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Chapter 61 Tai Sui Jade

"Okay... um? What did you say, which one do you choose?" Ma Tianshou originally thought that Xu Yuan would definitely choose the second one.

"I choose the first one. Please send someone to escort me back immediately. It's getting dark. Lin...my mother must be waiting anxiously at home."

Ma Tianshou hummed, as if he wanted to persuade him, but in the end he didn't say anything. He stood up and walked away with his hands behind his back.

"Mr. Yan will be here soon, please wait a moment."

This time Xu Yuan didn't have to wait long before Mr. Yan came and personally sent Xu Yuan back.

After Old Yan sent the man back, he immediately came to see Ma Tianshou and asked, "Such a good seedling, are you just letting it go like this?"

Ma Tianshou had been drinking tea alone in the temporary study for quite some time.

In the past, when the old man was thinking about things, he liked to drink alone.

Later, his wife took away his wine and warned him that drinking alone was harmful to his health and he should not drink anymore.

The old man didn't dare to disobey his wife's order, so he just drank tea in silence.

"I also thought that kid would definitely choose the second option."

"Let's not even mention that he's still a teenager and wonders if he has the patience to stay stuck in Hegong Lane for three to five months. Just looking at his personality, it's clear he's the type who's bold, careful, and daring.

Moreover, Chen Liangxuan's case concerns his own safety. He fought his way back from Qihetai Town. After this experience, he must have believed more firmly that he should take his destiny into his own hands - instead of just watching from Hegong Lane and pinning his hopes on us.

He will doubt me, even though I say nice things, what if things don’t work out in the end?”

Mr. Yan shared the same view, so he was puzzled: "But this kid chose the first one."

"I even suspected that I had mistaken you for the wrong person, but when you came in, I suddenly thought of..." Ma Tianshou stopped talking and took a sip from his teacup.

On his way back, Old Yan also thought of a possibility and asked tentatively, "Is this kid... bargaining with us?"

……

The noodles we had for dinner were watery and tasteless.

The stepmother seemed absent-minded, so Xu Yuan had reason to suspect: "Lin Wanmo, did you forget to add salt when cooking?"

The stepmother glared at him and said unhappily, "If you think I didn't do it well, do it yourself."

Xu Yuan suddenly felt aggrieved: "I just paid a large sum of money to my family yesterday, and today I have to eat this?"

The stepmother was indeed in the wrong, but she would definitely not admit her mistake or give in.

She put down her bowl and chopsticks and stopped eating. She asked, "The people from the Extermination Department are looking for you. What happened?"

Xu Yuan had no intention of hiding anything, so he recounted his entire experience. Finally, he said, "Old Master Ma Tianshou asked me to tell you something: Hundreds of years have passed, and few in the court still remember the so-called 'Six Village Mob'. Lin Wanmo, what exactly does this mean?"

The stepmother said solemnly, "The Extermination Bureau has indeed set its sights on you. Fourth Uncle Mao came back today and told me that you killed two Seventh Ranks by yourself. I knew that the Extermination Bureau would not let you go."

Xu Yuan was impatient: "I'm asking you a question, why don't you answer me first."

The stepmother sneered, "Tsk," and said, "He's just a deputy commander of the Jiaozhi Southern Office, and he dares to say such things? Humph, when he's qualified to enter the Imperial Observatory's 'Forbidden Star Tower' and check the files from that year, he'll realize how ridiculous he is."

Before Xu Yuan could ask more, Lin Wanmo pushed the dishes aside and said, "Wash the dishes. I'm going to bed first."

"Hey, explain yourself clearly..."

Lin Wanmo had already slammed his door shut.

"You guys really... you all like to talk in cryptic ways, don't you? I'm the only one who answers whatever I ask." Xu Yuan stood outside his stepmother's door and shouted, "Just wait, next time you ask me something, I'll only tell you half the answer, humph!"

Xu Yuan went to wash the dishes, making a lot of clanging noises in the kitchen.

After cleaning up, Xu Yuan returned to his room to rest.

He decisively rejected Ma Tianshou today because Xu Yuan really wanted to choose the first one. It was obvious that this matter was not simple, and if he could hide and avoid it, it would be the best.

But Xu Yuan was afraid... he couldn't escape.

In a world full of evil spirits, there is a saying that goes, "What you fear will come to you."

Xu Yuan’s decision was actually: if he really couldn’t avoid it, he would have to discuss the treatment of joining the Extermination of Filth Division.

Look at the demon-hunting army. Uncle Rong Kui came to recruit me on behalf of my second uncle and kept describing all kinds of bright prospects to me.

As long as I agree, I will definitely be offered generous terms.

What Ma Tianshou said was to ask the emperor for mercy and cancel the charges against Hegongxiang.

Xu Yuan was indeed tempted. The emperor's grace should be able to solve the hidden crisis of the Xu family that his stepmother had always refused to tell him.

But that’s all in the past.

It’s your own business now – don’t talk about it before you join, and don’t even think about it after you join.

The fact that they refused to promise me any benefits before I joined showed that the Quhui Division didn't value me at all.

After thinking about this matter again, Xu Yuan began to sort out the gains from today's battle.

After killing Xing Guolong and Lao Ba during the day, Xu Yuan took away Xing Guolong's sword ball.

This is a good thing, much better than Xu Yuan’s previous sword pill.

Xu Yuan "took advantage" of the sword pill and refined it with the fire in his stomach.

This time it was not smooth. The sword pill was of the senior seventh-rate level. Xu Yuan used the fire in his abdomen to refine it for more than an hour, but he could only barely control it. Not only could he not move it as smoothly as if it were his own arm, even the process of transforming from a "pill" to a "sword" was extremely slow.

Xu Yuan exhaled, and a wave of heat gushed out, and the temperature of the entire room rose.

"I'm afraid it will take a few more days of hard work before I can truly use it."

Before the "illegal" disappeared, Xu Yuan had already looted the two seventh-rate people of anything suitable for him - this kind of thing was something that Xu Yuan had already mastered with practice.

A palm-sized iron box was also taken out from Xing Guolong.

Inside was a piece of warm and beautiful jade, emitting a faint medicinal fragrance.

This is a rare elixir called "Tai Sui Jade".

It is actually the meat of a giant shellfish found in the deep sea.

Hunting this giant shellfish is already very dangerous, and only this part of its body can be used to prepare elixirs.

The preparation process is also very complicated and the yield rate is extremely low, so this elixir is extremely expensive.

Xing Guolong's possession was either a reward from Mr. Chen or he got it by murdering and robbing.

The use of this magical medicine is that it can attract almost all poisonous insects.

Xu Yuan weighed it in his hand and smiled secretly: If I throw it to Guiwu Mountain, I'm afraid the old locust family will fight for it and start killing each other.

But for practitioners, the greatest use of this elixir is to break the poisonous insect.

If someone has poisoned you, you can use this thing to lure the poisonous insect out.

Except for a very few kinds of poisonous insects, no one else could resist the temptation of the fragrance of this elixir.

Xu Yuan put this thing away, thinking it might be useful in the future.

(End of this chapter)