After Becoming the Hero's Ex-fiancée

After Becoming the Hero’s Ex-fiancée Chapter 153

Back to Yuqing Sect (1)

When Zheng Wan went to buy Yuan rice, she learned that there were three different grades: top, mid, and low.

She could only buy low-grade Yuan rice with ten low-grade Yuan stones…
However, according to the shopkeeper, mortals could only eat low-grade rice. Mid-grade and top-grade rice were too full of vital energy and would be too much of a good thing for them.

Even so, the amount of low-grade Yuan rice that can be bought with ten low-grade Yuan stones could only last two people for a month.

Zheng Wan, who had just earned some Yuan stones, realised that what she earned would never be enough to spend.

Her clothes were all mortal clothes, and she didn’t even have a cleansing formation on herself.
Her only Heavenly Plume Incandescent Robes was a gift from Cui Wang. Zheng Wan had asked someone about it— these robes were a top-grade Yuan artefact and were too conspicuous. If a Centring stage cultivator like herself wore it out blatantly, it would be akin to a child holding gold bars, attracting greedy eyes unnecessarily.

After thinking about it, she should get another set of disciple robes; at the very least, they were magical artefacts.

The matter of an interdimensional pouch had been resolved, and the talisman brush, talisman paper, and cinnabar pigment could still last for a while. However, Zheng Wan still wanted a Yuan Gathering Formation Plate to place beside her when cultivating. Be it drawing talismans, practising soul consciousness, or tempering vital energy, it would be helpful.

But after asking around, she found out that a Yuan Gathering Formation Plate of the lowest grade costs two hundred Yuan stones. She now finally understood why Eldest Senior Brother and Zixiu Peak’s attendants always lamented that they didn’t have enough Yuan stones.

To cultivate, cultivators needed money everywhere for food, clothing, housing, and transportation. The cultivators who once seemed dazzling to her all had pockets that were cleaner than their faces.

She also wanted to open a shop in Fengwu City…
In the Heavenly Realms, her father’s age was considered to be at the peak of his prime. If well-nourished, he could live well for another fifty or sixty years. So, it wouldn’t do for him to just drink tea and look at flowers every day. That would be fine for a short period, but if it went on for too long, her father would probably be unhappy.

If she opened a shop that specialized in selling talismans, her father could be the shopkeeper, and that would give him a way to spend his energy.

The security of Fengwu City was very good, and the city guards patrolled often. To rent a shop here, one only needed to pay a fixed amount of rent every year, and there was no need to be concerned about safety. It’s just that to rent a shop in a better location, such as the street where Seven Treasures Court was located, the monthly rent would cost one hundred mid-grade Yuan stones. If the location was poorer, it would still cost about ten-odd mid-grade Yuan stones a month. That was equivalent to thousands of low-grade Yuan stones…

No matter how Zheng Wan thought about it on her way home, she felt that she was still far away from the goal she wanted to achieve.

She would have to cross this distance step by step.

“Aunt Li, cook with this rice today.”
As soon as Zheng Wan got home, she gave the Yuan rice to the cook and asked her to go to the kitchen to make food.

“Wanwan’s back?” Zheng Zhai beckoned her over. A long table had been placed in the courtyard. “Come and see what Father wrote.”

Zheng Wan went over and took a glance.
“The brush moves like a dragon, and the strokes are strong as iron and silver. Good!”

“You little flatterer!” Zheng Zhai patted her head and laughed happily.

Madam Wang came over with a cup of tea. “Your Father has been showing off his writing all morning.”

The three of them chatted about this and that. Zheng Zhai and Madam Wang did not deliberately ask about their daughter’s affairs outside, but Zheng Wan picked and chose parts of how Shu Yuan was the son of the former city lord.

She didn’t say that she had gone to a pleasure house, only that she had caused a disturbance in the store he had been working at previously. Now, what she did was sort of a compensation to him.

“A compensation?” Zheng Zhai shook his head, “I’m afraid it’ll have to be more than that.”

“These cultivators always talk about karma, and I don’t want to owe anything to this person. Besides, if his mother can’t be cured because he lost this job and he hates me for it, wouldn’t it be troublesome?”
Zheng Wan stuck out her tongue. “It’s not that I’m not afraid of him, but it’s good to have less trouble.”

Zheng Zhai sighed inwardly. If it wasn’t for him being too weak now, why would his daughter need to be so careful…? She must be afraid that he’d suffer.

After a moment of contemplation, “Wanwan, don’t become too close to him.”

”Why?” asked Zheng Wan curiously. She didn’t have any plans of forming a deep friendship with him, but she didn’t understand her father’s concerns.

“Life was smooth-sailing for this lad when he was a child and he lost his father in his youth, but he has held his family up till this day. Being able to endure what others can’t, he’s probably not a simple one. Moreover, how can there be such a coincidence that his brother came to sell maps and got you to buy one, and you also accepted his favour and bought something from his stall, and it was such a coincidence that the stall owner near you happened to know those sorry things about him?”

Putting himself in his shoes, if Zheng Zhai fell to such lowly depths, he wouldn’t publicise it to others.

“I’m afraid that you helping him today is also something that he had tried his best to facilitate.”

Zheng Wan blinked. “Father, when you put it that way… it makes sense.”

“You are still very green.” Zheng Zhai looked at his daughter’s widened round eyes as she nodded solemnly, and couldn’t help rubbing her head again. “All right. After this meal, go back to your sect.”

When Zheng Wan refused, he glared at her, and she stood up like a rabbit and ran back to her room.
“Call me for lunch!”

She was going to draw Grade 2 ice shield talismans to earn more Yuan stones so that she could open her shop as soon as possible.

Zheng Zai laughed and scolded. When his daughter disappeared behind the door, his expression immediately changed. Madam Wang patted his hand and said comfortingly, “Don’t think about it too much. Wanwan has been fortunate since young, she will surely have good fortune in the end.”

“It’s still better that she returns to the sect earlier.” Zheng Zhai looked at the sky with his hands clasped behind his back. “We won’t be able to accompany her for long. If she doesn’t strengthen her ties with her teacher and fellow disciples, who will protect her when we are gone?”

When Zheng Wan finished her lunch and her stool was not yet warm, she was chased out by her parents and made to return to the sect.