Offering Salted Fish To Master

Chapter 1

Zou Yan found that things were not quite right.

She was a classic beauty sitting on a futon in an ancient, antique room, wearing a green dress, in a lotus position, (cross legged) as if she was practicing cultivation.

Didn’t she work overtime last night until the early morning to change the design draft, and fell asleep on the bed after returning home without even taking a shower? This hand was too white and tender, not quite like hers. She was studying the slender hand on her knee. There was a knock on the door.

“Tuk Tuk Tuk”

Zou Yan’s heart jumped. She hesitated to get up, took three breaths, and opened the door.

Standing outside the door was an elder brother who looked more than 30, wearing a grayish-green Taoist robe, handsome out of the secular world, and smiled at her, “Shimei* Liao, Shifu is calling you to the Bamboo Garden.”

Zou Yan: Shimei Liao? Shifu? Bamboo Garden? What’s all this, if I transmigrated, why don’t I have any transfer of memory. Why is there no novice guide? Wait, did I die?

“Um… shixiong?” Zou Yan asked tentatively.

The elder brother said very kindly, “Shimei, are you nervous? You don’t need to be. Shifu just wants to talk to you, hurry up.”

After he finished speaking, Zou Yan quickly called out her senior brother again.

She asked, “Shixiong, can you take me there?” There was no map, so how could she find that place?

The big brother didn’t have any doubts, and led her over very easily.

“Shimei Liao, you don’t have to worry too much. Our Clear Sky Valley is not like other places. We, by no means look down on people.”

Zou Yan followed behind and occasionally nodded. In fact, her heart was full of questions. She didn’t understand a word!

There were some disciples who were also wearing green on the road. When they saw them, they often smiled and nodded, and occasionally there were those who said hello, or called them Shijie* Liao and Shixong Su. There was also a shorter boy, wearing a simpler robe, who called her, Shijie Liao. Zou Yan walked all the way, observing the people around her and the flowers and plants she didn’t know. Her brain took out a few key words- transmigration, Xianxia, martial art.

Her major was painting, not acting! What could she do now? Would she suffer any terrible things as she transmigrated?

Shixong Su sent her out of a sea of bamboo, motioned her to go in, and then walked away in a chic manner.

Zou Yan had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue on. She entered a small road in the bamboo sea. Everywhere along the road, there were bamboo-like doors like archways. After nine consecutive gates, she saw a bamboo building.

There was no signboard. Wait, how could they not hang a sign board? So was this the Bamboo Garden? She wandered outside the door for a while, and someone in the room said, “Tingyan’er*, why don’t you come in.”

Oh, it was this place.

She concluded that she was surnamed Liao and named Tingyan. Zou Yan walked in and saw a young man in his twenties. He turned around, and looked at her kindly and lovingly.

Zou Yan said, “…Shifu.” Was her master so young? Really?

The young man said, “You have been in my school for three months. Why are you still so restrained? As a master, you are like my biological daughter, so you can treat me as a father. You don’t need to be formal.”

Zou Yan: “…” Are you serious? You look younger than me. If you say that you are my dad, will you be my dad?

It was too wrong to say more. Zou Yan tried out the trick that she used to deal with relatives and elders during the New Year, that was a smile. As long as it was not a question that must be answered, just smile shyly.

Sure enough, the young master didn’t find anything wrong. He asked her to sit over, drink tea, and then said in a teaching tone, “I called you over this time, mainly because of the selection three days later. You don’t have to worry about anything. Just do whatever you want. You have started late. So your cultivation level is not high, and your seniority is also the lowest. This time the Eight Palaces will select outstanding disciples to go there. We Clear Sky Valley will just make up the number.”

Make up the number?

TL note:

Shifu: Master

Shizhu: Founder

Shixong: Big brothers/senior brother. (shīxiōng 師兄)

Shidi: Little brother/ Junior brother. (shīdì 師弟),

Shihie: Big sister/ Senior sister. (shījiě 師姐)

Shimei: Little sister/ Junior sister. (shīmèi 師妹).

Xianfu: Xian- immortal(Xianxia) Fu: Residence

Shishu: little uncle: junior fellow students of the teacher in a Chinese martial arts school.

Shibo: Big martial uncle.

Shizhi: Martial niece/ nephew.