Chapter 300 Robbery
Miaozhen: "This cowshed is really nice. The kind man is really good to his stepson. This is the best cowshed I have ever seen in my life. It not only has a bed, but also a cabinet."

Pan Jun reached out and pulled the cabinet, and the cabinet door fell off with a snap.

Pan Jun exclaimed in surprise, "Ah!" and said pretentiously, "It's just that the cabinet door is not very strong. It broke when touched."

Tao's mother's face flushed red. "You, you... who allowed you to come in and touch things randomly? How do you teach your children in Sanqing Temple?"

Tao's mother yelled outside the door, "Like robbers, a group of girls broke into a man's bedroom and touched things everywhere. What kind of good things can a child learn if he is sent to such a place..."

Tao Yanbai's face flushed, and he quickly pulled her back and said, "Mom, don't talk nonsense, these are my junior uncle and junior sister."

Miao He said kindly: "Good man, it's useless to shout no matter how loudly you shout. This is our junior uncle, an elder. Senior Brother can't control her."

Pan Jun brushed off the dust on his hands and said, "Sister-in-law, I don't have any bad intentions. I watched Yan Bai grow up. This is my first time visiting his home in the secular world. I can't help but be curious. I just want to see how the child is doing here."

As she spoke, she opened the other cabinet door, took down the two pairs of shoes that were still inside and threw them to Tao Yanbai, "As a Taoist doctor, you can't avoid walking around the streets, and shoes are the most important thing. Don't forget them."

Tao Yanbai took the shoes and stuffed them into the backpack. Then he saw Pan Jun reach into the cabinet and somehow pulled out a purse.

Tao Yanbai: …

When Tao's mother saw this, her eyes widened.

This was what she had always wanted but could never find.

Pan Jun looked at Tao Yanbai with an indescribable look. Is this how talismans are used?
She didn't expect that it would be used to hide things.

She calmly peeled off the yellow talisman stuck on the inside of the cabinet and put it into the spiritual space.

Then, under the gaze of Tao's mother, Pan Yun took the purse in his hand and tossed it up, then turned his head and asked, "Yan Bai, is this the money you want to pay me back?"

Tao Yanbai was stunned for a moment. Did he owe money to his junior uncle?
Oh, yes, she deposited 150 taels with him, but he put the money in the Taoist temple and gave it to the master uncle to look after. If the little master uncle needs money, he can go directly to the master uncle to get it. This money was earned by him practicing medicine in the streets for the past few months...

Miaohe walked sleekly behind Tao Yanbai and pinched his arm, "Junior Master is asking you a question. You owe Junior Master one hundred and fifty taels..."

Tao Yanbai came back to his senses immediately and nodded quickly, "Yes, yes, yes, this is to be returned to Junior Master."

Tao's mother's face darkened and she raised her hand to snatch the purse, but Pan Yun turned around and her arm passed through the purse.

Pan Jun pretended not to notice and walked out with the money bag. "Okay, although it's not much, I'll take it with reluctance. I'll give you ten taels. For the remaining one hundred and forty taels, you have to work for me and earn money to pay me back."

"Oh." Tao Yanbai couldn't help but responded happily, picked up the backpack and followed.

Mother Tao was faster than him and chased after Pan Yun, "Wait a minute, it's ok that you guys in Sanqing Temple used him as a farmhand, but why did you let him owe so much money? How could he spend so much money? How did he owe all this money?"

Father Tao turned his head sharply and asked, "What do you mean by owing money? Who owes money?"

Pan Jun tossed the purse and put it into the spiritual space the moment it fell. In the eyes of the Tao family, it was like a magic trick and no one knew where she had put the purse.

Pan Yun smiled and said, "Yanbai, my third nephew, he owes me one hundred and fifty taels."

Father Tao couldn't believe it and screamed, "How could you owe so much?"

He looked at Pan Yun suspiciously, frowning, "Master Wang, who is this young Taoist priest? I have never seen him before."

Wang Cong said: "This is our Taoist temple's junior master uncle, an elder."

Father Tao choked. He thought, "Elders are his equals, so it's hard to scold them."

But Tao's mother did not have such awareness. In her eyes, Pan Yun was just a girl slightly older than her daughter. There was nothing to be afraid of. She stared at Pan Yun and asked, "Where did you hide the money? That was earned by my son's hard work in treating patients."

Pan Yun: "Who said that was your son's money? That was clearly my money, and it was paid back to me by my third nephew."

"You say it's yours? That doesn't make sense. Tell me, why did he lend you so much money?"

Pan Yun counted on his fingers and said, "That's a lot. The temple provides him with food and accommodation, and teaches him medicine. But when he gets sick, ordinary medicine can be given to him for free, but it's not good to ask us to pay for the expensive medicine out of our own pocket, right?"

"Over the years, he has had several serious illnesses and needed some precious medicinal herbs to treat them. He didn't ask his family for money, so he had to borrow from me. As a result, he owed me so much."

"Bullshit, that's not what you said when you took the child away. You said you would treat him like your own child. Why do you have to pay for his illness?"

