Chapter 161 Two-Headed Fish

The next morning, Tian Lin got up and heard a knock on the door.

He didn't need to look outside to know that it was the maid named Yu'er who was guarding the door.

Sure enough, after Tian Lin answered, the girl pushed the door and sat in the room, holding a copper basin in her hand.

"You have been guarding outside for quite a while, right?"

Tian Lin washed his hands and said, "I don't have so many rules. You don't have to waste your time on me."

Yu'er immediately said, "This is the job I do. If I don't serve the master well and don't know the rules, I will be punished."

Tian Lin asked her, "How many spirit stones can you get in a month?"

Yu'er said, "When I was in the mansion, I got five low-grade spirit stones a month."

Tian Lin nodded. Five low-grade spirit stones are not a small amount in Yulong Continent.

He then frowned: "When I was in the mansion, it was five low-grade spirit stones. From what you said, you are out of the mansion now?"

Yu'er immediately said: "I can still collect my monthly salary in the mansion now."

Tian Lin understood-

Yu'er and Cui'er came to his yard, and it was reasonable for Tian Lin to pay their monthly salary in the future.

However, if Tian Lin was stingy and didn't give them spirit stones, they could also go back to the Tong family to ask for them.

But if they did so, others would laugh at Tian Lin for not knowing the rules.

"I forgot that you gave a spirit stone to that guy named Qiu Ge'er yesterday. You gave him that spirit stone on my behalf, right?"

Yu'er said hurriedly, "I acted on my own initiative. Please punish me, Master."

Tian Lin took the storage bag from the bedside, took out five low-grade spirit stones and handed them over:

"Except the spirit stone you gave away yesterday, you can keep the remaining four spirit stones with you. If there is anything in the house that needs spirit stones in the future, you can make an account and tell me later."

Yu'er took the spirit stone respectfully and carefully put it in her purse.

Seeing Tian Lin going to get the robe from the bedside, she quickly asked, "Why didn't you put on the new clothes that the elder gave to the master yesterday?"

Tian Lin heard that she seemed to be hinting at something, so he took the clothes but didn't rush to put them on. He asked, "Besides keeping away dust and insects, what other uses does that dress have?"

Yu'er said, "The master is now a foundation-building expert, and he must know the difference between immortals and mortals. It's better not to confuse his clothes with those of mortals."

Tian Lin unfolded his clothes, which he brought from Yulong Continent.

Although it was not as good as the precious clothes given by the Tong family, the material was also superior.

Yu'er smiled and walked forward to pick up the robe that the great elder had given her yesterday from the end of the bed. While putting it on Tian Lin, she said:

"In addition to the different cloud patterns on the clothes, the clothes of mortals and cultivators also have many differences in color.

Sir, you are a foundation-building master, so you must have gold-thread edging and jade beads as buckles."

She said: "Others will know that you are a foundation-building master when they see the gold-edged jade buckle. You can go to some places that mortals cannot go.

You can go in and out freely in some places where foundation-building masters do not need spirit stones."

Tian Lin glanced at Yu'er's collar and looked at the silver cloud pattern on it: "Do Qi-refining masters also have different clothes?"

Yu'er said: "There is a difference between immortals and mortals. This is the best way to distinguish between mortals and cultivators; it also prevents some mortals from being reckless and bumping into nobles and killing them."

Hearing what Yu'er said, the distinction between these clothes is actually a protection for mortals.

While the two of them were talking, Cui'er came over and said at the door:

"What do you want for breakfast, Master? If you want to eat spiritual rice, you can make some Yunzi porridge."

"What kind of spiritual rice do we have in our house?"

After Tian Lin asked, he heard Cui'er say at the door: "This time I brought a portion of each of the five spiritual rices from the house. It depends on what spiritual rice you want to eat."

Tian Lin asked Cui'er again: "Is the spiritual rice in our Pingyang City expensive?"

Although Cui'er was a servant, she was not doing shopping work, so she was speechless for a while.

Yu'er quickly said, "We have our own spiritual fields in our house, and we grow five-color spiritual rice. If you want to buy spiritual rice, you don't need to spend much spiritual stones to buy spiritual rice with your status as a worshiper.

But one thing is that you can only use this spiritual rice for yourself, and you can't sell it."

After she finished speaking, she said, "I don't know if you need to buy spiritual rice. I'll ask the housekeeper after I go downstairs."

