Chapter 361: Chapter 361

Just by moving his lips, he could find allies for Guxing—why not do it?

From this Miss Yin Ruoxi's series of behaviors just now, Xiaoyao could be certain that this troublemaker-level girl was a decent person. If he could get her to look after them, then Guxing could cultivate with more peace of mind at the Huangpu Family.

"Sister Guxing is so beautiful—I'm sure many people would want to take care of her," Yin Ruoxi said with what seemed like a hint of jealousy, but also tactfully declined Xiaoyao's suggestion.

She wasn't the type to blindly help others. For someone like Xiaoyao whose background was unclear, how could she agree to take care of them? Most people wouldn't agree to this, unless they coveted Guxing's beauty or had other motives.

Yin Ruoxi had neither of these motives. She even felt somewhat resistant to Guxing because Guxing might pose a threat to her own beauty.

Women generally didn't like women more beautiful than themselves, especially women who were already beautiful.

"Miss Ruoxi is too kind. I think you're a good person, so I'd feel more at ease entrusting her to you," Xiaoyao firmly placed the hat of "good person" on Yin Ruoxi's head.

"This isn't something for a household servant like you to decide. Why does it sound like you're handing someone over to me?" Yin Ruoxi didn't respond directly, only pointing out what Xiaoyao's proper duties should be.

"I need to go earn money. The Huangpu Family's tuition is expensive. If I go, there won't be money left, and I don't know where my boss's tuition for next year will come from," Xiaoyao said with a smile.

The Huangpu Family generally didn't allow bringing servants, because as soldiers, one couldn't have servants waiting on them. Too comfortable a life would wear away a soldier's sharp edge—this was commonly acknowledged, and the Huangpu Family would definitely not make such a basic mistake.

However, some people still brought servants. Although they couldn't attend to daily needs, they could still do other things. The way they got servants in wasn't through special privileges, but by having the servants also enter the Huangpu Family.

Entering the Huangpu Family generally only required paying tuition, while servants would only have the role of ordinary soldiers. But for those people, this was already sufficient.

Would Yin Ruoxi say she could provide the money if they lacked it?

Of course not. Although she could certainly afford it easily, she and Xiaoyao weren't familiar with each other—there was no reason to help pay for Xiaoyao.

Besides, it wasn't that Guxing didn't have enough—it was just that Xiaoyao, the household servant, didn't have enough. Why would she care about a household servant like Xiaoyao?

"Oh, you're from outside the world, so lacking money is normal. But you don't need to worry. At the Huangpu Family, it's still quite easy to earn tuition. As long as you complete some of the Huangpu Family's tasks, you can earn money and even get tuition exempted," Yin Ruoxi said softly, but her attention wasn't on Xiaoyao and the other—more of it was on the nearby people, listening to their conversations.

Although it was idle chat, there would be a lot of useful information within it. Often, intelligence sources came from people's casual conversations!!

Xiaoyao didn't mind this at all. He was the same, focusing his thoughts on nearby people's idle chat. The difference between him and Yin Ruoxi was that he could simultaneously pay attention to many people's conversations, while Yin Ruoxi could only manage a portion.

In such a chaotic environment, being able to focus on a portion was already quite good. Ordinary people could at most pay attention to one or two topics. Yin Ruoxi was already far beyond ordinary people, but she still wasn't as good as Xiaoyao, because Xiaoyao was very skilled at this and therefore very technical.

Yin Ruoxi didn't know this, otherwise she would definitely start paying attention to this little household servant Xiaoyao, rather than her current habitual slight disregard.

Perhaps it shouldn't be called disregard—just ordinary treatment—but definitely without any emphasis!!

"Tuition can be exempted?" Guxing asked Xiaoyao. She didn't know this point. She only knew she would have Xiaoyao earn money to pay for her tuition. She would work hard to reduce Xiaoyao's burden, but only when it didn't interfere with her cultivation.

Guxing wouldn't be like ordinary people who would set aside cultivation to reduce Xiaoyao's burden. This wasn't because she didn't care about Xiaoyao's burden, but because she thought more deeply.

Reducing Xiaoyao's burden wasn't really anything to Xiaoyao, because she believed Xiaoyao's money-earning ability wouldn't be weak. If not for coming here this time, Xiaoyao would have absolutely enough money to let her stay at the Huangpu Family for as long as she wanted.

Right now, the most important thing was being able to help Xiaoyao solve the problem of potentially insufficient martial force he might face. In other words, cultivating to improve strength was the greatest help to Xiaoyao.

However, if conditions allowed and she could reduce Xiaoyao's burden, Guxing would definitely do it.

