Chapter 126 Daily Life. - Today of 4 girls 5.
Chapter 126 Daily Life. - Today of 4 girls 5.
In the previous chapter, we talked about Yang Mingyi just learning the "blessing technique" in the Sacred Hall. Next, we will continue to talk about You Jiahui.
After You Jiahui negotiated with the king to exempt herself from tax this year, she arrived at the mansion she was building at the end of the morning.
As soon as You Jiahui arrived, supervisor Oakley came to greet her.
You Jiahui greeted them while dismounting.
Before You Jiahui could speak, the supervisor Oakley happily told You Jiahui, "Sir Knight, the construction workers worked particularly hard this morning."
You Jiahui looked at the construction workers busy at work on the site and smiled. She asked the supervisor, Okri, "Is it because the deadline is almost up?"
Okri, the supervisor, told You Jiahui, "Yes, most people are rushing back to their farm work, and some have already received their next job. So, they've all sped up their efforts all of a sudden."
While listening to Overseer Oakley's report, You Jiahui checked the progress of her mansion's construction. She asked Overseer Oakley, "I think we're almost at the finishing touches now, right?"
Overseer Oakley responded to You Jiahui's question, saying, "Yes, Sir Knight. After today, there are only some decorations left to do. Perhaps we can finish it a few days early."
You Jiahui looked at the low wooden wall surrounding the house and said to the supervisor, Okri, "Even though the wall is a bit low, the difference between having it and not having it is still quite big. At least this way, we feel much safer than just one house standing alone."
Overseer Oakley said to You Jiahui, "Sir Knight, with your close relationship with the royal family, it will only be a matter of removing the planks and then rebuilding them."
Overseer Oakley had also heard that You Jiahui was different from other knights. You Jiahui was a knight appointed by the king himself, and her status was different from that of other high-ranking nobles. Simply put, You Jiahui answered directly to the king, not to other high-ranking nobles.
You Jiahui sighed softly and said to the supervisor, Okri, "I hope it will be done as soon as possible. A low wall like this is of no use in war."
Overseer Oakley scratched his head and said to You Jiahui, "Then... an adult can just climb over the wall. The possibility of a war is unlikely, unless a high-level monster suddenly appears in your territory, then such a low wall will be useless."
You Jiahui crossed her arms and asked the supervisor, Okri, seemingly nitpicking, "But you said that adults can climb over the wall. That means it must be hard to prevent petty theft, right?"
Okri, the supervisor, gave an awkward smile and responded to You Jiahui's "nitpicking," saying, "Then... we'll just have to hire some help quickly."
Afterwards, they walked around the construction site as usual, looking around. After chatting for a while, You Jiahui finally left the site. It was already noon, and the people on the construction site had started to make fires and cook.
Now that we have finished talking about You Jiahui’s morning, let’s talk about her afternoon.
In the afternoon, You Jiahui came to the Merchants Guild happily. The king allowed her to be tax-exempt this year, and she wanted to tell the president Putoyare here quickly.
This time, You Jiahui's visit to the Merchants Guild was treated differently than before. The receptionist at the front desk immediately became respectful when she saw that it was You Jiahui. After the receptionist learned that You Jiahui was looking for President Putuo Yalei again, she immediately took You Jiahui to the president's office.
Not long afterward, You Jiahui saw meals being delivered to the president's office. It was clear that President Putuo Yalei had already arranged all of this in advance, which was why the situation was so different from the previous one.
After taking a sip of the hot drink, You Jiahui said to President Putoyare, "Your Majesty has granted me tax exemption this year."
After hearing this, President Putuo Yalei smiled and said to You Jiahui, "That's good news!" Then he asked You Jiahui, "The conversation with His Majesty should have gone smoothly, right?"
You Jiahui told President Putoyare, "It went quite smoothly. We talked a lot. After I told him about my difficulties, His Majesty quickly agreed to tax exemptions this year."
Guild President Putuo Yalei said to You Jiahui, "You went at the perfect time. His Majesty must be quite happy lately. With so much land suddenly liberated near the capital, the lords will naturally be able to pay more taxes in the future."
