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Chapter 38 Wu Erlang and Xu Erlang

The woman raised the washboard and was ready to rush out. Xu Yuan quickly said, "I came back by myself."

The woman paused and said, "Come back by yourself..."

After more than half a month, he returned on his own. Was he unable to endure the hardships of the countryside? Did he run back on his own?
But if he really ran back because he couldn't bear the hardship...that means the child has already suffered, how can you have the heart to blame him?
The woman put down the washboard and muttered, "Qiao Ziang really treats our family servant like that."

Then he said, "Forget it, just come back."

She wiped her hands on her apron and said, "Have you eaten lunch? I'll make you something."

"I've eaten." Xu Yuan said with a double meaning.

The stepmother's mind moved, and she realized something: "He has eaten...really eaten?"

Xu Yuan nodded: "I am already a life cultivator."

Then he looked at his stepmother with a smile.

The moment he saw his stepmother, Xu Yuan realized that she was the first person with a "fate" he had seen since he became a fate cultivator!
Her fate is a brilliant golden color, named "Qing Yi Yin Yu".

It is a piece of peerless jade with excellent talent, but it has suffered many hardships and is not well-known. Fortunately, it has a deep blessing and can always turn misfortune into good fortune.

You will get what you ask for, but the process will be bumpy.

What you plan will be rewarded, but there will be many twists and turns.

The stepmother was stunned for a moment, then suddenly walked quickly into the main room without saying a word.

Xu Yuan followed him in and saw his father's tablet on the table in the middle of the main hall, and his stepmother was respectfully bowing three times and burning incense.

Xu Yuan's eyes felt a little sore, and he also followed suit and worshipped his father's tablet.

The stepmother stood stunned under the tablet for a long time before she sat down and said slowly, "I asked you to go to Qihetai because I heard that the June Worm would be born in Guiwu Mountain. I originally just wanted you to give it a try, but I didn't expect it to work!"

When she said "it's done", she was still a little excited after all.

As for how much hardship he had gone through to get the "old year's grain", there was no need to tell Xu Yuan.

After a pause, he continued, "Although I have become a life cultivator, I cannot be careless. This art will progress slowly in the early stages..."

"I'm already an eighth-rate life cultivator." Xu Yuan interrupted.

Stepmother: "What did you say?"

"I'm already an eighth-rate life cultivator and an eighth-rate elixir cultivator."

The stepmother opened her mouth and said with some difficulty, "You've only been gone for a few days, and you've become so old so quickly after eating June bugs?"

Xu Yuan told his stepmother all his experiences in Qihetai Town.

After all, Xu Yuan is only a sixteen-year-old boy. He has been calculating everything these days and has been on the verge of life and death several times. It is hard to imagine how exhausted he is.

Now that I have met the only relative in this world whom I can completely trust, and after talking to him without any reservations, I feel relieved and my whole body feels much more relaxed from the inside out.

After Xu Yuan finished speaking, he patted his chest and acted like a man: "I am now an eighth-rate life cultivator and an eighth-rate pill cultivator. Is this enough strength? Can you tell me about the family matters?"

The stepmother remained silent after hearing this. Xu Yuan looked at her and immediately broke into a smile: "Lin Wanmo, are you feeling sorry for me? You look like you're about to cry, hahahaha."

The stepmother's eyes were red, she was indeed distressed:

For more than half a month, he worked as a handyman for that damn Qiao Ziang, doing rough work, and he was at the gates of hell several times... When has my child ever suffered such hardship?

But Xu Yuan laughed at her, and the stepmother's pity disappeared immediately.

"You're itching!" the stepmother cursed sullenly.

If it were in the past, I would have grabbed a broom and chased the kid all over the yard.

At this moment, I still feel a little distressed and can't do it.

Well, let him sleep for a night and beat him again tomorrow!

Lin Wanmo is only four years older than Xu Yuan. Although she is called stepmother, she is actually more like Xu Yuan's sister.

Therefore, when facing Xu Yuan, there must be an inexplicable blood suppression.

