Chapter 120: Loosening

After lunch, the Hua family juniors all went to Hua Changxi's room, either to ask about confusion in cultivation or to discuss what skills to learn.

In the main room, Old Master Hua looked at Hua Minghe and Yao Shi with furrowed brows: "Jiuniang has a lot of opinions about the Great Clan Elder's family and the He family. You should persuade her more on weekdays."

"I know, Jiuniang is capable now, and the family has also benefited from her, but a person's life is long. Who can guarantee that they will always be in a smooth situation?"

"We people, no matter what we do, need to manage human relationships. One day when you stumble, you rely on these relationships maintained on weekdays to pull you up."

"Jiuniang's temper is too arrogant and too stubborn. You cannot let her do whatever she wants. You must know that being too rigid is easy to break."

Hua Minghe did not listen to Old Master Hua this time. When he married his wife, he had faced heavy pressure from the Count's Prefecture and the clan. Although he gritted his teeth and carried it, the price paid was that their family had been marginalized by the clan for more than twenty years.

Regarding the matter of the Fifth Miss, the family could not withstand the pressure from the clan, leading to the Fifth Miss becoming a concubine of the He family, and almost having an accident when giving birth to a child.

Being a concubine and almost dying in childbirth, the pain and suffering the Fifth Miss endured were real, and perhaps it would continue to the child she gave birth to.

These things could not be passed over.

"Father, Jiuniang is not ignorant of human relationships. Her temper is a bit fierce, but she is very measured in her conduct. As for Uncle Hua Tai and the He family, let her follow her own heart. Let's not interfere."

Hearing this, Old Master Hua, Old Madam Hua, Second Uncle Hua, Second Aunt Hua, and Fourth Uncle Hua in the main room were all stunned.

Even Yao Shi did not expect her husband to refuse his father so straightforwardly.

Old Master Hua came back to his senses from the shock and was furious, saying coldly: "Good, you are capable now, my words don't work for you, right?"

Hua Minghe looked at Old Master Hua helplessly: "Father, if what you said was reasonable, I would certainly support you, but letting the Fifth Miss go to the He family to be a concubine, the clan was wrong in the first place. Not to mention Jiuniang, even I am very resentful in my heart."

Old Master Hua heard this, not only was he not appeased, but he was even angrier: "Then are you still blaming me in your heart? Blaming me for agreeing to the clan back then, blaming me for rushing to curry favor with the clan?"

Hua Minghe felt that Old Master Hua was being unreasonable, worried that saying anything more would make him angrier, so he didn't speak.

Who knew, his appearance made Old Master Hua think he was acquiescing, so he stood up abruptly: "Who am I doing this for? Am I not doing it for this family?"

"Dalang and the others are growing up. If there is no support from the clan, how can they establish themselves in the capital?"

"Relying on you, a constable of the Six Fan Gate, or relying on your second brother, a patrol officer of the Five Cities Military and Horse Division, or relying on your fourth brother, a prison guard of the Ministry of Justice?"

"I racked my brains for this family, went to flatter the Great Clan Elder's family without face, and now what I get in return is your blame. I might as well be dead."

Hua Minghe had a headache: "Father, what are you saying? When did I say I blamed you?"

Old Master Hua: "You are blaming me, you are thinking exactly that in your heart."

Seeing the old master's chest heaving with anger, Old Madam Hua, Second Uncle Hua, and Fourth Uncle Hua hurriedly stepped forward to persuade.

Fourth Uncle Hua even stated: "Father, the Fifth Miss becoming a concubine of the He family was a decision made by me and Liu Shi together, and it has nothing to do with anyone else in the family. This is the Fifth Miss's fate, it can't be blamed on anyone."

Hua Minghe glanced at his fourth brother and didn't speak.

Old Madam Hua raised her hand to chase people away: "Alright, don't stand here, go do what you need to do."

Hua Minghe knew the old master was angry with him now and didn't want to see him, so he followed the old madam's words and left the main room.

Once he left, Second Uncle Hua and the others followed.

When only Old Master Hua and Old Madam Hua were left in the main room, Old Madam Hua spoke: "Your reaction just now was too much."

Old Master Hua had already calmed down and said obscurely: "Eldest... he looks down on me, his father."

Old Madam Hua glanced at him sideways: "Alright, don't go on and on. Three sons, the eldest is the most capable of taking responsibility; he just has a harder backbone."

"But having a hard backbone is not a bad thing. He is a man who stands tall and upright like this."

Old Master Hua looked at Old Madam Hua gloomily: "Do you also look down on me, a person who curries favor everywhere?"

Old Madam Hua rolled her eyes speechlessly: "You really are getting more and more energetic. If I looked down on you, could I have lived with you for so long? Could I have given birth to children for you?"

