Gingerbread counted on his fingers.
Fenjue has been gone for half a month and hasn't returned yet.
Recently, she, Li Dapu, and Zhuge Tienan have been exploring the towns around the Sword Sect. The three of them climb trees to pick fruit, go down to the river to catch fish, and go to brothels to listen to music at night.
I've tried everything.
They didn't manage to bring back Fenjue.
"well--"
She sighed, slumped over the table.
"Is this what long-distance relationships feel like?"
Modern long-distance relationships still allow for voice calls, video calls, playing games, and watching TV series. However, because the Heavenly Palace and the Eight Desolate Continent are far apart, the spiritual energy in the jade slip is depleted after only a few exchanges each day.
It will take time to restore the spirit stones after they are inserted.
It's not that convenient.
"What are you sighing about?"
Li Dapu chuckled as he hugged the chilled watermelon, "Look what good stuff I brought!"
Gingerbread rested its chin on its hand and glanced at it lazily. "It's just a watermelon, isn't it?"
"Hey, this isn't your average watermelon."
Li Dapu placed the item on the stone table, his tone tinged with pride, "Cut it open and see!"
I don’t know what the other party is up to.
Gingerbread drew a dagger from his waist, and with a swift stroke, cut the watermelon in half.
"Why?"
"Why is the flesh inside white?"
Li Dapu raised an eyebrow. "Try a bite."
"You're not trying to scam me, are you?" Gingerbread looked at Li Dapu with suspicion.
"How could I! We're from the same hometown, the closest of friends. How could I possibly cheat you?" Li Dapu cut off a small piece with his dagger. "You'll be absolutely shocked when you eat this."
Gingerbread took his dagger.
Take a slow, deliberate bite of the fruit pulp on top.
"Wow!! This tastes like lychee!"
Li Dapu asked excitedly, "Isn't it delicious? It took me several years to research and develop this. After repeated improvements, the flesh is the closest to the taste of lychee."
"Could it be that you're a esophageal genius?"
She squinted her eyes, thoroughly enjoying herself.
After finishing the fruit in his mouth, Gingerbread turned around and ran to the kitchen to get two spoons.
He handed one to Li Dapu.
"Who would have thought that one day, lychees could be eaten with a spoon like watermelons? I never felt satisfied eating lychees before, they were so small, but now it's so much better."
"By the way, this is the spiritual fruit you researched and invented. What should we name it?"
Li Dapu stroked his chin and pondered for a moment, "Its size and rind are similar to a watermelon, but the inside is the flesh of a lychee. How about calling it 'Guazi' (melon branch)?"
"......"
"You might as well call it Xili," Jiang Bingbing casually remarked. Li Dapu slapped his thigh immediately. "Great! Xili, it sounds wonderful! I'm going to add it to the snail rice noodle set meal, so customers can have a small bowl of chilled Xili after their spicy snail rice noodles. So refreshing!"
This kid is pretty good at business.
"Oh, right, there's something else I wanted to talk to you about today. The profit sharing from the snail rice noodle shop has come through, here you go."
Li Dapu tossed her a storage bag.
Gingerbread scanned the area with its spiritual sense and was so shocked that it couldn't speak.
It took him a long time to close his mouth.
"One hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones? You made that much?"
Li Dapu crossed his legs and said smugly, "What do you think? My chain stores are almost all the way to the Southern Frontier. In the future, I'll give you not just 100,000 spirit stones, but millions or tens of millions."
"Hehe, thank you, Boss Li!"
Gingerbread, like a miser, poured out the spirit stones and held them in his arms, touching them all over.
Li Dapu almost burst out laughing when he saw her like that.
"Junior Sister Jiang~"
Su Qinghe drifted in like a gust of wind.
Gingerbread was startled. She patted her chest and said, "Senior sister, you walk without making a sound..."
"That's how I cultivate, sorry~" Su Qinghe pinched Gingerbread's cheek.
"Senior Sister Su, please try this! It's a new spiritual fruit developed by Li Dapu, and it's especially sweet!"
Gingerbread cut off a piece as if to show off its achievement.
Su Qinghe's beautiful eyes lit up, "Delicious~"
After finishing her meal, her cheeks were flushed. "Well, I came here to tell you..."
Li Dapu: "What?"
"My wedding with Senior Brother Xiao is in three days. Come early and join the celebration!"
We're getting married!
Gingerbread said excitedly, "No problem, we'll go early in the morning. Congratulations, Senior Sister..."
Li Dapu: "Congratulations, you're both in love. When are you going to introduce me to a fairy?"
"People also want to be in a relationship."
He showed a longing expression.
Gingerbread chuckled and said, "A couple of days ago, we went down the mountain for fun and ran into a disciple of the Bright Moon Palace. That girl had a crush on you, but what happened? When you encountered a monster, you hid behind it."
"The girl was so frightened by the monster that her face turned pale."
Su Qinghe covered her mouth and laughed, "And then?"
"Then they ran away the next day, and when they left, they told me to take good care of the frail Fellow Daoist Li."
"Hahaha~" Su Qinghe laughed so hard her whole body trembled. "Frail Fellow Daoist Li, why are you hiding behind the young lady?"
"I……"
Li Dapu touched the tip of his nose. "That monster is a toad spirit. I'm most afraid of toads."
"Anything but a toad."
"Really?" Gingerbread teased with a half-smile. "As far as I know, you're also afraid of centipedes and scorpions."
Li Dapu exaggeratedly shrugged his shoulders, "Isn't it terrifying? Centipedes have so many legs, and even scorpion-transformed monsters aren't much more aesthetically pleasing."
As he spoke, he could already picture it in his mind.
Su Qinghe: "I used to dislike ferocious beasts with many legs, but I gradually overcame that after seeing more of them."
There's nothing we can do about it; the cultivation world has everything.
The three of them chatted in the courtyard until sunset.
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