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Chapter 32: Switching to the Dagger\nBailian swiftly darted, shuffling through the mountains speedily on her light feet. She inwardly sighed, thinking that her speed was much slower than before and with the stones she picked up in her hand, she casually tried to hit a few pheasants and rabbits she saw on the way.\n
Although I have adapted to this body, my strength is not as good as before, it took me several times until I could strike down two pheasants.\n
As such, Bailian stopped running.\n
Although she still wanted to store some extra food into her dimensional space, she didn’t have time to waste.\n
She gathered up a few pieces of dry tree bark and branches suitable for firewood, giving up on catching her prey alive.\n
She dealt with the two pheasants in the stream where she had pretended to fish before. After cleaning and plucking the pheasant’s feathers, Bailian proficiently lit a roaring fire, found some big leaves, gathered up thick, dark clay from the ground, and then covered the leaves with the vicious, heavy clay. Afterward, she buried the two large mounds of mud underneath the blazing fire.\n
This dish was called Roasted Wild Pheasant in Clay.\n
Bailian didn’t lounge around waiting for the pheasant to finish roasting, rather, rushed directly towards the inner wall, near the outskirts of the mountains.\n
Right now, the most important thing she had to do was find a lot of bamboo trees.\n
Because she had no weapons.\n
Fortunately, after a few seconds of searching, Bailian was lucky and stumbled upon a small, misty bamboo grove.\n
Bailian didn’t waste time, expertly hunting for a thin, liable piece of bamboo that wasn’t easy to break.\n
Because she had no knife or sword, so she was unable to skin off the thick, green protective skin on the bamboo. Nimbly snapping the bamboo piece in half, she threw the pieces into space.\n
Bailian kept experimenting, finding that a bamboo branch about one meter in length was the easiest to pick up, The sharp and ragged edges when she snapped the bamboo trees were like sharp shards, extremely hard. When she tried it, hurling the bamboo branch like a spear, it easily penetrated through the body of a hare.\n
After calmly conjuring the passing hare away into her space, Bailian continued to break and gather a small pile of bamboo branches.\n
Soon, there was a large, plentiful pile in her space.\n
Bailian immediately felt a sense of security.\n
On the way back, Bailian gripped a sharp bamboo shard with one hand and in the other, a beaming bright yellow ginseng dangled, the medicinal scent slowly wafting all around her. \n
Bailian’s eyebrows wiggled, she hadn’t expected to actually find ginseng and thought her Fourth Uncle had lied to her. However, despite it undeniably being ginseng, it was about the size of a small infant’s thumb, not worth much money.\n
However, Bailian was well-versed in the medicinal arts and liked any medicinal ingredients.\n
Therefore, regardless of how old, small, or battered the material was, Bailian did not dislike it.\n
After all, the family she transmigrated into really wouldn’t be able to take a beating, so she could only stock up just in case.\n
Using her psychic energy to send the ginseng into space, she then planted it firmly next to the spiritual spring. Then, she quickly dug a small irrigation canal from the spring to the ginseng, hoping to nurture it with the spring’s spiritual energy.\n
After running and scrambling about for an hour, the sun had already risen up high into the sky, its hot rays beaming down on the sweaty Bailian. Around then, Bailian’s stomach started grumbling.\n
Time to eat chicken legs!\n
Skipping happily in the direction of where she had buried the pheasant under the fire’s embers, she hummed a happy tune.\n
Entering into the clearing, she was startled and her mouth fell open.\n
Quiet—\n
On the opposite side of the clearing, a young man in all-white was gracefully consuming her chicken wings! He was obviously using his pale white hands to eat the chicken, but nonetheless, he looked very elegant.\n
With white clothes and ink-black hair swept into a refined bun, he radiated peerless elegance.\n
Behind the young man stood two subordinates, one of them looking as thing as a rice grain, but looked to be energetic and lively.\n
The other subordinate looked more than 180 cm tall, looking as sturdy and strong as a tower, hovering above the others by a large margin.\n
At this time, the three people’s heads turned to find Bailian’s shocked face, and they all abruptly froze.\n
“You have to pay!” Bailian initiated the conversation, taking a long remorseful look at the roasted wild pheasant that had already been eaten.\n
Then, she quickly ran up to the place where she had buried the pheasant wrapped in leaves and clay, using a branch to sift through the fire’s dying embers. Then her branch hit a small object, and she excitedly dug up the other pheasant, the little package still cleanly tucked into the leaves it was wrapped in, radiating off heat.\n
“Give.” the young man in white lightly said, putting down the now cleanly eaten chicken wings from his hand.\n
‘Ahem…this young miss, I’m sorry, this pheasant will cost you some silvers.” The thin subordinate nervously swallowed and neatly handed Bailian a silver bill.\n
