Chapter 108 (1/2)

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108 – Shopping

Shui Yuner's room is next door to Xue Qilin's.

After she became an inner temple disciple, she moved into Snow-facing Abode as an initiate disciple of Xue Qilin.

Her seniority must be clarified.

Xue Qilin is of the same generation as Qi Guiyuan and is his Junior Disciple Sister. According to seniority, she should be Qi Qiqi's “Great Great Grandaunt”. As for why Xue Qilin is called “Young Ancestor”, it's purely a matter of convenience.

In any case, as a disciple of Merak Temple's Young Ancestor, Shui Yuner's seniority naturally isn't low. It stands to reason that Qi Qiqi must call her “Great Grandaunt”.

But Qi Qiqi finds this embarra.s.sing.

Although she is younger in the Martial World, yet her seniority is much higher than Qi Qiqi's. But Qi Qiqi still struggled with how to call Shui Yuner for a long time.

On the other hand, Shui Yuner is either not used to this sudden rise in generation, or simply doesn't care. Anyway, she made the suggestion to Qi Qiqi for them to refer to each other as sisters.

Qi Qiqi was naturally happy to accept this suggestion.

The two soon started calling one another “Older Sister Qi” and “Younger Sister Shui”.

Getting back to the main point…

Xue Qilin went straight to Shui Yuner's room, but she found it empty.

“Ai, my poor memory!”

Seeing the empty room, Xue Qilin patted her forehead.

“Little Yun should be in Sword Mound at this time!”

Some time ago, Shui Yuner sneaked into Sword Mound and stole the founder's sword – Phecda, causing a disaster.

After the incident subsided, Qi Qiqi and Xue Qilin agreed to hold Liu Chengzong, who is the backstage manipulator behind the incident, partly responsible in order to be lenient with Shui Yuner.

In the end, the punishment Shui Yuner received was to be on duty at Sword Mound for half a day every day to a.s.sist the work of the Mound Guardian Elder.

This punishment is just a slap on the wrist.

With an att.i.tude of “half a loaf is better than nothing”, Qi Qiqi used this to give an explanation to Merak Temple.

That being said, criticism was still unavoidable. But with Ye Zhen's appeas.e.m.e.nt, the criticism quickly disappeared. Of course, this is also related to Merak Temple's Young Ancestor, making it hard for critics to raise the issue.

As expected, Xue Qilin found Shui Yuner in the hut in front of the narrow road leading to Sword Mound, and then said “come shopping with me” and dragged the confused Shui Yuner down the mountain.

It only took a quarter of an hour, and the two appeared on a busy street in Luotian Town.

As always, the town is lively and bustling. The street vendors on both sides of the road shout loudly, selling various things – food, living animals, and even accessories and clothes.

In addition to ordinary towns people, there are many Merak Temple disciples dressed in blue and white. They use their free time to take a stroll, buy goods, or look for entertainments to relax. There are people coming and going for various reasons.

Due to the special status of Xue Qilin, Shui Yuner was the topic of conversation for a while. In order not to attract a crowd of Merak Temple's disciples, the two have specially worn a short cloak and put on the hood to cover up their appearance for the most part.

“Ah?”

As they walked down a street, Xue Qilin suddenly found something interesting.

She saw a Merak Temple disciple throw two copper coins at a fruit street vendor several meters away and shout “peach”, and then caught the peach thrown by the street vendor.

The entire trading process was carried out in the air, as if juggling.

Xue Qilin still has a lot to learn. She took out several coins from an embroidered pouch and threw them at the street vendor.

However, the other party didn't throw the fruit over.

Just as Xue Qilin was puzzled, the street vendor shouted: “Young Lady, what fruit do you want?”

Thus Xue Qilin remembered that she didn't tell the other party what she wanted to buy.

To begin with, she isn't hungry, she just wants to try out this novel shopping method.

“Anything will do!”

Xue Qilin answered loudly.

“Alright!”

The street vendor squatted down and spoke loudly as he rummaged through some stuff.

“I have something good here, yet no one likes it. Although is tastes a bit weird, but it is still delicious. It's not really cheap, but I'll give you a discount!”

In the end, the street vendor took out a spiky fruit with both hands.

It turned out to be a durian! Xue Qilin didn't expect to see the “King of Fruits” here.