Chapter 22: Retreat to Advance
Everyone in the Xianlai Sect knew Meng Zhu. He and Du Yue had been in love for three years and had frequent interactions.
Du Yue liked him very much, and she would talk about him for a while every time they met.
Meng Zhu has a sick mother at home who cannot stop taking medicinal pills. In order to make his life better, Du Yue always gives him money to subsidize him.
Everyone felt that this was not a good thing, but Meng Zhu was always very polite and courteous every time he met them, and generally speaking there was nothing wrong with him, so it was difficult to say anything.
Not to mention that Du Yue didn't believe Mo Jiuwei's words when he first heard them, even Ji Qingqing, an outsider, felt that it was a bit outrageous at the time and felt that Meng Zhu's crime did not deserve such a crime.
But now…
Chen Lan happened to pass by at this time, and he heard Mo Jiuwei's words unexpectedly. He thought about it and took out the voice stone and began to call other people from Xianlai Sect to come over.
Because there are too few disciples in the Xianlai Sect, there are many places in the sect that are abandoned and everyone lives in a relatively concentrated area.
So after a while, everyone put down what they were doing and ran over. As soon as they arrived, they saw Ji Qingqing and Chen Lan standing together watching the show.
"Junior Sister Ji, Senior Sister Chen, what's going on?"
"Shh, don't make any noise, just watch first."
The people from the Xianlai Sect stood in a group, each trying to make their figures smaller, and then sneaked a peek at what was happening over at Du Yue's place.
There were so many people, and Du Yue was facing their direction, so it was hard not to see them!
When she found so many people peeking at her, she couldn't help but twitching her lips, but she didn't expose them. Instead, she adjusted her position so that Meng Zhu opposite her would not notice anything.
"I see. But Yueyue, you look so dazzling today that I can't take my eyes off you." Meng Zhu looked at Du Yue affectionately, sizing her up from head to toe, and said.
Du Yue found that his gaze lingered on the hairpin in her hair for a while longer, and she couldn't help feeling a little depressed.
Then she convinced herself that this didn't mean anything yet, and she should wait a little longer...
"Really? This was given to me by Junior Sister Meng Ling."
When Meng Ling was refining magic weapons, he also had a lot of things to try out, like this hairpin. It looks very beautiful, but it is actually not a magic weapon. It is just a decoration.
Meng Ling made a lot of these hairpins, and everyone got one. It was only because Mo Jiuwei was too young and her hair was sparse, otherwise she would have definitely been given one.
[Here it comes, he will definitely continue to ask whether the Xianlai Sect has made a fortune.] Mo Jiuwei thought.
Ji Qingqing and Du Yue couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
"You actually have some spare money in your hands? I saw that Junior Sister Ji was dressed very well just now, not like before." Meng Zhu asked curiously.
After asking, he found that Du Yue looked at him with a strange look in his eyes, "Yueyue, what's wrong with you?"
"It's not that I have a lot of spare money, but I just have enough to eat." Du Yue lowered his eyes and said.
Meng Zhu was eager to answer the questions in his mind, so he didn't take Du Yue's abnormality seriously at all. Seeing her answer, he asked impatiently: "I heard outside that Xianlai Sect seemed to have some adventures. Now it seems to be true? Yueyue, I am really happy for you."
Meng Zhu smiled very sincerely, as if he was really happy for her.
Du Yue relaxed a little, thinking that maybe he was just concerned about her and asked her this question.
"You are well-informed, but what is spread outside is still a bit exaggerated. We were just lucky enough to hunt some monsters when we went out for training, and then we got some crystals after selling the things we found." Du Yue said.
"I see."
Meng Zhu's eyes flickered, but he felt doubtful in his heart.
Hunting monsters?
As for the people from Xianlai Sect, their strength is average. They don’t even have any elixirs to heal their wounds, and most of their magic weapons have been sold... What can they use to hunt monsters?
The Xianlai Sect is so poor now, the crystal stones that can be used for emergency must be not a small number. How many monsters would have to be hunted to earn that much money?
So either Du Yue was lying, and what they got actually had another origin. Or the monster they hunted was not an ordinary creature at all, but a rare monster with a high price!
But he didn't ask any more questions, just sighed and said, "Alas."
[He sighed! Then he would definitely start to complain and show his sympathy! ]
[Humph, I can see through this cheap trick at a glance.]
[That is to say, Senior Sister Du is young and inexperienced, so she was fooled by this kind of trick. ]
Du Yue pursed her lips and said, "Brother Zhu, why are you sighing? Is there something troubling you?"
"Yueyue, don't ask. I don't want to bother you with my affairs. It's rare that your Xianlai Sect has made progress. I also want you to practice well and not be disturbed by these trivial matters." Meng Zhu said seriously.
[Ugh, I want to vomit, this scumbag is really good at pretending! ]
【What a good move: retreat in order to advance. 】
[It's over. Senior Sister Du will be moved by sympathy now. She will definitely ask more questions and then obediently take out the crystal to help the scumbag! ]
[No, these people from Xianlai Sect have already arrived, are they just here to watch the show? They must not watch Senior Sister Du being cheated of her money without stopping it! ]
Mo Jiuwei became anxious when she saw this, because she could almost foresee what would happen next.
Just like the methods this scumbag used before, very old-fashioned and low-level, but it worked on Senior Sister Du Yue!
"How can you say that? Your business is my business. If you have something to say, just tell me. Otherwise, I will be worried about you too." Du Yue's eyelashes trembled, then he raised his head and asked, his tone full of concern.
The corners of Meng Zhu's mouth curled up slightly, and he barely managed to suppress it with some effort.
"You know, my mother...sigh, her illness keeps recurring and it's hard to get better. I'm afraid the previous medicine can't cure her anymore. I have to change the medicine, but I don't have the money to hire an alchemist."
Meng Zhu smiled bitterly and shook his head in self-mockery.
Du Yue's heart turned cold.
All of Meng Zhu's reactions were unexpectedly within the expectations of Junior Sister! Was all this a coincidence, or was Meng Zhu really...
What else would the people of Xianlai Sect not know after seeing this?
Even if you believed in Meng Zhu originally, you now know what his cunning intentions are after hearing what he said. Besides, no one trusted him that much in the first place.
The first one who wanted to stand up was Hu Jiu. In his opinion, all the female disciples in the sect were his sisters, and as a senior brother, he must protect them.
If anyone dares to cheat my junior sisters, I will never let him go!
But Liu Feng reached out and grabbed Hu Jiu's arm and shook his head at him.
They can hear Jiuwei's words, so can Du Yue?
Now that you've heard it, you must have an idea of what's going on. Let's wait and see what decision she will make.
With them around, it's impossible for them to just watch her suffer without saying anything.
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