Mushroom Man

Chapter 1: There are Gu people in front and Mushroom people behind

Western Regions.

Zhaodi Town.

Wu family land.

A shout came from a small fenced courtyard.

"Liang'er, you disappoint us so much!"

"We raised you with great difficulty, and this is how you repay us?"

Wu Liang knelt in the house, looking at his uncle and aunt sitting at the top, and remained silent for a while.

He looked to be about sixteen years old, dressed in coarse linen clothes, with a very eye-catching scarlet dot between his eyebrows.

"The clan rules clearly state that once a clan member has opened up his Dantian and become a mushroom master, he should be self-sufficient and not trouble the elders again."

"You are such a heartless ungrateful bastard. You may not be as talented as others, but you are more cunning than others."

"And now you're still thinking about coveting the little things your uncle and aunt have..."

My aunt sighed and looked very disappointed with her child.

My uncle sat aside with a gloomy face, sipping tea.

"Uncle, aunt..."

"My nephew just wants to get back the inheritance left by my parents so that I can buy medicine for my younger sister's illness."

Wu Liang lowered his head and spoke in a very calm tone.

"boom!"

Upon hearing this, my uncle picked up the teacup and smashed it to the ground.

The tea and porcelain fragments splashed directly onto Wu Liang.

"Treatment? You still want to treat that bitch?"

"If she hadn't been so shameless as to flirt with the master of the Songzi Temple, how could she have caused so much trouble for our family?"

My uncle didn't mention the inheritance at all in his words.

Obviously, he was not prepared to give Wu Liang money to buy medicine for the so-called bitch.

Just at this moment, a young man in a brocade white robe walked in from outside.

"Dad, Mom, how can you say that about Miss Weiyang?"

"She is my cousin's sister after all. We are all family. Even if our bones are broken, our tendons are still connected. How can you call her some shameless slut?"

When my uncle and aunt saw the young man, their stern faces changed instantly.

"Hey, it's De'er who's back!"

"Huh? Why is the mushroom in the basin on your forehead gone?"

"Could it be..."

The aunt stood up and looked at the boy's smooth forehead, her eyes full of surprise.

The young man, Wu De, raised his head and said, "Dad, Mom, I have not let you down."

"The clan leader has opened up a Dantian for the child. The soil is fertile and is of Grade B quality."

"After discussion, the elders of the family made an exception and allowed the child to inherit the title of the head family left by my cousin's parents. They unlocked the mushroom in the basin."

"Now, my child is no longer a member of the branch family who has no choice..."

There was a hint of pride in Wu De's words, as if he was deliberately saying it to someone.

Wu Liang, who was standing by, heard that the place in the patriarchal family reserved for him by his parents was snatched away by his cousin.

He remained calm, as if he had expected this.

"Good good!"

"As expected of De'er, you are much more promising than your cousin."

The uncle laughed heartily, without considering Wu Liang's feelings at all. He was blatantly partial and kept praising his own children.

Wu De smiled without saying anything and turned to look at Wu Liang who was still kneeling on the ground.

He seemed to remember something, then took out a bag of change from his pocket and threw it over.

"My cousin is a man of deep affection. Even though Miss Weiyang was bedridden and unconscious, he still took care of her without abandoning her."

"My cousin is very impressed by this. These small pieces of silver used by ordinary people are of no use to me now. I will use them to treat Miss Weiyang's illness."

"You don't need to return these small amounts of silver. Consider it compensation for taking my cousin's place in the clan."

Wu Liang looked at the bag of silver and fell silent for a while.

He took a deep breath, then without saying a word, grabbed the change and turned away.

When my aunt saw this, she immediately looked disgusted and muttered something.

"How could our family have such an ungrateful person who doesn't even know how to say thank you..."

……

It is particularly sunny today, without a single cloud in the sky.

The sunlight shone through the dry and cold air, bringing a hint of refreshing warmth.

"Baozi, freshly baked buns."

"Sharpening~scissors~"

"Knife~vegetable~"

The sounds of roosters crowing, dogs barking, and hawkers hawking their wares in the streets are endless.

Wu Liang walked out of the pharmacy, away from the hustle and bustle of the city, and walked along the banks of the Cimu River.

This is a famous wonder in Zhaodi Town, rich in various humane mushrooms.

He stared at the shimmering river surface, lost in thought.

"I have been wandering in a foreign land for sixteen autumns, and my tears flow longingly as I long to return home."

"I dreamt of returning to my hometown and the people were still the same. When I woke up, I saw mushrooms reflecting the sun."

Wu Liang murmured softly about his homesickness, with a myriad of thoughts in his mind.

"In the blink of an eye, I've been trapped here for sixteen years..."

"Even the fish swimming in the Mother River are about to return home, so when will I be able to go home?"

He recalled the expressions of his uncle and aunt just now, and an indescribable melancholy appeared in his eyes.

At this moment, he missed his parents in his previous life very much.

Even though the world he lived in in his previous life had its faults, it was still much better than this world where people are eaten without leaving any bones behind.

