817: Chapter 528_2 817: Chapter 528_2 From the look and temperament of that person, Jiang Tang could tell their character.
Most people’s inner thoughts are hard to guess; they appear good on the surface, but their eyes don’t lie.
A meal had been eaten amidst the lively atmosphere, and the villagers and relatives had finished the meat and rice on each table.
Only Jiang Tang’s table and Ye Tian’s table still had some food left.
Only those at these two tables were accustomed to fine food and did not wolf it down.
After finishing the meal and drinking delicious juice, the women began to clean up the tables.
Those who were washing dishes did so, and those who were cleaning, cleaned.
The leftovers from the two tables were packed up by some who were reluctant to throw them away.
Cai Xiangxiang told the villagers that there was a lot of rice left over and that they should distribute the rice and some meat to each family.
Cai Xiangxiang was not doing this as charity; he had noticed that after a few months, every family’s food supply was either moldy or totally depleted.
The fields in the village had not been planted with crops or vegetables for several months.
The food storage at home wasn’t plentiful to begin with and, after some months, it was either consumed by insects or eaten by rats.
They only thought this was the situation, but actually, the Western Wolf Demon had devastated their food supplies.
It had also destroyed all the crops in the fields.
By giving them rice, meat, and vegetables, Cai Xiangxiang received the villagers’ profound gratitude.
They called Cai Xiangxiang a living Bodhisattva among them.
Cai Xiangxiang’s family, seeing how happy the villagers were, felt content.
Even though they didn’t get any meat or rice themselves, they had Cai Xiangxiang with them, and they were about to go on a journey anyway.
The relatives from Cai Xiangxiang’s sister-in-law’s side also received rice and meat and, feeling grateful, decided to seize the opportunity to make a request.
“Sister Immortal, could you please do us a favor and take our children with you?
If they cannot become immortals, learning some skills would still be beneficial.”
Taking the children along meant there would be no time to instruct or manage them, and her own family already kept her quite busy.
Moreover, her abilities were sufficient; she needed protection from others and had to stay by the missy’s side.
“Immortal, could you also take the children from our village?”
The Clan Leader of Cai Family Village had thought of this earlier and had discussed it with some of the able-bodied villagers during the meal.
Although it was a difficult decision, they agreed.
The children were their future hope.
As long as the children grew strong, their whole village would become the strongest.
Upon hearing the Clan Leader, Cai Xiangxiang felt even more troubled.
She wasn’t running a school and didn’t have the capacity to manage so many children.
Taking care of children wasn’t simple; they needed to find teachers to teach them some skills.
It wasn’t just about taking them along.
There were dozens of children, both young and old, who needed care and affection.
Cai Xiangxiang’s troubled silence continued, her eyes turning to Jiang Tang, uncertain of what to do.
Jiang Tang, noticed by Cai Xiangxiang, thought that as her husband, easing her difficulties was possible.
Hiring teachers was just a matter of money, which was merely a number to him.
It was only a matter of hiring subordinates to instruct a few dozen children for a day.
However, these young children needed the care of their families and should not be brought up without affection.
Taking them would definitely require a lot of Cai Xiangxiang’s time to manage and care for them, monopolizing much of the time she would otherwise spend on herself.
Jiang Tang was an advocate of male chauvinism, quite domineering and prone to jealousy.
Once he decided a woman was his wife, he would not allow her time to be devoted to others.
“Let those under 40, regardless of gender, and the children come with us.
Those over 40 should stay behind to take care of the elderly and guard the home.
We’ll send them back in no more than five years and we’ll visit every year.”
Jiang Tang’s suggestion filled Cai Xiangxiang with gratitude.
This man had done so much for her.
With two to three hundred people under 40, the children would be well cared for, and they could learn cultivation techniques.
Jiang Tang hadn’t taken everyone from the village, considering that some elderly clung to their homes and shouldn’t have to cede their land to others.
“Great, that’s wonderful!”
Hearing that those under 40 could go, the children, not knowing what to expect and too naïve to understand, showed no emotion.
Children who had come of age followed happily.
Suddenly, there were so many adults chatting excitedly.
For them, it wasn’t necessarily about cultivation to be like immortals, but having heard of the outside world where they could learn skills, they would also have skills to support their families.
There were no idle folks without wealth, helping them with tasks, and certainly, there would be money to make.
And they could even have a marriage discussion once a year, although not the whole family came out, the strong labor force at home, the young people and the children were the hope of the family.
When the women washing dishes heard about this, they quickly finished up the dishes so those who could follow were busy packing their luggage.
But returning home, they found their clothes were no longer wearable.
Those who couldn’t follow felt very disappointed, and those who had just turned forty felt even more so.
Cai Xiangxiang couldn’t bear to see so many disappointed people, but she couldn’t help too much.
She handed down some money she had on her.
She also gave them two books, saying these books were left for them to study.
They could not be circulated externally, only people from Cai Family Village could study them.
Once they had mastered the martial arts and developed abilities, they couldn’t use them for nefarious purposes or to run businesses recruiting disciples.
Cai Xiangxiang did this simply because she couldn’t bear to see these people disappointed; they had no one to guide them, and how much they could learn depended on their intelligence.
Moreover, without a Spiritual Root and without a teacher to instruct them, no one to guide them, it was still questionable if they could learn at all.
Those family members of Yan Weiwei who lacked Spiritual Roots had only practiced for two months under the guidance of Miss and her husband and had just barely entered cultivation, their abilities were so weak.
But they had a goal, an aspiration.
People in the family over forty, both the elderly and middle-aged, men and women, saw leisure as a path to fortune.
Out of gratitude, they all knelt down with the entire village.
Jiang Tang was so kind to Cai Xiangxiang’s family members and the villagers, which caused some resentment in the hearts of the other nine women.
Jiang Tang had these nine women and then took a tenth little sister.
Jiang Tang being so flirtatious was something they wanted to express but couldn’t.
Who could blame them when they were willing?
Besides, the family members had already agreed to this way of sharing a husband.
Now, there was just one more ordinary woman, relying on a man, and she was merely their Shi.
Jiang Tang had said he would take them away by evening and wouldn’t stay a moment longer.
These people were preparing, making the most of the remaining time.
No one was delayed in going to meet relatives and reunite.
Actually, Jiang Tang didn’t need to be in such a rush.
He still hadn’t found the other Western Wolf Demons he needed; he actually needed more time.
The Western Wolf Demon had spoken of the Western Demon Realm, a place he still wanted to seek out.
At this moment, he was busy too, thinking about building beautiful houses for this village; pets in his space had already created tiles and bricks.
The wood for building houses was already there.
Besides these few things, of course, other materials were needed.
He had all these prepared beforehand.
Jiang Tang used just an hour to take everyone in the village onto a Flying Artifact.
Then he overturned the entire village, rebuilding it—whose house belonged to whom?
They were still on their original plots of land.
He didn’t add more than before, the Array had been previously set up, enlarging the area of the houses didn’t meet the safety standards of his castle construction.
Jiang Tang used a spell; bricks, wood, and tiles were soon arranged in their proper places.
This house, along with other materials, also quickly became complete through his spell.
Inside the castle were now all-new, beautiful houses.
The entire castle was surrounded by a high wall, and from outside, one couldn’t see inside at all.