sinovels #275 - Do not want others to do to you
#275 - Do not want others to do to you
Only then did Ding Liu turn his head to look at Lu Jing beside him after hearing what the young marquis said.
"This little friend looks unfamiliar; are you a newcomer to the valley recently?"
"Oh no, I am a student from the academy, entrusted by Uncle Wu Han to deliver fruits and vegetables to you."
As Lu Jing spoke, he skillfully removed the bamboo baskets tied to the carrying pole and placed them in front of Ding Liu.
Then, cupping his fist, he said, "I have another basket to deliver; if you don't have anything else, I won't disturb you."
Ding Liu was about to nod when he saw the young marquis winking at him.
So, his head, which was halfway through nodding, stopped there, and after a pause, he said, "Little friend, please wait a moment, let me... uh, see what vegetables there are."
As Ding Liu spoke, he opened the bamboo basket, but his attention was not on the vegetables in the basket.
Instead, using the pretext of looking at the vegetables, he turned halfway around, blocking Lu Jing's view with his back, and then secretly glanced at the young marquis again.
The latter subtly pointed to his wrist with his little finger.
Ding Liu immediately understood.
Turning around, he said to Lu Jing, who was eagerly waiting to leave, "The vegetables are good; thank Wu Han for me.
Also, I have recently refined a kind of pill that can help cultivators increase the speed of their secret power recovery."
"The Department of Celestial Observation has already ordered a large batch from me; are you interested in trying it first?"
Ding Liu originally thought that Lu Jing would not refuse such a proposal under any circumstances because every kind of medicinal material that could improve the speed of secret power recovery was extremely precious and could help cultivators save a lot of time.
After all, when ordinary people cultivate, they might only be able to release a few spells before their secret power is depleted, and then they can only meditate and contemplate, a process that is not only tedious but also very long.
If it could be shortened, then the efficiency of cultivation could also be effectively improved.
It could be said to be something that every cultivator dreams of.
However, Ding Liu didn't expect Lu Jing to shake his head upon hearing this, saying, "No need, thank you for your kindness, old sir, but delivering vegetables is my duty, so there's no need for you to thank me specifically."
"It's not thanking you; I also want to see how the pills work, um, just... just consider it helping me out, and after it's done, I'll give you another bottle of pills, about twelve of them, which should be enough for you to cultivate happily for several days," Ding Liu said, glancing at the young marquis and reluctantly adding.
The old man had never encountered such a strange thing before; in the past, others would come to him seeking medicine, but now he had to give medicine to others and even actively increase the offer, which was simply unheard of.
But what he couldn't imagine was yet to come; when Lu Jing heard that he was going to give him another bottle, he quickly waved his hand, "No need, no need, I don't cultivate secret power, so even if I wanted to try, I wouldn't be able to tell, and it would be a waste of your pills."
"You don't cultivate secret power?" Before Ding Liu could speak, the young marquis had already asked curiously, "But aren't you a student of the academy? As far as I know, no student of the academy doesn't cultivate secret power."
"My situation is rather special..." Lu Jing suddenly stopped here because he realized that the topic had somehow inexplicably turned to his secret power cultivation again.
If it continued to develop like this, wouldn't he really become someone who had come to seek a method to cultivate secret power?
Sure enough, he then heard the young marquis continue to ask with great interest, "You don't cultivate secret power; is it that you don't want to or that you can't?
If you didn't want to, Wu Han shouldn't have sent you into Mirror Lake Valley, so that means you can't cultivate secret power, so you came to find Ding Liu and the medicine brewer to help you solve your secret power cultivation problems!"
The young marquis felt that she had found Lu Jing's purpose for entering the valley, but after satisfying her curiosity, her interest in Lu Jing also greatly diminished.
In her opinion, Lu Jing was just another pitiful person who had come to Mirror Lake Valley for help, and there were not many or few of such people; there would be several every year.
Whether they were instructors from the academy or supervisors from the Department of Celestial Observation, they couldn't find a way to solve their problems, so they fantasized about finding answers in the mysterious Mirror Lake Valley, but most people ultimately returned disappointed.
The young marquis found it somewhat amusing; she didn't know when the role of Mirror Lake Valley within the academy began to be constantly mythologized, as if this valley had some special divine power.
But the fact was that most of the residents here couldn't even solve their own problems, otherwise, they wouldn't be living in seclusion here.
Thinking of this, the young marquis wanted to find some excuse to leave.
However, then she saw Lu Jing put down the carrying pole in his hand, sigh, and instead of answering her question, he asked, "What were you two before coming to Mirror Lake Valley? Where did you live, how many people were in your family, and were you married?"
The young marquis narrowed her eyes upon hearing this, "Didn't Wu Han tell you not to casually inquire about other people's affairs in Mirror Lake Valley?"
But after saying the last word, she also realized it and suddenly laughed, "You little brat... are you trying to tell us not to be nosy? You're quite bold."
"Do not do to others what you do not want to be done to yourself," Lu Jing cupped his fist again, "I don't want to inquire about the secrets of you seniors when I enter Mirror Lake Valley, and I hope that you won't make things difficult for me.
I said from the beginning that I came here only to deliver vegetables, and I'll leave after delivering them.
Mirror Lake Valley is a quiet place, and people who come here should have the freedom to not be disturbed, whether they are paper people in the valley or outsiders.
How about this, I won't follow you anymore, but if you need any help in the valley in the future, I can help you once, as an apology to you."
"In that case, thank you very much."
Lu Jing didn't take the apology to heart; seeing that this matter had been glossed over, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, politely said goodbye to the young marquis and Ding Liu, and then, carrying the remaining basket of fruits and vegetables, came to the last place of this trip.
The names that the paper people in Mirror Lake Valley gave themselves were very strange, like young marquis, and Ding Liu... it was obvious that they were not their real names, but compared to the casual name of the medicine brewer, which didn't even count as a name, young marquis and Ding Liu seemed to be less difficult to hear.
According to the young marquis's previous statement, the medicine brewer should be proficient in medicine like Ding Liu, but from Ding Liu's appearance, he seemed to disapprove of his colleague's medical skills.
But when Lu Jing asked him for directions, he patiently gave Lu Jing guidance, allowing Lu Jing to find a newly built thatched hut in a rather remote place deep in the valley.