Rain clouds come and go even faster.

The two white-winged eagles in the sky had not had time to return to their nests, and the rain clouds had already dispersed.

The crisp cry of eagles resounded through the sky, and without the cover of rain clouds, two immature hawks that had just begun to show their weather soared straight into the sky.

The warm spring sun shone on my body. Although the clothes on my back were torn by the bark of the dragon's claw pine, the gentle wind blew in along the cracks and touched my whole body like little hands, making it feel very comfortable.

Not cold at all.

Carrying a bookcase and walking briskly, Yin Xuuge walked out of the gate of Zongxue and greeted the skinny old man in the concierge with a smile.

The old concierge, who was also a member of the Yin family but did not know his name. He only knew that he had been stationed at the Yin family sect for at least a thousand years. He looked at Yin Xuege blankly. He turned around and glanced at the gate of the sect in surprise.

Then he frowned and shook his head slightly.

"absurd."

The old concierge murmured in a low voice, took out a plate of old peanuts and a small pot of old wine from the closet, sat on the bluestone in front of the concierge, crossed his legs, and drank to himself in the sun, but his eyes did not leave Yinxue at all.

The back of the song.

On the street, I found a bank and exchanged a small gold ingot for silver, and a few ingots of silver into copper coins.

A small gold nugget turned into a big bag of silver dimes and copper coins, weighing dozens of kilograms with a jingling sound, and feeling full when held in the hand.

In the drugstore opposite the bank, I took out the gold ingot and bought fifteen Guyuan Pills, which cost me three hundred taels of silver.

Carefully hiding the elixir in his arms, Yin Xuege walked into the butcher shop, grain shop and other shops on the roadside, buying countless random things. Whenever he took out a lot of copper coins or silver coins to pay the bill

When he was young, he always had a slight affection for Miao Tianjie.

In the past seven months, he had been robbed of a total of fifty taels of silver and lost eighteen Gu Yuan Dan. But today, he got it all back.

"Twenty taels of gold, luckily he can carry it with him. Having a cheap brother-in-law is indeed a great joy in life."

With a hint of malice, Yin Xuege began to speculate. If he married Qing Lian, would he be able to reap some benefits?

But after careful consideration and thinking about Qing Lian's skinny body and yellow and thin cheeks, he sighed helplessly.

"It's a waste of money. No one wants it. What's the point of buying it back? It's clumsy and can't do anything. It can only make soup in the soup pot."

When he thought of the word 'soup', he also thought of what Qing Ling said last month in March, it is best to stew a pot of old gastrodia hen soup to nourish the stomach.

It dispels the spring cold and strengthens the body.

It was just that I was in a difficult situation at that time. The money given by Zongxue always disappeared mysteriously many times, so the supplementation naturally came to nothing.

"Lu Chai Bangzi has no meat at all. If you want to marry off and sell it for a good price, you have to be fattened up?"

With this bad idea in mind, he hired a porter and asked him to carry a load of all the odds and ends he bought. Then he ran to the market and bought four big, fat old hens, which cost him a total of nine dollars.

Money.

“It’s a lot more expensive.”

Four old hens actually cost nine coins?

Last year, four identical old hens cost at most seven cents and two cents of silver.

Thousands of years ago, the same old hen, with a few eggs, cost only six cents.

Like eggs, things in the market seem to be getting more and more expensive?

This change seems to have occurred after Lin Jingfeng became the prefect of Weicheng.

Carrying four old hens and a large bag of 20-year-old Gastrodia elata in his arms, Yin Xuege thoughtfully took the porter back home. When he sent the porter away, he gave him enough

One hundred copper coins, and this price made the surprised Qing Ling scream in shock and anger.

"This is robbing people. In the past, hiring a porter to go around Weinan City would cost you up to sixty coins."

"Now he actually wants a hundred coins. He thinks his feet are inlaid with gold, and every step he takes is sprinkled with gold powder?"

Seeing four fat and strong old hens running around on the ground clucking, Qing Ling, who was originally very happy, looked extremely gloomy.

She stood at the door of her house, staring at the back of the porter with unkind eyes, and suddenly turned around and whispered to Yin Xuege.

"Master, I didn't expect you to be so enlightened today."

"I won't ask about the origin of this money. It must be disgraceful anyway."

"Since you have already done the first year of junior high school, why not do the fifteenth year of junior high school as well? There is at least five hundred copper coins in the porter's pocket."

Qing Ling's eyes were wandering, as blurry and gloomy as an innocent soul. Obviously, she was imagining some not-so-kind scenes. With Yin Xuuge's strength, dealing with an ordinary strong porter was a problem that could be solved with one finger.

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With a heavy cough, Yin Xuege threw the Gastrodia elata and the bag containing money in her arms into Qing Ling's hands.

"Master, am I that kind of person?"

"What does it mean to have a dishonorable background? Is it possible that I can commit robbery?"

Qing Ling sighed softly and looked at her young master with pity.

