Chapter 4 (1/2)

Chapter 04: Old Snoring

Su Tingyun soaked in the lake until the sun went down, but when she returned, she found that the bamboo house was already occupied by someone else. Just as she was wondering where to go, she heard a child’s voice say: “Grannie, you can sleep over here.”

The child who spoke was actually the one who had given her directions this afternoon, and by his side were a girl and boy that looked slightly older. They were currently making a simple hut underneath the big tree, in it they laid out three gra.s.s mats.

Out of those coming to become disciples, the wealthy were able to stay in a bamboo house, while the poor could only set up camp themselves.

Su Tingyun did bring a small box of jewelry, but the currency here was in spirit stones which she had absolutely no idea where to get. She had nowhere to go, so hearing the boy’s invitation, she quickly agreed and went over with an overly sincere word of thanks.

“Grannie, my father also wanted to cultivate to become a celestial, but he always said that he was too old and refused to come with me.” The little boy was very cute, when he spoke his long eyelashes kept on blinking just like a pair of small fans, “I really admire you. Later when I go back, I’ll tell my dad about you and let him learn from you.”

When Su Tingyun heard that she didn’t know what to say, and could only let out a wry chuckle.

“Grannie, you cleaned yourself really well, there’s no more bad smell on you, and it even smells a little nice.” It would have been better if the little boy didn’t mention that, because when he did, he reminded the other two by his side of the very unpleasant scent, causing their facial color to darken by several degrees, and also made Su Tingyun feel very embarra.s.sed.

“Zhang Zhizi, stop talking.” The girl who looked about twelve angrily gave the boy a glare, and then she squeezed her body a bit to the side to create a little s.p.a.ce. “Elder, you can sleep here tonight.” After saying that she closed her eyes to meditate. The other teen silently swept his glance over them. In the end, he didn’t say anything, only hugged his sword and withdrew into a corner of the hut.

Su Tingyun was tired from the past two days. Now she carefully laid down, and while looking at the glittering starlight that penetrated the ceiling of the hut she quickly entered dreamland…

Then. Then she began snoring….

When it comes to old people, especially those that did a lot of heavy menial work when they were young and also ate lavish meals with generous amounts of meat and fish, once they fall asleep exhausted, their snores are like rumbles of thunder, causing the three children in the same hut to be unable to sleep as they tossed and turned like burning pancakes.

“Zhang Zhizi…” The girl frowned as she looked towards the youngest boy and rolled her eyes. Meanwhile the sword boy’s face turned dark as the bottom of a pot. As he watched the deeply sleeping old woman, his brows started to wrinkle more and more until there were deep creases everywhere.

Su Tingyun was very tired, and she had already fallen asleep, but the strange thing was, though her physical body seemed exhausted, her mind, strangely, was able to see everything going on around her. However, at the moment, she couldn’t tell whether what she was seeing was real or not since it felt similar to the sleep paralysis that she used to experience, but at the same time also felt completely different.

Her body was not uncomfortable at all as she was sleeping like a dead pig, but her consciousness was crystal clear, clear enough to even see the expressions on the three’s faces and also hear the contents of their conversation.

“I didn’t know that she’d snore!” Zhang Zhizi grumbled as he scratched his head, feeling slightly wronged.

“This isn’t just snoring, this is snoring thunder!” After saying this, the cold-faced boy who hadn’t said anything until now gave a cold humph, “Tomorrow we still have to hunt spirit beasts for the registration fee, if we can’t meditate now how are we going to fight the beasts!”

Zhang Zhizi’s face showed deep embarra.s.sment and he said sorry again and again. Only after that did he carefully ask: “Brother Xu, should I just wake her up?” Who would have thought that the girl who had been rolling her eyes unhappily would frown and say: “Forget it, she must be really tired to be like this, she’s already so old.” Then she took out a few oval stones from her cloth bag.

“I’ll set up an array for you to isolate her noise.”

“Didn’t I already say that we needed to save our energy? Li Xinmei, why are you wasting your spiritual power for something like this?” The cold faced boy called Brother Xu fiercely gave the snoring Su Tingyun another glare before closing his eyes once again. Zhang Zhizi and Li Xinmei looked towards each other with helpless expressions, then closed their eyes too, in hopes of getting to a state of rest. No one spoke anymore, with the surrounding silence, Su Tingyun felt even more strongly that the sound of her snoring was truly too scary, and she tried to wake herself up but couldn’t. At her wit’s end, she could only continuously apologize in her heart.

At first, her awareness could only view the inside of the hut. She didn’t know how much time pa.s.sed, but now she could also seem to see the situation outside the hut. She saw a few shadows approaching the hut under the big tree and was alarmed. She wished she could shout: “There are people with ill intents coming!”

However, right now she couldn’t do a thing.