Fairy, don't try to mess with my filial piety

Those restaurants were about to close, and I wondered why they were suddenly full.

"It was worth the trip. It was a bit boring during the day, but this last show at night was truly amazing!"

"At first, when I saw that young man coming on stage injured, I thought he was just going through the motions. I didn't expect him to actually withstand the girl's first punch. It's a pity that he fell short in the end!"

"That's strange, that girl doesn't look strong, how come she's so powerful?"

The storyteller would eavesdrop everywhere, collecting opinions from all sides and using them as content for his later storytelling.

In the teahouse and tavern, some people were excited, while others were sad and upset.

Those people with sad faces were naturally the ones who did not go to the north gate to watch the competition.

"At the time, I thought traveling was too much trouble, so I stayed at the South Gate to watch the competition. Who knew those two guys on the stage would be posing and reciting doggerel!"

"Who is the champion of the South Gate competition?"

"A man named Yu Gongzi recited doggerel for a long time, and his opponent admitted defeat, saying that he had lost the literary duel and had no intention of fighting again."

"The literary fighting here at the North Gate is quite lacking. We're just fighting the whole time, even the fighting arena is broken. I envy you guys at the South Gate for being so boring!"

"..."

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Ning Xianzhi was quite satisfied with the result.

Although Yun Qingying was very restrained and did not actively use the spiritual energy in her body to attack, her foundation as a practitioner had already given her an invisible blessing, far surpassing that of ordinary warriors, and she could defeat one opponent with one punch.

In this situation, Chu Wuzhi was able to rely on his experience to restrain Yun Qingying's attacks, which was remarkable.

If Chu Wuzhi had not lost his desire to compete for the top spot, he would probably have continued to fight with Yun Qingying for a long time.

After all, there are rules and regulations for a martial arts competition. If you fall off the stage, you lose. With the child's cunning, even if Yun Qingying really used her spiritual energy, Chu Wuji still had a chance to win.

"Qingying doesn't seem to like being given a chance. Judging by her reaction, winning is probably more painful than losing."

"When the two of them go up the mountain, I'll have to host another competition when the time is right. Otherwise, Qingying will be upset."

Ning Xianzhi was thinking about it, but when she saw Chu Wuzhi walking away, she hurried back to the house and pretended that she had never left.

Assuming that Chu Wuji hadn't eaten much along the way, Ning Xianzhi moved to the kitchen, heated up the food, and brought it out at the right time.

After the last lesson of cooking noodles, Ning Xianzhi did not force herself anymore, but ordered food from Baxian Restaurant in advance.

Although the food prepared in the restaurant is not as nourishing, nutritious and thoughtful as hers, it is better in that the dishes are well presented and can easily deceive the taste buds and make children eat more.

This advantage is barely worthy of recognition.

......

"Mom, I'm back!"

As soon as Chu Wuzhi entered the house, he quickly walked to his godmother's room.

Before he came back, Ning Xianzhi had prepared a speech in her mind, ready to ask him why he had made her so embarrassed. However, she found that Chu Wuji was a very smart boy. He had washed his face before coming back and poured some wine on himself, trying to cover up the faint smell of blood and rust with the smell of wine.

This is probably because he doesn't want to make her worry, so he deliberately disguises and conceals it!

What a sensible but worrying child...

Ning Xianzhi suppressed the scolding on her lips and said for the time being: "Eat first, otherwise the food will get cold!"

Chu Wuji heard the displeasure in the woman's tone and wondered if he had failed to conceal it well.

The growling of his stomach brought Chu Wuji back to his senses. He picked up his chopsticks and ate heartily, then asked:

"Mom, why is the food still hot? Didn't you eat it?"

"You said you went fishing. You haven't seen me for a few days. How can I have an appetite? I just heated up some food and you came back just in time." Ning Xianzhi frowned and looked serious.

Chu Wuzhi continued to eat voraciously, not forgetting to pick up a few bites for his godmother. He quickly finished several large plates of food. He finally took a sip of tea and felt satisfied with the meal.

The exhaustion of the past few days seemed to have been restored a little only at this moment.

Ning Xianzhi saw that the child had eaten his fill, and then he began to interrogate him:

"Wuji, didn't you go fishing these days?"

"...Why are you asking this all of a sudden, Mom? I definitely went fishing, but I was unlucky and didn't catch anything."

"Would you even give up today's competition just to go fishing? I went to the north gate this morning and heard someone announce that you were giving up!"