Luo Zi had been frightened thoroughly by this little peasant girl. She was the first person who dared to order around his master!\n
Bailian glanced at him, and instead of taking the silver bill, she pointed to the dagger lying beside the white-clothed young man.\n
The dagger’s hilt gleamed brightly under the sun, numerous precious gems inlaid on the scabbard, looking to be crafted by a highly-skilled craftsman. Even if she couldn’t see the blade itself, she could tell it was a fine dagger.\n
“Can you exchange the bill with a dagger instead?”\n
Bailian was a little embarrassed to ask for it, but shouldn’t they feel even more embarrassed at stealing a roasted pheasant from a small girl like her? Why wouldn’t she take the opportunity to ask for the dagger?\n
Luo Zi couldn’t make the decision, because the dagger belonged to his master and stuttered, “This…this is the Master’s, but these silver bills can buy a lot of daggers!”\n
His Master never gave anything to other women, and very much liked his dagger, often carrying it with him like a precious treasure. He felt that it would be impossible for the Master to give it to this girl.\n
The young man in white clothes wiped his hands and regarded Bailian with a pair of cold, shining eyes. Bailian was naturally not afraid and looked straight into his cold gaze.\n
A thin, frail-looking girl, although looking a little sheepish and with shabby, patched-up clothes, was looking up at him with a dark expression.\n
Her clear eyes seemed to be accusing him–accusing him of stealing her pheasant.\n
It had been a long time since he had the chance to eat chicken, so in the end, he gave in and had eaten some, but he still didn’t feel satisfied\n
In the end, the young man’s gaze unknowingly faltered and he faintly said, “Give.”\n
Bailian grinned, “Thanks!”\n
Luo Zi’s mouth gaped open, feeling dazed from the scene in front of him. A couple of seconds later, he finally reacted and reached to hand the dagger over to Bailian. But, before he could go and give it to her, Bailian had already reached over to take it.\n
After Bailian snatched the dagger away, she cheerfully lugged the lump of mud in her arms and then turned around with the adorned, expensive-looking dagger in hand.\n
Luo Zi was stupefied. \n
He didn’t hallucinate right?!\n
That girl was holding Master’s dagger!\n
Moreover, she just took it and ran away!\n
This…\n
Luo Zi secretly peeked at the young man in white and found that his Master was still, his expression unreadable as he silently looked down at the ground.\n
The young man in white abruptly stood up and walked in the other direction.\n
Luo Zi hurriedly gathered the leftover chicken on the ground and followed, handing over some of the roasted pheasants to the towering man.\n
“It’s so fragrant!” Luo Zi’s eyes lit up, he didn’t expect that girl’s craftsmanship to be pretty good!\n
It was just that the flavor was a bit weak.\n
“Eight, is the girl from the nearby village? Do you think she would have any clues on the Medical Saint?” Luo Zi asked the tall man, his mouth full of pheasant \n
Eight had nothing to say, but quickly finished off the pheasant and took the remaining leftovers from Luo Zi when he was done.\n
“Hey, hey, don’t steal it!” Luo Zi watched as the meat in his hands was robbed by the man, and quickly pulled it closer, protecting it with his skinny arms.\n
These few days, they had been tirelessly searching for someone on this mountain, sleeping out in the mountains, not even eating well. They had heard that the Sage Doctor Saint had been gathering medicinal ingredients in this very mountain, but they hadn’t even seen his shadow.\n
Moreover, as a group of lumbering men, they didn’t know to cook or eat. The roasted chicken and hare they made were very unpalatable, and they didn’t dare to wander off to buy meals in the village for fear of missing the Sage Doctor.\n
Seeing something had been buried here, he had dug it out because of his curiosity. Who would have known that because he did so, the Master’s dagger was now gone?\n
Luo Zi silently watched at Eight tried to rob more of his pheasant, and helplessly rolled his eyes, “Just go marry that thin girl, let her cook for you!”\n
The young man in white walking in front of them paused for a moment and then continued walking.\n
Eight focused on the direction Bailian had left and vigorously shook his head.\n
What a joke!\n
His ideal girl was a strong, healthy king of girl!\n
One should be able to hold one hundred and thirty catties up with ease!\n
That thin girl wasn’t good-looking at all!\n
Only chubby girls look good!\n
“Ahem…” Luo Zi suddenly choked on his pheasant after seeing Eight who was usually expressionless, have a dreamy look in his eyes.\n
….\n
The other side\n
“Wow!” Yuhang scampered over to Bailian’s side, swallowing uncontrollably.\n
Yuyang stared at the pheasant without blinking, drooling unconsciously.\n
“Taste it!” Bailian chuckled and looked at her two silly brothers, obviously in a good mood.\n
Although she had lost one of her hard-earned pheasants, there was an additional dagger now. This business was still very cost-effective ah!\n
But what Bailian didn’t know that she was currently being rejected for being too skinny!\n
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