A Few More

The old woman carried the cabbage, and when she returned home, she could already see her two sons returning from gathering firewood at the door.

Both sons were teenagers, thin and weak, probably from years of hard work, their hands were cracked and bleeding.

The two of them stood anxiously at the door, waiting for their mother to return.

When he saw his mother approaching from afar, carrying a burlap sack, his face lit up with joy, and he took off running towards her.

"Mother!"

The two sons looked at their mother with great joy.

When he saw the large cabbage in his mother's hand, his mouth watered.

"Mother, where did this cabbage come from?"

The eldest son looked at the cabbage in his mother's hand and immediately swallowed hard.

He had stared blankly at the cabbages in the vegetable garden before, and had thought about tasting them countless times.

It's one thing to think about it, but it's another to actually do it.

His mother had taught them many times that the current magistrate was a good official, and that if it weren't for him, they would have starved to death long ago.

The cabbages in these fields belong to the county magistrate; they are absolutely forbidden to be stolen.

Thinking of the fine rice their mother brought home every day, the two half-grown sons naturally dared not do anything sneaky.

"This was given to you by the county magistrate. When you grow up, you must always remember the county magistrate's life-saving grace, understand?"

The woman, whose face looked somewhat weathered, gently patted the heads of her two children and said softly.

Upon hearing this, the two children immediately nodded repeatedly.

Ever since they arrived here, they have been instilled with the idea that the magistrate is a great man.

Now, this idea is firmly held.

Seeing that the two children listened attentively, the woman immediately went inside the house, fetched a basin of water, and poured it into the pot.

While starting a fire to cook, they carefully peeled the cabbages.

The tender white cabbage leaves, once peeled open, revealed even more tender white cabbage leaves inside.

Once you get to the heart of the cabbage, it becomes even more appealing.

The two children stared wide-eyed at what they saw.

Soon, all the vegetable leaves were peeled off, washed, and some were put into a pot and boiled with boiling water.

There were no seasonings; it was just put into boiling water and cooked.

Once the rice is cooked, add a few cabbage leaves, and a hearty dinner is ready.

Unlike the tree leaves and bark I used to eat, these vegetable leaves are genuinely sweet, crisp, and delicious.

The two children had never eaten cabbage since they were little. Although it was cooked without any seasoning, it was a delicacy to them.

As evening fell, the families ate their meals as if it were New Year's Day.

"Huh, why are there a few more koi fish now?"

It was already dark when Fang Weiyan arrived at the fish pond, thinking of taking the koi back to the Daoist temple to give the coins in the wishing well a bit of good luck.

Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the fishpond, he saw several koi carp.

The more familiar Silver Scale and fiery red koi are both in this fishpond.

Silver Scale flicked its tail, appearing somewhat cheerful.

Upon hearing this, he quickly surfaced and said, "My lord, these are my elder brothers and younger brothers. I brought them here hoping to bring you some good fortune."

Although Silver Scale is usually very timid, he is not stupid.

He spoke directly to Fang Weiyan, saying, "My lord, this demon sees something of value in you, so I've brought my brothers and sisters here to plot against you."

If this gets out, it might offend the other person.

Upon hearing this, Fang Weiyan looked at the koi carp in front of him and understood perfectly.

Saying they'd add some luck to him is just so he can face Human Tribulation or something.

Only a fool would believe that someone would come and give him good fortune for no reason.

However, as long as these koi don't do anything to harm him, there isn't a significant difference between collecting two and collecting more.

Thinking of this, Fang Weiyan waved to the koi fish.

The koi then scurried into the bucket next to them.

Fang Weiyan carried the bucket of water and went straight back to Cloud-Stilling Temple.

When Fang Weiyan arrived at the wishing well with his bucket, the koi carp in the bucket immediately jumped into the wishing well.

A splashing sound came from the pool, and then several koi fish darted back and forth on the coins in the wishing well, as if they were fighting for food.

After a while, all the koi were revived. Fang Weiyan put them back in the bucket and took them back to Cloud-Stilling Temple.

Then the koi returned to the pond.

Upon seeing this, Fang Weiyan took out three coins from his pocket and threw them into the fishpond.

With a splash, the coin fell directly into the fish pond, and the three koi that had just arrived obediently stepped forward and caught the dropped coin.

Seeing this, Fang Weiyan was extremely satisfied and then turned and left.

Now that he has five koi fish, who knows how much good fortune they will bring him?

Fang Weiyan muttered to himself for a moment, then returned to his study and continued reading the books he had brought.

Lately, he has increasingly felt that his body is different.

My skin has become noticeably smoother.

This pleased Fang Weiyan greatly.

There are no other cultivation methods at the moment, so let's just treat this as cultivation.

After Fang Weiyan left, the koi in the pond started arguing.

"See? See? I told you! This person has a great fortuitous opportunity for our cultivation! As long as we follow him, at the very least, we can guarantee that our tribulations will be much easier in the future!"

The place they were just taken to can bring them a lot of merit, without having to bear the burden of karma.

With these merits accumulated, the power of future tribulations will definitely be greatly reduced.

They had known long ago that if they could make more sacrifices and accumulate more merit, they could reduce the power of the heavenly tribulation.

However, merit is not so easy to accumulate. The most common way is to help the Human Race and help them overcome some calamities.

The problem is that helping them will also leave behind some karmic consequences. If the person who helped them does something bad later, that karmic force will also be attributed to them.

In this way, they will be more easily dealt with when the heavenly tribulation arrives.

Once the power of cause and effect becomes extremely profound, it can easily attract Karmic Fire Heavenly Tribulation.

They are like lucky koi fish, able to offset these karmic consequences with their own good fortune. However, in doing so, their good fortune will continue to diminish until they have no good fortune left.

But if a koi fish loses its luck, it will be in great danger.