Chapter 75 The Genius Cultivator Used as Cannon Fodder (Part 4) Lin You immediately...
Lin You immediately grabbed the storage bag containing snacks and went out excitedly to find her friends to share some warmth with.
Perhaps because the path she took was rather remote, she didn't encounter many other members of the Ye family along the way. Occasionally, a few outer disciples would pass by and respectfully bow to her.
Her master didn't like formalities and didn't hold an apprenticeship ceremony. He simply gathered all the disciples of the Ye family and introduced Lin You's identity.
The Ye family disciples had no objections, but many people looked at Lin You with strange eyes, a mixture of admiration and pity. Even someone as oblivious as Lin You had a bad feeling about it.
Ye Zhen lived in a small, detached courtyard. In the cultivation world, cultivation depends on oneself, and even married couples have their own separate residences.
Unless they are underage children or disciples who have not yet embarked on the path of cultivation, they will not live with their elders.
Once Lin You has mastered the basics of cultivation, she will also need to move out. The courtyard next to Ye Xinglan's has already been prepared by outer disciples.
Standing in front of Ye Zhen's door, Lin You sent a wisp of spiritual energy inside. This was something Ye Xinglan had explained to her about the knocking method in the cultivation world.
Ye Zhen wasn't in seclusion. She quickly opened the door and was taken aback when she saw Lin You. She looked Lin You up and down for a while before tentatively asking, "Fellow villager?"
Seeing Lin You nod with a smile and give her an OK sign, Ye Zhen immediately smiled back. The two laughed for a while before entering the courtyard and closing the gate.
Lin You joked, "It seems that when fellow villagers meet, they don't necessarily have to be all teary-eyed."
Ye Zhen held her hand and looked her over for a while before asking, "Weren't you a spirit before? How come you've recovered? Did your soul leave your body? Did you possess another's body? Or are you just having trouble adjusting to this new place?"
"No, I am a spirit now. I was taken in as a disciple by Sister Ye. She gave me a jade pendant that can hide my aura. She said that no one with a cultivation level below the Nascent Soul stage can see through my state."
After Lin You finished speaking, she took out a lustrous jade pendant hanging around her neck and showed it to Ye Zhen.
It wasn't that Lin You was unguarded; it was just that in the system's storyline, Ye Zhen was truly a wonderful girl—upright, brave, strong, and concerned for the world. However, she was just too troublesome and attracted too many suitors.
Ye Zhen showed no jealousy whatsoever. Instead, she was happy for Lin You and pulled her into the house, recounting her miserable experiences over the past year since she transmigrated.
"Good sister, do you know that there are ruthless characters in the cultivation world? Even when their cultivation level is not high enough to abstain from grains, they only eat abstaining pills, saying that they reduce impurities in their bodies."
Only disciples of the Ye family who have reached the Foundation Establishment stage are allowed to go out and play. Since everyone else eats like this, I didn't dare break my image. So, I just ate one pill a day, living a bland and tasteless life for a whole year!
Ye Zhen had been holding back for so long, and finally found someone she could complain to and who could understand her complaints. She simply couldn't control herself.
"I can now taste which alchemist refined each Bigu Pill! I can even taste most of the spiritual herbs from that land that they used!"
If it weren't for the occasional chance to go to the back hill and find some fruit to sweeten my palate, I probably would have lost my sense of taste by now.
But the Ye family has so many disciples, and the fruits from the back mountain are also spiritual fruits. For outer disciples, they are a kind of cultivation resource, so they are not so easy to snatch.
It was a truly bitter experience.
"They're still a bit better off than me. I've been a spirit for several years, without any sense of taste or smell. Forget about fasting pills, I haven't even been able to drink a drop of water." Lin You couldn't help but recount her tragic past.
"Now that my master has helped me stabilize my soul, I have returned to normal. In the beginning, I would squat by the food street every day, watching others eat with longing. I was so hungry that I almost cried."
Lin You was also deeply moved. She had been squatting in the food street for so long, watching others make it every day, and she had almost learned how to make it herself.
Ye Zhen patted Lin You's shoulder sympathetically, unable to tell whether it was worse to be able to eat but not have good food, or to see delicious food but not be able to eat it.
"It's good that you've finally made it through. From now on, let's cultivate diligently and strive to reach the Foundation Establishment stage, then we'll go out together and eat all the delicious food in the world!"
