Chapter 5 Today is My Birthday

After Fu Ning's daily medicinal baths, Xiao Sanhua has returned to normal. Every day she jumps up and down to catch mice and places them on the floor beside Fu Ning's bed like presenting treasures.

After Fu Ning refused once, Xiao Sanhua changed the gift to a sparrow.

This can be roasted and eaten, Fu Ning did not refuse.

After Fu Ning cured Xiao Sanhua, she began to refine detoxification pills for herself. Although she lacked spiritual herbs from the world of cultivation as an aid, the quality of the pill she refined dropped greatly, and it was at most a third-grade pill, but it happened that the dose of poison Song Jinghe gave her was not large.

Fu Ning followed the system's prompts, and every time Song Jinghe poisoned her, she took a pill.

In fact, her death pill can still be regarded as a powerful poison today, which has a lot to do with the fact that she did not provide an antidote back then. If the old guys in the cultivation world knew the antidote formula, they would probably laugh their heads off.

While clearing the toxins from her own body, Fu Ning started to make medicine for Song Jinghe, but she diluted the original formula. According to her plan, Song Jinghe's legs would be able to recover to normal in about a year.

She said to the system with emotion, "I treated Song Jinghe, and Song Jinghe poisoned me. I am repaying evil with kindness."

System: "Boss, you have already cured the poison, why are you still talking about this?"

"Let's put things in perspective. Just because I'm powerful doesn't mean that he wants to harm me." Fu Ning said, "Is there any prop that can maintain the illusion that I'm poisoned?"

System: "Yes, it is, but what do you want it for?"

Fu Ning: "I pretended to be weak to gain favor."

The system suddenly understood, "Okay, the maintenance item is 150 points per month. We have recently accumulated a total of 125 points of favorability from the villagers, which can be exchanged for 250 points. After deducting the 80 points for the sleeping item, there are still 170 points left, which is just enough for this month."

Fu Ning nodded, went to the mall to exchange the item, and looked at his remaining 20 points, his hands trembled.

Three months passed quickly and summer was coming to an end.

Song Jinghe could occasionally feel something in his legs, and every time he felt something, his favorability toward Fu Ning would increase a little. His attitude toward Fu Ning also became much gentler, and even the food he cooked became more and more delicious.

Now the favorability has risen to negative 44, which can be said to be of little effect.

The system was extremely anxious, but Fu Ning calmly made pills for himself and the people in the village, and distributed them to them one by one. He told them the time to take the pills, explained some simple cultivation mantras, and asked them to memorize them well, thus gaining a lot of favorability.

There is almost no mention of the plot of the mountain stronghold in the story, but Fu Ning compared it with the plot given by the system. By the time Song Jinghe destroyed the mountain stronghold, the number of people in the stronghold itself had been reduced a lot. It is very likely that something devastating happened in the stronghold during this period.

After getting along with the people in the village, she found that she liked this isolated village very much and wanted to do her best to avoid bad things.

Fu Ning was confident that no matter what the talents of these people were, as long as they followed her method, everyone would at least be able to reach the Qi Refining Stage.

Just like the original owner's own spiritual roots were poor, according to the exercises and daily elixirs she memorized in her mind, she quickly gathered spiritual energy in her Dantian and reached the late stage of Qi Refining, waiting for the opportunity to break through the Foundation Establishment stage. By then, she could barely join the ranks of cultivators.

That day, after Song Jinghe finished cooking dinner, when Fu Ning went to the small kitchen to get it, he found two bowls of clear soup noodles, each with an egg on top.

With the previous experience of the extremely salty noodles, Fu Ning looked at the two bowls of noodles hesitantly and did not dare to pick up his chopsticks.

Song Jinghe added a pair of bowl and chopsticks for himself, sat down opposite Fu Ning, picked up the bowl of noodles and started eating in small bites.

His movements were as elegant as ever, and if one could ignore his coarse clothes, he still looked like a noble young man.

Fu Ning also picked up his bowl of noodles and started eating without any hesitation.

System: "Boss, please pay attention to your image. The villain just frowned. He likes fairies who are not of this world! This is too rude."

Fu Ning: "He will fall in love with someone like me sooner or later."

