Thank God you don’t cause trouble

Yun Ruo had a high fever for two days before it finally broke.

She was finally able to get out of bed and move around.

The first thing she did was to take the Big Yellow dog out for a walk, enjoying the feeling of being able to run and jump after lying down for so many days.

She hadn’t been sick much since she was a child, so this was the first time she’d experienced this.

She was scolded by Lin Wang when she came back, and ordered to go back to her room to rest and wait for her medicine.

Bai Liye had been repairing the sect’s formations these past few days, as well as the flowers and plants that had been trampled into a mess by the Spirit-Devouring Beasts.

The poultry were all fine, as the Spirit-Devouring Beasts weren’t interested in things without spiritual power.

All the dead Spirit-Devouring Beasts were taken care of by Lin Wang.

A row of furs was drying behind the small courtyard, which he planned to use to make clothes for the winter.

The bones and blood could be used as medicine and to make spiritual artifacts.

Only then did Yun Ruo learn that they hadn’t sold the previous Spirit-Devouring Beast either, but had used it all up.

Yun Ruo was very curious about how they had used it, but it had all been done by the time she woke up.

However, there was an empty space on the shelves in Bai Liye’s room, with several semi-finished utensils, snow-white in color, extremely light in the hand, and with open interiors that could store spiritual power, making them excellent materials for spiritual artifacts.

Yun Ruo held them and played with them for a long time.

Bai Liye came in to deliver medicine, and said casually, “Those are made from the Spirit-Devouring Beast’s skull. Do you like them?”

She almost spat out the medicine, but bravely resisted, looking at the beautiful snow-white utensils in her hand, unable to believe that they were the skull bones of the Spirit-Devouring Beast.

Bai Liye picked up a piece: “The bones of the Spirit-Devouring Beast are light. If you like, I can make you another chick to play with, one that can fly.”

Yun Ruo: “…” Why is he so enthusiastic about giving me chickens?

After a while, Lin Wang called out from outside that dinner was ready.

Bai Liye directly sat down at the table: “I’m making spiritual artifacts, I’m not eating.”

Yun Ruo also sat down: “I just drank medicine, I’m not hungry yet, I’m not eating either.”

Five seconds later, the door to Bai Liye’s room was kicked open, and Lin Wang stood at the door, holding a large spatula: “Do you have any objections to the food I make? I have to work, cook, and make medicine for you one by one. Am I having an easy time?”

Bai Liye expressed his disagreement: “I’m also working.”

Lin Wang sneered: “You almost fed the chickens to death on the first day you worked. Second White ran out because it wasn’t closed tightly and chased Big Yellow for two lǐ. You even burned the medicine when you were making it. You’re working? I should thank the heavens if you’re not adding to the trouble.”

(TL note: li is a unit of distance (the Chinese mile))

Bai Liye: “…”

“And you,” Lin Wang turned to Yun Ruo after shutting Bai Liye up.

“Just laugh if you want to laugh, do you think you can secretly laugh and Ah Ye won’t know you’re making fun of him? You were already sick from too much consumption, how can you get better if you don’t eat well?”

Yun Ruo couldn’t laugh anymore, and obediently went out to eat with Bai Liye.

The grape trellis had been repaired, and half of the grapevines had been salvaged, covering half of the frame with lush greenery.

The small table was set with three dishes and a soup, with very bright colors.

Red radish soup, purplish-black fried eggplant, black medicinal stewed meat, blue scrambled eggs, and the only thing that looked normal was a plate of steamed buns that were bought.

I really hope Jiang Beishan gets well soon.

Although the food he made also tasted average, at least it was edible.

Lin Wang was good at making medicine and treating illnesses, but his cooking was like poisoning, not only looking scary, but also tasting scary.

“Come, come, try a new way to eat it. I added medicinal herbs to this egg to help recover your body, and the color is quite pretty,” Lin Wang enthusiastically broke open a steamed bun, and put a chopstick of scrambled eggs and fried eggplant in the middle, handing it to Bai Liye.

