Zhang Zheng unconsciously quickened his pace and arrived at the inn in less than half an hour.
After struggling for a while, Zhang Zheng turned around calmly, covered the child, avoided the store's sight, quickly entered the guest room, and locked the door.
"Come down and rest for a while."
Zhang Zheng put him on a chair and sat down. His light green clothes and clothes were stained with large amounts of dirt.
He casually took off his outer robe, threw them into the storage bag, and took out a pair of clean dark bamboo-colored clothes to put on.
Pulling out a chair and sitting down in front of him, Zhang Zheng spoke sternly and confirmed again: "Are you sure you want to go with us? This journey is not safe. If you don't save your life, you won't be able to save your life."
The child's dark pupils looked directly into hers, "I want to go with you."
Zhang Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, raised his eyebrows, and said calmly: "Since you have chosen to go with me voluntarily, I will tell you something next."
After a pause, he continued: "It may be a bit difficult to accept. You can slowly understand it later."
"There are immortals in the world. Immortals transcend life and death and live as long as heaven. Mortals with spiritual roots can become monks and ascend to immortality through enlightenment and practice. This is also the desire of countless cultivators."
"Are you a monk?"
Zhang Zheng nodded, "This world does not allow spiritual power to be leaked. When you follow us to the world of cultivation, the sect will test your qualifications again to determine whether you will enter the inner sect or the outer sect. At that time, the sect will give the disciples
"Short Notes on Cultivation" to understand common sense in the world of cultivation."
The child lowered his head and remained silent.
Zhang Zheng didn't know what he was thinking. It happened that Zhu Tianshun also bought clothes and came back at this time.
Zhang Zheng stood up and temporarily handed the child to Zhu Tianshun, "Come and help him clean up. I have already told you the basic situation. I will go out to find a place to live so that I can accommodate them."
"Okay, Sister Zhang Zheng."
As soon as he walked to the door, Zhang Zheng suddenly remembered something and turned around and added: "I'll go down and ask the store owner to prepare some food and bring it over. Do you have any preferences?"
This was said to the child, but he did not make any reply. He just lowered his head and remained silent.
That's all, just prepare some light meals.
Zhu Tianshun hugged the clothes in his hands and watched Zhang Zheng leave. The figure disappeared around the corner, then he approached the child and said with a cheerful face: "Little junior brother, senior brother, my surname is Zhu and my name is Tianshun. You can call me senior brother Zhu or brother Tianshun."
The brown and messy hair covered the child's expression, and he showed no reaction to Zhu Tianshun's words.
Zhu Tianshun wasn't angry either. He had good qualifications, and he was still an inner disciple, so why should he be so aloof?
With a smile on his face, "Junior brother, how about I help you change your clothes?"
After that, he put the clean clothes on the table and reached out to take off the child's tattered clothes.
"Snapped--"
The child jumped off the chair, avoided his hand again, held his head high, stared at him with two black and white eyes on his thin face, and said stubbornly: "I don't want you to change."
This little ancestor is too difficult to take care of.
Zhu Tianshun had nothing to do with him, but he was afraid of offending him with force, so he asked with a bitter look on his face: "Who do you want to clean up for you, junior brother?"
The child stopped talking again and just stared at him with his big eyes.
"Alright alright."
Zhu Tianshun compromised, put the warm handkerchief he used to wipe himself on the table, spread his hands and said helplessly: "Can you do it yourself? Or wait for Sister Zhang Zheng to come back?"
The child's lips were tightly pursed, and the color of his lips was so pale that there was no trace of blood.
The door creaked to break the silence, and Jiao Min pushed the door open and entered, "Is this the meal ordered by Sister Zhang Zheng?"
"Hey, it'll be fine so soon."
Zhu Tianshun quickly stepped forward to take the dinner plate, took out the food, and carefully placed it on the table.
A steaming bowl of vegetable porridge, a plate of stir-fried shredded pork, and a small cup of thick chicken soup.
The aroma is tangy, making people's noses twitch and whet their appetites.
"Ah! This is..."
