I've never felt happy to become an immortal.

Chapter 113: Living off the old man

Bai Xuan doesn't have much obsession with money.

It is also due to the education from my mother.

He lacked maternal love in elementary and junior high school, so his beautiful mother gave him the maximum pocket money. He was always the richest child in the class and was envied by others because of his wealth.

When he was in high school, his mother started to control him, asking him to focus and even cutting his financial support. This was because he had everything he needed as a child, so after high school, he became less obsessed with money.

He managed to get his financial situation back on track during college, but he started to become obsessed with the world of true cultivation and started to live anew. Money itself was no longer something worth pursuing for him.

In fact, most people are not pursuing the numbers in their accounts, nor are they pursuing a house or a car.

What we pursue is a sense of security, a happy family, social status and face.

The same goes for Xi Qingqing. If what she said is true, then she is not greedy for money, but wants to buy a big mansion.

The difference between her and Bai Xuan is that Bai Xuan has become disenchanted with money.

Even if you need something, there are better ways to get it, so there is no need to be obsessed with gold and silver.

The longer you live, the less you value money.

Wait a minute...

Is this why I don't want to go to work?

Bai Xuan's thoughts were a little off track.

Xi Qingqing had an expression as if she had been struck by lightning. She probably couldn't accept that she had come all the way to the capital, trying to extort money, but in the end she only got fifty taels, not even enough for the travel expenses.

She could rob any chivalrous knight on the road in Jiangnan and get several times more than this. It only took her seven days to rob several thousand taels and then leave.

You don’t have to worry about being wanted by the government.

After all, the peach blossom tea sold is handmade by the top of the Wolong list, and its value cannot be measured by market value.

Because the market value of tea itself cannot be anchored, a genius once did this kind of operation... After packaging it through online rhetoric, he sold rock sugar to certain gentlemen. Later, he even felt that the cost of rock sugar was too high, so he directly replaced it with alum. However, he was afraid that the price would not match, so he gave it a small bag of tea to settle the bill.

The tea itself can be used to settle accounts.

So how much can Xi Qingqing's handmade peach blossom tea sell for?
There is no way to judge. If you say it is not valuable, Xi Qingqing has many fans, and there are also people who are willing to spend a lot of money to buy it; if you say it is valuable, it is really not valuable, after all, it is all supported by the star effect.

"Miss Xi? Are you okay?" Bai Xuan asked tentatively.

"I……"

"Remember to give me fifty taels." Bai Xuan reminded.

"You!" Xi Qingqing gritted her teeth in anger. "You're a grown man, and you're so poor, aren't you ashamed?"

Bai Xuan retorted, "This one hundred taels is enough for me to use for a long time. It's also my monthly salary as the Young Master of the Jiang Family. After becoming the Young Master, my monthly salary will increase by ten taels. It's money earned through work, so what's shameful about it?"

"One hundred taels? I don't believe you, Bai Yueguang! Do you think I don't understand the market? This Shu brocade of yours is worth more than one hundred taels!"

"This set is ready-made for promotional purposes. It's not custom-made. If you don't believe me, just look at it. The cuffs on both sides are a little longer." Bai Xuan replied calmly, "This is for promotional purposes. It doesn't cost a penny."

"Well, you've reached the second level of Body Forging. You've made such rapid progress. Can you afford a portion of Ganoderma Lucidum with 100 taels of gold? Even a portion of this precious medicine wouldn't be worth at least 1,000 taels of gold!"

"The precious medicine was given by the royal family." Bai Xuan said: "I have made great contributions, I deserve it."

"Then, then, then your sword!"

"This is what Jiang Baichuan left me. It's the legacy left by our ancestors." Bai Xuan looked at Xi Qingqing, anticipating her predictions. "I don't own any property, and I don't have the title deed to the Jiang family's ancestral home. I'm temporarily living in the Ningguo Mansion, eating for free..."

Xi Qingqing was desperate.

How could I meet such a poor guy!
Poorer than me!

She immediately flew into a rage, took out her lotus bag, dug out a fifty-liang silver note from it, and slammed it on the table: "Here you go!"

Xi Qingqing turned around and walked out of the tea room.

"Miss Xi, can you sit for a while?"

"I'm afraid I'll catch the disease of poverty from you!" Xi Qingqing got angry and walked quickly: "I really misjudged you! You're actually a gigolo!"

"I'm not a freeloader." Bai Xuan followed at a leisurely distance. This sentence touched his soft spot. He was determined to take a different path from his father: "I only take what I deserve."

"Why did you have to follow me? Want to fight?" Xi Qingqing paused, turned around, and glared at me. "I'm following my own rules. I'll take half of your money and I won't bother you anymore. If you're eager to fight now, I'll let you do it, but it's pointless. If you lose, you'll only lose face, and if I win, I might not even regain my top spot on the Crouching Dragon Ranking."

"Everyone who comes is a guest, and seeing them off is courtesy," said Bai Xuan.

He was actually a little worried about Xi Qingqing. She had lost a lot of money on the trip and had come here specifically to extort money, but she only took fifty taels. What if she felt aggrieved and went to Juyi Pavilion to continue blackmailing others?
Xi Qingqing rubbed her shoulders, feeling a little nauseous. "I'm not interested in pretty boys like you. Don't have any ideas about me. It's fruitless, so just give up."