Ye Zhen extended her hand, and Lin You happily gave her a high five, acknowledging the agreement.
"Okay! Let's work hard together to cultivate and try to go out and play as soon as possible."
Compared to the line in the system's storyline about slaying "all the demons in the world," "eating all the delicacies in the world" is much more enjoyable.
Ye Zhen stretched out her arm and put it around Lin You's neck. "Good sister, do you have any food? We hit it off so well, we should at least have lunch together and then afternoon tea."
Lin You took out all the dishes that had been packed from the restaurant from her storage bag. Since Ye Zhen didn't have a table big enough, she used her magic to condense ice and made a large round ice crystal table on the spot.
The table was crystal clear, and a spirit stone was embedded in the center to prevent the ice from melting.
Ye Zhen was worried that the food would get cold and affect its taste, so she also laid a thick mat on the table. If Lin You wasn't mistaken, it was clearly a quilt made of high-quality fabric.
"The quilt is new, I haven't used it yet. I'll just use a cleaning brush after I'm done, and it won't delay me from using it again."
Ye Zhen didn't stand on ceremony with Lin You. She directly tore off two large chicken legs from the crispy roast chicken, handed one to her, and stuffed the other into her own mouth.
The table was laden with braised pork, boiled shrimp, squirrel-shaped mandarin fish, steamed crab, and more—more than twenty dishes in total, each one looking incredibly tempting.
"Isn't this too extravagant? So many dishes could easily feed us for ten or eight meals." Ye Zhen munched on a chicken leg, her eyes glancing at the table, feeling that such a large amount of food was a bit wasteful.
Could it be that your best friend has stockpiled a Manchu Han Imperial Feast?
Lin You saw through her thoughts and frankly admitted, "I still have some other snacks, but this banquet at this grand restaurant costs twenty-eight taels of silver, which is more than ten thousand yuan in modern times. I only kept this one portion."
The two women exchanged a glance, quickly set aside two dishes, and divided the rest according to their preferences. Since they both liked sweet and sour pork ribs, they even split the plate in half for each of them.
The two cherished the food that cost twenty taels a table, as well as the spirit stones on the table that were worth tens of thousands of taels of silver.
Not to mention Lin You received so many gifts, even an ordinary disciple like Ye Zhen could receive two coins a month as cultivation resources, so of course she wouldn't be as coveted as someone who doesn't have vegetables.
The two dishes left were a crispy roast chicken without the drumsticks and a braised pork belly with a good balance of fat and lean meat and a bright red color.
Lin You thoughtfully brought out two bowls of rice and two pairs of chopsticks, saying, "Braised pork tastes best with rice!"
Ye Zhen took the bowl, picked up a few pieces of meat with alternating layers of fat and lean meat, placed them on top of the rice, and then poured some brownish-red broth over it. After taking that bite, she was almost moved to tears.
She sniffed and shared her food experience with Lin You: "Actually, it's also delicious when stuffed in a steamed bun. Unfortunately, before I transmigrated, I hadn't eaten braised pork for more than half a year because I was trying to lose weight."
If she had known she would be transported here, she wouldn't have tried to lose weight. Is it that braised pork isn't delicious enough, or that sugary drinks aren't fun enough?
Mealtime is a must-have chat time for best friends. The two chatted about this and that for a while, and finally talked about where to buy braised pork.
"So it's the Drunken River Pavilion in Guyue City. I never had the chance to go to Guyue City, but I heard it's a hundred miles away from the Ye family. I once saw a senior's travelogue in the library, which recorded the delicacies of various places. The rice cakes in Guyue City are delicious."
Ye Zhen swallowed hard and tore off another piece of chicken wing to nibble on. But even with meat, she couldn't stop herself from craving snacks.
Then, her best friend flipped her hand, and an oil paper package appeared on the table. She untied the hemp rope on the package, revealing the square rice cake she had been longing for.
The soft, snow-white pastry exudes an enticing sweet aroma, filled with glistening hawthorn jam, and topped with a generous layer of crushed peanuts and honey.
Ye Zhen's mouth gaped open, and the chicken wing she was holding almost fell to the ground, but she caught it with quick reflexes.
She looked at Lin You for a while before tentatively saying, "The note also says that the minced meat pancakes from a shop in the south of Guyue City are also excellent."
