Dao Of The Salted FishCh77 - Sun Fuyu wants to flip a table

I forgot to say in the last chapter, that the scene with Li Fanghua was meant like a “bonus” or “extra” scene, like a mini crossover with a story that does not exist beyond its summary and my haphazard notes… 🙈

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In the quiet room, Lin Yijun envisioned the words he could say to Zhou Sheng.

He had to think about how he felt about Zhou Sheng’s demonic cultivation, how he could explain his own actions, and how to apologise.

Chrysanthemum Garden.

All those times that Zhou Sheng came to him, trusting him to help…why hadn’t he seen that Zhou Sheng had tried? He regretted it, so, so much.

His heart ached. He wanted to see Zhou Sheng again… 2iZGtY

Lin Yijun had another dumpling, but he couldn’t eat any more. He closed the food box and placed it into his spatial storage.

His eyes wandered to the sleeping form of Disciple Wen. The angle of the sunlight had become steeper as the sun moved across the sky.

The qi in the air ebbed and flowed like waves across the sea and the sand. A lot of that qi was absorbed, especially the qi coming from the sunlight.

Was Wen Zhihao truly sleeping, or was he cultivating with bad form? One was never meant to fall asleep during meditative cultivation.

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Lin Yijun’s eyes started to grow heavy. He caught himself and sat up straight and with good posture. With a deep breath, he dispelled the sleepiness.

“Disciple Wen.”

Wen Zhihao did not move.

“Disciple Wen,” Lin Yijun repeated louder. “Disciple Wen, not everyone has time to sleep.” QZ6Syr

“A…ah?” Wen Zhihao closed his drooling mouth and blinked dazedly at the other cultivator. Oh yeah, they were supposed to be in the middle of kitten dog therapy! He rubbed his bleary eyes. “Is there something the matter, Lin-shixiong?” he asked with a yawn.

“I must get going. Look after the demonic wolf.” Lin Yijun nudged the beast still sleeping across his lap.

The wolf gave a grumble of discontent as she rolled over onto the mats. Freed, his lap colder, Lin Yijun stood up.

Wen Zhihao shifted his bones and stood up too. He took out a fairly symmetric and pleasing-looking calming stone and gave that to Lin Yijun. J2jtU9

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

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“P tjnf ab ub jcv qlmx eq atf mtlivgfc cbk. Vtbeiv P ajxf sbe yjmx ab Lejcu Aljilcu?”

The wolf’s ears perked up. She immediately got up on her feet. “Awoof!” Go with you!

Chrysanthemum Garden.

“I’ll have to ask Huang Jialing…”

“Woof woof!” No need, I can decide for myself! Go with you! IJz12o

Wen Zhihao didn’t understand, so he took the dog and went to see Huang Jialing.

Huang Jialing waved a hand at him. “She can do whatever she wants until Cultivator Tan comes back.”

The wolf gleefully tackled Wen Zhihao, making Wen Zhihao carry it like a giant baby. “Woof!”

That afternoon, a very happy wolf rolled around and played with the human children, while Wen Zhihao relaxed and occasionally wrote some talismans. vd1PLD

 

 

The next day, the children didn’t have any school. So on that morning, instead of sitting inside listening to an old scholar, they and their Uncle and Little Uncle could all be found at Senior Cultivator Liu Zhongmin’s training courtyard.

At the center of the courtyard, Liu Zhongmin and some of her disciples, including Sun Fuyu, were practising new forms. Swords glinted and sliced through the air. F8MLgd

On the side, Wen Zhihao sat and admired the handsome Sun Fuyu. The way his hair flowed and his robes fluttered was very aesthetic.

The children sat down in a row on either side of him, hands holding up their little faces as they watched too.

“Little Uncle is awesome,” Ruan Lanxi said, her eyes sparkling.

“En,” came the little chorus of agreement. L S34I

“Uncle, can you use a sword too?” Ah-Yi asked.

“Nope,” Wen Zhihao said without a drop of embarrassment. “Different people are suited to different activities.”

The children nodded wisely.

