Chapter 199: Idiots with Money, Come Quickly

The next day, Feng Qingquan went to Qing Shan Martial Academy and found Hu Wanqing.

He was indeed a little worried about Hu Wanqing. After all, Shi Feizhe was really terrifying.

“Are you alright after being taken away?” Feng Qingquan asked hesitantly, looking at Hu Wanqing who was gnawing on a roasted chicken leg, her mouth covered in oil.

He had already imagined countless scenarios in his mind, but he never expected Hu Wanqing to be like this.

“Good, very good! The food in Qing Shan Martial Academy is delicious!” Hu Wanqing said with a “zhi zhi zhi” sound.

“…”

Damn it, I worried for nothing for a whole day.

Feng Qingquan said with a dark face, “Then you’ll just stay here?”

“Uh-huh!” Hu Wanqing nodded like a pecking chick and said, “From now on, Qing Shan Martial Academy is my home! Academy Head Shi gives me ten taels of silver every month, and I can’t even spend it all!”

“…”

Bought off by a little bit of silver, Hu Wanqing, where is the dignity of your Fox Clan!

“They even provide food and accommodation! Such a big canteen, eat whatever you want! After working for a few years, you can even get allocated a house!” Hu Wanqing added.

Well… The Fox Clan will never be enslaved, unless they provide food and accommodation.

For a fox demon like Hu Wanqing who wanders the Jianghu, it’s simple, it’s all about survival.

Money, power, all that doesn’t matter, because as long as you live, you can increase your cultivation with age and become a Great Demon.

Great Demon is their pursuit!

Life is hard for people in the Jianghu, and naturally, it’s not easy for demons in the Jianghu either.

Feng Qingquan nodded and said, “Then I will continue to wander the Jianghu!”

“See you again in the Jianghu~~” Hu Wanqing waved her hand holding the roasted chicken leg and said.

She was in human form now.

In Qing Shan Martial Academy, human form was more convenient.

“…”

Feng Qingquan didn’t say anything, turned around and left.

He had long known that fox demons were mostly heartless.

The Human-Demon World Family’s records contained a lot of information about the personalities of demon clans. Although there were occasional oddballs among the demon clans, the overall characteristics were pretty much the same.

It’s just… Without anyone to share the burden, being nagged by Master Ma every day would be too much to bear.

The horse demon’s temper was notoriously bad!

After seeing Feng Qingquan leave, Hu Wanqing finished the roasted chicken leg in a few bites and licked the oil off her fingers. It was so delicious!

She thought of Shi Feizhe’s earnest teachings after class yesterday.

“Qing Shan Martial Academy is currently short of teaching assistants. If you have any fellow clan members, you can introduce them too. For each one you introduce, I’ll give you one tael of silver as a tea fee!”

“What if I introduce one hundred? Wouldn’t that be one hundred taels?”

“If you introduce one hundred, I’ll give you double!”

“That is…”

“One hundred would be two hundred taels!”

“It’s a deal?”

“It’s a deal!”

Hu Wanqing wiped her mouth, her eyes darting around. After a day of observation, she found that Qing Shan Martial Academy, or Jicheng, was completely different from other places.

The atmosphere here was very special.

Compared to people in other places, there was an extra… honesty? equality? Or perhaps peacefulness?

For Hu Wanqing, this was a very difficult feeling to describe because she had never felt it anywhere else.

It was worth selling… ah no, introducing her fellow clan members here.

There were naturally ways for fox clans to contact each other.

So, she licked her recently oily lips and went to the roof of the teaching building at Qing Shan Martial Academy.

Unexpectedly, there were two people on the roof of the teaching building.

A man and a woman, both students.

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“Ahem…” She deliberately cleared her throat and put on a stern face, scaring the two students away.

Watching the two students hurriedly go downstairs, she let out a “zhi zhi zhi” laugh.

Being a teacher was quite fun!

When there was no one left on the rooftop, she made a strange sound, like a bird’s chirping, yet also like a fox’s cry. The sound was very soft and melodious, but it carried far.

Every quarter of an hour, she would make this strange sound.

After two hours of this, there was still no messenger responding to her.

“That shouldn’t be right? Could it be that the messengers aren’t working?” She was a little puzzled.

“Or, I haven’t summoned a messenger for a long time, and the method is wrong?” She pondered for a while and tried again.

After another hour, she finally waited for the messenger.

A particularly large crow flew from the sky and landed in front of Hu Wanqing. It opened its mouth and said, “Five taels for a message, four taels for a verbal message, no poor bastards!”

“Wasn’t it two taels for a message and free for a verbal message before?” Hu Wanqing said.

“What era’s prices are you talking about! We messengers also need to live. Some messages require flying across half of the Nine Provinces, it’s very tiring, okay!” The crow croaked a bunch of words.

Hearing this price, Hu Wanqing hesitated a little.

What if her fellow villagers didn’t come, wouldn’t she be at a loss?

Sending messages was too expensive!

“Hurry up! Are you sending or not, if not I’m flying away!” The crow urged, “My time is very valuable!”

Seeing that the crow was about to fly away, Hu Wanqing gritted her teeth and said, “Send! Of course, send it! Send it to my hometown, Qingqiu!”

“Qingqiu? Oh my god, that’s so far!” The crow felt it was a bit far and didn’t really want to send it. It said, “You find another bird, I don’t go in that direction.”

“Don’t!” Hu Wanqing grabbed the crow and said, “Don’t you think I don’t know that you Black Birds are all the same? You dislike this and that, you only want to send messages that pay more and travel shorter distances! If you don’t want to send it, do you think others want to?”

“Let me go! Let me go!” The crow was held by Hu Wanqing, croaking and squawking, “Do you want to kill me? If you kill me, no one in the world will send messages for you anymore!”

“Just send it to Qingqiu!” Hu Wanqing let go of the crow and said.

“Money!” The crow unhappily stretched out its left wing.

Hu Wanqing took a piece of silver and placed it on the wing.

“Four taels of silver? What verbal message do you want to send? Let me tell you first, I can’t remember anything too long!” The crow looked at the four taels of silver with disdain, then swallowed it in one gulp.

“I’m in Jicheng, the people here are very good, there’s a lot of money and delicious food, they even provide food and accommodation, you guys come quickly!” Hu Wanqing said.

“Too long, can’t remember!” The crow turned its head and said.

“What, it’s just an ordinary sentence.” Hu Wanqing said.

“Too long, can’t remember!” The crow still had that “dead pig not afraid of boiling water” look.

Damn it, if you weren’t a messenger, I’d bite you to death!

Hu Wanqing was so angry that her teeth itched. After thinking for a while, she said, “Jicheng idiots with money, come quickly!”

“Oh?” The crow nodded and repeated, “Jicheng idiots with money, come quickly!”

“Yes!” Hu Wanqing said.

“Got it!” The crow flapped its wings and took off, drawing a beautiful arc in the air, leaving behind a sentence, “For sending messages, choose Black Bird. Black Bird Express, worry-free life!”

Worry-free my ass!

Hu Wanqing cursed in her heart, my silver!

That was the advance payment Shi Feizhe gave her yesterday after class.

It was this act of paying in advance that won over Hu Wanqing’s heart.

Now the silver she just got was gone after only one day.

Life as a fox was truly difficult, sob sob sob…

Old Demon Shi treats people with sincerity!