stonecrandall Chapter 3 Once you've seen the ocean, other waters seem insignificant.
Chapter 3 Once you've seen the ocean, other waters seem insignificant.
In everyone's eyes, Cai Fei, who is already three years old, is an excessively quiet baby.
Of course, "quiet" is a polite, overt term.
Privately, the people of Wujialing are all talking about it—the old mountain lord has taken in an idiot!
After the child was brought up the mountain, he neither cried nor fussed, nor did he crawl or roll. His eyes were vacant, and he lay there all day staring at the sky, as quiet as a dead person...
As he got older, he was finally able to eat and crawl, but otherwise he was still very abnormal. He was still mute and silent, and his expression was still blank with his eyes glazed over...
All of this, coupled with what happened when the child was born, led everyone to believe that Cai Fei was truly a fool.
Sushanfang is only so big. Although the Chen family wanted to keep it a secret, the truth couldn't be hidden forever, and their scandal had already spread throughout the neighborhood.
The little guy has an extremely eccentric pair of parents.
Chen Jinghai was intelligent from a young age and entered the Dao at the age of seven, becoming a cultivator that people envied.
On the same day, he ran into the Silver Hook Casino and lost all the congratulatory gifts his elders had given him, becoming the youngest gambler in the casino's history.
For the past 20 years, aside from necessary spiritual practice, he has spent half his time at the Silver Hook Gambling House—and the other half on his journey to find gambling funds.
For 20 years, he was always broke, always borrowing money, but always had chess and cards in his hands.
Most unfortunately, in order to raise gambling funds, he stole from all over Sushanfang, including his own Chenjiazhai, which angered the people and made him a target of public condemnation.
Now he has lost so much that he has even dug up all the spiritual plants on the mountain, and his various shops have accumulated tens of thousands of spirit stones in debt. It is no exaggeration to call such a person a fighting cock among trash.
However, Chen Jinghai was very handsome; his skin was like jade, his eyes like bright stars, his nose like a hanging gall, and his sideburns like they were cut by a knife…
A handsome face, paired with a slender figure, a pair of slightly mischievous eyes, and a carefree and unrestrained smile.
Chen Jinghai's handsomeness not only surpasses that of Sushan Yifang, but he is also one of the most handsome men on the entire Aolai Island.
In order to possess this unparalleled beauty, Chu Shanshan of Chu Family Village changed her name to Chu Shanyun. This was because Chen Jinghai's name perfectly matched the phrase "Once you've seen the ocean, other waters are nothing," and Chu Shanyun was naturally the one who "except for Wushan, no other clouds are worth seeing!"
Ignoring the advice of her teachers and elders, she abandoned the family that gave her birth and raised her, and the mountain village that nurtured and raised her. She took a wild beast with her and voluntarily married him, becoming a moth drawn to a flame.
Unfortunately, the moth's desire was unfulfilled, but the raging fire was merciless.
What Chen Jinghai was interested in was merely a potted spiritual plant that she brought with her dowry, and the valuable Savage Beast.
As for Chu Shanyun herself, in Chen Jinghai's words, she was "faceless, lacking in figure, uninteresting to look at, and disgusting to eat."
Sushanfang is located in the middle of Aolai Island. It is said that Aolai Island is like an upside-down gourd, and Sushanfang is the narrow waist of this gourd.
To the east of the archway is the sea, while the other three sides are all high mountains with countless peaks, known as the Hundred Sons Peak.
There are dozens of mountain strongholds and numerous villages, with independent cultivators everywhere, as well as sexy and unrestrained female cultivators and mortal women who admire cultivators.
Chen Jinghai, a compulsive gambler, hasn't starved to death yet, all thanks to his handsome face.
He frequented mountain strongholds and brothels, attracting women and swindling them out of food, drink, money, and sex. He thrived in his newfound wealth and had no interest in his wife.
Chu Shanyun thought she could finally get close to the handsome man, but little did she know that after marrying into the Chen family, she hadn't tasted meat for three months.
Left with no other choice, Chu Shanyun directly offered Chen Jinghai a condition—to exchange the contract of the Savage Beast for a child.
It is extremely difficult for cultivators to conceive. It often takes several years of intimate time for a female cultivator to get pregnant. However, Chu Shanyun's trade item is indeed attractive - it is a Savage Beast!
The Savage Beast has the body of a rat and the head of a turtle. It is born with the ability to gather spiritual water and is a very useful irrigation beast. It is named "Savage" because it is unruly and difficult to tame. Even after signing a contract, the Savage Beast lives in the mountains and forests. It will only come out when you need it. You can hardly see it on ordinary days.
Within a radius of several hundred miles of Sushanfang, and across the peaks of Baizifeng, there are only two or three wild beasts.
This beast is usually rented out, and it can bring its owner a substantial income every year. However, its trading value is not as high as its use value, because the binding force of the blood contract will decrease after it is sold, and the beast will easily escape. But if someone really sells it, even in Aolai, the market price will always be over 100,000.
