A leisurely life in the world of cultivation

Chapter 56 Wrong blame

Qingzhou City.

On a cold winter morning in the ancient city, everything was gray and gloomy, even the snow on the city walls was stained gray by smoke and sand.

Even so, Li Weizhou, who was in a good mood, felt it was alright.

Sunny days can get monotonous...

"Brother! Brother!!"

Xi Mei's joyful voice came over. Li Weizhou put down the handwritten book, looked up, and saw Xi Mei rushing in with tears on her face. As soon as he stood up, Xi Mei threw herself into his arms and started sobbing.

Li Weizhou was puzzled and sensed something was wrong, so he asked, "What's wrong?"

Looking at Xiao Dong, Xiao Xi, and Xiao Bei, who were panting as they ran after them, and at the very back was Xiao Nan, a maid who had only recently joined the family.

Xiao Dong, who was a year older and thirteen this year, bowed and said, "Young master, today the young lady went to Ji'an Hall with the young masters Huan and Rui from the master's mansion to have her aptitude tested. As a result, the two young masters did not have martial arts aptitude, but the young lady did have martial arts aptitude, which is a low-grade martial arts aptitude."

Upon hearing this, Li Weizhou's eyes lit up. He patted Ximei's head happily and said with a smile, "That's great news!"

Even a lower-grade martial bone is better than no martial bone at all. Fu Tianshou, with only a mid-grade martial bone, has already become a prodigy.

Xiao Xi couldn't help but interject, "The young lady even spent money to have all four of us tested. Xiao Dong and I have inferior aptitude, but the bone-testing master said that our bone structure is very good. Xiao Nan doesn't have martial aptitude, and the most powerful one is Xiao Bei, that sassy Tartar, who almost became an average one!"

Xiao Bei wasn't angry; instead, she proudly raised her chin and grinned foolishly.

Only Xiao Nan sobbed silently; it was too damn sad...

Xiao Dong even scolded, "Why are you crying? We didn't dislike you."

Xiao Nan felt even more wronged, her self-esteem was hurt.

Li Weizhou rubbed Ximei's head and laughed, "This is a good thing, why are you crying?"

Xi Mei raised her tear-streaked face and said, "I will practice martial arts hard from now on and avenge our parents in the future! I know... I know that you have always wanted to avenge our parents. Brother, I will help you. I will be with you!"

Li Weizhou was somewhat moved by her words. He stroked his sister's forehead, looked into her eyes, and asked, "Do you believe your brother?"

Xi Mei nodded and said, "I have always believed in my brother."

Indeed, otherwise she wouldn't have been so happy to be sold to the Wu family as a slave, carrying her little bundle along the way.

Li Weizhou laughed and said, "Alright, let me tell you, I'll find out the truth about our parents' matter sooner or later. I'm confident I can. But I don't want you to get involved because it's really dangerous. I won't do it myself; I'll just send someone else to investigate. How could I bear to let you do it? Think about it, if something happens to you, I won't even have one last, closest person left in this world. How pitiful would that be?"

Xi Mei's face turned pale as she thought about it. She stared blankly at Li Weizhou, then hugged her brother tightly.

Li Weizhou patted her back and said gently, "You can practice martial arts. It's good to practice martial arts; it can strengthen your body and reduce illness. But don't do anything that involves fighting and killing. Leave it to your brother; I'll have someone else do it. We're all civilized people; we won't resort to violence."

Hearing this, Xi Mei felt reassured. If it were her, she wouldn't know who to seek revenge on. Her only worry was her brother, and now that she heard these words, she was truly at ease.

After a pause, Ximei whispered, "Brother, can Xiaodong and the others practice with us? They said they don't need to pay a monthly fee..."

Xiao Dong had just taught Xiao Nan a lesson, but now he was a little uneasy and whispered, "We can change the contract of indenture to a contract of death."

A living contract allows one to apply to terminate the indenture, as long as sufficient money is provided.

But a death contract is not acceptable, and it is different from taking in hidden refugees who become servants. The latter is a clandestine binding, while the former is a legal binding.

In some ways, it's even more ruthless.

The servants of the refugee family can be killed if they commit crimes, and can be hunted down if they escape.

If someone who has signed a death contract runs away, the government will help the master family to hunt them down.

