Chapter 1441 - 1440: Brimming with Malice

Chapter 1441: Chapter 1440: Brimming with Malice

Chapter 1440 Full of Malice

This kind of simple Five Elements Magic can be used as long as you have Spiritual Power. The Spiritual Power can be converted inside the body into the attribute energy you need, then you can release it. But it can only be used for minor things, not for fighting. First, converting Spiritual Power consumes it; second, the conversion takes time—by the time you’re done converting, the other party’s attack has already hit you.

Because Mengyu had set up an Array in the courtyard, there was no snow inside, but outside on the road a lot of snow was still piled up. After Qingshan and the others finished the big housecleaning inside, they went out to sweep the snow; they couldn’t use Spells here and could only honestly use their hands to sweep.

However, both Qingshan and Xiao Tao were strong. With one sweep of the big brooms made from bamboo branches from the space, all the snow in that patch was cleared away. So in no time, the snow on the road at the entrance had all been swept to both sides.

By the time the neighbors on both sides got up to go sweep snow, they discovered that this whole alley had already been cleared.

Not long after, Le Yin drove the minivan back, bringing back a large amount of New Year’s goods: cured meat, sausages, roast duck, all kinds of fancy candies, pastries, sunflower seeds, biscuits, white liquor, red wine, and so on, big bags being unloaded and carried into the courtyard, making the neighbors who had also gone out to buy New Year’s goods look on with quite a bit of envy.

The neighbor on the left, Granny Long, and Jiang Xiuying walked toward Mengyu’s courtyard and started calling from the doorway: "Xiao Jiang—"

Mengyu hurried out: "Oh, Granny Long and Mrs. Jiang. Granny Long, my surname isn’t Jiang, it’s Nan!"

Granny Long thought she had remembered wrong and quickly said, "Look at my memory, I thought your surname was Jiang. Xiao Nan, you bought this many New Year’s goods?"

Mengyu smiled a little. "Granny Long, we toil all year round just to have a good New Year, right? For New Year, of course you have to buy more good things. Besides, you usually buy your New Year’s goods bit by bit, here a little, there a little. It doesn’t look like much, but actually it’s not little. I’m just buying everything in one go, so it naturally looks like a lot. And also, look at how many people I have here—who knows if this stuff will even be enough to eat over the holiday."

The neighbor on the right, Jiang Xiuying, pointed with her left hand, which was wearing a jade bracelet, at the case of Flying Moutai Wine that Le Shan had just carried down. "How did you manage to buy so much Moutai Wine?"

Even Granny Long had noticed that Moutai. "You must have pulled strings and gone through the back door to get it, right?"

The two of them looked at the Moutai Wine with a bit of heat in their eyes, wanting to get a piece of the action.

By this time, although the reform and opening had already begun and some things had been liberalized—for example, bicycles: Phoenix and Yongjiu still needed tickets, but Wuyang could already be bought freely; and sewing machines could also be bought freely now—

And ordinary cigarettes and liquor as well.

But some things still needed tickets to purchase, such as name-brand cigarettes and liquor. And Moutai was one of those that required tickets.

Mengyu discovered that the production date of that liquor was actually 1975, and it was Flying, obviously export liquor. So she asked Le Shui, "How much of this liquor did you buy?"

Le Shui answered, "Just two cases, twelve bottles."

Mengyu shook her head. "Too little." She thought of the later generations, where aged Moutai had gone sky‑high. A single bottle of 1954 Moutai could sell for over a million. Even this kind of 1975 Flying Moutai could fetch four or five hundred thousand in later years.

Le Shui felt a bit embarrassed. "Eldest Lady, this liquor needs tickets. I had to spend money to buy people’s tickets first before I could exchange for this much."

In fact, he really had pulled some strings and gone through the back door to buy these export‑to‑domestic bottles.

Mengyu glanced at Granny Long and Jiang Xiuying. "Oh? How much did one ticket cost?"

Their purpose in coming today was unclear, but she felt that Granny Long was still all right. That Jiang Xiuying, though, was full of malice.