165 A Gentleman Loves Money and Marries the Proper Way (1/2)
”Hey, why do you look as if you’re constipating? Did you eat too much kaolin?”
At Ru Family Inn on the Spirit Creek Town under the Spirit Sword Mountain, the Lady Boss gave such a warm welcome.
The gloomy-faced customer also sensibly replied, ”Idiot, out of the way.”
The Lady Boss immediately became inexplicably surprised. ”Sir, did you just say human words? I don’t understand that at all.”
The guest was too lazy to reply to her nonsensical talk, so he just walked straight to the counter and put out nine coins. ”Two bowls of wine, a pack of aniseed-flavored beans… plus a bowl of braised pork, a bowl of spicy soup, a tray of steamed dumplings, and…”
”Hey, your money is just nine wen!”
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After that raucous shout and scream, before long, the table was filled with all kinds of dishes. Although most were just simple dishes, with Lady Boss’s culinary skill, all of them were tasty.
”Come on, tell me why your face is so stern like that. It’s like you’ve just been raped by someone.”
”Cough.” Wang Lu drank a mouthful of wine and said, ”The semi-final is over.”
”Oh, win or lose?”
Wang Lu sneered, ”What a stupid question. With my IQ and means, how could I lose?”
”... Although I always think there must be a problem with the justification of your victory, let’s put that aside first. Since you’ve won, what is there to worry about?”
”The final will be a bit of a hassle.” Wang Lu calmly said, ”Although from the beginning I have correctly guessed that Liu Li would win, I really didn’t expect she would be this powerful.”
Lady Boss said with a nonchalant smile, ”Of course she’s formidable. Not only did she start cultivating earlier than you, she doesn’t have a pain-in-the-ass spirit root like you. She also receives proper training as the Sect’s Successor Disciple, so it’d be strange if she’s not stronger than you. In any case, you’ve already stumbled your way into the final, so even if you lose, no one can say anything about you.”
”There’s so much at stake here, I have no way to retreat.”
The Lady Boss was curious. ”What do you mean by much at stake?”
”You also know that in this competition, outwardly, it is the contention between the Spirit Sword Sect and the Ten Thousand Arts Sect, but inwardly, this is a struggle for the lead representative. In accordance with the rules, as long as one achieves victory in the final, one can at least enjoy the authority of the lead representative disciple for ten years. Otherwise, you can only enjoy the honorary lead representative status, which is very different than the real one.”
”And then?”
”The authority of the lead representative disciple is very important to me.” Wang Lu said, ”According to the explanation of the Heavenly Sword Hall about the lead representative disciple, the lead representative disciple will have more privilege than the successor disciple; the most important one is the immunity of Master. To put it simply, the lead representative disciple is not under the control of the Master.”
The Lady Boss was extremely bright, so she immediately understood. ”Wang Wu couldn’t control you any more right?”
”She will only have the duty of a Master, without the authority of a Master. She still has to teach me, but she can’t order me around in her capacity as my Master. Isn’t that awesome?”
Lady Boss asked, ”In any case, you never even regard her as your Master, so is there a difference whether you have Master’s immunity or not?”
”Of course there’s a difference. Usually, I’m not respectful to Wang Wu because she herself doesn’t care if I respect her or not. But if I don’t act according to the rules, that old virgin Fang He will definitely punish me.”
”Em…” The Lady Boss turned even more puzzled. ”What did Wang Wu do to you? I see that her treatment of you is pretty good.”
”She’s indeed pretty good, therefore, although I don’t act like it, I really regard her as my Master. However, this kind of harmonious relationship between Master and disciple, at present, has encountered enormous trouble. Under the lure of money, Wang Wu tends to be insane.”
”The lure of money?”
Wang Lu said, ”I’ve just made a fortune, earning more than forty million spirit stones, therefore…”
”Wtf! More than forty million spirit stones!?” Lady Boss pounded the table in surprise. ”Big boss! We’re friends right!?”
”See, the power of money will make women crazy. Even you, Sister Ling, are not immune to this, much less my Master.” Wang Lu loudly sighed, picked up a slice of vegetable and sipped his wine. ”You can guess what cruel things she did to me.”
Lady Boss thought for a moment. ”Did she torture you?”
”Do you think I’d be afraid of torture?”
”Then… she threatened you not to teach the follow-up on the heart sutra of the Non-Phase Method?”
”Big deal, at worst, I can come up with my own. Since she can create the Non-Phase Method with her IQ, I, naturally, even more so, can also do it. She can do nothing about it.”
”Em, I can’t think of anything else. I can’t estimate how low you guys from the Non-Phase Peak would be willing to stoop to.”
Wang Lu wryly smiled. ”I also can’t estimate… She asked me to marry her!”
Puff!
The Lady Boss sprayed out the wine that just entered her mouth.
”She proposed to you!?”
”Yeah, in order to divide the property…” Wang Lu felt helpless as he continued, ”Although I have flatly refused her, she plans to use the privilege of a Master to arrange marriage. And with her personality, I’m afraid she would take advantage when I’m sleeping to defile me by force.”