"Daughter, where did you pick up this little thing?"
"What's wrong?"
"What's wrong? Do you know how much it just ate?"
"Mom, it's just eating a little sothing. Our family is wealthy in Qingyun City—surely we can afford a little food. If Dad heard you say this, he'd definitely scold you for being petty!!" The young miss still didn't know the severity of the situation and thought it had eaten at most a bit more, but not too much.
"If your father were here, he'd imdiately slaughter this little monster beast! Do you know how much it just ate?" the mother said angrily.
"How much?" Seeing her mother's expression, the young miss seed to realize the seriousness of the problem and began to pay attention.
"It has already eaten our entire household's food supply for a month! If I hadn't discovered it early, it could have eaten everything here!!"
"What?! Impossible!"
"It's all because of you, you little girl, randomly picking up things and throwing them in the kitchen!"
"..."
...
"Chi Chi, you glutton, finally willing to co back?"
"Chi~Chi~~"
That evening, Xiaoyao noticed Chi Chi looked very satisfied and knew that Chi Chi must have encountered a wealthy family today!!
...
Back to the present, Xiaoyao drove the ox cart back to the Mo family estate, entering under everyone's surprised gazes.
Of course, everyone's surprised looks weren't directed at him, Xiaoyao, but at the Mo family's Young Miss Mo Yu beside him. People hadn't expected the Young Miss to return so early.
They weren't surprised that the Young Miss ca back on an ox cart—they weren't strange about that because they all knew the Young Miss was capable of doing anything.
They were just puzzled that the Young Miss, who usually didn't return ho until evening, would co back so soon after noon.
"Xiaoyao, the Great Master has already agreed. You can go to the pharmacy to get the dicine. Oh, Xiao Yu, didn't you go out today?" When the Second Madam saw Xiaoyao and the Young Miss together, she was sowhat puzzled but didn't pay much attention, just asking casually.
"Then I'll go get the dicine. You two chat!" Xiaoyao imdiately prepared to get the dicine, looking very enthusiastic.
"Kid, I want to go with you. Don't be hasty!!" The Young Miss looked at Xiaoyao, the corners of her mouth showing an "I understand" smile. You kid, I bet you have so sche.
Earlier, when the Young Miss arrived here, she saw the Third Young Master suffering inside. She felt his earnest persistence and also felt uncomfortable all over.
She had heard of this thod of improvent—it was very hard work. If it were her, she absolutely wouldn't do it, so she had no intention of staying longer and wanted to leave with Xiaoyao.
"??" The Second Madam looked at the Young Miss sowhat strangely, feeling that the Young Miss and this little servant Xiaoyao seed to be getting rather close, but she wasn't too concerned.
First, the Young Miss wasn't her daughter. Second, she was currently concerned about her suffering son.
"Xiaoyao, how much did you spend on this dicine? Is there enough left?" The Second Madam asked proactively this ti.
"It's enough. The pharmacy gave us a 10% discount, so there's money left over. The list and remaining money are there—please check." Xiaoyao said.
10% discount? Kid, you clearly bought it at 20% off, and you've skimd off that 10% profit!!
"Well done! The Huang family pharmacy rarely gives 10% discounts! Keep the remaining money as a reward." The Second Madam said generously.
"Thank you, Second Madam!!"
After thanking her, Xiaoyao grabbed the reward money at lightning speed and then disappeared.
As a servant, not wanting rewards would definitely be abnormal!! Xiaoyao had just missed out before—it wasn't that he didn't want them...
Damn, this kid even got a reward! But if I didn't know about his profit-skimming, I'd think this reward was deserved!! The Young Miss followed Xiaoyao, finding him increasingly interesting.
"Kid, weren't you afraid I'd expose you just now?" After they'd gone far away, the Young Miss patted Xiaoyao's shoulder and said.
"Not afraid!" Xiaoyao shook his head.
"Why not afraid? Logically, after being discovered, you should have stated the real price, yet you still said you got it at 10% off!" The Young Miss was puzzled by this.
As she said, normal people after being caught would definitely be honest and wouldn't continue skimming profits, at least not this ti, but Xiaoyao remained the sa.
This left the Young Miss very confused.
"Why state the real price? Since you've already discovered it, even if I stated the real price, it wouldn't matter if you wanted to tell." Xiaoyao said indifferently.
"...You kid are interesting. Finders share—you need to split this with ." The Young Miss said with a grin, shalessly wanting to share the spoils.
