The Farm Girl's Charismatic Fortune-Chapter 272 - 268 Shared Happiness

Xuanyuan Que didn’t echo the astonishing words of the flower anymore and, not wanting to see her, he said, "Go to class, and don’t you dare skip again."

With not a drop of ink in her brain, she should read more books!

Ruo Xuan didn’t like attending classes, as she already knew everything that Master Han taught.

"Why, Brother Xuanyuan, aren’t you going to class?"

"I’m not going today, I’ll go tomorrow. Master Han has said that starting from tomorrow, no one is allowed to miss class without a good reason."

"Why has the Master suddenly made this requirement?"

"Reviewing the old to understand the new, you must attend even if you understand it. Always skipping class is disrespectful to the Master."

Understanding doesn’t mean one can apply it, one must still study hard!

Ruo Xuan: "All right then!"

As a student, it was somehow a little frightening to defy the Master, so when he asked her to attend classes, she didn’t dare not go.

Nor could she find any excuse not to, after all, she was a flower that respected teachers and valued education.

The next day, Ruo Xuan obediently attended classes for a day. Originally, she wanted to follow her uncle and his wife to pay a return visit and then take the opportunity to have some fun in the deep mountains.

What a pity, she had to attend classes.

Cursed classroom!

On the third day, it was the Zhang Family twins’ ’wash-three ceremony’. That day, Old Lady Zhang cordially invited Madam Liu and Xuanbao to participate in the twins’ ceremony.

Tough luck, Xuanbao was just too blessed. She felt inviting Xuanbao to her home more often for her grandsons to receive some of her good fortune was certainly beneficial.

Ruo Xuan originally couldn’t go because she had classes.

However, since the Peace Buckle she had given her little cousin radiated Spiritual Power, Divine Monarch Xuanyuan allowed her to go and have a look.

Then Ruo Xuan found out that the ’wash-three ceremony’ was just bathing the children.

The only difference was that during the bath, family and friends would add gold and silver items into it, a practice called ’resounding basin’. The steadying women would then utter auspicious phrases as they observed the items being added inside.

Ruo Xuan added a pair of apple-shaped gold nuggets for her little cousin, symbolizing peace and prosperity, gold and silver filling the home.

Watching her cousins being fussed over and crying loudly, she couldn’t help asking, "Mother, did I cry during my wash-three ceremony?"

Upon hearing this, Madam Liu stroked Ruo Xuan’s head and smiled, "Xuanbao was especially well-behaved when she was little."

Back then she actually wished Xuanbao would cry and make a fuss.

It was only then that Ruo Xuan remembered, before she turned three, her soul hadn’t been fully repaired, and she was like a wooden doll.

When the wash-three ceremony was nearly over, Zhang Xiaoli arrived.

Zhang Chengye with a dark expression retorted, "What are you here for again?"

Zhang Xiaoli had come the day before as well, and he had directly shooed her away.

Old Lady Zhang, too, was exceedingly disappointed with this daughter she had cherished for nearly three decades: "Leave! I’ll pretend I never bore you, don’t show your face around me and anger me."

A saddened Zhang Xiaoli said, "Mother, brother, I’m just here to add some blessings and longevity to my two little nephews. I’m also a child of the Zhang Family, don’t I wish the Zhang Family well? Don’t be like this, I sincerely came for the children’s wash-three ceremony, I’ll just contribute to the resonating basin and leave, okay?"

Truth be told, Zhang Xiaoli didn’t want to come either. When she did, her mother chased her away directly with a broom.

If it weren’t for her husband soon participating in the exam in the prefecture city and them being short on Silver, she wouldn’t have bothered to come.

Hmph, wait until her husband becomes an Imperial Scholar and gets appointed an official, then she’ll see if she wants to come back or not!

Even if they came with eight sedan carriers to invite her back, she wouldn’t return.

Her own mother is now so kind to Madam Liu, but isn’t it all because they want to curry favor with the wealthy Ruo Family?

What’s so great about a Fourth Rank General and a Commandery Princess anyway?

Her husband had met a half-Fairy the other day who said that in the future she will be a First Rank Lady of the Imperial Order!

Her husband mentioned that the Prime Minister is a First Rank official, practically just a step below heaven and a step above ten thousand people.

