They All Came to Borrow Money

Now that Ma Feifei has more authority, he's more free to hire employees. Plus, Liu Ying is one of the nine Book-holding woman Ma Feifei has planned for, so it's not inappropriate to make her a Bookstore employee.

"Thank you so much, shopkeeper!" Zhang Yunji said excitedly as he left.

After the employee benefits were distributed two days ago, which propelled Zhang Yunji to Transcendent to Saint state, his loyalty to the Mysterious Bookstore had reached its maximum. Not to mention Liu Ying, if it weren't for his wife Baili Chuxue being pregnant, Zhang Yunji would have even brought her into the Bookstore.

By then, Zhang Yunji's entire family had become Bookstore employees, bringing blessings to the whole Zhang Clan —it couldn't be more wonderful.

Ma Feifei, of course, had no idea what Zhang Yunji was thinking. After finishing the watermelon in his hand, before Ma Feifei could even find a place to throw away the trash, Zhang Caicai, who was waiting nearby, bent down and took the Ma Feifei from him, and handed him a wet towel to wipe his mouth.

"What's wrong with you today?" Ma Feifei took the cool towel, wiped her mouth and hands, and asked curiously.

Ma Feifei certainly knew who Zhang Caicai was. In the entire Mysterious Bookstore, apart from Liuli, no one else could receive such servile treatment from Zhang Caicai. Even the store owner, Ma Feifei, would never enjoy such treatment.

Something unusual is bound to be sinister.

"Hehe." Zhang Caicai took the towel Ma Feifei had used to wipe her hands and said with a fawning expression, "It's nothing, it's just that I felt really sorry for you, Caicai owner, after seeing how hard you've been working these past few days."

"Speak like a human." Ma Feifei lay down, squinted at the sun in the sky, and felt quite Grudge. It was almost October, and the weather was still so hot and dry. It was really annoying.

"Could you lend me some money?" Zhang Caicai asked, looking down shyly.

"Borrow money?" Ma Feifei glanced at Zhang Caicai in surprise. He didn't know much about Zhang Caicai, but from the last time Zhang Caicai borrowed money from Qingyang, he could tell that she wasn't wealthy. But the problem was that Zhang Caicai was always busy improving her cooking skills, and she personally went to the Nine Heavens Mountain to get the ingredients. There shouldn't be any particular reason for her to spend money, right?

Moreover, after hunting down a spirit beast Zhang Caicai can sell its inner core, teeth, and fur, in addition to its meat. The inner core of a high-level spirit beast is quite valuable, so how could she be short of money?

"How much do you want?" Ma Feifei thought for a moment and didn't refuse. If it wasn't much, he would just consider it payment for Zhang Caicai's salary, even though there was no such thing as a salary at the Mysterious Bookstore.

"Ten... oh no... fifty thousand Spirit Crystal would be fine." Zhang Caicai hesitated before finally uttering this number.

Upon hearing this, Ma Feifei took out a spatial bag from his spatial ring and handed it to Zhang Caicai, saying, "There's 200,000 in here. Take it and spend it."

For Ma Feifei now, hundreds of thousands of Spirit Crystal are a lot of money. With his current access to Divine Abilities and Spells, he can make money incredibly fast. He 'Ma Feifei even lost count of how much money he has now.

"Thank you, shopkeeper!" Zhang Caicai took the spatial bag from Ma Feifei, thanked him, and turned to throw away the watermelon rind.

Ma Feifei glanced at Zhang Caicai, a slight smile appearing on her face, then lay back down, stretching. "Sigh... this weather is perfect for taking a nap!"

"Shopkeeper." Suddenly, darkness descended upon Ma Feifei's head, Sky-reaching Ape Monkey, dangling by its tail, appeared upside down directly above Ma Feifei.

"I'm going... to get down." Ma Feifei was startled by the sudden appearance of the monkey face and instinctively raised her hand to slap it across the face.

