"Umm, I went to wash your clothes, master," Jasmine said with courtesy.
"Oh, are the clothes important, or me?" Gale asked the question that, from now on, he would find most important. He didn't want to get used or backstabbed again.
Jasmine nervously said. "Master you are. I have no one other than you in this world."
Gale blushed a little upon hearing that. He was still a virgin in romance. "Okay, then you go do your stuff."
"But I don't have any now." Jasmine tilted her head in doubt. "Master, you should have known by now."
"Uhh," Gale froze for a second then returned to normal."You know it was a long day."
"You can do whatever you want now," Gale said to her as he rested his chin on his hand and went into deep thought.
Jasmine knew she didn't have anything to do now. So he took a ragged piece of cloth and started cleaning the room.
While cleaning, she gave a quick glance at Gale and pondered. 'Master seems a bit different. He wouldn't question me like that with a cold face. He would have an innocent smile on his face.'
All of a sudden, she saw Gale come down from the bed and started doing push-ups. She asked with concern. "Is everything okay, master?"
"Yes, everything is okay. Can't I do a simple exercise?" Gale asked back as he did his push-ups.
"No, master, you can." Jasmine hurriedly said that and went to resume her cleaning.
She now knew something had definitely changed. Because Gale would never do any kind of exercise. Whenever she urged him to do it, he would just laze off in bed. He hated it the most. But now, all of a sudden, he started doing it like it was normal, making her guess correct.
However, she didn't know that her master was a totally new person, she just assumed her master's mentality had changed, and she didn't mind that. Because to live in this cruel world, you had to change.
Their days went by like that, doing nothing. But their lives weren't peaceful as they would get bullied by the bottom feeders in the family.
Many would beat Gale and ridicule him just to pass their time. His body would always be filled with injuries from the constant beating. However, no elder tried to stop them. How could they? They didn't waste time on something that would damage their relationship with someone.
As Gale got beaten up every day and heard all the sneering, ridicule, and mocking; the rage that was inside him before his death had built up at an astonishing rate. His personality had also changed. Now, his face would be always ice cold and he would glare at most people.
Meanwhile, Gale noticed many horny guys would harass Jasmine because she was alone. He didn't like her, but he didn't want to have someone do anything to his maid. Because she was currently in his possession, in Gale's mind, they had no right!
He would try to pick fights with the ones that would try to lay a finger on her. However, this resulted in him getting beaten again. Still, for him to try to pick up a fight constantly was also harassment to them. They would get annoyed and stop trying to do anything for Jasmine.
Despite all of this, he had a dwindling hope that his golden finger would arrive.
Like that, one year went by.
Now, it was nighttime; Gale and Jasmine had finished eating their dinner.
Gale was now 18 years old. His skinny, malnourished body was no more. Now he had tight-knitted muscles on his body. His eyes had a fire in them, as he would never go down.
On the other hand, Jasmine was the same as always, but Gale felt her boobs grow a little tiny bit bigger. But he assumed that was his imagination. Through questioning her, he learned she was actually 82 years old. He didn't expect a girl who looked to be in her 20s to be so old.
But don't say that to any woman, by the way.
Gale was sitting on the bed, and Jasmine had just come in after washing the dishes.
Gale asked Jasmine curiously. "Jasmine, do we have any spirit stones?"
Spirit stones were the currency of this world and were also the source of cultivation. There were four stages of spirit stones that only Gale knew of.
100 one-stage spirit stone was equivalent to 1 two-stage spirit stones.
100 two-stage spirit stone was equivalent to 1 three-stage spirit stones.
Like this were the rest of the ones, so forth so on.
Stages indicate how much spiritual energy a spirit could have.
Now, only a one-stage spirit stone could be a great help to him. Because today he luckily was able to eavesdrop on this information from the branch family's kids.
Jasmine thought for a little and answered. "If I remember currently. Master, you have buried some spirit stones in our house."
"Huh!" Gale jumped up in surprise and asked Jasmine eagerly."Where are they?"
Jasmine scratched her face and said."Master, only you know that."
"Yeah, only I know that." Gale scratched his head in embarrassment. "But, let's go dig them out."
He didn't know where they might be, but in this small house, if he dug everywhere, he would find them sometime in the future.
Gale picked up his broken sword and gave Jasmine a small shovel."Let's go get these babies out."
Then, in the middle of the night, one could hear the sound of someone digging coming from Gale's small wooden hut.