Chapter 11 Extremely Wealthy Is our sect really that rich? ...
Southern Vietnam is a city where the four seasons are not very distinct. It rarely snows in winter and is not very cold. Even in the deep mountains and forests, the daytime temperature can be in the twenties.
It wasn't until after the Lesser Cold that the weather gradually turned cold.
This morning there was a mountain rain, and Lin Jianyu almost froze to death when he went out to pee.
He returned wrapped in Lin Jinshui's Taoist robe, still shivering.
Lin Jinshui, whose Taoist robe had been ripped off: "..."
Although he was not afraid of the severe cold, but...
"I didn't give you a blanket."
“That one’s cold, but yours is warm.” Lin Jianyu sat by the fire, her teeth chattering uncontrollably.
What could Lin Jinshui do? He could only pick up the one she didn't want and put it on, lest the one she was wearing get cold and she try to pull off his undergarments.
"Pack up later, we'll leave here first thing tomorrow morning."
"Where to?" It's cold here, but at least we have shelter from the wind and rain. Leaving here will only make it colder.
"Let's go down the mountain," Lin Jinshui said. "I'll take you to find your second and third uncles and celebrate the New Year together."
Lin Jianyu thought that his so-called leaving here meant leaving the place they were currently in, not leaving this mountain forest. Upon hearing this, his eyes lit up: "Where are my second and third senior uncles?"
"Also in South Vietnam, Pengcheng."
Is it far from us?
"It's not too far if you take a car."
"Are we going to take a car?"
"You want to walk?"
"That's not true."
It's so cold, anyone who wants to walk can walk, she's not going to.
After deciding to leave early the next morning, Lin Jianyu packed her luggage very diligently.
After spending more than three months in the mountains, the winter food they had stocked up before entering the mountains had been almost used up, which was one of the reasons why Lin Jinshui wanted to leave.
In addition, there are two other reasons.
One reason is that he has absorbed the spiritual energy here for two months, which has become quite thin. If he continues to absorb it, it will be depleted. The other reason is that the weather will get colder and colder, especially after spring arrives.
Spring in southern Vietnam is rainy and very humid, and the temperature is lower than in winter, sometimes dropping below zero. It's unbearably cold even in the city, let alone in the mountains and forests. He himself was fine, but Lin Jianyu was not.
Even after the abnormality occurred, her health was not good; staying in the mountains in the cold weather made her prone to illness.
Although drinking some of his blood would be fine, he couldn't be sure whether drinking too much of his blood would be good or bad for her, so he didn't dare give her too much, fearing that too much of anything would have the opposite effect.
It took them seven days to walk out of the mountains. For most of the journey, Lin Jianyu was carried by Lin Jinshui. It wasn't that she was lazy; the main reason was that the path down the mountain was difficult to walk, and also, it was much faster for Lin Jinshui to carry her than for her to walk on her own.
After leaving the mountains, they stayed overnight in a nearby town. The next morning, they took a car to find Lin Jinshui's two senior brothers.
Lin Jianyu had hitched a ride on a train before, but this was her first time riding a bus. At first, it was quite novel, but later she was so jolted by the bumps that she almost threw up. When she got off the bus, she felt like she was half dead.
When Lin Jinshui told her that she would have to transfer to another bus, she almost cried.
Seeing her pale face and the look of impending tears, he couldn't bring himself to take her to the car. Instead, he carried her on his back and walked to the residence of his two senior brothers in Pengcheng.
Fortunately, this place was not far from where his two senior brothers lived in Pengcheng. It would only take a few hours to walk there. He had carried her down the mountain road for several days, so a few more hours on the road would make a difference.
When we arrived, it was already close to dusk.
Looking at the small villa with its own garden in front of her, Lin Jianyu suspected that her master had gone down the wrong road.
"Is our sect really that rich?" In this era, those who could afford to live in such a small villa in Nanyue were either rich or noble. Since it was known that everyone in their sect was a charlatan and had nothing to do with being noble, they could only be rich, extremely rich.
“After the reform and opening up, your third uncle made a lot of money.” Lin Jinshui answered her question while ringing the doorbell.
"By selling talismans? Or what you're saying, exorcising ghosts, catching demons, and doing feng shui?"
"Neither, it's all about going into business."
"My third senior uncle has this skill!"
Life is tough, so be multi-talented.
As the two were talking, a boy of about ten years old came out of the house and opened the door for them.
Upon seeing Lin Jinshui, the young man's face lit up with joy, and he greeted him with a smile, "Sect Master Junior Uncle."
"Sect Leader?" Lin Jianyu turned to look at Lin Jinshui, his face showing confusion.
"Didn't I tell you that I am the sect leader?"
Lin Jianyu shook his head.
At first, she thought the sect leader was her grandmaster, but later she learned that her grandmaster had passed away, so she thought it was one of her senior uncles, the eldest, second, or third senior uncles, but it couldn't possibly be him.
As it turned out, neither the eldest, second, nor third senior uncles were the right person; the least likely candidate became the sect leader.
“It’s not too late to tell you now, anyway, it’s not important,” Lin Jinshui said.
Lin Jianyu realized that if it was important, he shouldn't be allowed to take the position.
"Is this your junior brother?" The young man had already guessed Lin Jianyu's identity from listening to the conversation between the master and disciple, but he still asked.
