No banquet without meat

  Qiu's first reaction was disbelief, but soon she understood that they had no need to deceive her.

  "This is cultivation? It's so unbelievable. Heaven Mountain Daoist and these two are even weaker, right? Probably living for a thousand years or so is just like playing around to them."

  Taking advantage of Autumn's shocking moment, this master-disciple ceremony was completed in a daze.

  After a few days of being an apprentice, Qiuqiu understood a very simple and easy-to-understand truth. Recruitment advertisements will never be trusted again.

  How could she be so easily deceived by the devils?

  Strictly speaking, what Master Yuxia said is not a lie. This heart method is indeed very easy to practice. The first layer of the heart method has 81 sentences, each with nine words, totaling several hundred words, which is really simple. Moreover, there are no obscure or isolated words, and I can recite it after reading it twice.

  But! The problem is, once you enter a sect, how can you only learn a few hundred words of heart method? It's like going to elementary school and asking if the homework is difficult. The director tells you it's not difficult at all, just add up the Arabic numerals from start to finish, there are only so many, it's too easy. Is he telling lies? No. He just selectively told you part of the truth. As for what comes later, you'll find out eventually.

  But when you know the time, you can't help but learn. Even if Qiuqiu cries to avoid homework, she can't move the hearts of Master Yu Xia and the two sisters.

  They are not some famous mountains or great rivers, and their sect is not some renowned sect. Master Yu Xia took in three disciples, Jing Xin was the one who brought her to the mountain, Jing Yi looked like she wasn't much older than her, but actually had been a disciple for over ten years already. After Qiu Qiu joined, Master also gave her another name called Jing Qiu, but usually everyone still calls her Qiu Qiu more often. The others are Yu Gu Gu and Lu Gu Gu who take care of miscellaneous tasks, there isn't a single man.

  Qiu Qiu liked Lu Gu Gu the most, because Shifu on the mountain was practicing fasting and only occasionally ate vegetarian food, with light tea and fruit. Even their bowls were completely oil-free. People say that immortals eat wind and drink dew, which sounds like a carefree and happy life, but Qiu Qiu was so hungry for meat that her eyes were almost green with envy.

  She didn't dare to mention her request for meat to Shifu and Shi Jie, but Lu Gu Gu noticed her concerns. Lu Gu Gu had a daughter before, although she didn't survive, but her love and patience for children were more abundant than others on the mountain. Seeing Qiu Qiu's lack of energy and loss of appetite, she prepared some meat for her to eat. From then on, whenever Qiu Qiu thought about meat, she would go to Lu Gu Gu. Lu Gu Gu didn't dare to satisfy her every time, but out of ten times, five or six times she fulfilled her request.

  Lu's aunt had also followed Yu Xia Zhenren to learn the art of Qigong breathing exercises for a few years when she was young, but she didn't have the innate talent or foundation, so she couldn't be considered a proper disciple. Later on, she left the mountain and got married, gave birth to children, and after her family encountered some changes, she returned to the mountain again.

  There's a saying that goes, "A person without a good night's sleep won't be plump..." Cough, this sentence seems to be not quite right? Never mind, the meaning is the same anyway. With Lu Gugu constantly patching her up, Qiuqiu had actually grown a beautiful and delicate skin, white, fine and smooth, loved by everyone, even Shifu couldn't help but pinch and squeeze her, Qiuqiu felt that they were actually lusting after her tender flesh, and maybe they had taken a liking to her plump body, otherwise why would they be pinching her while giving off a green light on their face?

  Qiu Qiu thinks that living a long life is secondary, if one can't even eat freely in this world, then what's the point of living for one or two hundred years, or even one or two thousand years?

  It's just that there's something that makes Autumn feel a bit strange, she's been going up the mountain for many years, but why hasn't her head grown at all? Even if cultivation can delay aging, but she's not old yet, how can it be that she still looks like a little bean paste bun? Is it really necessary to make her become the Heavenly Mountain Fairy?

  Sister Jingxin explained that this situation is temporary and once she cultivates her heart method to the ninth level, she will definitely start growing taller.

  Qiu Qiu counted on her fingers, she had been practicing diligently for four or five years, and the first layer of heart method was already solidified. Next month, there is a possibility of breaking through the second layer. If it takes another four or five years to break through the second layer, then it will take thirty or forty years to reach the ninth layer.

  A 40- or 50-year-old little dandan... just thinking about it makes one shudder. When the time comes, will others call her "little sister" or "young auntie"?

  In order not to really become a Heavenly Mountain Old Mother, Qiū Qiū starts working diligently!

