Dao Of The Salted FishCh55 - Did you know we’re engaged?

The next morning, Sun Fuyu was waiting outside the pathway to the kitchens for Wen Zhihao.

Sun Fuyu reached his hands out. Wen Zhihao obliged him and pulled him into a hug, while Sun Fuyu rubbed his face against Wen Zhihao like a cat. IjJ1ZR

“Xiao Yu, I remembered something from my old place.”

Sun Fuyu looked up. “Hm?”

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“When two people want to marry each other, one person proposes with a ring. Later, when they get married, they exchange rings.”

Sun Fuyu’s eyes widened as redness bloomed across his cheeks. “D-does this mean we are already married…” HPz Lr

Wen Zhihao’s lips curled up. “It’s closer to an engagement, which is a time before marriage. By entering an engagement, the people involved have agreed to marry in the future. Engagements can last over a year.”

“Agreed to marry,” Sun Fuyu repeated. He buried his face in Wen Zhihao’s shoulder.

Wen Zhihao’s heart tickled with how kittenish Sun Fuyu was. He patted him on the back. “En. I merely thought it would be an interesting fact. Of course, there is no need for us to follow such a tradition if Xiao Yu doesn’t want to—”

Sun Fuyu pulled away from Wen Zhihao’s shoulder. “Want! Don’t want anyone else to marry Wen-ge.”

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“Who else would want to marry me?” Wen Zhihao teased.

“…How about Wang Li Wei? I see him coming to the demonic beasts’ enclosure when you are around.”

Wen Zhihao rubbed Sun Fuyu’s head firmly. “He’s just an acquaintance. He comes by when I’m there because he’s still a little afraid of the kittens for some reason. Isn’t the person I see second-most-often Aunty Liu? Aren’t you afraid I would want to marry her?”

Sun Fuyu pouted. “Wen-ge,” he complained. wdBglA

Wen Zhihao grinned. He grabbed Sun Fuyu’s shoulders and physically turned him towards the kitchens. “Let’s go, they’re waiting for us.”

Sun Fuyu looked over his shoulder at him, a slightly aggrieved expression on his face. Wen Zhihao pinched his cheek, and when Sun Fuyu’s pout deepened, coaxed him with a hug.

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“Then I’ll follow you!” Wen Zhihao decided.

So after they visited the demonic cats and kittens, Wen Zhihao followed Sun Fuyu to Elder Liu Ru’s mountain. Some of Liu Zhongmin’s inner sect disciples saw them arriving and came over.

“Sun-shidi, who is this?” one of the male disciples named Gao Ming asked curiously.

Sun Fuyu straightened. “This is my shixiong, Fellow Daoist Wen Zhihao.” LjIdUx

“So you’re the famous Wen-ge,” a female disciple named Hu Jingyan said with an upward tilt of her lips. The eyes of inner sect disciples grew even more curious.

Wen Zhihao greeted them politely with his hands together. “This junior thanks the seniors for looking after Sun-shidi.”

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“Of course. How can we help you?” Hu Jingyan asked.

“This junior is looking for Elder Liu Ru,” Wen Zhihao answered. iTdrQ1

“Speaking of Elder Liu Ru…” Hu Jingyan looked up, causing the others to follow her gaze.

Two small figures descending from the top of the mountain were rapidly becoming larger: Senior Cultivator Liu Zhongmin on her sword and Elder Liu Ru floating down next to her. Liu Zhongmin jumped off her sword in the last few meters, landing on the ground with a solid thump. Elder Liu Ru landed so lightly on the ground that there was no noise.

Everyone gave a round of greetings to the two senior cultivators.

After acknowledging the greeting, Liu Zhongmin spoke first: “What’s this little gathering?” She glanced at the infamous Wen Zhihao. HTMD2g

“Sun-shidi’s shixiong wants to talk to Elder Liu Ru,” Hu Jingyan answered.

Elder Liu Ru inclined her head. “It is convenient for me to talk to Disciple Wen now. There are some matters we need to discuss.”

….matters? Wen Zhihao’s expression stiffened a little, but he still nodded.

“You can use my office, Elder Liu,” Liu Zhongmin immediately offered. “The rest of us are going to train outside.” WDt23y

Elder Liu Ru nodded. “Disciple Wen, follow me.”

Wen Zhihao nodded goodbye to Sun Fuyu and followed Elder Liu Ru into the main building.

Sun Fuyu’s brows drew together. “Shifu, is Wen-ge in trouble?”

Liu Zhongmin patted Sun Fuyu on the shoulder. “Don’t worry.” sEWwdz

Sun Fuyu gave Liu Zhongmin a worried look.

