A Few Boxes of Pastries, Little Brother, You Know Quite a Lot

"Have Xiao Nan go with you."

"I happen to still have a few boxes of pastries here too. That girl can sell them and help with her household expenses a bit."

After Ye Tian learned what his nephew Bai Ran was thinking, he immediately thought of someone—Jiang Nannan, who was cleaning in the back kitchen.

Speaking of this student Jiang Nannan, Ye Tian's first impression of her had been quite good. She was a diligent, good girl; her soul power level was just a little low. She couldn't process soul beasts over ten thousand years old, so for now, he only had her doing odd jobs in the back kitchen.

In addition, this girl's situation was also rather complicated.

Two weeks ago, when Ye Tian left Shrek City, a group of men in black suddenly blocked his path.

At the time, he had thought they were evil soul masters, so Ye Tian had pulled out a Class 8 soul tool without the slightest hesitation—produced by Sun Moon Royal Academy, which meant it had to be premium quality—and blew up the two Soul Sages standing at the very front on the spot.

Only afterward did he learn that those people were from the Mysterious Underworld Sect.

They felt that Ye Tian providing Jiang Nannan with work had affected their young sect master's search for true love. After finding out that Ye Tian was merely a powerless food-type soul master, they had prepared to teach him a deep lesson.

Who could have expected Ye Tian to be so fierce? Not only did he kill two Soul Sages in a single exchange, he had almost finished off Xu Sanshi's hidden guardian—the Soul Douluo from the Mysterious Underworld Sect—as if he were just another foot soldier.

After that incident, Xu Sanshi had not dared to harass Jiang Nannan much lately, especially when Jiang Nannan went to the inner court for her part-time work.

Xu Sanshi was just a little impulsive in how he did things. It wasn't as if he was stupid.

Besides, most inner court disciples respected Master Ye very much. If he went looking for someone to target Ye Tian again, there was a real chance that one day some inner court disciple would throw a sack over his head, and even if he suffered for it, he would have nowhere to complain.

Compete in background? In the eyes of quite a few inner court disciples, the Mysterious Underworld Sect was basically a joke.

"Huh? Uncle, this..."

"What's wrong? Weren't you the one who recommended Xiao Nan to me? Don't tell me you and Xiao Nan don't have a good relationship?"

Ye Tian deliberately put on a thoughtful expression.

"No, no, it's mainly that I wanted to find someone a little stronger, someone who could help me carry things."

"My dear nephew, you don't think Xiao Nan is weak, do you?"

Even if she was a girl, Jiang Nannan was still a Rank 35 Soul Elder. A few dozen kilograms of goods were nothing more than a piece of cake to her.

And back when she had worked part-time at a small supermarket, the boss there had never treated her like a woman. He had used her completely like a male student.

Looking at it now, organizing ingredients in the back kitchen and doing odd jobs like cleaning were actually much easier for Jiang Nannan.

"Don't worry. No one will come looking to make trouble for you."

Seeing Bai Ran's concerns, Ye Tian reached out and gently stroked Bai Ran's little head a few times, comforting him.

"Eh? Uncle, you know?"

"Nonsense. Back then, you even came to me to help investigate Xiao Nan's background information. How could I not know?"

"That's true. But Uncle, how are you so sure that person won't come make trouble?"

"Simple. Because you're my nephew, Ye Tian's nephew."

For a moment, Bai Ran suspected his uncle was showing off, but he had no proof.

"Xiao Nan, come here for a moment."

In the back kitchen, a pair of rabbit ears quietly perked up.

Jiang Nannan had actually heard the conversation between the two of them just now.

So now, when she heard Master Ye calling her name, she did not even have time to put down the broom in her hand before jogging over.

"Do you need something, Uncle Ye?"

"Xiao Nan, this afternoon, go with Ranran to the outer court and set up a stall to sell coffee.

"Oh, right. There are also a few boxes of sweet pastries baked this morning on the table. If you want to sell them, sell them. If you don't, take them home and eat them."

Ye Tian was still fairly attentive toward Jiang Nannan as a child.

Aside from the fact that she was someone his nephew Bai Ran had recommended, it was also because Jiang Nannan herself came with the traits of a poor student, campus belle, and top student.

Especially when she was so sensible it made one's heart ache. For some inexplicable reason, it made people want to take better care of her.

Ye Tian: If I were thirty-some years younger, a girl like this might have hooked me completely. But now? I'm almost a Titled Douluo. If I went looking for a little girl like this, when the time came, who would be protecting whom?

"Uncle Ye, how could I do that?"

Jiang Nannan expressed that this really would not do.

Though the ingredients used for those few boxes of pastries were not exactly precious, they were still in extremely short supply in the inner court cafeteria.

Over a hundred boxes of pastries had sold out in less than an hour, and each box had been priced at around one hundred Gold Soul Coins.

The remaining few boxes were ones Master Ye had left for the cafeteria staff to eat. How could she, Jiang Nannan, have the nerve to take them all?

"It's fine. Those old employees get to eat them every week. They got tired of them long ago."

How could anyone ever get tired of the sweet pastries Master Ye made?

The main reason Ye Tian said that was because he did not want the little girl to feel any burden.

"Uncle, you know how to make desserts?"

Bai Ran looked utterly baffled. Why didn't he remember his uncle knowing how to make this kind of thing?

Had he lost a chunk of his memory or something?

"Let me see what you made."

Bai Ran went over to the table, lightly rose onto his tiptoes, and discovered that the box was filled with Butter Cookie.

Bai Ran: Hmm... not something I like, so never mind.

The annual Freshman Competition was extremely lively, and this world had never lacked geniuses.

Since Bai Ran could think of it, those senior students in the outer courtyard could think of it too.

Of course, some of the things they set up stalls to sell had rather unusual styles.

For example, there were people selling Freshman Competition guides, and others selling personal photo collections of the outer courtyard's top ten beauties.

Unfortunately, the Freshman Competition did not allow the use of soul tools. Otherwise, there would probably have been a few more stalls selling soul tools.

"Sister Nannan, when you took part in the Freshman Competition back then, what place did you get?"

As they walked toward the Soul Fighting Zone, Bai Ran suddenly grew a little curious and could not help asking.

"I think it was third place."

Jiang Nannan said after trying hard to recall.

Back then, during the Freshman Competition, Jiang Nannan had also successfully proven herself and become one of the few core disciples of her year.

Only, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

Even after becoming a core disciple, she still could not gather enough money to buy the life-saving medicine for her mother.

Perhaps if she had waited a few more years, she could have saved enough, but unfortunately, her mother's condition at the time had already reached the point where she could not keep waiting.

"Third place? Sister Nannan, did you team up with Sister Ya back then?"

"Little brother, how did you know?"

"Because Sister Ya isn't that strong."

Her martial soul was Blue Silver Grass. No matter how strong it was, how strong could it really be?

Tang San's Blue Silver Grass was strong because his Blue Silver Grass was actually the yet-unawakened Blue Silver Emperor.

But Tang Ya's Blue Silver Grass really was just Blue Silver Grass.

If she had not been blinded by hatred and fallen into becoming an evil soul master, Tang Ya, cultivating normally, would probably have even struggled to break through to Soul Douluo.

"Couldn't it have been that our opponents were too strong?"

"Sister Nannan, then who were your opponents back then?"

"Beibei."

"Isn't Beibei Sister Ya's boyfriend?"

"That was all after second year. During the Freshman Competition, Beibei didn't show Tang Ya the slightest mercy."

"Could this be the legendary 'hitting means affection and scolding means love'?"

"Little brother, I didn't expect you to know quite so much."

(Three or four updates a day. Haki is doing his best.)