Afterwards, the two of them talked about tea and coffee. President Putoyare said that there was no news about tea and coffee yet.
In this way, You Jiahui sat in the president's office of the Merchants Guild and naturally chatted with the president Putoyare for an entire afternoon.
Don't ask if Guild President Putuo Yalei doesn't have his own things to do, because You Jiahui is the "biggest thing" in the entire Merchant Guild right now. Even if Guild President Putuo Yalei has other things to do, as long as he sees You Jiahui's visit, he will postpone other things.
That's all I have to say about You Jiahui and Yang Mingyi's "today." There will be a few days of nothing more to say about them, so next I have to return to Wei Qingping.
Going back a few chapters, it was said that Wei Qingping woke up from her dream and continued on her journey in the morning.
Wei Qingping and King Jianhao walked from morning to noon, and now they started to take a break.
Wei Qingping said to the Swordsman King, "The roads these past few days have been so difficult to walk on. For a lot of times, it feels like we're not even walking, it feels like we're climbing."
The Swordsman King wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to Wei Qingping, "This road is indeed quite up and down. The terrain is starting to become complicated. Sometimes it feels like climbing up, and sometimes it feels like sliding down."
Wei Qingping looked at the sun in the sky and said to the Swordsman King, "But we shouldn't be going the wrong way. We've been heading east and have indeed left the place we came from."
The Swordsman King sat down on the ground and said to Wei Qingping, "Let's stop and rest first. It's too tiring to climb over mountains and cross rivers like this." After saying that, he took out the "cloth strip" from the package and fanned himself.
Don't ask the Swordsman King how he fanned himself with the cloth. When people are at their wit's end, they will always find their own way.
When Wei Qingping heard the Sword Master King say he wanted to rest, she immediately lay on her back on the ground. She looked up at the sky and muttered, "Luckily, we have good eyesight, and the path we found is relatively not that steep."
After a short break, Wei Qingping suddenly asked the Sword Master King, "We agreed there's a road, isn't it the same road as Mount Hua?"
It was so hot today that the Sword King's head was already buzzing with heat. Fanning himself, he told Wei Qingping, "How is that possible... If they were exaggerating, they wouldn't say there's a road. At least... it has to be passable to be considered a road..."
The last "ba" that the Swordsman King said makes people feel uncertain.
After an unknown amount of time in the scorching heat, the Swordsman King suddenly cried out, "Hey! What is that?"
Wei Qingping sat up, looked at the ground again, picked up something that had fallen beside her, and looked at it. She said to the Swordsman King, "You were hit by this fir fruit."
It turned out that where they stopped to rest, they looked up and saw a fir tree growing on the mountain.
King Jianhao looked at the fir fruit in Wei Qingping's hand, then touched the top of his head. He asked Wei Qingping, "Really? Is this edible?"
Wei Qingping told King Jianhao, "It's best not to eat the fir fruits in the mountains casually. Many of them are poisonous." After that, she tossed the fir fruits in her hands back and forth.
King Jianhao asked Wei Qingping again, "How do you know this is a fir fruit?"
Wei Qingping threw the fir fruit to King Jianhao and told him, "We have them in our world. They're easy to spot! Get familiar with them so you don't eat poisonous fruit when you're hungry."
King Jianhao took the fir fruit in his hand and said to Wei Qingping with emotion, "It would be nice to have some fruit to eat in this unbearably hot weather. Speaking of which, the animals in this world are very different from ours, but the plants look pretty much the same."
Wei Qingping asked King Jianhao, "Are all the animals in this world strange in appearance?"
King Jianhao told Wei Qingping, "In short, they look very different." Then he asked Wei Qingping, "Didn't you see them when you passed by the village?"
Wei Qingping told the Swordsman King, "I didn't get close. I was looking at it from a distance, so I didn't see it that closely."
The Swordsman King suddenly looked puzzled and said to Wei Qingping, "It's a bit strange to say, maybe it's my illusion. I feel like animals will retreat when they see you approaching."
Wei Qingping had long known that she wasn't liked by animals, but she wouldn't admit it. She feigned ignorance and argued with the Swordsman King, saying, "Really? That's impossible. Did you see it wrong? How could I not have noticed..."
