Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 165: The Secret Tome Acknowledges Its Master - Picking Flowers and Flying Leaves (8)
Feng Xuxu was truly relieved when she saw that both individuals had departed. She locked the door, then swiftly slipped into her magical space.
"Xiaobai, come out." With hands on her hips, she called for Xiaobai. Seeing her sister get angry, Xiaobai, trembling on his tiger legs, reluctantly emerged from behind the large tree.
"Oww... Sister, I’ve missed you so much." He lunged at Feng Xuxu, rubbing his tiger head against her arm.
A slap landed on his tiger butt. "Stop that act, tell me, did you know all along that eating the Marrow Cleansing Fruit would be incredibly painful?"
Xiaojin, perched on Feng Xuxu’s wrist, saw his owner slap Xiaobai, shook his snake body, and covered his eyes with his tail, unable to bear the sight of Xiaobai’s fate. Then he gave Xiaobai a look as if to tell him to take care of himself and clung to Feng Xuxu’s wrist, playing the role of a well-behaved snake pet.
"Sister, my butt hurts," Xiaobai said, pouting his tiger mouth and looking at her sister with tearful eyes.
"... I didn’t hit that hard, okay? From now on, I won’t smack your butt anymore," she said, promptly forgetting why she came to the space in the first place.
"Sister, if you dot this book with your blood, it will then exist in your mind. It will save you a lot of effort when you train your martial arts," Xiaobai suggested.
Upon hearing this, Feng Xuxu used Xiaobai’s claw to nick her finger. Her blood, fragrant and fresh, dropped onto the book. Instantly, characters flashed by in her mind, finally settling in the back. When she needed them, they came forward again.
"Sister, you now have a master-recognition mark on your forehead!" exclaimed Xiaobai, delighted to find that the martial arts manual in the space could also recognize its owner.
"What’s on my forehead?" She leaned over the edge of the Spiritual Spring Pool, looking at the water’s reflection, which showed a beautiful and stunning girl. Between the girl’s eyebrows was a lifelike red lotus-shaped mark, adding a touch of allure to her face. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶
Feng Xuxu looked at her reflection in the pool and couldn’t imagine how stunningly beautiful she actually was.
Leaving the space, Feng Xuxu was still drowsy. She purposefully admired herself in the mirror for a while before returning to bed to sleep.
As evening approached, Feng Qi and Liang Shisan finally reached the estate. Everyone was chattering outside the house, talking about how the first batch of houses in Feng Family village was completed and occupied, and how the second batch was currently under construction. The water rice and fish from the fields were harvested, producing over seven hundred jin per acre, which thrilled Young Master Feng. Moreover, the fish, sold in town, were incredibly popular. Each table at the inn wanted one, and some diners even asked for more. Now the whole town was abuzz with talk about how good the fish were, attracting even folks from other towns to come by horse-drawn carriage to buy them.
Feng Xuxu listened to the conversation from inside, smiling happily, her efforts hadn’t been in vain.
"Feng Qi, how is big brother doing?" She asked about her brother as soon as she saw Feng Qi in the courtyard.
"Miss, the Young Master is fine, he just misses you. When he has free time, he likes to go to the Lotus Garden," Feng Qi honestly reported.
"Okay, what else?"
"Everything is good. All the crops from the fields are harvested. The watermelons and strawberries had a bumper crop this year too. The store in town is doing great; it’s packed full every day," Feng Qi recounted, and only after going over all the family matters did Feng Xuxu let him go.
"Shisan, how are things in the fields?"
"Miss, we did everything as you said. After harvesting, we rotated between planting mung beans and soybeans to change the alkalinity in the soil. When I left, Ma Gang was pulling out the mung bean sprouts, so I suppose he’s planting soybeans now." The lean and small Shisan was also excited to see Feng Xuxu. If it weren’t for her taking him in and sharing knowledge, he wouldn’t know where he would be right now.
