Chapter 2 The deficiency is not replenished
A month has passed in the blink of an eye. Mrs. Shui brings a small packet of elixir soup every day and urges Tang Yue to take it. Some are used to heal injuries, and some are used to help introduce Qi into the body. It made her feel a little psychologically disturbed when she saw the medicine.
Tang Yue taught herself some basic pharmacology, and discussed with Mrs. Shui to reduce the weight of her tonic and reduce the absorption burden. The effect of the medicine was much better, and it became more suitable for her physical condition. The dose of the elixir she used was relatively large, and she was a little weak.
The original owner also took a lot of tonics in the book, and reached the Qi refining stage in a short period of time. It looked good, but in fact it was very detrimental to the development of the body and practice.
This cannot be blamed on the wrong medicine prescribed by Master Shang. If it were not so catalytic, according to Tang Yue's qualifications, she would not be able to refine Qi at the age of 30. This would not be acceptable to the original owner's mind at any cost. .
However, cultivation must be realized by oneself. No matter how brilliant the medical skills of the master of Shennong Pavilion are, they cannot replace their own efforts. The most suitable cultivation method needs to be explored by the practitioner himself.
Fortunately, she now has a real mother, the wife of the city lord, who gave her many classics and herbs for her to toss around without fear of waste, so she tested the most suitable dosage of the elixir.
She also discovered that some Taoist fitness boxing techniques used by mortals can help absorb the power of medicine and improve physical fitness. After practicing boxing for a period of time, she gradually became aware of the breath inside and outside her body, and could even control the flow of gas throughout her body to dispel the chill and pain in her body.
In addition to practicing hard on weekdays, Tang Yue would accompany Mrs. Shui to deal with things in the city, or go shopping and drink tea to cultivate the relationship between mother and daughter. Now Mrs. Shui is her golden thigh, so it is no big deal to show her filial piety.
That day she went to her mother's flower hall and found a petite young woman standing in the hall talking. Looking at her face carefully, combined with the memory of the original owner in her mind, she remembered that this was her father's concubine, Zhuang Qiaohui, who was very favored and caused a lot of trouble for Shui Yingrou.
Tang Yue thought that it was definitely not a good thing for this concubine to come, and her mother was not very happy either. She smiled, walked closer and said, "Mom, what are you busy with?"
Shui Yingrou looked at The daughter came, her face became more relaxed, "Aunt Qiaohui asked my mother to withdraw some money."
Tang Yue turned to look at the concubine. She was petite and lovable. She looked only smaller than herself. A few years older, I remember that she only cultivated the golden elixir, and was actually older than Shui Yingrou. She could keep her appearance forever. It must be that her father gave her many beauty-preserving elixirs.
"Aunt Qiaohui, have you encountered any difficulties recently?" It is absolutely impossible to call the second lady, and you have to unite with your mother.
Zhuang Qiaohui felt that these words of aunt were really harsh. She always felt that she was the true love of the city lord and worthy of being a wife, but she still had to endure it in the main wife's territory. She must look good to this arrogant mother and son in the future. nice.
“Girl Yue, it’s Wan’er who wants to work with senior brother to get some experience. I thought she was only in the middle stage of Qi refining, so I begged my wife to give her a defensive magic weapon to defend herself.”
Zhuang Qiaohui was secretly proud that her daughter was already refining her Qi, so what if the Tang Yue in front of her was the legitimate daughter of the royal family? Her qualifications are not good, and she has not introduced Qi into her body yet, so she will never be as good as her own daughter.
Tang Yue heard that she was showing off Tang Wan's excellence and insinuating that he had poor qualifications. He didn't care and replied with a smile: "Aunt Zhuang, I think you are too thoughtful. There will be more tomorrow. Let’s go to the Treasure Pavilion auction as a family and let my father take some photos of magical artifacts for us juniors.”
She is not interested in such troublesome things as wasting money, and she doesn’t want her mother to take out the magical artifacts at all. To subsidize the concubine.
"Well, the city lord is busy with business, so he can't accompany us." Zhuang Qiaohui was a little embarrassed. In the past, in order to establish herself as a well-behaved and sensible person in front of the city lord, she never took the initiative to ask for things from the city lord. So he turned to Shui Yingrou to ask for the magic weapon.
