"Senior brother, are you joking?"
Although the fat senior brother's expression was humble and warm, Zheng Fa's response was very cold.
It's impossible to go back - this ship is really going to turn around, and he could offend a whole bunch of people.
This senior brother's words seemed very insincere.
The fat senior brother smiled slightly awkwardly and winked at the other senior brother next to him.
The senior brother immediately handed over a small, square box.
"This is?"
Zheng Fa had some expectations.
Sure enough, when I opened it, there were piles of gold.
At a rough glance, there are about five or sixty taels.
"Thanks to junior brother, our book sales are very good - I originally wanted to separate from junior brother, but now that we are both disciples of Senior Sister Zhang and we have become a family, there is no need to mention it."
Zheng Fa was silent for a moment and asked, "Senior brother, how much should that book cost in the Nine Mountains Sect?"
"It sells for eight taels in Marketplace." The fat senior brother whispered, "It costs four taels to purchase the goods, and we earn six taels of gold from one book..."
Zheng Fa nodded, these three senior brothers were more measured than he thought.
Then there are almost sixty taels of gold in this box - the extra twenty taels of gold earned by these three people are all here.
Zheng Fa thought for a while, took out two taels of gold from it, and then closed the box again.
"I'll just keep this money."
The fat senior brother had a smile on his face.
Then I heard Zheng Fa say again, "Please ask three senior brothers to return the remaining money in this box, twenty taels each."
"Ah?"
"Isn't it okay?"
"If you give this money to junior brother, you will naturally dispose of it, but... give it back?"
"Give it back."
"Junior brother, you are really... good!"
The fat senior brother looked at him for a while, and the smile on his face seemed to fade a little. He actually stopped talking to him about being a family, and simply walked out of the room with the box in his arms.
After walking a few steps, a senior brother next to him asked, "Why are we leaving?"
"Still not leaving? This Junior Brother Zheng is not easy to fool!" The smile on Fat Senior Brother's face gradually disappeared and he said with a serious face.
"Ah?"
"Why do we give him money?"
"Apologise?"
The fat senior brother shook his head. "It's just a big hug! We say Senior Sister Zhang Senior Sister Zhang every day, does Senior Sister Zhang recognize us? This junior brother has really been taught by Senior Sister Zhang. If we give him money, aren't we just doing things for him?"
The junior brother suddenly realized. "Let him join us in the same trap!"
"Bah!" Fat Senior Brother kicked him. "That's called helping each other in the same boat!"
"Then why are we leaving?"
"This junior brother is so proud. He is not willing to hang out with us just for this little money. He is not from the same group as us!"
"I understand, he wants to be a good person."
"No, he is taking our money and trying to be a good person."
After finishing speaking, the fat senior brother looked at the box in his hand and said with gritted teeth.
"Are we really going to pay it back?"
"I'll pay it back first this time. I want to see if Senior Sister Zhang really values him!" The fat senior brother sneered, "Who knows Senior Sister Zhang's temperament? Who has she been close to? I won't talk about the money until I find out the details of this person!"
"Nine Mountains Sect is here!"
There was a burst of cheers from the corridor, and Zheng Fa couldn't help but open the door and go downstairs. There were people on the deck.
Several new disciples greeted Zheng Fa one after another.
Because of Fat Senior Brother's repayment of money, Zheng Fa has become a little more popular among this group of people recently.
"Zheng Fa!" Zhou Ganyuan waved to him from the end of the deck. "Look, Nine Mountains Sect."
Nine continuous towering peaks appeared ahead.
The one in the middle is particularly high, much like the Ninth Mountain that Zheng Fa originally boarded.
The remaining eight are divided into two sides, like its two outstretched arms, surrounding a valley.
There is a valley mouth surrounded by the two arms, and outside the valley mouth there is a turbulent river.
Zheng Fa Looking at it, I always feel a little familiar--
If these nine peaks are regarded as city walls, then this river is equivalent to a moat.
If we guard the entrance of the valley, this place will be easy to defend and difficult to attack, but I don't know how Nine Mountains Sect can defend against those monks who can fly into the sky and escape from the earth.
