Chapter 356 Tao Ji Nian En
Pan Yun: "Although you have the secret world in your sleeve, but... maybe the jade space will be more useful, you can give it a try."

Wang Feiyin took the box and opened it. Inside was a jade pendant. He played with it in his hand for a while and said with a smile, "Thank you, Junior Sister. Now, after breakfast, let's do whatever we need to do."

Pan Yun naturally went down the mountain to do her temple worship, and by the way, she thought about the structure of the washing tub and separator, as well as the power system.

In Wang Cong's words, "Power that does not require talismans to activate is the most suitable for ordinary people. Only power that is suitable for ordinary people can become a popular commodity and make money."

Although they are not short of money at this stage, who would complain about having too much money?
The most important thing is, doesn’t Pan Yun want the convenient life of the 26th century?

As Pan Yun went to Wang Feiyin to get the blank paper, he kept muttering, "For my ideals and a better life, I am a five-good youth."

But of course he couldn't rely on himself for this kind of thing, so Pan Yun decided to pick out the textbooks included in Lingjing and copy them for Wang Cong.

Wang Cong was obviously very talented in this area, and wasting his talent would bring punishment from heaven.

Pan Yun collected a lot of white paper and went down the mountain. Pan Xiaohei followed behind happily. It wore a jade ring around its neck today.

The white jade ring hanging on the chest is very beautiful.

It has just used its meager cultivation as a cat to recognize the space as its master. Now it can stuff the little fish into the space instead of stuffing its own body back into it.

As Pan Yun walked down the mountain, he muttered to Pan Xiaohei, "Can your spiritual realm be more advanced so that you can print out data books directly?"

Pan Xiaohei sneered, "How is this advanced? Humans can enter the spiritual realm and access this knowledge in the spiritual realm, just like going to school; they can also sink their consciousness into the spiritual realm to receive this knowledge. Isn't this more advanced than printing books?"

Pan Yun: "Can you do these two things even though you are sealed?"

Pan Xiaohei was silent.

Pan Yun cursed, "Don't talk big if you can't do it. It made me really think about whether I should take the spiritual realm out of my spiritual platform and press it on Wang Cong's forehead."

Pan Xiaohei was silent for a long time before saying, "It might be possible if we unlock the seal twice more."

Pan Jun subconsciously glanced at the golden progress bar on the spiritual realm and remained silent.

Pan Xiaohei also fell silent.

The man and the cat went down the mountain quietly without saying another word.

As soon as he arrived at the foot of the mountain, Pan Yun smiled and walked into the mountain temple like a temple priest.

A ragged man was curled up on one side of the platform in the temple.

Pan Yun bent down and took a look. Seeing that the man was still alive, he slapped a yellow talisman on the straw mat under him.

Then she gently sat down on the chair by the door, took out a white paper from the space and started writing and drawing.

On the mountain, Wang Feiyin saw the looted desk and turned to Wang Cong and told him, "When you four go to buy New Year's goods, remember to go to the bookstore and buy some more white paper and blank booklets."

Wang Cong: "Bound blank books are twice as expensive as white paper. Dad, what do you need blank books for? If you don't sell them to others, you can use them roughly. Let's cut and bind them ourselves."

Miaohe raised his hand, "I can sew it up."

Miaozhen: "I can make the cover."

Wang Feiyin: "...We at Sanqing Temple are rich, right? Do we have to be so frugal?"

Wang Cong: "Hasn't this been the way to save money for many years?"

“But that’s because of poverty…”

"We are not very rich now, and thrift is a virtue," Wang Cong said earnestly, "Dad, we should not be too concerned about our reputation."

Wang Feiyin: ...Is this a matter of face?

It's a question of writing comfort and wasted time.

He glanced at the four children and waved his hand resignedly, "Forget it, you earn the money, you have the final say."

Tao Yanbai hesitated for a moment and then asked, "Master, am I going to buy New Year's goods too?"

Wang Feiyin: "You want to stay at home and do housework? That's great..."

"No," Tao Yanbai also wanted to go out and play, and hurriedly said, "Isn't Third Uncle going back to Tao Village today? I mean, should I go back with him?"

"No need." Tao Ji had changed his clothes and came out with a sword in his hand. He frowned and said, "Do whatever you want. You don't need to worry about the affairs of Taojia Village."

Tao Yanbai immediately said, "Then I will go to the county town with my senior brother to buy New Year's goods."

Wang Feiyin sighed and waved his hand, "Let's go, let's go. I'm the only one left on the mountain again."

Xuanmiao: "Junior Sister is at the foot of the mountain. If you are free, you should go down and accompany Junior Sister."

Wang Feiyin touched his stomach and decided to go down the mountain to visit his junior sister when he was hungry at noon.

Wang Cong and his companions drove the Sanqing Temple's ox cart to the county town, while Xuanmiao and Tao Ji took his horse away and then rented a car at the market to rush to Taojia Village.

Tao Ji returned to Taojia Village to vent Tao Yanbai's anger, and also to inform Taojia Village that Tao Yanbai had entered Taoism.

Strictly speaking, Tao Yanbai and Tao Ji are already two levels apart in blood relationship.

Tao Ji has no immediate relatives left in the world.

He lost his father and mother when he was young, and after his grandparents passed away, he became a wild child in the village, begging for food everywhere. The ancestral land, house and property left by his family were basically gone.

He was too young at the time, only four or five years old, and didn't understand anything at all. By the time he came to his senses, he had been driven out of his own home by his great-uncle who lived several rooms away from him, and he could only sleep under the wall of his home.

