"Let Nannan go with you."
"Right as it happens, I have several boxes of pastries here, and that girl can sell them to subsidize her family."
The moment Ye Tian learned of his nephew Bai Ran's idea, he immediately thought of one person: Jiang Nannan, who was cleaning the back kitchen.
Speaking of this student Jiang Nannan, Ye Tian's initial impression of her was quite good. She was a diligent and good girl, except that her Soul Power Level was a bit low. She could not process soul beasts above ten thousand years, so she was currently only assigned to do odd jobs in the back kitchen.
In addition, this young girl's situation was rather complicated.
Two weeks ago, when Ye Tian was leaving Shrek City, his path was suddenly blocked by a group of men in black.
At the time, he thought they were Evil Soul Masters, so Ye Tian didn't hesitate to pull out a Level 8 Soul Tool (produced by the Sun Moon Royal Academy, guaranteed to be of high quality) and blasted the two Soul Saints standing at the very front to death on the spot.
Only afterward did he find out that group belonged to the Mysterious Underworld Sect.
They felt that Ye Tian's act of providing Jiang Nannan with a job affected their young master's pursuit of true love. After inquiring and learning that Ye Tian was merely a powerless Food-type Soul Master, they prepared to give him a profound lesson.
Who would have thought that fellow Ye Tian was so fierce? Not only did he wipe out two Soul Saints in a single encounter, but he also almost finished off Xu Sanshi's hidden guardian—namely, that Soul Douluo from the Mysterious Underworld Sect—as if he were some foot soldier.
Because of this incident, Xu Sanshi hadn't dared to harass Jiang Nannan much lately, especially when Jiang Nannan went to the Inner Academy for part-time work.
Xu Sanshi was only a bit impulsive in his actions, not a retard.
Besides, most Inner Academy disciples held Master Ye in very high regard. If Xu Sanshi went to target Ye Tian again, there was a good chance some Inner Academy disciple would sack him one of these days, and he wouldn't even have anywhere to seek justice if he got the short end of the stick.
Compare backgrounds? In the eyes of quite a few Inner Academy disciples, the Mysterious Underworld Sect was nothing more than a joke.
"Ah? Uncle, this..."
"What's wrong? Wasn't Nannan recommended to your uncle by you? Could it be that your relationship with Nannan isn't good?"
Ye Tian deliberately wore a pensive expression.
"No, no, I mainly wanted to find someone with a bit more strength who could help me move things."
"Big nephew, you wouldn't happen to think Nannan's strength is tiny, would you?"
Even though she was a girl, Jiang Nannan was still a rank-35 Soul Elder after all, and dozens of kilograms of cargo were absolute piece of cake for her.
Furthermore, back when she worked part-time at a small supermarket, the boss didn't treat her like a woman at all, using her completely like a male student.
Looking at it now, tidying up ingredients and doing odd jobs like cleaning in the back kitchen was actually much easier for Jiang Nannan by comparison.
"Rest assured, no one will come to trouble you two."
Noticing Bai Ran's misgivings, Ye Tian reached out and gently stroked Bai Ran's little head a few times to comfort him.
"Eh, Uncle, you know about it?"
"Nonsense, you were the one who asked me to help investigate Nannan's background information in the first place. How could your uncle not know?"
"That's true. But Uncle, how can you be sure that person won't come make trouble?"
"It's very simple, because you are Ye Tian's nephew."
For a moment, Bai Ran suspected his uncle was showing off, but he didn't have any proof.
"Nannan, come over here for a moment."
Inside the back kitchen, a pair of rabbit ears twitched and perked up quietly.
Jiang Nannan had actually been listening to the conversation between the two just now.
Therefore, upon hearing Master Ye call her name now, she didn't even have time to put down the broom in her hand as she trotted over.
"Do you have any instructions, Uncle Ye?"
"Nannan, you accompany Ranran to set up a stall in the Outer Academy this afternoon to sell coffee.
Right, there are also a few boxes of sweet pastries baked this morning on the table. Sell them if you want to sell them, or take them back to eat if you don't."
