The Age of Immortal Cultivation: I Have Mountains and Seas to Accompany Me

Chapter 116 Joining the WTO
"You heard it, right? That sickly Huang Zhongxiu suddenly got up, and his face looked rosy and he was walking briskly."

"Isn't it a last gasp?"

"No! Some people say,"

Someone lowered his voice and said, "Huang Zhongxiu made her daughter into a medicine and ate it, and then her illness was cured."

"This is not nonsense!"

"Who is talking nonsense? If you don't believe me, think about it. Have you seen Lin Ying recently?"

"Yeah, I haven't seen her for a while. If it's true, it's such a pity... Didn't Lin Ying's grandmother look for her?"

"I don't know. These two families don't get along... Hey, Chunsheng's mother, why are you running away?"

"There's been a commotion in the old Lin family. Lin Ying's grandmother is looking for trouble with Huang Zhongxiu!"

Chunsheng's mother is also in her fifties and runs very fast.

The other two also ran over to watch the fun.

Lin.

Huang Zhongxiu stood in the middle of the yard in embarrassment. A skinny old lady with snot and tears on her face complained: "...My poor granddaughter, you have never had a good day with you as your mother. I don't know where your conscienceless mother sold you..."

Huang Zhongxiu lowered his head so low that he almost crawled into the ground: "Mom, this is totally irrelevant. Let's go inside and talk. I'll explain it to you."

"Listen, let's talk about it here in the yard. There's nothing scary about me, Old Madam Lin, that people shouldn't know." The skinny old lady became more and more unreasonable.

"Make way, make way, make way."

A policeman in his fifties pushed his way through the crowd and walked in: "Lin Xu, should I listen to you or me?"

Mrs. Lin Xu… Huang Zhongxiu’s mother-in-law immediately smiled ingratiatingly: “Director Gao, look at what you said, of course I will listen to you!”

She also heard that Huang Zhongxiu had paid off all the family's debts, so she came over to see if she could get some benefits. At first, she said that calling the police was just bluffing, but she didn't expect that someone really came. This time, they were the ones who felt guilty.

"It just so happens that all the gossipy people in town are here. I'm here to dispel some rumors today. If any of you continue to spread false information, you will be held legally responsible."

Director Gao said to everyone in a serious tone, "Lin Ying, Huang Zhongxiu's daughter, has gone to the capital to study. The person who picked her up was said to be entrusted by your Lin family's ancestors to bring a good seedling worth cultivating to the capital. Her documents and identity have been verified. Please stop spreading rumors in the future."

"Which ancestor? How come I don't know?"

Mrs. Lin Xu glared and said, "Why should we choose that wild girl Lin Ying? There are so many grandchildren in our Lin family, who can we choose?"

A single stone caused a thousand ripples. Let's not talk about the household registration issue for now. Going to school in the capital was something she dared not even think about. Not only did Lin Xu question her, but even her children were worried.

"You can ask Comrade Huang Zhongxiu for details."

Director Gao was also getting impatient. Anyway, no one was hurt. This was just an internal matter of their family. However... "Comrade Huang Zhongxiu, they have no right to force you to hand over anything that does not belong to them. If they go too far, you can report it to the police station."

"This seems to be our Lin family's own business, right?"

Uncle Lin said in a sarcastic tone.

Chief Gao looked at him and said coldly, "It's your Lin family's business, so I want you to figure it out yourselves... But, for all the discordant voices that appear in Linjiaji, our police station has reason to intervene. If you don't believe me, you can try it!"

After saying that, he walked out, waving his hands to drive away the crowd like he was shooing away flies: "Okay, do what you need to do, don't hang around here."

When the onlookers saw that there was no more melon to eat, they dispersed.

Lin Xu looked at Huang Zhongxiu with a gloomy face: "Can you tell me now?"

Huang Zhongxiu looked outside the courtyard anxiously: "Let's go inside and talk."

After saying that, he turned around and entered the house.

"Why is there so much trouble..." Mrs. Lin Xu looked at the low house with disdain, but she still walked in with Uncle Lin and others.

After a moment, Lin Xu in the room shouted: "This is impossible..."

……

Beijing.

A few years ago, those state-owned stores were deserted and the spirit of the people walking on the street seemed to be drained away. But after the reform and opening up, the mental outlook of people walking on the streets was completely different.

