"Why are you pulling me?" Mu Anxiao asked, pulling her arm away.
"I am a demon."
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao stopped trying to get up. Instead, she calmly looked at the wolf demon and smiled, "I know you are a demon, what do you want to clarify?"
"I am not interested in mortals. You had better retract your filthy thoughts."
"I..." Mu Anxiao glanced down at her arm, which the wolf demon was still holding tightly. "How am I filthy? I was just trying to matchmake you with that woman who likes you."
"Filthy."
"You..."
"If I can't give you five taels of silver, I can protect you five times."
"Do you think I need your protection?" Mu Anxiao glanced at the wolf demon and asked.
The wolf demon: "In any case, I..."
"I don't need your protection, but I can take you as my disciple. If you stay with me for a month, we can forget about the five taels of silver."
"I feel like I'm losing out."
"Then I won't help you for money. Aren't I losing out then?"
"That's true, but I..."
"You can make wontons, you can't earn any other money."
"Waste of time."
"How is it a waste of time?"
"You see," the wolf demon released her arm and began to calculate, "If I am here at this wonton stall, every time I sell a wonton, then..."
"Wait, your wonton stall, what do you mean?"
"I... I'm here, there's nothing of mine, how can you not understand?"
"Oh, continue," Mu Anxiao propped her chin with one hand.
The wolf demon continued, "If I sell wontons every day, all my effort will be spent on this, and where will I find the time to cultivate? Besides, I don't need money."
"But you need it now."
Hearing Mu Anxiao's words, the wolf demon thought of that dog-headed demon, and felt that compromising was more cost-effective.
"Then I'll follow you," he said.
Mu Anxiao smiled, "Very good."
At the same time, the boss returned.
Seeing this, Mu Anxiao took out some silver shards from her sleeve and placed them in the wolf demon's hand, "Wonton money."
The wolf demon was stunned, looked down at the silver shards, and asked, "What do you mean?"
"The wontons are good. I'll wait for you outside." Saying this, Mu Anxiao stood up, glanced at the boss who was walking over, and left first.
The wolf demon didn't react, so he reached out and picked up the silver shards on the table, paused, stood up, and looked at the boss who was approaching, "You're back."
The boss: "Yes, I'm back." He then looked down at the two empty bowls on the table and smiled, "We have business."
Hearing this, the wolf demon suddenly came to his senses, handed the silver shards Mu Anxiao had given him to the boss, "Here you go."
The next second, the boss looked down at the silver shards in the wolf demon's palm for a few seconds, picked one up, "This is extra, the rest is for you, thank you."
The wolf demon was surprised, "You really gave it to me?"
"You helped me, this is what you deserve."
"..." The wolf demon smiled.
A moment later.
The wolf demon walked gracefully to Mu Anxiao's side and asked, "Were you doing that on purpose?" He handed the silver shards to Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao looked down at the silver shards and asked, "What does it feel like to earn money?"
"This is called earning money?"
"You served us, made us wontons, and watched the shop, the boss gave you money, that's considered earning it," Mu Anxiao said, pushing the wolf demon's hand away, "Don't think about anything else, are you happy?"
"Just this, I'm happy..."
"I bet you are very happy, because when I earned my first tael of silver, I was extremely happy."
"I am a demon, I am not interested in money. I am different from you, don't compare me to you."
"You're happy but you won't admit it," Mu Anxiao took a step forward, tilted her body, and pointed at the wolf demon's hand, "Take it, and don't go around picking rotten leaves from other people's gardens anymore."
"Rotten..." The wolf demon spat out the word, took a step forward, and asked, "What do you mean by that?"
"You don't even have money, how can you buy food at an inn? Who would believe that?" Mu Anxiao glared at the wolf demon.
The wolf demon: "....."
The wolf demon did not like going to crowded places like Mu Anxiao. Recently, whenever he was hungry, he would look for wild vegetables. After possessing Hu Yuan's body, he also didn't want to eat meat. In winter, he would use his demonic energy to get through his hunger.
Before meeting Mu Anxiao, he thought his life was pretty good, but now, hearing Mu Anxiao's words, he couldn't help but feel like a beggar, or even... worse than a beggar.
Thinking this, he unintentionally looked at a beggar passing by, holding a broken bowl and wearing tattered clothes, who was looking for Mu Anxiao, and sighed.
"Give me some." The beggar openly walked in front of Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao glanced indifferently at the beggar and said coldly, "You're not disabled."
"Mu Anxiao, you've forgotten your roots."
"How have I forgotten my roots?"
"You used to beg too, now you should give alms to your former colleagues."
"I just realized that way wasn't good, so I started a legitimate business."
"Because of your appearance, we can't even return to the ruined temple anymore."
"What does that have to do with me?" Mu Anxiao stopped walking.
The beggar also stopped, "You don't know."
Mu Anxiao looked up and stared at the beggar's face for a few seconds, "You too. You only came out yesterday and you're here today asking me for money. Tell me, who sent you."
The beggar: "I was passing by and saw..."
"Lies."
"I..." The beggar's gaze flickered unnaturally. "Here you go." He took out a paper ball from his sleeve and handed it to Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao took the paper ball, "Who gave it to you?" she stared at him.
"A woman, the rest, you can see for yourself." The beggar said, then turned to look at the wolf demon and was startled, then ran away.
Mu Anxiao: "So mysterious." She glanced at the beggar's departing figure, then opened the paper ball and looked at it, frowning.
The wolf demon noticed the subtle change in Mu Anxiao's expression, then looked in the direction the beggar had gone, and asked, "What is this?"
Mu Anxiao read, "Hand over the wolf demon, otherwise, I will kill..."
"Kill who?"
"Wait a moment." Mu Anxiao brought her face closer to the less clear characters and read, "I will kill Feng Qi Shi."
The wolf demon: "This must be a person."
"..." Mu Anxiao stared at the characters again, frowning.
The wolf demon: "....." Seeing Mu Anxiao thinking, he decided not to disturb her.
Mu Anxiao looked at the words on the crumpled paper again and again, and a smile played on her lips, "I know who it is."
"Who?"
"It's related to you." Mu Anxiao pointed at the wolf demon.
The wolf demon: "They want to hand me over, of course it's related to me, I know that."
"It's Xie Xin."
"Who is Xie Xin?" the wolf demon was confused.
Mu Anxiao asked, "You don't know who she is?"
"Who?"
Then, Mu Anxiao recalled the interaction between the wolf demon and Xie Xin just now, and she realized, "Oh, she didn't."
"Who?" the wolf demon asked again.