Both of them looked at Xia mischievously, and before she managed to protest, they went to find merchants with the wine. After walking all over, they bought many different kinds of food and a few bottles of rose wine. They paid for everything with spirit stones, which surprised Xia. She never used spirit stones and didn't have any so the knowledge that spirit stones have extreme value for non-cultivators and one low-grade stone has a value of a thousand city coins which non-cultivators are playing with. As she thought about arguing with Mei Lin about houses she discovered that homeson the sale in the main hall were extremely expensive. That was the reason why they couldn't buy a house in the yellow zone if they had green tokens.
After coming back to the tea house, they went to the kitchen and started making breakfast. After they finished, they didn't make any for Mei and Xin because they were still cultivating and no one knew when they would finish.
Xu Lan and Hua Fey start asking questions about Mei and Xia, to know them better. As they were chatting, both sides discovered that Xia was a bandit, not a caravan member and both girls were slaves, who escaped from slave traders and found Xin Ming. From then on they were with him. He took them to the city and now they are living were.
Xia also discovered that Yu Lan could paint paintings that were very pretty. She showed Xia a few of her paintings and then started painting her. Yu Lan was painting until they were hungry and started preparing a lunch. Hua Fey in the meantime cleaned the whole second floor and collected tea tables and cultivation mats, so they will let them repair.
The first floor was quite similar to the second floor only that at first floor, floor was divided into one part for customers, and the other part which was consisted of a kitchen, the room where Xin Ming and the girls lived, the bath, and the entrance into the cellar compared to the second floor, where were two room for the customers instead of living place and kitchen.
As they continued talking about other unimportant things, Xia never knew that they were so interesting. As they continued time slowly flew by and with that, they started making a lunch. After they were done, the girls went to their room to awaken Xin Ming from cultivation state, so he could eat with them. Both Yu Lan and Hao Fey were already drunk solid before they finished lunch, so they were not very good at finishing the food at all.
Xia didn't believe that they were able to drink two bottles of wine in just a few minutes. It did not take long and Xin Ming went back to the kitchen. Xin Ming sat at the table and before him were only prepared spirit fruits, not normal food. Xia continued to eat the lunch like nothing and Xin Ming nearly burst out with anger.
"Why should I eat spirit fruit when you cooked so much food?"
"Mei Lin said that it's better for your cultivation. As a cultivator, it's much better to eat spirit fruits than normal food."
Xin Ming was angry because spirit fruits were not good to eat compared to what they cooked. He was pissed and started to eat normal food. Xia didn't stop him and both of them were angry at the same time.
After lunch, Xin Ming went back to their room, and when Xia heard moaning from the doors where Xin Ming went, she quickly left to the second floor. When she was at the market with the girls they told her a lot of things so she knew what was happening inside. Mei Lin was still cultivating, so she went to the second room on the floor. The doors were locked but with their key, she could open them and went to look inside. Inside the room was a mess like everywhere else in the tea house.
Inside the room was a stepladder so she took it outside and went to look into the attic. The attic wasn't locked, so she looked inside. Inside were tea tables, windows, and some more junk which were all covered with dust and spiderwebs. After scouting everything she went to Mei Lin and started talking to her in the hope of waking her up. After half an hour of talking nothing happened.
She stopped trying and went to their room and took one low-grade spirit stone, which Mei Lin prepared before she went into cultivation. After taking the spirit stone, she picked ricksha on the street and went back to the green zone into the main house, where they had been yesterday. Xia didn't look for houses, but this time for seeds to plant flowers and other spirit herbs.
When she was looking for them, Feng Shi noticed her again and started to make plans to stop her from buying anything. He didn't know that Xia had only one low-grade spirit stone and she couldn't afford any of the spirit plant seeds.
She also didn't want to buy anything, because they were selling seeds and not plants, so the names of the plants didn't ring a bell for her and only names had no meaning for her because she didn't know the real names of most of the plant and to mention spirit plants.
Her real goal was to buy the ank book for her to start learning how to write, read, and draw flowers. After talking to Mei Lin she knew that she would need to become a cultivator if she wanted to buy a crystal with reading knowledge, so this was the only possible way how to avoid this problem and partially solve it.