“Dad, one step at a time!” smiled Cheng
Xiao Xiao, she looked around the courtyard and said, “We should upgrade our
house if dad is going to have disciples. We can’t keep living in this hut, it’s
getting a little bit embarrassing.”
“What’s so embarrassing about it?
Nonsense!” smiled Cheng Biyuan. Taking a look at his own house, he sighed,
“Yeah, this house is a bit crude. Sorry to have you guys put up with it for so
long.”
“Ye,
it’s all in the past. All we need is to re-build another house, then we can
live in a nice place!” smiled Mrs. Cheng tenderly.
Cheng Xiao Xiao thought for a bit and
said, “Dad, since Patriarch Liu asked you in person, you will have to accept them no matter what.
I say anyone with average talent, you just accept them as your disciples by
name; anyone who has exceptional talent, you take them on as formal disciples.
After all, we will need disciples sooner or later. This will save us the hassle
to recruit from the outside. It might as well be the villagers that we are
familiar with.”
“Xiao Xiao is right, we are quite short
handed. Right now we can still handle it on our own, will be tough as time goes
on.”
Cheng Biyuan agreed with his daughter’s
suggestion. Thinking about their days in the future, he smile deepened. Then he
asked, “Xiao Xiao, Patriarch Liu also said mentioned that the villagers can’t
really afford tuition. The best they could do is to send over animals they have
hunted in the future.”
“So they are asking us to support their
children?” frowned Mrs. Cheng, looking a little unfriendly, “Not only are we
teaching them to cultivate and practice martial arts, we have to take care of
their room and board also? This is a bit…”
She was right, Cheng Biyuan didn’t know
what to say. He had expected her reaction which was why he chose to discuss
this in front of his daughter.
Cheng Xiao Xiao looked at her father and
then glanced at her mother. She found it funny that her father was afraid of
her mother.
“Mom, we no longer need to worry about
food on table and roof over head. Feeding another several dozens won’t be an
issue at all!”
“But they are just taking advantage of
us!” slipped Mrs. Cheng, letting her true feelings out.
Cheng Xiao Xiao couldn’t help but to
giggle at her mother being petty. And so did the three young ones. Cheng Biyuan
didn’t dare laughing at his own wife, but one could tell from his look that he
was trying very hard to hold it in.
“Mom, don’t worry. It won’t be easy to
take advantage of us. You see how we are planning to build a new house now? We
will have the villagers over to help out, and all we had to do are to provide
them with meals but no pay. As for your disciples and students, once they’ve
joined us, they will have to listen to us, much like the structure of a large
family or a sect. We won’t be taken advantage of, we will only benefit from
this!”
“Xiao Xiao is right, don’t sweat over
the small stuff. All these are necessary if we want to found our own sect!”
Soon as Cheng Biyuan finished, Mrs.
Cheng looked very unhappy, staring at him, she said, “Save it. Xiao Xiao was
the reason all these are happening, nothing to do with you!”
“You, you are being unreasonable!” Cheng
Biyuan struggled to find his words.
The young ones started laughing all over
again. Cheng Xiao Xiao didn’t want her parents to keep fighting so she diverted
the subject, “Dad, mom, since we are planning to build a house, we should plan
it out thoroughly. We should also looked building living quarters for your
disciples. As for your students, we will just have them come over in the day
time and go home at night. Willow is not that far from us anyway!”
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... Is it just me, or did the author go back on what they were suggesting the last chapters?
ReplyDeleteWasn't it about building a bigger house so that they can house the disciples? Now it's "It's not far"...
What is with this confusing mess of a internal struggle of the Author with themselves?
Don't mind them, they have to write 1-3 chapters a day (Chinese ones) in order to make their novel more or less popular, while attracting more new reads. Look at BTFTLIAW, which is similar to this novel (at least the same idea at the beginning), there are almost 9k chapters, and they still keep coming. Of course author will start unconciously lose the track of the storyline.
DeleteFrom the way I understood it, the "formal disciples" (the ones with talent) would stay with the fam, whereas the "average" ones that will be disciples by name would be the ones that go home at night. She separates them as disciples and students in that last paragraph
DeleteProbably train them in the new house(disciple) and sent them to sleep at home
ReplyDeleteThank you
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