Chapter Fifty-Six: Senior Brother, Going for a Walk by the Lake with the Protagonist
The sun rose in the east. As usual, Ye Anping woke up early according to his biological clock. He did a simple set of exercises in the backyard of the physiotherapy center, bought breakfast on Heavenly Street, and then opened the physiotherapy center.
From today onwards, he no longer had to worry about the Seven Kill Gate. The matter of killing Wu You would be taken up by the Xuan Xing Sect.
The remaining task was for his Junior Sister to reach Foundation Establishment.
However, that would likely be two to three months later. He was not in a hurry.
He was idling away his time in a rocking chair in the main hall when a flying sword landed at the entrance of the physiotherapy center.
Bai Yuexin, as usual, came to help after her morning classes and would also bring one or two Senior Brothers or Sisters who wanted to experience physiotherapy.
Today, she brought a shorter Junior Brother who looked about seventeen or eighteen years old.
Ye Anping glanced at the Junior Brother and remembered he was a regular at his physiotherapy center.
Ever since Bai Yuexin brought him here to try it once, he had been coming almost every day.
It was rare for him to come directly after morning classes, though. He usually came in the afternoon.
“Welcome—” Ye Anping greeted.
Before he could finish his greeting, the person who was a Junior Brother to Bai Yuexin and a senior to Ye Anping cupped his fists, bowed ninety degrees, and performed a deep bow to Ye Anping.
?
Ye Anping was a bit confused. “What’s wrong?”
Then, the disciple surnamed Xu walked up to Ye Anping, took out a bottle of pills from his storage bag, and offered it with both hands.
“This is a bottle of Foundation Establishment Pills that I refined. I hope Young Master Ye doesn’t find it unworthy.”
Seeing this, Ye Anping quickly stood up from the recliner and cupped his fists to refuse.
“Senior Xu, this junior dare not accept.”
“Young Master Ye, there’s no need to be so formal. This is just a small token of my gratitude.”
Ye Anping was bewildered and quickly gave Bai Yuexin, who was secretly smiling, a look, gesturing for her to explain.
Bai Yuexin covered her mouth and chuckled. “Anping, Junior Brother Xu came specifically to thank you today. Thanks to your physiotherapy, he broke through to Late Foundation Establishment last night. Please accept it. He saw that you are only at Qi Refining level five and specially practiced for two days and two nights to make this for you.”
“Hmm?”
“Junior Brother Xu, he has actually been stuck at the bottleneck of Mid Foundation Establishment for over twenty years. He tried many methods, and the Elders also helped him, but none of it worked. He just had a few physiotherapy sessions, and finally broke through the bottleneck.”
The disciple surnamed Xu nodded and replied, “To be honest, I tried many methods in these twenty years with little effect, but Young Master Ye’s physiotherapy was very effective. After just one session, I felt that your physiotherapy techniques could help me break through the bottleneck. Please accept this gift.”
Hearing this, Ye Anping found it difficult not to accept. He cupped his fists and took the pills, congratulating him.
“Then this junior congratulates Senior Xu on his successful breakthrough.”
“You’re too kind.”
The disciple surnamed Xu cupped his fists and bowed. He looked at Bai Yuexin and said, “I came specifically because the shop was quiet, to express my gratitude. Senior Sister Bai, Young Master Ye, I have other matters to attend to later. I will come back in the afternoon.”
“Go ahead~” Bai Yuexin waved him off.
“Yes, this junior will not see Senior Xu off.”
After watching him fly away on his sword from the main entrance, Ye Anping finally lowered his head, unscrewed the pill bottle in his hand, and sniffed the Foundation Establishment Pills inside.
—Foundation Establishment Pills of medium-low quality.
They were too poor to be given to his Junior Sister, and he had no use for them himself. He could either give them away or sell them.
Seeing his expression, Bai Yuexin guessed that he didn’t think much of the gift. She hugged him from behind by the neck and laughed.
“Disgusted? Why didn’t you say so just now?”
“I am still well-mannered,” Ye Anping glanced at her and quickly broke free from her embrace. “I hope Senior Bai can also be polite and doesn’t hug me for every little thing.”
“Oh…” Bai Yuexin pouted her cheeks and then laughed. “Anping, this is great. As long as Junior Brother Xu spreads the word about his breakthrough, your physiotherapy center will definitely not lack customers from now on, right?”