Bai Xuan: "...The girl is really humorous."

"Humph!"

"I'm actually quite impressed by Miss Xi's entrepreneurial thinking. She's turned robbery into selling tea. Even though it's forced buying and selling, it's quite a feat." "That's right. I've been thinking about this for years. The victim should be given some face. That way, it'll be easier to rob again next time. Otherwise, you'll be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs."

"So I'm curious," Bai Xuan asked. "You take the principle of only robbing half very seriously, but you're also robbing. If you're trying to make money, there are obviously better ways than robbery, right?"

Xi Qingqing paused, glanced sideways at the young man, and held up a peach blossom branch, her eyes sharp. "Then tell me, a little girl like me, with no power, no influence, and no background, wants to survive in this treacherous world. Who can I rely on? How can I make a lot of money quickly?"

"Your influence is enough now."

"It is now, but it wasn't before." Xi Qingqing asked back, "Will you start to protect your reputation just because you are the top of the Crouching Dragon Ranking?"

"Of course not."

"My answer is the same. I'm used to living this way." Xi Qingqing sneered, "I'm a demon girl from the Demon Sect. In the Demon Sect, it's either plunder or be plundered. The same is true in the martial arts world. If you don't want to be plundered, become a plunderer... Isn't it the same for you? We all climb up by stepping on the corpses of others. Perhaps one day, we will also step on each other's corpses to climb up."

Xi Qingqing is nineteen years old this year, but has been in the underworld for six years.

She left the Xingyue sect at the age of thirteen and ventured into the world on her own.

She began to think hard about how to make a fortune. One day, she met a group of bandits on the road. She slapped her head and decided to start robbing. In the early days, due to her lack of business skills, she always made mistakes in robberies and made a lot of jokes. She even made enemies with some local forces for a few hundred taels of silver.

After stumbling around until he was fifteen, he had less than one thousand taels of savings, and his small goal was nowhere in sight. Later, he encountered a fight by chance and obtained several precious medicines, which allowed him to successfully complete the first three levels of the foundation-building. From then on, he was unstoppable, and after being listed on the Sleeping Dragon List, he specialized in robbing those on the list.

This is also the reason why she reached the top of the Wolong list in just over three years.

Although it sounds a bit cute, the above is all in the style of the Spring and Autumn Period.

If you think about it carefully, you will realize that something is wrong. Robbery itself is a dangerous thing. She is famous now, and everyone who sees her will slide down on their knees and hold up their money bags to hand over obediently. But it was not like that in the past... When she had no reputation, she relied on her brute force to rob.

The high frequency of robbery is inseparable from the high frequency of fighting and fighting in the martial arts world. Not every fight is just a quick exchange, but there are always life-and-death struggles.

Xi Qingqing's most famous nickname is not the funny Peach Blossom Thief or Tea Girl, but the Star-Moon Witch - many people have died at her hands, so many that even the top five on the Sleeping Dragon List dare not covet her position.

Robbery and money-grabbing, it's true.

The experience of fighting in the martial arts world and fighting with the strong are also real.

For her, it was killing two birds with one stone.

Otherwise, as a disciple of the Demon Sect, she would not be able to live freely and would have to go back to live on the minimum living allowance provided by the sect.

But Bai Xuan felt that she must be hiding something.

If an ordinary person spends six years like this, even if he or she has a rather simple ideal of buying a luxury house, it will inevitably change.

As your strength grows, your status becomes higher, and your power becomes greater, you will face more and more temptations, and it will be easy to lose your original intention in the end.

Whether they have fallen into the evil path and become bloodthirsty, or have forgotten their original intentions and become monsters... Bai Xuan has seen too many people like this.

To Bai Xuan, what was surprising was not that she insisted on making a living by robbing, but that she insisted on robbing while retaining the rule of only robbing half of the goods.

There is no difference between fifty steps and a hundred steps. Why would a real bandit care about this?

She must have a reason for insisting on this principle.

Bai Xuan was a little curious about this.

But although he was curious, he didn't want to explore this secret at the moment.

The most taboo thing in conversation is to talk about profound things with someone you just met.

……

The two walked to the exit of Juyi Pavilion.

Just before Xi Qingqing was about to leave, she suddenly stopped and looked straight ahead.

At the same time, Bai Xuan also felt a chill, and the Jiang Chengzi hanging around his waist seemed to sense something, vibrating violently and making a slight sound.

Outside Juyi Pavilion, in the middle of the street.

As people came and went, a man in a black robe took off the sword case from his back. His slender hands, like a woman's, emerged from his sleeves, and a few strands of gray hair appeared between his cloak.

The sword box has not yet been opened.

The sword energy has reached the sky.

……

In the Imperial City, the 15-year-old cutie who was digging a hole in the ginkgo tree wiped his forehead, suddenly raised his head and looked outside the Forbidden City.

A mysterious feeling came over me.

The forgotten memories were awakened by this familiar breath.

"He actually came to the capital?"

(End of this chapter)