The training in the courtyard halted for a noon break. Sun Fuyu put his sword away and came over. “Not playing with the cats?” he asked. Gs 4kv

“Little Uncle is awesome.” Ruan Lanxi told him earnestly. She jumped to her feet, holding an imaginary sword. “Swish! Woosh!”

Laughter made Ruan Lanxi stop and turn red with embarrassment. It was from Liu Zhongmin, strolling over.

Chrysanthemum Garden.

Liu Zhongmin smiled warmly at the little Ruan Lanxi. “You’re all old enough to begin meditative and martial cultivation,” she said thoughtfully.

The children’s eyes widened. 0wMelA

Liu Zhongmin barely restrained her urge to pinch their little cheeks. “On this day of the week, Disciple Wen and Disciple Sun usually have their own business, am I correct? Why don’t I look after these children today? I and my other disciples would love to teach them. And not just them, but the other mortals too.”

Sun Fuyu’s cheeks reddened slightly in shyness. His shifu knew that he had weekly dates with Wen-ge….

Wen Zhihao turned to the children. “Well, do you want Senior Cultivator Liu to teach you? Uncle and Little Uncle would be back by bedtime.”

Xiao Bai was hesitant, but the other children, especially Ruan Lanxi, nodded their heads, their eyes shining. GLOKjo

“Xiao Bai will be with us!” Ah-Yi added in a warm voice.

“En.” Xiao Bai finally nodded too.

“Thank you very much for your offer, Senior Liu,” Wen Zhihao said. “I’ll take them to lunch first, and then we’ll be back.”

“Take your time, I’ll be waiting here,” Liu Zhongmin said warmly. Z2D9t8

Liu Zhongmin waved them off and then turned around.

The hour or so that they had lunch would give Liu Zhongmin to find her recently-returned Elder Liu Ru, and show her how cute the children were. If she couldn’t adopt Sun Fuyu, surely she could adopt one of the others, right? Hmm, she should practice some pleading looks in front of a mirror before looking for her wife…

After handing the little ones and bigger ones over to Liu Zhongmin’s care, Wen Zhihao and Sun Fuyu held each other’s hands and strolled through the sect. Today, they decided not to go anywhere fancy. They simply walked out of the Sect and into the surrounding forest.

With the autumn, some of the trees had turned golden. Sunlight made its way through the increased gaps in the tree cover, and the forest canopy rippled with green and fire-like leaves. 9VuMhU

“Wait, Xiao Yu.” Wen Zhihao squatted down to the ground, still holding Sun Fuyu’s hand. He picked a nice shiny rock from the ground with his free hand and transferred it to one of his spatial rings.

The corners of Sun Fuyu’s lips curled up at his ge’s behaviour. “Wen-ge, isn’t there a patch of late-growing chrysanthemums nearby?” He tugged his ge’s hand.

Wen Zhihao nodded, standing up again. He was happy for Sun Fuyu to lead him.

They hadn’t reached their destination when Sun Fuyu tensed. He turned his head and looked behind them, his eyes narrowing. Id 3y8

“Ah?” Wen Zhihao also looked back.

With a light thump, Lin Yijun jumped off his flying sword. The sword flew neatly to his side. “Disciple Wen. Disciple Sun.”

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

Lin Yijun grimaced slightly at Sun Fuyu, but on this matter, he really couldn’t wait any longer. The thoughts had started to go round and round in a frustrating way again…and the only person he could think to talk to was Wen Zhihao. “Disciple Wen, a word in private?”

Sun Fuyu’s jaw tightened. Wen-ge and I have barely spent some time alone! At least the children are sweet when they interrupt, but Senior Lin Yijun is not! He tightened his hold of Wen-ge’s hand. iMJBPx

 

 

Fanart time ❤️

Zhou Sheng and Lin Yijun by Benomora! nzPakg

 

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68 comments

  1. ahh so unfortunate.

    Lin Yijun is finally asking for help!

    Willingly!

    This is an important moment!

    Not to be discouraged!

    but.

    It’s date time.

    what to do what to do 🙁

    It’s all up to you Wen-ge.

