31: One hundred gold coins to buy the future Dou Sheng

At this moment, a figure rushed out from a house, came before Xiao Lei, and knelt down with a thud.

Huang San’s ancestors had some power, but they had declined. Still, he recognized the Dou Qi Wings as a symbol of a Dou Wang and the alchemist robe.

Xiao Lei casually glanced at him, and finding that the other party was merely a five-star Dou Practitioner rookie, he lost interest in him.

Lowering his body, Xiao Lei quickly came to Qing Lin’s side, extended his hands, and helped her up.

“Are you alright, Little girl!”

Qing Lin was still in a daze at this time. When she reacted, she only managed to see Xiao Lei’s kind face.

“If I didn’t mishear, you just said you fired her, right?”

Xiao Lei turned his head and looked at the middle-aged woman with a forced smile. The woman was startled by Xiao Lei’s gaze and quickly said yes.

Xiao Lei received a satisfactory answer and then turned his head away.

“I imagine you have nowhere to go now, so how about I hire you as my maid? As for the wages, how about one hundred gold coins a month?”

Qing Lin still hadn’t reacted, just staring blankly at Xiao Lei.

As for the middle-aged woman, she was completely stunned.

Why did a Dou Wang expert suddenly appear? And why would this Dou Wang expert take Qing Lin as his maid?

These people were all shrewd, not as naive as Qing Lin.

“To directly give one hundred gold coins a month, he truly lives up to being a Dou Wang expert!”

The middle-aged woman gritted her teeth, but more than envying Qing Lin’s sudden stroke of good Luck, she was more worried that Qing Lin would retaliate against them in the future.

After all, this newcomer was a Dou Wang. As long as Qing Lin whispered a few words in his ear, there would be plenty of people to deal with them.

“Escape, we must escape! As soon as Dou Wang adult leaves, we must flee immediately!”

After weighing it in her heart, the middle-aged woman could only come up with such a plan. As for now, she dared not utter a single sound, let alone escape.

Xiao Lei, however, was very patient. He took out fifty gold coins from his storage ring.

“How about this, I’ll give you fifty gold coins first?”

The gold coins were heavy, and Qing Lin’s mind was elsewhere, so she failed to catch the gold coins in Xiao Lei’s hand.

Bang!

Clatter!

The entire bag of gold coins fell to the ground, rolling in all directions.

At this, Qing Lin finally came back to her senses and hurriedly squatted down to pick up the scattered gold coins.

“No! No need… Qing Lin isn’t worth that much money. As long as Qing Lin can have a meal, that’s enough! Wages… wages can be waived, as long as Qing Lin isn’t fired.”

Qing Lin quickly picked up the gold coins and then handed them to Xiao Lei.

Xiao Lei did not take the gold coins but bent down and said softly.

“Let me ask you a question: are you willing to be my maid, and are you willing to leave Stone Desert City with me to explore the continent?”

After thinking for a moment, Xiao Lei added, “As for wages, I’ll give you one hundred gold coins a month to start, and I’ll add more later. You won’t lack food, and I won’t fire you! How about it?”

As he spoke, Xiao Lei activated his Dou Qi, lifting all the gold coins from the ground and then stacking them in Qing Lin’s hand.

Leave Stone Desert City? Explore the continent!

This was something Qing Lin had never thought of. She was born here, grew up here, and she once thought she would, like the old people here, be buried here… perhaps dying of old age!

Or perhaps she would starve to death on the streets when no one hired her for work anymore… Qing Lin had never thought of leaving!

Similarly, she had never imagined that one day someone would hire her for a hundred gold coins.

For a long, long time!

Qing Lin struggled, dazed, and seemed to be recalling… Tears unknowingly flowed from her eyes, falling onto the stone slabs beneath her feet, only to be quickly evaporated by the desert’s high temperature.

Qing Lin hadn’t cried for a long time… Perhaps crying had never been useful!

At this moment, Qing Lin seemed to have returned to her childhood; she had found her tears again.

“When I was little, my mother often told me that everyone can actually choose whether or not to live this life before they are born. I didn’t believe it when I was little, after all, why would anyone choose to live such a poor and arduous life…”

It wasn’t until she met Xiao Lei that Qing Lin finally remembered this saying. She thought: perhaps her mother was right.

