yard happily, washed up, lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

She, who never dreamed before, seemed to see Jiang Hongyi in a daze. It seemed that Jiang Hongyi had thrown himself into the sea to save others...