Chapter 193 Who bows to whom?

After returning to the city, Yu Zhiyi refused the broker's repeated requests and went directly back to Yiluan Charity.

She had a premonition that she wouldn't need to look at the house anymore.

She has a special connection with that house on North Suburb Street.

Next, all you have to do is wait.

Manager Wu had ordered the food to be prepared early in the morning, and Yu Zhiyi was able to eat a fresh and hot meal as soon as she returned to Yiluan Charity.

After finishing her meal, she began to tidy up her things.

The things she took out from the Du family were all publicly available; they were part of the dowry given to her by the Yu family.

She kept all her own belongings in a spatial talisman.

A space talisman is a kind of space artifact. Don't be fooled by the fact that it's just a piece of paper; it contains dozens of square meters of space, enough to hold a lot of things.

In the past, when she secretly slipped out of the Yu residence to make money, she would hide the money in a spatial talisman.

During her months at the Prime Minister's residence, in addition to receiving fifty taels of silver each month, she also received many other good things.

Prime Minister Du received a jade thumb ring worth eight thousand taels, along with jewelry, Buddhist beads, and one thousand taels of silver from Madam Yao.

Adding the money she earned from Du Ziheng, the total amounted to tens of thousands of taels.

Even excluding the portion to be donated, there were still more than 30,000 taels left.

And this still doesn't include those facial gestures and jade tablets.

"This amount of money is considerable, but it's probably not enough to make a golden statue of our ancestor and support our master and the others."

She remembered her master saying that the Tianji Sect was very poor, and she and several of her fellow disciples stayed on the mountain, unable to even afford food.

The patriarch had always wanted to sculpt a golden statue, but unfortunately, his master was too poor and had no money at all.

Don't ask, the answer is that among all the people in the family, there isn't a single one who isn't short of money despite having three or five deficiencies.

Yu Zhiyi expressed her sympathy for this.

She knows what she lacks.

Compared to the poverty of her master and fellow disciples, what she lacked seemed insignificant.

After all, you won't die if you have no family ties, but you will if you're poor.

Poverty not only leads to hunger, but also deprives them of cultivation resources.

Yu Zhiyi looked at the five boxes she had taken out from the bottom of the space talisman and couldn't help but sigh.

This was given to her by her master when she became his disciple. He said it was a gift from her senior brothers who knew that their master was about to take on a junior sister.

The eldest brother gave him a piece of wood struck by lightning.

The second senior brother gave him a stack of talismans.

My third senior brother gave me a bottle of pills.

My fourth senior brother gave me a set of simple and elegant Taoist robes.

My fifth senior brother gave me a peach wood sword.

Although lightning-struck wood is rare, it doesn't need to be bought.

That stack of talismans consisted of the simplest protective talismans, cleansing talismans, fire-controlling talismans, lightning-controlling talismans, water-controlling talismans, and wind-controlling talismans. Yu Zhiyi could draw hundreds of them in an hour.

The pill was a rare Qi Refining Pill, a rarity in the mortal world, but the bottle used to hold it was extremely shabby, with a crack in it. It was obvious that the third senior brother was too poor to afford a decent bottle.

The martial arts uniform was dusty and gray.

The peach wood sword was exquisitely crafted, but it wasn't worth much money.

This shows that the senior students were really poor.

The master was also poor.

The gift her master gave her upon entering the sect was three Five Emperors Coins.

Yu Zhiyi had always wanted to send the money she earned to her sect so that her master and several senior brothers could live a better life.

However, she was previously bound by the Yu family and later by the Du family, so she was unable to leave for long.

Now that she has broken away from those two places, she can start thinking about establishing her own sect.

The only problem is that she has never been to the Heavenly Mystery Sect and does not know its exact location.

Hmm.

Or, how about we do some calculations?

Just as they were about to make their calculations, Steward Wu's voice suddenly rang out from outside the door: "Master, people from the Duke of Pingnan's mansion are requesting an audience."

