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The Imperial Peasant Girl is Both Enigmatic and Dashing – Chapter 29

Chapter 29

Chapter 29: Meeting Gift

Xingnong also looked at him, and neither of them spoke.

Old Master Tang knew that Chu Tiankuo’s temperament was always this taciturn. Anyway, it was just him accepting a disciple. Once accepted, she would naturally be his Junior Sister, so he didn’t care about him anymore and directly said to Xingnong, “Little beloved disciple, you have successfully become my disciple! In the future, if there’s anything you don’t understand about what Master teaches you, you can ask your Senior Brother. He has already learned 50% of my skills. Alright, it’s settled!”

Ren Zishan’s eyes widened. Old Master Tang actually wanted Brother Tiankuo to teach this wild girl?

What was Brother Tiankuo’s status?

What was this girl’s status?

Most importantly, she hadn’t even become Brother Tiankuo’s Junior Sister yet!

How could this ugly girl who suddenly appeared achieve her dream?

Although she didn’t think that Brother Tiankuo would fancy this dark, ugly, and skinny wild girl, who had no looks, no figure, no talent, and no background.

However, Brother Tiankuo was hers, how could he teach other women?!

If he was going to teach, he had to teach her too!

“Old Master Tang, I walked out of the peach grove within the allotted time, so I am also your disciple. Brother Tiankuo’s Junior Sister!”

Old Master Tang impatiently pointed at the peach grove in front of him, “You go in. If you can come out in an hour, come find me again.”

Ren Zishan: “…”

Old Master Tang patted Chu Tiankuo’s shoulder, “Remember to take good care of your Junior Sister in the future. If there’s anything she doesn’t understand, you have to teach her. Master is counting on you!”

The corner of Chu Tiankuo’s mouth twitched. Was he very free?

After Old Master Tang finished speaking, he turned his head and said to Xingnong with a kind face, “Little beloved disciple, which village at the foot of the mountain do you live in? Can you come to learn formations from tomorrow starting at the beginning of Chen Shi (7-9 AM)?”

Xingnong thought for a moment, “Yes, but I can only spare one hour a day to learn. I don’t have time at other times.”

She still had to write storybooks, and in a few days, after she had recruited cooks, she would have to go to the restaurant to train them.

Old Master Tang asked curiously, “You don’t have time, what do you have to do?”

“Earn silver.”

“…”

Earn silver? To actually delay learning for such a vulgar reason?

Old Master Tang looked Xingnong up and down, and only then did he notice that his little disciple’s clothes were old and tattered, full of patches.

It was truly because the aura of his little disciple was as strong as his eldest disciple’s that he had overlooked other things.

It seemed that his little disciple was very poor!

It was good to be poor!

He had plenty of silver.

“You come to learn tomorrow, one tael of silver a day.”

Ren Zishan: “…”

She had offered a master initiation gift worth one thousand taels of silver, but Old Master Tang wouldn’t accept her as a disciple. Now he was actually willing to pay one tael of silver a day to invite this village girl to learn.

This comparison was really too hurtful!

“…” Xingnong blinked. This master seemed different.

However, a day was too long.

Xingnong shook her head, “I can only spare one hour a day.”

“Alright!” Although Old Master Tang felt that one hour was too short, this disciple hadn’t been completely settled yet. Afraid of pushing her too hard and her not coming tomorrow, he decided to let it be for now!

He glanced at Xingnong’s back basket. Eh? This rabbit was so fat!

There was even a pheasant. He loved to eat them!

He reached in with both hands and grabbed one in each hand. “This rabbit and pheasant will be your master initiation gift. Little beloved disciple, remember to come on time tomorrow.”

Xingnong: “…”

As expected, no matter the time and space, masters were all similar creatures.

Where else would a master give silver to a disciple to learn?!

He hadn’t even started teaching, and he was already collecting tuition fees.

“Eldest beloved disciple, let’s go, let’s continue!” Old Master Tang, holding a rabbit in one hand and a pheasant in the other, hummed a song happily and walked into the peach grove with a carefree air.

He had lost all semblance of an immortal with a transcendent air.

Chu Tiankuo turned and walked into the peach grove.

Ren Zishan and Ren Zilin quickly followed.

Xingnong, seeing him leaving, called out to him, “Wait.”

