It lasted for half an hour before the strength of the medicine on Jin Zhihui's body gradually faded, and her close-fitting clothes were soaked with hot sweat several times.
After she regained her composure, she turned over from the round table. The scarlet redness from the physical exertion still hung on her face, which was so rosy with sweat that one couldn't help but want to take a bite.
"I'm ready, come in." Jin Zhihui tidied her messy hair and clothes, looked out the door and shouted shyly.
She originally thought that today would be the ultimate nightmare in her life, but she never thought that God would take pity on her and send Niu Dawa to save her from Yu Wenrui's clutches.
She knew that she had to say thank you to Niu Dawa in person, and it would be best to explain to him the misunderstanding that had occurred before, but it seemed a bit difficult to say it.
"Now that you're fine, let's go home early. I have something else to do, so I'll say goodbye." Niu Dawa didn't accept the invitation to enter the room. He stood up and left after saying a few words. Although his tone of voice was calm, his tone was calm. You can feel the displeasure in the words by listening to them.
"You -" Jin Zhihui wanted to call Niu Dawa but it was too late. As soon as she felt the surge of wind element, she hurriedly walked towards the door, but when she reached the door, Niu Dawa's figure had already disappeared through the air, leaving only The next figure fades away.
He walked away neatly, without any nostalgia or reluctance.
Jin Zhihui held on to the door frame and looked at the back that had turned into a black dot. She shook her head and smiled bitterly while feeling inexplicably disappointed.
She walked out of the room and found two pits on the ground next to the door. The finger marks left in the pits told her that they were dug out with her fingers. She was stunned for a moment and then couldn't help but giggle with joy. Her branches were trembling with laughter.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Niu Dawa drove a thick water cloud with a diameter of a hundred feet back to the sky above Tingyaxuan. Arrogantly and proudly, he asked everyone to move out all the water tanks, buckets, basins and other things that could hold water, and then drove the cloud away. All of them are filled with rain.
Amid the warm applause and cheers of the maids and servants, Niu Dawa became Tingyaxuan's hero. He beat his chest and proudly announced that from today onwards everyone can drink water with open stomach, so the maids and servants screamed even more happily.
Hearing that all the utensils that could hold water in the Yaxuan were full, they even had to put out the dishes to fill the water, but half of the water cloud was still left. Seeing this, Butcher Zhang waved his robe sleeves and made a big hole in the yard. Niu Dawa drained the water into the pit and used it to mix with the mud to build the wall.
"Senior, wouldn't this be bad?" Hearing Butcher Zhang say that we need to use clear and crystal clear water and mud, and thinking that there are still tens of millions of people in Yancheng who have difficulty drinking water, Zhang Xiaopou felt uneasy, so he asked carefully Zhang Butcher.
"What's not good?" Butcher Zhang asked in confusion.
"There are still so many people in Yancheng who have difficulty drinking water. Isn't it too - too extravagant and wasteful for us to openly use water and mud?" Zhang Xiaozhu said.
Butcher Zhang waved his hand and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, we just started the construction two days early. I just heard from Da Wa that the water level of Badwater Swamp is still rising. It is estimated that it will be overflowing in another day. As long as Yancheng Officials with some brains will definitely order water to be used to build houses and maximize the benefits of Badwater Swamp water in the shortest possible time. Think about it, where does the water from Badwater Swamp come from?"
"Underground." Zhang Xiaozu responded.
"Water can emerge from the ground, and it can naturally flow back to the ground. If you don't take advantage of the time, if the water suddenly flows back, you won't be able to cry." Zhang Butcher said, "Furthermore, the inexhaustible water has already been Put it before us, if the problem of drinking water for the common people still needs to be worried about by a nobody like you, then all the officials in Yancheng, big and small, can eat shit."
"Seek your own position and speak as much words as you have the ability to do. Don't worry about nothing. There are many people who are more capable and smarter than you. With or without you, the sky will not fall."
"The boy has learned a lesson." Zhang Xiaozhu said with shame.
"Can you build a wall?" asked Butcher Zhang.
