Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

Chapter 18 The Cat That Steals Food
"So you brought this bird back?" Qin Feng asked, pointing at the ugly bird that Wei Xi placed on the kang table.

Seeing Wei Xi nod, Qin Feng felt a rare headache.

Qin Feng climbed out of the warm bed and prepared to go out to meditate. Before he could get dressed, he saw Wei Xi with a dark face lifting the door curtain embroidered with a magpie climbing a branch.

Wei Xi recounted her experiences from that morning: Senior Brother Wei stealing medicine, Senior Brother Wei catching birds, Senior Brother Wei taking spirit stones. And this bird she'd placed on the kang table had eaten its siblings and then kept pestering Wei Xi, squawking non-stop. She had no choice but to bring the filthy bird back home wrapped in a handful of leaves.

"Why didn't you bring it back? This thing looks a bit evil."

Qin Feng poked it with his finger, and the little beast pretended to be innocent and fell back.

Wei Xi took out the spirit stone from his lapel and placed it on the table. Qin Feng understood and gave him a thumbs up respectfully.

The rat-catching general came over and sniffed the sprawled bluebird with his nose. Wei Xi tried to stop it with his hand.

The rat-catching general didn't catch a single rat. No one knew what Qin Feng had fed the cat behind her back, but it just refused to catch rats, yet it gained a lot of meat. Fortunately, the snowstorm had effectively controlled the number of rats in the Qingcheng Sect, otherwise Wei Xi would not be able to fool him any longer.

I guess someone had fed it before. The rat-catching general sniffed it twice and lost interest in it.

Qin Feng felt sorry for the cat and quickly picked up the general.

"You should take this thing back and raise it. The cat can eat it when it grows up. Otherwise, send it to the Bird Department and let those annoying people raise it?"

Wei Xi sneered. When her temper got to her, she would never try to please those annoying people in the Bird Department. Besides, this thing might be sold to Wei An.

The little beast struggled to stand up and rubbed Wei Xi's forearm in a flattering manner. Wei Xi moved his arm away in disgust.

"This thing probably thinks you're its mother," Qin Feng put the Mouse Catcher on the ground. The cat shook its fur twice and trotted to the brazier to nestle. "The first thing it saw when it broke out of its shell was you."

After Qin Feng went out to meditate, Wei Xi took some of the cotton that Qin Feng had given to the general to build a nest, built a small bird's nest, and poured some water into it with a tea saucer.

Considering that it had eaten its brother, who was a circle bigger than itself, along with the eggshells of two eggs, Wei Xi estimated that it would not starve to death for a while, so he took off his clothes and got into bed.

After the snow radish was harvested, the senior sister from Frost Palace told Wei Xichu that Master Xianshi's mission was over.

After receiving his reward and finishing his watering work in the pine forest, Wei Xi went to Yixiang Pavilion, found his senior brother who was in charge of purchasing, and got the plants of the elixir he had bought.

While on night watch, Wei Xi finished reading the books on herbs she had found. While killing time, she thought that since the snow radish was used to catch orchids, Master Chu probably wouldn't keep hiring her to look after the unimportant snow radish.

So Wei Xi set her sights on the half-acre medicinal field in the pine forest. She looked for several elixirs with similar conditions in the book. After comprehensively considering the spirit stones, sales channels and difficulty, she chose the elixirs under the forest.

Under the forest is a spiritual medicine with fire attributes, but this medicine needs to be tempered in severe cold. Its growth cycle is three months. According to the climate of the northern border, the winter at the altitude of Yizhangyuan can last for about three and a half months, which is just enough for one harvest.

This spiritual medicine is moderately priced among low-level spiritual medicines because it is an important material for making protective pills.

Wei Xi worked hard for two months, and after paying for his expenses, he still had two high-grade spirit stones, five medium-grade spirit stones, and two low-grade spirit stones left.

The seedlings under the forest were not cheap, so Wei Xi kept a medium-grade spirit stone and used the rest to buy sixteen seedlings under the forest. His senior brother also gave Wei Xi the half bag of snow radish seeds that the seed shop owner gave him.

Wei Xi thanked her senior and returned to the dormitory with the seedlings, seeds and a piece of pastry wrapped in oil paper that the senior from the kitchen had given her.

Before Wei Xi could even sit down, he heard someone in the yard shouting angrily, "Damn it, who owns this cat!" Knowing something was wrong, Wei Xi hesitated, but the rat-catching general's cry was so sharp.

Wei Xi cursed in his heart and rushed out.

An angry young man was standing in the yard. He was quite handsome, tall, and looked a little malnourished, with two dark circles under his eyes.

He held up the Mousetrap and saw Wei Xi coming out. He yelled at Wei Xi, "Did you raise this cat?"

Although he didn't want to admit it, Wei Xi could only nod.

The young man rushed over and said, "Your cat! It ate all my fish! My fish!"

Wei Xi took out her own cowhide scroll and began to write on it. The young man was frustrated by her action and became angry.

Wei Xi knew what the young man said was true, after all, the rat-catching general still had fish scales clinging to his beard. She apologized to the young man and then asked what kind of fish the rat-catching general had eaten so that she could compensate him.

Wei Xi's only thought was that he hoped the disciples of Qingcheng Sect would not raise any ridiculously expensive spiritual fish.

The young man came with a lot of anger. As the saying goes, things resemble their owners, so he thought that the owner of the cat that stole the fish was also a willful person. Unexpectedly, the owner's attitude of admitting his mistake was quite good. He lost his anger and momentum without venting it for a while.

When he realized that his junior sister seemed to be unable to speak, he didn't know what to do.

"No, this cat has been eating my fish intermittently for a long time. It has completely emptied my fish breeding pond."

After hearing this, Wei Xi's heart began to cool down and her face immediately turned red. Seeing her like this, the young man threw the cat to the ground, and the mouse-catching general rushed back into the house as soon as the cat landed.

"You don't have to worry. I bred these fish myself. You don't look like you did this on purpose. Just pay me the cost. By the way, my name is Chen Shuangli. I raise fish. These are all ornamental spirit fish."

Chen Shuangli was not the type of person who liked to conflict with others. He studied fish farming every day, otherwise he would not have been unaware that among the new disciples there was Wei Xi, his junior sister with a mute disease.

Wei Xi embarrassedly told the man that he would take good care of his cat in the future, and asked how much compensation he would have to pay.

Chen Shuangli looked distressed. "The fish fry aren't expensive, but I put a lot of thought into it." Chen Shuangli looked at Wei Xi's flushed face and made a discount. "For a pond of fish, you have to pay me three medium-grade spirit stones."

Fortunately, it was not particularly expensive. Although it was also Wei Xi's salary for working for Master Chu for a month, things have come to this point. His cat ate someone else's fish, so he should compensate.

Wei Xi wrote to Chen Shuangli with a red face, and the words floating in the air seemed to be flying.

"You don't have that much on hand?" Chen Shuangli confirmed with Wei Xi after reading it. Wei Xi quickly continued to write that he would definitely return the spirit stones before the beginning of spring.

Chen Shuangli himself was extremely poor, so how could he expect a junior sister who had just come up the mountain to compensate him with spirit stones?

"Then return the spirit stone to me before spring." Chen Shuangli was a simple guy without any thoughts. After the matter was explained, he did not bother to dwell on it any more.

"Just make sure you keep an eye on your cat and don't eat my fish again." Chen Shuangli specifically told Wei Xi this before leaving.

After seeing off another legendary senior brother in the sect, Wei Xi rolled up his sleeves with a cold face and walked into the house.

(End of this chapter)