253: Chapter 51 The Size of the Bowl Determines How Much Rice You Eat 253: Chapter 51 The Size of the Bowl Determines How Much Rice You Eat Before leaving the police station, Veronica approached Wang Yunxiao and handed him a box containing a string of jet-black bone prayer beads.
“Found on the body of that monk.
Do you want it?”
Veronica’s face revealed a rcenary smile, “Thirty bucks for you, but if you want it blessed, forty-five.”
The monk had been killed by her, so naturally, any loot from his body was hers.
Wang Yunxiao had no objections to this.
Only, he didn’t have the spare cash.
“I’m not a monk.
What do I need this for?”
Wang Yunxiao’s face remained expressionless as he declined, even though his heart was secretly aching.
“How about this then?”
Veronica then pulled out a bullet with her other hand.
Although it was a small-caliber pistol round, the casing was still engraved with dense text.
“Five dollars a bullet.
I know it’s expensive, but there’s a reason for the price.
They are all handmade, requiring a lot of manpower and ti, and you’ve seen the effect they have.
Don’t you want to buy one for ergencies?”
Sister, I feel like your current deanor is deviating slightly from your faith.
Wang Yunxiao was indeed tempted, but the thickness of his wallet in reality prevented him from following his heart’s desire.
Currently, he had only the overti pay issued by the Special Service Bureau, and the police station’s salary hadn’t been settled yet!
“Ah, right, actually, if you go to Cui Xiaoying, it might be cheaper.”
Veronica slapped her forehead as if she had just rembered sothing, “Qianjin Church’s exclusive Demon-Breaking Bullets will never be circulated on the market.
The very few nuns skilled in this technique are protected by us.
If Sister Cui Xiaoying weren’t so young—our matrons believe she has a lot of potentials to advance—it would have been absolutely impossible for her to leave the Church.
You understand, right?”
It was at this mont Wang Yunxiao understood the intention behind Veronica’s words to Cui Xiaoying that day at the barbecue.
Ideals are ideals, reality is reality.
The necessity for Cui Xiaoying and her daughter to sustain their livelihood was the most realistic issue.
Veronica intended to use this thod to introduce them to a business they could do even within the school’s environnt.
“Okay, I get it.
I’ll go ask for Cui Xiaoying’s help when it’s ti.”
Wang Yunxiao nodded and agreed.
Seeing his eager agreent, Veronica decided to push her luck further, “Actually, Sister Cui Xiaoying herself is quite a bargain.
Not only is she beautiful with a good personality, she’s also capable of doing housework and skilled in this craft.
Don’t you consider lending her more help?”
Help her into bed?
As a man, Wang Yunxiao couldn’t possibly be unmoved.
As Veronica had said, compared to a distant and inaccessible rich young lady, a young and beautiful widow with a gentle disposition, complete with additional DLC, obviously seed to be a better value for money.
“We’ll talk about that later.”
He might be tempted, but Wang Yunxiao had no intention of taking advantage of soone’s vulnerable situation.
If he really fancied any girl, he would simply launch a direct attack.
He wasn’t soone who couldn’t afford to play by the rules.
There was absolutely no need to bully a widow and her orphaned child.
Yet Veronica wasn’t ready to give up so easily and continued to tempt him, “If you invite Cui Xiaoying out for dinner tonight, I can also offer you a valuable piece of information for free.”
“Thanks, but no thanks!”
Wang Yunxiao thought to himself, are you not content until you’ve emptied the last couple of coins in my pocket?
After finally getting rid of Veronica’s persistence, he reached the main entrance of the police station, only to hear Old Master He’s teasing voice, “Kid, I heard the monk gave you a beating?”
Wang Yunxiao replied helplessly, “Are you just sitting at the door waiting to make fun of instead of taking a nap inside during the day?”
“Yeah!”
Old Master He nodded without hesitation in admission, “My disciple from Swallow Sect was beaten by a Foreign Monk who practices Golden Bell Shield.
If this news gets out, I’m afraid the spirit of our ancestral founder wouldn’t be able to keep still in his coffin and would get up in the middle of the night to have a chat with you.”
“I wasn’t prepared…”
“You’re not unprepared, you just don’t have the skill.”
Old Master He imdiately exposed Wang Yunxiao’s hypocritical facade, “I originally thought you had so foundation in martial arts because of the Breathing thod, but it turns out you’re truly clueless; you haven’t practiced anything at all and yet you go to the front line to compete head-on with others?”
Wang Yunxiao was also helpless, thinking, I want to train, but you’ve got to give ti to develop.
I’m running around all day with all sorts of ssy things, my legs have gotten thinner from all the running.
Who can I talk to about this?
“Then stop reading your damn books.”
“Why should I punish myself because of others doing bad things?”
Wang Yunxiao promptly refused Old Master He’s insinuating suggestion.
Just because I can’t beat a Foreign Monk, should I stop reading?
That would be insane!
“You, you’re just too proud.
Young and always trying to be the best.”
Old Master He chuckled, “Haven’t you heard the saying, ‘The squeaky wheel gets the grease’?
You got beaten up and you don’t go ho to your parents?”
Wang Yunxiao thought it over carefully and found it made sense.
Who are my parents?
Qin Xiangdong certainly isn’t; he’s the boss who pays my salary.
“Today I encountered a monk who practices Golden Bell Shield, and I couldn’t beat him…”
After returning to the school, Wang Yunxiao imdiately sought out Nurse Liu to pour out his troubles.
Since the students were all in the hospital getting IV drips, the evening small classes naturally were suspended, and Nurse Liu returned to her forr lifestyle of not stepping out the front gate nor straying from the second door.
“The advantage of the Garrison Soldiers lies in collective combat.
You gave up this advantage, so is it strange that you can’t beat soone?”
Nurse Liu put down her dical book and looked at Wang Yunxiao with cold eyes.
“Always wanting to get involved in everything, do you think the earth wouldn’t keep spinning without you?”
Wang Yunxiao forced a laugh, “I just happened to co across this situation.
I couldn’t just ignore it, could I?”
“You can only take on responsibilities if you have the capacity; without it, you’ll just beco a joke.”
Nurse Liu warned Wang Yunxiao with a serious tone.
“If you really like ddling so much, you could consider cultivating both the Dharma Gate of Garrison Soldiers and the Heretical Path of a Ranger.
But the problem is, neither the school nor I personally have any reason to teach you these things.
Do you understand?”
Wang Yunxiao certainly understood.
He wasn’t any more noble than Jiang Yinyin in this regard.
The school had already laid out a path for his future developnt; it was he who wasn’t satisfied with his current situation and wanted even more.
There’s no such thing as a free lunch in this world.
It’s not like your own parents are teaching you, where you can just learn whatever’s taught and call it a day, and yet you think you can pick and choose whatever you want to learn?
You think this is a buffet!
“But if you’re sincere about wanting to learn, I can offer you a chance to obtain a Cultivation thod.”
Nurse Liu’s tone shifted and her gaze beca icy cold.
“The gate opens on the fifteenth of this month, and I could send you to a particularly dangerous Outer Dinsion.
The risks and rewards are there together.
You wouldn’t last long there on your own without a team, but if you took the whole team with you, they would face the sa risks as you.
It’s your decision if you want to go or not.”
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