Seeing Zhou Quan arrive, the four people felt relieved. If the young master's master is so powerful, then his master's husband must be even more powerful. These two people must not be ordinary people.
Therefore, Chu Yan and Zhong Hui held Zhou Quan in high esteem for a time.
Li Mai went into the space to wash up, and Zhou Quan went over to help them, saying that Li Mai was resting in the carriage.
Chu Yan and Zhong Hui responded and began digging a pit with their swords.
When Zhou Quan got off the carriage, Li Mai had already handed him a shovel.
Zhou Quan used a shovel to dig, which was faster than their swords.
Seeing that their master and master's husband's carriage still had shovels, Chu Yan and Zhong Hui were completely convinced.
So this is what people should bring when they go out. They never thought to bring a shovel in their car. They'll definitely bring one next time.
At daybreak, they finally buried all the wolves underground and even built a grave for them.
Afterwards, they left and went to a stream, where they washed themselves clean and changed their clothes before continuing their journey.
At 9:00 AM, they arrived at a town and stopped there. They found an inn to stay in, and two guards went out to buy food. After eating, they all went to rest.
They are not planning to leave today; they will set off again tomorrow morning.
Li Mai slept in the carriage for the rest of the night and did not participate in their burying of the wolf. Only Zhou Quan helped. At this time, she was not sleepy, so she did not sleep.
After they went to sleep, Li Mai sat alone at the table in the room writing down plans, including what he needed to prepare to open a clothing shop.
She had no experience in opening a shop, and only had what she had learned from documentaries she had watched before. So, she could only write it down first, then go and see what other people's shops were like, and finally summarize what she should do.
Zhou Quan woke up around noon, went out to check on the carriage, and after confirming that the waiter had fed the horses, he returned to his room and asked Li Mai if she was hungry and if she wanted to go eat.
Li Mai shook his head and said he wasn't hungry, telling him he could go eat if he got hungry.
Zhou Quan went out for a while and came back with some snacks and oranges.
He was surprised to find oranges here. He bought a basketful, saying he would put them in his spatial dimension so that Li Mai could eat them slowly.
Li Mai was overjoyed; this was the first time she had ever eaten an orange since she came into this world.
She set aside eight for Chu Yan and the others, two for each of them. She placed a few on the table for herself and Zhou Quan to eat, and put the rest into her spatial storage.
The two were chatting and eating snacks when Chu Yan and Zhong Hui arrived.
Seeing that the two had finally regained some energy, Li Mai asked with a smile, "Are you awake?"
The two shook their heads. "We're still sleepy. We'll sleep some more tonight. We only slept for an hour before waking up. We're not used to sleeping for too long during the day."
After they sat down on the benches, Li Mai pointed to eight oranges placed to the side, "Those are for you, take them with you when you go back."
"Thank you, Master." The two people said respectfully to Li Mai.
Li Mai glanced at the two of them, who were so respectful, and chuckled. "You really intend to acknowledge me as your master? I'm nineteen this year, so I should be about the same age as you two?"
“I’m eighteen, and my cousin is nineteen!” Chu Yan said.
“I was born in the twelfth lunar month, so I’m definitely younger than you,” Zhong Hui said earnestly to Li Mai.
"Then I'm not qualified to be your master. You can call me master when we're playing Gomoku, but not at other times." Li Mai felt that to be the master of these young masters from great families, one had to be a famous figure. She was neither, nor did she intend to be. She just wanted to do some business, make some money, and help the Zhou family live a good life.
Chu Yan smiled and said, "Master may not know what you mean to us as our master."
After he finished speaking, he recounted the task that the two families' fathers had assigned them when they went on their travels, a task that they would be assessed upon their return.
Li Mai's lips twitched after hearing this. "So, you spent almost half a year trying to find a suitable master, and in the end, just because I taught you Gomoku, you pinned your father's assessment task on me?"
She always felt that these two things were a bit too frivolous.
“Yes, we might have wondered at the time if we could pass the test when we got back, but after what happened last night, we can confidently tell my father that the master we've recognized is worthy of us handing over the jade pendant. So, we also hope that when our master arrives in the capital, he can visit our home,” Zhong Hui said in a deep voice.
He was a bit older than Chu Yan and spoke with more composure. After he finished speaking, Chu Yan nodded repeatedly, saying, "Yes, yes, yes, what my cousin said is exactly what I wanted to say."
Li Mai glanced at the two men, then with a flick of her wrist, produced their jade pendants and placed them on the table.
"Tell me, are these jade pendants of yours not ordinary objects? I didn't know you were in danger last night. I was awakened from my sleep by this phoenix jade pendant appearing in my hand and burning me. At that time, it was almost red, not the jade white color it is now. And this Qilin jade of yours was also trembling the whole time. Although it didn't jump into my hand, the way it trembled was like an old lady's trembling hand."
The two looked at Li Mai in surprise and quickly clarified, "This is impossible, Master. We have carried our jade pendants with us since we were young, and such a situation has never occurred before."
Li Mai pushed them back, "These two jade pendants should be your talismans. You should wear them yourselves. You never encountered danger before, as long as the jade pendants were with you. Now that you have given them to me, you were attacked by a pack of wolves in the middle of the night. I suppose it's because these two things were not with you."
"No, Master. I promised to give it to you. You have to take it home to my father so he will believe that our mission is complete." Chu Yan refused and pushed it back to Li Mai, saying.
“Are you stupid? Your father just wants to see if you will really give the jade pendant to someone else, to see if you will encounter any danger, and also to see if the person you give the jade pendant to will save you. Put them on, both of you. I think someone should have already sent a message to your father in the capital by now, and your father will know of my existence in a few days.” After Li Mai finished speaking, she pushed the pendants in front of each of them.
"Also, the identities of your two families must be more complex than you claim, otherwise you wouldn't have such a spiritual object as a talisman." Li Mai had also watched fantasy films and knew that anything was possible in this world.
At least when she had superpowers, she was almost omnipotent, except for not discovering that her teammate was a black-hearted capsule. Thinking about her death in her previous life, it became a stain and failure on her life!
Chu Yan and Zhong Hui felt as if Li Mai was speaking in a foreign language. They didn't think that the jade pendant they always wore was some kind of magical object. It was just a jade pendant, wasn't it?
Seeing the two of them looking completely bewildered, Li Mai picked up Zhong Hui's phoenix jade pendant again and examined it for a while. She then placed it in her palm, clasped her hands together, closed her eyes, and focused her mind, trying to concentrate her spiritual energy to sense whether there were any fluctuations of spiritual energy within the jade pendant.
If this jade pendant is indeed sealed with the spirit of the ancient divine beast Phoenix, then it can be sensed using spiritual power.
She wanted to try again, to see if her spiritual power would fluctuate when it encountered this spiritual object, and to see if the thing inside the jade pendant was the soul of a divine beast!
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