Chapter 482: Krypton Gold Palace Intrigue System (17)

Xie Yang endured the heartache and spent another large sum of points to add several Interstellar Mining Robots to mine for her.

The Mining Robots not only mine, but can also directly process the excavated ore into gold ingots and jade pebbles.

This actually saved her quite a bit of storage space.

But even so, she had already bought a third Cargo Flying Vehicle, yet it still couldn't hold everything, so she had to keep buying!

The Main System watched the small treasury become full again and cackled with joy, so it stopped minding the Host's behavior of exploiting loopholes.

As for the Host wanting to take the supplies here to the next plane, the plane after that... it just turned a blind eye and pretended to be ignorant.

Who told it to be dragged onto the pirate ship by the Host and get a taste of the sweetness!

Xie Yang was busy and having a great time.

While the robots were mining, she would dig for medicinal herbs and pick mushrooms during the day, and practice her technique before rising and before sleep.

She studied the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden Technique she had brought back and discovered that it was a technique originating from the Daoist school, perfectly suited for women to practice.

And at her age, regardless of whether her natural talent for martial arts was exceptional, her body was young and supple, so she learned everything quickly.

The technique had nine levels in total, and practicing to the ninth level meant Great Perfection.

In an open forest, Xie Yang absorbed the essence of the sun and moon, practicing selflessly for a month, only just managing to learn the first level—breath regulation and the circulation of Inner Energy.

At this speed, wouldn't it take a year or even longer to reach the ninth level of Great Perfection?

A bit slow!

If martial arts practitioners heard her complaint, they would surely vomit blood.

This kind of lost, top-tier technique was considered fast if mastered in three to five years; those brilliant martial arts geniuses wouldn't even dare guarantee they could emerge from seclusion in a year. And yet, someone was complaining it was slow?

Xie Yang was just complaining casually; of course, she knew that practicing martial arts was not something that could be achieved overnight.

Being able to pick up a Martial Arts Secret Manual suitable for her to practice in this plane was already very lucky.

One shouldn't be too greedy.

Just like this, every time she found a wild mineral vein, she would set up camp and stay.

Mining, gathering herbs, and practicing martial arts—all three had to be grasped, and all three had to be firm.

Solomon's Seal and Gastrodia from the Southwest, saffron from the West, Astragalus, wolfberry, and Tianshan snow lotus from the Northwest...

She would also fly out of the mountains from time to time to towns where commoners gathered; besides buying food for her three daily meals and daily necessities, she also hoarded quite a few local specialties and took the opportunity to enjoy the local scenery.

Heading north all the way, she experienced the warmth of the Southwest, the wind and sand of the West, and the dry cold of the Northwest in turn.

Another year passed in a carefree manner.

When Xie Yang's Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden Technique reached the fifth level, Xie Jing was about to get married.

The betrothed was the legitimate daughter of Governor Feng's family.

At first, Xie San and his wife were afraid that the daughter-in-law's background was too high and their own family couldn't handle it, so they didn't really want to form this alliance.

It was only when Madam Feng invited Madam Xie San to a temple to pay respects to Buddha that she said in person that the reason they rushed to finalize the marriage before Master Feng left Peking University was to avoid the year-end selection of imperial concubines.

To avoid the Emperor's suspicion, the matchmaking was all done in secret.

In this way, it was hard to refuse again.

Thus, they arranged for the two children to meet when they had time; they didn't find each other repulsive and even had a good impression of one another, so the Xie Family sent a matchmaker to the Feng Family to propose, and the marriage was settled just like that.

The engagement was quite rushed, so much so that Xie Yang, who was in the West mining and practicing, didn't even have time to send gifts home.

Moreover, after the engagement, the woman followed her parents to take up her post in the provinces.

They agreed to return to Peking University in March of the following year to complete the wedding.

In these past six months, Xie Jing, who now had a marriage contract, had matured quite a bit.

But because the official position Master Xie San was scouting for him had yet to materialize, in the eyes of outsiders, he remained idle. They couldn't understand how Miss Feng could have taken a fancy to him.

