章 175: But Time...
Once you get a taste of something sweet, it often sets off a chain of similar actions.
Chen Xia used the newest excuse and managed to make the Old Fisherman incur a debt of sixty thousand spirit stones.
No matter how many spirit stones he borrowed, he would always say, "Put it on my master's account."
But for some unknown reason, perhaps because he was busy, the Old Fisherman didn't come to find Chen Xia. Maybe he didn't even want to bother with this matter.
However, Chen Xia borrowed spirit stones from the elders. Ten or twenty thousand spirit stones wasn't a particularly large sum for a formal elder. They could afford it and wouldn't ask too many questions or press for repayment.
Besides that, Chen Xia also asked the Fourteen Sons of the Vast Heaven for spirit stones. But the young ones weren't as easy to deceive as the old folks. They all shook their heads and said they had no money.
Chen Xia wasn't discouraged. He asked them one by one from the top to the bottom until he reached Li Yang.
Li Yang was very curious about Chen Xia's request for borrowing money. She tilted her head and asked, "Didn't you earn a lot of money from refining pills? Why are you still short of money?"
Chen Xia replied honestly, "Because I also spend a lot. There's no balance, so I'm short of money."
Li Yang sighed and said, "I really envy you. You can refine pills and you're so strong. You're only one batch ahead of me, but you're already in the position of the Law Elder."
Chen Xia shook his head and said, "These things don't matter. Whether you lend me money or not matters a great deal to me."
"Hehe, how much do you want to borrow?"Li Yang asked with a smile. Her heroic eyebrows arched slightly, without any hint of provocation, but rather a bit of playfulness.
"Ten or twenty thousand,"Chen Xia replied.
"Then ten thousand,"Li Yang chuckled and glanced at the sky. Instead of taking out the money right away, she asked another question.
"Why can you be so amazing? It's already beyond my imagination."
Chen Xia reached out and touched his nose. After thinking for a moment, he replied calmly, "Maybe it's because I'm lucky."
He said this seriously and wasn't joking.
Li Yang smiled faintly but didn't take it seriously. "Then I really wish I had the same luck as you."
"Yeah, just thinking about it is enough,"Chen Xia chuckled and stood side by side with Li Yang, looking at the sky. In a low voice, as if murmuring, he said.
"Actually, if I had a choice, I wouldn't want to be so remarkable. It would be nice if I could stay in my hometown and slack off."
"But time, it always propels me forward."
"Who isn't like that?"Li Yang asked with a light laugh.
Chen Xia also smiled and gently kicked a small stone in front of him. He nodded and said, "Yeah, who isn't."
Time changes everything. Chen Xia didn't believe it very much before, but now he had to.
After that day, Chen Xia stopped borrowing money. In total, he had borrowed seventy thousand spirit stones, which wasn't excessive.
Half a month after he stopped borrowing, Pan Dadao came to him. His short figure scurried over and hopped over the threshold of Chen Xia's cave, shouting.
"Why didn't you tell me when you borrowed spirit stones? I have some extra spirit stones here."
While shouting, Pan Dadao took out a delicate storage magic weapon from his bosom and shook it twice. There was the sound of spirit stones clinking inside.
"Aren't these spirit stones you saved to buy a purple-gold coffin? Why are you willing to give them to me?"Chen Xia asked curiously.
"Aren't you borrowing?"Pan Dadao was a bit puzzled. The news he heard was that Chen Xia was borrowing spirit stones.
This really stumped Chen Xia. After a long while, he replied softly, "But I might not be able to pay it back."
Pan Dadao quickly waved his hand and smiled.
"It's okay, it's okay. It doesn't matter. You can take it first. Pay it back if you can. If you can't, it's okay. I'm just an ordinary person. Any coffin will do for me."
Chen Xia shook his head and said, "Your coffin is more important. Although you always say it's okay if you don't have the coffin money, but if it's really for the coffin, you'd better keep it."
"If you need it, you can still take it,"Pan Dadao continued.
"You're being too polite,"Chen Xia shook his head. "We've known each other for hundreds of years. No matter how bad our relationship is, we're still half friends. If you act like this, it's hard for me to be friends with you."
"Ah... ah..."Pan Dadao was stunned for a moment. Standing there, his short stature was already not tall, and now he looked even shorter. Lowering his head, he said in a low voice.
"You... please forgive me. I'm not good at talking to people and I don't have many friends. You said that, I... I'm a bit flattered."
Chen Xia rubbed his head and was also a bit troubled. "I definitely won't take your coffin money. Keep it to buy your coffin. Isn't that your wish? Why don't you want it now?"
Pan Dadao stammered, "You... you're short of money, aren't you?"
"No matter how short of money I am, I can't use your wish to fill the gap,"Chen Xia shook his head.
Pan Dadao was stunned. It seemed that with his thousands of years of cultivation experience, he couldn't understand this sentence. In his view, weren't great cultivators supposed to oppress and exploit small cultivators?
"Why... why?"
Pan Dadao couldn't help asking.
Chen Xia touched his nose and said, "Because it's not cool at all. Can I answer like this?"
Pan Dadao really didn't understand. "But when you stand at a high place, isn't it to seek benefits from the low place? That's how the cultivation path goes."
"Why seek benefits from the low place?"Chen Xia shook his head. "Actually, there's another way of thinking. Standing at a high place is to make those at the low place live well too."
"Of course, I'm definitely not like this. But I won't seek benefits from the low place like you said either."
Chen Xia tilted his head and grinned. "I'm the type who doesn't care."
"You... you really have insights,"Pan Dadao always kept his head down and replied in a stammering voice. He still didn't quite understand Chen Xia.
This was normal. If you explain freedom and equality to someone who has been oppressed for a long time, he probably wouldn't understand and might even think you're crazy.
Among cultivators, there were hierarchies.
Chen Xia didn't want to change anything, but he didn't want to just follow the rules either.
"I definitely won't take your spirit stones. Go back. If you're short of the money to buy a purple-gold coffin, you can come to me to borrow. You don't have to pay it back if you die."
Chen Xia said this calmly, not in a joking tone.
"Thank you,"Pan Dadao clasped his fists and bowed to Chen Xia. Having been oppressed for a long time, he still didn't understand what Chen Xia had said.
He had thought about other problems before.
For example, why others liked to bully him. Was it because his cultivation level was low, his status was low, or he was short and not likable.
He couldn't get an answer.
All he knew was that later, after being beaten a lot, he knelt down one by one to beg those people for forgiveness. Kneeling in the muddy ground, the splashing muddy water drenched his head.
Those people sneered and asked him to kowtow and admit his mistake in the muddy water.
Pan Dadao did as he was told. When he was kowtowing, he saw himself through the muddy water.
He was wretched and comical.
Snap!
The muddy water splashed everywhere. He was so oppressed by the sneers that he couldn't lift his head.
Those people forgave him, but Pan Dadao didn't even know what he had done wrong.
And that kneeling...
It had continued until now.
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