I must figure something out myself!
The salted fish thought about it and felt that doing a summary once every half month seemed a bit tiring~~~ Forget it then~~~ Instead of doing summaries, it is better to write more words and let everyone read more.
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Sun-Moon Sect Medical Clinic……
When Lianhua expressed her intention to go to the Spring Breeze Tower again, Jiang Lin was somewhat dumbfounded.
Coming out of the Spring Breeze Tower only to enter it again.
Jiang Lin really did not expect Lianhua to be so dedicated.
However, upon closer reflection, Lianhua originally just played the zither and danced at the Spring Breeze Tower, acting as a performance entertainer who earned a living by her own skills. What was wrong with that!
She was merely changing venues to play the zither and dance; she was neither stealing nor robbing.
Therefore, Jiang Lin agreed to help Lianhua contact Aunt Lin of the Spring Breeze Tower.
Everything went very smoothly. As a senior gold-medal consultant of the Spring Breeze Tower, Jiang Lin had put in a good word for Lianhua in advance, so there shouldn't be any major problems.
Naturally, Lianhua could not know about this.
Good deeds should be done without leaving a name, and as for pulling strings through the back door, it was better left unsaid……
However, facts proved that even if Jiang Lin had not established a prior relationship with Aunt Lin, Lianhua's own talent would have allowed her to join the Spring Breeze Tower.
After Jiang Lin, Ji Jibo, and the others watched Lianhua's talent audition, they realized that not only was Miss Lianhua quite accomplished in dancing and playing the guzheng, but she was also extremely skilled at playing the xiao.
In the end, Lianhua became a performing arts guest at the Spring Breeze Tower, playing the zither and dancing every day, enjoying the five insurances and one housing fund of the Sun-Moon Sect's Spring Breeze Tower, with a monthly salary of ten low-grade spirit stones.
The salary at the Spring Breeze Tower was not high, and most of the earnings relied on tips, but Lianhua refused all tips, probably fearing that Jiang Lin, Ji Jibo, and the others would intentionally send tips over to make her pay off her debt immediately.
Aunt Lin naturally agreed to Lianhua's request and did not think Lianhua was being aloof or overly proud.
On the contrary, Aunt Lin actively rented a small courtyard for Lianhua. The courtyard was very close to the Spring Breeze Tower, making her daily commute convenient, and the monthly rent was only fifty taels.
Coupled with food, clothing, and travel expenses, and calculated according to the consumption level of the Sun-Moon Sect, it would probably take Lianhua a year to pay back Jiang Lin's single medium-grade spirit stone.
Lianhua calculated it over and over again, and when she realized it would truly only take a year, she was also somewhat stunned.
One low-grade spirit stone was worth one hundred taels of silver, and one medium-grade spirit stone was equivalent to one hundred low-grade spirit stones, which meant ten thousand taels.
To Lianhua, earning this ten thousand taels in Donglin City would take another seven or eight years no matter what, but in the Sun-Moon Sect, it only took one year.
Had she not seen that the salaries of the other sisters around her were not low, and some even considerably higher than her own, Lianhua would have suspected that Jiang Lin had once again pulled strings for her.
However, this was also normal. The mortal world generally used silver, whereas cultivators generally used spirit stones.
In some orthodox immortal sects, people did not even use silver; it was somewhat like earning foreign exchange.
If the Sun-Moon Sect were not rather eccentric—functioning as an urban-rural fringe zone between a cultivator sect and the mortal world, with both cultivators and many ordinary people—it probably wouldn't even use silver.
After about three to five days, amidst the harmonious atmosphere of the Spring Breeze Tower, Lianhua gradually integrated into the simple and honest folk life of the Sun-Moon Sect.
Especially after Wu Die learned that Lianhua was the very woman Wu Ke had been endlessly searching for, she became extremely enthusiastic. Hearing that the two of them practiced choreography and played the xiao together, they found they had much in common.
Now they were just waiting for Wu Ke to return.
Thinking of Wu Ke, and then thinking of his own completely uncorrupted intentions toward Lianhua, Jiang Lin felt that he was truly righteous.