Yu Zhiyi paused.

"knew."

She has time and isn't in a hurry.

Anyway, she is no longer bound by anyone. As long as she accumulates enough vacation days, she can legitimately ask the emperor for leave.

Yu Zhiyi arrived at the reception room on the first floor, where she saw a dignified elder standing with his hands behind his back.

This man exuded a powerful aura, and his body was faintly tinged with blood.

However, beyond the crimson hue, there was a golden aura of merit surrounding it.

Although she hadn't remembered the man's face at the palace banquet, Yu Zhiyi still recognized him: "Duke Pingnan, what brings you here so late at night?"

The Duke of Pingnan's sharp eyes swept over the woman in front of him.

He had already witnessed her abilities at the palace banquet, but he hadn't taken them seriously before.

It wasn't until evening that the Duke's coachman came to report that his son had gone missing.

He also said that his son had a conflict with Yu Zhiyi before he went missing.

"With such extraordinary foresight as Doctor Yu, he must know why Your Excellency has come here."

He came to ask for help, but he still acted like a duke.

Yu Zhiyi's expression was indifferent: "If the Duke doesn't tell me, how would I know?"

The middle-aged man beside the Duke of Pingnan stepped forward and said coldly, "How dare you! You are just a fifth-rank physician, yet you dare to speak and behave so improperly in front of the Duke! Where is your manners? Neither the Yu family nor that poisonous woman taught you that you should bow to the Duke?"

Yu Zhiyi exclaimed, "Ah!" and asked, "Do I need to bow?"

Just as the man was about to say "Of course," he looked up and saw that Yu Zhiyi had put something in her hand.

A golden token.

The four large characters above, “As if I were personally present,” almost blinded him.

The man's arrogance immediately subsided.

Yu Zhiyi fiddled with the token, then casually looked up and said, "If the Duke has nothing else to say, please leave."

"It's getting late, and I'd like to rest."

Duke Pingnan: "..."

Duke Pingnan could only offer a bow first.

The man next to him changed his expression and quickly followed suit with a bow.

After the ceremony, the Duke of Pingnan said, "...I do have something I would like to ask Physician Yu for help with."

The noble and aloof demeanor of the Duke of Pingnan seemed to be just an illusion. He suddenly became approachable: "Doctor Yu had foreseen that my son would be in trouble today. It was my son who was blind to the importance of a great man and did not heed the advice. I have come here to ask Doctor Yu to help me save my son."

Seeing that he had finally learned to speak properly, Yu Zhiyi put away the token: "No problem, no problem."

"Cheng Hui, one thousand taels per person, totaling ten thousand taels. Please settle the bill first."

Duke Pingnan: "?"

"We are both officials in the same court, and you actually want money?"

Yu Zhiyi was even more puzzled than him: "Pingnan Gong is just my colleague, neither my father nor my son. Why can't I ask for money? You don't think that the talismans I use and the spiritual power I consume can be obtained so easily, do you?"

Duke Pingnan: "..."

"Or is it that the Duke only wants to save your son and doesn't care about anyone else? If so, a thousand taels will be enough."

Duke Pingnan: "...Save me!"

He practically spat out the word through clenched teeth.

Those people all went into the woods with his son. If people found out that he only cared about his son and ignored everyone else, they would criticize him relentlessly.

He wasn't afraid of his subordinates spreading rumors, but among those people were the son of the Vice Minister of War and the daughter of the Grand Tutor. If these people started making trouble, it wouldn't be a joke.

"When I perform exorcisms or fortune telling, I only accept real money. I'll leave whenever I get the money."

Duke Pingnan: "..."

Just as Duke Pingnan was so distressed he was almost vomiting blood, the young master and others in the grove also vomited blood.

This isn't an adjective; it's real—vomiting blood.

If you were to ask them how they feel right now, they would say regret.

I really regret it.

If they could turn back time, they would definitely choose to listen to Yu Zhiyi.