Even the clear soup noodles were surprisingly delicious. I don’t know how much better I have made than last time. It seems that Acai’s guidance is very effective.

This man really put a lot of effort into his legs.

Song Jinghe lowered his head and ate a few mouthfuls of noodles, then said in a low voice: "Xiao Shuang, actually... today is my birthday."

Fu Ning bit off the noodles in his mouth and said vaguely, "Why did you tell me now? If you had told me earlier, I could have helped you celebrate."

Song Jinghe shook his head. "It's okay. It's good enough to have you accompany me to eat this bowl of longevity noodles."

Fu Ning raised his eyebrows, thinking there was something behind his words, "How did you celebrate your birthday in the past?"

"My mother would make me a bowl of longevity noodles and eat with me." Song Jinghe stared at the wooden bowl, "But after my mother passed away, no one celebrated my birthday for a long time."

Under the flickering candlelight, there seemed to be a slight gleam in the boy's eyes.

System: Boss, why do I feel that the villain is a bit pitiful?

Fu Ning chatted with the system in his mind, "He is just pretending to be pitiful. How could it be possible that no one remembered the birthday of the eldest son of the Song family?"

System: "That's right, but his mother did pass away when he was ten years old."

Fu Ning thought about it and said to the system: "Then I will comfort him and give him some motherly love."

System: ...I always feel that the direction of my host's attack is wrong.

Fu Ning drank a mouthful of noodle soup and reluctantly put down his bowl and chopsticks. "We all have to give gifts on birthdays. What gift do you want?"

Song Jinghe raised his eyes, a little surprised, "I don't want any gifts, it's just that I haven't been out for a long time..."

So this is the purpose. This person always has a reason for pretending to be pitiful.

Fu Ning smiled and nodded, "Then I'll ask my mother for a day off tomorrow, how about we go out and play for a day? I'll pick out a gift for you by the way."

"Thank you, Xiaoshuang."

The next morning, Fu Ning got up early and went out with Song Jinghe.

The nearest market to the village requires crossing a mountain and a river.

Fu Ning had gotten used to walking by herself after three months, but she was not used to carrying Song Jinghe who was in a wheelchair. When she encountered a difficult path, she had to carry Song Jinghe on her back while dragging the wheelchair with the other hand.

In this hot summer day, she was sweating profusely and exhausted.

While crossing the river, Fu Ning paddled hard, glanced at Song Jinghe who was leisurely enjoying the scenery, and chatted with the system, "I think this trip is absolutely thankless. Song Jinghe can't be holding back good things when he goes out."

System: "I think this will be an opportunity for your relationship to warm up."

Fu Ning didn't expect her system to be so optimistic, and joked: "Want to bet? Will we quarrel with each other or will our relationship warm up?"

The system said disdainfully, "What can you bet with me?"

Fu Ning thought for a moment, "If I lose, I'll use the points I earned to buy you the money for your return trip. If you lose, you can tell me the rest of the story. How about that?"

The system suddenly became excited. The money for the return trip was too tempting. It had been thinking about leaving this backward little world day and night. It only hesitated for a moment before agreeing.

It has not been idle in the past few months, and has repeatedly asked the host for help, but the line was either busy or busy. It is obvious that number 05298 has been abandoned by the host.

In this case, it might as well hack into the host by itself, open up a little bit of permissions, and cooperate with the host in a down-to-earth manner.

After all, this villain is really abnormal and difficult to deal with.

According to its intelligent brain, the probability of it and its host being killed by the villain is still over 80%.

After crossing the river, you can hear the hustle and bustle of the market from afar. On every small road, you can see people leading cows and carrying shoulder poles heading to the market.

A dark-skinned, muscular young man was walking sideways in the market with his chin held high, followed by four younger brothers. The villagers who came to the market avoided them all.

The young man's name was Erniu. He was the youngest son of a landlord from the nearby Liujia Village and a well-known village bully. No good would come of being targeted by them.

Erniu's gaze suddenly fixed on a breakfast stall, and he saw a familiar person - his childhood playmate Xiaoshuang.

When the two of them had a good relationship, he had thought about marrying Xiaoshuang.

He remembered clearly that Xiaoshuang told her that the women in their village did not get married. He was also stupid. He believed whatever Xiaoshuang said and he never forgot her over the years.