Ye Tian treated Jiang Nannan with quite a bit of care.
Aside from being the person recommended by his nephew Bai Ran, there was also the [impoverished student + campus belle + top honor student] attribute that Jiang Nannan carried herself.
Especially the way she was sensible to the point of making one's heart ache, which inexplicably made people want to give her more care.
If I were thirty-some years older, I'd likely get hooked by a girl like this and pulled in like a big-mouthed bass. But now? I'm almost a Title Douluo; if I look for a young girl like this, who's going to protect whom then?
"Uncle Ye, that won't do."
Jiang Nannan indicated that this simply wouldn't do.
Although the materials used to make those few boxes of pastries weren't considered precious, they were in high demand in the Inner Academy Cafeteria.
Over a hundred boxes of pastries would sell out in less than an hour, and the selling price of every single box of pastries was around one hundred Gold Soul Coins.
The remaining few boxes were left by Master Ye for the cafeteria staff to eat. How could she, Jiang Nannan, have the nerve to take all of them?
"It's fine. Those old staff members get to eat them every week, and they've long since grown tired of them."
How could anyone ever grow tired of the sweet pastries made by Master Ye?
The main reason Ye Tian said that was because he didn't want the young girl to carry any psychological burden.
"Uncle, you can even make sweet pastries?"
Bai Ran wore a blank expression. Why didn't he remember his uncle knowing how to make such things?
Could it be that he had lost a section of his memory?
"Let me see what you made."
Bai Ran edged up to the table, lightly tiptoeing, and discovered that what was packed inside the boxes turned out to be Butter Cookie.
Mm... not what I like to eat, then forget it.
The annual Freshman Competition was extremely lively, and this world was never short on geniuses.
Since Bai Ran could think of it, those senior students and female senior students of the Outer Academy could think of it just as well.
Naturally, some of the styles of the things they sold at their stalls were rather peculiar.
For instance, selling Freshman Competition guides, or selling personal photobooks of the top ten beauties of the Outer Academy.
It was just a pity that the Freshman Competition did not allow the use of Soul Tools, or else there would likely be a few more stalls selling Soul Tools.
"Sister Nannan, when you participated in the Freshman Competition back then, what place did you get?"
Walking on the path toward the Soul Fighting Zone, Bai Ran suddenly felt a bit curious and couldn't help asking.
"It seemed to be third place."
Jiang Nannan said after racking her brain to recall.
Thinking back to the Freshman Competition, Jiang Nannan also successfully proved herself, becoming one of the few core disciples of her generation.
Only, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
Even upon becoming a core disciple, she still couldn't scrape together enough money to buy the life-saving medicinal pill for her mother.
Perhaps she could have scraped it together if she waited another few years, but unfortunately, her mother's condition had reached a point where she could no longer continue waiting.
"Third place? Sister Nannan, you didn't team up with Sister Xiaoya back then, did you?"
"Little bro, how did you know?"
"Because Sister Xiaoya's strength isn't very high."
Her Martial Soul was Blue Silver Grass. No matter how strong it was, how strong could it possibly get?
Tang San's Blue Silver Grass was strong because his Blue Silver Grass was actually the unawakened Blue Silver Emperor.
As for Tang Ya's Blue Silver Grass, it really was just plain Blue Silver Grass.
If she hadn't been blinded by hatred and fallen into becoming an Evil Soul Master, a normally cultivating Tang Ya would probably have struggled just to break through to the Soul Douluo realm.
"Could it not be that the opponents' strength was too strong?"
"Sister Nannan, who were your opponents back then, then?"
"Beibei."
"Wasn't Beibei Sister Xiaoya's boyfriend?"
"That was all after the second year. During the Freshman Competition, Beibei didn't show Tang Ya a shred of mercy."
"Could this be the legendary beating is affection and scolding is love?"
"Little bro, I wouldn't have thought you know quite a bit."
(Three or four chapters daily, this lazy author is trying his best)
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