Old Master Hua said aggrievedly: "But my backbone is not hard."

Old Madam Hua: "... You have no father or mother, and you can support yourself and support a family, that is already hard enough. The eldest can develop a hard temper because you stood in front of him and resisted various pressures."

Old Master Hua heard this and lowered his head.

Old Madam Hua sighed: "In the future, let's not hold the family matters too tightly, we can't hold them anyway. The eldest, the eldest's wife, and Sanlang and Liulang have long been cultivators without revealing a word to us, have you forgotten?"

Old Master Hua did not respond, just let out a long sigh.

On the other side, in Hua Changxi's room.

Hua Changxi, who was already in the Nascent Soul realm, had her five senses improved by several levels. She heard the words of everyone in the main room clearly.

She could understand Old Master Hua's frustration and discomfort at this moment. A large family like theirs could be seen as a small company.

The old master was the CEO of the company, and everyone had to follow his instructions to do things.

Now, he, the CEO, could no longer command the people under him, and might even have to step down from the CEO position, handing over the company he had managed single-handedly, which was just about to develop well, to others. It would be strange if he wasn't uncomfortable.

"Jiuniang, what are you thinking about? I've called you several times."

Hua Liulang reached out and waved in front of Hua Changxi.

Hua Changxi smiled: "Nothing, what did you call me for?"

Hua Liulang lowered his voice: "Didn't you just say you had something to tell me? What is it?"

Hua Changxi looked at him: "Didn't Fourth Brother say that the Count's Prefecture asked you to go over and cultivate with the clan members? Why don't you and Third Brother go?"

Hua Liulang: "We are not stupid. Going to the Count's Prefecture means being controlled. Of course, it's more comfortable to cultivate at home by ourselves." As he spoke, he lowered his voice again.

"The Count's Prefecture provides cultivation resources to the clan members, and they will definitely want to recover the capital later. Third Brother and I don't want to be thugs for the Count's Prefecture."

Hua Changxi smiled: "As expected of my brother, you are smart."

Hua Liulang smiled proudly: "Of course."

Hua Changxi said again: "However, closing the door to build a car won't work. Third Brother has been working in the family pharmacy since he was a child, and now he often goes to the pharmacy to help, so I'm not worried. But you, staying at home all day and cultivating blindly, this absolutely won't work."

Hua Liulang didn't understand: "Why won't it work? Just because I cultivate for a long time, my cultivation is higher than Third Brother's. I think cultivating at home is quite good."

Hua Changxi shook her head: "Cultivators cultivate, not just to improve their realm, but also to temper their own character. You don't do things, don't deal with people, don't go out to experience, how can you temper your character?"

She didn't know this before either. It was only when she advanced to the Nascent Soul realm and was bombarded by heavenly thunder that she suddenly understood.

Every heavenly thunder carried the momentum of erasure and struck her. The first few could be resisted by hard resistance, but the last few really required strong mental strength to persist.

As long as there was a slight retreat during the tribulation, what followed would be death under the thunder tribulation.

At the same time, she seemed to understand why the inner core would disappear sometimes when she was in the Golden Core realm, but after the trip to Mount Wuzhi, the inner core never disappeared again.

Because after returning from Mount Wuzhi, she returned to the Medical Administration and dealt with people and things every day.

Only by doing things, dealing with people, and experiencing, can one temper one's character, and then gradually know what one really wants.

When one is clear about what one is doing, the inner core will stand firmly on the Qi Sea.

If one is restless and hesitant, the inner core will be unstable.

"Sixth Brother, the higher the cultivation, the more important the character. If you don't value this, in the future, either your cultivation will stagnate, or you will suffer heavy damage."

Hua Liulang saw Hua Changxi speaking seriously: "Is it that serious?"

Hua Changxi nodded affirmatively: "When a Golden Core cultivator advances to Nascent Soul, they have to undergo tribulation. Think about it, when all external things can no longer provide help, what will you rely on to resist heavenly thunder?"

Hua Liulang swallowed: "Improving cultivation also requires tribulation? Is the power of heavenly thunder great?"

Hua Changxi: "Every heavenly thunder comes with the intention of erasing you. Do you say the power is great?"

Hua Liulang was a bit anxious: "Then what should I do? Go to the Count's Prefecture to cultivate? Or go to the pharmacy to help?"

Hua Changxi rolled her eyes at him: "I told you this not to let you seek medical advice in a hurry. Do you still remember the Sancha Medicine Valley?"

Hua Liulang nodded: "Of course I remember."

Hua Changxi: "You go cultivate there in the future. I have a fire spirit mine there, guarded by the four elders of You."