But half a year ago, he heard that Xiaoshuang got married, and married a disabled man.

He had always wanted to ask himself in what way he was inferior to this disabled person who could not walk.

Look, he still needs Xiaoshuang to push him to the market. He is clearly a gigolo.

Erniu was very upset, so he gathered a few of his brothers and prepared to lure Fu Ning away and beat that pretty boy up to vent his anger.

His younger brothers were not very motivated and were a little scared. "Brother Niu, what if Shuang Jie finds out and beats us up?"

Erniu slapped him on the head and said, "We'll run when Xiaoshuang comes. You guys should let me, Brother Niu, vent my anger first."

The three younger brothers nodded hesitantly and saw that Brother Niu had already gone up.

"Xiao Shuang, long time no see."

Fu Ning was buying vegetarian buns at the breakfast stall when a sturdy man appeared beside him. He had a good physique, but looked a little silly.

She recognized this person. His name was Liu Erniu. When the original owner was a child, she often went down the mountain to play with him. Erniu was the only one willing to be a free human sandbag for the original owner and was happy to laugh at any beating she gave him.

Fu Ning had a good impression of him and greeted him.

Erniu took out his wallet and said, "Boss, buy five more meat buns."

Fu Ning placed the fragrant meat buns on the oil paper and spit fiercely. If she hadn't spent a lot of money on buying medicinal herbs recently, she wouldn't have to eat only vegetarian buns for breakfast.

Erniu seemed to notice her greed and handed the bun to her generously, "Here, I know you like meat buns."

Fu Ning's eyes lit up and he quickly took the meat bun. This Erniu was really smart.

Song Jinghe grabbed the corner of her clothes, and Fu Ning looked at him.

Song Jinghe said: "Xiaoshuang, I'm hungry."

Fu Ning pursed her lips as she looked at the meat bun she had just gotten.

The system noticed her hesitation and said, "Host, for the sake of the strategy, please eat one less meat bun."

Fu Ning reluctantly took out one and handed it to Song Jinghe. Didn’t this person not like to eat? It was really ill-intentioned of him to snatch the bun from her at this time.

Erniu glared at Song Jinghe. He was sure that this pretty boy had just given him a provocative look.

He clenched his fists so hard that they made a crackling sound, and couldn't wait to beat him up.

"Xiao Shuang, what did you come down the mountain to buy?"

Fu Ning touched Song Jinghe and said, "Buy a birthday present for Xiaojing."

Song Jinghe subconsciously avoided Fu Ning's touch.

Erniu saw it all and believed that Xiaoshuang must have had some difficulties in marrying this pretty boy.

I thought to myself that it was about time.

Sure enough, several of his younger brothers, wearing rags as masks, rushed out from the alley and ran straight towards the pretty boy, pushing Song Jinghe's wheelchair and running away.

Erniu followed behind and pretended to shout, "Hey, what are you guys doing?" Then he ran away.

Fu Ning blinked and looked at the rising dust, stunned.

Why are there still people being robbed in the streets?

The key point is that she knows those people just now. Aren’t they Erniu’s younger brothers? They wouldn't really think that they wouldn't recognize the person just because his face was covered with a rag. After all, they had been with the original owner for several years.

What a bunch of fools. How did the original owner manage to play with them for so many years?

Fu Ning picked up the meat bun and took a big bite. The delicious gravy seeped into the sweet dough, steaming hot.

This is so delicious.

The system couldn't help but say, "Boss, why don't we chase them when they kidnap the villains!"

Fu Ning: "The buns are best eaten while they are hot."

She slowly finished eating four buns and saw a meat bun on the ground that was trampled and covered in dirt. It was the one she had just given to Song Jinghe.

“I hate people who waste food.”

A dirty little white dog appeared out of nowhere, looked at Fu Ning timidly, and picked up the meat bun.

Fu Ning smiled, "Want to go home with me?"

The little white dog nodded.

System: "Boss, you really can communicate with animals."

It thought its host was trying to scare it.

But only a cultivator at least in the Spirit Transformation Realm can possess such ability. Who exactly is its host?

Fu Ning ignored the system and said to the little white dog, "Follow me."