Regarding this, Master Xie San was also helpless; it wasn't that he was stingy and unwilling to give the middleman enough benefits, but rather—

At first, he couldn't bear to take the good things the Holy Aunt had sent to give away, so he picked a few items from the calligraphy, paintings, and antique vases he had saved up over the years, only to be told they were fakes.

It infuriated him!

Those were treasures he had saved up using his private money by scrimping and saving all these years!

Other masters used their private money to keep mistresses, visit brothels, listen to music, play mahjong, or fight crickets... let alone keeping a mistress, he hadn't even taken a concubine or a maid—he thought it was a waste of Silver.

He spent the money he saved on attending poetry gatherings and buying antiques.

Looking at the room full of calligraphy, paintings, and antique vases, he couldn't have been more satisfied.

In the end, eight out of ten pieces were fakes?

He was so angry he couldn't eat for three days.

He clutched his chest and groaned on the couch.

Because of this delay, the position of scribe in the Ministry of Works that he had originally set his sights on was bought by someone else.

By the time he pulled himself together and picked a few more treasures that definitely wouldn't go wrong to offer as gifts.

But for the time being, there were no ready-made official positions for him to purchase.

It was truly because there were only so many idle positions in Peking University; each radish occupied a hole, and there were no vacancies for the time being.

In this situation, the happiest person was the Eldest Madam, who wore a smile and repeatedly expressed that she wanted Xie Jing to come help her.

This time she had learned her lesson; she didn't mention tinware or wood at all, maintaining an attitude of truly being good for Xie Jing, saying "a nephew must be helped" in every sentence, which made the couple of the Third Branch a bit tempted.

However, with the wedding imminent, the couple felt it was better to prioritize the wedding.

After all, the bride was the legitimate daughter of a second-rank official with real power, so there could be no mistakes.

The Eldest Madam had to suppress her anxiety and wait, not daring to urge them too often, for fear of the Third Branch seeing through her motives.

She mused that it would be fine to have Xie Jing come help her with lending after he got married; by then, she would just have his wife come along too, and the young couple could both come to handle things for her—one helping her lend money, the other helping her collect interest.

It would be worry-free and easy, and even if it were known by others one day, she wouldn't have to bear the responsibility.

The Eldest Madam's abacus was clicking loudly.

It rang so loudly that even Xie Yang, who was far away at the grassland ranch collecting beef and mutton, could hear it.

It seems it is time to return to the Zhenguo Duke Mansion.

She cannot miss her own brother's wedding.

Furthermore, she must stop Xie Jing from helping the first branch, otherwise, he will end up as cannon fodder if he keeps helping them.

If all else fails, she will arrange work for him: gather craftsmen to build Ocean-going Ships, select servants with good swimming skills to train as a navy, and then have her brother lead a team to Nanyang for trade.

As for her cheap father racking his brains to secure an official position for her brother, Xie Yang was naturally aware of it.

The Main System is always on the front lines when it comes to gossiping.

She had originally thought mischievously, wondering when her cheap father would discover that nine out of ten of the roomful of treasures he had painstakingly collected were fakes? She just hadn't expected it to be exposed so quickly.

Learning from the Main System that her cheap father had been lying in bed for three days, clutching his chest and groaning, nearly making himself seriously ill from anger, she felt both helpless and amused.

Next time, she will see where there are any antiques or curios to pick up for a bargain, and bring some back to comfort her cheap father's wounded heart.

But then again, Xie Jing's personality is actually not suited for idle minor civil official roles like a clerk or an editor.

Letting him leave the capital might even allow him to carve out a world of his own.

As for her future sister-in-law, she had the Main System conduct a background check and found that she hadn't lied; she truly likes life in Jiaozhou Fu, which is to say, she likes the blue sky, clear sea, and various kinds of seafood.

If her sister-in-law is willing, she can let her go to sea with her brother; that is better than living apart.

Thinking this, Xie Yang decided not to linger any longer.

Otherwise, separated by mountains and rivers, she wouldn't even be able to catch the fresh gossip.