“I think it’s good to be quiet now. It’s peaceful.”
“When you open a shop, of course, the more customers the better. If you can’t handle it, you can seize the opportunity to raise prices. I think your prices are too low. How much do you earn in a month?”
“I, the boss, am not in a hurry. Why are you, the accountant, anxious?”
“What do you mean, accountant?!” Bai Yuexin grabbed his face. “I’m your older sister.”
Ye Anping shrugged and replied indifferently, “We’ll see later. If there really are too many people, I’ll limit them or raise the prices.”
“How about…” Bai Yuexin paused and asked, “You teach me? Then, when there are more people, I can help you share the load.”
It wasn’t impossible.
However, when he was practicing this technique in the past, he had frequently misdirected his Junior Sister’s meridians.
The spirit-channeling technique for physiotherapy required precision, transforming spiritual energy into a needle and threading it through the meridians.
“You won’t learn it in a few years.”
“How will you know if you don’t try? Maybe I’m very talented?” Bai Yuexin said proudly. “Anping, don’t underestimate Senior Sister just because she was knocked off the stage before. Senior Sister is still a genius with a single spiritual root, after all! Humph humph.”
Seeing her like this, Ye Anping was silent for a long time.
This looked like she had come out of her shell.
Then what about his 20% discount coupon?! Huh?!
Ye Anping sighed and said, “Another day. By the way—I’m going for a walk with Miss Feng at Liu Yue Lake later. Help me guard the shop for a while.”
“Ah? Liu Yue Lake? What are you two going there for?”
“For a walk, to talk.”
Bai Yuexin pouted. “You… have you two already gotten together?”
“No.”
“Then you’re going to Liu Yue Lake together, what else could it be?” Bai Yuexin frowned, thought for a moment, and said, “Anping, that Feng girl is indeed beautiful and has outstanding aptitude, but based on my years of judging people, listen to A-jie, that girl is not a good match for you at all.”
Ye Anping suddenly wanted to compliment her on her good judgment, but he didn’t say it out loud, only saying:
“I told you, we’re just going for a walk.”
“A-jie is advising you,” Bai Yuexin raised her index finger and lectured, “When you’re looking for a girl, don’t just look at her appearance. Many girls are wolves in sheep’s clothing.”
“I know.”
“No… you don’t know. A-jie will tell you a story…”
Then, Bai Yuexin told Ye Anping a local version of a story similar to that of King Zhou and the fox spirit.
The general idea was that the more beautiful a person is, the more poisonous their heart is, speaking of disastrous beauties and the like.
If she wanted to tell it, Ye Anping couldn’t stop her, so he just listened to it like an audiobook.
Before long, it was lunchtime.
Feng Yu Die arrived.
To avoid suspicion, Ye Anping had told her to come to the physiotherapy center and pretend to be a girl infatuated with him. As it turned out, she was quite shameless.
For the past few days, she had been coming precisely at lunchtime to mooch roasted chicken, and she even packed leftovers to take home.
Feng Yu Die was wearing that emerald green silk Luo skirt today, but before she could speak, Xiao Tian suddenly flew over, sat on Ye Anping’s shoulder, and pointed at Feng Yu Die.
“Young Master Ye, we’re here again. Yu Die is wearing the skirt you sold her today. How beautiful is she? Aren’t you going to praise her?”
“…”
Ye Anping was speechless.
This peculiar little creature, whether due to exceptional perseverance or something else, always sat on his shoulder whenever it saw him and talked incessantly.
Several times, he had almost responded to its questions when he was absent-minded.
Seeing that Ye Anping had no reaction, Xiao Tian thought for a moment, then leaned close to his ear, peeked inside, and showed a surprised expression.
“Wow~ Young Master Ye, how long has it been since you cleaned your ears? That’s a huge piece.”
“…”
If Ye Anping were to reach into his ear and scratch it now, it would be admitting that he could see it.
Fortunately, he clearly remembered that he had cleaned his ears just this morning after getting out of bed, otherwise, he would have been bothered by this sentence for quite some time.
Ignore it. It’s so annoying.
If he paid attention to it, wouldn’t it be even more annoying?
Ye Anping chose to continue to ignore it.
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