Chapter 19: Lesson

Because Hua Changxi helped Du Ruo pull medicinal herbs to the Second Department every day, Du Ruo turned a blind eye to Hua Changxi getting up late and didn't bother with it.

Thus, Hua Changxi's days in the Menial Hall became regular.

Getting up at the Si hour in the morning, then going to the warehouse to find Yu Gui to collect several dozen types of medicinal herbs to clean in the Sixth Bureau; after cleaning her own 500 medicinal herbs in the afternoon, first going to the Second Department to hand in the task, then helping Du Ruo pull medicinal herbs; going to bed at the Xu hour on time, and then starting to cultivate.

Time flew, and ten days passed.

【Realm: Qi Refining Realm 108/1000】

【Commentary on the Hundred Herbs (Perfection): Tasting Hundred Herbs 1101/】

【Purification Technique (Perfection): Cleaning Medicinal Herbs 6022/】

In the ten days, each data point was steadily improving.

During this period, when Tasting Hundred Herbs broke through 1000, a voice sounded in Hua Changxi's mind again: The Divine Plant Chapter of the "Commentary on the Hundred Herbs" is opened.

The Divine Plant Chapter was deeper than the Spiritual Plant Chapter. What was recorded inside were all kinds of plants, spirit beasts, and spiritual treasures related to enhancing, weakening, consuming, consolidating, and repairing the primordial spirit.

At the same time, the types of divine plants were much fewer than spiritual plants. There were at least tens of thousands of things recorded in the Spiritual Plant Chapter, while the Divine Plant Chapter only recorded several thousand things.

"I haven't even seen a spiritual plant yet, and the divine plant has come out."

Hua Changxi marveled at the breadth and depth of the cultivation path. At the same time, the thought of wanting to quickly improve her realm became more and more intense.

As long as her realm was high enough, she would definitely be able to completely push open the door to the cultivation path.

Entering the workplace for the first time, newcomers are always bullied.

In the same dormitory, there were people like Lu Qingluo who were friendly; there were also people who couldn't stand Hua Changxi getting up late and going to bed early and were full of hostility toward her.

"What a dead pig. We are talking so loudly, and she can actually sleep so dead!"

The person speaking was a young girl named Wang Yunchu.

Among the female menials in the Menial Hall, the ratio of married women to unmarried young girls was about fifty-fifty.

Generally speaking, in each dormitory, older and more experienced women had more say, but because there were seven young girls and only three women in the ten-person dormitory Hua Changxi lived in, both sides huddled together, and the young girls won in numbers.

Among the young girls, Wang Yunchu's personality was stronger, and when encountering things, she dared to stand out more, so she became the primary speaker.

Except for Lu Qingluo, Hua Changxi was indifferent to everyone else in the same dormitory. Two days ago, Wang Yunchu saw Hua Changxi helping Lu Qingluo clean medicinal herbs, so she opened her mouth to let her help her clean some, but who would have thought that she would be flatly refused by Hua Changxi.

This refusal offended Wang Yunchu.

"Why is the room so dirty and messy?"

After working for a day, hungry and tired, seeing Hua Changxi sleeping soundly as soon as she returned to the room, Wang Yunchu, who was already dissatisfied with Hua Changxi, became even more dissatisfied. Seeing that the room hadn't been cleaned and everyone's clothes were piled everywhere, she immediately found a reason to explode.

"Hua Changxi, get up for me!"

Seeing Wang Yunchu shouting loudly at Hua Changxi, Lu Qingluo hurriedly tried to mediate: "Sister Yunchu, Changxi is still young..."

Her words were interrupted by Wang Yunchu: "Young what young? Coming to the Menial Hall, everyone is the same menial. She is young, but it wasn't us who let her come to be a menial."

Saying this, she walked to Hua Changxi's bed and reached out, directly pulling open Hua Changxi's quilt. Seeing that she still hadn't woken up, she started shaking Hua Changxi's body with her hands.

Hua Changxi was immersed in the satisfaction of being wrapped in a warm current while breathing and exhaling when suddenly, she felt her body shaking, and the warm current swimming in her body also began to become unstable.

"Hua Changxi, get up for me, don't pretend to be dead. I tell you, this isn't your home, you..."

