bookpower #373 - Is there such a good thing?
#373 - Is there such a good thing?
“I don’t understand rouge, I’ve only studied a bit of chemistry.”
After saying that, Lu Jing didn't wait for Wen Xiaochuan to ask further questions, and then said, “Alright, I have received your apology. As for the matter of choosing a husband, you definitely know more than I do, so I won’t give you any random ideas.”
As Lu Jing spoke, he glanced in the direction of the courtyard door, implying that Wen Xiaochuan should leave.
However, Wen Xiaochuan didn't seem to read the meaning in his eyes, and then curiously asked, “Great Hero Lu, I heard Sister Yan say that you are now a cultivator as well. Have you decided on a future cultivation direction? Are you planning to focus on spells, or do you want to use formations and talismans to defend against enemies?”
“I’m busy farming now, and I haven’t considered this matter yet,” Lu Jing said.
“Busy farming?” Wen Xiaochuan was stunned.
“Well… I don’t have a mother who is willing to support me all the time and buy me rouge that costs four hundred taels a box, so of course I have to rely on myself.”
“Great Hero Lu is joking.”
“Not at all,” Lu Jing said, “I’m really short of silver.”
“Is that so?” A flash of excitement flickered in Wen Xiaochuan's eyes, like a weasel sneaking up to a chicken coop in the middle of the night, or like a squirrel seeing hazelnuts all over the ground.
“That’s right, without silver, it’s useless for me to choose any direction. In the end, I can only go to weapon refining,” Lu Jing said with emotion.
Wen Xiaochuan didn't know what the relationship was between having no silver and going to weapon refining, and only thought that Lu Jing valued weapon refining because it could make money, so she asked again, “If there are other ways to make money, would Great Hero Lu consider them?”
Lu Jing glanced at Wen Xiaochuan, “This… the money has to be a lot, and it can't take too much time, mainly because I really don't have any free time recently.”
By the end, he himself felt a little embarrassed. It felt like you were going to a company for an interview, and the HR asked you what your requirements were, and you said that the salary should be the highest, one day of work and six days of rest, and the chairman should even call me 'Dad'.
However, upon hearing this, Wen Xiaochuan didn't show any ridicule on her face. Instead, she nodded, and then asked, “Anything else?”
“This… can I continue to make requests?”
Lu Jing felt that if he continued to speak, he would really be the chairman's long-lost biological father.
However, since Wen Xiaochuan asked, he thought about it and still said, “Then it would be best if the money could be paid in one lump sum at the beginning, and I can do the work slowly later.”
“Very reasonable.”
“This is also reasonable?” Lu Jing suspected that Wen Xiaochuan's alcohol from last night hadn't completely worn off.
However, when he thought that the other party was the youngest member of the Wen family, born with a silver spoon in her mouth, with rouge costing four hundred taels a box, not knowing the dangers of the world, and the hardships of working people, it should be reasonable.
Anyway, Lu Jing didn't have any hope that Wen Xiaochuan would really find him such a pie-in-the-sky job. Thinking like this, he naturally stopped dwelling on this matter.
Afterwards, Wen Xiaochuan seemed to see that Lu Jing didn't have any intention of keeping her, so she didn't say anything more and took the opportunity to bid farewell to Lu Jing.
After seeing Wen Xiaochuan off, Lu Jing returned to his room and continued to bury himself in practicing his swordsmanship.
… … … …
Time flew by in a month.
On this day, early in the morning, Lu Jing sat cross-legged on the bed, his eyes tightly closed, trying to clear the distracting thoughts in his mind and enter a state of no thought and no desire.
At this moment, his heart was as still as water, no longer moved by external objects. Even the black cat secretly sticking its head into his teacup didn't attract any of his attention.
But the next moment, the fur on the black cat's back suddenly stood on end!
And it also hurriedly retracted its tongue, no longer caring about drinking morning tea, and jumped off the desk in a hurry.
Almost at the same moment, the Lake Light, which was originally lying across Lu Jing's knees, shot out rapidly.
Flying towards the place where the black cat was originally!
A sword slashed open the teacup, and the tea in the bowl was also divided into two, pouring out along the broken wall of the cup, flowing freely on the desk.
And the flying sword was finally stuck on the wall behind the desk.
Lu Jing opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was the black cat's resentful eyes, as if saying, “I just wanted to drink some of your tea, but you actually wanted to kill me.”
Lu Jing waved his hand at it, “I said that you and Amu better not come in when I'm practicing swordsmanship. I'm not very skilled in controlling the flying sword yet.”
Well, it's just that the accuracy is a bit outrageous, and every time Lu Jing uses swordsmanship, he does it like a religious ritual. He must first clear his distracting thoughts and highly concentrate his spirit before he can mobilize the flying sword through the sword spirit in the Niwan Palace.
You can't be distracted during this process, otherwise the flying sword will immediately lose control. There is still a considerable distance from Gu Zhongling's realm of being able to kill people while talking and laughing.
In addition, it sounds great to penetrate two inches into the wall, but it's nothing to a first-class master like Lu Jing. After all, if he directly picks up the Zen staff and slaps it, he can demolish a wall.
But anyway, he finally has another long-range attack skill.
And this is only the second stage. After two months, when he finishes cultivating Containing Light and cultivating to Agility, the power of swordsmanship and the control of the flying sword should also be able to rise to another level.
When Gu Zhongling taught him the Clear Light Moon Shadow Sword, he told him that only by cultivating to Agility can swordsmanship be officially considered to have entered the door and can be called swordsmanship cultivation.
Thinking about it this way, swordsmanship cultivation is indeed miserable, because it usually takes six or seven years for ordinary people to cultivate to Agility.
What is this concept? It means that people who practice spells and formations can use as much as they learn. Only swordsmanship cultivation takes several years just to enter the door. Before that, it is equivalent to practicing loneliness, and when you hold out the brilliance, maybe people have already hit the highlands and pushed the three-way towers to pieces.
However, this is not a problem for Lu Jing.
And the key is that every time swordsmanship goes up a level, the speed of secret power consumption will increase greatly, which is the place where Lu Jing is really excited.
And in this month, in addition to swordsmanship, he also did not forget to continue planting his ginseng and fleeceflower root in the back mountain, but as time went by, his lushness also brushed to a bottleneck.
He can now catalyze five plants at a time, but it is getting harder and harder to improve, and the speed of secret power consumption has also slowed down, but now Lu Jing can compress the time for swordsmanship cultivation and farming to within three hours.
At least the daily free activities have basically not been restricted, but the bad news is that the time for him to become a Second Palace cultivator is not far away.