Chapter 98: Three days for its first publication on Jinjiang? That's outrageous! ...
When Yao Sisi finished speaking, the young master opposite her paused, seemingly surprised by her question.
Qi Mu said gently, "Why would Miss Sisi say such a thing? You weren't usually this sensitive."
Yao Sisi shrugged: "I can't be insensitive either. I don't know what I did to offend you. You ran off and haven't come back for so long. The key is that you didn't even send me a message. We used to be together. You suddenly left for so many years and even caught me off guard."
Qi Mu quickly apologized: "I didn't mean to not send a message, it's just that we're too far apart, and besides, Miss Sisi was in seclusion at the time. I didn't want you to worry about me while you were in seclusion."
Yao Sisi looked skeptical: "Really? I feel like you're just kidding me?"
Just then, Ri Jiu arrived and overheard her question. She interjected, "He's just lying to you. I could tell."
Qi Mu didn't turn around to look at him. After hearing his words, she frowned first and then said to Yao Sisi, "Don't believe him."
Ri Jiu: "If you don't believe me, are you going to believe someone who's been gone for over ten years?"
Yao Sisi noticed that the two of them liked to bicker whenever they were together, so she quickly said to Qi Mu, "Ri Jiu is probably not used to you not being around."
After saying that, he turned to Ri Jiu and said, "Everyone's back, and they're already having a tiff, huh!"
Qi Mu: "..."
He wouldn't be uncomfortable with me not being here; in fact, he'd love for me not to come back!
Ri Jiu: "..."
I didn't argue with him; I just simply couldn't stand him.
Seeing that the two of them didn't speak and had indescribable expressions, Yao Sisi said, "What's with those shit-eating faces you two have?"
Ri Jiu, quick to speak, immediately chimed in and gave her a thumbs up, "That analogy is so apt!"
Although what I said before was wrong, I'm still pretty accurate at reading people's expressions.
Qi Mu ignored Ri Jiu's expression and said to Yao Sisi, "The spirit tea tree was only one meter tall before I left, and now it has grown this tall."
Yao Sisi nodded: "That's right, I feed it with spiritual spring water whenever I have time, and it's growing quite well, but it's still a seedling and hasn't matured yet."
Qi Mu: "If it's to mature, it will take at least a hundred years. I wonder how many good teas it will produce."
Seeing that the two of them had started talking about something else and were ignoring him, Ri Jiu said defiantly, "The tea seedlings that kid sent were too tender." After taking a jab at Tang Yan, he said to Yao Sisi, "When I go on this training trip, I'll get you some finished spirit tea, so you won't be left wanting to see it but not being able to eat it."
Yao Sisi: "Whether you have the spirit tea or not doesn't matter. You should focus on your training and not get distracted."
Ri Jiu thought to himself: How can I let a mere disciple steal the limelight? I must find something better than him.
These male cultivators are really annoying. They're always fantasizing about Sisi, which infuriates him, especially since there's a fantasizing leader right in front of him.
Qi Mu looked at them quietly, then asked a crucial question: "Ri Jiu wants to gain experience? I do have a recommendation, but I don't know if he can endure the hardship."
Yao Sisi: "Is it dangerous? Let's forget about it!"
When Ri Jiu saw her rival challenging her, she refused to admit defeat and said, "I'm not afraid of hardship, I'm just afraid that the place you recommended won't be of any use."
Yao Sisi, standing to the side: "..."
These two are about to start arguing again.
She raised her hand and sent several message talismans to Qin Fubao and the others, asking them to come and share the burden.
"I called them over. Let's have a barbecue on the mountaintop later. Now that it's 9 AM, the barbecue will taste even better. Their family has a secret family recipe, especially their roasted chicken, which is absolutely amazing!"
Qi Mu paused for a moment without saying anything. Was the barbecue he made before not good?
That was a prescription he had specially sought out...
Did he miss out on too much when he left all these years?
He tentatively asked, "When I'm not around, do you often eat these together?"
Yao Sisi: "I didn't eat it often. I was in seclusion for quite a long time before, and I often went into seclusion during my 9 PM retreats. I did eat it a few times, but I didn't drink much alcohol!"
She recalled the beer from her past life, which wasn't too intoxicating and went well with barbecue, and couldn't help but say, "Let's go out and try more drinks sometime! I once had a kind of beer that I don't know the name of here, it was very refreshing and not intoxicating at all!"
Qi Mu dared not take her to taste the wine, and quickly dissuaded her from the idea: "I brewed some wine for you before I left. It shouldn't be too easy to get drunk. I'll bring it over and try it in a bit."
Yao Sisi: "Okay, but don't take it back after you bring it, otherwise I'll just have to watch you drink, which is too cruel, especially since Fellow Daoist Qin even brought some good wine, a five-hundred-year-old vintage! His brother really has a rich collection."
Qi Mu: "After all, he is a famous high-level alchemist. So many people ask him to refine pills, and naturally, there are quite a few who send him gifts and spirit wine."
Seeing his words, Ri Jiu switched to sarcastic mode: "Isn't our young master Qi also good at alchemy? When will he become a high-level alchemist and get Sisi a few jugs of good wine?"
Qi Mu pursed her lips. This person really never misses an opportunity to nitpick. "Even if I'm not a high-level alchemist, I can still brew wine for Sisi."
Yao Sisi thought to herself: You all talk the talk, but when it comes to actually drinking, you're the most vigilant...
"Young master, hurry and get me some wine. Maybe if we succeed this time, I can drink more!"
Before long, not only Qi Mu returned with wine, but Qin Fubao, Liu Yuan, Ning Xiu, and Lanlan also came over.
They hadn't gathered this many times in all these years, and besides, once their cultivation level was high enough, they could abstain from grains, so they ate even less.
