Chapter 21 Chapter 21 A good market that abides by laws and regulations...
[I’m back from begging!] After receiving Qin Sheng’s reminder, Noodles immediately rushed out from the crowd.
"Even a starving ghost can't be as edible as you." Qin Sheng picked it up, weighed it, and laughed. This was not begging, this was the Japanese invaders returning from a large-scale raid in the village.
Xu Zhaoyi glanced at him, a hint of disapproval in his eyes. How much could a kitten possibly eat? But considering Qin Sheng's delicate body, he still reached out and took the noodles.
When he lifted it up into his arms, he realized it was indeed too heavy. After a moment of silence, he said, "Go home and walk on the treadmill for half an hour."
"Meow!" Noodles responded bitterly. In fact, it did not need any digestive aids and could be cleared out directly in one go.
And it's not all because it's greedy. It's just that it's hard to refuse the hospitality. Most of the guests present don't know the dietary taboos of cats and dare to feed it anything. Fortunately, it's not a real cat, otherwise, with the way it eats, it would have to go to the pet hospital that night.
Wu Yunlian, who was still busy with social engagements, burst into laughter when she learned that Qin Sheng was planning to abandon the half-eaten engagement banquet. She was really not surprised at all.
Qin Kangnian gave her a warning look before instructing Qin An, "Send him back personally. Father has confiscated Qin Shi's cultivation resources for a year as a punishment. Give them all to him and he can do whatever he wants with them."
Qin Sheng and Xu Zhaoyi couldn't practice and had no use for these, but it wouldn't be appropriate to divide them equally among the other younger generations as Qin Sheng said, as it would simply create a rift between the cousins.
It would be better to let Qin Sheng take it away. It doesn’t matter whether he gives it away or not. Anyway, the Qin family doesn’t need these little things.
With Qin Sheng carrying the karma, not only are almost all the Qin family members extremely talented, they also have no taboos when it comes to grabbing cultivation resources. Therefore, neither the old man nor Qin Kangnian will be stingy with these small matters, as it is not advisable to lose the big picture for the sake of small gains.
As for Qin Shi, he didn't listen to the advice. It was totally worth it to teach Qin Xing and other children a deep-rooted lesson. He could just vent his anger on Qin Sheng. In a few years, Qin Sheng would have "perfected his virtues" and his debt would have been forgiven.
Qin Sheng had no objection to this arrangement. He just sneered and asked them to take good care of the "fish" he caught yesterday and not let any of them die. The only thing that piqued his interest was the pair of golden silk gloves given as a gift in case he was hurt by the "fish". This thing was a magical weapon that could catch a knife with bare hands.
Although there are not many people in modern society who still insist on using blades as weapons, fighting is popular among practitioners, and there are even fewer melee mages, but he is supporting a male protagonist after all, and there is no danger that is absolutely impossible to happen, so he might as well be prepared.
On the way back, Noodles complained again about how their divorce feeling became stronger. Qin Sheng was helpless. Xu Zhaoyi was obviously distracted. He knew why, so he had nothing to say.
After thinking for a while, Qin Sheng decided to give up the rescue and let Xu Zhaoyi stay on Kongtong Mountain to calm down.
He deliberately drove faster, and the guards surrounding him had no choice but to speed up as well. In the end, he arrived home nearly a quarter of an hour earlier than usual.
This time, we brought too many things, so we could only arrange for two guards to follow us into the manor.
Qin An didn't follow him in, but he spoke a few words to the captain of the guard stationed outside the manor before leaving. Before leaving, he and Qin Sheng respectfully said, "Whenever the eldest young master wants to settle the score with those people from the Xu family, just notify them."
"I understand." Qin Sheng nodded.
In the villa inside the manor, Noodles watched the two guards put down their things and leave obediently. After they left, it immediately re-scanned the entire manor to make sure that they did not leave any small items such as eavesdropping devices before changing back into its human cub vest with peace of mind.
"Finally, I can speak." Noodles crawled to sit next to Xu Zhaoyi, leaning against him. His little dad looked weak and unable to take care of himself, whining, "I'm dying of suffocation."
Qin Sheng just walked in from outside and sneered, "How come I can't see you holding back anything? I just see you eating with your belly open."
Xu Zhaoyi paused as he stroked Noodles' head: "I almost forgot, you ate so much. Go walk on the treadmill for half an hour to help digestion."
“…Okay, I’m going to the bathroom first.”
Noodles, who failed to get away with it, didn't want to walk alone on the treadmill, so he pretended to hold his stomach and walked away.
Seeing that Xu Zhaoyi was genuinely worried, Qin Sheng couldn't bear it any longer, so he had to give up his interest in playing a prank on noodles and explained to this brat the internal structure and eating principles of noodles.
"Don't worry about it for now. I have something for you. Let's go to your room." Qin Sheng said this with a serious look, "Are you ready?"
Xu Zhaoyi took a moment to react before nodding.
The two came to Xu Zhaoyi's bedroom which was full of spiritual energy. Qin Sheng did not step in. The spiritual energy was harmful to his current body. When Xu Zhaoyi officially embarked on the path of cultivation, he would also have the ability to control the spiritual energy, so as to isolate himself from the harm of being unable to replenish his body.
He took out the engagement task reward issued by the system, and a small jade bottle appeared in his palm. He pretended to take it out of his pocket and handed it to Xu Zhaoyi.
"The Spiritual Guiding Pill, combined with the endless supply of spiritual energy in this room, is enough to awaken your spiritual roots."