Tian Lin now has only more than 80 low-grade spiritual stones in his pocket, 30 of which were sent by the Tong family.

He didn't know how many places he would have to spend spiritual stones on next, and hesitated for a while and said, "Don't buy it in a hurry, just eat the spiritual rice sent by the Tong Mansion."

He ate spiritual rice for sword intent. If he really wanted to enhance his cultivation, he might as well drink the "spiritual liquid" directly.

But the spiritual liquid has a great effect in the Qi Refining stage, but it doesn't have much effect in the Foundation Building stage.

"I heard that there are many spells sold on the street, even the Five Elements Golden Elixir Jue."

Tian Lin asked Yu'er beside him while drinking porridge.

Yu'er smiled and said, "Because the Five Elements Golden Elixir Secret is an orthodox practice method, the most people practice it. Also because there are so many people practicing it, this secret is no longer a secret.

If you want this technique, you don't have to buy it outside. I will ask the housekeeper in the mansion and send you a copy later."

Tian Lin put down the spoon and couldn't help but praise: "The Tong family is really rich."

His praise was sincere, and Yu'er couldn't help but say with some pride:

"Our Tong family has gone through two thousand years and has indeed accumulated a lot of family property. All this is thanks to our ancestor Tong Yao."

Depend on our ancestor Tong Yao?

I'm afraid it depends on a small qi-refining family like Zhou Qing's family. Otherwise, where would there be so many spiritual fields to grow spiritual rice?

Tian Lin actually doesn't have much fondness for the Tong family. He probably has interacted with the Zhou family too many times in the fantasy world, and he has some sympathy for Zhou Qing and his wife.

But he would not feel injustice for the Zhou family. As a person from Huahua Lang, what could he do to pity the children of those aristocratic families?

Tian Lin wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, stood up and said to Yu'er, "I'm going out. If anyone comes, tell me I won't be back until tonight."

Tian Lin left immediately and left the house in a few steps.

After he disappeared, Cui'er, who was cleaning up the dishes, couldn't help but curl her lips and said:

"It's old, but it's better to eat than a pig. Five bowls of Yunzi porridge, but not a single bowl was left for us."

Her sister Yu'er said amusedly: "How can a servant care about the master's leftovers?"

Cui'er said angrily: "When we were serving the ladies at home, when was there not a bowl of spiritual rice given to us?

I thought it was a good job to be sent to serve the foundation-building monk, but I didn't expect that this foundation-building monk was old and ugly, and he didn't know all the skills of cultivating immortals, but he was so stingy.

Let's follow him, not to mention enjoying happiness, but we are afraid that our life will not be as good as at home. "

After hearing this, Yu'er also frowned.

It was hard for her to win this job, and she spent a lot of spiritual stones on it.

I thought it was a good job, but I didn't expect it to be a fire pit.

Looking at the attitude of 'Master Tian', I'm afraid he won't even be able to support himself in the future, so how can he support his two girls?

——

Tian Lin didn't think much about the two girls at this time. He just walked around the shops on the street and then left Pingyang City.

What Yu'er said was right. His clothes saved him a lot of trouble.

Not to mention that mortals who saw him on the street would take the initiative to avoid him. Even when entering and leaving the city, the soldiers guarding the city were extremely polite to him, let alone questioning his identity.

He kept in mind the words of the man named "Seventh Master" yesterday. It was best not to fly with a sword inside and outside the city to avoid misunderstanding.

Fortunately, Pingyang City is not far from Shenxian Pond, and it didn't take long for Tian Lin to reach the coast after using his wind technique.

On the coast, the Sanhe Gang's ship was about to set sail.

The leader was the man in the scarf who threw the harpoon at Tian Lin yesterday. The man in the scarf changed his face slightly when he saw Tian Lin. He had already seen Tian Lin's cultivation from Tian Lin's clothes.

"Xiao Ke was careless and bumped into senior, please forgive me."

The man in the scarf did not hide. Instead, he got off the boat and knelt down in front of Tian Lin.

Tian Lin's trip was not to show off his power. He smiled and took out the Tong family's offering card from his storage bag and said, "I am going to sea to fish just like you."

Zhang Xiaoke's expression changed, thinking that Tian Lin was pursuing the matter of not allowing Tian Lin to fish yesterday.