“Not junior brother, but junior sister.” After saying that, Lin Jinshui turned to Lin Jianyu and said, “I told you to wear girls’ clothes, but you didn’t listen.”
Lin Jianyu had no idea that everyone in his sect was just as blind as he was.
Yes, I absolutely refuse to admit it's because I was wearing a boy's clothes.
"Junior Sister!" The boy's eyes widened as he realized what he had said, as if he had learned something incredible.
"She's just a junior sister, nothing to be surprised about." When Lin Jinshui said this, he completely forgot how surprised he was when he found out Lin Jianyu was a girl just a few months ago.
"There's nothing to be surprised about." The young man looked Lin Jianyu up and down as if she were some rare species. While looking her up and down, he said, "Junior Sister, you are the only one in the sect. There is no one like you among the grandmaster, senior uncle, master, or junior uncle."
"My apprentice, mine." What a load of rubbish.
Lin Jinshui pulled Lin Jianyu directly into the house, no longer arguing with him.
"Your apprentice is your apprentice, why are you leaving?" He hadn't had enough of looking at him yet!
"If you like to stay by the door, then stay by yourself."
The boy didn't like to linger by the door, so upon hearing this, he immediately closed the door and jogged after him.
Besides the boy, there were four other people in the house: Lin Jinshui's seventh nephew Xuan Su, eighth nephew Xuan Lie, tenth nephew Zhu Jin, twelfth nephew Zhu Liu, and the boy, who was the eleventh, was named Zhu Jiang.
Those whose names begin with the character "玄" are disciples of Lin Jinshui's second senior brother, while those whose names begin with the character "逐" are disciples of his third senior brother.
At this moment, they were all looking at their sect's only junior sister with the eyes of someone examining a rare species.
Unable to bear their naive and unsophisticated manner, Lin Jinshui hid Lin Jianyu behind her and asked, "Where is your master?"
“My master and ninth senior brother went to Shanghai to discuss business the day before yesterday and won’t be back for a few days. Second senior brother, fifth senior brother, and sixth senior brother went to Hong Kong. My master has given them a job that seems quite tricky, and they probably won’t be back for a while.” The one who answered him was Zhu Jin, who was a year older than him.
"Oh." After learning where the others had gone, Lin Jinshui didn't ask any more questions and changed the subject, "Have you made dinner? My apprentice is hungry."
Lin Jianyu got carsick at noon and only ate a little for lunch. An hour ago, she started complaining of being hungry. He offered to buy her some food, but she refused, saying she wanted to save her stomach for eating here.
"Let's do it now." Zhu Jin called Xuan Su and Xuan Lie to the kitchen, leaving Zhu Jiang and Zhu Liu to continue to look at Lin Jianyu with the eyes of someone examining a rare species.
"That's enough, you guys." Even someone as thick-skinned as her was starting to feel a little embarrassed.
"Junior Sister, how old are you this year?" Zhu Liu asked.
"Nine years old, ten years old after the New Year," Lin Jianyu said.
"Impossible." Zhu Liu didn't believe it. "You're not even as tall as me, how could you be nine years old?"
"How old are you?" Lin Jianyu looked at the little boy in front of her, who was a centimeter or two taller than her, and guessed that he was probably a year or two younger than her.
"Six years old, seven after the New Year." After saying that, Zhu Liu asked, "You're not nine years old, are you?"
"No, I am nine years old," Lin Jianyu said regretfully.
Zhu Liu's expression instantly cracked.
He thought he was finally no longer the youngest in his sect, but when he looked at Lin Jianyu, who was younger than him, he found out that Lin Jianyu was actually three years older than him.
Three years old, not three months, not one or two years, it's a generation gap.
"That was close." Ten-year-old Zhu Jiang patted his little chest.
"It's okay. Even if you're older than me, you're still my junior sister," Zhu Liu forced herself to comfort herself.
"Yes, Junior Brother," Lin Jianyu replied cooperatively.
Upon hearing this, Zhu Liu immediately forgot that he was three years younger than her, completely captivated by the title "Little Senior Brother." He was now a senior brother himself, and he was overjoyed.
"And me, I'm your eleventh senior brother." Zhu Jiang also wanted to lose himself in her calling him senior brother. Although he already had a junior brother, this was his junior sister, the only one in the sect.
"Eleventh Senior Brother," Lin Jianyu called out to him in return.
"Eh."
As they were talking, the three people who had gone to the kitchen to cook returned together.
"It's done so quickly?" Lin Jinshui asked in surprise when he saw the three of them return together.
"How could that be?" It's only been a short time, let alone finished cooking, they haven't even started. "I forgot we didn't buy any groceries today, so we can't cook. What do you want to eat? We'll go out and buy some."
"Your master isn't here, are you all so lazy?" You didn't even buy groceries.
"No, we took on an exorcism job yesterday and have been busy all day today. We didn't have time to buy groceries," Zhu Jin explained.
"What the hell makes you all busy all day?" Lin Jinshui asked.
"I don't know, they're pretty strong. Even the three of us combined couldn't beat them." It was Xuan Su who said this.
"Take me to meet them tomorrow," Lin Jinshui said, intrigued.
"That's exactly what I've been waiting for," Zhu Jin said.
“I want to go too.” Lin Jianyu raised her hand; she wanted to see how they cheated and swindled people.
"And me too."
“With me.”
Zhujiang and Zhuliu also raised their hands.
"Everyone go," Lin Jinshui decided.
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