"Fine!" Xiaoyao nodded, agreeing very readily.
Indeed, finders share. When discovered by others, they'd always share a bit. He had received quite a few such shares from others, and since he was very secretive, this seed to be the first ti he was "sharing spoils" with soone.
"...Why did you agree so readily? Is there so other sche..." The Young Miss looked at Xiaoyao suspiciously.
"I say, young lady, 50-50 split—you can calculate how much yourself." Xiaoyao said irritably, taking out the silver to share with the Young Miss, splitting it 50-50. He calculated very precisely without any deviation.
This wasn't because the target was the Young Miss—even with others, he'd treat them the sa way. Actually, he skimd profits simply because he wanted to skim profits.
If he really cared about the Young Miss's status, then he wouldn't split 50-50 but would give the Young Miss more.
"But why do I feel you have bad intentions?" The Young Miss straightforwardly pocketed the silver—she hadn't thought about whether she should take this money.
"..." Xiaoyao was silent for a while, then continued walking. Could he answer this question?
Pretend, pretend not to hear!!
"Hey, you kid definitely have so unspeakable dirty business!!" Seeing Xiaoyao not speaking, the Young Miss felt there must be sothing. Don't forget, her purpose was to see what Xiaoyao was up to.
If she discovered Xiaoyao had sothing going on, she would definitely—
Ignore it!!
Right, she wouldn't care what Xiaoyao did. She just wanted to know what Xiaoyao was doing—it was that simple!
"...Well, Young Miss, I can secretly tell you there is a little sche here. Since you know, we'll split this matter equally too." Xiaoyao didn't struggle much and directly admitted to the Young Miss, seeming to want to drag her into the water.
"I knew you had a sche!! Haha, tell what it is. Maybe this young lady will pretend not to see." The Young Miss looked victorious, but she didn't seem to think about wanting anything.
"Alright, don't talk so loudly, or everyone in the world will know!!" Xiaoyao imdiately stopped the Young Miss's excited state, because at this mont, many people were curiously looking at him and the Young Miss.
Walking here with the Young Miss was very ostentatious, and this Young Miss was so strange.
"Hehe, got it! What are you all looking at? What's so interesting!!" While saying she understood, the Young Miss shouted loudly, making everyone pay even more attention to them, though no one dared look directly at them.
"..."
Xiaoyao didn't want to say more and quickened his pace toward the pharmacy to get dicine, then imdiately returned to prepare the Third Young Master's dicinal bath. Now the Young Miss was getting confused.
"Kid, aren't you taking these dicinal materials?" The Young Miss saw that after Xiaoyao's distribution, only a few scattered bits of dicinal materials remained. Could this bit count as a sche? This was completely normal, even less than normal.
The Young Miss had always thought Xiaoyao wanted to take these dicinal materials and deliberately over-reported the materials, but she now realized she might be wrong.
"What? No, these are prepared for the Third Young Master!" Xiaoyao shook his head.
"So there's no surplus?" The Young Miss frowned and asked.
"No, these are all precisely calculated—there won't be much waste!" Xiaoyao continued shaking his head, crushing the Young Miss's last hope.
"Damn, then where exactly is your sche?" The Young Miss was angry. Was this kid playing with her?
"This... you'll know if you keep watching!!" Xiaoyao was silent for a while, then continued working. He processed the distributed dicinal materials through various procedures—grinding, cutting, or packaging—organizing the materials before putting them in the dicine vat to begin brewing.
"Done!!"
"..."
The Young Miss had been watching from the side, but she really couldn't see any sche.
"What exactly did you take?"
"These!" Xiaoyao pointed at so things.
"Damn, are you ssing with , kid?!" The Young Miss saw clearly what Xiaoyao pointed at and got a bit angry. This kid was obviously ssing with her.
"No!" Xiaoyao answered very seriously.
"What are these? They're just so dicine dregs! This bit is what you called a sche!!" The Young Miss asked irritably.
"Strictly speaking, these aren't dicine dregs but dicinal material scraps. Though they're small, they still have effects!! dicine dregs are those, those that have been used..."
"Get lost! No need to explain these to —this young lady isn't stupid!!" The Young Miss interrupted Xiaoyao's words. "What use are these to you? These are just garbage."
"Young Miss, I just said these still have effects! Though it's just this little bit now, this is only once. If there are ten tis, twenty tis, then it won't be little—it can let refine more pills." Xiaoyao said very seriously.
"..." The Young Miss fell silent. She seed to understand Xiaoyao's aning.
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