"Whoosh~" Fortunately Sky-reaching Ape Monkey reacted quickly enough, and with a somersault, it landed beside Ma Feifei, scratched its chest hair, and looked at Ma Feifei with a fawning expression.

"Weren't you supposed to be guarding the door? When did you get in?" Ma Feifei looked at the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey with suspicion. The Mysterious Bookstore was open today.

"Ba Jiu, help me keep watch for a while," the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey said, scratching his head.

"So you need something from me?" Ma Feifei asked.

"Hmm," the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey replied in a muffled voice.

"What's wrong?" Ma Feifei asked curiously.

"Um... shopkeeper, could you lend me some money...?" the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey whispered.

"..." Ma Feifei looked at the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey suspiciously. What was going on today? Two people came to borrow money in a row?

"How much do you want to borrow?" Ma Feifei asked calmly.

"Fifty thousand Spirit Crystal will do," the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey said, bowing its head.

Ma Feifei nodded without saying anything, took out a spatial bag from his spatial ring, handed it to the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey, and said, "Take this."

It still contained 200,000 Spirit Crystal.

"Thank you, shopkeeper. I'm going back to guard the door now." The Sky-reaching Ape Monkey grinned from ear to ear, then ran towards the Bookstore with his spatial bag in hand.

"That's really strange." Ma Feifei watched the departing figure of the Sky-reaching Ape Monkey, shook his head, and lay back down.

Thirty seconds later...

"Shop owner..." Ba Jiu stood in front of Ma Feifei, his face flushed.

Ma Feifei didn't even bother to lift her eyelids, and said indifferently, "Borrowing money?"

"Um..." Ba Jiu replied shyly.

"Smack~"

A spatial bag flew out, Ba Jiu caught it easily.

Thank you, shop owner.

"..."

"This is interesting." Ma Feifei was no longer sleepy. He propped himself up in the rocking chair, his eyes fixed on the back door of the Bookstore. He wanted to see what kind of business this bookstore was up to.

However, after waiting for about three minutes, no one came out of the Bookstore, which made Ma Feifei a little suspicious. Could it all be a coincidence?

"Never mind." Ma Feifei looked away, preparing to doze off again, when she noticed a pleasant fragrance wafting into her nose, a scent that seemed very familiar.

"Can't you make a sound when you walk?" Ma Feifei glanced at Yun Qingyang, who was squatting next to her, and rolled her eyes.

"Hmm!" Yun Qingyang nodded with a smile, gripped the armrests of the rocking chair with both hands, rested her chin on them, and stared straight at Ma Feifei.

Ma Feifei felt a little uneasy under Yun Qingyang's gaze, so she moved back slightly and said, "You're not here to borrow money too, are you?"

"Mmm~~" Yun Qingyang raised her chin slightly and nodded vigorously. Due to shaking her head too forcefully, a strand of bangs was flicked onto her nose, making her wrinkle her nose and brush the strand of bangs away.

"Are you kidding me?" Ma Feifei rolled her eyes. Ma Feifei could understand Zhang Caicai, Ba Jiu, Sky-reaching Ape Monkey borrowing money, but Yun Qingyang? A rich and beautiful woman with over a billion Spirit Crystal in her spatial ring, does she need to borrow money? No way.

"Those Spirit Crystal can't be used recklessly," Yun Qingyang explained pitifully.

Ma Feifei pursed her lips, looked at Yun Qingyang, and asked, "So how much are you planning to borrow?"

"It would be great if we could be like Zhang Caicai and the others," Yun Qingyang blurted out.

Upon hearing this, Ma Feifei knew there must be something wrong, but he didn't ask any questions. Instead, he took out a spatial bag and handed it to Yun Qingyang.

"Take it, there's 500,000 inside."

"Ma Feifei, you're so kind!" Yun Qingyang took the space bag with a happy smile on her face, and then ran out of the Bookstore.

"Hmph, that's really strange. I'd like to see what happened while I was away from home for two days." Ma Feifei watched Yun Qingyang disappear, got up from the rocking chair, and leaped onto the roof of the Bookstore.