[Mo Dao Zu Shi Fanfiction] I Raise A Ying in Yiling

"Forget it, stop thinking about all that nonsense." Wei Chaoyan patted her head, pulling her thoughts back from their wanderings. She prepared to go inside and organize all the clothes her family had kept and the valuables her parents had hidden, then put them into storage bags. As for the other things that were out in the open, she didn't touch any of them.

As for the storage bag, it is specifically for mortals. Mortals without cultivation can use it after they have recognized it as their master by dripping blood on it. The space is not large, only one cubic meter in size.

How did she obtain that storage bag? According to her mother, Li Xiangqing, she found it. Her mother had been a personal maid to the legitimate daughter of a minor official since childhood, in charge of needlework and cooking. Because of her good skills, gentle personality, high emotional intelligence, and ability to get along with people, and because her appearance was only average and posed no threat to the legitimate daughter, and she had no ambition, she was highly valued by the legitimate daughter.

Afterwards, her mother accompanied the legitimate daughter of a minor official to the imperial harem for the imperial selection. The legitimate daughter herself was beautiful, talented, and shrewd; she was also capable of cunning and ruthlessness in crucial moments, making her naturally adept in the harem environment. In just a few years, she rose from a lowly candidate to the emperor's most favored imperial concubine—it's practically a modern-day palace intrigue drama! o(￣ヘ￣o)

Of course, her promotion journey was far from smooth sailing; it was fraught with intrigue and backstabbing. This storage bag, usable even with a drop of blood from an ordinary person, was found by her mother in a secluded corner of the chamber of a former favored concubine who had lost a palace intrigue. Naturally, high rewards meant high risks.

During one of the emperor's incognito visits, the legitimate daughter and the emperor unfortunately encountered assassins sent by the emperor's concubines to kill her. Her mother was seriously injured while trying to save her, and the emperor's guards were all killed or wounded. In the end, only the emperor, the legitimate daughter, her dying mother, and the most skilled guard remained.

At this critical moment, Wei's father, who happened to be hunting in the nearby mountains, discovered the disheveled group. Faced with a huge disparity in strength, Wei's father cleverly used his homemade animal-attracting powder to lure a large number of wild beasts to attack the assassins and assassins, thus successfully leading his mother and the others to escape into the depths of the dense forest.

With Wei's help, they successfully escaped the enemy's pursuit by using different hidden paths in the deep forest, and crossed the dense forest to reach a relatively safe town on the other side, a journey that took a month.

After contacting the emperor's other secret guards, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Wei's father immediately disguised himself and went out to guide the people summoned by the emperor to their lodgings.

Fortunately, one of the visitors was a doctor, who immediately took the pulses and treated everyone present. Father Wei, the Emperor, and the eldest daughter were not seriously injured, only somewhat exhausted and malnourished; they would recover after a few days of rest. The more troublesome situation involved the remaining bodyguard and her mother, who had suffered severe injuries without timely treatment, and whose condition had been further exacerbated by a month-long ordeal of escape.

The bodyguard is alright; she just needs some time to recover. But her mother is not. Not only is half of her face ruined, but her severely injured body will require six months of rest and recuperation, and she will be quite weak after she recovers.

Having reached this conclusion, Wei Niang decisively resigned from her post, citing the need not burden her master. Grateful for Wei Niang's loyalty, the emperor not only rewarded her with a hundred taels of gold but also specially assigned a bodyguard to escort her to another safe place. Wei's father, understanding the situation, told the emperor that the reward for saving his life was sufficient. The emperor was pleased with Wei's father's graciousness and also rewarded him with a hundred taels of gold.

After making his promise, the emperor left with his eldest daughter and his men, while Wei's father and mother, accompanied by their secret guards, went to another nearby town. After the guards left, Wei's father, using the reward money as an excuse that it was unsafe for Wei's mother to be recuperating alone, stayed behind to take care of her.

During their six-month recovery period, feelings blossomed between them. After they recovered, they traveled together for over a year. When Wei Niang was twenty and Wei Die was twenty-one, they had a simple wedding ceremony. A year after their marriage, Wei Die brought his wife back to Wei Village after she was born.

After returning to her room, Wei Chaoyan closed the door and moved to a corner where the moonlight shone through the window. She carefully took out an antique-looking sachet from inside her inner garment. Then, she cruelly bit her little finger, letting the blood drip onto the sachet in the moonlight as a gesture of recognition.

After recognizing the master, she put her still-bleeding finger in her mouth and then opened the storage bag to see what was inside.

The small space contained five ingots of silver weighing ten taels, some loose silver pieces, a set of jewelry, a few precious medicinal herbs, and nothing else.

"Ah, this? Father and the others only have this much money left?" Wei Chaoyan sighed in disappointment, but then she thought about it and realized it made sense. After so many years of spending, even a lot of money would be gone. Her mother's injuries were so severe; if her father hadn't spent a fortune buying elixirs used by cultivators, how could she have fully recovered? Afterwards, her mother had been constantly taking medicine to recuperate, and these were all high-quality herbs. After returning to the village, they spent money building a new house, the money they gave to the village chief and his wife, and the medicinal baths her father used to give her. If it weren't for her parents' excellent money-making skills, their family would have been in debt long ago. To have so much surplus, plus the several dozen taels of silver openly displayed… wow, her parents are really amazing! w(°o°)w!

After praising her parents' earning power, Wei Chaoyan crawled under the bed and rummaged around in the corner against the wall for a while before pressing down hard on a barely noticeable indentation. With a crisp "click," a small hole appeared in the wall. She reached in and pulled out all the hidden silver coins, casually putting them into her storage bag. After taking out the money, she pressed lightly three times above the hole, and the wall immediately returned to normal.

Wei Chaoyan went to her father's room and opened the mechanism in the same place. She put the silver hidden by her father, the two most precious embroideries that her mother had made, a few unused medicinal herbs, and a few pieces of jewelry that her mother was reluctant to take into her storage bag. After restoring the mechanism, she returned to the mourning hall to continue keeping vigil for her parents and wait for the next day.