Chapter 29 Work
After working for ten days, there were no results.
Ji Rong racked her brains and finally came up with a solution. She found a piece of wood and had her brother inscribe it with the words "Take you to dinner." Then she hung the sign around her neck and went to solicit customers.
If you ask why Ji Rong didn't inscribe the text herself but asked Ji Zhuang to do it, it's because her cultivation level was too low and she couldn't inscribe it well.
However, if Wu Buyu were to inscribe it, it would easily startle the less skilled cultivators.
With the sign, Ji Rong no longer had to blindly search for customers all over the street. She carried the sign and took turns soliciting customers at the four entrances to the city, which worked very well.
When she's lucky, she can attract two or three groups of cultivators a day; if she's lucky enough to be generous, they might even give her a few spirit crystals as a reward.
So Ji Rong negotiated with Li Fengnian. Li Fengnian was very satisfied with her work ability and readily treated Ji Rong to a meal of spiritual vegetables and meat.
Furthermore, if Ji Rong can attract more than two customers each day, she will receive an extra three spirit crystals for each customer; if she attracts two or fewer customers, she will receive two spirit crystals for each customer.
He gave Ji Rong an extra fifty spirit crystals as a reward for this period of time, and packed some spirit vegetables and beast meat for her to take back and eat.
With these fresh ingredients in her pocket, Ji Rong walked home, her heart filled with warmth.
She earned money, although it wasn't enough to support herself, but at least she no longer had to eat plain rice and scavenge kitchen scraps.
That day, Wu Buyu and Ji Zhuang, who had worked hard all day, finally had their first good meal in six months.
Wu Buyu's gaze towards Ji Rong softened considerably. He began to understand why Huang Pinjie was so determined to raise Ji Er's extremely low-quality colorful chicken.
Ji Rong's business was not stable. On her best day, she led two caravans and earned 126 spirit crystals, but occasionally she had no business for several days in a row.
When things are going well, with the help of customers' tips, Ji Rong can earn more than 1,700 spirit crystals a month. But when things are at their worst, Ji Rong only earns two or three hundred spirit crystals a month, and sometimes she even gets beaten up by customers.
But Ji Rong was very content, because after she was able to earn money, her brother Ji Zhuang only needed to go to the Demon Chariot Room for fifteen days a month, and he could cultivate in peace in his cave for the remaining half month.
Even Wu Buyu can work five days and then rest for one day to catch his breath.
Because of Ji Rong's excellent ability to attract customers, the workers at Tunxiangju were generally quite polite to him, except for occasionally calling him a "spoiled brat."
Now she can not only receive a small bucket of kitchen waste every day, just like the other laborers, and fill it with a bucket of good spiritual water, but she can also often take some leftover spiritual vegetables from the kitchen back with her.
This was a message that Li Fengnian specifically sent to the kitchen after he refused Ji Rong's suggestion that his brother come to Tunxiangju.
Li Fengnian refused because not every junior cultivator could be as quick-witted as Ji Rong; secondly, his shop was only of medium size, and he couldn't accommodate too many customers.
In today's world, being unable to accommodate guests is a terrible thing; it could easily lead to the shop being shut down and businesses being destroyed.
But he was surprised that Ji Rong, at such a young age, knew how to take care of the family, so he specially told the kitchen to pack a portion of any leftover ingredients for Ji Rong.
These ingredients are relatively low-grade and not worth arranging and preserving, much less worth storing in a jade box.
Because if they were left until the next day, their spiritual energy would dissipate, making them unsuitable for cooking. They were always given to the shop's few capable assistants.
Life is boring.
In order to maintain the normal circulation of spiritual energy within their bodies, cultivators in Ligu City not only have to eat a lot of food containing spiritual energy, but also have to cultivate continuously.
Since Ji Rong started bringing back good spiritual water and spiritual vegetables from Tunxiang Residence, Gu Qing's rate of weight loss has slowed down.
Ji Rong was very afraid that Gu Qingqing would die in her sleep.
If she earned a lot that day, she would buy a small piece of spirit meat at the shop and ask Master Zhu Sandao, a master of the mortal demon realm, to boil it into a broth to take back and feed Gu Qingqing.
After a year of such barren yet fulfilling life, when it came time to pay the rent, their savings were 332 more spirit crystals than expected. However, this little surplus was not enough to support them in replacing their cave dwelling with a better one.
