Chapter 12 I'm Not Here for You
Fu Ning slept until dawn and heard the system report to her what happened last night. The male and female protagonists successfully took away the county magistrate's five most beautiful concubines, and the county magistrate did not dare to pursue the matter.
Everyone in Fu Ning's yard has left, and now she is the only one living in the yard.
"After all, cultivators have more face." Fu Ning sighed, "I will go to the Quzhou Cultivation Association to register after I break through the foundation-building stage."
In the human world, any cultivator above the foundation-building stage can register with the cultivation association in his or her state. A competition is organized every three years, and the winner can use the teleportation stone to enter the Twelve Immortal Mountains in the cultivation world to study.
The system agreed: "Boss, show us your strength, and we will be able to walk sideways in the human world from now on."
Fu Ning said disdainfully: "Can you have bigger ambitions? We will be able to dominate the cultivation world in the future. Come with me to participate in the competition in March next year, and we will go to the Twelve Immortal Mountains to have a look."
After five hundred years, I don’t know what it has become.
The system worriedly said, "Boss, there is only one spot for Quzhou. We are at the foundation-building stage at best. How can we win?"
Fu Ning thought for a moment and asked, "Do you know that there is a herb in the human world called the Spirit Cleansing Herb?"
The system searched its own resource library, "I know that the pills made from the washed spirit grass can improve the quality of the spirit roots. The higher the quality of the pills made, the better the effect of improving the spirit root attributes."
It paused, and said in disbelief: "Boss, you are not going to refine this kind of medicine, are you?"
Fu Ning nodded, "Yes."
The system suddenly became anxious. "Taking the Spirit Cleansing Pill is extremely dangerous. If it fails, your spiritual roots will be destroyed at best, or you will lose your life at worst. If you lose your life, I will die too! Besides, even if we have to go to the Twelve Immortal Mountains, as long as we capture Song Jinghe's heart, he will naturally take us there. There is no need to take this risk."
"It is better to rely on yourself than on heaven, earth or others."
Fu Ning spoke calmly, but secretly clenched her fists. She came back with nothing in the first place and had nothing to lose. If she didn't try her best and was timid, what would be the point of her resurrection?
The Heavenly Dao does not allow her to leave the small world, but she insists on breaking away from the Heavenly Dao's control and jumping out of this small world.
The system wanted to persuade him again, but Fu Ning had already changed the subject, "Besides the male and female protagonists, is there any movement from other people?"
The system knew it couldn't persuade him, so it checked the entire house obediently, "Xu Chang is missing again. I don't know where he went."
Fu Ning took out his alchemy furnace from his storage bag and said, "I guess he went to the village to find someone who can threaten me."
System: “What does this mean?”
Fu Ning: "When the fat old man gave me the banknote yesterday, the word "reluctant" was written on his face. He probably wanted to find something to hold against me and make me do something for him."
System: "Should we stop Xu Chang? Or ask the hero and heroine for help? Judging from the plot, they both have a strong sense of justice."
"It's okay, no need to find the male and female protagonists." Fu Ning laughed for some reason, "Let Xu Chang find someone who can threaten me."
Fu Ning stayed indoors and spent the entire morning refining the elixir. No one disturbed her during this time. Only at noon did a maid bring her lunch.
The fat county magistrate’s second Qi-boosting pill had been refined, and Fu Ning quickly put it into the box to prevent the medicinal properties from evaporating.
She glanced at the food that was served and frowned. Why were even the vegetables greasy? No wonder the county magistrate was so fat. It was too greasy.
She picked up the chopsticks, finished her meal hastily, patted her stomach, and actually began to miss the food Song Jinghe cooked. Although it was poisonous, she had been used to it for so long that she had no appetite after the sudden change of taste.
After lunch, Fu Ning was ready to take a nap. Just as she lay down on the bed, she heard someone outside the house calling her, "Mrs. Fu, are you convenient to come out for a moment? The master wants to see you."
