Chapter 12: Who's the Boss?
Chen Wentian decided to return to the valley he bought and he told his two disciples about this. They were pretty excited to see their future home. In the morning, Chen Wentian and Lin Qingcheng were ready to leave but Zhou Ziyun was taking forever. Finally she arrived at the courtyard with five servants each carrying large wooden crates. She sent them away after they stacked the boxes in front of him.
Chen Wentian gave Zhou Ziyun a questioning look. "Master," She bowed and then pointed to each box, "Clothes, makeup, jewelry, books, and special clothes." She flashed him a coquettish smile, biting her lips in a heart stopping way. Chen Wentian gulped and felt his little brother reacting.
Damn it, Chen Wentian grumbled to himself, I guess Ziyun is a girl... well duh. He also realized that he had grabbed Lin Qingcheng and flew off too quickly that day and he pretty felt bad about it. "Uh, fine." He swept the crates into his spatial ring. He also placed a bag with a few hundred taels of gold in Lin Qingcheng's hand and winked at her. "Qingcheng, when you get a chance, buy whatever you want."
Chen Wentian took his two girls and flew off towards his valley. It was in the same province but still a little far and Chen Wentian continued discussed some matters with Zhou Ziyun regarding the new sect. The prior night, Zhou Ziyun had already arranged for her family to hire a large number of construction workers, carpenters, and stone masons to head towards the valley. She also managed to rope in some architects, interior designers, and feng shui experts to help design the sect buildings.
He continued to discuss some tricky matters such as creating an income source for the valley, his existing funds of mortal money, and how big he wanted his sect in the future.
In the end, for phase one, he decided on a sprawling one floor mansion type design enough to house about fifty people with a great hall, dining room, kitchen, various training rooms, a large courtyard, and individual rooms with private bathrooms for many disciples. It also included a secret private room for himself as well as some dorm rooms for servants.
Chen Wentian fought hard with Zhou Ziyun about the bathroom situation, thinking it wouldn't be needed as they could just share baths. He even had mental images of him walking into a steaming bath full of n.a.k.e.d disciples. However, Zhou Ziyun for some reason was adamant against that.
At one point he got really annoyed and asked. "Who's the boss again?"
"Well Master, technically you are, but I have a lot of experience with this area, please trust me. It really won't cost that much more." She argued earnestly. She also sneakily got closer to his side and cupped his little brother while Lin Qingcheng wasn't looking. "Trust me." She whispered sensually in his ear and he was forced to acquiesce.
They finally arrived at the mouth of the valley. Using his brute force, he cleared an area near the river and setup camp for a few days to wait for the hired help. Since he had gained Ziyun he had been a bit awkward with Qingcheng and could only put a temporary pause to his 'training' with her. At the same time, he couldn't get any alone time with Ziyun to 'improve' their relationship. He felt pretty frustrated with the whole deal but had to tell himself to be patient. Once the manor was built with individual rooms, his spring would dawn again after a period of darkness.
He had nothing else to do but provide more teachings to his disciples. He imparted a set of supreme martial arts, called the Nineteen Demon Subduing Palms. He gave Zhou Ziyun a manual that would increase he comprehension of the human body and aid her in quickly breaking through the Body Refinement Realm. He secretly instructed Lin Qingcheng to continue to seek her own breakthroughs through masturbation but gave her a magical artifact that silenced sound in a certain area. Using that, she could cultivate within her own tent.
The past few days, he had noticed that Zhou Ziyun was focusing a lot of her attention on him and also on whenever he interacted with Lin Qingcheng. Qingcheng was also giving him the eye when he trained Ziyun, although she was less subtle about it. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry. In order to put up the face of a noble and responsible master, he didn't try to sneak into either girl's tent a night and could only be bored within his own tent.
Finally, on the third day, the people hired started to arrive at the entrance to the valley by boat. First to arrive were the expert group including the architects. He greeted them and directed them to Zhou Ziyun. "She's the boss. Listen to her."
More people continued to flow in and he sent them all to Zhou Ziyun. At some point, he sounded like a broken record as he continued to direct people arriving at the valley.
"She's the boss."
"That way, she's the boss."
Finally everybody was gathered and hard at work. Seeing things were moving in a good direction, and feeling a bit bored, Chen Wentian decided to leave his disciples in the valley and go handle some business.