Chapter 18: Returning to Youran to See Winter Wheat

Guyang City had been very lively recently, with many outsiders gathering here, just because the Yuanqing Sect had opened its mountain gates wide to recruit disciples.

The Yuanqing Sect had a history of a thousand years, and during the ancient Demon-Slaying Era, it had served as a vanguard, contributing valuable combat power to the war.

More than ten years ago, the sect suffered heavy damage due to external forces, and the former Sect Leader went missing. After his master, Wuwei Laozu, came out of the mountains to quell the trouble, he passed the position of Sect Leader to his grand-disciple, the former Head Disciple, and bestowed upon him the title Shangqing. It was thought that the Yuanqing Sect would decline from then on, but unexpectedly, under the leadership of Shangqing Zhenren, it gradually turned around.

Another reason for the liveliness was that the Guyang City Lord had posted notices everywhere to treat his wife's illness.

First of all, this Guyang City was famous far and wide; besides the Yuanqing Sect, another reason was its status as a country within a country.

The Guyang City Lord came from the royal family, and in his youth, he was a dashing and talented person. It is rumored that the current throne should have been inherited by the City Lord, but for some reason, he yielded it to his elder half-brother, the current Emperor.

After the Emperor ascended the throne, he was moved by their brotherly love and specially granted him the title of City Lord, to be inherited for generations.

At the city gate, Lingxiang looked at the two large notices and couldn't help but feel happy: it was truly someone sending a pillow when she was sleepy, and someone sending firewood when it was cold. She immediately tore down the medical notice.

The door of Youran Abode was wide open. Long Qi thought it had been robbed and hurriedly ran in to check, but the room was clean and tidy, as if it had just been cleaned.

Could it be that this thief had a special hobby of helping people clean?

He scratched his head and stepped into the backyard, only to see a woman in blue watering spirit plants.

She had hair like a waterfall, willow eyebrows and apricot eyes, a delicate nose and thin lips, fair skin and a youthful face, dressed like a lady of a noble family.

The woman also saw Long Qi, seeing him carrying bags and looking silly.

No wonder there were men's things in the courtyard. Lingxiang hadn't been seen for many days, and at such a young age, she had actually hooked up with a man, and a silly fool at that.

"Who... who are you? Why are you trespassing in someone else's courtyard?" Long Qi questioned.

Trespassing in someone else's courtyard? Interesting, no one had ever said that to her before.

"Speaking of which, some of this courtyard belongs to this young lady. Who are you? How dare you bite the owner?" The woman patted the mud off her hands, stood up and asked back.

What? How come Lingxiang had never mentioned this?

Just as Long Qi didn't know how to reply, Lingxiang entered from outside. Seeing the woman, she jumped forward.

"Maidong! You're here today, long time no see!" As she spoke, she took the blue-clad woman's hand.

"You dead girl, you went out to mess around, left this mess to me, and even hooked up with a lover and brought him back. Truly hateful!" Maidong pretended to be angry and shook off Lingxiang's hand.

"Look at what you're saying, didn't you and I run this together? Why is it called leaving it to you? Besides, I went to do serious business, I didn't mess around. Look, didn't I bring you a gift back." Lingxiang said, dragging Long Qi to her side, took out a brocade box from the package and opened it; it was actually various exquisite pastries.

The pastries were complex in pattern and tempting in color, all of which Maidong had never seen before.

If you had to say the two things she loved most in her life, one was money, and the other was eating.

When she was first picked up by her master, among the whole room of disciples, she was the one who could eat the most. Even the male disciples didn't eat as much as her. It just so happened that her master only had her as a female disciple, and pampered her like his own daughter, every time he returned from his travels, he would always bring many snacks for her.

Those senior brothers also liked this only junior sister, and each of them treated her like their own sister.

It was not without reason that Maidong was so well-liked; she was cute in appearance, extremely sensible, and would not be arrogant because of the pampering from her master and senior brothers, but instead would think for them everywhere.

If you ask who her master was, her master was the Punishment Elder of the Yuanqing Sect, Fuyin Zhenren.

