Two hundred and ten Gold Coins was a huge sum to Li Mu Yang.
According to his parents' former income, after working hard for a whole year, they would have had only a few dozen Gold Coins left over. Leaving aside his family's former living conditions, even after he had placed first in the Literary Examination and received a large reward, he still wasn't extravagant enough to casually throw away more than two hundred Gold Coins.
That was also why Li Mu Yang had stayed behind this search party and refused to leave.
Those students needed to find their Gold Coins. Otherwise, even if they reached the academy, they would have trouble surviving.
Li Mu Yang also needed to find those Gold Coins. That money had been earned through his own hard work, and his parents had carefully hidden it away because they were worried he would suffer.
They had prepared it so that Li Mu Yang could eat meat, wear new clothes, and afford to treat his classmates and friends to food and wine without being too poor to save face and becoming a laughingstock. Luo Qi had even hinted that, once they reached the capital, he absolutely had to treat Cui Xiaoxin to a meal. After all, they were classmates, and Cui Xiaoxin had played an indispensable role in Li Mu Yang placing first in the Literary Examination.
Li Mu Yang thought so too—if he had the chance, he should treat Cui Xiaoxin to a meal to express his gratitude.
Of course, that was all.
Provided Cui Xiaoxin didn't refuse.
Compared with the importance of these Gold Coins, being cursed a few times by this handsome but arrogant fellow, who looked at them as though they were a pile of dog excrement, was actually not that important.
Although