Fairy, don't be afraid, I, Wang Daqi, am truly an honest man.

The two of them were busy until late at night, inseparable, and hadn't gotten out of bed yet.

"Daqi, it's not a long-term solution for us to just keep watching this vegetable garden; the pay is too low!"

After dressing and regaining her dignified appearance, Xu Yan helped Wang Daqi change his clothes while speaking.

"At this rate, are we going to live here forever?"

Wang Daqi couldn't help but say, "I also want to find a better job, but all the good jobs have been taken by people with connections."

"Now we have a senior sister. I told her before, and she will find us jobs that can make money."

Outer disciples are required to complete tasks every month, which means they have to do chores.

These tasks vary in quality!

Good tasks require little work and yield high earnings!

Bad tasks take a long time and earn little!

Wang Daqi has been here for five years, but because he has no connections, he has almost never been given any good assignments.

So he usually only does two jobs.

In my spare time, I tend to the vegetable garden, catch insects, and prevent pests.

When busy, I would work with a few friends to build houses and cut down trees for some disciples of the sect, doing other manual labor.

Over the past five years, he has worked diligently and has actually saved up a sum of spirit stones, about fifty in total.

"What kind of work makes money?" Wang Daqi couldn't help but ask.

"I don't know yet, but you can rest assured about my senior sister; she will never break her promise."

Xu Yan smiled slightly. She knew that her senior sister wanted to see Daqi again tomorrow night.

"Wang Daqi, Wang Daqi, what the hell are you doing?"

Just then, a domineering and arrogant voice came from outside the door.

Wang Daqi frowned; the voice sounded hostile.

The next moment, the array at the door was broken, and the door was violently kicked open with a "bang".

The leader was a burly man with a fierce face, dressed in the tight-fitting clothes of an outer gatekeeper, with a heavy bunch of keys hanging from his waist.

It was Zhang Bao, the steward who was usually in charge of supervising this spiritual field.

Behind him followed two weasel-faced lackeys.

"Wang Daqi, you've really gotten yourself into trouble! You didn't even go to the vegetable garden today? Do you know that the garden you're in charge of has been infested with pests!"

As soon as Zhang Bao entered the room, a sinister glint appeared in his eyes.

His gaze swept across the room and he saw Xu Yan.

He cursed inwardly, wondering what kind of incredible luck Wang Daqi had to be chosen by such a female cultivator!

Although Xu Yan was demoted to an outer sect disciple due to her decline in cultivation, she was still not someone a low-level cultivator like him could aspire to!

Therefore, Wang Daqi was often gossiped about by the outer disciples, who said that he, a toad, had actually managed to eat swan meat!

"Pests??"

Wang Daqi felt a chill run down his spine.

"Impossible. My wife and I only had insects for a couple of days. I can guarantee that there are no pests in the vegetable garden."

"That's right, in my opinion, you were instructed by that guy Chen Liang to deliberately frame us, weren't you?" Xu Yan said in a coquettish voice.

She has an old enemy in the inner sect named Chen Liang.

The two once fought fiercely over a precious medicinal herb, but she was more skilled and defeated Chen Liang.

After that, Chen Liang's relationship with her never got better.

After she failed to break through the bottleneck of the seventh level of Qi Refining and fell from the inner sect to the outer sect, Chen Liang often sent people to cause her trouble.

Zhang Bao's murky eyes greedily scanned Xu Yan's shapely figure.

He then let out a heavy snort, took out a jade slip recording his merits from his pocket, and waved it in front of the two of them.

"Framed? Xu Yan, you can eat anything, but you can't say anything carelessly!"

Zhang Bao's face, bulging with fleshy muscles, sneered, "The patrol team came to inspect today. Many of the roots of those three acres of 'Moonlight Vegetables' have been hollowed out by black threadworms! Those are spiritual plants supplied to the inner sect's dining hall! Wang Daqi, how many coins do you earn a month? Even if you sold your entire body, could you afford to pay for them?"

"It's hollowed out by termites?"