It was Xu Chang's voice.
Fu Ning was not unhappy that her sleep was interrupted this time. She put on her coat and followed Xu Chang, walking further and further away, until finally she arrived at the cellar in the county magistrate's mansion where the maids and servants who had committed mistakes were imprisoned.
Fu Ning frowned and said, "Xu Chang, what do you mean?"
Xu Chang said, "Madam Fu, you will know once you go in. Please come in."
Fu Ning walked down the stairs into the dim dungeon. County Magistrate Yao was sitting at the end of the dungeon, his fat body almost filling the entire corridor.
When the county magistrate saw her, he puffed up his fat face and said, "You're here?"
Fu Ning asked coldly, "County Magistrate, I helped you make medicine, but you want to lock me up?"
County Magistrate Yao said, "Miss Fu Ning, you misunderstood me."
He pointed to the left with his fat hand, "Look who this is?"
Fu Ning then noticed that there was another person imprisoned in the cell on the left. The young man was sitting on a tattered bed, his hands tied behind his back with ropes. His back was straight, his long hair scattered on his chest, and he looked at Fu Ning expressionlessly. His black agate eyes were filled with anger, and even the small mole at the corner of his eye came to life.
Fu Ning swallowed his saliva and called the system in his mind, "Do you think Song Jinghe looks better like this?"
System: "I have no aesthetic sense."
Fu Ning: "You are so pitiful."
In fact, she had long guessed that Song Jinghe would be used as a handle by the fat county magistrate.
She pretended to be surprised and asked, "Xiao Jing? Why are you keeping him here?"
Song Jinghe turned his head away and ignored her.
Fu Ning didn't know why, but he wanted to laugh when he saw Song Jinghe being upset.
County Magistrate Yao said on his behalf, "I invite your husband to visit my house."
Fu Ning looked at him, his eyes gradually turning cold, "So you already know everything? But this doesn't seem like an invitation."
"Miss Fu Ning, the treatment your husband will enjoy in my house is up to you." County Magistrate Yao spun the emerald ring on his hand. "Fifty taels of silver per pill is still too expensive. I, a mere county magistrate, cannot afford it."
Fu Ning forced a smile and asked, "How much do you think is appropriate?"
County Magistrate Yao said, "Miss Fu Ning, I've already said that it's not me who decides, it's you who decides what kind of treatment you want your poor husband to enjoy. Anyway, my cellar is cold and damp, and ordinary people would get sick after staying there for a few nights, not to mention that your husband is so...weak."
Fu Ning rolled his eyes and said, "Twenty taels."
The county magistrate said, "Then let Xu Chang prepare a room for the servants."
In fact, it was already good enough. Fu Ning was very satisfied and was about to announce the deal, but was stopped by the system's loud "favorability".
She gritted her teeth and said, "Ten taels."
County Magistrate Yao finally nodded in satisfaction, "Okay, let this Mr. Song live in the same courtyard with you. I'll ask Xu Chang to clean it up later. The one hundred taels I gave you yesterday are just enough to refine ten pills."
System: "Boss, we are really losing money this time."
Fu Ning gritted his teeth and said, "Don't worry, the fat old man will soon know the consequences of offending the alchemist."
She took the key from the servant, untied the iron chain, opened the wooden fence, and ordered the servant to carry Song Jinghe out of the dungeon.
When they returned to the courtyard again, Song Jinghe's things had been almost packed up and placed in the room where Fu Ning lived.
Fu Ning: That’s not necessary. There are so many empty rooms, why do they have to squeeze in together?
At this time, Song Jinghe had already sat back in his wheelchair. He stared at the bundle on Fu Ning's table, as if he could see through her thoughts. He picked up the bundle and put it on his lap, then turned his wheelchair towards the empty west wing without saying a word to Fu Ning the whole time.
Fu Ning was in a good mood. He stood in front of Song Jinghe and asked, "What are you angry about?"
Song Jinghe didn't even look up at her, "What should I be angry about?"