  7. Lmao Sun Fuyu calm doowwnnnn, the guy has to fix his own mess~ give him a break~

    I can see from fanarts that if they were a couple, Zhou Sheng is taller than Lin Yijun and looks like the gong🤭 A question for the author, if they are a CP (dunno if they really are but if they were), who would be the gong 😮 Also in your imagination, is Zhou Sheng taller?? Khhh i’m really curiousss

    Ty for the chapter!!💜💜💜

    • Sun Fuyu just wants to spend time with his Wen-ge 🤣 poor Sun Fuyu, but also poor Lin Yijun ahhh

      Hmmmmm the thing is that when I wrote Zhou Sheng and Lin Yijun, I never planned for any particular one to be gong. And I’m not going to write any of their bedroom scenes either, so the official “canon” of the story is blank 🤣 THAT means that readers can imagine whatever bedroom positions they want!

      In my imagination, Zhou Sheng and Lin Yijun would be approximately the same height. 🙈 I didn’t really think about any particular height difference. Actually, although a lot of danmei have very precise heights for their characters, I have a REALLY hard time connecting height IRL to numbers 🙈🙈

      (also, Sun Fuyu and Wen Zhihao are probably similar heights too 🙈)

      (the only height difference pairing I have is Li Fanghua and her girlfriend–Li Fanghua is taller than her sword-wielding girlfriend)

      Thank you for reading!

  9. Ahhhh, let them go on one date in peace! 😅😂 I bet WZH can’t wait for the day everyone else has all their problems sorted out so they no longer come to bother him when all he wants to do is being lazy and spend time with Xiao Yu (and the kids)…

    On the other hand, good for our wayward protag, he finally learned how to ask for help (though the exact method might need some more work) 👍

  10. Lin Yijun: puppy eyes Zhihao, can you help?

    Xiao Yu: bares fangs You dare to interrupt our date night

    Aiyaaa Wen-ge, help Yijun first, coax Xiao Yu after. I think you should set their time/schedule for advice (more like therapy) so that they won’t bother you at other times!

    Thank you for the chapter (ﾉ≧ڡ≦)

  12. Thanks for the chapter! It will be interesting to see how deeply Wen-ge’s influence will eventually change the sect… I can imagine that in one or two hundred years, the sect may have become famous for its use of pet therapy, outreach programs to the local communities, and innovative development of talismans and inventions… There was a story I read with a cultivation sect that was in the top ranks of the cultivation world, but always last in the “top” listings because of its laidback, enjoy life, be happy, foodie culture… which extended to the city under its protection. It really confused the heck out of the other sects.

  14. Thanks for the chapter!!

    I am too sleep deprived to write any comments about the novel, so i will like to give an unofficial =1 to all of them.

  16. Om just binged the entire thing- its currently 12am but like rly cute//

    And Fuyu being jealous so cute waa

  17. I can almost hear SFY’s impression of LYJ fall into the negatives XD

    Thanks for the update ~

    🍀🍀🍀🍀

  22. Sun Fuyu only wanted some alone time with Wen Zhihao when I wild Lin Yijun showed up. And here I was going to compliment Liu Zhongmin for being an awesome elder for the troublesome child Lin Yijun to mess it up. Sun Fuyu’s indignation is totally justified! 😅

    It was so funny to see Lin Yijun being confused by Wen Zhihao’s cultivation! So this is how he cultivates while sleeping. Best cultivation ever!

    I really liked to see the children and other rescues having the opportunity to cultivate. I can’t wait to see their future in the sect.

    Best moment goes to doggo being carried like a baby by Wen Zhihao, though the beauty of Sun Fuyu sword cultivating while being looked by Wen Zhihao and the children was really lovely!

    Author-san, thanks for the chapter ❤️

    • Liu Zhongmin isn’t Lin Yijun’s parent 🙈🙈 they belong to different factions in the sect.

      It’s the cultivation method of the salted fish 🤭

      I’m glad you liked those things, thank you for commenting!

  23. 😍love the fanart!

    Potential adoptions in the works? 👀

    I love you Lin Yijun, but so self-centered. He really is like a protagonist. Everyone must drop everything to give him attention. Probably another thing Zhou Sheng is annoyed with.

    Thanks for the chapter!

  26. I’m glad lin is finally getting off his high horse but did he really had to do that when my OTP is on a date? Talk about cockblocking 😑