Chapter 2 I was beaten up as soon as I arrived
Because Song Jinghe couldn't cook, Fu Ning went back to her mother's home.
She tried hard to search Xiaoshuang's memory and remembered that Acai's cooking was the best.
A Cai was her aunt, who raised her, and the original owner had a very good relationship with her.
This was her first meal in five hundred years, and it had to be a good meal.
In fact, cultivators should practice fasting when they reach the Nascent Soul stage. If they continue to eat ordinary food, impurities will be produced in the body, which is not conducive to the cultivation of spiritual roots. The most suitable method is to simply take elixirs to replenish spiritual energy.
But she really loved delicious food back then and could never give up those delicacies, which made her a bit of an oddity among the monks.
As soon as she entered the yard, A Cai winked at her. Fu Ning didn't understand and walked straight in, only to find that the atmosphere was wrong.
The original owner's mother, who was also the village chief, stood in the middle of the yard, surrounded by a circle of people, including Xiaodan who had pushed her just now.
It seems that the army has come to hold him accountable.
The village chief was taller than an ordinary woman. She had a stern face and a kind of intimidating aura. She held a cane in her hand, pointed at Fu Ning and said, "Kneel down!"
Fu Ning asked: "Why should I kneel?"
Ah Cai pulled her down and whispered in her ear, "Stop being stubborn. Kneel down and admit your mistake first."
Fu Ning stood straight, "I didn't do anything wrong."
The village chief stepped forward and whipped her on the shoulder. Fu Ning didn't dodge and felt a burning pain in her left shoulder.
She didn't even make a sound.
The village chief said, "You are right to cheat people out of their money? Ah Cai, tie her up. I want to teach this rebellious son a lesson."
A Cai looked at Fu Ning in embarrassment, but still took action. She would not disobey the order of the village chief.
Fu Ning did not dodge and said to the people around him: "Isn't it just the Qi Gathering Pill? If I owe it to someone, come and tell me and I will send it to you before noon tomorrow."
Xiao Dan stood up and said, "That's what you said last time. Do you think we will still believe you?"
"That's right, who knows how long they will owe us by then."
"Either pay us back the money today, or give us the Qi Gathering Pill." The others echoed.
The original owner's mother pointed a whip at Fu Ning, her hands shaking with anger, "You are still so self-righteous? Ah Gui's cough is getting worse, and you lied to Xiao Dan that you could buy the Qi Gathering Pill. Xiao Dan gave you the money for the treatment, but what about you? It's been seven or eight days, and you still don't have any money or medicine. If she hadn't come to tell me today, I wouldn't have known that I gave birth to such a bastard daughter!"
Fu Ning saw this and knew that he was doomed to be severely beaten.
A Cai tied Fu Ning's hands in front of him.
The system said anxiously: "Host, why don't you run?"
Fu Ning looked at the loose knots on his hands, which were actually very easy to break free. Ah Cai didn't want to see her get hurt.
But she will not run away. She is grateful to be resurrected through this body and is willing to take on the responsibilities that she should bear.
She said to the system: "Someone has to be held responsible for what Qian Qiaoqiao did wrong."
The system felt that its host was too straightforward, so it kindly reminded him: "Host, we don't have any points at all now, so I can't help you block the pain."
The cane had already hit Fu Ning's back, and the whip instantly tore her clothes. Fu Ning's face turned pale and she staggered forward half a step.
The next whip came immediately.
Fu Ning bit his lips to prevent himself from making any sound.
The sound of a rattan whip breaking through the wind was heard. In just a few breaths, she had been whipped three times in a row. The whip had barbs on it, and the clothes on her back soon tore into rags, oozing out a lot of blood. It was not only painful, but it was also humiliating to be watched by so many people.
Ah Cai finally couldn't help but grab the village chief's whipping hand, "That's enough, Xiao Shuang can't handle it if you beat him any more."
Then she looked at Xiao Dan again, "How much money does she owe you? I will pay it back for her."
Xiao Dan was still angry. Now, seeing the bloody mess on Xiao Shuang's back, she couldn't bear it after all, thinking that they were playmates who grew up together. She said, "Village leader, I will wait for her for another day."
