Chapter 4: Xiao Family Market

"Brother Xiao Yan, are you up? Xun Er made breakfast for you." A sweet voice sounded outside the door.

Hearing that Xun Er had come, Xiao Yan immediately sat up from the bed, put on his clothes, walked to the door, opened it, and saw Xun Er standing at the door with a food box in her hand, looking at him with a smile.

"You silly girl, why did you make breakfast for me again? Didn't I tell you not to do it in the future? Come in!" Xiao Yan shook his head and said helplessly.

Every time this girl sent him food so early, Xiao Yan was terrified. He was really afraid of being seen by Gu Yuan, who would come over and slap him to death. He didn't even need a slap, just a sneeze or a cough would probably be enough to make him shattered to pieces.

"Brother Xiao Yan, eat quickly! It won't be good if it gets cold!" Xun Er walked into the room with a smile, opened the food box, took out a few dishes she had carefully made, and placed them on the table.

Looking at Xiao Xun'er, who was full of expectation, Xiao Yan had no choice but to pick up his chopsticks and eat, looking around while eating to see if there were any spatial fluctuations. He finished his breakfast with fear and trepidation and told Xun Er not to send it again next time.

"Xun Er, do you have any money on you?" Xiao Yan scratched his head and said quite embarrassedly. Those medicinal materials cost a lot of gold coins, and with his savings, he could probably only buy a monster core!

"Brother Xiao Yan, do you need money?" Seeing Xiao Yan's rather embarrassed appearance, Xun Er pursed her lips and laughed.

Looking at Xiao Yan, whose face was a bit tired, Xiao Xun'er secretly pursed her lips and smiled, seeming to like Xiao Yan's appearance very much. However, seeing that Xiao Yan was a bit hard-working, Xun Er directly took off the things on Xiao Yan and put them into the storage ring.

"Is Brother Xiao Yan going to the street to buy things later? Can I go with you?" Xun Er looked at Xiao Yan with expectation.

Wutan City was worthy of being one of the large cities in the Gama Empire. Because it relied on the Magical Beast Mountain Range, it was very popular. On the street, people came and went, and the shouting was constant. Most of them were mercenaries, some were selling monster cores obtained from hunting magical beasts in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and some were specifically picking herbs from the Magical Beast Mountain Range and bringing them here to sell.

As soon as Xiao Xun'er arrived on the street, she was like being injected with chicken blood, excited. She pulled Xiao Yan to enter this shop to buy clothes, and then entered another shop selling delicious food to buy delicious and fun things. Looking at her posture, she wanted to visit the entire Wutan City.

"Enough! Enough! It only costs a few thousand gold coins." Xiao Yan looked at the purple gold card in his hand, she was really a little rich woman. Such a purple gold card could only be held by someone at the Dou Ling level.

"Of course you can, with a beauty accompanying, I am more than happy." Xiao Yan said with a smile.

"Hehe, Young Master Jia Lie Ao, you are already twenty, and I am not even an adult yet! You actually asked me to duel with you, don't you feel ashamed?" Xiao Yan said helplessly.

"Then I won't be polite." Xiao Yan put the purple gold card into his arms, feeling quite emotional in his heart: "Living off a woman is really delicious! But if my strength doesn't improve, I won't be able to eat this kind of food for long."

Looking at the actions of the group of people on the opposite side, Xiao Yan raised his eyebrows, a playful look appeared on his small, youthful face, and he turned his head slightly to whistle toward a place in the market.

After visiting several shops in a row, eating a lot of delicious food, and buying a lot of fun things, Xiao Yan also had some things in his hands and on his body.

"Third Young Master, my name is Pei En, and I am the guard captain personally appointed by the Clan Head to specifically protect the safety of the market. Has something happened?" After coming behind Xiao Yan, the captain first glanced at Jia Lie Ao and the others opposite, and then asked with a respectful smile.

"Hehe, Young Master Jia Lie Ao, why don't you go pick up girls and come to find my Xun Er? I tell you, she is still young, stay away from her." Xiao Yan felt unlucky when he saw that the person who came was Jia Lie Ao.

"Eh, isn't this Miss Xun Er? Hehe, I didn't expect to meet you here, it's really fate. Miss Xun Er, what do you want to buy? I can help! I know this market best."

Monster cores and medicinal materials were hot-selling products at any time, and they were indispensable things for alchemists. The pills refined by alchemists not only had healing effects but some could also improve strength, etc., so they naturally didn't worry about sales. Many people begged alchemists for help in refining pills, not hesitating to pay with their own cultivation methods and fighting techniques, so alchemists were also the most respected profession on the Dou Qi Continent.

"Haha."

With the laughter and talk of the two, they finally left the family and arrived at the street of Wutan City.

In the doubtful eyes of everyone, they saw the market guard team, led by the captain, rushing over aggressively.

Finally, it was to sell things that were not recognized from the cave mansion or accidentally picked up. Of course, it might also be that these vendors forged fake and inferior products to sell. Buying this kind of thing was purely for luck. If you were lucky, you might buy good cultivation methods and fighting techniques, but most of them were useless waste.