"The Huangpu Family has connections with various forces and will have disciples participate in wars of various forces for training. However, the Huangpu Family doesn't greedily take the rewards that disciples should receive, so they give disciples tasks in the form of missions. Each task provides different rewards based on the difficulty and degree of completion," Xiaoyao explained some of the Huangpu Family's rules. This was common knowledge that Xiaoyao had naturally investigated clearly.

It could be said that aside from some private matters, Xiaoyao knew everything about the Huangpu Family very clearly—even more clearly than some disciples within the sect. This was the result of his investigations along the way.

Xiaoyao continued, "According to the Huangpu Family's rules, within one year, as long as you excellently complete one task, you can get a certain amount of tuition exempted. If you complete several times, you can get full exemption! However, this is very difficult. Generally, one task takes several months to complete, and adding the necessary study time within a year, basically one person can complete at most two tasks per year!"

"Oh, you know quite a lot," Yin Ruoxi looked at Xiaoyao with some surprise.

"I inquired along the way. If anything is incorrect, please help correct it, Miss Ruoxi," Xiaoyao smiled and said very politely.

"What you said is correct—there's nothing to correct," Yin Ruoxi shook her head. This was all she knew as well.

"Is it good if I do tasks?" Guxing asked Xiaoyao.

"Yes, what you need to accumulate is experience on real battlefields. I chose this precisely for this point. You can watch from the sidelines without needing to intervene. If someone comes seeking death, then send them on their way," Xiaoyao replied casually.

"Understood," Guxing nodded.

"You don't need to do too many—one or two times is enough. Other time should still be spent cultivating, but each time you must be on the battlefield from beginning to end," Xiaoyao added.

"Understood," Guxing nodded again.

"??" The Yin family sisters were somewhat confused. What was this household servant having his boss do? He wanted her to go to battlefields but also not to intervene, just watch from the sidelines.

This was incomprehensible no matter how they thought about it!!

Also, what made them feel even more incomprehensible was that the identities of this household servant and young miss seemed somewhat blurred. This didn't seem like a household servant's attitude toward a young miss—it was more like the reverse.

What exactly was the relationship between these two people? This was also incomprehensible!!

"Boy, I've been tolerating you for a long time!!"

A strong young man walked over and expressed dissatisfaction toward Xiaoyao, which left Xiaoyao somewhat confused...

"Are you talking to me?" Xiaoyao looked around—it seemed like there was only one person here who could be called "boy."

"That's right, it's you, boy. Are you feeling pretty good?!" The strong young man pointed at Xiaoyao's nose and showed a kind of jealousy.

"Good about what?" Xiaoyao didn't understand—at least he didn't understand what the other party was specifically referring to.

"Sitting together with Miss Ruoxi—are you feeling pretty good?"

"Oh, you're talking about this. It's so-so. Do you want to switch seats? Please, sit down," Xiaoyao immediately gave up his seat. He didn't want to provoke enemies over such an inexplicable matter.

"Uh..." The strong young man was stunned by Xiaoyao's action. He hadn't expected Xiaoyao to give up his seat so readily. According to his thinking, Xiaoyao should have resisted and refused, then he could have displayed his powerful martial force and driven Xiaoyao away.

Now... how should he continue...

"Ajian, what are you trying to do? Go back quickly and stop embarrassing yourself!! Really like a bull—being used as a weapon and not even knowing it!!" Yin Ruoxi said somewhat irritably.

Yin Ruoxi knew this strong young man and was quite familiar with him, as could be seen from what she called him!

Ajian's full name was Niu Jian. This surname was truly fitting—he was just like a bull, as strong as a bull, with a personality as impulsive as a bull.

Niu Jian was from a family that had generations of friendship with the Yin family. Niu Jian and Yin Ruoxi were of similar age, so naturally they had many opportunities to interact, and their relationship was quite close. Nᴇw novel chapters are publɪshed on Nov3lFɪre.ɴet

At the same time, this Niu Jian liked Yin Ruoxi—this was something many people knew and didn't find strange. Too many people liked Yin Ruoxi; one more was completely unremarkable.

However, Niu Jian might be different from others—he was more direct and straightforward. He had confessed to Yin Ruoxi and had been rejected by her, but the two didn't seem embarrassed because of this.

Niu Jian simply didn't know how to write the word "embarrassed," while Yin Ruoxi felt that Niu Jian was just that kind of person. If she told him not to bring up this matter, he wouldn't bring it up. If she told him to stay far away, he wouldn't come close—without any sense of embarrassment whatsoever.

The reason Niu Jian wasn't sitting beside Yin Ruoxi was because Yin Ruoxi had told him not to come near her throughout the journey. Sure enough, he had been staying at a distance throughout the trip.

The reason Niu Jian came over now was because others were provoking his temper, getting him to drive Xiaoyao away!

This reason was very simple—anyone could see it, because almost everyone wanted to do this. They all wanted Xiaoyao to leave Yin Ruoxi's table, preferably in a very embarrassing way.