State-owned stores have more goods, especially clothing in different colors and styles. After the Japanese Film Week, Kurihara Komaki's bell-bottom pants became popular in Beijing. More and more people are traveling, especially foreign tourists, forming a beautiful landscape. In particular, there are more individual vendors selling a variety of things, and many people have even opened shops, which is considered to be at the forefront of the times.

"We just walked around Wangfujing Street. All the shops on that street are state-owned. Now I'm taking you to its sister street, a commercial street full of individual businesses..."

A young woman who looked like a college student was translating for a dozen foreigners in her not-so-fluent English. Two foreign girls looked at each other, slowed down their pace and quietly left the team.

"yeah!"

Seeing the tour guide walking away without noticing, the two foreign girls excitedly high-fived each other, as if they had achieved something great.

The foreign girls who had left the group had a sense of freedom. They were curious about everything, but they did not see the Chinese with a rat tail behind their heads as rumored. Instead, they found that although the material world was different from the Western world, the Chinese had a completely new spiritual outlook, especially the various delicacies and handicrafts made by the skillful Chinese. "Hmm?"

The short-haired foreign girl suddenly twitched her nose like a puppy, as if she smelled something. She looked at her companion and said, "Tracy, do you smell it?"

The girl with the ponytail nodded vigorously: "It smells very good... Kristen, I feel the saliva in my mouth secreting uncontrollably, and my stomach and intestines are starting to move."

"Tracy, you can be less specific." Kristen glanced at her companion depressedly.

The two foreign girls quickly followed the smell and came to a store with a strange name - There is a Small Shop.

There was a pretty Chinese girl behind the counter, smilingly filling paper bags for several customers... There were melon seeds, peanuts, pine nuts, and even chopped eggs!

"You sell cracked eggs too?" Tracy forgot that the tour guide was not here.

Ye Muxue saw off a few guests and looked up to see two foreign girls. She smiled and introduced them in not-so-fluent English: "This is called a tea egg. Crack it to make it more flavorful."

"You know English?" Tracy's eyes widened in surprise.

"A little bit!"

Ye Muxue took two tea eggs and handed them to her and Kristen: "I'll give them to you to try."

"Thank you!"

"Thank you!"

The two foreign girls were not as reserved as the Chinese beauties. They peeled the eggs and ate them immediately, saying "good" in English while eating. Then each of them bought five tea eggs, a pound of boiled peanuts and a pound of spiced melon seeds. Finally, they took a photo with Ye Muxue.

"Boss, I'm back."

A girl came back from outside, Ye Muxue smiled, and went back to the yard to cook peanuts.

There is a small shop that opened last year and obtained a business license... It's hung on the wall. Because the name is quite unique and it is adjacent to Wangfujing Street, it also attracts Chinese and foreign tourists passing by here, and it makes a lot of money.

In the past two years, almost all the houses along this street, except for those state-owned units, have been rented out to private individuals. What makes those shop owners curious is that Mr. Ye seldom goes out to socialize and is not very willing to talk to people. Most of the time he is either preparing goods or tinkering with spices with some tools.

The name of the store is weird, and the goods they sell are also weird... In addition to peanuts and melon seeds, they also sell tea eggs, but the weirdest thing is that they sell all kinds of incense.

But let’s be honest, the things they sell are really delicious and really easy to use... The insect repellent sachets they sell are particularly easy to use. Ants and flies don’t get close to them, and people don’t feel uncomfortable at all when they smell them.

Later, as business was good, a clerk was hired to help look after the front store. The boss showed up less often and often stayed in the yard. Sometimes, the sound of people playing the piano could be heard... They were playing the guqin, and they were particular about the style and elegance.

The mountain does not follow the man, the man follows the mountain.

On the one hand, the shop makes money, and some of the competitors can't help but envy its recipes; on the other hand, the boss is young and beautiful, and if they can win her over, they can get both money and her, and... the recipe can become a family heirloom, so young people who walk along this street or people with young children at home go to talk to her with this purpose in mind.

However, not many people can talk to her, and once the relevant topic is brought up, the boss just smiles and says nothing, and also refuses to go on a date.

There were also some street urchins who wanted to take advantage of her, but they all gave up later. Some people speculated that those street urchins might have suffered losses.