The competition was related to that pill, but Chu Wuji even ignored the pill for the sake of fishing. He himself couldn't believe that he would do such a thing.

He had been working non-stop for several days and had just engaged in a long battle of wits and courage with Yun Qingying. His brain was about to shut down and he found it difficult to think of a good excuse.

"......Well, I lied and didn't go fishing." Chu Wuzhi nodded and admitted it.

"It's normal for a child to hide things from his mother when he grows up. Now he's learning to lie to her. He thinks she's getting in the way, right?"

As Ning Xianzhi spoke, she deliberately revealed a slightly sad expression, and turned her cheek away, as if she didn't want Chu Wuji to see it.

Chu Wuji was anxious, and quickly moved to his godmother's side, holding her snow-white wrist, and explained:

"No, how could I dislike mother? To be honest, it was mother who hid something from me first."

Seeing the child's anxious look, the beautiful woman could not help but be aroused by him and felt the tenderness of her mother. A smile flashed across her lips, and she continued with a stern face and asked:

"How did mother hide it from you?"

"You've been trying to get me to go up the mountain and look for the immortal gate. You probably sensed your illness was about to relapse and wanted to send me away. I know all that... But don't worry, mother. This time I went to Yunhe Town and rescued the best doctor in Lihuo Country. He's the imperial physician!"

Ning Xianzhi was stunned. She had been wondering why Chu Wuji would go to Yunhe Town to take risks. It turned out that her previous persuasions had caused the child to worry, and he ran there to save the imperial physician despite the danger.

This is what happened...

She felt apologetic, and stroked Chu Wuji's face with her delicate hands, sighing softly and asking:

"Wu Ji, do you know how dangerous Yunhe Town is? Even I, who rarely goes out, have heard that it's not peaceful there!"

"I just know that if I don't do this, my mother will be in danger."

"..."

"Anyway, everything is fine now. I'm fine! In a few days, the imperial physician will come to help treat the disease, and mother will be fine too~"

Chu Wuji stood up and stretched out his body.

Ning Xianzhi looked at the joy on his face and was deeply moved.

In the recent course of events, this child saved the imperial physician, fought against demons, and even had a martial arts competition, with remarkable achievements. But in the end, the only thing that made Chu Wuji feel pleased and satisfied was that she helped Ning Xianzhi!

Chu Wuji saw that his godmother suddenly stopped talking and just stared at him. He thought that his godmother was preparing to blame him, so he quickly pretended to be pitiful.

"I haven't slept much these past few days. I'm really sleepy. I'm going to boil some water for a bath and then go to bed."

Chapter 31: The damn snake demon abused my child

Boiling water in the woodshed is not an easy job, mainly because the waiting time is long.

If the firewood stove at home is not big enough and cannot boil enough water at one time, you have to boil water twice and then pour it into the large bathtub.

If you take a bath every night, it will take a lot of time just to boil water. Therefore, women usually wipe themselves with hot water and take a bath only every few days.

Chu Wuji's advantage as a man came into play. He could just wash with cold water. But now he wanted to sleep, so he didn't go to the well to wash with cold water. It would be easier for him to wake up with a shock.

The fire is particularly strong today. I don’t know if it’s because the firewood is better or for some other reason, but it boils water much faster than usual.

"What's going on? Has my firewood turned into an incinerator? In such a short time, I can't even cook the vegetables, but the water is already boiling?!"

Chu Wuji was amazed. He had seen some monsters recently, and he began to wonder whether the Kitchen God worshipped by the people also existed.

He squatted down and peered into the fire to see if anything was helping to stoke it.

After failing to confirm, he stopped worrying and shouted loudly into the inner room:

"Mom, come here and take a bath first. After you're done, it's my turn. I'm going to go take a break and cool down for a while, otherwise I'll sweat while taking a bath."

The water boiled quickly this time, but Chu Wuzhi was sweating profusely, as if he had taken a shower in advance.

A beautiful woman in a thorny hairpin and a plain skirt came out, stood beside her son, and said:

"Mom already took a bath yesterday, you can take a bath by yourself, don't worry about her."

Chu Wuji was sitting on the floor in the yard enjoying the cool air. When he heard his godmother's words, he couldn't help but find it funny. He looked up at his godmother and found that his view was blocked by the two plump breasts in front of her, so he could only sit further away.

After making eye contact with the beautiful woman, Chu Wuji said:

"Mom, you're lying, don't you? The firewood in the firewood room hasn't been touched, how are you going to boil water for a bath?"