Ren Zishan pursed her lips and blocked Xingnong, “What do you want to do? Don’t think that just because Old Master Tang accepted you as a disciple, you are Brother Tiankuo’s Junior Sister. Brother Tiankuo won’t pay attention to you!”

Chu Tiankuo stopped and turned to look at her, “What is it?”

Ren Zishan: “…”

Xingnong took out a golden bead from her pocket, “Your bead.”

Ren Zishan’s eyes widened, “When did you steal Brother Tiankuo’s bead, you thief!”

Ren Zilin was also surprised, “How did this bead end up in your hands?”

Ren Zilin thought of the incident in front of the yamen last time and assumed she had picked it up again, so he said, “Miss, you are truly honest and upright.”

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This was a precious bead, a rare treasure. Although he didn’t know what its use was, he was absolutely certain it was a treasure.

Even if it wasn’t a treasure, it was made of gold on the outside. Ordinary people wouldn’t return it to the owner if they found it.

Not to mention that this girl looked so poor.

But she still returned it.

Chu Tiankuo looked down at the spirit orb she handed over. This time he didn’t reach out to take it, “A meeting gift.”

Ren Zishan’s eyes widened, and she blurted out in surprise, “What?”

Ren Zilin was also shocked. He looked up at the west. The sun hadn’t risen in the west today, had it?!

This was a treasure of heaven and earth, and he was actually giving it to her as a meeting gift?

Did he mean that this was a Senior Brother’s meeting gift to his Junior Sister? Xingnong stuffed the bead back into her pocket, “Thank you, Senior Brother.”

This bead always ran into her pocket on its own, he couldn’t not give it to her, could he?

Most importantly, him giving her the bead meant that it wasn’t very precious to him, and she didn’t have to worry about him doing anything to her because she knew his secret.

Or maybe he didn’t know the secret of the bead, but that possibility was unlikely.

Xingnong felt that he knew. After all, the bead had inexplicably appeared on her so many times, and he hadn’t been surprised.

Senior Brother? Ren Zishan felt a pang of jealousy, “Who is your Senior Brother? Brother Tiankuo hasn’t acknowledged you.”

“Junior Sister, you’re welcome.” Chu Tiankuo replied indifferently, then turned and walked into the peach grove.

Ren Zishan: “…”

Xingnong thought of something and quickly shouted, “Senior Brother, do you know how to get out of there?”

She didn’t want to climb the antique display shelf to find the mechanism button again.

She was asking about the Creation Space, she knew he understood.

Ren Zishan thought she was worried that Chu Tiankuo wouldn’t be able to walk out of the Mist Formation and rolled her eyes, “Mind your own business! Brother Tiankuo can walk out with his eyes closed!”

“Scram.” A cold voice came from the peach grove.

Ren Zishan: “…”

Who was Brother Tiankuo telling to scram?

It definitely wasn’t her!

Xingnong: “!!!!”

It was actually “scram”?

Ren Zishan looked at Xingnong triumphantly, “Did you hear that? Brother Tiankuo told you to scram!”

Xingnong didn’t even spare her a glance and turned away with her back basket.

She still had to see if there were any suitable wildflowers to take back to her new courtyard to plant.

Right, tomorrow she would ask if she could dig up a peach tree to take back and plant.

Ren Zishan: “…”

She was being ignored by a village girl?

Ren Zilin patted his sister’s shoulder, “Let’s go! Go find your Brother Tiankuo.”

Ren Zilin pulled Ren Zishan into the peach grove.

He wanted to ask Chu Tiankuo why he had given her that bead.

Ren Zishan looked at the peach trees one by one, “Second Brother, did you remember how to get out of the Mist Formation just now?”

Ren Zilin: “…”

The brother and sister stared at each other wide-eyed: Oh no!

Ren Zilin shouted towards the outside, “Junior Sister, Little Junior Sister! Help!”

Xingnong heard someone calling Junior Sister, Little Junior Sister, but that voice wasn’t her Senior Brother’s.

Her Senior Brother’s voice was like a god’s, so pleasant to hear.

So she walked away unhurriedly.

Songbai hurriedly arrived outside the peach grove and was slightly surprised to see Xingnong’s departing figure, but he didn’t think much of it. He heard Ren Zilin’s shouts and quickly said, “Young Master Ren, someone has reported a case at the yamen, do you want to hurry back to preside over the court?”

Ren Zilin responded loudly, “Yes! Yes! Quickly have your master take me out!”

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