The female cultivator who lived across the street came early to pay back the money she owed yesterday.

He also gave me one more dollar and bought me a bottle of summer-heat-relieving pill.

Seeing the haggard look on the face of this female cultivator, Chen An guessed that she must have been trying to find a way to make money last night and was so busy that she didn't sleep all night.

As for where the money came from and how it was obtained, Chen An didn't care. He just wanted to know that he could make money.

"Husband, it's still early, can we go back to our room and sleep for a while?"

Song Huaying took Chen An's arm, her beautiful eyes full of water, and shook her head coquettishly.

When the female cultivator came to return the money just now, she looked at her carefully from the side.

It turned out that the other person was not inferior to me in terms of appearance or figure.

This made her feel more and more threatened, worrying that if the other party really became her husband's concubine in the future, her current position in the family would be lost.

In order to avoid this situation, she thought that before the other party was taken into the family, she had to try her best to please her husband and further improve her status in his mind.

So, in the following days.

Because of Song Huaying's deliberate efforts, the couple's life gradually returned to the same as before the pregnancy, and they enjoyed love every day.

It’s just that the number of times per day is much less than before, and we are more careful and gentle during the process, and pay more attention to the spiritual communication between each other.

During this period, the female cultivator who lived across the street would come over every once in a while to buy summer-cooling pills.

The intervals between each session became shorter and shorter, as if her seriously ill father's condition had worsened and his need for the summer-heat-relieving pills was growing.

At first, Chen An thought that the summer-relieving pill had side effects that he was not even aware of.

For example, dependence, addiction, etc.

After checking some information, I found out that the reason for this situation was entirely due to the fire poison patient himself.

It was simply the late stage of fire poison, and his physical condition deteriorated sharply, with his condition getting worse day by day.

To put it simply, it is almost the same as terminal cancer in the previous life.

The body will deteriorate day by day until death.

What the female cultivator is doing now is equivalent to spending all her savings on chemotherapy for her seriously ill father, just hoping that he can live a few more years.

Chen An thought about persuading the female cultivator.

He said that if you do this, you will only ruin your own life and cause your father to suffer from illness.

It would be better to let your father end his suffering as soon as possible so that you don’t have to be so tired.

But then I thought, the father and daughter have been dependent on each other for so long, and their relationship is very deep. It is not right for an outsider like me to analyze the pros and cons and make people make choices.

…

The days passed one by one.

【Gold Finger: Getting Started (66/100)】

[Alchemy: First-level intermediate (338/500)]

[Wife: Song Huaying]

[Attribute: A drop of water should be repaid with a spring of gratitude]

[Emotion: 2 stars (299/500)]

[Alchemy experience provided: 320]

[Provided cheat code proficiency: 60]

At a glance, the increase was not significant.

Chen An put away the data in front of him, and couldn't help but think of the young female cultivator who lived across the street, a female cultivator at the first level of Qi Refining named Gu Xinyue.

He still remembered that the other party cried and said that she was willing to be a concubine as long as she could save her father.

Now my wife is almost five months pregnant.

In another two months, I will have to focus on the pregnancy and cannot have sexual intercourse.

By then, whether it is the realm of Dandao or the realm of Golden Finger, the speed of improvement will be greatly reduced.

Judging from this trend, it is somewhat unrealistic to save enough money to move to the core area before your child is born.

After all, from the time of marriage until now, the savings have only amounted to less than 300 low-grade spirit stones.

The only solution at present is to upgrade the Dan Dao realm to the advanced first level as soon as possible.

In this way, the income from alchemy can be greatly increased, which is more than enough to pay the rent in the core area.

For this reason, Chen An must find a partner who can assist him in his practice.

And the candidate he had his eyes on was the young female cultivator who lived across the street - Gu Xinyue.

First, the other person has outstanding appearance and tall figure, which conforms to one's own aesthetic standards.

Second, the other party is young and inexperienced, making it easier to train him in the future.

Third, the other party kept her promise. Once the pills were purchased on credit, she would pay off the money on the date she was promised. She was also strong-willed. As a woman, she shouldered the responsibility of the entire family alone. She was also very filial and never left her father who was so ill that he could not take care of himself.

It would be a shame if you didn't try to lure such an excellent partner candidate into your home.

"Well, let's take it one step at a time."

Chen An lowered his head to glance at his young wife's round and firm belly which was beginning to take shape, and felt extremely worried.

The pressure of starting a family is really great and it’s exhausting.

I really miss my free and unfettered single life.

…

In a blink of an eye, several days passed.

Recently, the situation in the cheap area has become increasingly chaotic.

Due to the problem of rising rents, there are now many more robbery repairs.

We often hear about someone being robbed of their money and even having their clothes stripped off.

The more vicious ones will even kill people to silence them after robbing them, using extremely cruel methods.

The atmosphere in the entire cheap area is very depressing now.

Unless their strength is guaranteed, many people will generally stay at home and not go out.

Some people who are not doing well financially either transform themselves into robbery cultivators or move out of the bamboo forest and seek other ways out outside.

And Chen An is one of those people who always stays indoors.

He spends most of his time making medicine to make money, and a small part of his time having sex with his lovely wife.

On this day, Chen An had just finished a business deal and was about to go back to his room to spend some time with his lovely wife when there was a very inappropriate knock on the door.

“Bang, bang, bang!”