Zheng Fa and others' boat shook slightly and slowly landed in the river at the mouth of the valley.
This is a pier. There are so many boats on the pier and it is extremely lively.
Even the shore is bustling with people coming and going.
There was only one place that was a bit empty - a somewhat familiar figure of Zheng Fa stood there.
It is Senior Sister Zhang.
Senior Sister Zhang saw Zheng Fa and nodded towards him, as if beckoning him to come over.
Behind him, the fat senior brother stared blankly at Zheng Fa walking towards Senior Sister Zhang.
"That's Senior Sister Zhang!" his companion shouted.
"I've seen it!"
"Then have you ever seen Senior Sister Zhang smile so happily?"
"..."
"Then let's touch his bottom?"
"... Don't reveal my name before you die." The fat senior brother walked away.
Zheng Fa looked at Senior Sister Zhang's flowery smile, then looked at her outstretched palm, feeling speechless.
This person is not here to pick him up.
I'm here to push for manuscripts.
Zheng Fa handed over the written exercise book. Senior Sister Zhang held it in his hand and stood on tiptoe. He nodded with satisfaction and said, "I will take you to where you live."
The two of them left our pier side by side. Senior Sister Zhang suddenly asked, "What did you buy on the way?"
"?"
Zheng Fa looked up at Senior Sister Zhang.
Senior Sister Zhang glanced at him and said, "Why do you think I asked you to bring more money?"
"Sister, do you know this?" Zheng Fa took out <Zhang True Person's Treatise on Talisms>.
"This is a compilation of my lectures at the Talisman Arts Pavilion." Senior Sister Zhang said, "If you sell a copy, I will get a tael of gold."
... Are you really the protective umbrella of those three criminals?
"Only if I take money according to the rules can they dare to make money according to the rules." Senior Sister Zhang seemed to know what he was thinking and said calmly.
"... Senior sister also knows about what happened on the ship?"
"What's going on? I don't know. I can guess it. I first scared you when I got on the ship, and then locked you in the cabin to sell things. The new disciples didn't dare to offend these people, and they thought they were not easy to mess with, so they bought them all."
"..."
"Don't you think Spiritual-Energy Decline has happened in the past few years?" Senior Sister Zhang glanced at him. "Old disciples bully new disciples and take advantage of people like you who don't know anything for a long time."
Zheng Fa Now I understand.
He had always wondered before, one or two hundred taels of gold was a lot, but it was nothing to a cultivator - how could it be worth the risk of the three senior brothers?
It turned out to be a routine!
What kind of style does this Nine Mountains Sect have?
"There are rules. They won't do anything - as long as you grit your teeth and don't buy, they won't really do anything to you." Senior Sister Zhang seemed to have read his thoughts.
Zheng Fa That's true when I think about it. Although those senior brothers were rough, they didn't seem to do anything harmful to anyone - if their cold faces at the beginning were excluded, these people actually seemed to be quite law-abiding.
"Why is this so?"
He still couldn't understand.
"After the decline of Spiritual Opportunity, the resentment of the lower-level disciples has become more and more serious... Compared with killing people and seizing treasures, the sect can tolerate asking for money."
Zheng Fa is silent.
Senior Sister Zhang turned to look at Zheng Fa and suddenly said, "I was also deceived by my senior brother."
"What happened next?"
"Later, those senior brothers went to sell books for me." Senior Sister Zhang said calmly. She walked to a small courtyard and stopped. "As long as you are strong enough, you can ignore these."
When Senior Sister Zhang left, he said to Zheng Fa, "Spiritual Opportunity is in decline, and Immortal Sect is by no means a good place. If you can't handle these people and things, I have misjudged you... Now, these are just a little bit of training for you."
The next day, Zheng Fa opened the door and found the fat senior brother squatting at the door of his courtyard with a bitter look on his face.
"Brother, what are you doing..."
"Senior Sister Zhang said, junior brother, you are new to the Nine Mountains Sect, and you want me to guide you for a few days." The fat senior brother said in a sad tone, not like he was willing to do so. "Today, let's go first to register your life card and receive the skills..."
... Why do you feel that the person Senior Sister Zhang needs to sharpen is this senior brother?
(End of chapter)