Chapter 24 Wandering Around

  "Sleep?" Xü Xiàn seemed to have not expected that Yè Wén would be so energetic in climbing the mountain just to arrive at the mountain gate early and go back to sleep.

  Although Ye Wen didn't climb the mountain entirely for this reason, he indeed had such an idea: "Could it be that you want to stand in the cold wind and then foolishly wait for the sun to come out?"

  He didn't want to do so, in his opinion, it was really too stupid.

  Seeing Ye Wen's serious face, Xu Xian knew he wasn't joking and could only shake his head in bitter laughter. He then focused his attention on the majestic gate in front of him.

  Especially the signboard with the three big characters of Shu Shan Sect written on it, hanging above the mountain gate, looks majestic and makes people think that this is a major sect at first glance.

  But who would have guessed that this sect actually only had two people, and their leader was the young man standing in front of him.

  "Brother Ye's sect is indeed very impressive!" Xu Xian said this with great sincerity, especially as his gaze kept sweeping back and forth over the towering high walls on both sides, which served as a footnote to his words.

  Ye Wen listened with a secretly pleased heart, but on the surface he didn't make a sound, nor did he reveal an expression of delight. Instead, he said with a face full of indifference: "Don't just stand there, I'll take you in!"

  At the same time, he secretly thought: "I hope I won't be scared when I go in!"

  Because the Shu Shan Sect had just been established, although a lot of money was spent on repairing the mountain gate, only a few houses were actually built. There wasn't even a place for disciples to live, nor a place to store martial arts secret books, or a 'classroom' specifically used for teaching disciples literary subjects, none of these were built.

  Ye Wen only used the Great Wall to enclose the area and built a place to live, except for covering those two halls. All other places are vast empty spaces, as soon as you enter the gate of Shu Shan Sect, there is only one feeling: desolation!

  As expected, as Ye Wen stepped inside the door, Xu Xian saw that it was surprisingly empty and looked very surprised. He opened his mouth as if he wanted to ask something, but in the end, he endured and didn't ask.

  He didn't ask, and Ye Wen naturally wouldn't answer. He silently led the way forward, completely disregarding Xu Xian's curious glances behind him. Anyway, there were only a few rooms here, and there was nothing valuable to speak of; even the few slightly exquisite items weren't worthy of the young master of the Xu family's attention.

  It's just that accidents always come suddenly, Ye Wen walked forward with his head down, and suddenly heard a loud shout in front of him: "Where is the thief, dare to rush into the gate of Shu Shan Sect!" As soon as he heard the voice, he knew it was his cheap apprentice sister Ning Ruxue.

  Before Ye Wen could respond, he heard the sound of objects cutting through the air heading straight for him. He immediately realized that Ning Ruxue had thrown out a hidden weapon with her hand. In this dark and gloomy place, there was no way to distinguish anything by sight, so in his panic, he drew out his long sword and danced out a flash of sword light in front of himself, not caring about any particular moves, just making sure to cover himself all around.

  It was fortunate that there were only a few things that came over, and with two loud noises, they hit his shoulder and thigh. The one on the thigh didn't matter, as it had plenty of flesh and hadn't hit any major acupoints, but the one that hit his shoulder nearly took his life.

  At the moment when Jianying Hole was hit, Ye Wen only felt a numbness in his shoulder, and his arm suddenly softened. His internal force also showed signs of stagnation, almost causing him to drop the long sword in his hand.

  What made him even more covered in cold sweat was that a silver light flashed out of the darkness, clearly Ning Ruxue had already drawn her sword and was slashing towards him!

  "Sister! Don't move, it's me!"

  Fortunately, there was a relatively long gap between Ning Ruxue's loss of the hidden weapon and her drawing of the sword, giving Ye Wen time to shout, otherwise this move might not have ended well.

  "If he goes home and gets hacked by his own junior sister with a sword, then this person is probably going to be thrown out of the house!"

  Seeing a beautiful figure walking out of the darkness, Ye Wen had already put away the long sword in his hand and let out a breath: "How come you didn't ask anything before attacking directly?"

  Ning Ruxue was also in a bad mood upon hearing this. Perhaps it was the middle of the night and she was still sleeping, but she sensed that there was something unusual outside, thinking that some shameless thief had broken in, and of course, she was furious. She was just about to teach them a lesson when she realized it was her own senior brother.

  "What's the point of exchanging greetings with a bandit who breaks in? Just take care of him directly and it's done!"

  Ye Wen's cold sweat didn't stop, if it were an ordinary situation, he would have strongly agreed with Ning Ruxue's words. But if the positions were swapped, for example, if he was the one who almost got chopped like earlier, then the feeling would absolutely not be good.

  "Next time, make sure you aim properly before striking... don't hit the wrong person!"

  Ning Ruxue rolled her eyes and thought to herself, "If you hadn't suddenly returned to the mountain in the middle of the night, this wouldn't have happened." She then asked gruffly, "Didn't you go down the mountain? How come you're back so soon, less than two days later? You couldn't have come back at a more inconvenient time!"

