Chapter 33 Because the temperature suddenly dropped...
Because the temperature suddenly dropped, Ji and Jie were shivering in their thin clothes as they went to listen to Taiqing preach. It was the same every year. In previous years, they didn't even have any clothes to wear. They got used to the cold after a while.
Cang Li grabbed the two kids: "Why are you going out? Go back to your beds and stay put."
Ji Hejie hesitated and said, "But the Taoist priest has to go to class."
Cang Li scratched his head, wrapped himself in the blanket, and said, "I'll let him in to talk."
Staying outside in this cold weather, you'll catch a cold, and she won't be able to cure it.
Cang Li mustered her courage, threw off the covers, and ran out of the cave. Just as she was about to face the cold, she suddenly realized that it wasn't so cold. Cang Li rubbed her arms. It was a bit colder than yesterday, but it was within her tolerance. It felt a bit like being in autumn and not having bought a coat, so she could only wear a single layer of clothing.
Turning her head to look at the babies huddled under the covers, she could clearly see that the temperature was even lower than she felt.
Cang Li came to her senses and looked around. She saw Tai Qing standing in the usual teaching place, dressed in white. Hearing the noise, she looked over and saw Cang Li. Her eyes were obviously puzzled, since Cang Li was usually lying down at this time.
Taiqing assumed Cangli would also come to listen to the teachings, and his face lit up with pleasure. But then he noticed the children hadn't come out, so Taiqing asked:
"What about them?"
Cang Li opened the bamboo door of the cave and said, "It's cold inside. They'll catch a cold if they come out. Come in and give them a lesson."
Taiqing: "Frozen disease? No creature in the primordial world has ever been sick; the only things that happen are injuries from fighting or death from losing a fight."
Cang Li explained simply: "The difference between their body temperature and the outside temperature is too great, and I don't have enough things to keep them warm. So until I get some fur, they can only stay in the cave. I will make a fire to raise the temperature in the cave. Daoist, please come in first."
Taiqing nodded and entered the cave. Sure enough, he saw several children staying in bed. When Taiqing came in, Jihejie hurriedly got out of bed and stood up awkwardly. However, his shivering body betrayed his true feelings.
Cang Li lit a fire in the cave's stove, added firewood, and emptied a water-filled earthenware jar, filled it with rice husks and a few pieces of charcoal, and moved it closer to the bed. The cave's temperature slowly rose. Cang Li then built a fire pit in the middle of the cave and threw firewood into it. In this way, the children no longer had to stay huddled in bed and could move around in the cave.
Ji Hejie pulled Erzhongyu out of the blankets. The temperature in the cave was now acceptable, and they weren't so cold in their light clothing, so they could continue listening to the sermon.
Taiqing sat down to preach, glanced at Cangli who was busy cooking porridge beside him, and raised his voice a few decibels, trying to get Cangli to listen to him.
Cang Li cooked porridge and took out a salted fish, planning to stir-fry it after the porridge was cooked.
The sound of sermons kept reaching her ears, and after listening for a while, Cang Li suddenly had a flash of inspiration. She seemed to understand why she was no longer cold.
She started cultivating a long time ago!
Cang Li shook her head. It was all because the cultivation method was so inconspicuous. She didn't even need to spend time practicing it. She naturally absorbed spiritual energy every day while breathing, moving, and working. It was no wonder she had no motivation to cultivate. Now that it was getting cold, Cang Li finally felt the benefits of cultivation.
Maybe she won't be afraid of the heat when it gets hot in the future. When she first transmigrated, she spent a whole summer in a place without air conditioning, and she got so hot that she turned tanned.
Cang Li felt a surge of joy. Tai Qing had finished his sermon for the day, and Cang Li invited a few people to eat. He also moved the tables and chairs outside inside. After serving the rice from the pot, Cang Li boiled a pot of water so that his hands wouldn't be cold after washing them.
After finishing their meal and cleaning up, Ji put the washed dishes and chopsticks away neatly. He looked around and realized there was really nothing left to do. They had harvested everything from the fields and their older sister had stocked up on a lot of food. Now that they had some free time, they were quite bored.
Several children were playing around the fire pit inside the cave. Cang Li warned them, "Stay away from the fire pit, or you'll be disfigured if you fall in."
After saying that, he threw in a small piece of pork, which quickly turned black. Cang Li pointed at the pork and said, "See? If you fall in, your flesh will look like this. It hurts a lot."
Yu and the others immediately showed expressions of fear and moved far away from the fire pit, not wanting to become covered in darkness.
Cang Li mischievously grabbed Er and said, "Oh dear, I suddenly have a craving for grilled baby food. Er looks so chubby and fair, he must taste delicious!"
Er'er's eyes widened, and she struggled, letting out a loud yelp: "Aww~ Sister, I'm not tasty, I'm not tasty, I'm tasty, I'm chubby!"
Cang Li laughed heartily and put Er aside. Er immediately ran away and hid behind a person, watching Cang Li warily.
Jie walked up to Cang Li and said, "Sister, are you kidding me? Sister, don't we have any work to do?"
Cang Li pinched Jie's cheek and said, "Isn't it good to have no work? Do you expect to be busy like a donkey every day?"
Jie smiled, she liked being with Cang Li.
Cang Li sat for a while, then got up and said, "I'm going out to dig some sweet potatoes to roast. You guys don't need to go out. I'll go up the mountain later to see if any bears or other animals have fallen into the traps, and I'll get some fur to make you warm clothes."