Fu Ning said, "How would I know why you are angry? I am losing money refining pills for you. Look, they are threatening me with the most important person to me. I can only give in."
Song Jinghe raised his eyes to look at her this time, with sparks in his eyes. This woman didn't intend to be the county magistrate's concubine at all. She had long planned to win over the county magistrate with her alchemy skills, but she pretended to be so convincing that she deceived the entire village, including him.
He was now certain that she was mad at him, and he was actually so angry that he even offered to go to the county when Xu Chang was about to take someone away.
His leg must have been broken for too long and he couldn't walk freely for too long, so he thought grabbing a straw could save his life.
It's ridiculous.
Song Jinghe held the handle of the wheelchair. He should have known that this woman never spoke a word of truth. Even what she said now were half-true and half-false jokes.
He wouldn't believe a word of it anymore.
Song Jinghe pursed his lips and said after a long while: "You shouldn't lie to everyone."
"You were worried about me, weren't you?" Fu Ning put his hand on the back of his chair and smiled, "Xiao Jing, I'm glad you came."
If it was Ah Cai, she would definitely pay more. Maybe she just couldn't bear to see Ah Cai suffer, so she directly gave the pills to the county magistrate.
Song Jinghe was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously denied: "I'm not here for you."
Fu Ning nodded in understanding, "I know, you came here for my elixir. But I forgot to tell you before I left, with my current strength, I can only refine third-grade elixir at most, which is not enough for your legs. Wait until I have a breakthrough in my cultivation, and then I will give you the next course of treatment."
After hearing her words, Song Jinghe's face became even uglier. He sat in his wheelchair into his room and slammed the door.
Fu Ning sighed, what a heartless man, he turned his face away when he couldn't give the pills. After not seeing Song Jinghe for a few days, he was no longer the poor little boy he used to be, but had turned into an angry person.
"Boss, boss!" the system shouted excitedly, "The villain's favorability has increased! It has risen to ten in an instant. What's going on? How did it rise to the right level in an instant?"
Fu Ning was also a little surprised. He stroked his hair and said, "Maybe because we've been apart for a few days, you're more moved when you see me now?"
System: "...Actually, a 10-point favorability is only slightly better than a passerby, not enough to make you fall in love with me."
Fu Ning quickly put aside the ups and downs of his affection for Song Jinghe.
She returned to her room and started a new round of refining. This time, she added a herb called bell dancing grass to the Qi-invigorating pill. This herb replenishes kidney yang and conflicts with the rosemary which has the same effect. After taking it, people will experience a brief mental boost and their physical condition will greatly improve. In fact, this is only a superficial phenomenon, and the internal deficiency will only become more serious.
She had no intention of treating the fat county magistrate from the beginning.
After a while, the system suddenly said, "Boss, the male and female protagonists have settled the county magistrate's concubines and are heading towards Yanshan."
Fu Ning circulated most of his spiritual energy into the alchemy furnace, and said, "Their direction is quite right, but it's a pity that the timing is wrong, otherwise they would have found Song Jinghe now."
She recalled the story the system had told her and asked, "Could the person who misled them be one of our copycats?"
The system said, "It really is our copycat. In the original plot, as soon as the hero and heroine took out the portrait, everyone recognized them as Song Jinghe. But when they heard that the heroine was looking for her fiancé, everyone quickly led them to the south. Quzhou is a vast place with few people. It took them several months to find their way back to the village."
Fu Ning chuckled, "This is a beautiful job."
【Author has something to say】
Small theater——
Xu Chang: Our master said that he likes Miss Fu very much and wants to find someone who is most important to her to live with her for a while so that she can adapt to life in the county.
A Cai: I'll go and accompany her.
Xiaodan: Why don’t I go?
Village chief: I am her mother.
Brother Jing squeezed in with his fists clenched: I’ll go.
Everyone: Agree!
Note: The names of herbs in the article are all made up by me. .
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