"It's not like robbery. You have the heart, but you don't have the courage."

"But if you don't want to rob, you can sell yourself! The gentlemen from the next door family all wanted to be your father-in-law a few years ago."

Yin Xuuge was embarrassed. He raised his hand and slapped Qing Ling gently on the forehead. Then he flicked his sleeves and walked smoothly into the small martial arts field behind the yard with his hands behind his back.

He took a Guyuan Pill on the spot, and with his hands like dragon claws, he grabbed an old poplar tree with hundreds of years of climate beside the martial arts field. He groaned, and the Guyuan Pill released a large amount of heat in the body like charcoal, urging him to

The movement made all the blood and energy in his body circulate.

The muscles squirmed and swelled like snakes, the old poplar tree swayed its branches gently, and a very fine green air was continuously injected into his body.

Wherever the green energy passes, all flesh, flesh, and bones absorb the breath of life contained in the green energy from the old poplar trees.

His own strength is improving bit by bit. With the consumption of Guyuan Dan, his own blood is rolling like a tide, and the green energy in the old poplar tree is naturally endless. Yin Xuege has only been tempered to his current level in just sixteen years of life.

Compared with the climate of the old poplar tree that has lived for hundreds of years, its vitality is only one or two percent of that of the old poplar tree.

The little green energy extracted from the old poplar tree is not worth mentioning to the old tree itself.

What's more, as the Qi and blood in Yin Xuege's body rolled inexplicably, cyan airflow began to flow in the veins of the old poplar tree. The old poplar tree began to undergo some kind of wonderful changes, and its roots moved deeper.

Burrowing underground, it can absorb more water and nutrients every moment, and at the same time, new sprouts will gradually grow on its branches and leaves.

The old poplar tree conveyed a trace of green energy to Yin Xuuge, and he himself grew several times the amount of green energy.

And every trace of green energy injected into Yin Xuuge's body consumes about 30% of the medicinal power produced by the Guyuan Dan.

In this inexplicable way, Yin Xuege can exert the power of each Guyuan Pill more than three times. When he takes one Guyuan Pill, the benefit he gets is the effect of three Guyuan Pills for ordinary people.

Moreover, there are many impurities in Guyuan Dan. Taking one Guyuan Dan requires a lot of time kicking and punching to eliminate the impurities from the body.

But what Yin Xuege's body is absorbing at this moment is the pure green energy from the old poplar tree, which does not contain any impurities; the Guyuan Pill is only used as fuel to promote the circulation of his blood energy, giving him enough power to operate this method.

All the impurities in the elixir were transported into the body of the old poplar tree, sent underground along the tree's veins, and buried deep in the soil, without causing any obstruction to Yin Xuege himself.

The sky gradually darkened.

Qing Ling sang happily in the kitchen.

She was so heartless that she didn't care where her young master got the money, rice, noodles, and so much wine and meat. In her eyes, these were all matters of course. It was only for him that his young master could get these things back.

ability.

Just like back then, when my master was still alive, he often carried so much money and other things home.

At that time, this yard was not as deserted and withered as it is now. Qing Ling remembered that at that time she was always very happy to welcome the master back, and she could always get a few of her favorite ones from the master at that time.

Favorite candy.

"The only thing that makes the young master worse than the old master is that he doesn't bring sweets back to Qing Ling."

She frowned. Qing Ling, who was chopping chicken legs with a small axe, was stunned when she almost cut off her own fingers with the axe.

Looking in panic at the ax that was chopped almost against her own fingers, Qing Ling breathed a long sigh of relief, her face turned pale with fear.

When it got dark, the strong aroma of gastrodia hen soup came from the kitchen. At the same time, Qing Ling also fried three meat dishes. Stewed an elbow, paired with old hen soup and two vegetarian dishes. This was Yin Xue Ge and Qing Ling.

A luxurious meal that I have never had in the past three years.

Three years ago, Yin Xuuge's father passed away.

The family underwent great changes, the servants were dispersed, and all income was cut off. With only twelve taels of silver in the Zongxue monthly expenses, even Yin Xuuge could barely meet her daily physical needs. At that time, Qing Ling's biggest dream every day was

A piece of elbow skin and a big chicken leg.

"If you have elbows and drumsticks every day, it's perfect."

Looking at the dishes she had carefully prepared, Qing Lian held her hands in front of her chest and sighed.

"Whether the young master is robbing or selling himself, well, as long as Qing Lian has elbows and chicken legs, the rest doesn't matter."

After spending an afternoon in the backyard martial arts field, the power of an entire Gu Yuan Dan was finally exhausted.

Yin Xuuge was sweating profusely, and there was a faint smell of blood in his sweat. The gain he received on this day was even greater than the improvement he had received in a month in the past few years.

Relying on the green energy selflessly provided by the old poplar tree, he increased his strength by half in one afternoon.

Based on this calculation, he will be able to reach the strength of Yiding in seven days. After all, seven months ago, he already had the strength of eighty-nine.
To be continued...