SCW Chapter 23

Translator: Ichinonsense
Chapter 23 - Gaining a Little Brother


The next day's harvest... Yue Qianchou visited Shi Xiaotian with two roasted rabbits in his hands, he saw him with all smiles couldn't seem to close his mouth, this guy was clearly enjoying his digging time. The two baskets were already full, on the ground also piled up a lot of spirit stones, Yue Qianchou was taken aback, he looked at the place where the guy was digging, "You seem to have only dug one-third of the place, yet already this many?"

Shi Xiaotian smiled, "This place that Martial Uncle found is very good. I have dug enough for us to turn in seven or eight times, but so many spirit stones will be very difficult to move it out."

Yue Qianchou did not expect his abandoned spirit stones would be this many, he said out loud, "We won't turn all in, the leftover will be hidden for future uses, I have found another good vein."

"Ah! Martial Uncle found a good vein! It will be more than enough for us to mine for a long time," Said Shi Xiaotian while jumping up in joy.

"Eat first," Yue Qianchou handed him a roasted rabbit and continued, "I'll find a place to hide these spirit stones," Finished saying, he observed Shi Xiaotian's reaction. As long as he saw the guy hesitating, he would think twice about the two people's future cooperation.

To his satisfaction, Shi Xiaotian bit the rabbit meat without hesitation and said, "Everything by Martial Uncle's words." In fact, the guy's thinking was very simple, digging the concentrated spirit stones here saved time and effort, Martial Uncle had brought him to such a good place, there was nothing to lose to believe Martial Uncle. Even food would come in when he got hungry, here could be regarded as his little paradise.

"Good!" Praised Yue Qianchou, he continued to say, "Don't call me Martial Uncle from now on, it makes me feel old."

"Is it not good?" Shi Xiaotian's mouth loosened the meat he was chewing. In this era of hierarchy, wouldn't it be better to be of the older generation?

Yue Qianchou waved his hand, "It's not good."

"OK, then what should i call Martial Uncle?"

"Hey!" Yue Qianchou's mouth slightly tilted, a stiff smile appeared on his face, he rolled his eyes then said, "Call me Boss!"

"Boss...." Shi Xiaotian pondered for a long time, then muttered, "Why does it feel like the name custom of a secular gang?"

"Yes, call me Boss!" Yue Qianchou's two eyes shone, he stared meaningfully at him and said, "Xiaotian, as long as you intend to follow me wholeheartedly, I will assure you that you will eat delicious food and drink good wine, and I'll bring you back home".

Shi Xiaotian who felt uncertain about the future, didn't seem to have any other choice, he nodded and said, "I will follow you, Boss!"

"Haha! Cultivation World, wait for me! I, Hu Hansan, is back!"[1^[1] Exclaimed Yue Qianchou as he was laughing in ecstasy, being called boss really made him feeling all good.

Shi Xiaotian was surprised for a moment, "Boss, who is Hu Hansan?"

"Er...." Yue Qianchou smiled, "He is also a boss. Nevermind, I'll find a place to hide the spirit stones while you're eating." The place where he was going to hide the spirit stones was naturally within the golden bead.

On the third day, Gao Shiping who was at the mouth cave saw the two people arrived with a smile on their faces, Yue Qianchou once again stuffed a piece of top-grade spirit stone into the other party's clothes without anyone else noticing. Gao Shiping felt very wonderful, the Green Light Sect Leader only received a top grade spirit stone once a month, but he had already gotten two pieces in only four days, not to mention it would keep coming.

"Hey! Strange..." Muttered the overseer who counted the spirit stones taken over from Yue Qianchou and Shi Xiaotian.

Gao Shiping, who laughed with Yue Qianchou was surprised, he turned and asked, "What's the problem?" The overseer replied, "The two of them took so many mid-grade and low-grade spirit stones, but how come they didn't get any top-grade quality? It doesn't make sense! It's kind of weird."

Yue Qianchou's heart was beating fast, he was startled when he heard that it was a problem. However, he tried to calm his mind and gave Gao Shiping a side glance.

On the side, Gao Shiping nearly fainted, he complained in his mind, "This is a problem, of course, the spirit stone was given to me, how could he notice it? This guy is too much, it seems I need to reprimand him." Then immediately shouted, "What spirit stone? It's all depends on luck! If you have any problem, I can give you the taste of mining so you can prove it. I'm asking you now, are they finished with their task?"

The overseer heard that he might get send to mine, his body shivered in cold, hurriedly replied, "Finished, finished, both people are over finished."

Gao Shiping gave a cold hum, he waited until Yue Qianchou and Shi Xiaotian done with all the inspection, then pulled the two people to drink. Meanwhile, the overseer was scared mentally and in trance for a long time.

Inside the wooden house, there was already a table with wine set up on it, Gao Shiping smiled, "Junior Brother, that cave was too dark and humid for you to live, Junior Brother can live here at least for now. Come on, let's drink!"

Yue Qianchou welcomed the offer, after giving his thanks, he toasted a drink to Gao Shiping. Beside, Shi Xiaotian was busily eating and drinking, he thought in his mind that following his boss was a good thing, so many delicious foods and wine he could never imagined before, during which he constantly poured the wine for the two people.

