"You have money?"
"To tell you the truth, I remember burying some silver in the woods outside the city more than twenty years ago. If you help me and succeed, I'll give you all the silver. If you get cursed by my grandson, suffer humiliation, and the matter fails, then I'll give you half. What do you say?"
"Is it a lot?" Mu Anxiao's eyes lit up at the mention of money, and her courage grew with it.
The old man smiled, "Three hundred taels."
"Three hundred..." Mu Anxiao was so excited her mouth fell open. "My heavens, if that's the case, I won't have to spend my own money."
"Yes," the old man understood what Mu Anxiao was thinking.
"Then I'll knock on the door," Mu Anxiao said, turning to face the main gate.
At the same time, the old man stepped forward, positioning himself behind Mu Anxiao, and said, "In a moment, whatever I say, you repeat."
"I know," Mu Anxiao nodded, raising her hand to knock on the gate. "Don't worry, there's nothing I can't do."
"I believe you," the old man said, full of trust in Mu Anxiao.
Minutes later.
Mu Anxiao listened to the sounds from the gate, swallowed, took two steps back, glanced at the old man, and prepared to speak.
The next moment, a young girl in a cloak appeared before Mu Anxiao.
"..." Mu Anxiao was instantly speechless.
The young girl looked at Mu Anxiao with fatigue and said impatiently, "Why are you knocking on our door so late at night?" She yawned.
Mu Anxiao looked at the girl, swallowed, and gave an awkward smile. "Oh, I'm looking for your young master."
"I have many young masters, whom are you looking for?" the girl said, scanning Mu Anxiao from head to toe. "You look like a beggar, how could my young master know you?"
As expected, one should not speak too confidently, for once spoken, the result is bound to deviate.
However, this outcome was clearly unacceptable to Mu Anxiao.
Although she never minded how others viewed her, she still particularly disliked being scrutinized by others like that, as it made her feel uncomfortable.
So, she began to concoct some harsh words.
The young girl, seeing Mu Anxiao’s silence, showed an even more disgusted expression towards her, and then scanned her from head to toe again, saying, "People like you should stay far away from us..."
"Do you have any manners?"
"Huh?" The young girl was startled by Mu Anxiao's sudden words.
Then, Mu Anxiao took a step forward, immediately pushed the main door open, looked down at the girl who was shorter than her, narrowed her eyes, and deliberately imitated the girl's earlier behavior by scanning her from head to toe, asking, "How does that feel?"
Hearing this, the young girl took a half-step back, quickly crossed her arms in front of her, and asked, "What are you looking at?"
"Doesn't it make you uncomfortable?"
"You..." The young girl, seeing Mu Anxiao's rogue-like demeanor, frowned slightly with a hint of nervousness, then her eyes darted away before she raised her hand and slapped Mu Anxiao across the face. "You hooligan." With that, she took advantage of Mu Anxiao's daze to forcefully push her outward, slamming the door shut with a thud.
Although the young girl's slap wasn't heavy, it still stung Mu Anxiao's face.
Subsequently, the moment the girl closed the door, Mu Anxiao raised her hand to cover her face, turned to the old man who couldn't bear to look at her, and said, "Why did she hit me?"
"Who told you to look at her like that?" the old man turned to look at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao rubbed her face and said, "I looked at her... she looked at me too, and I just gave it back. What's wrong with that?"
"..." The old man cleared his throat and said, "When she looked at you, she was looking down on you. When you looked at her... it meant something else."
"Something else, what does it mean?" Mu Anxiao felt extremely wronged at this moment.
The old man: "You figure it out yourself."
"I..." Mu Anxiao, following the old man's words, lowered her hand and thought carefully about how she had looked at the young girl, then asked, "Uncle, was my gaze very lewd just now?"
The old man sighed lightly, "Yes... it was quite lewd."
"..." Mu Anxiao lowered her head, speechless.
Seeing Mu Anxiao's speechless expression, the old man smiled, "However, it will probably still have some effect."
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao immediately looked up at the old man and said, "If it has an effect, I think we should give up. If I knock again, I'll probably get beaten even worse." She sighed, "It's unlucky that I can't use my magic. If my master knew I used magic to protect myself, half of my spiritual energy would be confiscated. And here, I can't use force either, hitting your grandson would surely upset you."
"..." The old man really didn't want to see his grandson beaten, so he said thoughtfully, "You don't need to knock."
"Don't knock, what do you mean?" Mu Anxiao felt that the old man wouldn't let go of the matter, so she didn't say any more.
"To tell you the truth," the old man glanced at the gate, "the young girl who hit you just now is the girl my grandson secretly likes. Whenever that girl is wronged, she goes to him."
Hearing the old man's words, Mu Anxiao couldn't help but recall the panicked expression on the young girl's face and the force of her slap. She quickly took a step back and said, "Then I really can't stay here. As soon as your grandson hears about this, he'll surely rush out in anger, and if he sees me still here, I'll be beaten."
"Three hundred taels," the old man used money to entice Mu Anxiao.
Between money and life, Mu Anxiao would definitely choose life.
Therefore, at this moment, money had clearly lost its importance in her heart.
"I don't want it anymore," she said.
"You just said you could definitely do it," the old man said. "If you retreat now, I, your elder, will truly look down on you."
"I'm a girl, and to be hit by a man... if Feng Qi Shi finds out," Mu Anxiao touched her face again, "he'll definitely laugh at me."
Contrary to Mu Anxiao's thoughts, if Feng Qi Shi knew who had hit Mu Anxiao, the outcome for that person would, predictably, not be good.
However, Mu Anxiao couldn't be bothered to think about that.
"I allow you to use force to protect yourself."
"You want me to beat up your grandson?"
"As long as I can speak to him, whatever you want to do is your business. Also," the old man said, "my grandson and that girl's situation, his wife does not know about it."
"You want me to use this to threaten him."
"If possible, you can do so."
"Then I won't hold back later," Mu Anxiao said, beginning to stretch her muscles.
The old man thought, as long as Mu Anxiao didn't leave, he would go along with whatever she wanted.
Inside the mansion.
As the old man had predicted, the young girl had stealthily arrived outside the room of the old man's grandson.
Then, ensuring no one was around, she gently knocked on the door.