Xu Yan's face turned deathly pale instantly.

She had been a spiritual plant husband herself, so she knew all too well what that meant.

If there's a problem with the vegetables in the spirit field, the sect will hold them accountable! They'll at least have to compensate at the original price.

But how could they possibly be worthy of it?

Her cultivation level has now plummeted, and Wang Daqi is just a laborer. This debt is enough to crush them for life, and they might even be sent to the mines to do hard labor for the rest of their lives!

"This is impossible..."

Xu Yan's mind raced.

She and Wang Daqi had just inspected the area a few days ago and concluded that there was absolutely no possibility of such a large-scale insect infestation.

Unless, someone deliberately threw insects in!

Thinking of the treacherous Chen Liang from the inner sect, Xu Yan gritted her teeth and said, "Zhang Bao, I suspect someone maliciously destroyed the spirit fields!"

Zhang Bao seemed to have heard a joke, and his two henchmen behind him also burst into laughter.

"Xu Yan, do you still consider yourself an inner disciple? Now you're just a demoted, impoverished outer disciple. Who's going to listen to your nonsense? The evidence is right there in the field; Wang Daqi's dereliction of duty is undeniable!"

Zhang Bao took a step forward, and the nauseating stench of sweat hit him directly in the face.

He looked at Xu Yan's face, which remained charming and alluring even in her shock and anger, and a lewd glint flashed in his eyes.

Immediately afterward, a voice transmission as faint as a mosquito's buzz reached Xu Yan's ears: "Miss Xu, you don't want your husband to be punished, do you?"

"Senior Brother Chen Liang said that as long as you're willing to go to his cave tonight and have three drinks with him to apologize, he can not only help you settle the matter of the spirit field, but also let you make a small profit of spirit stones."

Upon hearing this, Xu Yan was first stunned, and then a surge of anger rushed to her head.

Drink three glasses with him?

Once you enter his door, can you leave with a clean slate?

This isn't about drinking; it's about destroying Xu Yan's innocence and utterly humiliating Wang Daqi!

"Bullshit!"

Xu Yan, who is usually shrewd and calculating, was like a mother hen protecting her chicks at this moment, and immediately started scolding back.

"Zhang Bao, go back and tell that coward Chen Liang! He wants me to be his hostess? When he's reincarnated as an animal, I might consider feeding him some swill! Get out! Get out of here!!"

Xu Yan's fierce cursing made Zhang Bao's face instantly turn ashen, as if ink could drip from it.

In all his years as a manager in the outer sect, he had never been verbally abused by a disgraced female disciple.

"Fine! Fine, Xu Yan, you don't know what's good for you!!"

Zhang Bao glared menacingly at Wang Daqi, then looked at Xu Yan, "Then let's be professional! Three days, I'll give you three days. If all the moonflower vegetables in this spirit field rot, when the sect's enforcement team comes knocking, you two can expect to be stuck in the Ten Thousand Serpent Cave!"

"Walk!"

Zhang Bao waved his hand and left the thatched hut with his two henchmen, cursing and swearing. He also kicked a bucket by the door away.

The room fell into a deathly silence.

Xu Yan's body trembled slightly; her earlier toughness crumbled quickly in the face of harsh reality.

"Daqi, what should we do... Chen Liang is deliberately trying to force us to our deaths."

Xu Yan's eyes were slightly red, and her voice trembled.

It should be noted that horsehair worms are not ordinary pests.

Those insects only like to hide underground, and are only the size of a hair.

They like to burrow into the roots and stems of vegetables, and once they do, it's game over.

"It must be Chen Liang; he might be the one who threw the horsehair worms into the field."

"No, I'm going up the mountain right now. I'll beg Senior Sister Shen Ruyan! If only she would step in to protect us..."

As she spoke, she tried to rush out, thinking that even if Shen Ruyan was aloof, she would still have some pity for Wang Daqi after all the effort he had put in last night.

"Madam, please wait a moment."

Wang Daqi's large hand firmly grasped Xu Yan's arm.