Tao Yanbai's house is next door to his.

It was Tao Yanbai's biological mother who secretly fed him from time to time, and that was how he lived in the village in a daze for two years.

Two years later in the winter, there was a heavy snowfall, even heavier than the one on Mount Sanqing some time ago. In just half a night, Tao Ji, who was huddled in a pile of straw under the wall of his house, was frozen to death.

It was Tao Yanbai's biological mother who dug him out in the snow and brought him back into the house.

Tao's father didn't like Tao Ji, but his wife had already taken the child back home, and they were related, so it was impossible for him to be driven out in the heavy snow.

We can only turn a blind eye and let the person stay.

Because of this tolerance, Tao Ji helped Tao's father several times even though he hated his father's character.

Because he knew that if he had insisted on driving him out, he would surely die.

But the person he was most grateful to was Tao Yanbai's biological mother. Unfortunately, she died of illness a few years after he left.

As they got closer to Taojia Village, Tao Ji pointed to a place and said, "My sister-in-law carried me out to seek medical treatment, and that's where I met my senior brother."

Xuanmiao took a look and saw a vast expanse of white snow. It was not thick and probably covered the tops of his shoes.

She knew that Taojia Village treated Tao Ji badly, and she also knew that Tao Ji had an agreement with Taojia Village because of Tao Yanbai. She also knew that Tao Yanbai's biological mother had done Tao Ji a favor, but she didn't know what exactly happened that year.

Tao Ji never talked about these things in front of others, especially in front of her.

This time, Tao Ji was in a talkative mood.

He also looked at the snow and said, "The snow was much thicker then than it is now. I had a fever for one day and two nights. My sister-in-law tried every possible way, but my fever just wouldn't go away. Finally, she carried me to the market to find a doctor, and we happened to meet my senior brother who was passing by."

"The eldest brother saw that I had good physique and wanted to take me in as his disciple. My sister-in-law was afraid that he was a human trafficker and refused to hand me over to him."

Xuanmiao: "How did he trick you into his hand in the end?"

Tao Ji smiled and said, "I had a high fever and had a seizure. My sister-in-law was terrified and thought I was going to die. In fact, I was really going to die. I felt like I saw a brilliant light. In that brilliant light, there was a very bright white light. It was warm and cozy. I couldn't help but walk towards it."

"But before I even walked into the white light, I was saved by the senior brother."

He always remembered the feeling of being on the verge of death. "When my sister-in-law saw that my senior brother had saved me, she finally believed that he was a Taoist doctor and handed me over to him."

"She told me at the time that it would be difficult for me to survive in the village. Even if I could grow up, I would still have to work hard like an ox or a horse for the rest of my life. The eldest brother looked very capable, so she asked me to follow him and learn some skills. Maybe I could have a better future."

Tao Ji paused here and couldn't help laughing. "My eldest brother had just worshipped the mountain god as his master at that time. He didn't quite understand his bad luck yet. He always wanted to take me back to Sanqing Mountain and accept me as his disciple."

"In the end, we returned to Sanqing Mountain after a bumpy journey and met the second senior brother. The eldest senior brother gave up accepting the two of us as disciples and took over the master's place instead."

Therefore, Tao Ji and Wang Cong were only a few years apart in age, and they got along very well with each other because they really grew up together.

Wang Feiyin initially raised him and Yin Song as his apprentices, but ended up not being able to accept any apprentices himself, so he could only treat them as junior brothers.

But whether it was Yin Song or Tao Ji, all their skills were learned from Wang Feiyin.

Especially Tao Ji, he studied the Dao of Alchemy and basically inherited Wang Feiyin's mantle. He was called a junior brother, but in fact he was a disciple.

It was several years before he came down from the mountain and returned to Taojia Village. By then, his sister-in-law had passed away, leaving behind Tao Yanbai, who was less than five years old.

Seeing little Tao Yanbai stumbling into the vegetable garden, and eating vegetable leaves and chewing muddy white radishes just like he did when he was extremely hungry, Tao Ji burst into tears.

Then Tao Yanbai will be taken away.

It's someone else's child, so Tao Ji naturally can't just take it away. Even if someone raises it to death or gets hurt, it's still someone else's child.

Not only did Tao's father disagree, but the villagers in Tao Village also disagreed.

Finally, the young Tao Ji and Yin Song signed a note in the presence of the village head and the head of the Tao family, promising to take good care of Tao Yanbai, teach him medicine, and promise to let him go home after he learns the medical skills...

Only then did he take Tao Yanbai away.

Whenever Tao Ji thought of this, he regretted it. He should not have signed the agreement on impulse. He should have written a letter to call his senior brother.

If the eldest senior brother had stepped forward, Yan Bai would have become his apprentice long ago. Why would he have been tortured by the promise of "returning home after completing his studies" for ten years?

However, Tao Ji at this time is no longer the Tao Ji of ten years ago.

He is now the domineering Niuhuru Tao Ji. As long as Tao Yanbai can think it over and decide to become a Taoist, he is not afraid of the people in Taojia Village at all.

The closer they got to Taojia Village, the straighter Tao Ji's back became.

Xuanmiao glanced at him who was full of fighting spirit, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly. She had already prepared pills so that if someone fainted because of his anger, she could save them.

It’s okay to faint from anger, but it’s bad to be angry to death.

Come on, Taojia Village, and welcome Tao Ji’s eloquence!
　Today is a little earlier than yesterday. I will adjust it forward tomorrow. Come on, good night.

　　(End of this chapter)