Xia cleaned their room and after cleaning a little around Mei Lin she went to the kitchen to start making dinner. After finishing everything no one still showed up, so she sat at the table and waited. After waiting a while, she went to Xin Meng's room to wake up the girls.
"Wake up. It will be dinner soon."
Both of them ignored anything Xia said, so Xia pulled the blanket off them, and not long after they started to find the blanket. Both of them looked wasted and after waking up, thanks to the cold, they looked like a mess. Xia helped them by throwing the clothes to wake them up, and then they went to the kitchen and they had dinner together.
"How was your day Xia?" Asked Yu Lan and start eating dinner.
"I went to buy the books, but I got into the problem again. Feng Shu tried to bully me for stealing the books and then I met Shi Ming Lia, who wanted to give me a job, but I ran away."
"They wanted to give you a job? Why didn't you take it?"
"I didn't want to do what they wanted after me. They also wanted Mei Lin to do the same."
"Did you tell Mei Lin about it?"
"No, she is still in cultivation, so I didn't have a chance to talk to her."
"If you want, I can help you wake up Mei Lin from the cultivation state. It's not such a hard thing to do."
"No. I will tell her once she is finished."
They start eating and after dinner, Yu Lan continues with painting Xia. After a few hours of painting, both girls were already drunk again and Mei Lin finally showed up after finishing her cultivation.
Xia told her about what had happened and asked Mei Lin for a spirit stone to pay it back. Mei Lin ate spirit fruit and left one for Xin Meng to eat. After dinner they went back to their room to sleep, why girls finished another bottle and went to play with Xin Meng.
Early next morning.
Mei Lin woke up Xia, who didn't have any intention of going out. Mei Lin pushed her out of the room, so she could go to the market to buy whatever she wanted to eat for today. Mei Lin also gave her another spirit stone to pay back to Shi Ming Lia for the book. As soon as Xia left, Mei Lin entered her cultivation sea to evaluate, how much progress she made in condensing the second wisp of natural energy.
It was already more than a month after Mei Lin entered the first stage BT and her second wisp of natural energy was from little more than ten percent complete. It will take much longer compared to the first wisp, but to her advantage, once she creates and absorbs all nine wisps we will skip the QI Condensation realm and directly enter the Element finding realm.
After finishing the observation and calming herself, that her progress was steady, Mei Lin felt, that she still had a lot of gaps in terms of cultivation. Once concluding everything, she picked up a book that Xia bought and started writing on every page different word. First, she wrote everything in the tea-shop so she would know what each word meant and then went abound house and put each page on a specific thing. After finishing that she went to Xin Meng's room to wake them up.
Xia saw Mei Lin, as she rushed into Xin Ming's room like a demon. They had hangovers from last night so they were not ready for Mei Lin and once again none of them. When she barged into the room whole room smelled like alcohol and other things.
Mei Lin starts yelling at them, and all three of them start waking up and panicking. "What the hell are you doing here!! Xia is already having breakfast and you are still here."
Xin Ming stood up from the bed, completely naked, and walked forward to her. He also had a big handover even though he is at the third stage of BT. His head was splitting apart from the alcohol and Mei Lin's screaming didn't help with it. He and his clouded mind hold only one thought and that was to silence Mei Lin. As soon as he moved closer to Mei Lin, completely naked Mei Lin kicked him as he went to the ground fucking her all around. Mei Lin ignored them and started to talk some sense into them.
"Xia went yesterday to the auction house in the green zone and pissed off both Shi Ming Lia and Feng Shen at the same time, so we will have a problem. We need to get this tea-house to be alive again and to be ready for customers or they will find a way to take it from you. After everything is ready and Xia will start to learn how to read you can do whatever you want. Until then no drinking all of you. If the tea-shop makes more money than you will drink you can have fun. And if you want to drink now find a way how to make wine yourself. What I heard is this house has a cellar so make it bigger so you can store more wine there."
Mei Lin unleashed a little bit of her aura to scare girls from drinking and then left. When she arrived back in the kitchen, Xia was already gone, so Mei Lin pinned the words with paper all around and waited for Xia to come back. After half an hour Xia went back with the purchased food. Before she wanted to start making breakfast, she saw that everyone was doing something, not like yesterday. Xia was happy, that at least someone would help her with the breakfast, but then she saw angry Mei Lin and knew that would happen.
"You are finally here, so we are going back to the auction house in Green Zone and you will pay them back what they want." Xia was happy that Mei Lin would go with her and that the horrific situation would end. After putting down all the food, Xia ate a little and they left. After they left the yellow zone Xia asked Mei Lin.
"What happened when I was shopping?" Asked Xia curiously, because she thought that they would never gonna do a thing as long as they had wine and food.
"Nothing, we finally find the same goal to be happy. Also, I told them about what happened yesterday, so Feng Shu will surely try to get us out of the city we need to play by the rules, so they will have no leverage to take Xin Ming's tea house."
They took a ride and in no time, were once again in front of the auction house. They paid for the ride and went in. Just as they were at the doors to the auction house, the guard stopped them from entering inside.
"You are not welcome here, you should leave or there will be consequences." Xia didn't say anything and Mei Lin went inside. One of the guards tried to stop Mei Lin and pulled out his weapon to stop her.
"Why are you blocking my way? We need to see Feng Shu. He invited us to have a tea."
Guard was surprised by what Mei Lin said and didn't know what to do. He was at the eighth stage of BT, he was in service of the Feng family. And was very respected among others. He gets a direct order from Feng Shen to stop her and Xia before coming inside.
Guard stepped to the side and lowered his weapon. "It was easy wasn't it?" Guard was furious but he couldn't do anything. Xia went next to Mei Lin and they stepped inside. "How is that possible that Feng Shu invite you inside?"
Guard was also very curious so he listened to their conversation. "He didn't invite us. The only reason why that guard let us in is because he is a dump and only cares about orders from Feng Shu."
Mei Lin start laughing as the doors closed. No one inside was blocking them so they went to the store, where Xia bought the book. When the shop attendant saw them she wanted to leave, but Mei Lin started shouting at her from far away. The shop attendant was at the second stage BT and felt that Mei Lin was not someone she could mess with. Just before Mei Lin and Xia arrived, at to shop attendant, she started running away.
"Where are you running? Are you scared that we will not pay for the books? We are here just for that thing." After Mei Lin started shouting at her, all the people around immediately stopped talking and looked at what was going on. The shop attendant didn't know what to do, as she tried to run away.
"Is Feng's family scared of putting the price up and then not collecting the money? We are here just to pay what he set on us."
Feng Shu and others heard that, and Feng Shu immediately rushed there. He starts sending a message to her who runs away from the shop to get back but without a response. Mei Lin in the meantime went to the shelf with the books and placed a label on one of the shelfs. On the tag was written the word "FOR FREE". Mei Lin looked away and then back on the tag.
"Nice here are books for free. Don't mind if I take one."
With the lave of Mei Lin's hand, all the books on the shelf disappeared. After taking all the blank books she left. No one stopped her. Everybody around didn't say a sound as they saw, that Mei Lin got all the books off the shelf in one swing of her hand. As Mei Lin left the empty shelf she took Xia and started leaving. Just before they left Mei Lin turned around and for the last time angered Feng Shu.
"At least the Feng family at Merchant Caravan had respect and killed their own, so they would not embarrass the family. It's better that Feng Jing was decapitated by Feng Huayuan after impaling himself on his spier."