novelraw Chapter 206 The greatest hermit lives in plain sight; this principle is not something everyone can u
Chapter 206 The greatest hermit lives in plain sight; this principle is not something everyone can u
Tong Jiaming felt guilty for not being able to take good care of his parents, but his son did it for him. At this moment, he also felt a little guilty for letting his son suffer with him since he was a child.
"Dad, what you and Mom are doing is also very important. Your achievements make our whole family proud! Why don't you leave my younger brother here too? I can take good care of him!"
Tong Yucheng was also a little worried about her younger brother, as her parents were indeed rather careless in taking care of the child.
"How can that be? Leaving him here would only cause trouble. Wait until he can eat, dress, and sleep on his own in two years before letting him come back to train with you!" Tong Jiaming objected.
"Yu Chen, don't worry about your little brother. Your aunt will help your parents take him to daycare. When they're busy, Xiao Yu Zhang can stay at my house."
Zhao Xinhui and her husband don't have children yet. When they were younger, they wanted to postpone having children because of their work, but now that they're older, they can't conceive. They especially love children, and little Yuzhang is at her most adorable age. They wish this child could stay with their family.
After the two families were reunited, Grandpa Tong took Zhao Xinhui's pulse and determined that her health had been damaged by taking birth control pills in her younger years. He was currently treating her. He prepared the medicine, brewed it, and added some spiritual spring water left by Tong Yuheng. He instructed them to come and pick up the medicine every three days, and that she should recover in a month or two.
Zhao Xinhui has stopped taking medication and is in good health. She's two or three years younger than Jia Hui, so having children is definitely possible. The only question is whether they'll have a boy or a girl; will it be that only her daughter's genes are strong, resulting in only daughters?
Tong Yuchen stayed at home and transferred to another school, becoming a classmate of Yuxuan. They still rode their tricycle to school, but this time he rode with his two younger sisters.
They didn't eat lunch at school either. They would ride their bikes back for about twenty minutes to help Tong Jiahui take care of the little girl. After lunch, they would rest for half an hour before going to school. Sometimes they would also bring Zhang Yanyan from the cowshed to school with them.
Zhang Yanan noticed something was wrong with the mute old woman and secretly told the Tong family, which allowed Liu Fengyi and his team to follow the clues and catch several "big fish".
Liu Fengyi reported this matter to his superiors, explaining that Professor Zhang had a positive attitude and that her contribution should be recorded. She had secretly reported the capture of many Japanese soldiers to the police that time, and her superiors praised her for it.
Zhang Yanan didn't expect this small matter to remove her label, so she made a request: that her granddaughter be allowed to go to school. It wasn't a big deal, and the brigade leader immediately agreed.
He knew this old lady was an even more educated person than Tong Jiahui, and who knew when she might go back to work. If she could come up with a good idea for the village like Tong Yuheng, it would increase the villagers' income, wouldn't they be making a fortune?
When Zhang Yanyan heard that she could go to school, the little girl was so happy that she couldn't sleep at night. Before dawn, she ran to the woods to wait and tell her two older sisters, Yu Xuan and Yu Qi, the good news, and practiced martial arts with them at the same time.
Unfortunately, she wasn't old enough; she would have to start school in the fall, when she would be six years old. After several days of excitement, she could only watch enviously as others went to school.
Tong Yuchen lived with her in the cowshed for more than two years, and the two were almost like siblings. Sometimes he would take her to school and leave her in the first-grade classroom. She was quiet, and no one paid much attention to the addition of this little one to the class.
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With Dong Wuyou, this lone wolf, stepping forward, the Tong family temporarily returned to peace. It's said that the pill auction was quite lively; several old families with innate martial artists came out of seclusion, exchanging many good medicinal herbs for several pills. Families like Liu Yunzhou's simply didn't have the strength to compete.
They all wanted to find Dong Wuyou, and some even considered controlling her, but most families wanted to form a marriage alliance or cooperate with her.
However, no one could find her. The Qiu family auctioned off fifty pills every six months, and the money and other items obtained from the auctions were kept in the Ancient Martial Arts Association. She did not come to collect them.
As agreed with her, Qiu Jia donated half of the proceeds to the national research department, considering it a small contribution made by a righteous martial artist to the country.
The other half is used to exchange for medicinal herbs. Any family or individual who has the herbs she needs can exchange them for pills or money according to her price.
Unfortunately, very few people came to exchange medicinal herbs, and those who had herbs wanted to exchange them for pills rather than cash, so she still had a large sum of money lying in the Ancient Martial Arts Association's account.
Those who wanted to find her had no choice but to target the Qiu family. During this period, the Qiu family was both glorious and helpless. Could they just summon that aunt and send her away at will?
She said she was going into seclusion for a period of time, the number of which was uncertain, so although the number of pills she helped them consign was quite large, she could only release them once every six months.
As compensation to the Qiu family, they would receive a fixed amount of five pills per month. If they wanted more, they would have to bid against each other. However, the Qiu family was already very satisfied with this arrangement. Their family had suddenly gained several grandmaster-level martial artists, making them a family with considerable influence in the ancient martial arts world.
In this situation, the Tong family of Qing Shi became less conspicuous. Many families who wanted to find out about them gradually lost interest in them after seeing them working and laboring in the small village like ordinary people, practicing boxing and running every day, and rarely even leaving their homes.
Tong Anfu thought to himself: It would be best if they didn't come looking for trouble. The greatest hermit lives in the city; not everyone can understand this principle.
Before her departure, Tong Yuheng spent a considerable amount of time refining various elixirs. Within the safe zone of the Qionghua Secret Realm, she also gathered many fine medicinal herbs, and on a whim, she produced even more potent elixirs.
These were all left for her family. Before she left, she entrusted them to her maternal grandfather, the head of the family, so that he could give them to everyone according to their needs and that they would never be given to anyone else.
The ancient martial arts warriors trained there were also considered martial artists of the Tong family. They had quite a few pills. Besides the monthly allowance for Tong family disciples, which was collected by the team leaders, there were also pills provided to superiors as rewards for everyone's missions—and she charged a fee for these.
If she were to give them all away, the Tong family would be in dire financial straits, and they still needed to make ends meet. However, the effects of these pills wouldn't be as significant as the ones her own family used; otherwise, the Tong family would attract too much attention, and she would have unnecessarily created Dong Wuyou to face the attacks of various ancient martial arts families.
According to Tong Yuheng, the overall strength of the ancient martial arts world is still relatively weak, with few high-level combatants. Many people are stuck in one place for years, unable to advance.
The medicinal formulas she obtained from the planting space were relatively basic auxiliary medicines, and she felt that it was not excessive to make some and sell them.