At the Green Mountain Academy, Meng Anci placed a hundred-tael silver note on Zhao Yushan's table, saying, "My aunt asked you to give this to your mother."
Zhao Yushan was momentarily stunned, wondering when his mother had started having financial dealings with Meng Anci's aunt. But at his age, a hundred taels of silver was a large sum.
Regardless of whether it was real or fake, he would give it to his mother. Zhao Yushan put away the silver note and looked up to see Meng Anci shaking his head at him.
"Little one, why are you shaking your head?"
Meng Anci held up her index finger and waved it in front of his eyes. "A man doesn't eat meat for free. You can't be a money-losing commodity."
Zhao Yushan suddenly snapped, "What do you mean? Who's the loser?"
Meng Anci at him as if he were a fool, saying, "Your tuition, writing materials, food, and other expenses—not a single penny of it came from you. Not only that, you even made your mother spend one hundred taels of silver to buy a horse."
Isn't this just a money-loser? A real man doesn't let a woman solve problems. You and I are pretty much the same. Have I ever gone home and complained that you bullied me?
Meng Anci looked at him with disdain, "I despise you!"
"Pah... I don't need your respect," Zhao Yushan rolled his eyes in anger, "Are all people from Willow and Poplar County two-faced?"
They only know how to fawn over superiors and bully subordinates, and to flatter and fawn.
Meng Anci's expression froze. " Master Cen, Senior Brother Zhao wasn't being discriminatory, please don't be angry."
Zhao Yushan subconsciously turned around, but there was no one behind him. " Meng Anci, you dare to play me..." He then shoved Meng Anci hard, and there was a tearing sound.
The tables and chairs were knocked over and scattered, Meng Anci to steady himself. " Master Cen, please don't misunderstand. Senior Brother Zhao was just joking with me; he didn't hit me."
" Meng Anci, don't try to scare me with Master Cen. There's not a single good person in your Willow and Poplar County, just a bunch of sycophantic opportunists..."
He had barely finished speaking when he heard Master Cen's furious voice behind him, " Zhao Yushan, what have you done to me? You've disappointed me terribly! Go stand outside!"
Zhao Yushan turned his head in disbelief, " Master Cen... no... he... I..." He stammered for a long time, then walked out of the classroom dejectedly and stood under the eaves, looking up at the sky.
Master Cen's words, "You have disappointed me greatly," were like a sharp sword piercing his chest, causing Zhao Yushan to gasp for breath in pain.
Voices could be heard coming from inside the room. Master Cen comforted her, " Anci, if you are bullied in the future, don't suffer in silence. Tell your teacher, okay?"
Meng Anci obediently, "Master, could you please stop punishing Senior Brother Zhao?"
Master Cen sighed and rubbed his head. Zhao Yushan wasn't like this before, but in the past year, for some reason, his personality has changed drastically. He has become unpredictable and likes to bully his classmates.
He needs to talk to Master Zhao when he has a chance.
After class, Meng Anci leaned close to Zhao Yushan's ear through the window and whispered with a laugh, "You're not thinking of going home to complain, are you? You're not going to send your mother to my aunt again, are you? Tsk tsk... When are you going to wean yourself off this?"
Zhao Yushan gritted his teeth and roared, " Meng Anci..."
"Tsk... Let's chat for a bit, but look at you, all lumps and no bites. Fine, we won't chat then," he said, sitting back down with a mocking look in his eyes.
On the other side, Jin Shanyao, carrying wine, food, and red dates, went to Hat Mountain with great enthusiasm, determined to capture the prison-bound god within half a month.
But after only a hundred meters into the mountain, they bumped into the barrier. This one was more solid than the last, so it must have taken some effort to build it.
With a wave of his hand Jin Shanyao opened the barrier and led the old ox strode inside. The vegetation they passed seemed to gasp and scream, for the God of Slaughter was here again, the God of Slaughter was here with his satchel.
Jin Shanyao ignored him and led the old ox to the crooked tree. There, she found the food box and dates that had been delivered last time, still untouched on the ground.
The crooked tree was deserted... Where was everyone??? Jin Shanyao his fan and looked around twice, but saw no one.
