"Co in!"
The Old Wine Ghost pushed open the door and led Lin Bai inside!
As soon as Lin Bai walked into the yard, he was imdiately hit by a pungent stench!
Expired food in the kitchen, a long-unemptied latrine, and bedding that hadn’t been washed in years—all emitted their proud odors!
The mix of these slls was simply unbelievable!
Lin Bai held his nose, torn between laughter and tears, and said, "Old man, I’d better not stay here. I’d rather go up the mountain and let the beasts take away!"
"Goodbye!"
Lin Bai finished speaking and was about to leave!
"Stop, don’t go!" The Old Wine Ghost imdiately shouted to Lin Bai, "Since I’ve drunk your wine and you’ve agreed to stay here, neither of us can break our word!"
"Otherwise, how can I show my face within a ten-mile radius?"
Lin Bai chuckled helplessly and said, "But how can one live in a place like this?"
"It’s even sllier than a cowshed!"
Lin Bai remarked.
The Old Wine Ghost replied, "Didn’t we just agree? I won’t charge you rent, but you have to help with chores!"
"Go on, young man, it’s your ti to shine!"
"Quickly tidy up!"
The Old Wine Ghost said with a sly smile.
Lin Bai was surprised and said, "So you let stay here just to clean up your place?"
"Hehe, what did you think!" The Old Wine Ghost said shrewdly, "Ah, young man, you’re strong and young. What’s wrong with tidying up a bit? It’s not like it’ll cost you any pain!"
"Go on, go on, you’ve wasted so much ti talking, you could’ve finished by now!"
"Hurry up!"
The Old Wine Ghost urged.
With a resigned shake of his head, Lin Bai stepped into the yard, looked around, and thought to himself, "It’s not so bad, it’s actually quite easy to clean up. Since that’s the case, let’s tidy up!"
Lin Bai proficiently cleaned up the courtyard.
He took the rotten food out of the kitchen and threw it away!
Washed the slly bedding in the room!
anwhile, the Old Wine Ghost, cradling a wine jug, sat on the doorstep watching Lin Bai hustle and bustle around.
By the ti Lin Bai had tidied up the kitchen and the room, night had already fallen deeply!
The Old Wine Ghost chuckled, "Hehe, I didn’t expect you young folk to be so capable, managing to tidy it all up in just a few hours!"
Lin Bai smiled wryly and said, "Isn’t it not so elaborate!"
The Old Wine Ghost said, "Alright, it’s already late at night, I’m hungry, go cook!"
Lin Bai asked, "Old man, if I may be blunt, while I was cleaning the kitchen, I noticed your rice pot had turned into a rat’s nest, how can we cook rice?"
The Old Wine Ghost said, "I know, that’s why you have to figure sothing out!"
"That dish, go to Widow Li’s house to get so rice!"
"And get so at..."
"Most importantly, get so wine!"
"Widow Li is the best wine maker in our village!"
"The wine she brews can get any man drunk!"
"Go on, go on!"
The Old Wine Ghost urged.
"Begging? Doesn’t that make us beggars?" Lin Bai said with a troubled face!
The Old Wine Ghost glared at Lin Bai and said, "What do we do if we don’t get it? You’re a poor devil and I’m a wine ghost, neither of us has a penny to their na, are we supposed to starve?"
"Hurry, hurry!"
The Old Wine Ghost urged.
Lin Bai said, "Why don’t you go?"
The Old Wine Ghost boasted smugly, "I’m not bragging, but I’ve begged every family within ten miles for rice, and none will give to anymore!"
"You’re new to Li Family Village!"
"They won’t refuse you out of courtesy, they’ll give you rice!"
"Go on!"
"Don’t delay, or Widow Li will be asleep soon!"
With that, the Old Wine Ghost stuffed a basin into Lin Bai’s arms and pushed him out of the courtyard.
"It’s that house over there with the lights still on, go there!" The Old Wine Ghost directed Lin Bai.
Helplessly, Lin Bai sighed lightly, holding the basin, he walked toward Widow Li’s door, muttering with a wry smile, "Who would have thought, the esteed Saint of Dongzhou Academy, reduced to begging for rice to cook?"
