latelenovela Chapter 437 Cultivating and Developing: Starting with Those Around Us
Chapter 437 Cultivating and Developing: Starting with Those Around Us
In the backyard of the Wen family mansion in the capital, in the warm pavilion and flower room.
More than a month has passed since everyone returned to Beijing.
At this moment, Wenwen and a group of sisters were pruning and trimming the flowers and plants in the greenhouse, just as Yao Maimai had requested! Everyone worked together to give the flowers and plants a nice shape, chattering and making a lively scene.
"Fifth Miss, the old master wants to see you in the study in the front yard."
Liaoyu learned the news from the maid in the front courtyard and hurriedly came over to say it.
"Grandfather, were you looking for me?"
Wenwen glanced at her friends and muttered to herself, "Is there another banquet? No way?"
“Grandfather knows you don’t like attending banquets, so it can’t be this.”
Wenxia reminded her, "Little sister, wash your hands and change your clothes before you go."
Wenwen inadvertently lowered her raised hand in an instant. Fortunately, her elder sister reminded her in time, otherwise she would have subconsciously used the purification technique. There were quite a few maids around them at the moment, and if any of them made a fuss and shouted, it would be a disaster.
No, this hidden danger needs to be addressed promptly. With this in mind, Wenwen had an idea.
"Miss, I have prepared clean clothes in the warm room next door," Liaoyu said at the right moment.
Liao Yu truly understands her!
It seems that I've returned to the life of being waited on hand and foot since I got back to Beijing. It's only been a few days, and I've already abandoned the good habits I had over the past few years. Alas, it's easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality!
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Wen Mansion, front courtyard study.
Wen Yuanqian and the others chatted while waiting for Wen Wen.
Soon, footsteps sounded outside the door, and a moment later, there was a knock on the door.
Crunch!
Wenwen pushed open the door. "Grandfather, you wanted to see me?"
"Yes, Wen'er, come in and sit down," Wen Yuanqian greeted.
They then talked about the anniversary celebration of the Zhou family school the day after tomorrow.
"So, will the younger siblings go to the clan school right after the celebration, or wait until after the New Year?"
Wenwen asked this question because she was planning to travel after the New Year. There were still five, six, seven, or eight days left until the eve of the Lunar New Year. All told, she would only stay at home for another month after the Lantern Festival.
She heard yesterday that a royal hunting ground would be open during the Lunar New Year celebrations, and she was thinking of taking her younger siblings there! But if she goes to the clan school after the celebrations, then the plan to go to the hunting grounds will probably fall through.
Why do you ask that? Do you have plans?
Wen Yuanqian asked with a smile. He now understood Wenwen's tactics to some extent. Whenever there was no direct answer to a question, she would offer a different suggestion, or you could say a cunning idea.
"There are no plans."
Wenwen touched her nose a little shyly and said, "I heard yesterday that the royal hunting grounds will be open during the New Year holidays. I'd like to go check it out. My sisters and I will take our younger siblings along, hehe..."
Before she could even finish her "heh," Wen Qikang burst out laughing, "Hahaha, that little piece of land, oh my!"
“Wen’er, let me tell you, that place is not small at all. You won’t even have time to run a few steps before you reach the end. Also, that hunting ground is just for fooling children. There won’t be any large wild animals there, not even a wild boar. In other words, there are only some harmless wild animals, not very strong.”
"My third uncle estimates that you will gain nothing."
After that, Yao Changhao disagreed, "Nonsense, how could there be no harvest? With our kids' abilities, they'll probably take all the pheasants and rabbits from that hunting ground, hahaha, chicken soup and rabbit meat to go around."
"That's true. The most common animals there are pheasants and rabbits. If you're lucky, you might even find a roe deer."
The two of them took turns joking and laughing without any restraint.
Wenwen fell silent: "...Uncle, is that place really that small? You can reach the end in just a few steps?"
If that's really the case, what kind of hunting ground is that? It should be called a chicken coop and rabbit pen.
In her memory, she had never been to that place, and she assumed her sisters hadn't either. So, when she heard people talking about it on the street yesterday, she listened to it for a while.
"Uh, your third uncle is exaggerating. There are several royal hunting grounds."
Master Zhou promptly stepped in to explain, "We don't know which venue will be open this year yet. The information you heard is probably just a rumor. Sometimes the royal family changes venues based on the number of attendees. Usually, the specific venue is only determined on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year."
“...Grandfather, I’ll set off after the Lantern Festival.” Wenwen suddenly changed the subject.
This sudden turn of events was a bit hard for those present to accept.
"Have you thought it through?" Wen Yuanqian asked.
"Wen'er, are you alone? Does your mother know?" Ren Zu'an asked worriedly.
"I've thought it through. I'll go back to Mobei first and say hello to my father and second uncle."
After Wenwen finished speaking, she turned to look at Ren Zuan and continued, "Grandfather, don't worry. I'll talk to my mother about it later. You and Grandmother can rest assured, I will be careful."
She paused for a moment, then brought up another matter, "Grandfather, maternal grandfather, third uncle, eldest aunt's husband, youngest aunt's husband, I have an idea, I think..."
So Wenwen started talking about the development and training of the maids, servants and other servants in the household. She talked about how to select people with good character and trustworthiness, and how to write, calculate and draw. She went on and on, and regardless of whether it was right or wrong, or whether it was applicable or not, she said everything she could think of and thought was useful.
"...Uncle, that's all I can think of. I don't know if I'm right or wrong. The rest, hehehe, is up to you all."
"By the way, grandfather, I recommended Yu to my maid. I trust her."
After saying that, Wenwen started rummaging through the space to get things out.
In the blink of an eye, several large bundles appeared on the desk in the study.
It's nothing more than the pills she's been refining in her spatial dimension recently.
Wenwen pointed to each item in the bundle and explained them one by one.
"Grandfather, maternal grandfather, this bundle mainly contains Qi-inducing pills and some basic pills. I believe I don't need to explain how to use them or how much to use. If it's not enough, my second aunt knows how to make them. I'll explain it to her in detail later."
"This is a pill that can be used in the early stage of Qi Refining, that one is for the middle stage, and the one on the far right is for the late stage. You two can keep these for now; I estimate these should be enough for half a year."
"I'll say it again, I hope our family members can improve their cultivation to the late stage of Qi Refining as soon as possible. With more people at the late stage, the shops in Xingyu City can be expanded."
After saying that, Wenwen took out several more earthenware jars, which still contained pills.
The reason she used earthenware jars was simply that she had run out of medicine bottles recently and was too lazy to refill them, so she just put all the pills she refined into earthenware jars.
"Third Uncle, these are Qi Condensation Pills and Qi Recovery Pills. Could you please find some medicine bottles to put them in and distribute them to everyone? I've run out of medicine bottles, I really have no more to put in them." Wenwen spread her hands to express her helplessness.
Wen Qikang rubbed his forehead, feeling a chill...
Who would store perfectly good medicinal pills in an earthenware jar? Only this person would, right?
He still remembered that in Xingyu City, a bottle of ten Qi Condensation Pills cost thirty spirit stones, and a bottle of ten Qi Recovery Pills cost twelve spirit stones.
These earthenware jars are piled up to the brim; it will take quite a bit of work to bottle them and distribute them!
Wen Qikang took the earthenware jar. "Alright, leave the pill bottle to Third Uncle. I'll get it done for you tomorrow."
Just then, Master Zhou took out a stack of talismans from his storage ring, looked at Wenwen, and said.