Chu Shanyun was a priestess who mainly cultivated wood spirit. She spent several years searching for the Savage Egg in the deep mountains. After finding it, she incubated it with her life essence for several years before she was able to sign a blood pact with the Savage Beast.
After acquiring Manman, she loved and protected her like her own family. Other mountain strongholds would offer high sums to rent her property but she often refused. She even had to beg repeatedly to water her own mountain stronghold's plants, offending many people and causing even her own stronghold chief to be deeply dissatisfied.
Now, in order to sleep with this scumbag, Chu Shanyun had no choice but to painfully give up her love, leaving everyone astonished.
The two men asked three parties to witness their case: the steward of the Heavenly Court's Sushan Ward, and two stewards from Wu Family Village and Chen Family Village.
Chen Jinghai and Chu Shanyun signed an agreement: as long as the two of them could have a child, the Savage Beast would have to form a blood pact with Chen Jinghai and change its master!
Sexual intercourse between husband and wife is a natural and legitimate right, but in Chen and Wu's case, it had become a business transaction.
This incident became a big joke in Ayuyama Ward.
Ultimately, it turned into a tragedy—one day, after suffering a crushing defeat, Chen Jinghai kicked Chu Shanyun in the swollen abdomen, causing her to be seriously injured and give birth prematurely. Unfortunately, the child was born on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, an unlucky day, so the child was abandoned and eventually taken to Wujialing.
Chu Shanyun also returned to her parents' home to recuperate in seclusion, and it took her three years to fully recover.
That day, she and the others stood on the mountaintop facing the rising sun, breathing in the fresh air. After the morning lessons, Chu Huihui, the eldest sister in the village, asked her to stay.
This is the steward of Chu Family Village. It was she who found Cai Fei and arranged for him to go to Wujia Ridge. She was also the one who took care of Chu Shanyun while she was in seclusion to recover from her injuries.
"The Chen family sent someone to report yesterday that they kicked Chen Jinghai out of their home, the specific reason is unknown." Chu Huihui didn't like this girl, so she didn't waste any words and asked directly, "He's a scumbag! After what happened, you should have seen clearly what's going on in your family's mind. You should get a divorce, there's no need to hesitate..."
Divorce?
Haha, what a joke!
Chu Shanyun interrupted, "Don't mention divorce. Now that I'm married, I belong to the Chen family in life and in death."
"What's with all this talk about life and death? When has Aolai ever followed this Confucian doctrine?" Chu Huihui said disdainfully.
"I don't care about Confucianism or Taoism, I'll use whatever suits my taste!" Chu Shanyun raised her stubborn face. "I won't get a divorce. Now that we're married, Chen Jinghai is mine!"
hiss……
Even after being kicked like that, you still won't give up?
Chu Huihui stared at her sister's face for a while before changing the subject.
"Now that you're much better, go see your child when you have time. The little one seems to have some spiritual injury. Old Master Xu is a good person, but he mainly focuses on agriculture and isn't very skilled in healing. Your Great Healing Technique is at level three, right? If you can heal him, why don't you go and treat him?"
Three years have passed, and Chu Huihui has not been to Wujialing again. However, she still sends people to deliver eggs and rice every season, so she knows a little about her nephew's situation.
When the Great Healing Technique is practiced to a high level, it has a certain healing function for the soul. Although it consumes a lot of spiritual energy, since he is her own child, it should be worth it no matter how much spiritual energy is consumed.
"Those with wounded souls can be healed, but those who are naturally stupid cannot." Chu Shanyun took out her spirit bamboo kite and fiddled with it. Hearing this, she showed no emotion and continued to manipulate the array symbols on the spirit bamboo—it hadn't been used for three years and needed to be conditioned.
"We have to try, no matter what. Or should I have someone bring it over for you to see?" Chu Huihui was still unwilling to give up.
"Fools are often blessed. Let him stay quietly on Wujia Ridge. Don't make a fuss and bring shame upon him," Chu Shanyun said calmly.
So you do know what shame is!
Chu Huihui's face darkened. She turned around, summoned her paper kite, and left, not wanting to talk to her anymore!
Just as they flew to the foot of the mountain and were explaining matters to a few ordinary people, a magical bamboo paper kite flew leisurely overhead.
Chu Shan sat atop a paper kite, smiling as she said to her, "You've reminded me. Since the Chen family doesn't acknowledge this child, the conditions in the agreement haven't been fulfilled! I need to go back and talk to them about it!"
"Go back? Where are you going back to?" Chu Huihui asked, her eyes wide.
"Where else can I go? A woman follows her husband wherever he goes, whether he's a chicken or a dog. Now that I've recovered, of course I'm going back to the Chen family!"
The paper kite flew away leisurely, and when the last word came, Chu Shanyun had already flown out of the mountain gate, leaving a cultivator and several mortals inside the mountain gate dumbfounded.