Hua Liulang gasped, his eyes wide as copper bells: "Jiuniang, you have... a fire spirit mine, really or fake? You didn't lie to me, did you?"

Hua Changxi was too lazy to talk nonsense with him: "Just say whether you are going or not?"

Hua Liulang nodded like a garlic masher: "I'm going."

Hua Changxi: "The four elders of You who are responsible for guarding the fire spirit mine were all masters in the past. Their life experience is very rich. After you go, ask them for advice humbly. How much you can learn depends on your own ability."

After a pause, "After arriving at Sancha Medicine Valley, ask Guo Yu to find me at the Medical Administration."

Hua Liulang listened seriously to Hua Changxi introducing the four elders of You to him, until he was pulled away by Hua Shierniang to ask about cultivation problems.

After dinner, Hua Changxi stayed for one night. Early the next morning, she returned to the Medical Administration. Hua Liulang also left the Hua family with her.

Originally, he didn't have to be so rushed, but knowing that his sister's spirit mine was guarded by outsiders, he was not at ease and wanted to go over and watch it himself to be at ease.

Others in the Hua family didn't know the inside story, but they knew that Hua Changxi had instructed Hua Liulang to do something.

Old Madam Hua, who had persuaded Old Master Hua yesterday, looked at Hua Minghe and Yao Shi and couldn't help but say sarcastically: "Is there anything that can't be said openly? Jiuniang is guarding against the family."

Hua Minghe: "Mother, you are overthinking. If she really wanted to guard against the family, she wouldn't have told Liulang."

Second Uncle Hua heard this and said: "Jiuniang is guarding against the second and fourth branches. If there is any good thing, she only thinks of the first branch."

As soon as these words came out, Hua Minghe and Yao Shi hadn't done anything yet, but Old Madam Hua got angry first and threw the rag in her hand to hit Second Uncle Hua.

"Old Second, did you drink too much early in the morning? What drunken talk are you saying?" As she spoke, she glared fiercely at Second Uncle Hua.

Although Hua Minghe and Yao Shi were a bit unhappy, seeing Old Madam Hua scold Second Uncle Hua, they couldn't say much more.

Old Madam Hua: "The sky is bright, why don't you go to work, standing at home, waiting for the old lady to serve you?"

After the three Hua Minghe brothers went out, Old Madam Hua entered the main room and said to Old Master Hua: "Old Second has only grown in age but not in brain all these years, he is just a fool who doesn't understand anything."

Some things, she and the old man could say, but the people in the second and fourth branches couldn't say. If they said it, the first branch would really be alienated from them.

Old Master Hua looked at his old wife: "Do you think I'm holding it too tightly now? If I don't hold it, what will happen to the second and fourth branches?"

"Old Second looks smart, but they are all small tricks. These small tricks might make him miss real good things."

"Old Fourth, he is too honest, swallowing everything in his stomach."

"Are we, as parents, really not going to care about them?"

Old Madam Hua didn't know this, sighed and said: "The eldest will certainly take care of the two younger brothers, but the children of the first branch..."

Old Master Hua hurriedly said: "Dalang is a good one. He is the future helmsman of our Hua family. He knows that the family must work together to develop and grow. He will not ignore the second and fourth branches."

"Sanlang is also quite obedient. Our family's pharmacy is managed in an orderly manner by him."

"Liulang... if the truth is explained to him, he will still listen."

"Only Jiuniang, with a rebellious bone, does things only for herself. As for the family, she only thinks of the first branch, without any overall view."

"As for Shiniang... she has been away from home for so many years, and in her busy schedule, she specially returned home to send pills to her family, which shows that she has always had this family in her heart."

"Our family thinks in one place, exerts strength in one place, and the general direction of glory and loss is still unchanged. It's just that there is an extra Jiuniang, who is a variable."

Old Madam Hua said a fair word: "You are too harsh on Jiuniang. If there were no Jiuniang, could those in our family without spirit veins start body refining?"

"Even if Shiniang is powerful, she can't make everyone in our family cultivate."

Old Master Hua: "I didn't deny Jiuniang's contribution to the family. I just think her temper is too unlikable. I don't know how she mixed in the Medical Administration?"

Old Madam Hua said gloomily: "Jiuniang is just the wrong gender. If she were a man, with her temper, she would definitely be a material for doing big things."

Old Master Hua: "But she is a young lady. A young lady will get married sooner or later. With her temper, do you think any family dares to want her?"

After a pause, Old Master Hua looked at Old Madam Hua in confusion: "Didn't you also look down on Jiuniang's temper before? Why are you helping her speak now?"

Old Madam Hua looked confused: "I can't say either. I still don't like Jiuniang's temper now, but watching her act as wantonly as you men, I am a bit envious." ===== CHAPTER 121 =====