"Master Chen, I'm here to buy Ice Crystal Pills!"

Come to buy some summer heat-relieving medicine for her father.

And this summer-relief pill has now been renamed Ice Crystal Pill.

After all, it is a bottle of medicine that can be sold for one low-grade spirit stone. If it is called "Summer-Relief Pill", it would be too low-class and not worthy of the price.

But it’s different if it’s called Ice Crystal Pill.

It sounds very high-end, and it can be bought with just a low-grade spirit stone, which feels very affordable.

"Friend Gu, how much do you want to buy this time?"

Chen An looked at Gu Xinyue outside the window and asked with a smile.

Gu Xinyue took out three low-grade spirit stones, threw them to Chen An accurately, and said calmly: "Give me three bottles of Ice Crystal Pills."

This move is becoming more and more bold.

Chen An sighed in his heart, and did not forget to joke: "Fellow Daoist Gu, where have you been making money recently? Are you secretly doing something to rob people?"

Gu Xinyue smiled faintly, said nothing, picked up the three bottles of Ice Crystal Pills, turned around and walked towards her home.

Looking at the other person's slim figure as she left, Chen An felt a little regretful.

If I had known that day when Gu Xinyue came to me crying and said she was willing to be my concubine, I should have taken her away.

It’s difficult to take it now.

After all, she is no longer short of money. She can afford to buy elixirs and rent a house. Why should she humble herself and become someone's concubine?

But on second thought, there is actually nothing to regret.

After all the persuasion, he earned more than 30 low-grade spirit stones just by selling Ice Crystal Pills to Gu Xinyue during this period.

If I had chosen to take her as a concubine that day, I would definitely not have made that money.

She even had to pay spiritual stones to pay for her father's medical treatment.

But then again, where did Gu Xinyue, who was only at the first level of Qi Refining, get so many spirit stones? Could she be a wealthy person on the list?

Chen An was puzzled.

…

Before I knew it, quite a while had passed.

During this period, the situation in the Zhuyelin cheap area became increasingly chaotic.

Many robbers started out by robbing people on the road, and now they even dare to break into people's homes and rob them in broad daylight.

The whole cheap area was in a panic.

As an alchemist, Chen An has long become a favorite in the eyes of the robbery cultivators.

Many robbers turned their attention to him and robbed him.

The result is somewhat tragic.

They all failed to rob, and were instead shot in the head by Chen An with a golden finger, and their bodies were searched and their property was confiscated.

After the incident, he was dragged to a corner of the yard and buried. He died quietly.

But not everyone has the ability to protect themselves like Chen An.

When faced with a home invasion, most residents either choose to surrender and spend money to avoid disaster, or choose to resist and end up with a tragic death.

At one time, a large number of monks moved out of the bamboo forest and chose to find other ways out.

Because too many people left and none of them came back for a long time, the top management of Zhuyelin became anxious.

All the tenants have left, who should I ask to collect the rent?

Therefore, the top management of Zhuyelin started to make up for the loss by remedying the situation. They arranged a manager in the late Qi Refining stage to be in charge of each cheap area in Zhuyelin, and equipped a team composed of several cultivators in the middle Qi Refining stage to patrol and jointly manage the chaos in the cheap areas.

The efforts are great and the results are remarkable.

In less than half a month, all the cheap areas returned to their former tranquility.

Everyone dared to go out and do business, and the situation began to flourish.

But compared with half a year ago, it is still far behind.

Because Zhuye Lin had previously raised prices arbitrarily, and the public security situation deteriorated seriously in the later period, its reputation collapsed.

If we want to return to the previous prosperity now, it will take at least several months or even a year to slowly recover.

…

In a blink of an eye, half a month passed.

On this day, good news came to the bamboo forest.

Rents in cheap areas have dropped!

It was reduced back to the original one low-grade spirit stone per month! Due to the pressure from the outside world, Xuanhuang Sect, which had previously caused blood demons to run rampant outside due to the mining of spirit stone veins, finally sent people out to clean up the mess.

Several Jindan stage warriors were dispatched to take action, and in less than two days, all the blood demons were killed.

Some are happy, some are sad.

Most people lost their families and loved ones because of the rampant blood demons, but a few people made a fortune from it.

For example, Chen An, an alchemist, earned more than 400 low-grade spirit stones in nearly a year, and his life became much better off than before.

Earning so much money in a year was something I could never have imagined before.

Although the blood demon is gone now and alchemy is not as profitable anymore, Chen An does not feel uncomfortable at all.

He had known for a long time that this special period would not last long, and sooner or later someone would take action to resolve it.

It was beyond his expectation that it could last for almost a whole year.

"Ying'er, come on, go out with your husband to enjoy the mountains and rivers and have some fun."

Chen An had just gotten up from his young wife when he immediately lowered his head and smiled at her as if to say you know what I mean.

Song Huaying blushed immediately. She knew that her husband wanted to go out and have some fun with her. Although she was a little embarrassed, she did not refuse. Instead, she pursed her lips and agreed, "Ying'er will listen to my husband."

Soon, the couple went out.

After walking a few steps, he ran into Gu Xinyue, who had a sad look on his face.

Gu Xinyue was originally going to Chen An's house to talk to him about some difficult things.

Just happened to meet him at this moment, so he made up his mind, lowered his head and closed his eyes, and walked up to him, begging him shamelessly:

"Master Chen Dan, please take me as your concubine!"

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