That year, Wu Buyu aged rapidly, and many of his feathers turned completely white; although he repeatedly said that it was because he was old and his blood and energy were declining.
But Ji Rong felt that if they could live a better life, Wu Buyu should grow old more slowly.
Since the money in her hands wasn't enough to buy a better cave dwelling, Ji Rong decided that when she bought meat to cook in the future, she would also give some to Wu Buyu and her brother to supplement their diet.
She herself didn't need to, because the cook Zhu Sandao loved to eat and always wanted to eat the best food first; Ji Rong had been in the shop for a long time and had become familiar with him, so now she could often eat some good spiritual materials.
Life is miserable.
Sometimes, when Ji Rong returned to her cave, she was so exhausted that she collapsed on the ground, but she would still get up to cultivate.
Therefore, Ji Rong often cried secretly, because she really missed the days when she was still in the Zhongzhou mountain range.
Whenever this happens, Ji Zhuang would come over and surround her with his wings, just like in the paulownia forest. Soothed, Ji Rong would slowly fall asleep in Ji Zhuang's arms.
Days passed, and in the winter of the following year, the snow in Ligu City was unusually heavy, and the wind was fierce, killing many junior cultivators.
Fortunately, Ji Rong and the other two were birds with thick feathers, and they had enough money in their wings to buy food; so they took leave for nearly a month and did not go out to work.
Only after the snow stopped and the ice froze did Wu Buyu and Ji Zhuang go back to work at the dock.
At this time, the dock was too frozen to hold the ships, so they were hiring repairmen with high salaries.
Under the guidance of the demon chariot, Wu Buyu and Ji Zhuang obtained temporary passes to enter and exit the city gates. They earned some hard-earned money through their physical labor and also picked up a lot of free low-level spirit meat.
That year, Wu Buyu, a cultivator at the Profound Spirit Realm, gradually gained a reputation for making a living in the Demon Carriage Chamber. After hearing about this, many bird cultivators below the Mortal Demon Realm became bolder and brought gifts to ask Wu Buyu for advice on cultivation.
With Wu Buyu receiving extra income, Ji Rong and the others' lives gradually improved, so they moved to the cave dwelling that cost 3,000 yuan a year.
Although the spiritual energy in this cave is still insufficient, the space is more than four times larger.
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As time went by, the cultivators who frequently traveled to and from Ligu City gradually came to know Wu Buyu.
Although this bird isn't fast, its cultivation level is high, so having it run errands is both cheap and prestigious.
So, after the Ice Calamity, the Demon Chariot Office made arrangements in advance to obtain a travel permit for Wu Buyu. Now, theoretically, Wu Buyu can accept orders and go anywhere in Kyushu.
With the travel permit, Wu Buyu earned even more; but true to his name, he was always as silent as a block of wood when working, and he carried both goods and monks steadily.
So by the eighth year, forty percent of the messengers running errands in the Demon Chariot Office were looking for Wu Buyu, which made Ji Zhuang's job easier.
The work was easy, and the pay was higher, so the three of them started looking into food and lodging.
Two years ago, they moved to the cave dwelling at 6,000 yuan a year old. Under the guidance of his master Wu Buyu, Ji Zhuang's leg techniques improved rapidly, and his cultivation level was close to the Dissolution Realm. Now, flying across a province is no longer a problem.
Wu Buyu often lamented that if they were in Zhongzhou, where spiritual energy was abundant and good spiritual herbs were easy to obtain, Ji Zhuang would have reached the Dissolution Realm long ago.
Over the past three years, Wu Buyu had spoken privately with Ji Zhuang several times, urging him to go with the merchant ships.
But Ji Zhuang absolutely refused. In the past eight years, he had gradually matured from being ignorant. He knew that if he left, his master Wu Buyu would definitely be able to go with him.
But what about his sister, whose cultivation level is low and who is still stuck at the Spirit Realm?
Therefore, he cannot leave.
That day, Ji Zhuang finished his cultivation at home and was about to feed Gu Qingqing meat broth when he suddenly noticed that the number of Gu worms on Gu Qingqing's body had decreased significantly.
When Wu Buyu and Ji Rong returned, Ji Niao told them about it and discovered that Gu Qingqing had been like this for over half a month.
In fact, the number of Gu worms on Gu Qingqing's body decreases every day.
The birds had no experience and no money, so in the end they could only sigh and increase the amount of meat and vegetable juice they gave to Gu Qingqing.
This was the only thing they could do for her.
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