"Yes." "Haha, I haven't held a masonry knife for decades. I wonder if I have lost my skills?"
"Senior, can you still build walls?" Zhang Xiaopou was surprised when he heard this.
"Boy, who are you looking down on? Do you dare to compete?"
"Hey, when it comes to combat prowess, I'm far from your senior's opponent, but when it comes to building a wall, I won't lose to you."
If the collapsed ruins hadn't been cleaned up and the foundations had to be dug, the young and old would have rolled up their sleeves and competed on the spot.
Early the next morning, Zhang Xiaozu and several other juniors dressed up and went to the city lord's mansion to express their condolences.
Butcher Zhang and Taoist Tianwu didn't go, so they asked the kitchen to cook some side dishes and set a table in the yard for a drink, leaving an empty seat on the west side for the blind uncle.
The five members of the Qi family wore sackcloth and mourning, held rites for their children and grandchildren, knelt and kept vigil for the blind uncle, and sincerely regarded the blind uncle as the eldest relative of the family.
It was already lunch time when Zhang Xiaozu and others came back. There were many people standing at the entrance of the courtyard, pointing at a door panel erected next to the courtyard door and discussing something in low voices.
"Brother Zhou, what's written on it?" Zhang Xiaozu walked closer and found a notice posted on the door. He didn't know a few big characters, so he had to scratch his head in embarrassment and ask Zhou Jianlai next to him.
"Fifty Yuanshi Golden Pills are charged to bless an object, and cultivation resources of equal value are accepted. The value of the item is subject to our appraisal. Counter-offers are not allowed and no returns or exchanges will be made. The standard sample is on the left. You can experience the effect by yourself. The effect can last for one year. Time. Friendly reminder, please be careful when purchasing valuable consumables!" Zhou Jianlai read them to Zhang Xiaozu one by one.
Although Zhang Xiaozu had already told him the price, when he saw it written in black and white on a piece of paper in front of him, he was still so frightened that his eyelids twitched, feeling that Zhang Xiaozu was robbing him of money.
"The two seniors are also generous. They just hang the jade pendant here without fear of being stolen." Niu Dawa smacked her lips as she looked at the jade pendant hanging on the door panel.
"You'll know if you steal it and try it." Someone in the crowd responded.
"Listening to what you said, it's obviously weird." Niu Dawa laughed, but still stretched out his hand to hold the jade pendant. He found that the jade pendant felt very real in his hand, but once he squeezed hard or pulled it, he would find that the jade pendant was It was wrapped by an invisible force that could neither be crushed nor pulled away. At least Niu Dawa couldn't move the jade pendant even though he suppressed his blush.
"Master Zhang, this price is too expensive. It is far beyond what we casual cultivators can afford. Is it really not possible to make it cheaper?" A casual cultivator asked in a sincere tone.
Zhang Xiaozu held his hands in front of everyone and said: "Everyone, to be honest, the price I pay to bless an item is extremely huge. I also know that the price of fifty Yuanshi Golden Pills is really expensive and cannot be afforded by ordinary people. I can afford it, but I can only really earn two pills, and the rest must be used to make up for my consumption. I hope you will understand!"
"Hmph, it sounds nice, but who knows if it's true?"
"It's just a matter of making money."
As soon as he finished speaking, someone made sarcastic remarks.
Zhang Xiaozu doesn’t care about them because——
He feels guilty!
Zhou Jianlai and others were also madly despised in their hearts. When the words "Fifty pills only make two pills" came out of Zhang Xiaozu's mouth, they had only one feeling in their hearts: Zhang Xiaopu doesn't speak human words.
"Mr. Zhang, can you tell us which one is more cost-effective in terms of the benefits gained from nourishing the soul like this for a year or using fifty Yuanshi Golden Pills to cultivate?" Someone asked.
"Far less than the benefits of practicing with fifty Yuanshi Golden Pills." Zhang Xiaozhu replied without thinking, and advised honestly: "To be honest with you, this is the icing on the cake for those who have the conditions to practice. , people with average conditions should not buy it. Anyway, if it were me, I would never buy it. Brother Zhou, please come up with a pen and ink later and add this sentence below to save some friends from being overheated and making irrational decisions. .”
