The Cultivator's Reborn to 1970s
Chapter 92 - 78 (Last day today, taking leave to update three times)

Chapter 92: 78 (Last day today, taking leave to update three times)

Today is the last day, how well we do in PK all depends on your support, I beg you...

During dinner, Great Grandpa Mo still wanted to ask after eating the vegetables, feeling the taste was different, and sighed, "It’s different when you come back, even the vegetables at home taste exceptionally good."

The family laughed it off, saying that Great Grandpa Mo was just homesick, then quickly changed the subject to Lan Tian, discussing whether Lan Tian should go to town or to the county for middle school, unable to make up their minds.

Great Grandpa Mo listened for a long time and blurted out, "There’s nothing to argue about, of course, go wherever is better. Why not let the girl come with me to Shanghai? Shanghai is a big city, the quality of education there is definitely not comparable to small towns."

Great Grandpa Mo thought more and more that it was a good idea for the girl to go to Shanghai with him. The younger generation at home all studied medicine, in such an environment, it might be possible for the girl to change her mind as well.

Mo Yuanle, Grandma Sun, and Zhao Li seriously considered this matter, but Lan Tian disagreed.

"Not going, will study in the county."

The matter was dropped.

There was a vacant room at home, long uninhabited and filled with miscellaneous items. The room was dark and had poor air quality, always having a peculiar smell, and it was too late to clean up.

Grandma Sun decided to free up Lan Tian’s room for Great Grandpa Mo and his disciples to stay, and Lan Tian moved to sleep with Grandma Sun first.

Great Grandpa Mo disagreed, saying that a girl’s boudoir should not casually allow men to stay, even if it was his disciple.

Mo Yuanle was also reluctant, as Lan Tian herself was mysterious, who knows what strange things were in her room, it would be better for outsiders not to enter, in case peculiarities about Lan Tian were discovered and spread, it could harm the girl’s reputation.

So it turned out that Mo Yuanle and Zhao Li moved out of the storeroom for a few days, and let Great Grandpa Mo and his disciples stay in their room.

Zhao Li cleaned up, but Lan Tian was not reassured, performed a Cleaning Technique inside, and moved two pots of camellias under the window to place inside the room, the faint scent of camellia suffused the room, Lan Tian left satisfied.

With a visitor at home, and it being an old Chinese medicine doctor, Lan Tian couldn’t use gathering herbs as an excuse to go into the mountains for cultivation, so she stayed at home for the time being.

It had been a long time since she slept with her grandma, Lan Tian thought she wouldn’t be able to sleep, but instead she fell asleep as soon as she hit the bed. In the morning, she saw the unfamiliar arrangements in the room and took a while to remember she was in her grandma’s room.

When she came out, she saw Great Grandpa Mo exercising in the courtyard, immediately recognizing his Tai Chi Boxing; she didn’t see Wu Zongyu. She didn’t know whether he was asleep in the house or had gone out, he probably went out since the old man was already up, and being a junior he wouldn’t dare to sleep.

Mo Yuanle was splitting firewood, and Grandma Sun and Zhao Li were busy in the backyard vegetable garden.

Lan Tian turned around to draw water to wash up, after washing and hanging the towel, she went under the window to check her tea trees. Mutated species brought back from Taohua Valley, planted for several years now, almost as tall as her knees, with several flower buds slightly opening, it wouldn’t take long to fully bloom.

Beside it were some other pots of flowers, two camellia plants grafted from the mutated tea flowers, one mutated orchid, and two Man Sha Pearl Flowers, which were also dug from Taohua Valley and planted using household urn lids. Lan Tian gave a little spiritual energy to the plants then got up to stroll around the village.

Stepping outside, she bumped into Wu Zongyu who was coming back from outside; both paused, Lan Tian nodded and walked on, while Wu Zongyu watched her until she was out of sight before entering the courtyard.

Actually, there was not much to see in the village; all her peers had gone to work in the fields, occasionally a few dogs barking in the village. Lan Tian walked around and returned home, just in time to meet Grandma Sun calling her back for a meal.

Everyone inside was having porridge, the fried vegetables were still from Lan Tian’s garden. Zhao Li had already served Lan Tian a bowl, placed on the table. Opposite sat Wu Zongyu; Lan Tian went in and sat down to drink her porridge.

Great Grandpa Mo and Mo Yuanle were talking, it sounded like they were discussing going up the mountain for a worship ceremony. Grandma Sun said there were some incense and paper money candles at home, saving the trouble of borrowing.

In their family branch, Lan Tian was the only descendant, depending on her to carry on the family line, they didn’t fuss about granddaughters not participating in worship, so Lan Tian would go with Mo Yuanle to the mountain for the ceremony, with Grandma Sun and Zhao Li staying at home.

Wu Zongyu would go too; he was Great Grandpa Mo’s disciple, practically part of the Mo family.

Lan Tian was not optimistic about Great Grandpa Mo going for worship; it was easy to encounter problems in the mountains. If it were up to her, she’d suggest they worship at home, believing the sincerity would be known by the ancestors regardless, and if something happened on the way, their family couldn’t bear the consequences.

Lan Tian mentioned this to Mo Yuanle later, and Mo Yuanle felt that Lan Tian had a point and mentioned it to Great Grandpa Mo, who stubbornly disagreed, insisting on going to the mountains for the ceremony. Perhaps this was his last time to worship his parents.

Lan Tian sighed, so old yet so stubborn, adding troubles for others!

