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Chapter 72 Has Other Intentions
Xia Mo's divine sense entered the Wei family's residence in Anping County, specifically the side courtyard where Huangfu Qian lived. It stopped in the garden and observed the situation in the study from afar.
Huangfu Qian stopped what he was doing as if he sensed something and looked towards the garden.
Summer's End: "..."
She was certain that Huangfu Qian's spiritual power had increased again; previously, when her divine sense lingered in the garden, Huangfu Qian couldn't detect her.
Tch, this Huangfu Qian is really boring.
Xia Mo muttered to herself, but in reality, the stronger Huangfu Qian's spiritual power was, the more she wanted to know how to avoid being detected by Huangfu Qian's spiritual power.
Xia Mo turned his consciousness and extended it to the courtyard where Ma Yiyi was waiting.
Unlike Jia Daoren, Ma Yiyi is not good at interacting with the audience in the live broadcast room. Ma Yiyi always keeps her head down, and the way she appears on the screen is also a sign of her inferiority and humility.
At this moment, on the screen in front of Ma Yiyi, the live broadcast window was only in the upper left corner of the screen, while the main window was in the task interface.
The task interface gave Ma Yiyi a recipe for braised food and indicated that if she used the recipe and Wei Zhishu praised it as delicious, she would achieve a minor mastery of calligraphy.
Xia Mo: "..." Speechless.
She couldn't help but complain inwardly: How desperate is this live-streaming system to make Ma Yiyi achieve some level of calligraphy proficiency?!
Xia Mo memorized the recipe for the braised dishes, but didn't plan to use it immediately. She intended to go back to the pharmacy to ask about the properties of the herbs added to the braised dishes.
Xia Mo didn't stop Ma Yiyi's behavior this time, which she found somewhat amusing. She wanted to see how Wei Zhishu would treat Ma Yiyi when he was completely preoccupied with her.
Ma Yiyi hesitated to pick up the brush, but after glancing at the barrage of critical comments, she decided to take the brush and record the braised food recipe on paper before it disappeared.
Ma Yiyi knew her handwriting was bad, and she didn't practice. Even now, her handwriting was still terrible, like a dog crawling. She was just waiting to complete the task of the live streaming system and obtain "minor success in calligraphy".
Summer's End thought sarcastically: "Waiting for a windfall, aren't they afraid of overeating?"
Anjia Village, Xiajia Village—
Not wanting to leave empty-handed, Xia Mo insisted on this, and this time, instead of focusing on wild animals, she set her sights on medicinal herbs.
Last time, she transplanted a large number of ginseng and lingzhi into the medicinal field in the soul space for cultivation.
The ginseng, nourished by the spiritual energy in the medicinal field within the soul space, is growing vigorously and its medicinal properties are increasing.
The Ganoderma lucidum, which was specially transplanted into the soul space along with the rotten wood, also had its medicinal properties greatly enhanced under the nourishment of the immortal spiritual energy.
She intends to use these medicines to make medicinal baths that strengthen the body. Furthermore, selling medicines nourished by immortal energy could easily attract more problems.
As summer ended, his divine sense spread out, instantly sweeping across a ten-kilometer radius in the deep mountains, where he discovered ginseng buried in the soil and Ganoderma lucidum growing on rotten wood.
She picked a lingzhi mushroom worth sixty taels of silver, wrapped it in a cloth, and ran down the mountain.
Anjia Village, Xiajia Village
Xia's mother, second brother, and third brother surrounded Xia Mo, their eyes wide as they stared at the Ganoderma lucidum that Xia Mo had brought back.
Xia Sange exclaimed, "Little sister, what a huge mushroom!" Then, he added with delight, "Mother, little sister, shall we stew some pork bones for today? And then send some to Father and eldest brother."
Xia Mo pursed her lips, suppressing a laugh, and looked at Xia Sange. She felt that the scene in front of her was so familiar and a little... funny.
"Third Brother, this is Ganoderma lucidum. If you sell it to a pharmacy, you can get sixty taels of silver," Xia Mo said in a low voice, pretending to be mysterious.
Xia's mother and second brother exchanged glances. Actually, they had wanted to say the same thing as third brother, but thankfully... third brother couldn't control himself.
Xia Sange looked at Xia Mo with an embarrassed expression, his cheeks flushing red.
Xia's father and elder brother were still in prison, and Xia's mother was uneasy. However... there was one hundred taels of silver that could be exchanged for wild boar, and now there was sixty taels of silver that could be exchanged for Ganoderma lucidum. Xia's mother's heart was calmed down a lot because of the very practical money.
Xia Mo suddenly had a whimsical idea and said, "Mom and Dad, I'm planning to buy some books, and some paper and pens, to practice calligraphy."
In fact, she did this for ulterior motives.
“Okay,” Xia’s mother agreed without hesitation.
Xia Mochong gave her family a sweet and well-behaved smile.
* * *
Night falls—
Deep in the mountains and forests—
At the end of summer, it ran into the wolf's territory again.
As summer draws to a close, the wolves, without even needing the alpha wolf to give orders, eagerly offer up their wintering caves.
As summer faded, she entered the cave, took out a stone bucket, placed it on her special stove, added medicinal herbs, lit a fire, and skillfully put herself in to "cook" together.
This time, she added jade to the stone tub.
She used her hands to easily peel off the unwanted outer layer of the five jade stones, like peeling an orange, and then added the stone dust and powder to the stone bucket.
If she wants to absorb the earth energy contained within the jade into her body, she will need to use her divine sense to assist her.
One hour later—
After getting dressed in late summer, Xia put away the stone bucket and other items, and returned them to his soul space.
Seeing that the five jade stones had lost their luster and looked like ordinary limestone after the earth's energy was gone, she fell into a brief silence.
These five pieces of jade are worth five thousand taels of silver on the market, and she still needs a large quantity of jade of this quality!
Summer's End: "..."
The good news is that her physique has improved further, and the spiritual power she can use has also increased.
Immediately afterwards, she sent a wisp of her divine consciousness to Anping County, to the prison behind the yamen, and attached herself to Xia's father, bringing back the latest information about Xia's father and elder brother.
Xia's father and elder brother were sleeping on a wooden bed against the wall in the prison. You could hear their snoring and the sounds of small animals crawling across the next cell.
Using her divine sense was done through her body. How long and how far her divine sense could be separated from her body depended on the strength of her body.
He emerged from the cave at the end of summer.
In the dead of winter, when food is scarce, the friendly wolves dragged over some dried wild boar meat from the side, wanting to share their food with Xia Mo. This shows the wolves' genuine affection for Xia Mo.
Xia Mo waved his hand, called out to the wolf, and headed straight out of the mountain.
The wolf pack gave Xia Mo a long farewell, enthusiastically escorting her to the mountainside in the outer forest.
After observing for a while and confirming that her father and elder brother were safe in the prison, Xia Mo transferred her detached divine consciousness to Ma Yiyi and kept checking on Ma Yiyi's screen.
Ma Yiyi was sleeping at the time, but her live stream screen was still broadcasting, showing her sleeping.
There were no comments on the screen, and it looked quiet and peaceful, as if no one was in the live stream. However, the upper right corner of the screen showed that the number of people watching online in real time was as high as 50,000.
Ma Yiyi has absolutely no privacy in front of the live streaming system.
This can also be interpreted as the live streaming system not treating Ma Yiyi as a human being at all.