The man nodded in agreement, and Cang Li took a hoe and a basket and went out to dig sweet potatoes and potatoes. They had been growing for so long, they should be quite big by now.
After going outside, Cang Li squatted down and dug up sweet potatoes. In no time, he dug out two fist-sized sweet potatoes and a fist-sized potato. Cang Li didn't pay much attention to these two things, but they grew exceptionally well. Cang Li was satisfied, and that night he ate stir-fried potato slices.
After digging out a basketful, Cang Li carried it back. Turning around, she saw Tai Qing, who hadn't been there a moment ago, standing above her, watching her. Cang Li placed the basket at the cave entrance and asked:
"what are you doing here?"
Taiqing glanced at the sweet potatoes and potatoes in the basket, and finally asked Cangli:
"You have clearly reached the Golden Core stage, so why don't you use spells when doing these things? Why do you do them yourself? Is this some kind of cultivation method of the human race?"
Cang Li: ?
Taiqing continued, "When you scattered those wood ashes into the ground before, you could clearly have used magic, which would have been done in an instant. And those chestnuts could also have been peeled off with magic..."
Cang Li interrupted Tai Qing: "Stop!"
Taiqing shut up and looked at Cangli.
Cang Li stared at Tai Qing in disbelief: "Why didn't you say so sooner!?"
Why didn't you tell her if there was an easier way? Cang Li thought back on the work she had done and felt cheated.
Taiqing was bewildered: "Isn't this... part of your human race's cultivation process?"
Without using magic, doing things personally, feeling nature and appreciating the preciousness of life... isn't that right?
Cang Li gritted his teeth: "...Is it possible that I've only been practicing for a little over a month and don't know anything about magic at all!"
Taiqing: "...You should have come to listen to my sermon, or asked me earlier." He had thought that Cang Li had his own cultivation rhythm, but he never thought that Cang Li had no concept of cultivation at all, nor did he know any magic. He simply had good physical fitness and absorbed spiritual energy with every breath.
Cang Li waved his hand weakly: "I won't listen to the Dao, I can't take it in. Daoist, can you teach me some minor spells?"
Taiqing paused for a moment, then quickly nodded: "Okay." Well, Cangli probably had his own reasons for not liking to listen to the Dao.
Cang Li carried the sweet potatoes into the cave, and before closing the door, he turned back to ask Tai Qing:
"Master, would you like some roasted sweet potatoes or roasted potatoes?"
Taiqing shook her head and refused: "I have no appetite."
Cang Li closed the door and rolled her eyes. She had no appetite, and it was the first time she had cooked rice, yet she didn't know who had slowly eaten four bowls.
Taiqing closed his eyes and continued meditating. He had been calculating the timing during this period, and the results had become much clearer in the past two days. He estimated that the time would come after this winter.
Cang Li told the children to stay in the cave, then picked up his axe and went up the mountain to look for prey. Even if there were no large animals, rabbits would be fine; some fur was better than none.
Seeing this, Taiqing took the initiative to follow: "Do you need my help?"
Cang Li suddenly realized that if she wanted fur to make clothes for her cubs, she could easily ask Tai Qing for help. There were no bears or tigers in this mountain, but there were definitely other places. Asking Tai Qing should be possible. Cang Li stopped, blinked, coughed lightly, and said somewhat embarrassedly:
"Um, Taoist priest, could you do me a favor?"
Taiqing nodded: "Agreed."
Cang Li breathed a sigh of relief and immediately suggested, "Look, the people only have very thin clothes, and there are no large animals like tigers or leopards on this mountain. I'd like to ask you to hunt down a couple of bears or tigers and skin them. I want to make them a set of warm clothes."
When Taiqing first saw Cang Li's embarrassed expression, he thought it was something difficult, like asking him to help snatch a primordial magic weapon. Taiqing had even started to consider which family's primordial magic weapon would be suitable for Cang Li. He never expected that what Cang Li wanted was just a mere animal hide.
"...Wait."
Taiqing left behind two words and disappeared before Cangli's eyes. Cangli looked around but couldn't find Taiqing's shadow. He couldn't help but sigh, "It must be so good to be an immortal."
After sighing, Cang Li carried her basket up the mountain. Since she was already there, she picked up the remaining chestnuts and oranges, and while she was at it, she looked for a suitable stone to make a millstone. Since Taiqing was so easy to talk to, she would ask Taiqing to help her process it later. She would also cut two bamboo stalks to see if she could make a water bucket.
After picking chestnuts and chopping bamboo, Cang Li stood up and reflected on her mistakes. She was already a cultivator, so why did she have to painstakingly chop bamboo with her hands? She should have learned some magic so that she could chop bamboo with a flick of her finger like Tai Qing. Unfortunately, the cultivation method was just that—a cultivation method—and it didn't allow Cang Li to learn any minor spells on her own.
Cang Li felt no improvement in her cultivation, but Tai Qing insisted that she had reached the Golden Core stage and had a high talent for cultivation, which made Cang Li sigh.
Could it be that she lived in a scientific society for the first twenty years of her life and had no concept of cultivating immortality, which led to this result?
Cang Li seemed to be deep in thought. Should she abandon her preconceived notions and learn to accept the common sense of the world where immortality cultivation is possible in order to feel the power of cultivation and thus learn magic?
As soon as this thought came to mind, Cang Li suddenly felt some mysterious changes in her body. She seemed to really feel the Qi flowing in her meridians.
So is it really just ingrained notions that influenced her cultivation of immortality?
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