Lai Siyu thanked him and carried the wooden rack out of Liuji Butcher Shop. The pig's head and offal were hanging around in the store. People on the street avoided her, fearing that the pig's head, which had died with its eyes open, would get on them.
After finishing her business, Lai Siyu strolled leisurely on the street, looking at this stall and that stall. However, no matter which stall she went to, the people in front of that stall would scatter.
The stall owners were angry but dared not say anything, because the man was just a errand disciple of Qingyun Sect. The market was run by Qingyun Sect, and even if the people from Qingyun Sect were just errand disciples, they were not someone they could mess with.
Lai Siyu didn't mind at all that others avoided her like a plague god. At least this would protect her from thieves. She had just sold a pig and had a huge sum of money on her.
Lai Siyu swayed the pig's head and offal all the way to the Qingyun Sect's liaison station in the market. Most of the spirit stones from selling the pigs were to be handed over to the sect. In order to make it easier for disciples to turn in their tasks after selling things outside, Qingyun Sect set up a liaison station in the market. Lai Siyu could hand in the spirit stones she earned from selling the pigs here.
Menial disciples engaged in animal husbandry within the sect, providing the sect with piglets, chickens, lambs, and other animals, as well as feed. Therefore, the vast majority of the proceeds from the sales had to be given to the sect.
Take Lai Siyu's pigs, for example. The sect stipulated that each pig must be raised to 500 kilograms. Any excess weight would be the errand disciple's own. Of course, if each pig did not reach 500 kilograms, the errand disciple would have to make up the difference. If a pig died during the feeding process, the errand disciple would also have to pay for it.
Don't be fooled by the fact that each pig Lai Siyu sells weighs over 800 kilograms. That's because she's not afraid of hard work, can endure hardships, and treats the pigs like masters. For other menial disciples, raising a pig to 530 or 540 kilograms would be considered a good thing.
Therefore, not many of Qingyun Sect's menial disciples choose to engage in animal husbandry. Most of them choose to cultivate spiritual fields. Cultivating spiritual fields not only has less risk, but also earns more than engaging in animal husbandry.
Seeing Lai Siyu carrying the pig's head and other things into the door, the deacons and disciples all frowned.
"Hey, don't put your dirty stuff against the wall!" said a male disciple, covering his nose.
The liaison station wasn't big, and Lai Siyu's wooden shelf was a bit long. When she heard the male disciple's voice, she hurriedly lifted the wooden shelf up again, then quickly turned around and apologized, "I'm sorry, Senior Brother, I won't let go."
The pig's head, pig's offal and other items formed an arc in the air and came into close contact with the male disciple's face.
"Ah!" The male disciple screamed and ran to the backyard. The remaining two disciples couldn't help laughing. This was the first time they saw Senior Brother Zhou being humiliated. Senior Brother Zhou relied on his uncle who was the foundation-building elder of Qingyun Sect and usually ordered them around. They had disliked him for a long time, but they didn't dare to do anything to him. Today, after being bullied by this skinny female errand disciple, they felt relieved all of a sudden.
"Junior sister, what are you going to do?" A short male disciple in green asked in a friendly manner. He didn't dislike Lai Siyu at all now. Instead, he liked her more and more.
"Brother, I sold two pigs and came to pay for the spirit stones." Lai Siyu took out a jade token from the storage bag in her arms and handed it to him, then counted out a hundred low-grade spirit stones and placed them on the counter.
The male disciple in green took the spirit stone, then wrote a few words on the jade token with his magic power and handed it to her.
"Thank you, Brother!"
Lai Siyu took the jade token, scanned it with her spiritual sense, confirmed the contents, and then said goodbye with a smile and left. However, when she turned to leave, the male disciple in green stayed away, fearing that he would suffer the same fate as Senior Brother Zhou.
After paying one hundred spirit stones to her master, Lai Siyu still had sixty-nine low-grade spirit stones and twenty spirit beads left. In addition to the thirty-five low-grade spirit stones that she would give to Grandpa Gu when she returned, she could still control thirty-four low-grade spirit stones and twenty spirit beads.
Lai Siyu was thinking about buying some elixirs. Her spiritual roots were too weak, and her cultivation was slow. She needed a lot of elixirs to support her. However, Qingyun Sect didn't distribute elixirs to menial disciples, only to outer and inner disciples. So if she wanted elixirs, she had to buy them herself.
"Qi Gathering Pills cost two low-grade spirit stones each, Qi Replenishing Pills cost four low-grade spirit stones each, a box of Black Jade Paste costs seven low-grade spirit stones each, and Qingling Powder costs five low-grade spirit stones each..."
As Lai Siyu walked, she was calculating in her mind what she could buy with the few spirit stones in her pocket. The more she calculated, the more she felt that those who sold medicine were all unscrupulous businessmen!
Lai Siyu walked into a pharmacy run by the Qingyun Sect. The pharmacy was called Renxin Hall. Disciples of the Qingyun Sect could get a 10% discount when buying elixirs here.
"Senior sister, I want twelve Qi Gathering Pills, a box of Black Jade Paste, and a pill of Qingling Powder." Lai Siyu lay on the counter closest to the outside and said to a tall and beautiful female disciple inside.
"Okay, a total of thirty-six low-grade spirit stones, after the 10% discount it is thirty-two low-grade spirit stones plus forty spirit beads." Although the business was not much, the female disciple still greeted Lai Siyu enthusiastically.
"Senior Sister, here are thirty-three low-grade spirit stones."
Lai Siyu placed the spirit stones on the counter. The female disciple took the spirit stones, found sixty spirit beads for her, then filled two jade bottles with the two kinds of elixirs she wanted, and handed her a box of black jade paste.
After Lai Siyu checked that the items were correct, she said thank you sweetly to the female disciple and left with the items in her pocket.
The spirit stones that he had worked hard to earn for half a year had already gone into the pockets of the spirit medicine shop before he could even warm them up. Lai Siyu felt a toothache just thinking about it.
"Siyu! Lai Siyu!"
Lai Siyu asked and her body stiffened, then she ran out of the town as if escaping.
"Stop, Siyu, I'm your second uncle!" A tall, handsome middle-aged man wearing a light blue silk shirt quickly chased forward, but Lai Siyu was too fast and he didn't catch up.
The middle-aged man was followed by a carriage. He returned to the carriage, pulled the reins somewhat depressedly, and walked towards an inn.
"Dad, what happened to you just now? Why did I hear you calling that bitch's name?"
"I think I saw your sister just now." The middle-aged man turned around and said to the carriage.
"Sister, I don't have a sister like that. Humph! If it weren't for her, I would have already been a disciple of Qingyun Sect. There would be no need for me to participate in the entrance selection like I do now!"
"Chun'er, Daddy was wrong. That bitch is truly unworthy of being your sister!" The middle-aged man recalled how he had finally managed to connect with Deacon Gongsun Zhi of the Spiritual Medicine Yuan of Qingyun Sect's Spiritual Medicine Peak. He had promised him that if he would give Lai Siyu to him as a medicine cauldron, he would leverage the connections of his brother, Gongsun Yu, an elite inner sect disciple, to recruit his daughter, Lai Sichun, as an outer sect disciple. However, Lai Siyu had escaped the night before Gongsun Yu arrived to retrieve her, forcing him to pay a considerable sum of spirit stones to appease Gongsun Yu's wrath.
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