Chapter 1889: Chapter 1889
Chapter 1889: Chapter 110: Marginal Family
“Seventy jade coins!”
Xin Fat Man used a series of huge exclamation marks on his letter paper, and even through the thin sheet, Zheng Qing seemed to see a chubby face tinged with blue, flinging saliva everywhere:
“Do you know what the pure profit of your little shop for a whole year is? Less than thirty jade coins! And now you’re watching seventy jade coins slip between your fingers… You need to be a public-funded student for seven consecutive years to earn that much money back! Did you know that?” ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭•𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚•𝕟𝕖𝕥
“Does the school have continuous seven-year public-funded students?!”
Zheng Qing wasn’t sure about other academies, but Jiuyou Academy certainly didn’t have continuous seven-year public-funded students—those who could become public-funded students at Jiuyou Academy must have top-notch exam scores, with no risk of repeating grades, and naturally wouldn’t stay at school for seven consecutive years.
He gripped the feather pen, dipped it into the ink bottle, hesitated for a moment, and finally marked ‘Read’ at the end of the letter, then crumpled it into a ball and tossed it out.
The paper ball drew a feeble arc in the air, twitching and twisting along the way, struggling into a crumpled paper crane just before it was about to land, but because its wings were too short, the paper crane eventually fell to the ground, bouncing around like a ball.
A slender octopus tentacle shot out from the gaps in the bookshelf, striking the paper crane like lightning, sending it flying back into the air, and the crane took advantage of this force to escape the ground’s constraints, wobbling towards the library exit.
The librarian’s round head suddenly appeared in front of Zheng Qing.
“If you litter again, I’ll throw you out too!” It spewed a string of bold black letters in front of the boy, warningly waving its giant octopus tentacle.
The young public-funded student obediently raised his hands, indicating he wouldn’t do it again.
Throughout, Xiao Xiao sitting opposite him kept his gaze fixed on the book “Plying Lice: Ghost Tales,” as if he didn’t know this ill-mannered person in front of him.
“With time to read leisure books, how about helping me reply to a couple of letters!”
Zheng Qing shook the letter from Elder Zhang Da in his hand, complaining in a low voice: “Do you know what the elder wrote? He’s already planned out clearly how to use the seventy jade coins… Fifteen are to replenish communal supplies for the hunting team, including talisman paper, array plates, turtle shells, cinnabar, herbs, and even public law books! What’s he, a wizard who spends all day throwing punches, need law books for? After a year, the front of his law book still looks brand new!”
“Then he allocated another ten jade coins, intending to buy every team member a whole set of ‘Crimson Hunting Clothes,’ with four sets for spring, summer, autumn, and winter! The team flag needs cleaning runes, the emblem should have gemstones, and it should solidify a defensive magic array! He takes this stuff to the New World, for those pioneering hunters!”
At this point, Zheng Qing shook the plan in his hand helplessly: “He doesn’t even consider that the hunting team has been sold off, what use does he have for all this stuff? This well-organized plan feels like the elder’s brain got switched with someone else’s… But after reading it, unless his head was packed with muscles, no one would make such a contradictory plan!”
“And what about the forty-five jade coins?” Xiao Xiao suddenly looked up, interrupting Zheng Qing’s endless complaining, turning a page in his book.
“Huh?” Zheng Qing didn’t respond immediately.
“Seventy minus fifteen minus another ten equals forty-five, how did the elder arrange the remaining forty-five jade coins?” Doctor Xiao asked seriously.
“That’s not what you should care about.”
The young public-funded student muttered but didn’t refuse to answer, flicking the letter paper in his hand: “He plans to rent the Sacred Will’s hunting ground for the remaining forty-five, and hire Judgement Hunting Team’s hunters to continue serving as our coaches for a school year… I have good reason to suspect there’s hidden improper interest transfer in this plan.”
Will’s new Lei Zhe is Zhang Ji Xin’s brother, Uncle Zhang Zhi, and forty-five jade coins, even for such a well-established club, is a huge chunk of fat.
“But you can’t deny that Sacred Will’s hunting ground and Judgement Hunting Team are our best choices.”
Absolution’s diviner pushed up his glasses, eyes shifted from “Plying Lice: Ghost Tales,” taking notes on his perceptions while casually placating his complaining companion: “The school provides few private coaching high-level hunting teams, we can’t go seeking Blood Comrades’ hunting team… Putting special relations aside, renting that hunting ground for the whole school year for forty-five jade coins is quite a bargain, not to mention we recover some losses with each prey we catch in the hunting ground.”
“That’s not the point!”
Zheng Qing finally realized he’d been led astray by the doctor, immediately interrupting his analysis, annoyed: “The point is, we didn’t plan to sell the hunting team, where did the elder get seventy jade coins to mess with! Besides, if it weren’t for you telling them, I wouldn’t have this trouble!”
Saying this, he patted the stack of colorful letter papers under his elbow, making a loud noise, drawing attention from other students in the library, casting displeased glances.
Zheng Qing instantly shrank back, picked up the pen, and viciously marked a big ‘read’ on Zhang Ji Xin’s letter paper, then added several flamboyant words behind it—Not selling! No money!
While he folded the paper crane haphazardly, Xiao Xiao finally looked away from the leisure reading, explained: “I coordinated with others to truly prevent anyone from causing us trouble… Prevention is better.”
Zheng Qing held the paper crane for Zhang Ji Xin, hesitating, not immediately throwing it out: “You think Lin Yan is problematic?”
The doctor habitually opened his notebook, feather pen sketching, after a while briefly replied: “I’ve looked into it, this Lin Yan is a public-funded student of Alpha 09, but not from a wizarding family; in fact, his Qingcheng Lin’s family is just a tiny ordinary wizard house in Shu land, besides him, only his grandfather is an official wizard… Not even a wizard family really.”
“Compared to this, Arthur Ness’s family belongs to a giant entity. At least, the Nes family even has its own resting room in Alpha Fortress.”
“What about his parents?” Zheng Qing listened puzzled, but somewhat enlightened: “… No wonder a public-funded Alpha student has two Starry Sky guys behind him.”
“Both parents passed away, and there’s a younger sister who’s a trickster, seventeen this year, yet to truly master any magic, likely won’t make it into First University.” Xiao Xiao calmly added: “Families like these are marginal in the wizard world, rarely noticed… I found so much information because he’s Alpha’s public-funded student this year.”