Mrs. Shui loves face. In the past, she could come up with good things as long as she stimulated him with a few words. She thought she could still get it today, so naturally she didn't want the city lord to know about it.
Tang Yue did not want to waste time with her anymore, and said to Chunlan, a handyman disciple waiting outside the hall: "Sister Chunlan, go tell your father that our family will go to the Duobao Pavilion auction the day after tomorrow to look at things. "My aunt wants to choose a magic weapon for her sister."
Chunlan looked hesitantly and looked at Madam, Tang Yue raised her eyebrows, Chunlan didn't want to go?
She continued to say to Chunlan: "Senior Sister Chunlan, I told my father that our City Lord's family showing up more often shows the harmony of our City Lord's Mansion."
Seeing that her daughter insisted on this, Mrs. Shui said, He had no choice but to follow her: "Chunlan, go and send a message to the city lord. It happens that our family has not had a chance to get together since the New Year."
Let alone get together, in fact Shui Yingrou and Zhuang Qiaohui are at odds with each other, and Tang Wenhua I feel sorry for my concubine. Tang Yue always made trouble for Tang Wan and caused trouble every time they met, so in the past, Tang Wenhua would try to avoid the five of them appearing together.
Chunlan had no choice but to send a message to the city lord. When Tang Yue saw that Mrs. Shui agreed with her, he smiled and acted coquettishly at her. The mother and son happily discussed what to eat for dinner, leaving Zhuang Qiaohui aside and ignoring her embarrassment.
After a while Chunlan came back and said that the city lord agreed to go to Duobao Pavilion together. Zhuang Qiaohui had no excuse to ask for anything anymore, so she reluctantly resigned with a smile.
Waiting for her breath to disappear outside the courtyard, Shui Yingrou said helplessly to her daughter: "I don't lack this magic weapon. I just gave it away when I was given a medium-grade magic weapon. Why do I do unnecessary things?"
"Mom, giving things to others is to make yourself happy. How can there be any reason to give things to others to make yourself angry?" Tang Yueyi spoke upright and gave them so many things. Zhuang Qiaohui still treated Shui Yingrou. If you don't have good intentions, why should you take advantage of these people?
Moreover, in the original book, it was Aunt Zhuang who revealed to Xuanyuanshan that the original owner was Liu Dingyu's female destiny, and male cultivators could break through the bottleneck and ascend smoothly with her dual cultivation.
It happened that Liu Yangcheng, the elder of the Sword Master at the main peak of Xuanyuan Mountain, had been in the integration stage for hundreds of years. The original owner became his only hope for a breakthrough, and he was bound to win.
Liu Yangcheng already had a Taoist companion who was a direct descendant of Xuanyuan Mountain and was not easy to offend, so he threatened Kunwu City and asked Tang Yue to be his concubine.
Under Zhuang Qiaohui's persuasion, Tang Wenhua agreed to the marriage, and the original owner became the concubine of a man hundreds of years older than herself. After this incident, the original owner's mentality was completely distorted, and he finally used a curse ring to curse Tang Wan.
Tang Yue solemnly said to her mother, "Mom, you promise me that you will never give anything to the mother and son in the West Courtyard, otherwise I will be very sad and it will not be good for my Taoist heart." Mrs. Shui saw her He actually used his Taoist heart as an excuse and said hurriedly: "Okay, okay, I won't give you anything extra."
Tang Yue was much happier after receiving the guarantee, but then he saw Chunlan stepped forward and said to Mrs. Shui: "Madam, I see that the second lady is wearing the Asahi Xiaguang skirt from Tiangong Pavilion. I heard that Tiangong Pavilion only sells this one. The embroidery is exquisite, and it implies Dharma patterns. It is the best quality." Magic weapon, how could it be worn by the second lady? It’s the city lord..."
After hearing this, Mrs. Shui became angry again, got up and wanted to go out to ask the city lord if he took her seriously. She kept saying yes to this dress, implying that the city lord bought it for her. Every time the city lord agreed with her words, but she didn't expect that he bought it and gave it to Zhuang Qiaohui.
She doesn't really care about money and magic weapons, but what she cares about is the attitude of the city lord and whether he still regards her as his wife.
Tang Yue grabbed Mrs. Shui and said, "Mom, don't worry, I have a way to get father to come to us."
I advise you to take your time. You have just become someone's daughter, so it's hard to say unpleasant things. It's better to let Mrs. Shui think about it slowly.
