Monster, come to my bowl

"What are you staring at? Wipe your saliva!"

Xue Yi saw Cai Ji's perverted look and reminded him with disgust.

"Oh, oh, oh!" Cai Ji came back to his senses. He pulled his sleeve to wipe his saliva and pointed at the portrait in front of him and said, "Is this painting authentic? When did it come down?"

Xue Yi rolled his eyes at him and replied, "I don't know if it's authentic or not, but the contents of The Great Nerve are basically passed down from ancient times! There may be some deletions and revisions in later generations, but the changes should not be significant."

"That is to say, a saint is most likely to look like this!" Cai Ji grinned and muttered to himself in his native language: "I thought he was an ancestor from the Song Dynasty, but he turned out to be a greasy uncle from modern times... We are all time travelers, why is he so amazing? Does he have a system?"

"What are you mumbling?" Xue Yi asked unhappily after hearing him utter a long string of incomprehensible words.

"Nothing, nothing!" Cai Ji came back to his senses, put his expression back on track and said, "I have an idea now, maybe it can increase the success rate of using the Holy Word Technique."

"Speak!" Xue Yi snorted.

"Look at this thing in the saint's hand, it should be the legendary holy sword! In the previous myths, it is often mentioned that the saint used the holy sword to slay demons, so I think my Holy Word Technique is unlikely to succeed, maybe it's because I lack a suitable weapon! In this case, we might as well make a replica according to the appearance of the holy sword, and then I will use it for experiments... maybe it will succeed!" Cai Ji said his thoughts in one breath, and then stared at Xue Yi with expectation.

When Miss Xue heard this, her heart suddenly moved.

She squinted her eyes and thought about it, and felt that what Cai Ji said made a lot of sense.

As the saying goes, if you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen your tools!

Thinking back to when this guy demonstrated how to perform the Holy Word with his bare hands, it always felt a little out of place, as if something was missing.

Xue Yi agreed with Cai Ji's words and asked immediately, "This is not difficult. I can ask a blacksmith to make it. What materials do you want to use?"

"Materials... Materials..." Cai Ji touched his chin, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "Got it! Isn't your demon-slaying sword broken? Let's use the fragments!"

He knew that the demon-slaying swords used by the Demon-Suppressing Guards were not ordinary items. Since Xue Yi had a box of demon-slaying sword fragments, he might as well take them and use them for himself!

It’s a waste if you don’t use it!

It's useless to use it!

Unexpectedly, it would have been fine if he hadn't mentioned it, but once he did, he stirred up a hornet's nest.

Snapped!

Xue Yi slammed the table with a sullen face, and said angrily: "How dare you say that! Do you know that every demon-slaying sword of the demon-slaying guard is tailor-made? If a demon-slaying sword is damaged, it must be handed over to the Supervisory Hall and the cause and consequences of the damage must be reported! After they confirm that it is a battle damage, they will hand it over to the Weapon Making Hall for remelting and forging! You broke my demon-slaying sword into pieces, and I don’t know how to explain to the Supervisory Hall!"

The Supervisory Hall is an internal supervisory department established by the Demon Suppression Bureau. They are responsible for handling any matters related to the Demon Suppression Bureau, no matter how big or small.

"Hey, hey, hey, don't put the blame on me! I didn't break your knife!" Cai Ji protested on the spot, and then said with a sly look: "Why don't you just tell them that it was lost! Save yourself the trouble of explaining."

Snapped!

Hearing this, Xue Yi slammed the table again and said angrily: "Throwing a knife is a serious offense, it will be recorded! How can you just throw it away if you say so?"

However, having said that, she really appreciated Cai Ji's suggestion.

Ever since the knife broke, she had been thinking about how to explain it to the Supervisory Hall.

It's not that I'm afraid of being punished by the Supervisory Board, but I'm afraid of arousing suspicion.

After all, anyone who saw the demon-slaying sword broken into pieces would find it incredible.

If the higher-ups send people to investigate, they will definitely confront Cai Ji, the person involved. If this guy leaks the information about the Art of the Holy Word, the consequences will be unpredictable.

In that case, it would be better to just tell the Supervisory Hall that the Demon-Slaying Sword is lost.