"——" A group of people couldn't help but were speechless after listening to Zhang Xiaozhu's sincere words. This was the first time they saw someone selling something like this. Instead of trying hard to sell things, they actually advised everyone not to buy. They felt that Zhang Xiaozhu Simply silly and cute.
"Thank you Mr. Zhang!"
"It turns out to be a trick to deceive rich people. Whoever buys it is a fool."
Some people thanked Zhang Xiaozhu for his honest confession, while others comforted themselves by saying that grapes were sour because they couldn't eat the grapes.
The crowd dispersed quickly, and a few people who wanted to buy but were hesitant were all persuaded to leave by Zhang Xiaozu's words.
Zhang Xiaozu didn't feel it was a pity, because the price was set so high, and he had no intention of selling it to these cultivators who were in short supply of cultivation resources, but was specifically targeting large sects with wealthy families.
When Zhang Xiaozu entered the courtyard and was led by Xia Zhu into the bamboo house that had been temporarily vacated as a living room, he realized that Ruan Xinyuan and others had already arrived and were all waiting in the house.
There were twenty-three people sitting in the small room, which was a bit crowded.
Zhang Xiaopou glanced around and found that people from Yaowang Valley and the sects that were friendly with Yaowang Valley were also coming, but he did not chase people out. Since it was open for business, those who came were guests.
Well, if you can trick anyone, it’s one.
He already regarded this transaction as a scam.
In fact, he is too small-minded and too petty. To put it bluntly, he cannot understand the world of rich people.
In his eyes, this deal was extremely uneconomical, but in the eyes of these big buyers, it was indeed a bit expensive, but within the acceptable range, otherwise they wouldn't be here.
"Isn't what Mr. Zhang said outside the door a little too much? Is he really treating me like a rich fool?"
As soon as Zhang Xiaozu entered the door and before he could stand firm, someone asked him in an unpleasant tone. They had very good ears and heard what Zhang Xiaozu said outside the courtyard gate.
Zhang Xiaozu glanced at the man and said with a smile: "You all know in your heart the value of things, and whether you are a fool or not, you should also know in your heart. Since you know everything, why bother saying such boring words?"
Then he ignored that person, looked at Ruan Xinyuan and Baili Jingsheng, and asked, "Brother Ruan, Brother Baili, are the things ready?"
"Haha, what I've been waiting for is what Brother Zhang said." Ruan Xinyuan laughed, stood up and took out five pieces of jade from his arms, three jade pendants, a jade ring and a pendant, and walked forward and handed them to Zhang Xiaopou.
Baili Jingsheng also stood up and took out two jade pendants and handed them to Zhang Xiaozu.
Zhang Xiaopou took them all in his hand, said "Wait a moment", left the room and went to the next door. He blessed the seven jade articles one by one with soul nourishing charms, sat for another cup of tea, and then turned back.
Although Ruan Xinyuan and others have long exposed the simplicity of the blessing process, at that time it was free, but now it requires money, so you have to try to be as difficult as possible, otherwise it will be too irritating.
Under the envious gazes of everyone, Zhang Xiaozu returned the objects one by one to Ruan Xinyuan and Baili Jingsheng, and the two nodded with satisfaction.
"Anyone who wants to bless you can start now." Zhang Xiaozu looked at everyone and said.
"I wonder if Mr. Zhang will leave Yancheng soon?" Piaomiao Gong Shi Xinlan asked.
"I should stay in Yancheng this month. Why does the fairy ask this?" Zhang Xiaozu asked.
Shi Xinlan smiled and said: "Fifty Yuanshi Golden Pills is not a small amount. This time I came to Yancheng to participate in the war. I will not carry so many golden pills with me, so I have to go back to the sect to get them. It will take some time to go back and forth."
Hearing this, Zhang Xiaozhu knew that the same was true for other sects, so he nodded and said, "I won't leave Yancheng this month. Even if something happens, I won't be away for long, so you guys try to hurry up."
"That's very good."
