Spending Money Because He Was Happy

The Qin Household's flying boat hovered in mid-air for a moment.

On the deck, Qin Nanyue and the others seemed to still be looking in their direction.

Lu Yang and Lin Ying assumed they were saying their final goodbyes, so they raised their hands and waved.

Sure enough, in no time, the dark black flying boat started up again, like a slowly moving aerial fortress, gradually merging into the distant, layered horizon, and disappearing from sight.

Lu Yang withdrew his gaze, turned to look at Lin Ying beside him, and smiled slightly, "Senior Sister Lin, it's time for me to go too."

A faint blush still lingered on Lin Ying's pretty face. Her fingers unconsciously gripped the hem of her sleeve. She nodded gently, her voice so soft it was almost inaudible. "Mmm."

The whispered message Qin Nanyue had sent before leaving was still echoing in her mind, "Once we leave, it'll just be the two of you left. Yingying, you'd better take the initiative!"

Lin Ying took a deep breath.

I took another drag.

Then, summoning all her courage, she raised her head, her gentle eyes looking nervously at Lu Yang: "Junior Brother Lu, we won't see each other again until after the New Year... How about we go for a walk together?"

Lu Yang was taken aback.

Senior Sister Lin took the initiative to ask him to go shopping?

This is unprecedented.

A smile immediately spread across his face, and he nodded without hesitation. "Of course! Let's go."

As he spoke, he reached out and, without a word, took Lin Ying's small hand that was clutching the hem of her clothes.

Lin Ying trembled slightly, like a rabbit whose ear had been suddenly touched.

She quickly lowered her head, her ears turning a visibly red, her heart pounding in her ears like a drum.

However, after being led by Lu Yang for a few steps, her tense body gradually relaxed, and her breathing slowly became steady.

The two walked hand in hand along the cobblestone streets of the market, deeper into the crowd.

The boy was handsome and tall, the girl was gentle and graceful.

The two walked side by side through the bustling streets on the eve of the Lunar New Year. Wherever they went, passersby turned their heads, their eyes filled with undisguised amazement.

Lin Ying felt a little shy under his gaze, unsure of what to do with her hands and feet.

Lu Yang was quite thick-skinned; he was already used to being watched by people.

He pulled Lin Ying along and turned into a roadside shop that specialized in selling magical Law Artifacts for female cultivators.

The shop was filled with a dazzling array of women's ritual Law Artifact, with the walls covered in all sorts of items.

Long skirt, jade bracelet, jade hairpin, hair ornament, waist pendant...

Each item shimmered with a faint, ethereal light, dazzling the eye.

The store was quite crowded.

Some female cultivators came alone, while others came in dao companion, huddled around the counter, picking and choosing, their whispers and soft laughter rising and falling.

Lu Yang and Lin Ying had only taken a few steps inside when they noticed a couple of dao companion not far away.

The female sculptor looked down at a white jade bracelet she was trying on on her wrist, her face full of joy and her eyes sparkling.

She stretched her fair wrist out to the male cultivator beside her and said sweetly, "Darling, look at this jade bracelet, doesn't it suit me perfectly?"

The male cultivator, dressed in a slightly faded gray robe, appeared somewhat awkward and uneasy in the glittering shop.

However, upon seeing the jade bracelet on the female cultivator's wrist, he nodded seriously. "Hmm, it suits her quite well."

He then lowered his voice and cautiously asked the shop assistant next to him, "How many Spirit Stones is this?"

The shop assistant standing to the side, wearing a standard business smile, answered briskly, "Fellow Daoist, this white jade bracelet is Mid-Grade Law Artifact. It has the effects of calming the mind and activating protective shields. Wearing it will enhance your extraordinary temperament. It's a very popular style in our shop, and the price-performance ratio is quite good. You can buy it for only five hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones!"

The moment the words "five hundred" were uttered, the male cultivator's lips twitched visibly.

He paused for a moment, his gaze lingering on the female cultivator's joyful face, a tenderness rising in his eyes.

Then he nodded. "Then I'll buy it..."

Before she could finish speaking, the female cultivator had already taken the jade bracelet off her wrist and handed it back to the shop assistant, saying with a smile, "I've taken a closer look, and the color of this jade bracelet doesn't seem to match my skin tone quite well. Let's take another look."

The male cultivator was taken aback, somewhat bewildered. "Isn't it quite beautiful?"

The shop assistant's smile froze for a moment, but quickly returned, and she continued, "Yes, my dear lady, your dao companion is right, this jade bracelet really looks beautiful on you."

The female cultivator shook her head and said with a smile, "I'd like to look at something else."

The shop assistant had no choice but to take the jade bracelet, carefully inspect it to make sure there was no damage, and then bowed and backed away.

After the shop assistant walked away, the male cultivator gently approached the female cultivator and whispered, "Wan'er, I clearly saw that you liked it quite a bit, why did you suddenly decide you didn't want it anymore?"

The female cultivator named Wan'er lowered her voice, her tone tinged with concern. "It's too expensive. You do the math, we still need to rent spirit fields and cave abode, and we can't stop taking cultivation pills. You'll be taking on demon-hunting missions later, and it's so dangerous outside, you'll need to prepare several protective talismans, right? All of these things cost Spirit Stones!"