  Ye Wen only then remembered the important matter, reached into his pocket and took out a 15-tael silver note, directly handing it to Ning Ruxue: "I found a job, first earned some deposit money. I'm about to head south to Jiangzhou soon, so I'll give you the deposit first, lest I come back late and you can't afford to cook at home."

  Ning Ruxue took the silver ticket and was about to put it in her bosom when she suddenly realized that she had rushed out thinking there was a thief, wearing only a thin undergarment. Although she had grabbed an outer garment, she hadn't had time to put it on, which made her feel extremely embarrassed.

  Her face turned red, and she quickly tightened her coat, but her mouth didn't show any mercy: "What's the meaning of 'can't open the pot'? Are you saying that without your 15 taels, Zhao Sheng and I won't be able to survive? Do you think I care?" But the silver note in her hand was clenched tightly, with no intention of letting go.

  Ye Wen didn't see that the girl was being stubborn, so he didn't argue with her and instead changed the subject: "Junior sister, your hidden weapon technique earlier was quite impressive. I was careless and almost got hit. By the way, what kind of hidden weapon did you use? Fortunately, it wasn't a sharp blade, otherwise I would have been injured today."

  Just now, it hit its own obvious blunt instrument, only painful but not injured, so it shouldn't be a flying dart or something. Moreover, there are no such things on this mountain, Ye Wen is very curious what Ning Ruxue used to hit him. "Is it a stone?"

  As soon as this was mentioned, Ning Ruxue suddenly remembered something and exclaimed: "Ah, you didn't say it and I almost forgot! Hurry up and find them, those are all money!"

  "Money..."

  Ye Wen was stunned as soon as he heard it, and suddenly understood what Ning Ruxue had lost: "My god, this girl really did master the Dry Sky Throw!"

  The two brothers and sisters were here to find copper coins, completely ignoring Xu Xian on the side - Ye Wen was forgotten by this series of things and his own sister's surprise, Ning Ruxue didn't notice that there was still someone standing.

  Poor Xuan was also a famous handsome man at that time, and he was also a famous talented person. Today, he was actually treated as air by someone. But he didn't feel any embarrassment, instead, he found this pair of master siblings very interesting to watch.

  After a while, Ye Wen picked up several copper coins that were about to be kicked to his feet with his long sword, and then walked over to greet him: "There are still a few here!"

  It wasn't until then that Ning Ruxue let out a "yah!" and asked, "Who are you?" Only after asking did she realize that she had perhaps done something very foolish.

  First, she mistook her senior brother for a burglar, and after realizing it was a misunderstanding, she focused on arguing with Ye Wen, without even noticing the outsider standing beside them. More importantly, she was currently disheveled - although in Ye Wen's eyes, she was still wrapped up tightly, but in this world's values, how could that tight undergarment be shown to outsiders?

  Her senior from the same school looked at her and tolerated it, after all, they had grown up together since childhood. Although he felt a bit embarrassed, he didn't think it was unacceptable. But others...

  "I'll go back to my room for a moment, let's talk again later!"

  She didn't take the few copper coins handed over by Xu Xian, Ning Ruxue tightly wrapped her outer garment and turned around to run back into the house. Soon after, Ye Wen saw that the candles in the hall were lit up, it seemed that Ning Ruxue had considered speaking in the hall so she lit all the candles.

  Ye Wen saw that everything was arranged with Ning Ruxue, so he made a please gesture to Xu Xian and naturally took the copper coins from Xu Xian's hand. He didn't care if this would seem impolite, anyway, this Mr. Xu should have already seen that they were short of money.

  Xu Xian smiled and walked into the hall, then sat down with Ye Wen as host and guest. After sizing each other up for a moment, he chuckled and said: "To be honest, Brother Ye's mountain gate is not quite what I had imagined!"

  Ye Wen didn't think much of it and was very calm: "I'm penniless, with no money to spare. I've already spent all my savings on these houses!" He didn't feel that there was anything shameful about this. After all, he could still earn more money, and wasn't the person in front of him essentially giving him money?

  "Brother Ye is quite frank!" Xu Xian nodded, but the next sentence made Ye Wen surprised: "I just didn't expect Brother Ye to choose this place as the location of the mountain gate, and even set up the gate wall before the house was built. It seems that Brother Ye's ambitions are not small!"

  Ye Wen's heart skipped a beat, and although he was startled, he also felt a sense of relief: "It's finally here, I knew you weren't just coming to watch the sunrise! If you'd spoken up sooner, I wouldn't have had to keep guessing wildly!"

  "What makes Master Xu say such a thing?"

  Xu Xian didn't say a word and didn't even look at Ye Wen, instead he stood up and walked to the door, then kept looking left and right.

  He didn't speak, and Ye Wen didn't urge him either. They just sat there waiting for Xu Xian's next words. After a while, Xu Xian finally said: "Brother Ye, can you accompany me to take a walk around?"