Although this Fuyin Zhenren was in charge of punishment for the Yuanqing Sect, he was kind and tolerant, and talking to him always made people feel like they were bathed in a spring breeze.

"Nothing is given without a reason, if not a traitor, then a thief." Maidong hugged the brocade box, picked up a small pastry and stuffed it into her mouth. Don't say, the taste was delicate, sweet and pleasant, very delicious. "Speak, what is it again?"

"Hey~ look at what you're saying, based on our relationship, would I be such a scheming person?" Lingxiang said this, but took out the medical notice she had just torn down at the city gate from her sleeve.

Long Qi rolled his eyes and muttered in his heart: Only more so.

"A reward of ten thousand taels!!" Maidong exclaimed, but she hadn't read a single word of the content above.

Even if she didn't see Maidong today, Lingxiang would have gone to find her. If you ask why, it was because Maidong's medical skills were all inherited from Fuyin, and compared to Lingxiang, she didn't know how much more brilliant she was.

Those who practice cultivation all know some medical principles to some extent. The Incantation Technique is not entirely deceptive, it's just that its reputation was ruined by some unscrupulous people.

And Fuyin came from a medical family. Before entering the Dao, his medical skills were already famous, but after experiencing some things and seeing through the red dust, he entered the Daoist sect, but he never forgot his identity as a healer.

Who hasn't had a past?

The guard came to report that two young ladies were holding a medical notice and wanted to come to treat the wife. When Zhao, the head steward, went out to look, he saw two young girls squatting by the stone lion at the door, not knowing what they were teasing.

In his heart, he greeted the guard's genealogy: truly not using his brain, reporting all kinds of people to him. The City Lord's wife was seriously ill and in a coma, the City Lord had no heart for external affairs, and the whole family's affairs had to be handled by him. Could these wine bags and rice sacks not save him some worry? People like this, who looked like they were cheating for food and drink under the guise of treating the wife, should be beaten out. Why bother him?

"Cough cough!" The steward pretended to cough twice. "Are you two healers here to see the wife?"

The dismissive tone, coupled with the posture of his nostrils facing the sky, made Maidong frown.

"You are the City Lord's steward, right?" Lingxiang stood up and said, pretending to flatter: "I'm so sorry, we two are not healers, sorry to have troubled you to come out."

When Zhao, the head steward, heard this, he was immediately furious: "If you are not healers, why are you making trouble here?! As women, unmarried, not to mention showing your faces, you dare to come to the City Lord's Mansion to cheat! Come! Fork these two out to the street!"

The gate guards were about to drive them away, when Maidong immediately shouted: "Who dares to touch people from the Yuanqing Sect!"

This shout used two parts of internal energy, the voice was loud, and it actually stunned the steward and the guards.

Yuanqing Sect? The steward suddenly reacted.

"Oh my! Didn't we explain just now?" Lingxiang smiled with narrowed eyes: "This is the closed-door disciple of the Yuanqing Sect's Punishment Elder, Fuyin Zhenren, and I am the manager of Youran Abode."

When Zhao, the head steward, heard this, he was shocked, his eyes as big as copper bells.

The City Lord had personally gone to the Yuanqing Sect to visit Fuyin, but the mountain gate was not opened, and he really couldn't see him. These past few days, he wanted to go and invite him again, but he didn't expect this closed-door disciple to come to the door, and who in Guyang City didn't know the great name of Youran Abode? It's just...

"How to prove that you are a disciple of Fuyin?" The City Lord and his wife were deeply in love, and he couldn't be careless. The two little girls in front of him really didn't look like people who were well-versed in medical Dao.

"This is impossible to prove, but..." Lingxiang glanced at Maidong, and the latter took a waist token from her waist and threw it over.

"The name of the Yuanqing Sect is not something anyone can use."

The steward caught the waist token, but didn't prevent a stagger: this token was as heavy as a sinking stone and as cold as mysterious ice.

It was actually the Yuanqing Sect! ===== CHAPTER 19 =====