Chapter 47: I Understand

Late at night.

Drizzling rain.

A figure leapt over the wall from outside and jumped into the backyard of the Xia residence.

"Master, you are back, did everything go smoothly?" Under the eaves, Liu Qiaolian, who was reading the ancient book of "Formation Arrays" by the lamp, hurriedly put down the scroll and stood up to welcome him.

"Hehe, with Master out, everything naturally went smoothly." Xia Daoming smiled, took off his bamboo hat, handed it to Liu Qiaolian, and took off the bundle slung across his shoulder.

"Go inside, Master will show you something good." Xia Daoming carried the bundle and smiled mysteriously.

"Hmm!" Liu Qiaolian hung up the bamboo hat, carefully put away the ancient book, and followed Xia Daoming into the room.

Under the lamp, Xia Daoming opened the bundle.

Immediately, the room's temperature seemed to drop all at once, and a cluster of water mist quickly gathered on each Ice Purple Shouwu.

"So many Ice Purple Shouwu! This, this one is almost human-shaped!" Liu Qiaolian was so surprised that her eyeballs almost popped out.

"Hehe, there were even more, but I ate two on the way. This human-shaped purple Shouwu is estimated to be four or five hundred years old. You keep it well, and wait until my cultivation improves a bit more before eating it slowly." Xia Daoming laughed proudly.

Walking and stopping along the way, Xia Daoming naturally didn't stop taking tonics, eating a hundred-year-old Ice Purple Shouwu every three to five days, which made Liang Jingtang's scalp tingle.

It was just that before entering the city, worried about being discovered by the Xu family, Xia Daoming specifically hid the Ice Purple Shouwu in a secret place outside the city.

After the Xu family investigated them and had no doubts, Xia Daoming then went out of the city overnight to retrieve the bundle.

"Four or five hundred years old!" Liu Qiaolian covered her cherry mouth in surprise.

Last time she followed Xia Daoming to the southeast, Liu Qiaolian knew very well that a hundred-year-old purple Shouwu cost her master five thousand taels.

This four or five hundred-year-old one, she didn't dare to imagine how much money it would be.

"There are also a few thirty or fifty-year-old ones here. With your foundation, as long as you eat a little every day, you should be able to withstand the medicinal power." Xia Daoming said.

"Thank you, Master." Liu Qiaolian bowed to thank him, then turned and left.

Watching Liu Qiaolian return quickly, bending over to pour hot water into the wooden bathing barrel, the steam rising, making her fair face flushed, her hair hanging with crystal clear water droplets, indescribably charming and moving, Xia Daoming felt a fire in his heart.

"Lian'er's gratitude is very sincere!"

Soon, a solo bath became a mandarin duck bath.

The next day.

Qing Shi Street, Jingxin Tea House, second-floor private room.

Outside the window, it was still drizzling.

Seeing Xia Daoming push the door and enter, Ji Wenyue "hummed", turned her head away, and gave him a graceful and slender back.

"Eh, what's wrong with this girl today? She doesn't treat me like this usually! Could it be that it's been drizzling for days, and it just happens to be her period, making her irritable?"

Xia Daoming was slightly stunned upon seeing this, and he had already stepped forward.

As a man from another world, his physiological hygiene knowledge was still very solid.

He also understood the complex and subtle mood of women during these bleeding days better than the men in this world.

"What's wrong, are you not feeling well? Did your period come? Then don't drink tea, I will ask the shopkeeper to get some brown sugar ginger water for you to drink." Xia Daoming stepped forward and said gently and considerately.

He understood this aspect!

Ji Wenyue hadn't heard the news of Xia Daoming's safe return for those days, and she was worried sick, unable to eat or sleep.

Now that she truly saw him appear in front of her safe and sound, a group of inexplicable fire rose in her heart, and she even wanted to cry a little, which was why she turned away and ignored him.

She thought Xia Daoming would understand her feelings.

As it turned out, Xia Daoming came up with a series of caring words, talking about periods and brown sugar ginger water, which left Ji Wenyue confused, her small mouth open, her face full of bewilderment.

"Big Brother understands, women always have those few days every month. These few days, you must pay attention to keeping warm, don't be tired or hardworking, don't drink strong tea.

Hmm, you must also keep your mood happy. If you are unhappy, it doesn't matter if you scold Big Brother a few times. Today, I will definitely not fight back or scold back, as long as you are happy." Xia Daoming looked at Ji Wenyue's bewildered expression and continued to say gently and considerately.

When he said this, he was secretly a little proud in his heart.

This girl must be moved!

Hehe, the men in this world, where is there anyone who understands the troubles of women's periods better than me, Xia Ye!

"Big Brother, what are you saying!" Ji Wenyue finally heard a bit of the flavor, and couldn't help but blush, stamping her feet repeatedly.