Xu Zhaoyi's first reaction was that this was too precious, but he soon realized that this was just the beginning of his deal with Qin Sheng. If he refused, it would seem that he did not take this cooperation seriously enough, so he pursed his lips and took it silently.
He thought to himself that the right to interpret the transaction formulated by Qin Sheng belonged to Qin Sheng, but he should also weigh the efforts of both parties and not let Qin Sheng suffer any real losses in the future.
If Qin Sheng knew what he was thinking, his conscience would at least feel a little pang as a sign of respect.
Xu Zhaoyi took the pill and went into seclusion.
Qin Sheng informed Noodles to keep an eye on it at all times, and went back to the room opposite to change his clothes. Then he went downstairs to deal with the things he brought back from the Qin family.
In the yard, he and Noodles, who had just emptied his stomach, worked together to clean the swimming pool, refilled it with water, and continuously injected spiritual energy into the water with a modified oxygenator. Finally, they poured the fish they brought back... uh, the little fanged water monster into the water.
The little water monsters, who were originally not very energetic, suddenly became more lively in the small swimming pool full of spiritual energy than when they were in the Falling Star Lake.
"They should be able to be kept alive." Noodles took a quick look and found a total of sixteen fish, fourteen males and only two females. The gender ratio was seriously unbalanced.
It told Qin Sheng about this discovery, and Qin Sheng just laughed after hearing it: "It's okay, there are too many to keep them, and I don't plan to eat these little things."
"Huh?" Noodles looked at him with disappointment and curiosity. "Then why keep them? They're taking up the pool and we can't even use it."
Qin Sheng asked it, "Have you heard of the scorpion pot?"
The word "虿盆" and its accompanying image examples appeared before Noodles' eyes, and his expression gradually became terrified: "... No, it's not what I thought, host, you... you..."
What a cruel and villainous act! He is an honest and law-abiding mayor.
"Just as you think." Qin Sheng said after scaring it: "Don't worry, these little water monsters are small and not poisonous. There are only a dozen of them, so their bite won't kill you."
Noodles was confused: “…” Oh my goodness, so you really plan to throw a living person down there.
However, when it thought that the only people they needed to use this water monster version of the scorpion pot to scare were Xu Zhaoyi's unkind uncles, it didn't want to say any words of dissuasion.
"Before throwing it down, you can turn off the valve that injects spiritual energy first, so that he won't bite it back." It even took the initiative to improve this brutal plan.
"Okay." Qin Sheng accepted the advice.
The big and the small, who were in cahoots with each other, stood by the swimming pool and admired for a while the little water monsters that had become overly lively in the tap water full of spiritual energy. They fed them some meat and saw that they were not picky about food and rushed to share the food. Then they left together with satisfaction.
Qin Sheng went to the kitchen to cook, while Noodles went upstairs to Xu Zhaoyi's room to see what was going on.
It very considerately changed into a small fly vest and crawled under the door to avoid disturbing Xu Zhaoyi who might be in the process of awakening his spiritual roots.
In fact, Xu Zhaoyi was fine. He was just meditating normally to absorb spiritual energy. The awakening of his spiritual roots was not like breaking through a barrier in cultivation, so there was no danger. The only special thing was that his spiritual roots had an extremely high demand for spiritual energy.
Different from the feeling when he forcibly awakened his spiritual roots in his previous life, Xu Zhaoyi already knew that his aptitude was probably not low but one in a million. However, he was born in the Dharma-Ending Age where spiritual energy was scarce, so his great potential became a disadvantage.
And now the soul-attracting pill and spiritual energy given by Qin Sheng perfectly make up for this "shortcoming" for him.
Because he wasn't feeling unwell, he noticed the noodles buzzing in. Unsurely, he called out to the unremarkable little fly, "Noodles?"
He felt a little ashamed when he shouted, thinking that if it was just an ordinary fly, he would kill the fly and pretend nothing happened. Fortunately, the little fly responded to him immediately.
"It's me, it's me." Noodles was quite happy to be recognized, "I came to see how little daddy is doing."
It remembered that Xu Zhaoyi and Qin Sheng hadn't eaten anything since morning, so it immediately said, "Are you hungry? Dad is already cooking. I'll bring it up later."
"No, I don't feel like eating for the time being."
Xu Zhaoyi really didn't feel hungry. After taking the Spirit Attracting Pill, the spiritual energy in the room flowed into his body at a speed several times faster than usual. In this case, it would be fine even if he didn't eat or drink.
"Okay." Noodles changed back into his cub vest, took out a walkie-talkie-like thing from his pocket, and placed it next to Xu Zhaoyi: "Then leave this here. If you need anything, just call me directly through it, and I won't bother you..."
"etc!"
Xu Zhaoyi called out to it reflexively, but when Noodles turned around, he opened his mouth but didn't know what to say.
"Um, did Qin Sheng tell you..."
After hesitating for a moment, he stopped talking and didn't continue. He sighed in his heart and cursed himself for being confused. How could he ask an AI about such a mysterious thing as a fake engagement being blessed by heaven and earth? What could it understand?
"What's going on?" Noodles scratched his head. Since he could communicate with his host in real time, it shouldn't be the case that Xu Zhaoyi knew everything while it was still kept in the dark.
But Xu Zhaoyi's question made it sound as if something had happened that only he and his host knew. After all, it was a high-dimensional intelligent creature, and it quickly remembered that at the Qin family's Hegen Ceremony, Qin Sheng had asked it if it had noticed anything unusual.
It hissed and asked tentatively, "Could it be that you and Dad falsified the engagement announced to Heaven and Earth, and were condemned and warned by this cosmic consciousness?"
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