Xiao Lei heard this and knew the matter was settled. He slowly raised his hand and gently stroked Qing Lin’s hair.

“Young Master, Qing Lin is willing!”

Qing Lin didn’t know what she was about to face. She knew nothing about Xiao Lei. She only felt her beating heart… Her heart was telling her what to do.

“Good!”

Receiving an affirmative answer, Xiao Lei was very happy. This Little girl’s talent was very good.

In the original work, Qing Lin going to the Heavenly Serpent Mansion was Xiao Yan’s helpless move, and it was also considered the best place for Qing Lin at the time, given she would become a Saintess.

But Xiao Lei, as someone who knew a lot of information, considered things differently.

Perhaps Qing Lin had an even better destination… but this still required him to plan and also required him to first possess sufficient strength.

Xiao Lei was in a great hurry, as he still needed to fly back to the Magical Beast Mountain Range quickly. Since Qing Lin had already agreed to leave, Xiao Lei didn’t hesitate at all. He picked up Qing Lin, spread his Purple Cloud Wings, and soared into the sky.

Only Qing Lin’s terrified shouts were left in mid-air!

After a long time, the middle-aged woman and the man dared to raise their heads.

Then both of them tacitly shouted, “Hurry, pack up, quick!”

Qing Lin’s matter was naturally not just one person’s idea; both of them were involved, and both were worried that Qing Lin would find a way to retaliate against them.

However, just as the two of them had this thought and were about to grab their luggage and run, a conversation was heard at the courtyard gate.

“Boss, why did you come personally? This is just a Dou Practitioner; our brothers can finish him off in an instant!”

Hearing this, both of them went weak in the knees and sat down on the stone slab with a thud.

“Bang!”

With a dull thud, the already old courtyard gate was kicked open.

What met their eyes was a team of fierce-looking mercenaries.

Sha Luo pulled out the long saber from his waist, rubbed his finger on the blade twice, and slowly walked towards the two.

“You two are quite something!”

The two were stunned, clearly not knowing why Sha Luo, the leader of the Sand Mercenary Group, would come in person, nor what his words meant.

“You two wastes are actually worth a second-grade Medicinal Pill. Tell me how you offended that esteemed Alchemist adult, and I might consider leaving you a complete corpse!”

As he spoke, Sha Luo’s long saber was already pressed against the middle-aged woman’s neck.

Just now, someone had assigned a task to the Sand Mercenary Group at the Mercenary Headquarters, and the commission was a second-grade Qi Recovery Pill.

Only an Alchemist would be so generous, directly giving a Medicinal Pill. The mercenaries of the Sand Mercenary Group immediately accepted the task, and Sha Luo, upon learning of it, rushed over personally.

“Commander Sha, we really don’t know when we offended any Alchemist! Is there…”

The voice stopped abruptly. Sha Luo didn’t waste any words and acted very swiftly.

Then, Sha Luo turned his saber to the man’s head.

The man saw his wife killed in front of him like a chicken, and his face instantly turned ashen. He kowtowed like pounding garlic, explaining in detail his guess that the other party acted because of Qing Lin.

“So that’s how it is. Alright, you can go find your woman!”

The next moment, another head fell to the ground.

“So that’s how it is. I didn’t expect it was for that Little girl!”

Qing Lin, as a human-snake hybrid, was almost universally known in Stone Desert City.

Sha Luo just couldn’t figure out why an Alchemist would act on her behalf.

“Perhaps it’s a novel hunt; who knows what these important figures are thinking!”

Sha Luo’s personal visit was certainly not because he was diligent, but because he wanted to see if he could find an opportunity to get in touch with Xiao Lei.

Upon learning that Xiao Lei had already left and that the two knew no information about him, Sha Luo didn’t waste any more words.

Meanwhile, Xiao Lei had already reunited with Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Yi Xian looked at the Little girl in front of her and was immediately somewhat… how could he bring back another girl after only being out for a few hours!

This was even faster than the speed at which he ‘abducted’ her!

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