Grandma Sun fetched a basket from the utility room to hold incense papers and candles, handed it to Lan Tian, while Mo Yuanle carried a bamboo basket on his back filled with tea and dry food for their sustenance on the mountain. He carried a hoe and held a sickle, with Wu Zongyu supporting Great Grandpa Mo as the four of them headed towards the ancestral graves in the back mountain.

Great Grandpa Mo was old and could not traverse rugged mountain terrain, thus they had to take the main road to ascend. From behind the village, it would take a half hour by foot; the main road took over two hours.

The "main road" was actually just a path worn by frequent travel and was not as steep as the back mountain. There was a section in the middle where they had to climb the mountain, and due to his old age, Great Grandpa Mo was puffing and panting by the time they reached the summit, needing several rests along the way.

Wu Zongyu was somewhat better off, though he sweated with the effort.

Mo Yuanle, who often went into the mountains, didn’t find it tiring. Wearing the peach bead bracelet given by Lan Tian, he didn’t feel it was too hot, only sweating a bit on his head.

Lan Tian’s breathing remained stable, seeming unaffected.

"Old age doesn’t spare anyone. I’m exhausted just from a bit of climbing," Great Grandpa Mo said as he sat on a rock. Seeing how effortlessly his nephew Mo Yuanle climbed, he lamented the cruelties of time, recalling his younger days when he could traverse mountains without getting winded.

Turning to see Wu Zongyu panting, he chided him.

"Xiao Yu, I’ve told you to exercise with me and you always refuse. You’re young yet get so tired from a climb, even a young girl is better than you. You better start working out seriously once we’re back."

Wu Zongyu felt unfairly targeted. He turned back to look at Lan Tian; the young girl indeed wasn’t even breathing hard, having walked so long without a drop of sweat—this was abnormal.

The descent was somewhat steep, and worrying about Great Grandpa Mo possibly having an accident, Lan Tian consulted Mo Junhua, "Uncle, you lead the way down. Great Grandpa Mo and Brother Wu in the middle, and I’ll follow from behind. Just in case anything happens, I can respond quickly. What do you think?"

"You noticed something?" When she said this, there was likely something amiss.

Mo Yuanle, seeing his great-uncle so exhausted, regretted agreeing to bring him up the mountain. If anything happened to the elderly gentleman, it would weigh on his conscience for life. But the young girl’s issue was also important. After a thought, he quietly asked Lan Tian, "Your issue, can others know about it?"

Lan Tian rolled her eyes—how could he be concerned about this at a time like this? Was he going to watch them get hurt right in front of him? Yes, it was troublesome, but not a big deal. Lan Tian remembered that there were Ancient Martial Families in Dragon Country.

"It should be fine; the world has many capable people! When the time comes, you just tell them I’ve taken a master and learned martial skills. I’m only being cautious; it doesn’t necessarily mean something will happen."

Lan Tian must’ve jinxed it, as shortly after descending the mountain, Great Grandpa Mo suddenly stumbled forward. By the time Wu Zongyu, who was behind him could react in alarm and reach out, Great Grandpa Mo had already fallen.

Lan Tian, who had been keeping her Divine Sense on the two in front, quickly pinched her Light Body Skill in the crisis. With a single tap of her toes, she swept past Wu Zongyu like a specter, grabbed Great Grandpa Mo, and flew down the mountain.

Mo Yuanle, who heard the screaming behind him and saw the old man rolling down, was scared out of his wits. But seeing Lan Tian whisking Great Grandpa Mo away flying down made him relieved, and he hurriedly followed.

For Wu Zongyu, witnessing the scene of people flying in the air was indescribably shocking; his mouth agape in an ’O’, he pointed at Lan Tian’s figure, speechless, until he heard Mo Yuanle call out to him and snapped back to rush down the hill.

Great Grandpa Mo thought his time had come and closed his eyes to await the perilous roll down the mountain until, after a moment, it felt like someone was holding him around the waist, with the wind whistling by his ears. He slowly opened his eyes.

Oh no, my god, he was flying in the sky.

In this age of guns, having faced life and death a few times before, Great Grandpa Mo wasn’t too panicked, curiously turning back to see that it was the young girl holding him, suddenly realizing.

Once back on solid ground, Great Grandpa Mo felt weak, sitting down on the grass, panting heavily, his eyes on Lan Tian mixed with amazement and complexity.

Lan Tian went ahead, grasping the old man’s wrist, letting Spiritual Energy enter his body to check his physical condition,

Great Grandpa Mo felt a flow of energy enter his body, cool and refreshing, circulating once within him, making his body feel a lot lighter, and even old injuries seemed somewhat healed. As he marveled at this, his gaze on Lan Tian was filled with intense appreciation.

Lan Tian glanced up at Great Grandpa Mo, seeing that he was merely startled and physically fine, she withdrew her hand.

Soon Mo Yuanle and Wu Zongyu burst from the mountain.

"Great Uncle, how are you?" Mo Yuanle, almost scared out of his wits, supported Great Grandpa Mo and examined him.

Great Grandpa Mo, stunned by Lan Tian’s supernatural ways, heard Mo Yuanle’s words and shook his head, "I’m alright." He stood up with Mo Yuanle’s help. "Lao Wu, you’ve raised a remarkable descendant for our family—a true hero! Well done, young girl!"

Following no further conversation, the ancestral graves were just two miles ahead, and Great Grandpa Mo looked towards them with a smile.