Just as Jiao Min was about to admire how tempting these dishes were, he noticed a strange, thin figure in the corner at the foot of the bed.
There was a hint of joy in Zhu Tianshun's eyes, and he announced quite proudly: "This is the junior brother that Sister Zhang Zheng and I finally recruited, with a qualification as high as ninety-one."
"ninety one!"
Jiao Min looked at the skinny and short child in disbelief. He could barely pass through the inner door.
If you don't make a sound, it will be a blockbuster!
…
Besides, Zhang Zheng left the inn and went straight to the nearest government-run housing rental place - Dian Zhawu.
A large courtyard house like a courtyard house is a little crowded, but it can accommodate more than thirty people.
The lease term is two months, and the rent is one thousand taels of silver.
The price was so expensive that Zhang Zheng was shocked. She felt it all over her body. She only had a few dozen taels of silver in total, which was still the rest of the money she had earned from hunting this month.
Zhang Zheng calmly rejected the shopkeeper's enthusiastic reception, turned around and left. It seemed that the top priority was to make money as soon as possible.
Stepping out of the shop, Zhang Zheng fluttered his sleeves dejectedly. With only these sleeves, he could never escape poverty.
"Blind half-immortal?"
"Um?"
Zhang Zheng hummed subconsciously and followed the sound.
The girl with a pretty face is wearing a double bun, and her bright red hairband hangs down naturally and dances gently, just like a girl who is as charming and bright as she is.
A tall figure behind him is also a familiar face. Isn't it the little girl who came to test last time and the man who always protects her?
Ni Xiao jumped up and landed in front of Zhang Zheng. He looked up and down at her outfit, leaned forward and asked in confusion, "Why aren't you wearing a Taoist robe?"
Without waiting for Zhang Zheng to answer, she guessed: "You are not really a fake Taoist priest, are you?"
This is a young girl with qualified qualifications, although it is unlikely that she will leave with them.
Suppressing the slight disappointment in his heart, Zhang Zheng smiled and said: "Taoist priests don't always wear Taoist robes. Whether it is true or false cannot be judged at will just by wearing it."
Ni Xiao's eyes rolled, she noticed the shop assistant behind her, and the topic changed.
"Do Taoist priests also need to rent a house? Don't you live in a Taoist temple?"
"Taoist priests are not immortals. They eat in the wind, drink dew, and send water to the mountains to greet them. They use the sky as a cover and the earth as a seat. This habit is still not very convenient."
"As for the Taoist temple, we have a little-known Taoist priest from Tianxian Temple, and we have not built a Taoist temple here."
He made random nonsense and frightened Miss Jiaojiao, who had never seen the world, into a daze.
"So have you rented it?"
Zhang Zheng shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I have nothing in my hands and no money to spare."
Hearing this, Ni Xiao, who had never been deceived by the world, raised his innocent smile and blurted out: "Then you come to my house as a guest."
"Thank you for the invitation, little friend, but let's forget it."
Zhang Zheng declined politely: "There are so many people in our group, which disturbs the purity of the house."
Ni Xiao didn't care, her curved crescent eyebrows were raised proudly, and she continued to persuade: "My family is very big. Recently, my father has made an "alliance leader order". Many martial arts heroes have come, and they all live in the guest house.
You will definitely be able to live in it.”
"this……"
Before Zhang Zheng finished speaking, he was interrupted by the man who came over with a frown.
"Xiao Xiao, my uncle recently invited friends to his house for a banquet. They are all people from the martial arts world. It is not convenient for Taoist priests to live with them, and conflicts may easily arise."
"But what should I do?"
Ni Xiao had a sincere heart and inherited her father's hospitable and generous character, so she couldn't help but worry about Zhang Zheng, a stranger whom she had met only once.
Shen Changan knew her temperament, which was warm and kind, but too innocent. If she was asked to leave this matter alone, she would never agree.
Zhang Zheng caught a glimpse of Shen Changan's strange expression as he stared at her, as if she had committed some heinous crime and was criticizing her with resentment.
Chapter completed!