Bai Liye took a bite of the plain steamed bun in his hand, and was very concerned about Yun Ruo: “Give it to Yun Ruo, let her eat more to nourish herself.”

Yun Ruo glared at him angrily, and went to take the steamed bun that Lin Wang was feeding her with a tragic expression like a brave warrior breaking his arm, but someone took the terrible steamed bun before she could.

Ji Yueci sat down, ate a bite of the steamed bun, and Lin Wang asked her expectantly, “How is it, how is it?”

“It’s terribly bad,” Ji Yueci swallowed the steamed bun in her mouth.

“Can you hurry up and heal Jiang Beishan? Do I only have two options now, to be poisoned to death or to starve to death? Even Big Yellow wouldn’t eat this stuff.”

This was the first time Yun Ruo had heard Ji Yueci say such a long string of words, and realized that she was so venomous.

Lin Wang was hit hard, and covered his chest, pretending to be injured and shedding tears in the wind.

Ji Yueci ate the steamed bun in her hand bite by bite.

Even though she said it was very difficult to eat, she ate it expressionlessly, making it difficult to judge how difficult it was to eat.

After eating, she looked at the red radish soup, and put the spoon back in the soup, poured a bowl of plain water, and drank it before looking at Bai Liye: “You called me out to eat, what’s the matter?”

Bai Liye had just eaten a bite of the medicinal stewed meat, and the expression on his face was indescribable.

“Let Yun Ruo live with you in one room,” he took the teapot in Ji Yueci’s hand and poured himself a bowl of water.

“Your room is big.”

Yun Ruo was stunned: “Why?”

Bai Liye took a sip of water, washing away the bitter taste in his mouth, and said lazily: “I have no space for my things in my room, so I have to find a room to put them. Your room is the best, it’s convenient to put shelves.”

“Is that so?” Yun Ruo didn’t have any objections, but was a little happy.

She didn’t dare to sleep in that room at night, it was too narrow.

After the sky darkened, the night shrouded her, always reminding her of the days when she was trapped in the jade coffin.

But she thought that Ji Yueci wouldn’t agree.

She used to eat alone in her room, and she shouldn’t like to be in contact with others, let alone live together in close proximity.

“Okay,” Ji Yueci said.

“Then I’m going back.”

After she finished speaking, she left her seat, coming and going very decisively.

After eating, Yun Ruo went back to her room to move things.

She didn’t have much to move.

A sleeping mat, a drinking cup, and the package and spirit stone money bag that Hu Yong left her.

Oh, and the jade chick that Bai Liye gave her.

Ji Yueci’s room was indeed very large, more than enough for two people to live in.

When Yun Ruo went, she had already cleaned up another bed.

Her own bed was in the south, and Yun Ruo’s was in the north, at the two ends of a diagonal, showing that she really didn’t like close contact with people.

But she was willing to let me live with her.

Yun Ruo was a little happy.

In the Xuan Yang Sect, she was almost always with her three senior brothers, and she didn’t have many opportunities to contact other people, let alone girls.

When she was in North State City, the store where she worked was an embroidery shop.

There were many girls, but she did the logistics work, and most of the time she was running errands to buy things and deliver goods, and didn’t have much time to make friends.

Then she arrived at the Xuan Yang Sect.

She really wanted to make a good friend, but it also had to be on the basis that the other person was willing.

Ji Yueci didn’t like to be in contact with people, so she wouldn’t stick to her and bother her.

They lived together for a few days, and the two of them hardly spoke.

Mainly, Ji Yueci didn’t like to talk.

She was very quiet, and could go from morning to night without saying a word.

Most of the time, she sat by the window reading, and sometimes she played with the utensils in her room, which obviously came from Bai Liye.

At first, Yun Ruo didn’t know what she was doing, but later she found out that she was making wine.

She didn’t make much each time, just a small jar, busying herself for several days, and then asked Jiang Beishan to move it.

Jiang Beishan’s injuries had almost healed, but his leg was still clamped with a wooden board.

After all, it takes a hundred days to heal from a bone injury, but he couldn’t stay idle.