After a full meal, Gao Shiping left, Yue Qianchou also let Shi Xiaotian to live with him, not letting him going back to that broken cave, it moved Shi Xiaotian shedding some tears. The past words resounded inside his mind, follow me wholeheartedly, and i will take care of you. Finished, Yue Qianchou changed his clothes with the one Gao Shiping left behind, he went out of the house, picked a wild flower, then laid his body outside basking under the sunlight, smelled the fragrance of the flower, not long after, he fell asleep with his mouth still reek of the alcohol.

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Wu Baoru woke up, his injury was still lingering. It has to be known that cultivators weren't easy to get illness, the higher the cultivation one was, the more unlikely to get illness, However, he got injured because his Qi went out of control caused by the shock. His senior brother naturally understood the truth behind the incident. It was all caused by the scoundrel Yue Qianchou, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. At this time, another incident happened.

Because his injury, Wu Baoru was prohibited to get angry so not to disturb his recovery. When he got out of bed, he heard many disciples discussing his despicable behavior. They all talked about how he oppressed Yue Qianchou and wonderfully passed out when caught red-handed. Wu Baoru got furious about the rumour and coughed a mouthful of blood, he fainted once more.... After waking up, he shouted out loud to kill Yue Qianchou. However, the people around him would not let him to do so, it was already arranged by Liu Changqing.

The guy was sent to spirit stone mine? As a Green Light Sect Leader, Liu Changqing obviously knew what he was doing, he sent Yue Qianchou there to make him suffer. When the guy could no longer stand it, he could easily get the secret.

Lu Wanqian, one of the elders of the Green Light Sect, was entrusted by Sect Leader to meet Yue Qianchou in the spirit stone mine today. Before leaving, he gathered several outstanding disciples to come along, the purpose was to let the disciples gain some insight about the mine. One of them was Yue Qianchou's immortal big sister, Qu Ping'er.

Gao Shiping heard the news and quickly dispersed the smell of wine from his body, he hurriedly greeted the arriving party. Lu Wanqian didn't disclose the main purpose of his coming here, just told Gao Shiping that he brought some disciples here to gain some insight. Gao Shiping who thought the elder was only checking the work was relieved, and immediately led the crowd as he explained about the mine.

When several disciples saw a set of torture tools in the mine, they all held their breath, especially when they noticed the legendary spirit stone mine's 'Wolf's Fang Whip', just from the presence alone it could scare mortal away, anyone could see the dark red whip was soaked with blood.

Qu Ping'er on the side couldn't help but asked, "Martial Uncle Gao, are the new guys also the subject of this whip?"

Gao Shiping didn't know why she asked this kind of question, he laughed slightly, "Honestly, only a small part of the newcomers could complete their tasks, most of them couldn't escape the severe punishment," He then led the party to the place where the miners lived.

In the dark damp cave, several huddled miners were lying on the ground. Gao Shiping shouted out loud as they were nearing the cave, "Get up!"

The sleeping miners immediately jumped up in reflex, they stood together in trembling and didn't dare to utter a single sound. Looking at these bony, ragged clothes, and dirty looking miners, all of the disciples sighed unceasingly, this place is like a living hell compared to the Green Light Mountain, the disciples never imagined that the gap would be this big, all of them unanimously agreed, "Never to end up like this."

Lu Wanqian's main purpose was to find Yue Qianchou, so he patiently walked along the disciples as they checked every cave. As a result, they have visited all of the caves. However, Yue Qianchou was nowhere to be seen, only some familiar faces. Although some of them were the younger disciples, but they have been respectful to him, and seeing they ended up like this, he inevitably heaved a an emotional sigh.

Qu Ping'er also had the same purpose, she wanted to see the musical genius, but also afraid to see the miserable state of him, it's hard to tell her current emotion. The end result was still not seeing him, she couldn't help but became more worried. a thought crossed her mind, "It's normal for casualties to appear in the mine, did he ..."

"Martial Nephew, are all the miners live here?" Asked Lu Wanqian in doubt, his brow furrowed.

Gao Shiping respectfully answered, "As Martial Uncle knows, there are some disciples that the sect elders care, naturally they don't live here. If Martial Uncle wants to see, please come with me." Seeing that Lu Wanqian nodded in agreement, Gao Shiping led the group toward a row of wooden houses on the opposite side of the hill.

Just arrived on the hillside, they all smelled a rich fragrant of wine, Lu Wanqian checked the surrounding to find out what was it, he noticed a young disciple was sleeping on the outside while basking under the sunlight. He made a frown and asked, "What's going on here?"

In fact, when Gao Shiping arrived on the hill and found Yue Qianchou was sleeping there, his whole body drenched in a cold sweat, he cursed in his mind, "My Sect Ancestor! i gave you a good place not to sleep on the outside, this is not the place where you should be sleeping! You're going to get me killed!"

After hearing the words of the elder, he hurriedly ran forward and shouted out loud, "Junior Brother Yue, Junior Brother Yue, wake up!, Sect's elder is here!"

Yue Qianchou was sleeping soundly, he turned his body around didn't want to get up, but finally realized he heard someone said Sect's elder came, his brain instantly thought of Wu Baoru, he immediately searched for a big stone to throw, unfortunately there was nothing nearby, Yue Qianchou hurriedly jumped up and shouted still with his sleepy eyes, "Damn! Haunting me, where is he? Where is he?"

"My Sect Ancestor, have mercy!" Gao Shiping almost shouted out of his thought, and quickly pulled the other guy, "Junior Brother Yue, don't shout! he is here!"

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1. A famous line from an old chinese movie, Hu Hansan was the local landlord. ↩
TL: No release tomorrow, i'm exhausted.