The original repairer

The Xu family in Bingzhou is very large. The courtyard for receiving guests is in the front yard, which is divided into ten small courtyards. In the middle are the landscape pavilions, lakes, corridors and gardens, and then there is the family residence in the middle courtyard. Along the wall are the courtyards for servants, guards, etc., which are located on both sides of the Xu Mansion.

The largest area is the backyard, which is divided into different rooms. From the head of the family to the youngest master, to the concubines, etc., the backyard occupies 60% of the land.

Shi Chen walked out of the wooden house and gave an order to the maid waiting outside. Two maids then led the way, taking him from the front yard through the middle yard, into the back yard, and then taking a detour of one or two miles to the place where Xu Jing was confined.

This was a quiet courtyard, with two guards in the late Qi training stage guarding the archway. After Shi Chen showed his token, he told the maid to wait outside the archway before he slowly walked in.

After crossing the archway, Shi Chen discovered that the courtyard was shrouded in a joint sealing formation consisting of two second-level formations. If Shi Chen wanted to break it, it would take a quarter of an hour.

There is a small lotus pond in the courtyard, with lotus leaves everywhere and a dozen lotus flowers, some in bloom and some in bud. There are also a few koi swimming in the pond.

The two-story building was located beside the pool. Shi Chen walked along the brick path to the bottom of the building. A gentle voice came from upstairs: "Third brother is here. Please come upstairs to talk."

Shi Chen didn't answer and went straight up to the small building.

Pushing open the carved wooden door on the second floor, I looked up and saw a woman sitting by the window.

The woman wore a light blue silk lining and a pink floral long skirt with purple embroidery that extended along the hem of the skirt. The sleeves reached her wrists and the cuffs were inlaid with silver thread. The front of the skirt was embroidered with blue lotus and pink flowers.

She leans her head against the window, her face is as frosty as ice, her eyes are like stars, her cheeks are rosy, and her skin is as white as ice.

"You guys go out first, I want to talk to my third brother." Xu Qing said to the maid beside her.

After the maid finished her greetings, she retreated from the small building. Xu Qing waited until the maid was far away, raised her hand to set up a ban, and then said, "Third brother is finally here. Is there any news?"

"It's me." Shi Chen said softly in his original voice.

When Xu Qing heard the voice, her body trembled slightly. She turned to look at Shi Chen. Just like her third brother, her eyes were a little moist.

"You... already know about me... my affairs? Now I am under house arrest by the family, and in a few months I will marry into the mansion master's family." Xu Qing said with a sob.

"I'm sorry, I broke my promise and failed to come visit on time. Something happened in the meantime, and I was delayed for more than two years. This time I brought you the top-grade foundation-building pill you wanted, hoping it can be of help to you." Shi Chen said with some self-blame, and took out a jade bottle containing a top-grade foundation-building pill.

"You came across the sea and across the state just to deliver a pill?" Xu Qing said a little unnaturally.

"A gentleman's promise is as high as the sky. Now that we have made an agreement, we must fulfill it. Although I didn't know you were a girl when we met, since I promised to find elixirs for you, I must fulfill my promise." Shi Chen said solemnly.

"Okay!" Xu Qing stretched out her delicate hand, grabbed the bottle and her hand, looked at Shi Chen and said, "Don't you have any feelings for me at all? Don't you have any attraction to me at all?"

Shi Chen was silent for five breaths, and broke free from Xu Qing's hand. Looking at Xu Qing's eyes that were about to shed tears, he felt a little touched. However, he thought that he was alone and his cultivation was only in the middle stage of foundation building. Any Jindan cultivator could crush him to death. Even if he had some ideas, there would be no future for them. If he insisted on doing them, the result would often be tragedy. After taking a deep breath, he made up his mind.

"Miss Xu may have misunderstood. The friendship between you and me is like that of gentlemen, and the friendship between gentlemen is as pure as water. Knowing that you are a daughter, the one who has feelings for you should be Huang Qi, who has been with you the longest. I just met Miss Xu by chance and have been with her for a while."

"You lied. You saved me twice. The first time was when I was knocked unconscious in the mist in the Thousand Poison Pond. It was you who carried me out of the mist and rented a room in the Fairy Inn in the city for a year. The second time was when I went out to explore with Huang Qi and his sister, and we also fell unconscious in the Thousand Poison Pond and the secret realm of the Thousand Poison Pond. It was you who rescued us from the secret realm despite being surrounded and killed." Xu Qing growled softly, feeling indescribable sadness in her heart.

"Oh!" Shi Chen was helpless. Xu Qing already knew that she was responsible for the two times she was rescued. The current situation was that Shi Chen could not admit it, nor did he dare to admit it.

"I don't know what Miss Xu meant by saving people or not. I have been to the Thousand Poison Pond, but I didn't save anyone there. Miss Xu must have recognized the wrong person. Now that we have fulfilled our agreement, it is not appropriate for me to stay here. The mountains are high and the roads are long. We will meet again later." Shi Chen said calmly, then clasped his fists and bowed, turning around to leave the boudoir.

"Are you just going to leave like this?" Xu Qing shouted with tears in her eyes.

Shi Chen turned around and faced Xu Qing with an expressionless face.

"Since you have already exceeded the appointment, why did you come? Why didn't you come earlier? You still don't admit that it was you who saved me. I didn't know the first time, but after the second time, I have the inheritance of life cultivation, and the secret method of calculation showed it was you. I even deliberately approached you for a while, believing that after getting along for a long time, we would naturally become Taoist companions. Unfortunately, fate is unpredictable and the world is unpredictable. But today, you come to my side, which shows that we are destined to be together." Xu Qing said, tears rolling down her face and wetting her clothes.

Seeing that Xu Qing was starting to lose her temper, Shi Chen was speechless.

"Ms. Xu, you should think about your family and the consequences of your choice. I am alone and have no worries, but you are responsible for the lifeblood of an entire clan." Shi Chen said with forced calmness.

"From childhood to adulthood, no one in the clan has ever cared about me. My father has only met me three times. Except for my third brother, although we don't have the same mother, he is the best person to me. The clan members will only use me in exchange for the interests of the family." Xu Qing said with sobs in a cold voice.

"With my current cultivation level, I am powerless to rescue you from the Xu family. The three fourth-order formations of the Xu family are combined. Once they are activated, it will be difficult for us to leave the Xu family. Even if we escape from the Xu family, it will be difficult to escape the pursuit of the Mansion Lord." Shi Chen frowned and analyzed.

"Even if I die, I will not marry that playboy. Li Baohuan is lustful and has a weird and arrogant personality. More than a hundred female cultivators die at his hands every year. He once even killed a female Nascent Soul cultivator whose cultivation level was higher than his in the street. If his biological father was not the lord of the mansion, he would have died countless times without knowing how many times he has died. There are at least two thousand cultivators outside who want to kill him now." Xu Qing scolded angrily.

"These things have nothing to do with me. Since I have fulfilled my promise, Miss Xu, you should think about what you are going to do next. My cultivation is too low, and I really can't do anything. I will be in the capital for a while. If it is something within my ability, I am still willing to help, but I am sorry that I can't do anything about Miss Xu's family affairs." After Shi Chen finished speaking, he walked out of Xu Qing's boudoir, shook his head and left.

He returned to the reception courtyard where Xu Zijun was waiting for him, took care of everything, said goodbye to Xu Zijun, and left the Xu family.

The Xian Inn I rented before has expired, so I have to find another Xian Inn to rent. I still have to continue to have three burrows to save my life.