Mrs. Shui calmed down a little, "What can I do? Your father hasn't been seen for half a month. He said he was busy with business, but he went to buy dresses for others."
Tang Yue gave Shui Yingrou added a cup of tea, turned to Chunlan and said, "Senior Sister Chunlan, you are so good at clothes. You can tell at a glance that it is the Asahi Xiaguang skirt from Tiangong Pavilion. Neither my mother nor I noticed it."
First deal with this little maid who always encourages Mrs. Shui, so that her future life will be more stable.
At this time Chunlan also felt that she was too deliberate. In the few months since the second young lady was injured, Mrs. Shui was first busy taking care of the second young lady, and then she seemed to be immersed in the mother-child relationship with the second young lady.
Mrs. Shui has not caused trouble for a long time. If she doesn't take the initiative to provoke Mrs. Shui into trouble, she is afraid that she will not be able to complete the task assigned by Mrs. Zhuang and will be punished again.
Chunlan said hurriedly: "I usually make some clothes for my wife, so I pay attention to what tricks are coming out of Tiangong Pavilion."
Tang Yue praised her, "Sister Chunlan, It turns out that you have such a great talent, but my mother and I usually neglected it.”
“No, you just know some basics.” Chunlan felt bad in her heart.
"Father often said that the clothing of many disciples in the city is poor and not conducive to practice, so he asked mother to find ways to improve it. I see that senior sister has such a great talent, and this important task must be yours!" I saw Tang Yue's performance Like a Bole who discovered a thousand-mile horse.
"I, I can't do it."
"Of course you can, mother, let Senior Sister Chunlan take on the important responsibility of the Garment Bureau. I think father will be very happy."
Mrs. Shui's daughter After a while, she had completely calmed down. She figured out that Chunlan might have been bribed a long time ago and messed with her own temperament. She naturally agreed with her daughter's decision, "Chunlan, I didn't discover your talent before. Let me tell the garment bureau." , just go.”
Chunlan was shocked. The Garment Making Bureau was mostly responsible for outer disciples’ Taoist clothing. Every month, they had to rush to make a batch of clothes and distribute them to casual cultivators in the city for free. They often worked day and night, which was very hard. .
So the disciples in the Garment Making Bureau don't have much time to practice. Most of them are Qi Refining monks with poor qualifications and ordinary people making clothes here. There are naturally no training materials available. Going there by yourself is equivalent to being kicked out. Expelled from the city lord's mansion.
She said to Mrs. Shui in panic: "Madam, I..."
But Mrs. Shui didn't give Chunlan a chance to say another word. She said coldly: "Okay, you go down. Let's go to the Garment Bureau tomorrow."
Mrs. Shui knew that she was impatient, but she was not stupid. She thought carefully about Chunlan's daily behavior and snorted in her heart. How many outer disciples wanted to do odd jobs here? Things, but she still wants to be a helpless person.
Chunlan knew that she could not say anything more to Mrs. Zhuang, so she could only go back first, find a solution to Mrs. Zhuang, and then quietly left.
"Mom, please wait a moment, father will be here." Tang Yue smiled slightly, looking confident.
"You, why are you so weird?" Mrs. Shui said that she had changed compared to before, which frightened Tang Yue a little, fearing that she would be seen as not the original one and be treated as a body snatcher according to law.
She looked lonely and said, "Mom, I just thought about a lot of things and thought that we, mother and son, should be kinder to me."
Mrs. Shui thought she had remembered. When her biological father abandoned her at a critical moment, he hurriedly comforted her: "My mother is good to you, and I will never let you suffer such terrible things again."
"Mom, I am also good to you." Tang Yue is I sincerely hope that the mother of the original owner can be peaceful in this life. After all, she has received the love and care of the original owner, so she naturally wants to repay the kindness of her relatives. Of course, this does not include Tang Wenhua.
For the city lord, there is no family love, only useful people and useless people. The male protagonist Chu Tianshu is useful and talented. If he can lead the city of Kunwu to flourish, he will treat her like his own son. The legitimate daughter is useless and has low qualifications, so she will be used as a concubine in exchange for benefits.
Tang Yue doesn't want to sacrifice himself for the grand hegemony of Tang City Lord. Naturally, there will be a day when they will break up. Now he is not strong enough and can only endure it.
(End of this chapter)