Gu Qingyi listened and bit her teeth until they made a cracking sound. She said softly, "I feel my killing intent surging again."
Looking at this villa with radiant heating, as warm as spring, and luxuriously decorated. Every day I eat the most exquisite delicacies...
Thinking back to the days of eating and sleeping in the open, starving until dizziness set in, forced to work in an internet café, living in a storage room, and serving instant noodles to netizens in the middle of the night...
Gu Qingyi was stunned!
Chen Yan waved his hand and said, "No matter what, our current illness is not that serious. With our constitutions, there shouldn’t be any big issues. The most important thing right now is for me to figure out the settling cycle of this Heavenly Dao."
"A month," Gu Qingyi sighed.
Chen Yan was reminded and suddenly had an epiphany.
When Gu Qingyi came to his house, they met, and then Gu Qingyi stayed at his house... It was exactly the third day after New Year’s Day! January 3rd!
And today, both of them got sick; today is February 5th.
If we calculate the incubation period of a common cold as two days.
Both he and Gu Qingyi contracted the virus on February 3rd.
A precisely one-month settlement period.
Chen Yan quickly did the math...
If it’s a month... I gave a gift worth several thousand yuan to the old village chief on New Year’s Day.
So, there are still three and a half weeks left.
"It’s not calculated that way," Gu Qingyi sighed. "It’s true according to the old village chief’s method.
There are over a hundred households in the village, and your calculation is also not wrong.
But you’ve only accounted for whether others would be cursed, not your own backlash.
According to you, with over a hundred households, each family reciprocates gifts. The difference for each family is only about three to five hundred yuan, and with multiple members in a family, the average per person comes to less than a hundred yuan.
Such a small amount per person, the Heavenly Dao won’t backlash against any individual villager—however... this calculation is for the villagers!
For you, the difference in return gifts from over a hundred households falls solely on you. One household differences by five hundred, multiply that by over a hundred, it totals more than fifty thousand yuan. You alone have to bear more than fifty thousand yuan.
The Heavenly Dao won’t punish the villagers, but it will definitely punish you!"
Chen Yan was dumbfounded.
"It’s just a small illness, we’ll get through it first," Gu Qingyi sighed. "But from now on, you need to be more cautious."
Young Lady Gu straightforwardly said, "But remember the day you gave gifts to the whole village. Calculating from that, you will be ill again in twenty-two days. I spent around thirty to fifty thousand yuan, and next month, the villagers will spend over fifty thousand yuan... Your illness shouldn’t be much different from this time."
Even illness can be scheduled...
Chen Yan rolled his eyes.
"You don’t need to worry too much about the old village chief," Gu Qingyi said slowly. "I’ve been living here for a month, my daily expenses, food, clothing, and living costs more than the gifts you gave the old village chief. I only caught a cold and had a fever.
The old village chief, even if he receives some backlash, it will be much lighter than mine, probably just a mild headache or fever, and it’ll pass."
It’ll pass... Isn’t that a bit harsh? Chen Yan grimaced.
For an old man in his seventies, getting sick isn’t something to take lightly. Many elderly seem healthy, but a seemingly minor illness could collapse their health.
But Gu Qingyi made sense; Gu Qingyi spent his money in tens of thousands, and she only got a fever. The old village chief should have it much lighter, right?
Hmm, it’s better to be cautious and keep an eye on the old man’s health.
However, this Cultivation Technique is really wicked!
A cultivator at the Guiyuan Realm who could kill demons barehanded, along with a Celestial Human Realm talent from the Domain Realm, both hiding at home, catching a cold and getting fevers together. Both sticking fever patches and slumping on the sofa.
At noon, no one cooked, so Chen Yan ordered takeout with fish porridge and side dishes.
Gu Qingyi stared at the takeout for a long time, weighing things in her mind.
Eating means continuing to spend Chen Yan’s money! And facing backlash again next month!
Gu Qingyi made up her mind and said slowly, "After my Nether Marriage next month, I will return to the Domain Realm! If the Heavenly Dao of this realm has the guts, it can come find me in the Domain Realm!"
With that, she grabbed a bowl of fish porridge with chopsticks.
Chen Yan glanced at his 21-year-old Consort Mother.
No way, you are enjoying the food! Spending my money... You can go to the Domain Realm, but I will still face backlash next month; the more money spent, the heavier the backlash.
Can’t let her starve.
Chen Yan ate his meal tastelessly, repeatedly pondering the rules of the Heavenly Dao’s settlement and backlash.
He managed to figure out a few things.
Unexpectedly, the breakthrough point lay with two people he almost overlooked... the internet café owner’s wife and Boss Fang!
After beginning his cultivation, due to matters with Boss Fang and the three brothers of the internet café owner’s wife, he became entangled with Luo Qing from Luoyun House, eventually getting involved with Chu Keqing.
He displayed a spell to impress Chu Keqing and pretended to be a ninety-one-year-old elder enjoying life.
Chu Keqing gave hundreds of thousands of yuan to the owner’s wife!
And compensated Boss Fang with a large sum too!
But neither Boss Fang nor the owner’s wife suffered!
Which means... the Heavenly Dao’s calculation has a bug.
As long as the money didn’t flow directly from my hands, it’s fine!