Of course, this place is not without merit...

At the very least, this is a strange world where practitioners and even immortals exist!

In this world, practitioners are called mushroom masters.

They opened up Dantian, planted mushrooms, raised mushrooms, and used mushrooms.

There are the fortune mushrooms that can make people rich overnight, the longevity mushrooms that can prolong life, the powerful mushrooms that can split mountains and rocks... There are so many strange and bizarre mushrooms like these that it is difficult to list them all.

Among these mushrooms, there might be one that can help Wu Liang return home.

It’s a pity that he was born with extremely poor aptitude, and the dantian he opened up was only a D-grade dantian that was barely suitable for cultivation.

The soil in the Dantian of Ding level is poor and difficult to support mushrooms, so one can usually only cultivate to the level of a first or second level mushroom master.

In this case, no matter how wonderful this world is and how amazing the mushrooms are, it seems that they have nothing to do with him.

"Fortunately, I still have 'Jian Shou Qing'..."

"One day, I'll definitely be able to find a way to improve my qualifications."

Wu Liang calmed his mind, walked through the streets and alleys, and soon returned to his residence.

Compared with my uncle and aunt's fenced courtyard, this one is much simpler, with only a lonely loess house.

"No~"

Just at this moment, a weak groan was heard in the house.

Wu Liang frowned when he heard the sound.

"You woke up pretty quickly..."

He first slowly cooked the herbs, then lifted the curtain and walked into the house.

I saw a young woman lying weakly on the bed.

Her face was pale, with tears in the corners of her eyes. She looked pitiful, with a kind of broken beauty.

And her appearance is somewhat similar to that of the sick beauty Lin Daiyu.

however……

The imagined compassion and tenderness did not appear...

When Wu Liang faced the young woman, he actually pulled away the quilt from her body.

In an instant, the young woman's fair and thin body was exposed nakedly.

The woman's body was covered with burns and scars from beatings, which looked horrifying.

It was obvious that this woman must have suffered unimaginable inhuman abuse before.

Wu Liang looked at the woman unscrupulously, as if admiring his own masterpiece.

"You, you will die a miserable death..."

The young woman opened her mouth with difficulty, her eyes filled with resentment that was about to burst out.

"Really?"

"But I think you will die more miserably than me."

Wu Liang spoke calmly as he picked up the steaming medicinal food beside him.

His expression remained unchanged, but his little hand trembled.

It's sizzling!

The scalding medicinal food was poured onto the woman's lower abdomen.

"what……"

The woman opened her mouth and screamed, her body shaking uncontrollably.

“Kill, kill me!”

"Useless trash, if you have the guts, kill me!"

Her hair was disheveled and her eyes were red, like a mad dog.

However, before the woman could finish her words, Wu Liang pinched her chin roughly.

"How can I bear to kill you now?"

"You've wiped out the last of my conscience."

"I will definitely make you live a life worse than death and regret living in this world, so that I can justify what you have done. Otherwise, I will let you off easy."

"And if I let you die here, your father, the abbot with a human face and a beastly heart, will probably find this place immediately."

Upon hearing this, the young woman endured the severe pain, trembled, and sneered.

"I thought you were fearless..."

"To tell you the truth, we have a rule in our temple that anyone who leaves the mountain and does not return within three days will be considered a defector."

"I think the abbot has already known that I have met with an accident. It won't be long before he comes to visit me."

"If they find out that you've imprisoned me, you'll be killed without a burial place!"

Wu Liang raised his eyebrows, as if he was not surprised by this, and his tone was so calm that it made people shudder.

"Oh? So what?"

"You are my 'good sister' right now. No one who comes here will recognize who you are."

"You are able to do cruel things to others because you are not aware of their pain."

"So, in this last period of your life, you should enjoy it and learn what pain is..."

After he finished speaking, he used a spoon to scrape off the medicinal food on the woman's lower abdomen.

The severely burned lower abdomen was scratched, making the young woman want to scream and groan.

However, before she could say anything, her mouth was stuffed full of hot medicinal food.

For a moment, the young woman felt that life was worse than death.

Fortunately, as the medicinal food took effect, the woman's consciousness gradually became blurred, and she soon fainted again.

After the woman fainted, Wu Liang, who had originally had no expression on his face, began to look a little different.

"Little sister...don't worry."

"Now that you're dead, I no longer have the heart to discern right from wrong."

"I will make all of them pay the price."

I don’t know how much time has passed.

Suddenly--

"Boom!!!"

Wu Liang inexplicably felt a very sharp tinnitus.

"After more than a month, it finally had enough to eat..."

He seemed to have gotten used to the buzzing sound in his ears.

His mind moved and his consciousness sank into his dantian.

Wu Liang's dantian was about one acre in size and looked extremely barren, with dry and lifeless soil.

And in the center of this dantian, there is an extremely eye-catching mushroom.

Sixth-level immortal mushroom...see the green hand!

　Dear fellow Taoists, please read the new book and collect it, but don’t keep it in your pocket. Thank you!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)