Zhang Chengye was unaccepting and did not believe her anymore!

His sons didn’t need the blessings of this little aunt. He was about to refuse her when Ruo Xuan curiously asked, "What are you adding for my little cousin?"

Ruo Xuan sensed an evil aura around her.

It was not something an ordinary person would possess.

Only those who cultivated wicked techniques had such an aura, akin to the one around Master Xuan Ling who had once robbed Ruo Family of their fortune to help the General Residence.

Zhang Xiaoli then took out a pair of silver bracelets.

The silver bracelets were full of the character for fortune, which appeared in various fonts.

It was the character for fortune, but also not quite.

For the strokes of those characters were very craftily arranged into incantations.

However, these were not incantations to snatch away fortune; they were for sharing destiny.

To share meant whatever the other party had, he would have as well.

Actually, it could be considered as taking away the other’s fortune, but only half of it.

But a person’s fortune is predestined, and to share half meant one’s own portion was reduced.

Although accumulating virtue on ordinary days can increase one’s fortune, it is not easy for common folk to do so, as good deeds are not something one can do every day.

"This is a bracelet of abundant fortune and longevity, symbolizing shared happiness and double prosperity," said Zhang Xiaoli.

Ruo Xuan wanted those bracelets to see who had made them, and if they were connected to Master Xuan Ling, so she replied, "Indeed."

But this sharing was not that sharing, and this double prosperity was not that double prosperity.

Seeing that Xuanbao had spoken thus, Granny Zhang did not insist on Xiaoli leaving.

Mothers tend to forgive their children quite easily.

Zhang Xiaoli grinned and added a pair of silver bracelets to the basin, saying, "Adding to fortune and longevity."

The moment the bracelets touched the water, the two children cried even louder.

But during the ’washing ritual for newborns’, the louder the children cry, the better.

No one thought it inappropriate.

Ruo Xuan secretly performed a Fairy Technique and sealed the magic power of the silver bracelets, only then did the children stop crying.

After throwing the two bracelets into the water, Zhang Xiaoli tactfully left.

Her mother and older brother adored her the most, and by leaving like this, they were sure to feel guilty and tender-hearted.

Ever since she was small, no matter how much she upset her mother and older brother, they would quickly forgive her.

She thought if she would visit again tomorrow and then the day after, she should be able to get the silver.

After Zhang Xiaoli left, the washing ritual came to an end.

The two children were taken back by Zhang Chengye, one in each arm, to Liu Wenyao’s side.

Ruo Xuan, while watching Granny Zhang pick up the gold and silver objects from the copper basin and put them into a cloth bag, said, "Godmother, give me those bracelets, and I’ll have someone bless and purify them."

Upon hearing this, how could Granny Zhang refuse? Items that have been blessed and purified are indeed good things!

She immediately stuffed all the gifts from the washing ritual into Xuanbao’s arms, "Having a master purify a pair of bracelets is one thing, purifying ten pairs is also the same. Xuanbao, ask the master to bless all of them together! That way, we won’t suffer any loss. Grandmother always brings a bunch of things for the master to bless when I visit the temple."

One had to say, Granny Zhang, being a businesswoman, truly had an astute mind and never engaged in a losing deal.

Ruo Xuan: "..."

Xuanbao experienced what ’wanting to cry but having no tears’ felt like for the first time.

What do you mean we won’t suffer any loss?

She won’t lose, but I will lose big time!

Performing rituals on every item would consume Spiritual Power.

The Spiritual Power she saved up daily was only sufficient to perform a ritual on one item.

Looking at the bulging little package in her arms, there were dozens of items, right?

That meant for the next month or so, she really wouldn’t need to do anything else.

It seemed her only choice was to seek Divine Lord Xuanyuan’s help.

Xuanyuan Que in his manor: "..."

This flower only remembered him when she needed something!

He directly transmitted a message to her: "Refuse."

Ruo Xuan quickly said, "Godmother, the master said his spiritual power is not profound enough, he can only purify one item at a time. If he purifies too many items at once, they will not be effective."

Granny Zhang suddenly understood, "So that’s how it is!"

No wonder she always felt that those blessed items were of no use; that was why!

Indeed, one must not be too greedy in life.