Next, they began to chat about the common domestic animals in the other world.
After a while, Wei Qingping saw that the Sword King was still holding the fir fruit in his hand and was even squeezing it. She asked the Sword King, "They say that being hit on the head by a falling leaf is a sign of wisdom. What did being hit by the fir fruit mean to you?"
King Jianhao looked helpless and said to Wei Qingping, "Don't make such a joke."
Wei Qingping's imagination was blown away, and she said to the Swordsman King, "You are Newton!"
The Swordsman King corrected Wei Qingping, saying, "It was an apple that hit Newton, not a fir nut. How are you taking this class? You can even get this mixed up."
After a while, Wei Qingping said to herself, "Why aren't there any fruits in this mountain like the ones I ate on the road before..."
After hearing this, King Jianhao suddenly became curious. He asked Wei Qingping, "What kind of fruits did you eat on the road before?"
Wei Qingping told the Swordsman King, "Hmm...it looks like grapes, but if you look closely, it's not a grape."
King Jianhao asked Wei Qingping again, "So what did you eat?"
Wei Qingping told King Jianhao, "It's the fruit you eat."
King Jianhao was surprised and asked Wei Qingping, "You don't even know what kind of fruit it is, and you dare to eat it?"
Wei Qingping told the Swordsman King, "I was just too hungry at the time, and I didn't get poisoned after eating it. Anyway, it was hanging on the tree in bunches like grapes, so it must be some kind of vine fruit."
In fact, Wei Qingping ate more than one kind of fruit along the way, but she only talked about the one she thought was the most delicious.
King Jianhao then asked Wei Qingping, "What kind of fruits did you eat in the mountains?"
What the Swordsman King was asking about at this moment was, of course, the things of the original world. Wei Qingping and the Swordsman King had been chatting all the way, and they didn't need to explain too much, and they could understand each other's specific questions.
Wei Qingping replied to the Swordsman King, "Well... the most popular food is hawthorn." When she mentioned "hawthorn," she immediately said to the Swordsman King, "Hawthorn is so easy to recognize. Let's look for some."
King Jianhao thought to himself, "Finally, I have a concrete goal..." Thinking of this, he said to Wei Qingping, "I hope so. If there really are hawthorns here..." After saying that, he sighed deeply. Perhaps this conversation suddenly evoked memories of the past.
Just as he was about to get up and continue on his journey, the Swordsman King suddenly remembered something. He asked Wei Qingping, "I suddenly remembered something. I heard that Stilas Odin summoned three people. Could they be the ones who traveled through time with you?"
Wei Qingping thought about it for a moment, muttered, and said, "Ah? Did I say that?"
King Jianhao said to Wei Qingping, "You mentioned in our casual conversation that you encountered a building collapse when you traveled through time, and then you were buried alive. Since it was a building collapse, what if there were other people in the building who were buried alive as well?"
Since Wei Qingping had been very vague in her chat and hadn't mentioned the nighttime situation or the demolition complex, King Jianhao assumed it was a building that had collapsed during the day, and he made his assumption based on that.
Wei Qingping, on her part, thought that King Jianhao had guessed it right. She told King Jianhao, "It must be my friend. I heard about my friend in the tavern in your country."
The chapter in the previous volume said that after Wei Qingping escaped from the human traffickers' residence, she heard about "Qi Xinyang" in a tavern.
The Swordsman King said to Wei Qingping, "Your friend's name is 'Qi Xinyang', right? Her name is well-known. Since you can become friends with such a genius, I think you should be no fool." At this point, he thought to himself, "Could she have accidentally hit her head when she traveled through time? Maybe she was hit on the head when the building collapsed..."
After hearing the Sword Master King's unintentional "derogatory remarks," Wei Qingping felt a surge of inferiority complex. She thought to herself, "How annoying! Why are you saying that..."
After a pause, the Swordsman King continued to say to Wei Qingping, "Then you will be able to meet your friends soon. The people I know in that country are all well-known figures."
Who exactly is this swordsman king who met in Styras Odin? We will find out in the next chapter.
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