When he could move, he started hopping around the courtyard on one leg, feeding the chickens and geese, and also pulling out the seedlings that Bai Liye had taken care of and killed in the backyard and planting new ones.

He also took back the job of being the chef.

Everyone almost cried with emotion when they ate the unremarkable food made by Jiang Beishan again.

Except for Lin Wang, who insisted that the dishes he made were more nutritious.

Now that Yun Ruo lived with Ji Yueci, she took the initiative to take on the job of delivering food to her roommate.

When she came back after delivering the food, the other three hadn’t started eating, and were waiting for her to eat together.

Jiang Beishan eagerly served her a bowl of soup: “Sister Yun Ruo, I stewed chicken soup today, drink more.”

Yun Ruo took it: “You should drink more.”

Jiang Beishan nodded immediately: “Yes, yes, I should also drink more. What do you want to eat tomorrow? Senior Brother Lin Wang is going down the mountain tomorrow morning, so he can buy it and bring it back.”

This kid was very nice to Yun Ruo now, so nice that Yun Ruo suspected that he wasn’t the same Jiang Beishan who had been guarding against her like a thief before.

“There’s nothing I want to eat,” Yun Ruo smiled.

“The food is very good every day.”

Jiang Beishan oh-ed and pursed his lips.

Lin Wang knocked on his head: “I’m the one who’s going down the mountain to buy things, why don’t you ask me what I want to eat? What about your Senior Brother Bai Liye? Don’t you love him anymore?”

“Then what do you senior brothers want to eat?” Jiang Beishan asked.

“Heh,” Lin Wang picked up his bowl and filled it with chicken soup in a haughty manner.

“I won’t buy what I want to eat myself. Is it your turn to ask?”

Jiang Beishan was confused: “Then how should I ask?”

Bai Liye solved the confusion for him: “Your Senior Brother Lin Wang means that you shouldn’t just ask once. Some people treat themselves as guests, and are more polite. You need to be more enthusiastic.”

Jiang Beishan’s “oh” this time was full of realization.

He turned to Yun Ruo: “Sister Yun Ruo, you’re my savior, don’t be polite with me. What do you want to eat, you say it, I’ll definitely make it for you! Even if I don’t know how to make it, I can learn it, I have a strong ability to learn.”

A certain someone who was very polite: “…” He did indeed have a strong ability to learn, and had already learned her all-purpose interview skills.

Yun Ruo looked at Bai Liye.

He was eating leisurely, not making eye contact with her at all.

Lin Wang was watching the fun with a smile, and also helping Jiang Beishan: “Order, Yun Ruo, otherwise this kid will pester you all day today until he gets a result.”

Since things had been said to this point, Yun Ruo had no choice but to order a few dishes without being polite, plus a braised pig’s trotter.

“Okay, I’ll make them all,” Jiang Beishan instructed Lin Wang.

“Senior Brother, you remember to buy big pig trotters.”

“I know, I’ll just buy a few more, enough to eat,” Lin Wang looked at Yun Ruo amusingly.

“A girl is so beautiful and fair, why does she like to chew on pig trotters? Tsk, tsk.”

Yun Ruo said seriously: “There’s a saying in my hometown, eat what you need to replenish.”

Bai Liye understood in a second: “Beishan can eat it to replenish his legs.”

Jiang Beishan looked at Yun Ruo in shock: “Sister Yun Ruo, you’re doing it for me…”

“No, don’t cry,” Yun Ruo quickly stuffed a steamed bun in his mouth.

Jiang Beishan wū wū-ed twice, dropped a tear, raised his sleeve and wiped it away, and put a few pieces of meat in Yun Ruo’s bowl: “You like to eat meat, eat more.”

Yun Ruo was helpless.

How could such a good young man be so fond of crying?

She didn’t want to make anyone cry while they were eating well.

She felt very guilty, and only used the hometown saying to tease him!

Yun Ruo looked at Bai Liye for help, indicating that he should coax his junior brother.

Bai Liye raised his hand and knocked on the table in front of Lin Wang: “Buy some pig brains too.”

Lin Wang: “Why?”

“Also to replenish Beishan’s brain.”

Jiang Beishan: “?”