Once everyone was there, she noticed that Qi Mu and Ri Jiu were bickering less, probably because there were younger people present and they were mindful of saving face. She hadn't expected the two of them to still have their idol image to maintain; why did they start arguing so much in front of her?
Now, more than ten years have passed, and everyone has changed a lot. The biggest changes are Lanlan and Ningxiu. They used to be children when they were teenagers, but now they have grown up completely. Although time is like flowing water for cultivators, and no changes can be noticed after seclusion, their sudden growth makes people feel the passage of time.
Especially teenagers, they grow up very quickly, and there are significant changes every year if we don't see them.
In the past, Lanlan and Ningxiu, who were just kids, weren't allowed to drink alcohol at gatherings. Now that they're adults, they drink more than Yao Sisi.
The more unattainable something is, the more you want it; she couldn't take her eyes off Qin Fubao the moment he came over with the wine jar.
Qin Fubao: "Hey Senior Sister Yao, I could see your eyes staring at my wine jar from far away. If no one was watching, your eyes would have flown right in."
Yao Sisi: "It's not that exaggerated!"
After saying that, she took out a set of magical artifacts thinner than a hair from her package. There were ten of them in total, and they had an invisibility effect when activated. She knew that the little fat boy did not like fighting, so she gave him a set of hidden weapons for self-defense.
Even a Nascent Soul stage cultivator could be ambushed by this magical artifact if they weren't careful.
"Here, the Golden Elixir gift for you!"
Qin Fubao happily opened it and took a look. Seeing that it was a magic weapon that suited him perfectly, he was overjoyed. But he couldn't help but reply with a cheeky grin, "Tell me quickly, did you make such a delicate magic weapon for me to save on materials?"
Yao Sisi: "Smart! You guessed right, don't give it back to me!"
Qin Fubao: "It's impossible for me to return it to you. I'm just curious what you gave Senior Brother Qi Mu?"
Qi Mu also wanted to know what Yao Sisi would give him. However, since their cultivation levels were similar before, they were used to calling each other by name. Now that they had both advanced to the Nascent Soul stage, their seniority had become different. But he didn't want to hear him call him "Senior Brother," since he was a few years younger than Fellow Daoist Qin.
"We're all friends, no need to be so polite. Just call me by my name as usual."
Ri Jiu chuckled beside him: "He's just saying you're making him sound old. You've got a knack for being serious."
Qi Mu raised an eyebrow: "Pretentious?"
Nine meals a day, oh no, I blurted out what was on my mind.
But he didn't back down either, "What? You didn't give me a nickname?"
Qi Mu looked away. Yes, there were many, such as butterflies.
"I never give people nicknames."
Ri Jiu: "I didn't believe your lies!"
Yao Sisi secretly laughed at them: Even elementary school kids arguing have more skill than them.
"You two must have been enemies in your past lives!"
Unexpectedly, Qin Fubao added fuel to the fire, saying, "No need for a past life, we're enemies in this one."
Yao Sisi: "That makes sense!"
Qi Mu pursed his lips; if he continued to speak to this flower butterfly, his gentlemanly demeanor would be ruined.
Fortunately, Yao Sisi took out a new gift from her storage bag at that moment: a sword case.
"Seeing that you don't yet have your own natal sword, I specially forged one for you to use in the meantime. How can a sword cultivator be without a sword!"
As soon as the sword box appeared, Qi Mu saw a scene from many years ago.
At that time, she clearly had nothing, yet she spent a lot of money to ask him for a sword. That sword was no longer usable for his cultivation level, but he couldn't bear to give it to someone else. Instead, he kept it intact in his cave.
"Thank you, I like it very much."
Yao Sisi's lips curved into a smile, then she glanced at Qin Fubao and said, "Look at him, he knows how to say thank you, but you're complaining and teasing me!"
Qin Fubao said shamelessly, "Huh? Did I? When? I don't remember."
Seeing that everyone else had gifts, Rijiu started to get restless, "Sisi, I want one too..."
Yao Sisi, a straightforward woman, said, "They got promoted, but you didn't. What do you want?"
Ri Jiu: "But they already have them!" Look at their hideous expressions, their mouths are practically grinning from ear to ear.
If it weren't for the large number of people around, he would definitely have turned back into his original form and snuggled into her arms, acting all cute.
Yao Sisi: "If others have it, you have to have it too. What kind of logic is that? Look at Lanlan and Ning Xiu, they're so much younger than you and they didn't want each other."
Seeing the crowd, he squeezed his way to her, his lips almost touching her ear, and whispered, "I'm different from them, I'm your little darling!"
Yao Sisi shuddered, her eyes practically rolling to the sky. "We haven't even eaten yet, and you already want me to throw up, huh?"
Ri Jiu stopped pretending this time, and his voice was louder than before. He held her wide sleeves with his hands, something he often did when he was in his original form, swinging on her hem. Even in human form, some habits are hard to break.
"How can I not be your little darling!"
His shout drew everyone's attention to them, and they all looked shocked.
Yao Sisi rubbed her forehead, feeling a headache coming on, and said perfunctorily, "Yes, yes, yes!" Then she pulled him and said to everyone, "Let me reintroduce you all, this is our three-year-old son, Ri San Sui."
Ri Jiu: "How can Ri be three years old? You're not that young! You might as well just call me Ri for three days!"
Yao Sisi: "..."
Three days in a row? That's outrageous!
Fortunately, in this world, the character "日" (sun) is still the character "日", and a chrysanthemum is still a chrysanthemum; otherwise, she really couldn't bear to see everyone's agitated expressions.
"If you want to be called 'Three Days a Day,' then so be it. It suits your name, 'Nine Days a Day,' just like it."
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