Since they were little, they had always been fighting and quarreling. Xu Yuan was never her match, but he always chose to provoke her.

You have bloodline suppression, and I also have the immortality to face my sister!
Lin Wanmo pondered for a moment and said, "Don't worry about family matters. Tell me about Second Uncle first."

Xu Yuan then shared his speculation, and then said, "That Zheng Rongkui hasn't left yet. I guess Second Uncle won't give up easily."

The stepmother frowned slightly, thought for a moment and said, "You are right. You should stay at home for the next few days and don't go anywhere."

"I have to go to Master Qiao's house." Xu Yuan was still thinking about the gunpowder that might be stored in Master Qiao's house.

Taking this opportunity, Xu Yuan simply asked the question that had been on his mind for a long time: "Why didn't my father let me join the sect?"

Xu Yuan's father was a craftsman. Xu Yuan wanted to learn it since he was a child, but his father never taught him. Instead, he accepted Lin Wanmo as his apprentice and later married his apprentice as his second wife.

Lin Wanmo learned all his skills as a craftsman from Xu Yuan's father.

Moreover, Lin Wanmo is very likely to be better than his father and his level is far higher than his father.

Lin Wanmo shook his head: "I don't know either. If you have the guts, go ask your dad."

Xu Yuan rolled his eyes.

It is obvious that he doesn't want to tell me and put the blame on his father who has already passed away.

Xu Yuan secretly wanted to do something bad.

"Lin Wanmo."

"Ok?"

Xu Yuan said, looking as if he was concerned for you, "My second uncle has already received news. So, if there is anything strange about my father's death, I advise you to surrender yourself to the county government as soon as possible..."

The little stepmother's eyes were confused, and she didn't realize what it meant at first.

After figuring it out, she immediately became furious and rushed over, grabbing Xu Yuan's ears with her cold white hands.

"I'm going to die! Are you calling me Pan Jinlian, or are you saying your father is Wu Dalang?"

Xu Yuan ducked his head and dodged the fingertips, then jumped out the door. He stood in the yard with his hands on his hips, laughing triumphantly: "Lin Wanmo, let me tell you that I am no longer the Wuxia Amon of the past!"

Lin Wanmo was so angry that his teeth itched. He pointed towards the yard and said, "Go wash the rest of the clothes."

"Why?" Xu Yuan jumped up. "I've been through life and death so many times, and you just came back and you want me to wash your clothes?"

Lin Wanmo snorted and laughed: "Aren't you fine? And..." She raised her hands: "Look, it's so cold, and my hands are frozen red just washing clothes. You are an alchemy cultivator, you have a fire in your belly and are not afraid of the cold, so of course I will leave it to you."

This fallacy... is actually impossible to refute.

Xu Yuan refused: "No!"

"Choose one between washing clothes and cooking." Lin Wanmo crossed his arms.

Xu Yuan had no choice but to say, "Do the laundry."

Xu Yuan sat on the stool, grabbed a piece of clothing from the wooden basin, and rubbed it on the washboard.

After a while, the stepmother came out of the room humming a tune. She had dressed up again, wearing a round-necked, double-breasted royal blue satin cloak over her chemise. She walked out leisurely, "I'm going to Aunt Wang's house and will be back to cook dinner."

Xu Yuan grinned: Aunt Wang’s surname is indeed Wang!

The stepmother looked at him strangely: "What are you laughing at?"

"It's okay, just go and come back soon. I want to eat fried bacon with winter bamboo shoots tonight."

The stepmother went out, and Xu Yuan quickly washed the clothes and hung them up.

If a stepmother asks a boy to wash clothes, she will definitely regret it tomorrow.

The stepmother washed clothes, applying soapnut powder on each piece, rubbing it carefully and applying it evenly.

Xu Yuan washes clothes in a big basin with soap bean powder in it. He does Tai Chi push hands with the whole basin, three circles forward, three circles backward, and that's it - it's ready!
Of course it’s clean!
No sweat smell means it's clean.

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(End of this chapter)