[The sacred son of Desolate Antiquity, the Lunar Yin sacred maiden] (Premium chapters start tomorrow-please subscribe)
The proprietor was an elderly man with graying hair, accompanied by a little girl of five or six. She wore her hair in two little pigtails and was very cute, her rosy cheeks like red apples.
A diner shouted, "Old Jiang, hurry up with the meat and wine!"
"Coming, coming!" The old man surnamed Jiang was not well off and could not afford to hire any help. He served as proprietor, waiter, and cook, bustling around the little shop, chopping vegetables one moment and carrying dishes the next.
Seeing that her grandfather could not keep up, the little girl sensibly helped him clear bowls and chopsticks and wipe down tables.
Lin Xian thought to himself, Now that I've found a Taiyin Body, can a Sun Body be far behind? Once Taiyin and Taiyang come together, won't a Chaotic Body follow?
A dispute soon broke out in the little tavern. Several diners wanted to eat for free and refused to pay.
"Listen here, Jiang!"
A sallow-faced middle-aged man spat, kicked the old man, then threw several punches, cursing, "I don't pay even when I eat at fancy restaurants! Eating at your place is doing you an honor!"
The old man coughed up blood and collapsed on the floor, bruised all over. Old and frail, he had no strength to resist.
"You're bad people! You come here every day and eat without paying. How can we afford to keep feeding you..." Five- or six-year-old Jiang Tingting wept behind her grandfather.
Many in the watching crowd could not bear the sight, but none dared step forward. All they could do was urge the old man, "Let it go, Old Jiang. Just put up with it."
"That's right. Their family has immortal cultivators. How could ordinary people like us afford to offend them? It's