If it were an ordinary person, with such a pretty young woman throwing herself into his arms, he probably would have devoured her long ago.
Yet he was different!
He pushed the principle of "a friend's wife should not be coveted" to the absolute limit! From beginning to end, he had no overstepping behaviors whatsoever, making him practically a modern-day Liu Xiahui reborn!
For Wu Ke to make a friend who was as handsome, talented, and righteous as himself, he must have saved the Milky Way in his past life.
Of course, if Wu Ke truly knew that Jiang Lin was thinking this way, he would probably say, "I really thank you so much"……
On the sixth morning since returning to the Sun-Moon Sect, the injuries Jiang Lin had sustained in Donglin City were already completely healed.
Over these past five or six days, Jiang Lin had deliberately set up a magic array in his room, fearing that those floral and botanical spirits would launch another surprise attack before his injuries healed. If that happened, his kidneys would never even dream of upgrading……
And today, Jiang Lin had changed!
Rising early, Jiang Lin directly threw away his thermos cup and goji berries!
To demonstrate his resolve! Jiang Lin stood at the edge of the Twin Pearls Peak cliff and tossed the Nine-Flavor Rehmannia Pills given by the system straight down!
Did he still need these things?
Jokes on you!
Starting today! He would revive the majestic glory of a real man!
Standing at the edge of the cliff, Jiang Lin spread his arms wide and took a deep breath. The early morning breeze whipped his white robes, making a fluttering sound, and his waterfall of black hair danced with the wind.
One had to admit that if this person wasn't acting so wretched, he really was quite handsome……
[Ding…… Detected that the host's injuries have fully recovered. Does the host wish to upgrade the Indestructible Vajra Kidney?]
"Bring it on!"
[Ding…… The host's kidney is upgrading. Host's kidney upgrade at ten percent…… twenty percent…… percent……]
With his eyes closed and standing at the cliff's edge, Jiang Lin felt a wave of warmth wash over his lower back.
It felt like leaning against a warming patch in winter, and also like his master's little hand massaging his waist……
Eh? Why did he feel like his master was massaging his waist? Had his master ever massaged his waist?
It seemed not……
"Hiss~~~ Whew~~~ Awesome~~~"
Just as Jiang Lin was feeling puzzled, a sensation akin to an electric shock made his entire body tremble!
[Ding…… Host's kidney upgrade complete. Rewards have been fully distributed. May the host create further brilliance!]
"Little Linlin, are you alright?"
"Daddy?"
The system's voice had just vanished when, from another small thatched cottage, Jiang Yuni, wearing a thin floral pajama, emerged carrying Xiao Niannian, who was dressed in matching mother-daughter pajamas.
Jiang Yuni and Xiao Niannian both looked dazed, their pretty fingers rubbing their eyes simultaneously. The lazy, petite appearance of the mother and daughter made Jiang Lin feel that the ultimate happiness in life was nothing more than this.
"Sorry, I disturbed your sleep."
Jiang Lin walked over and patted the heads of his master and Xiao Niannian.
"Master and Niannian go wash up first. I'll go prepare breakfast. And Master, you shouldn't wear such casual clothes; go change right away."
"Eh…… What's wrong with that? There's only Little Linlin on Twin Pearls Peak anyway, I only wear this for Little Linlin to see."
Jiang Lin was somewhat amused and exasperated: "That still won't do, I'm a man after all."
"Hee hee hee, could it be that Little Linlin is having improper thoughts about your master?"
"Improper thoughts my head, go change quickly." Jiang Lin gently tapped his master's head.
"Oh…… Alright then……"
Jiang Yuni pouted her small lips and carried the sleep-dazed Xiao Niannian back into the small thatched cottage.
Humph! Little Linlin is really something. She had made her intentions so obvious.
Humph! This was also Little Linlin's fault for setting up that magic array. They were already home, why set up any array at all?
It ruined her chances of launching a night raid.
No way!
Jiang Yuni looked at the small thatched cottage and secretly made up her mind!
She had to find a way!