Zhang Xiaoke gritted his teeth, took out the dagger from his waist and held it up with both hands: "What happened yesterday was Xiaoke's fault. If senior wants to hold you accountable, just hold me accountable."

Behind him, some of the fishermen were standing on the boat, and some were already standing on the shore. They looked at Tian Lin with horror in their eyes, while some of them dared to be angry and dare not speak.

"I didn't mean to blame you. I just wanted to ask you to teach me how to fish."

Zhang Xiaoke frowned and looked up to see Tian Lin's serious face, and then he was convinced that Tian Lin was not talking sarcastically.

But he still found it incredible. After being helped up by Tian Lin, he bravely said:

“With your senior’s cultivation, why bother fishing to earn spiritual stones?”

Tian Lin said: "I don't know how to cultivate immortality and a hundred arts. Thinking about it carefully, it seems that fishing can only supplement the family income."

Zhang Xiaoke fell silent, and after a while he could only say:

"Senior wants to learn how to fish, so Xiao Ke naturally has nothing to say. The only thing is, if you can't catch fish then, please don't blame me and others."

Tian Lin followed Zhang Xiaoke onto the boat. He only watched these people operate the whole process and didn't say much.

After the thousand-year-old wooden boat drifted on the coast for a day, a group of people returned home and there were only two sea fish on the huge deck.

Zhang Xiaoke sighed and said to Tian Lin:

"If senior had come half a year earlier, he might have earned some spiritual stones. But half a year ago, the unknown powerful man massacred us, and the few sea fish on the coast became even less."

Tian Lin knew that he was talking about the Nine Lives Master.

Speaking of which, Master Jiu Ming appeared in Shenxiantang, half of the reason was because of Tian Lin.

It’s just that Tian Lin himself doesn’t know why Jiu Ming Zhenren suddenly gave up killing himself for no reason and instead went to Shenxian Pond to ‘become a monster’.

Towards evening, the fishing boat finally docked.

Although they got two two-headed fish, no one in the group was happy.

Zhang Xiaoke told Tian Lin: "When fishing in Shenxian Pond, you cannot use flying swords, as flying swords will sink when they enter the water.

The fish monsters near the shore are very cunning and often hide in the water a few feet deep from the sea surface. True Qi cannot penetrate the water, and spiritual consciousness cannot invade the water and attack sea fish.

Only harpoons made of thousand-year-old wood can hardly break through the scales of sea fish. In short, even if the senior is a foundation-building monk, it may not be easy for him to earn spiritual stones by fishing. "

From what Zhang Xiaoke said, he wanted to persuade Tian Lin to give up fishing.

But Tian Lin only asked Zhang Xiaoke: "How much can a two-headed fish like this be sold for?"

Zhang Xiaoke thought for a while and said: "The meat of this two-headed fish is poisonous and cannot be sold as spiritual meat. Fortunately, its scales can be sold to weapon refiners, and its organs can be sold to alchemists——

Calculated this way, this two-headed fish can touch approximately seven or eight low-grade spiritual stones. "

Seven or eight low-grade spiritual stones are actually not too many, but in order to catch this fish, Zhang Xiaoke and others sent out four or five small boats, and the number of people who went there was more than a dozen.

If so many people share seven or eight low-grade spiritual stones, how much can they get?

What's more, half of the seven or eight low-grade spiritual stones have to be handed over to the Tong family.

How much can be left in their hands?

"A Talisman Maker can earn dozens of low-grade spiritual stones in a day. If I can catch ten of these fish monsters in a day, the amount of spiritual stones I will earn will not be less than that of a Talisman Maker."

Tian Lin muttered, then smiled and said to Zhang Xiaoke: "I need to trouble you to teach me which fish are valuable and which fish are not valuable these days."

After Tian Lin left, the fishermen of the Sanhe Gang looked at each other, and finally one person couldn't help but said:

"Is this old man crazy? He is a strong foundation builder. Why is he here to join in the fun? Is the spiritual stone he earns from fishing in the sea enough for him to buy a water god pill?"

Zhang Xiaoke shook his head, looked back from the direction where Tian Lin disappeared, and said coldly:

"Now that there are no fish in the offshore, are you still afraid that he will snatch your catch? Save your energy and think about how to deal with the Tong family."

They had received an order to go to sea, and as the New Year was approaching, they had to pay an extra amount of spiritual stones.