Liu Zhongmin smiled. “Come now, Disciple Sun. I noticed that your shixiong has advanced a stage…”

Sun Fuyu’s motivation immediately rose. That’s right, he couldn’t fall behind! Although he was still worried about Wen Zhihao, he had to trust that his Wen-ge will be alright. After one last glance in the direction where Wen-ge had gone, Sun Fuyu followed his master and senior martial siblings to practice.

Meanwhile, Wen Zhihao sat down at a table opposite Elder Liu Ru in an office decorated with various swords and sharp implements of different shapes and sizes. l1j8xd

“Firstly, what is it that you wished to speak to me about?”

Wen Zhihao took out the basket of fruit from his spatial ring and pushed it over to Elder Liu Ru. “As promised, these are the tropical fruits that I have cultivated with help of the mortal staff of the Golden Sun Sect.”

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Elder Liu Ru’s expression did not change as she accepted them. She had already heard from her wife that these could be considered low-level spiritual fruits. Her own cursory look revealed that her wife was right. She moved them all into her spatial pendant.

“There are two items on my agenda regarding you,” Elder Liu Ru said in a very serious tone. “Firstly, I have heard that you have been writing with an unusual brush.” 1J9O7M

Wen Zhihao sheepishly took out his brush pen from his spatial ring, which was filled with ink, and some talisman paper. “Elder Liu Ru has heard correctly. This is a new brush. First, you infuse the ink inside the pen with qi, and then the brush writes easily.” Wen Zhihao wrote a talisman for creating light with passable handwriting.

Elder Liu Ru’s eyes widened slightly.

While the automatic flow of qi in the ink during the drawing of the talisman was inferior to a master talisman cultivator fine-tuned qi control, it was sufficient for low-level talismans like the ones Disciple Wen Zhihao wrote. This craft could greatly benefit non-talisman cultivators who had some minor talisman knowledge. But more importantly, the qi-infusion method would allow talisman cultivators to write talismans using ink with qi infused by other cultivators, and ink infused with different types of qi that one particular talisman cultivator may not otherwise have access to.

“Here, Elder Liu, please accept these.” Wen Zhihao, completely unaware of Elder Liu Ru’s thoughts, took out two unused brush pens that Old Third had made and placed them on the table on Elder Liu Ru’s side. whRVer

Elder Liu Ru accepted them. Her eyes then crinkled slightly, as though smiling.

Wen Zhihao’s heart skipped a nervous beat.

“Disciple Wen, will you be participating in the next Intra-Sect competition?”

“I have no intention,” Wen Zhihao said honestly. He knew it was soon, but he didn’t keep track of when. 8L903f

Elder Liu Ru inclined her head slightly. “Very well. Now that you have reached Late-Stage Golden Core, I will directly promote you to the inner sect and assign you to my group.”

Wen Zhihao: “….”

Late-stage Golden Core? One stage away from Nascent Soul?

He knew that he was a Golden Core cultivator now, but when did he reach the Late-stage???????? lHR4N5

Wait, more importantly, can he refuse the promotion?

 

 

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This chapter’s xianxia rec is Heaven’s Golden Finger! It’s pretty fun, the MC often says English/modern words magically-translated-literally into the language of the xianxia world, much to the confusion of others 🤭🤭🤭

Song Shirong had expected to die. He didn’t expect to find himself transported into a new life in an ancient China that never was. He absolutely hadn’t expected to find himself with new powers and an elder sect brother who hates his predecessor’s guts.

“I know how these things go. Can I have a new character please?”

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  2. Kyaaaa!!! They are engaged!! When is the marriage?? I have to quickly transmigrate so I can be there watching!!!

  4. OH COME ON! That has to be easiest least nervous proposal I have ever seen/read.

    Thanks for the chapter!! Is the book you recommended complete?

  6. Something flashed in Elder Liu Ru’s eyes.

    Me before: She’s a nice lady lol Me now: presses x to doubt

  8. Engagement ＼(^o^)／ Sun Fuyu is so cute that I just want to roll him in a blanket like a breakfast burrito and cuddle with him all day. Wen Zihao is so close to becoming my spirit animal lolz

    Thanks for the wonderful chapter ♡

  9. Fishy can’t refuse the promotion! Fishy must go accompany your Hubby in the inner sect!!!🤩

    Lol. The exchanging of rings really was an engagement. Readers get brownie points for guessing correctly, right? Haha. You can just have Fishy feeding brownies to Fuyu, thank you.

    😆

  10. Thanks for the chapter! I knew his reaction to a promotion would be “no thank you, who wants the responsibility”, lol. But it was getting ridiculous to have such a powerful/fast cultivator in the outer sect.

    Now the couple can live close to each other (hint, hint Author-san).

    I only feel sorry for the outer sect kids who have gotten quite spoiled sleeping with such soothing qi around.

  11. I nominate Liu Jing as the parent for both grooms in their “eventual wedding”. I do wonder though, what Sun Fuyu’s parents will think of when they find out he got married. Also would they need the sect’s permission if they wanted to marry?