A large group of guards quickly surrounded Jia Lie Ao. For a moment, the atmosphere between the two sides was somewhat tense.

This was no wonder, Xiao Yan was over forty years old when adding up his two lives, and his usual words and deeds were inevitably a bit mature.

"There are hundreds of thousands of gold coins in this card? Is that enough?" Xiao Xun'er's fair little hand reached behind her back, her fingers flicked lightly, and a five-pattern purple gold card appeared at her fingertips.

Gritting his teeth viciously, Jia Lie Ao looked at the group of guards standing behind him, knowing that he had no chance to teach Xiao Yan a lesson today. He had to forcibly suppress the anger in his heart, snorted coldly, waved his palm, and took his men to squeeze through the crowd.

With the things on his body gone, Xiao Yan finally felt much more relaxed. Looking at the storage ring on Xun Er's hand, he estimated that it was also a high-end product.

Entering the depths of the market, he really saw the things he needed. Accompanied by Xiao Xun'er, he began to pick and choose.

Unfortunately, after shopping for most of the day, he only got enough for five portions of medicinal materials. Although there were only five portions, it was enough, after all, one portion could be used for nearly a month.

"Did I let you go? How dare you say I'm a dog?" Jia Lie Ao ordered his men to directly surround the two, obviously not intending to let it go.

The two turned around and talked and laughed as they walked outside the family. When the clansmen saw Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er together, they didn't feel surprised, because these two often went out shopping together, they just sighed at the unfairness of fate, that a swan would be willing to be with a toad.

Seeing Xun Er like this, Jia Lie Ao felt that his heart had been taken away. However, seeing Xiao Yan beside him, he frowned and mocked: "How many stages is the young master testing Dou Qi this year? It won't be only Stage Three, right? Ha! Ha! Ha!" The followers who came with him also followed and laughed loudly.

The sky was getting dark, and the sun was about to set. Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er were both a bit tired from shopping and wanted to go back. But they found that the market suddenly quieted down, and there were fewer people, and they felt puzzled.

The things sold in the depths of the market were much more precious than those outside, so the customers who could come here to buy had some strength in Wutan City.

The youth was about twenty years old, and his appearance was quite handsome, but his small face was slightly pale.

"As long as you are happy!" Xiao Yan was a bit tired, accompanying a woman shopping was really tiring!

"Really a little rich woman!"

"Hehe, Xun Er, if you were bitten by a dog, would you bite back? Just let him go crazy there, don't pay attention to him, let's go." Xiao Yan narrowed his eyes and said indifferently.

Seeing Brother Xiao Yan being insulted, Xun Er's small face turned red with anger, and she wanted to directly teach them a lesson. But just as she took a step, she felt her small hand being held.

Xiao Xun'er held a candied hawthorn in her hand, turned around on the spot, and said with a smile: "Xun Er is really happy today!"

"Brother Xiao Yan! Whatever you need to buy, Xun Er will accompany you to buy it. Xun Er only cared about herself and forgot about Brother Xiao Yan." Holding Xiao Yan's arm, her small chest rubbed against him and she said with a smile.

Jia Lie Ao looked at Pei En with some fear, and then turned to Xiao Yan and sneered: "Do you only know how to rely on family power? Can you have a duel between men?"

Xiao Yan turned his head with a smile, looked at Jia Lie Ao, whose face was a bit ugly, and said casually: "Young Master Jia Lie Ao, are you planning to do it in my Xiao Family's market?"

The two turned around and saw a crowd of people rushing over, surrounding a luxuriously dressed youth like stars surrounding the moon.

The mocking gazes around were like a basin of cold water, making Jia Lie Ao sober up a bit, and he realized that the person in front of him was still a youth.

"Uh, I need some money to buy medicinal materials." Xiao Yan said quite embarrassedly.

Feeling the softness coming from his arm, Xiao Yan's small mouth hooked into a strange arc, touched his nose and said: "Let's walk in the depths of the market! That's where the things I need are."

"Brother Xiao Yan, don't stop me, let me teach them a lesson." Xun Er said angrily.

Others in the market saw that Jia Lie Ao actually wanted to duel with a youth who was still wet behind the ears, and they all shook their heads and laughed with disdain.

A clear laugh suddenly came from behind the two.

"Brother Xiao Yan, just take it all! You will definitely need it for training in the future." Xun Er said with a full face of smiles.

Xun Er heard Xiao Yan say that she was from his family, and a blush appeared on her cheeks. However, hearing Xiao Yan say that she was small, she wrinkled her pretty nose and whispered: "Xun Er is not small anymore!"

"Are we just going to let him go like this?" Xun Er said indignantly.

"Hehe, to teach him a lesson, of course, I have to do it myself. I think this day shouldn't be too far away." Looking at the departing Jia Lie Ao, Xiao Yan narrowed his eyes and said with a cold smile.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 5 =====