"I will make her remember her lesson this time." The village chief waved his wrist, but stopped halfway.
Fu Ning was in so much pain that he was out of mind. He barely turned his head and saw Song Jinghe sitting in a wheelchair. In the afterglow of the setting sun, his body was outlined in gold, which made Fu Ning squint his eyes. Ah Cai couldn't help but exclaimed, "Xiao Jing!"
Song Jinghe caught the whip with his bare hands and said to the original owner's mother: "I am willing to pay back the money for Xiaoshuang, please show mercy, village chief."
The village chief was stunned for a moment, and finally put down the whip in his hand and said to Fu Ning: "Since you have pleaded for you, I will spare you today. If you still can't produce the Qi Condensation Pill tomorrow, I will continue to beat you with the remaining two whips."
Finally, he told Ah Cai and Song Jinghe, "None of you should lend her money. She will become more and more lawless if she is spoiled."
A Cai quickly helped Fu Ning untie the rope on her hands. Seeing that she was sweating profusely on her forehead, she felt very distressed. She quickly found another person to carry her back to her yard, helped her to lie on the bed, cut open the rags on her back and applied medicine. Fu Ning fainted from the pain.
When Fu Ning woke up, he heard the system chirping, "Host, there is good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear?"
Fu Ning: "Good news."
System: "The villain's favorability has increased by three points."
How could an increase from -50 to -47 be considered good news? Fu Ning asked in a muffled voice, "What about the bad news?"
"The bad news is that after the villain admired the wound on your back for half an incense stick, his favorability increased."
"..." Fu Ning moved his arms, "It seems that his favorability will only improve after I die."
System: "Don't be so pessimistic. This shows that the self-torture strategy works."
Fu Ning raised his eyelids, "It's not that the self-torture trick worked, it's that he felt happy seeing me get hurt."
At this time, Song Jinghe turned his wheelchair to her bedside, his eyes full of concern, "How are you? Are you feeling better?"
Fu Ning buried his head in the pillow and waved his hands, "I feel like I've lost half my life."
System: "Ding, the villain's favorability has increased a little bit."
Fu Ning: "...little pervert."
The system comforted him, "It's okay. I have mastered the secret of the villain's favorability. When I have points, I will activate the pain shielding. I will get hurt a few more times and my favorability will increase."
What a bad idea it was, Fu Ning was too lazy to pay attention to it.
Although the pain in her back was unbearable, her stomach was equally empty.
I went home in vain, didn't have time to eat, and was beaten.
Fu Ning said to Song Jinghe who had been standing by her bed, "Can you quietly ask Ah Cai to bring me some food?"
Song Jinghe smiled gently, "Don't bother, I'll cook noodles for you."
Fu Ning subconsciously wanted to refuse, she wanted to eat meat, but the system shouted in her head: "Let him do it, let him do it, increase interaction and increase favorability!"
Fu Ning was annoyed by the noise and nodded, "Thank you for your help."
When Fu Ning's stomach started to rumble and she was about to get up and go to the kitchen to check, Song Jinghe finally came in with a bowl of noodles.
Noodles in a watery soup with an egg and a green vegetable floating on top.
Fu Ning managed to stand up, holding the bowl, picking up the chopsticks, and said to the system: "It looks okay."
Then she took the first bite and spit it out.
Fu Ning raised his head and asked, "Song Jinghe, how much salt did you put in?"
Song Jinghe blinked innocently and said, "I put a spoonful in."
Fu Ning: "...How big is a spoon? With this saltiness, did you use an iron spoon?"
"No." Song Jinghe took Fu Ning's chopsticks skillfully, picked up a noodle from the bowl that Fu Ning was holding, and put it into his mouth elegantly. After chewing it two or three times, he covered his mouth and started coughing.
"Sorry, it's really salty." He wanted to take the bowl of noodles from Fu Ning, "Don't eat it, I'll make you another bowl."
Fu Ning held on to the bowl and snatched the chopsticks from his hand. "It's okay. This is your first time cooking for me. It would be a shame to throw it away. You can just rinse it with water and it will be edible."