Ning Xianzhi actually took a bath. When Chu Wuji was not around, she used all kinds of magic to increase her life efficiency to the maximum. Just now, when Chu Wuji was in the firewood room, she was the one who helped him secretly.

But now she couldn't explain it, so she could only accept the evaluation that "she couldn't deceive people".

"This bucket of water is for Mom to use. If you boil another bucket of water later, won't you sweat again?"

"No, I can just use the bucket of water that mother used to wash it."

Ning Xianzhi really didn't know how this child and Bai Sujin had lived in the past. Her attitude towards Bai Sujin changed from suspicion when she didn't know the details to dissatisfaction.

This damn snake demon, is he using Chu Wuzhi as a laborer?

Not only did he have magic but it didn't help him make a fire. He worked so hard to boil a pot of water, but he had to let the snake demon use it first before he could use the rest.

Ning Xianzhi suddenly remembered his previous plan of "revealing his true form to scare Chu Wuji" and said hesitantly:

"Wait a minute, Wuji, you and mother will take a bath together."

"Hmm?" Chu Wuji blinked and looked at the woman suspiciously.

"Mother wants to check your injuries and give you some herbs for a bath. Ahem... why do you look like that? I think we bathed together before!"

The second half of the sentence was just nonsense made up by Ning Xianzhi. With the excuse of amnesia, any story he made up would make sense.

"When I was little, my mother and I usually bathed together. Later, when I grew taller, we would occasionally take a bath together in the lake when we went for a walk in the wild."

"That's it, this time I'm here to check your injuries."

Ning Xianzhi wanted to explain something, but the more he explained, the more guilty he felt, so he stopped talking.

The stars were twinkling and the cool autumn evening breeze quickly wiped away the boy's sweat.

Chu Wuji took off his black warrior robe, revealing his white undershirt stained with clear blood. Ning Xianzhi, who was standing beside him, frowned when she saw this.

Chu Wuji thought that his godmother saw the blood scabs on his body and remembered that he had just lied. He quickly wiped his body with a towel and rubbed off the blood scabs.

The moonlight acted as a lamp, its clear light falling on the young man's sturdy body, and the light and dark shadows made his body look particularly angular.

The man's masculinity is like the morning sun, full of yang energy.

Chu Wuji had no intention of showing off. He just wanted to quickly eliminate those embarrassing traces under the eyes of his godmother.

Most of the injuries have indeed healed. Once the blood scabs are removed, only a shallow white mark remains on the skin underneath.

But some of his injuries have not healed yet, especially since he had just had another round of fighting with Yun Qingying, and the collision of fists and feet must have caused some new minor injuries.

He rubbed the wound hard with a towel, directly opening it, and red blood flowed out.

Ning Xianzhi quickly slapped Chu Wuji's hand away, snatched the towel, and angrily scolded him distressedly: "Don't move, don't be gentle, let me help you wipe it!"

She bent slightly in front of Chu Wuji, and her loose skirt suddenly revealed a plump and round figure, like a white moon in the sky, showing the mature charm of a beautiful woman.

Although Ning Xianzhi felt distressed, her beautiful eyes stared at Chu Wuzhi's wound, noticing his unusual recovery speed, and she was amazed.

This child heals so fast that it can rival the wild monks’ meditation and healing. Is it possible for a mortal to achieve this level?

If Wu Ji hadn't been running around for several days, exhausting his mental and physical energy, this injury would have healed long ago.

"Okay, go in and soak first. I'll go get you some herbal bath recipes from the medicine cabinet in the front hall."

"Mom, you're not trying to trick me into taking a bath first, are you?"

Ning Xianzhi already knew how to control him. She put on a stern face and pretended to be angry: "If you keep on procrastinating, mother will be angry!"

Chu Wuji ran into the room without saying a word, and then there was a "plop" sound. I don't know if he jumped into the bathtub without taking off his clothes.

Ning Xianzhi shook her head helplessly and went to the front hall to get some medicine, specifically the expensive ones, but to be honest, these worldly herbs were not to her liking.

The hundred-year-old Ganoderma lucidum is just so-so, not as useful as her Ningxianzhi soaked in water.

On the way back to the room with the herbs, Ning Xianzhi felt a little soft-hearted:

"I guess Wuji hasn't had a single moment of rest since he left the city and rushed to Yunhe Town. Do you really want to scare him at this time?"