"Sigh!"
"If Xiaoxiao saw this, she’d cry!"
Lin Bai smiled helplessly.
While deep in thought, Lin Bai had already arrived at Widow Li’s door.
The house was simple but extraordinarily clean!
Even through the walls, Lin Bai could sll the fragrance from within the room...
In front of Widow Li’s door, he paced back and forth for quite a while, unable to find the courage to knock.
Just as Lin Bai was about to turn back, the Old Wine Ghost leaned over his courtyard wall, gesturing encouragent to Lin Bai.
With a sigh, Lin Bai turned back around, faced Widow Li’s door, took a deep breath, and gently knocked a few tis!
"Excuse ... cough cough... is anyone there?"
Knocking on a widow’s door in the dead of night, Lin Bai felt truly embarrassed!
Shortly after knocking, the door opened a crack, revealing half a face!
Lin Bai looked up to see Widow Li hiding behind the door, showing only half her face, with one exposed eye looking at Lin Bai outside the door with slight fear and worry!
Lin Bai hurriedly said, "Um... hello, sister. I’m staying over at the Old Wine Ghost’s house, but there’s no rice to cook. Could you give us so... could you..."
"Could you..."
"Could you..."
Lin Bai was truly at a loss for words!
Seeing Lin Bai’s embarrassed look, Widow Li’s voice gently and lodiously asked from behind the door, "Want rice to cook?"
Hearing Widow Li’s words, Lin Bai felt relieved and awkwardly smiled, "It’s really hard to say!"
"Wait a mont!" Widow Li said, closing the door.
Then Lin Bai heard the sound of rapid footsteps inside Widow Li’s house!
Lin Bai waited, chuckling to himself, "At night, Widow Li is nothing like her fierce and bold dayti self; she actually has a bit of girlish shyness!"
Soon, the tightly shut door opened again a crack!
Widow Li still showed half her face, but from the gap in the door slipped a white, tender, inviting arm, handing out a basin of rice!
Lin Bai saw Widow Li’s arm, white and smooth as jade, flawless, nothing like a peasant woman’s rough skin.
"I was just taking a bath, it’s really inconvenient to let you in!"
"Here’s so rice, take it back and cook it!"
Widow Li handed the full basin of rice to Lin Bai!
Lin Bai took it, saying, "Thank you, sister!"
"Since you’re bathing, I won’t disturb you any longer!"
"Goodbye!"
Lin Bai carried the basin back to the Old Wine Ghost’s place!
"Hey..." Just as Lin Bai left, Widow Li called from the door.
In the night, Lin Bai turned slightly, looking back at Widow Li: "What’s wrong?"
Widow Li said, "If the two of you finish this rice and it’s not enough, you can co back for more later!"
Hearing this, Lin Bai felt a warmth in his heart and smiled, "Thank you, I think this should be enough!"
With that, Lin Bai returned to the Old Wine Ghost’s house!
Widow Li closed her door tightly once more!
"How was it? Did you see Widow Li? This is a present from to you. Tell , is Widow Li beautiful or what? Are you moved?" The Old Wine Ghost asked happily as he saw Lin Bai walking over.
Lin Bai put the rice on the table, resignedly saying, "Whether she’s beautiful or not, I don’t know, but it was definitely awkward!"
"I’m not going next ti!"
The Old Wine Ghost said with annoyance, "You blockhead, was I just sending you to beg for rice? I sent you to see the village’s top beauty. You don’t thank , and you take my kindness as crap liver!"
"Go wash the rice and cook, I’m starving!"
The Old Wine Ghost urged.
Lin Bai wearily walked into the kitchen, washed the rice, and started cooking!
While cooking, Lin Bai frowned and said, "That’s strange!"
"I don’t know why, but my heart suddenly feels at peace!"
"Today, I haven’t felt the Martial World’s scheming!"
"Nor the pressure from the Giant God Clan!"
"My heart, it feels calm!"
"What kind of state is this... so strange..."
At this mont, Lin Bai didn’t know that his comprehension of the Gale Realm on the Reflection Cliff at Dongzhou Academy had just broken through from the Early Stage to the Middle Stage...
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