Wang Cong immediately stood in front of Pan Yun and said, "Aunt, that's exactly what Third Uncle said when he brought Third Junior Brother back to the Taoist temple. But later on, you disagreed with Third Junior Brother becoming a monk, saying that his mother only had him as a son and that the incense from his maternal ancestors couldn't be cut off. You clamored to take him away, and my father finally relented and asked my master to accept him as a nominal disciple instead of Third Uncle." "Originally, Third Junior Brother was related to Third Uncle and had a talent for Taoist medicine, so we wanted him to inherit the Dao of alchemy, but you didn't want him to, so the matter of accepting him as a disciple fell through."

"Since he is only a nominal disciple, he is naturally different from the rest of us. He has to pay for some of the bigger expenses himself."

"You are talking nonsense. That's not what you said when you took me away. If you had said I had to pay for it myself, would I have given my child to your temple as a long-term worker?"

When Tao's mother saw that his father didn't say anything, she pushed him forward and said, "Why don't you say something? Are you still a man? Your son teamed up with outsiders to deceive the family, and you didn't say a word."

Miao Zhen rolled up her sleeves and stepped forward, pinching her waist and said, "Don't accuse me. How did we lie to you? Could it be that your child grew up this big just by facing the wind and opening his mouth towards the northwest?"

"Besides, Mr. Tao, why did he say anything? He has only raised this son for a few years. My senior uncle and third uncle have been raising him."

Miao He: "That's right, even my biological father is like this, let alone you are a stepmother!"

Pan Yun added: "She is also an unkind stepmother."

She glanced at Father Tao, shook her head, and sighed, "My biological father is neither kind nor righteous. He became a stepfather after having a stepmother. Not only did he treat his son badly, but he also pushed all the sins onto his wife. Alas, the world is going downhill, and people's hearts are no longer the same as before."

Father Tao's face flushed red, and he pushed his wife away angrily, shouting, "Stop arguing, I told you to clean up the first room in the east wing for the child to live in, but you kept putting it off until now, and the child has to make do in the cowshed. What are you nagging about now? Sanlang is injured, and he raised Yanbai for a long time. What's wrong with letting Yanbai take care of him?"

"That's right, what's wrong?!" Pan Yun said in a rhythmic tone: "It is only natural to pay back debts. What's wrong with me asking Tao Yanbai to pay back the money?"

"That's right, what's wrong?!" Miao Zhen said, "Your family should pay back the money on behalf of Third Senior Brother."

Mr. and Mrs. Tao's faces turned pale and they were silent for a moment.

Miao He: "Not returning it? Then the day my Third Senior Brother leaves the Taoist temple will be the day when he becomes my Junior Senior Uncle's long-term worker. Don't regret it then!"

Wang Cong and Tao Yanbai hid aside and saw the three of them chattering non-stop, sometimes secretly criticizing Tao's mother for treating her stepson badly, and sometimes openly saying that Tao's father was partial and unworthy of being a father...

Tao's father and mother were so pale from what he said.

It just so happens that Miao Zhenmiao has Pan Yun in front of her. As Tao Yanbai's junior uncle, even though she is young, she is really qualified to stand up for Tao Yanbai.

Tao's mother finally spoke, "How do you teach your children in your Taoist temple..."

Pan Yun then said, "Children in our Taoist temple are required to read the classics from a young age. Even if they are not taught well, they still know the most basic principles. But sister-in-law, do you know what Taoism and reason are?"

Pan Yun asked Tao's father directly, "Does it make sense for you two to treat your eldest son like this?"

Father Tao looked embarrassed and stamped his feet, saying, "I handed over all the household affairs to her. I trusted her, but she actually treated Yanbai badly in secret. Yanbai never said anything..."

Pan Yun looked at Mother Tao with sympathy, "Did you hear that? Your husband is blind, deaf, and cruel. He said that everything is your fault!"

Tao's father: ...

Tao's mother glared at Tao's father, "You blame me for everything now? There is no house at home, and you agreed to let him live in the cowshed."

Father Tao lost face in front of outsiders and was so angry that he reached out to hit her. Pan Yun frowned, reached out to grab his arm and shook it, saying unhappily: "Just talk, you can't just get angry and hit someone, right?"

Tao's father shouted quickly, "It's unfair, Junior Master Uncle. I'm really angry at her for confusing right and wrong. I did agree to move Yanbai's bed into the cowshed, but I wanted to bring the cows out, put a layer of soil inside, and compact it, so it would be like a new house."

"You lead it, you lead it," Tao's mother cried, covering her face. "It's not like you haven't led the cow before. In the end, it was you who led the cow back. Since the beginning of winter, two cows have been lost in three villages. Anyone can climb over the wall of our house and get in. If you don't tie the cow in the cowshed and leave it in the yard, you won't know when it will be stolen."

"You were the one who said this, and you were the one who took the cow back. Now you blame me. Do you have any shame?"

Seeing that the couple had successfully started a quarrel, Pan Yun immediately took a step back and retired with Miao Zhenmiao.

Tao Yanbai considerately poured a bowl of tea for each of them.

Pan Jun's throat was sore. After drinking it in one gulp, he said, "It's not that difficult. Is this the end?"

Wang Cong said helplessly: "Little Master, we are here to take Third Junior Brother back. It is not difficult. If you don't come, I can still take you back. The difficult thing is that you want to snatch Third Junior Brother to the Taoist temple."

Miaozhen: "Can't I rob it?"

　good night

　　(End of this chapter)