Before the words fell, Wang Yunchu saw Hua Changxi's eyes open with a 'swish', and cold light shot out from her eyes like a sharp sword toward herself.

Before Wang Yunchu could recover from the cold and sharp look in Hua Changxi's eyes, the next moment, Wang Yunchu discovered that the world began to spin, and then, severe pain came from her arm and body.

"Ah~"

On the heated brick bed, Hua Changxi stood in a bow stance. Wang Yunchu was almost dragged by her arm and flipped directly onto the bed. At this moment, her right arm was being twisted backward by her, and her lower back was being pressed hard by her knee.

At this moment, Hua Changxi's face was indifferent, and the cold light in her eyes didn't look like a young girl of ten or so at all, making everyone in the room feel panicked.

"Why disturb my sleep?"

Hua Changxi's voice didn't carry a trace of temperature. She pushed the twisted arm toward the head and added a few points of strength to her hands.

"Ah~"

Worried that the screaming would attract the attention of the next room, Wang Yunchu had just screamed when Hua Changxi grabbed the pillow towel and stuffed it into her mouth.

"Woo woo woo~"

Being twisted backward by her arm and pressed by her body, Wang Yunchu was in so much pain that sweat broke out on her forehead.

Hua Changxi looked at Wang Yunchu expressionlessly and scanned everyone else in the room: "Still screaming?"

Wang Yunchu screamed 'woo woo' while shaking her head rapidly.

Hua Changxi loosened the strength in her hands and pulled away the pillow towel in Wang Yunchu's mouth: "Speak, why disturb my sleep?"

Wang Yunchu didn't answer but clamored: "Hua Changxi, let me go!"

Seeing her like this, Hua Changxi sneered and increased the strength in her hands again.

"Ah, I'll speak, I'll speak."

Wang Yunchu softened. After Hua Changxi loosened her strength, she said somewhat unconfidently: "You didn't clean the room, so I came to remind you to clean it."

Hua Changxi's eyes became cold again, and she sneered: "If I remember correctly, I cleaned the room the day before yesterday. Ten people in the room, one person cleans for one day, so how did it become my turn again?"

Wang Yunchu: "You return to the room so early every day, while the rest of us are busy until dark. You come back first, so can't you share more of the cleaning work?"

"Besides, you are still a newcomer."

"Go ask other dormitory rooms. When a newcomer comes to any room, aren't all the cleaning tasks for the first two months covered by the newcomer?"

Hua Changxi sneered: "What are you to me? Why should I share the work that should be done by you?"

"Also, other newcomers cover all the cleaning tasks because they count on the help of the elders. Have you helped me with anything?"

"Without paying anything, you want to get something for nothing. You shouldn't come to be a menial; you should go home and be ancestors."

Hua Changxi threw Wang Yunchu away.

Once Wang Yunchu gained freedom, she immediately climbed off the bed and flew away from Hua Changxi.

Hua Changxi sat on the bed and looked at the people in the room: "I don't like bullying others, and I don't like being bullied even more. Whoever wants to bully me, I will definitely pay them back tenfold."

"Everyone is working in the Menial Hall, and it's not easy. I know you are tired, but your tiredness wasn't caused by me. Don't vent the fire you've accumulated in your hearts on me."

"I have a bad temper. Don't look at my young age and think you want to manipulate me."

"Remember, don't come to provoke me again, especially don't disturb my sleep."

She had strengthened her physique because of cultivation, but she would still be tired after working. She wasn't a saint and didn't have the obligation or the mind to want to help others gratuitously.

In order to integrate into the collective, she didn't mind doing more things, but the premise had to be that she was willing herself. She was quite disgusted by the mindset of Wang Yunchu, who thought that if she could do it, she should naturally do more.

Afterward, Hua Changxi didn't say anything more, threw the pillow towel that had blocked Wang Yunchu's mouth to the side with disgust, lay prone on the bed again, and closed her eyes to start cultivating again.

Seeing Hua Changxi continue to sleep as if nothing had happened after her outburst, the expressions of the others in the room were all strange.

"Hurry up and tidy up and sleep."

People in the room patted Wang Yunchu on the shoulder to show comfort, and afterward, the voices in the room were deliberately lowered a lot.

Wang Yunchu looked at Hua Changxi's sleeping face, with resentment and fear in her eyes. ===== CHAPTER 20 =====