If they want to record it, then let them record it!

Anyway, she has a backer, so she is not afraid of this punishment.

As for how it was lost, the clever Miss Xue figured it out instantly - it was stuck in the gap of the giant centipede's shell and couldn't be pulled out, so it ran away with it!

In this way, I can go to the centipede cave under the pretext of looking for a knife.

It's a logical closed loop!

perfect!

"This won't work, and that won't work. And you want to learn the art of the Holy Word... I think you'd better give up." Seeing that his unreasonable demands were ruthlessly rejected, Cai Ji resorted to provocation on the spot.

Unexpectedly, Xue Yi had already agreed with his suggestion in his heart, so provoking him was useless.

"Stop talking nonsense! I can take care of the imitation! You continue with your research, and I will bring the imitation to you in a few days. If you still can't use the Holy Word by then, I'll show you how I'll deal with you!" Miss Xue pretended to be cold and ruthless and threatened viciously.

After saying that, he stood up and left.

"Hey, wait!" Seeing this, Cai Ji said shamelessly: "Give me a few taels of silver, I want to go out for a walk. I have been lying in bed for two months, and my bones are rusty."

Having said that, his real purpose was not to go shopping, but to see if Miss Xue was planning to put him under house arrest.

Xue Yi was no pushover either, and he saw through Cai Ji's plan at a glance.

"Here!" She threw her purse on the table and said with concern, "I'll send a few people to accompany you later, so that you won't be too weak and faint on the street."

After saying that, he walked out of the door with a proud and heroic look.

Cai Ji also understood Xue Yi's good intentions.

But he didn't care.

Although the other party decided to send someone to keep an eye on him, at least he was not under house arrest.

I still have a certain degree of freedom.

That's satisfying enough!

In addition, the money was given genuinely.

A solid small bag.

At least twenty taels!

Cai Ji’s small restaurant couldn’t make that much money even if he ran it for a whole year!

She is worthy of being the number one white, rich and beautiful girl in Nanshan Town!

It's just extravagant!

……

After lunch, Cai Ji took Xue Yi's purse and went out shopping.

According to the 'agreement' between the two parties, Xue Yi sent two demon-suppressing guards to follow him.

Judging from the embroidery on the collars of these two people, they are both of the eighth rank.

According to the rules of the Demon Suppression Bureau, a veteran soldier of the Demon Suppression Guard who has reached the peak of the ninth rank is qualified to serve as a sergeant and can command five ninth rank recruits.

Liu Tong, who often took his men to Cai Ji's place to eat and dine for free, was a ninth-rank sergeant.

An eighth-rank demon-suppressing guard can serve as a squad leader.

There are usually ten demon-suppressing guards stationed in Nanshan Town, and a squad leader is in charge of the command.

Xue Yi 'casually' sent two eighth-rank demon-suppressing guards to accompany Cai Ji shopping, which fully demonstrated her love and care for this kid.

As soon as Cai Ji led the two demon-suppressing guards out, the gossip fire in the Xue Mansion began to spread like wildfire.

"Eh? Isn't that Shopkeeper Cai that the young lady brought back? When did he wake up?"

"She woke up yesterday! I heard that as soon as Shopkeeper Cai woke up yesterday, the eldest lady rushed back from the county town on horseback, and then stayed in his room for a full half day before coming out."

"Ah? What is the relationship between Shopkeeper Cai and the eldest lady?"

"you guess?"

"I dare not guess! But just now, Shopkeeper Cai seemed to be holding the young lady's purse in his hand!"

"real or fake?"

"It should be correct. I saw it when I was cleaning the room for the young lady. There was a phoenix embroidered on it with silver thread."

"No way, the young lady gave her entire purse to Shopkeeper Cai...tsk tsk tsk tsk!"

"What are you saying?"

"Come... I'll tell you in secret..."

"What? Someone saw them kissing in the back garden?"

"That's not the case!"

"anything else?"

"Also...I'm telling you this, you can't tell anyone else!"

"Mmmmmmm!"

All kinds of rumors became more and more outrageous.

Whether it was the maids, servants, cooks or gardeners, they all felt that there must be an indescribable intimate relationship between Cai Ji and Xue Yi.