This made everyone more curious, but the bosses were busy with their own business and had no time to stare at irrelevant people. However, some gossipy women seemed to be very curious. Whenever they caught her in the store, they would go to chat with her, or recommend some young handsome men, or ask about her past experiences. But she only let it slip once that she had been to the countryside in Northeast China. When asked again, she just smiled and did not answer. Naturally, others could not go up to ask her more.

As for blind dates, she politely declined them all!
After going back and forth like this several times, those gossipy ladies gradually lost interest and stopped going to this "little shop".

But this situation actually made Ye Muxue secretly feel relieved.

The house Ye Muxue used to open the store was naturally her house in Tongluo Lane, and the clerk she hired was Ding Pei... Well, it was quite a bargain, she didn't have to pay wages. But Ding Pei didn't suffer a loss either, not to mention that the food she sold was always available, and the various incense she sold was never out of stock, and Ye Muxue was also very generous with things like honey.

The reason why Ye Muxue was watching the store was that he ostensibly told his parents that he had recovered from his illness and came back to start a business, but in fact, he chose this place specifically to temper his worldly state of mind and prepare to study the art of refining and the inheritance of the Huanyin Sect.

Ye Muxue had not been involved in these areas too much in the past, because she was in too much of a hurry… Before she reached the foundation-building stage, there was no question of any strength, especially after the ancient martial arts family entered the world ahead of schedule, she felt that time was becoming more and more pressing.

The barrier passage to the world of cultivation was opened 90 years later in her previous life, but after meeting the two Qi Refining cultivators in Wangwu Mountain, she didn't know whether it was the result of her butterfly wings flapping or the result of her previous life.

The foundation has been built, and it is unlikely to form a pill all at once... Not to mention that it takes a long time to accumulate, even if there is a ready-made opportunity to form a pill, Ye Muxue would not dare to try it... That is a lesson of life and death!

If it turns out to be true, even if the barrier channel is opened in advance, it is impossible for high-level cultivators to come, otherwise the barrier channel will not be able to withstand it, so Ye Muxue still has time to further improve her combat power. She wants to take advantage of this time to sharpen her mind and study the way of refining weapons and the inheritance of Huanyin Sect.

Especially deep down in Ye Muxue's heart, she was very interested in the guqin, and she had studied it specially in her previous life.

Ye Muxue didn't know how long it would take her to hone her mind, but she hoped to use this time to immerse herself in research. She didn't dare to expect that she would be able to fully understand the inheritance of the Huanyin Sect all at once, but she hoped that she could at least reach the entry level and lay a solid foundation.

To study these things, you can't just read them, you have to make them yourself and practice them. As a result, some crude spices appeared... well, they were sold in the store. But as time went by, she became more and more proficient in making incense. Ye Muxue felt that she was quite talented. In the future, she would rely on this skill to make a good living in both the cultivation world and the mortal world.

As for opening a shop here, on the one hand, this place is very prosperous and she can be close to market life, and the things she makes can be consumed quickly. In addition, the house had been equipped with soundproofing restrictions in the past, and the noise from outside cannot affect the inside... If things don't work, she can still enter the mountain and sea space.

Of course, she did not forget to train her spiritual pet... Jade Bee!
The queen bee received an order to reproduce jade bees vigorously. Ye Muxue used the spirit beast bag to put about ten thousand jade bees for training. Of course, the skills of these jade bees were turned to combat, so Ye Muxue had to feed them with jade honey.

To her surprise, after a period of training and breeding, these jade bees had obviously evolved. They became larger, and their stingers became thicker and sharper, more poisonous, and more penetrating.

Just like that, Ye Muxue, who had completely concealed his edge with the art of invisibility, completely blended into the life of the mortal world and began his journey into the world in the bustling capital.

In addition to her normal cultivation, she would quietly observe the various complex expressions of joy, anger, sorrow, etc. of the mortals around her, and then slowly recall and savor them. She would also go home from time to time, or meet with Wang Liyun and Zhao Mengran to savor the warm feelings of her relatives and friends.

During this period, she did not ignore her disciples in Huxin Mountain. A teacher is someone who preaches, imparts knowledge and resolves doubts. Tong Zhenghong and others took the little disciples to experience life in turn, and everyone had to go out for some time every year. There have been more and more supernatural events in the past two years, which may be that most ordinary people have not encountered them or have been concealed from them, but they all know that these will be the norm, and compared with the major earthquake that has not occurred, this little loss is really nothing.