The system was pleased that its host had finally begun to attack the villain.
Fu Ning chatted with the system while eating, "The things made by this villain will make a dog go to heaven if it eats them."
System: "Don't scold yourself like that."
Fu Ning continued, "If I hadn't had something else to do that night and it was too late, I wouldn't have eaten this. One bite is enough salt for a year."
System: "Ah? What do you want?"
Fu Ning picked up a noodle, rinsed it in water, put it in his mouth, chewed it quickly twice, and swallowed it. "Don't I owe a lot of debt? I'll take care of it tonight."
The system was a little surprised. It thought that the delivery tomorrow was a delaying tactic of the host. It didn't expect that the host could really get the Qi Gathering Pill. But where does the host plan to buy the pill so late at night?
As night fell, Fu Ning calculated that it was almost time for her to set off.
But why was Song Jinghe still sitting at the head of her bed reading a book? When he saw her raise her eyes, he asked, "What's wrong? Do you need me to do anything?"
Fu Ning: "Uh...you don't sleep?"
The system reminded her in her ear, "Before, the villains slept on the bed, and you slept on the floor."
"Is that so?" Fu Ning patted the empty space next to the bed, "I can't sleep on the floor today, you come up, we can sleep together for one night."
The system was shocked. Is its host so wild? Right from the start, he invited the villain to share his bed.
Song Jinghe was also stunned. He stared at Fu Ning without moving.
Fu Ning frowned. "What's the big deal? Isn't it normal for dozens of people to squeeze into one room when conditions are tough? You really are a young master who doesn't know the sufferings of the world."
Song Jinghe subconsciously retorted: "I'm not..."
Finally, he supported himself with his hands and moved to the bed, lying next to Fu Ning.
Fu Ning turned his head to look at him, and the two of them could hear each other's breathing. Song Jinghe closed his eyes stiffly, his collar slightly open, revealing his white collarbone.
They looked like little white flowers ready to be picked. Fu Ning swallowed his saliva, thinking it was all because the noodles were so bad.
Fu Ning asked the system: "Is there any prop that can make Song Jinghe fall asleep quickly?"
System: "Yes, we do, but don't we have no money?"
Fu Ning: "Buy on credit first."
System: "Okay, you have 30 days to repay the money. If you don't repay by the due date, you will be punished by electric shock."
Fu Ning nodded, listening to Song Jinghe's breathing becoming long and steady, he propped up his upper body, and the slightest movement of his back caused unbearable pain.
She bit her lip, trying not to cry out in pain, and stepped over Song Jinghe's body and got down to the ground. She didn't notice that Song Jinghe opened his eyes behind her and looked at her with dark eyes.
Fu Ning avoided his back, put on his clothes carefully and went out.
The moon was already high in the sky, and the system asked in confusion: "Where are we going in the middle of the night?"
Fu Ning: "You will know in a moment"
She lit the tinder and walked into the darkness.
She knew why she was reborn in the Thirty-Eight Villages.
As early as five hundred years ago, Fu Ning's first sense was not that she was about to break through, but that her end was approaching. At that time, her five senses were gradually failing.
She immediately dispersed her treasures between the world of immortal cultivation and the human world, thus leaving herself enough ways to escape.
But even though she was fully prepared, it still took her five hundred years to come back to life.
Yanshan is one of the places where her treasures are stored, and it is less than ten miles away from the mountain village.
Back then, she placed the Soul Gathering Lamp among these many treasures.
Fu Ning found the entrance to her secret realm. She looked at the position of the moon, moved the protrusions on the stone pillar beside her, and rotated it up and down, left and right several times. Then a passage appeared in front of her.
The system asked in confusion: "Eh? Isn't this Shen Funing's secret place? How did you... get in?"
Fu Ning raised his eyebrows, "This place didn't appear in the plot you gave me, how do you know it's a secret place?"
The system instantly changed to a mechanical voice: "The host has not yet unlocked the permissions."
Fu Ning said dissatisfiedly: "If you don't explain it to me clearly, I think you don't want to go back."
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