When Lin You was choosing snacks, she naturally inquired about the reputation. The minced meat sesame cake was recommended to her by the owner of the pastry shop. She tried one and found it to be delicious, so she packed a lot of it to go.
Ye Zhen watched eagerly as Lin You took out an oil paper package containing a stack of palm-sized sesame seed cakes. One side of each cake was covered in sesame seeds, and the golden crust looked crispy.
Ye Zhen picked up a sesame seed cake and broke it open. You could even hear the crisp sound. Inside were three or four layers of flaky pastry, each filled with minced meat and chopped green onions.
"It looks really good!" Ye Zhen finished the chicken wings in a few bites, then took a bite of the sesame seed cake. As expected of the delicacy that her senior wanted to record, it was indeed crispy and fragrant.
The meat filling in the flatbread isn't too much, but it perfectly blends the meat's aroma with the bread. Garnished with chopped scallions and a crispy crust, every bite is satisfying.
Seeing how much she enjoyed eating, Lin You couldn't resist taking one herself. The two of them ate until their cheeks were bulging, looking like little hamsters stealing food.
The two looked at each other and couldn't help but laugh, their eyes crinkling with joy, like children.
After eating together, their relationship seemed to instantly become closer. Ye Zhen clasped her hands together, making a wishing gesture.
"Oh, I still want to eat hawthorn cake, butterfly pastry, osmanthus cake, donkey meat potstickers, and crab roe buns from Guyue City..."
She named one item, and Lin You pulled one out. The table, which had been mostly empty, was quickly piled full again. Ye Zhen didn't stand on ceremony, putting the items into her storage bag and promising Lin You...
"Once we're able to travel again, leave the food guide to me. I guarantee every restaurant I take you to will be delicious!"
After distributing the snacks and cleaning up the scene, the two finally remembered to talk about something serious. Each of them had a plate of sunflower seeds, and Ye Zhen ate them while sharing her cultivation insights.
They all came from the modern era, and their ways of understanding cultivation techniques and their thought processes were exactly the same. Ye Zhen had practiced for a year, so she could still share quite a few insights.
Lin You didn't even bother eating the melon seeds. She took out a small notebook from her spatial storage and wrote down everything Ye Zhen said, intending to study it slowly later.
Just as she was about to look up and thank her, she saw that Ye Zhen had already finished her share of melon seeds and was quietly grabbing her own.
After being caught red-handed, Ye Zhen chuckled at her, but her hands didn't stop moving; she quickly grabbed a handful before pulling it back.
Lin You had no shortage of melon seeds; she had traded a water bottle for a bunch, and used them all to chat with Chu Xiaomei, and she still had a little over half left.
Lin You took out the bag directly, kept two pounds for herself, and stuffed the rest into Ye Zhen's hands. Anyway, she had several water bottles, so she could just exchange them for another bag when they were all gone.
Ye Zhen looked at the simplified Chinese characters on the bag. Before it came with the packaging, she hadn't realized that these were modern sunflower seeds!
Well, the main problem is that she hasn't eaten any sunflower seeds since she time-traveled.
"Good sister, from now on, I'll take care of your study notes!" Ye Zhen said this decisively, completely unaware of how many days and nights she would regret it after saying it.
The two chatted for a while longer and even drank the milk tea that Ye Zhen had been craving. Lin You's backpack even contained repackaged coconut jelly and sago toppings.
"Youyou, you have such a rich stash of stuff! What else did you store?" Ye Zhen was extremely interested in the contents of her spatial storage!
Of course, she was just curious and definitely not planning to rob someone in the future.
Lin You pretended not to see Ye Zhen's probing gaze, finished her milk tea, waved goodbye, and was given a study notebook by Ye Zhen before leaving.
It'll be dark soon if we don't go back. Although her master didn't set a curfew for her, it's not good to stay out too late.
Ye Xinglan saw that after she went out to play for a day, she found the way to cultivate when she came back, and her attitude towards cultivation became much more serious. It seems that the two children's exchange was quite useful.
Judging from the fluctuations of spiritual energy around Lin You, at this rate, she will probably be able to move out and live on her own in just a few days.
Ye Xinglan took a stroll around the neighboring courtyard and saw that it was decorated in her style. She then went to the mortal realm and bought a lot of toys and ornaments that girls like.
Her apprentice is young and has a lively personality, so she probably prefers a room full of flowers.
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Author's Note: Lin You: Good sisters share happiness and hardship!
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