    Just some things I wonder about.

    Thanks for the chapter~

  12. Poor Wen shioxiong he just wants to play with kittens, love his fiance, eat good food and relax. but he has been promoted so he now has to work lol.

  13. Engagement! Engagement! Engagement!

    And then there will be a wedding~ 🤩

    Kyahhhhhh ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

    Author-san, invite us, please 🥺

    But this engagement went so smooth!! Casually proposing and casually accepting! And it worked so wonderfully to them ❤️ Nicely done, Sun Fuyu! Don’t let your shixiong get away! He has to take responsibility!!! 😤

    Going back to sect business… Wen Zhihao, I feel you. Promotion = more responsibility, I also wouldn’t want it 😆

    I can’t wait for the day when someone figures Wen Zhihao’s cultivation! Will it be elder Liu Ru? Will it be Lin Yijun? Sun Fuyu would probably think it’s normal 😅

    I loved seeing Wen Zhihao’s creativity being recognised. I guess deep down I still want him to mesmerise everyone with his abilities, though his laid back attitude and complete unawareness of his talents is one of his charms that I love 🤔

    Author-san, thanks for the chapter 💕

  14. Well…that escalated quickly…in a good way ( ᗒᗨᗕ )

    Also, Fishy you just can’t not accept the promotion! Consider the benefits like… maybe better bed? Tskk… Now that you think about it, what is the benefits of being a disciple from inner sect? Elder Liu Ru, you better have good incentives to convince our Fishy!

    Thanks for the chapter~

  15. Omg our boys are engaged! So cute ✧(>o<)ﾉ✧ ❤️❤️❤️

    Also, I feel like Liu Zhongmin is a good, calming influence on her serious wife, but I love them both 😌

    I don’t think our dear fish can refuse the promotion 🤣

    Thank you for the chapter (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘) 🌸🌸🌸

  16. HAHA Okay I do have many things to say but I’m lazy so just thanks for the update 💕💕

  17. Muchas gracias Autor.

    Ah… leer esto… es como estar bajo la influencia de nuestro pescado salado, jajaja esta vez no podrá escapar, pero si lo ascienden… ¿escapará del trabajo duro?

  18. I have never rrad such a relaxing way of getting engaged, no drama, just fluff. I so love this sensei!! 😍

  21. Maybe the reason he is advancing fast compared to those old foggys who do close cultivation for centuries~ was our fishy really loves what he is doing (relaxing).

  23. I can’t wait to see Wen Zhihao’s effect upon the inner disciples. Since Lin the Suspicious is also an inner disciple, would he get affected, too?

    Not telling you what to do, but I think it would be hilarious to have the kitties have at a high level of cultivation. Compared to Xiao Yu, they’re actively gathering qi, so they have to be considerably more advanced than the average beast.

    • Lin Yijun would be affected by Wen Zhihao if he allowed himself to chill a bit!!

      Yes, the demonic beasts are probably quite strong but they just like being lazy just like Wen Zhihao 😂😂😂

  24. Okay so I know Sun Fuyu would hate anyone who he’d think have even the tiniest bit of romantic like for Wen Zhihao but like, I wonder how Wen Zhihao would react to someone romantically liking Sun Fuyu, especially now that their ‘engaged’🧐🤔

    • Hmm, maybe Wen Zhihao would go over and hug Sun Fuyu tightly until Sun Fuyu blushed~

      But more seriously, Wen Zhihao is more relaxed, so I think he would just say, “Of course people like Sun Fuyu! Luckily for me, Sun Fuyu likes me best though~”

  25. Uh oh, looks like WZH accidentally worked a little too hard… now people are starting to notice he can be useful 😅 I hope our fishy wont have too much of a tough time being lazy in the future 😚

  26. ” Wait, more importantly, can he refuse the promotion?”

    Literally me at work atm 🤣 I just wanna be a salted fish. promotion means more work 😴

  28. Kkkkkkk oh my, refuse promotion, ’cause sleep and cats are more important! Kkkkk i can’t believe he doesn’t need to go to the competition! Kkkkkkkk

    Thanks for the chapter!!

  31. Ah! More awesome recs! Thank you!

    I can already tell that Zhihao will refuse if there are more responsibilities with the promotion, but maybe more $$ will sway him.

    Thanks for the chapter!

  33. My TBR list is already so long it will take 20 years to read them all. Now you keep suggesting books that sound so good they also have to be added to the list. I will never sleep again because of all the reading! Luckily I have insomnia. 🤣🤣🤣

  34. I now have countless tabs open with stories for future reading hahahah. Thank you! And thanks for this fun story too! I think I really can see myself in this type of cultivation setting 😅 long live the salted fish dao

  35. Oh no, WZH keeps advancing despite doing his very best to slack off! If this goes on he might end up with responsibilities! /gasp