She counted the items on her fingers one by one, and laughed at herself when she finished, "Five hundred Spirit Stones... that's enough to buy so many things."

The male cultivator opened his mouth, then fell silent.

After a while, a deep sense of guilt surfaced in his eyes. He gently took Wan'er's hand, his voice a little hoarse. "Once we've saved enough money, I'll definitely buy it for you!"

Wan'er smiled and nodded, her eyes curving into crescents. "Then I'll remember it~"

The two smiled at each other, took hands, and turned to walk out of the store.

Not far away, Lu Yang and Lin Ying witnessed the entire scene from beginning to end.

Lin Ying's gaze followed the departing figures of the dao companion, and she unconsciously grasped Lu Yang's hand in return.

She tiptoed closer to Lu Yang's ear, her voice soft and gentle, her breath caressing his ear. "Those two are so loving."

Lu Yang turned his head to look at her, smiled slightly, and deliberately lowered his voice. "Just like us?"

Lin Ying's hard-won courage vanished on the spot. Her face flushed, she lowered her head, and couldn't utter a single word.

Lu Yang smiled and waved to the shop assistant not far away.

The shop assistant hurried over, his expression many times more respectful than before, and he even bowed slightly.

After all, having served customers in this restaurant for so many years, tailoring the menu to each person is a basic skill.

The two people in front of me were dressed in the outer disciple robes of the Golden Rainbow Sword Sect, and each of them had an outstanding temperament, far beyond what ordinary Rogue Cultivators could match.

"Distinguished guests, how may I help you?"

Lu Yang gestured with his chin toward the departing dao companion at the door and said softly, "Go and get that jade bracelet from earlier and give it to dao companion. Don't say I bought it."

The shop assistant was stunned.

Lin Ying was also stunned.

Lin Ying quietly tugged at Lu Yang's hand and whispered, "Junior brother, why did you give them jade bracelets?"

Five hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones were indeed nothing to Lu Yang, and Lin Ying was certainly aware of this.

She had heard Nanyue mention that Junior Brother Lu was the kind of person who would exchange 300,000 Spirit Stones for contribution points without batting an eye.

But she never expected that Lu Yang would spend money on two complete strangers.

Not to mention Lin Ying, the shop assistant's expression was even more interesting, and her gaze towards Lu Yang carried a strange glint.

What are this person's hobbies?

Giving Spirit Stones to strangers?

Lu Yang squeezed Lin Ying's soft little hand, blinked, and said with a half-smile, "It's rare to meet a dao companion as loving as us. I'm happy, so let's consider this a New Year's gift for them."

Lin Ying's face flushed red again. She raised her hand and gently patted him, her voice both shy and soft. "Junior Brother Lu... be serious."

Lu Yang smiled but didn't explain further.

Actually, what I said just now wasn't entirely to tease Lin Ying.

Another reason was that he was moved by that dao companion.

The female cultivator clearly loved that jade bracelet so much; her eyes practically lit up when she wore it.

But when she heard the price, her first reaction wasn't to beg and plead, but to start calculating their future expenses one by one: spiritual fields, pills, talismans... she was thinking about their future life together.

The male cultivator, though clearly short of money, still gritted his teeth and tried to buy it after seeing his dao companion's delighted expression.

To be honest, this kind of mutual consideration is rare, whether in a past life or this one.

So, since we've run into them and they seem fun to us, let's just spend some money on them.

Five hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones were really nothing to him.

My happiness is priceless.

He's happy now, so he's willing to spend money.

"Go on, everyone's already out." Lu Yang gestured with his chin towards the door, then added, "And tell them Happy New Year."

The shop assistant finally snapped out of her daze and quickly took the white jade bracelet out of the counter, carefully holding it in her hands.

With a casual flick of his Lu Yang, five hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones clattered from his Storage Ring onto a wooden shelf beside him, gleaming with spiritual light.

The shop assistant carefully put away the Spirit Stones, then quickly chased after her, carrying the jade bracelet.

The dao companion had only walked a few steps out of the shop.

"Fellow Daoists! Please wait!"

The dao companion turned around at the sound, looking completely bewildered.

The girl named Wan'er recognized the shop assistant from before, frowned slightly, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong? We said we didn't want to buy anything."

The shop assistant took a deep breath, still organizing her thoughts, and handed over the white jade bracelet with both hands.

The dao companion looked at each other in bewilderment.

Wan'er waved her hand and said, "Fellow Daoist, we really aren't buying..."

"No, no," the shop assistant quickly waved her hand, her smile sincere. "A gentleman just asked me to give this jade bracelet to you both. He also wished you a Happy New Year."

"?????"

The dao companion's expressions froze instantly, as if they had heard something completely incomprehensible.

Several cultivators passing by also stopped in their tracks, looking over with bewildered expressions.

What is that?

Is it now fashionable to give New Year's gifts to strangers?

The gift they gave away was a magical Law Treasure worth hundreds of Spirit Stones?!

Which deity is so arrogant?