This matter, for women, was something they were ashamed to speak of, and even when it first came, they didn't dare to tell their own mothers.

As it turned out, this Xia Daoming was actually nagging about the matter of the period like chatting about daily life.

"Don't be shy, you are eighteen years old, it's very normal to have your period!"

"What is a period?"

"Cough, cough, I mean your period!"

"Big Brother, you, you, I won't talk to you anymore!" Ji Wenyue was finally so ashamed and annoyed that she wanted to shake off her hand and leave.

Looking at Ji Wenyue who was so ashamed and annoyed that she wanted to leave, Xia Daoming was speechless.

Thinking back to the past, when his first love had her period and it was inconvenient to go downstairs, he was the one who went to the supermarket to help pick out sanitary napkins. The cashier was a girl, and the look she gave him was full of appreciation and envy!

Alas, the thinking in this world is still too feudal and backward!

I am too advanced!

"Big Brother really just cares about you, there is no other meaning!" Xia Daoming sighed in his heart and had already reached out to grab Ji Wenyue's arm.

Her arm being grabbed by a man, Ji Wenyue's delicate body couldn't help but tremble slightly, her heart racing like a little deer.

"Anyway, I am a girl, Big Brother should pay attention to his speech in the future!" Ji Wenyue pulled her hand out calmly, raised her hand to smooth her hair, and said with a slightly red face.

"Fine! However, what I said just now is serious, girls should pay attention to their periods." Xia Daoming said seriously.

"I know!" Ji Wenyue rolled her eyes at Xia Daoming helplessly.

If it were another man who dared to say this to her, she estimated she could have directly stabbed him to death with a sword.

But changing to this man in front of her, apart from being ashamed and annoyed, she was really warmed deep in her heart!

"You know it! Then you wait a moment, I will be right back." Xia Daoming said and pushed the door out.

When he returned, he actually brought back a pot of steaming brown sugar ginger water.

"Big Brother Xia, you... I didn't say I had that, that!" Seeing Xia Daoming go out specifically, it was actually to get brown sugar ginger water, Ji Wenyue was both moved and ashamed.

"If you didn't have that, then when I walked in just now, why did you turn your head and ignore me, and give me a cold look?" Xia Daoming was slightly stunned.

"Who told you to go to the Cangmang Mountains with Master Liang without telling me! Do you know that the Cangmang Mountains are very dangerous?

Master Liang has so many disciples, and you have only been apprenticed to him for less than a year, why did you have to go? Do you really think you are very powerful! If you didn't come back, I, I..."

Ji Wenyue became more and more emotional as she spoke, her chest heaving, tears rolling in her eye sockets.

"Alright, alright, it's my fault, I should have told you." Xia Daoming only then understood, and felt moved in his heart.

"It's not about telling me, it's that you shouldn't have gone!" Ji Wenyue wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and said.

"Yes, yes, you are right, I will change!" Xia Daoming nodded repeatedly.

At this time, Ji Wenyue was emotional, so he definitely had to follow her wishes.

Seeing that the Xia Big Brother, who had always been riding on her head and acting as a blessing, had an unusually good attitude today, Ji Wenyue felt a bit uneasy instead.

"Big Brother Xia, I was just worried about you, so my words were a bit like that, you won't be angry, right!" Ji Wenyue said cautiously.

"Haha, with a beauty worrying about me, what do I have to be angry about." Xia Daoming laughed.

"That's good, Wenyue will pour tea for Big Brother!" Ji Wenyue's pretty face blushed slightly, and she began to pour tea.

Outside the window, the drizzle was continuous, inside the room, a lone man and a woman, sitting opposite each other drinking, the atmosphere was ambiguous.

In the following days, the situation in Li Cheng became increasingly tense and chaotic.

The Xu family Elder Xu Zhiji died in the Cangmang Mountains, and the five factions that followed Xu Zhiji, except for the Hidden Dragon Martial Hall, also suffered heavy losses, and two factions were completely wiped out, with no one surviving.

Xu Shixiong's group had a relatively better situation, but also lost many men.

This not only led to the weakening of the Xu family's strength and a heavy blow to their prestige, but also caused those factions that suffered heavy losses to hold hatred in their hearts toward the Xu family, and some factions even completely turned to the three major factions of the Lin family, Ding family, and Badao Sect.

With the rise and fall of each other, the conflicts between the Xu family and the alliance of the three major factions became more and more frequent.

The people involved ranged from bottom-level gangs at first, gradually involving some factions with Great Martial Masters sitting in town.

The news that the great general Yan Yanfeng under the Lingzhou King was leading troops to besiege the state city and the battle was tragic also gradually spread to Li Cheng, making Li Cheng even more panic-stricken, living in fear day and night. ===== CHAPTER 48 =====