" Xie Chao... Old Xie... Chao'er... Can you hear me calling?"
Jin Shanyao listened intently, but there was not a sound. She put away the old food box, arranged the new one, and placed the two stacks of storybooks on the ground.
"This time I brought chicken stew with mushrooms, goose stew with sauerkraut, pork stew with vermicelli... I think it's a pity that you've lived here for a hundred years but haven't tasted a single local specialty..."
With Jin Shanyao, she enjoyed the wine and dishes, then placed two stacks of storybooks aside. "These are my private collections, all popular storybooks from the study."
I was worried you'd be bored on the mountain, so I brought this to you. Don't break it. I've taken the old food box; eat this while it's hot.
Oh, by the way, I bought some sorghum liquor. I think it'll taste better than the one you brewed yourself. If you don't like it, I'll buy you something else.
Xie Chao watched as Jin Shanyao rambled on and on to a mound of earth, even setting out wine and food in front of it. He gritted his teeth in anger. Shameless madman, he thought, "He's hoping I'll die."
You think you can please yourself with this? Pshaw... Dream on.
Xie Chao, furious, hid even further into the shadows. His Jin Shanyao as if he'd noticed something, and a smirk played on his lips. "Since you don't want to see me, I'll go wander off somewhere else."
After saying that, she headed towards the deep mountains to dig for medicinal herbs... Ganoderma lucidum, ginseng, monkey head mushroom, astragalus, licorice, motherwort... Anzhi Hall's medicinal herbs were almost used up and needed to be replenished.
Xie Chao Jin Shanyao leave and reluctantly came out. He glanced at the food in the food box and couldn't help but sniff the air.
She glanced at the jujubes again, then finally fixed her gaze on the storybooks: "Your Highness, please stop! I can't take it anymore!", "Young Master, I didn't mean to hurt you!", and "The Hunter's Beautiful Wife, Delicate and Soft, Easy to Push Over."
Xie Chao's ear tips turned slightly red, and his heart was pounding uncontrollably.
"What a jumble of books these are!" he thought disdainfully, picking through the books until he finally spotted a normal one. He picked it up, flipped through a couple of pages, and then slammed it down.
It was as if he had encountered something filthy; he was filled with shame and indignation.
He was born with the beautiful Lingzhi mushroom, and had never come into contact with such filth. He never imagined that there would be such a despicable deity as Jin Shanyao in the Heavenly Court.
Jin Shanyao Yao, unaware of Xie Chao's thoughts, was happily digging out a century-old ginseng. She used her Spiritual Power to wrap the ginseng root and put it into her handbag.
He released his Spiritual Power to carefully sense the herbs and found that Xie Chao hadn't come to stop him. A smile involuntarily appeared on his lips as he hummed a little tune and continued digging for herbs. That's how people's bottom lines are broken little by little.
She firmly believed that delicious food and storybooks would surely win Xie Chao's heart.
As long as he agrees to plant herbs, hahaha... Xie Chao will become her long-term worker. Just thinking about Xie Chao scattering grass seeds all over the mountain for her, Jin Shanyao couldn't help but laugh out loud.
A tree... should dream of becoming a tree. Once it has its own hilltop, it should hire a deity to cultivate the land for it, spreading out a vast expanse, spreading out an entire hilltop.
Wow... her clever little brain is completely filled with the knowledge from reading.
Xie Chao sat on the crooked tree, staring at the old ox. He felt the Spiritual Power fluctuations from the Jin Shanyao on his cheek and his ears turned red with unease. Just as he was thinking about how to politely refuse when the Jin Shanyao back,
Then the old ox let out a moo and swayed down the mountain. Was it really gone? Xie Chao was momentarily stunned, his gaze passing through the forest and following the Jin Shanyao's Spiritual Power.
Seeing her bundle the herbs into two balls, carrying one in each hand and happily walking down the mountain, Xie Chao felt inexplicably annoyed. He looked at the food that he had preserved with his Spiritual Power.
She snorted and turned her face away. Mushrooms and trees wouldn't end well. Even if she planted herbs all over Hat Mountain, she wouldn't be able to get her.