Xiao Xi and Xiao Bei nodded in agreement; they had certainly seen some of the world today.

As soon as the bone test results came out, people immediately offered to buy their freedom, describing a bright future for them.

Especially Xiao Bei, a woman from Hu, yet she has such good genes, buying her would be a huge profit!
Although the Li family is not simple, its foundation is weak. Which family is simple?

Fortunately, the three girls had experienced hardship and were not naive. The time they spent with Ximei was probably the happiest time in their memories, so how could they bear to leave?

So they all came back.

The girls are quite loyal! Li Weizhou nodded with satisfaction and said, "You can discuss it with Miss yourselves. You are Miss's partners, not mine. You can make your own decisions."

Xi Mei made the decision: "Then let's change the contract. It's not to protect them, but to protect their families. With this binding contract, their families won't be able to be lured away by others and then coerce them. As for us, it doesn't matter whether we have this contract or not."

A twelve-year-old girl, having experienced so much, speaks words that are quite extraordinary.

Li Weizhou laughed and said, "Then let's all go together. I'll hire a female tutor for you, and the Qi-Nourishing Pill won't be a problem. Alright, go have some fun. You should celebrate properly today. Let Aunt Liu cook you some delicious food and bring some fruit wine. Let's have a lively day."

The maids were overjoyed and went out excitedly, also comforting the even more heartbroken Xiao Nan.

Li Weizhou didn't care much; if Xiao Nan couldn't adjust on her own, she could be replaced soon.

After finishing his household chores, Li Weizhou prepared to go to the fortified village to continue practicing his martial arts.

Although the four warriors were already quite capable, they still couldn't support his lofty ambitions.

As I boarded the carriage and set off, the cries of vendors from the roadside constantly reached my ears.

"Candied hawthorns for sale! Candied hawthorns for sale!"

"Dried persimmons, fresh dried persimmons!"

"Tofu, piping hot tofu!"

Li Weizhou opened the car window and saw many vendors hawking their wares on the street. It seemed to be a big market day. There was food, women selling woven cotton cloth, and vendors selling pancakes...

Not so lively!

When passing by Zuixianlou, I noticed that there seemed to be some dispute over the location of the side door leading to the meat and vegetable section in the back bungalow.

He stopped the carriage and walked over, where he saw a boy whose appearance was very different from that of the people of the Central Plains. He was carrying a tree branch with a large piece of raw meat hanging from it and was anxiously talking to the two waiters at the door.

"Please, please accept this, just give me some money!"

"This is meat from a mountain deer, it's very fresh!"

"I'll sell it for a little money, please, I'm begging you!"

Upon seeing Li Weizhou arrive, the two shop assistants hurriedly greeted him and urged the "strange-looking" boy to leave quickly.

Li Weizhou was puzzled. He looked at the boy, who was about the same age as him, and asked, "Is there something wrong with this meat?"

One of the waiters hurriedly said, "Young master, the meat is fine, but the man is the problem. He's a mixed-race barbarian. If our customers find out we bought meat from him, they'll never come to our Drunken Immortal Restaurant again."

The boy's face suddenly flushed red, and his fists clenched tightly, but for some reason, he still showed no sign of leaving.

Li Weizhou asked, "What does 'zahu' mean?"

The waiter was surprised that his master didn't even know this, so he explained, "It's the child born from the union of a Hu woman and a Han woman. This person isn't even from the Donghu, but from the Xihu. Young master, you see, he looks different from us, and different from the Donghu. He looks like an old man with a turban..."

Li Weizhou said, bewildered, "People come to sell meat. As long as the meat is safe, why do you care who they are? Just take it."

After saying this, he nodded slightly to the bearded boy and then turned and left.

As I walked, something suddenly came to mind. According to the plot of a web novel, this was clearly a scene of recruiting followers.

This young man possessed extraordinary bones, either the Greedy Wolf or the Broken Army, and after becoming his disciple, he became a great general.

For some reason, the boy didn't make a sound.

It seems that novels are just novels, the fantasies of a bunch of scumbags.

However, just as he was about to turn the corner and enter the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, he finally heard the sound of hurried footsteps behind him.

Immediately, the young man with the mixed beard knelt down in front of him with a thud and began kowtowing repeatedly.

Li Weizhou's expression turned somewhat strange; he had wronged those scumbags.

……

(End of this chapter)