  However, Qiuqiu hadn't had time to close her eyes and strike her second heavy blow when guests arrived on the mountain.

  This is the first time in a long while, at least since Autumn has been on the mountain for these few years, she discovered that all of these cultivators are otakus. For example, her master Yu Xia Zhen Ren would go into seclusion for several months without showing his face. At first, Autumn was worried, wouldn't he starve to death after being locked up for so many months? Later on, she found out about the existence of the "Bigu Dan"! One pellet can sustain you for a good few days, there's no need to worry about starving.

  "Kui Dan, this legendary thing actually exists, isn't this too against heaven?"

  The master being this way, naturally the three apprentices followed suit and stayed at home all together. They had never been down the mountain, nor had they seen anyone come up the mountain.

  To entertain guests, the master rarely changed into a new dress and replaced the wooden hairpin on her head with a jade pin. They also lined up in rows.

  After waiting for a long time, Qiū Qiū was almost nodding off while standing, when suddenly the master said: "They've arrived."

  Autumn's spirit suddenly lifted, and he raised his head to look.

  The guest actually came riding on a bird! It's true that cultivators don't take ordinary paths.

  Autumn saw someone riding a bird for the first time, and this crane was not simple at all. With two people on its back, it looked like it wasn't even exerting itself as it flew down to the ground with ease. Jing Xin Shifu watched Autumn staring at the crane with her mouth agape, worried that she would say something embarrassing like wanting to eat roasted crane or drink crane soup. She cleared her throat and gave Autumn a warning look before following behind their master to greet them.

  The person who came was actually a man, tall and thin, with a handsome face, refined and elegant. Autumn couldn't help but think that the way he smiled so warmly at Master Yu Xia was different from usual, and she wondered if this person might be her first love or an old flame.

  The master was smiling and introducing them - in her words, three useless apprentices.

  Qiu Qiu and her three friends greeted the guest in unison, and their master said he was Fang Zhenren. He didn't mention his name, but it seemed like they hadn't seen each other for a long time.

  People are always like this, as soon as they mention their own family members, they are inferior, stupid sons, and incompetent disciples. In short, they have to belittle their own family members to the ground, and then trample on them a few more times. Sure enough, when the other party praised them a few words, saying that they looked like they were talented and would definitely achieve something in the future, the master began to say that they were stupid, lazy, and didn't love to work hard.

  "Jingxin is still better, after all, she understands things and can help me share my worries. Jingyi and Jingqiu are still young, they just think about having fun."

  "I'm looking at them and they're all better than me." Behind Fang Zhen, there was originally a child following him, but he was tall and blocked the line of sight, so no one saw him just now.

  This child is born so beautiful! Qiuqiu's eyes widened, and her mouth was also wide open. She thought that the sisters in her family were all considered beauties, but when compared to this child, they seemed ordinary, just like glass beads that looked good on their own, but next to diamonds, they were nothing special.

  This girl is younger than Jingyi and older than Qiūqiū, looking like she's around 7 or 8 years old - but Qiūqiū would never dare to judge someone's age by their appearance. Take herself for example, she looks like she's only 4 or 5 years old, with a round face and arms and legs as white as radishes, but her actual age is already 10 years old, it's just that she hasn't cultivated her inner energy well enough to grow taller yet. And then there's Jingyi Shījiě, this year she must be at least over 20 years old, but she still looks like a 10-year-old.

  She was born to be beautiful, with eyes that were clearly defined - the black was exceptionally pure and the white was particularly clear. In her previous life, Qiu Qiu had seen descriptions of such eyes, saying they seemed to be able to absorb a person's soul. Now she understood what that feeling was like. She only exchanged one glance with this girl, but already felt a little dazed, those beautiful eyes seeming to have an indescribable magic power that made people unable to help but become infatuated.

  "Master was also extremely shocked: 'This, this is...'"

  "Yes, you also saw him that year," Fang Zhenren gently stroked her head, as if caressing a delicate and expensive jade carving: "Xǐ ěr, the Qing Xin Dan you've been taking were all given by Yu Xia Zhenren. Quickly thank Zhenren."

  Her face was expressionless, her skin had a semi-transparent jade-like whiteness, even her lips were bloodless, the whole person looked like she just came out of the refrigerator. Without any other evidence, Qiuqiu could also determine that this child must be ill, and seriously so.

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  Newly written, seeking pampering and love~~~

  It turned out that today we went to see the house, and on our way there, we were still joking around, saying that since my uncle's family also lives in that neighborhood, after we finished looking at the house, we could go to their place to get a free meal. But when we actually arrived at the location, we were all shocked - the family selling the house was right across from my uncle's house...