Let Me Be Your Eyes

Saifeier and Old James were at a loss—sitting felt wrong, standing felt wrong, eating felt wrong, and not eating felt wrong.

After hearing Elysia and Remiel's utterly shocking remarks,

and seeing the gleaming look in Su Mu's eyes when he looked at them, Saifeier could not help but laugh.

"Little boss, the two employees you recruited certainly have personality."

But immediately afterward, Saifeier turned serious.

"Little brother, if you ever need help in the future, come to the modification shop anytime.

"We people do not have much skill or fighting strength, but we can be useful in other ways.

"Modification is merely their hobby."

With that, Saifeier quickly left with Old James and Monkey.

After the commotion caused by the Red Fang Gang, what should have been the busiest time of the morning turned into a period with hardly any customers.

Many stalls waited for a long time without making a sale, then pushed their carts away to the other places where they usually set up shop.

Seeing this, Su Mu sighed inwardly.

He could not move right now. Once he moved, his employees would be recalled, so he could only leave the stall here for today.

Su Mu waited all afternoon. In the end, he had only sold a little over thirty Gold Soul Coins' worth of food that day.

More than half of those sales had even been made before the Red Fang Gang caused trouble.

After that, as fewer and fewer stalls remained, fewer people came here to buy things as well.

Tang Ya and Bei Bei had not appeared today. They were probably eating the stock stored inside their Soul Tool.

That made sense. They could not possibly come here for fried chicken every day. His fried chicken portions were rather large, and they might not be able to handle eating it constantly.

It was not until dusk drew near, when Su Mu saw the sun about to set and calculated the time,

that he tidied up the stall again before slowly driving back to Free-Range Chicken Village.

As soon as he arrived at his door, Su Mu saw Jiang Nannan waiting there.

The moment she saw him drive over, she immediately came up to him.

"Su Mu, did you go out to set up a stall today? I heard people in the village saying you brought back a food truck."

Jiang Nannan examined the Soul Power structure inside the vehicle and the food truck at the back, which had already folded up into something resembling an iron box. She could not help but worry.

"How did it go? Did anyone give you trouble?"

As Jiang Nannan spoke, Su Mu recalled what had happened today.

There had indeed been trouble, but telling Jiang Nannan would not help. It would only make her worry needlessly.

"Business was so-so. Nothing special. I did not sell much today, only thirty Gold Soul Coins' worth."

"Thirty Gold Soul Coins?!"

Jiang Nannan froze when she heard that, crying out in surprise.

But she quickly covered her mouth and looked around.

She pulled Su Mu closer and said quietly, "Little Su Mu, you need to be careful from now on.

"If you can earn this many Gold Soul Coins every day, do not let the villagers find out. Otherwise, you might be in danger."

As she spoke, Jiang Nannan carefully surveyed the surroundings again.

This time, she even summoned her Martial Soul—two rabbit ears grew from the top of her head and drooped to either side. She could catch nearly every tiny rustle of wind and grass.

Seeing Jiang Nannan's worried expression, Su Mu could not help asking,

"Why are you here? Shouldn't you be at school right now? Did you take the day off?"

After all, he had never seen Jiang Nannan remain in the village this late at night.

Jiang Nannan lightly tapped the ground with the tips of her toes and said somewhat shyly,

"Actually, I came to tell you some good news."

"My talent is among the best at the academy. This time, our academy happened to receive a recommendation slot for Shrek Academy.

"There was originally a boy stronger than me, but he seemed to have been directly admitted somewhere else, so the slot fell to me."

"In other words, I may be going to Shrek Academy in the future.

"It's far from here, so I will not be able to return to the village often anymore.

"The term starts in a month. During this time, I want to spend more time with you and do business with you."

Su Mu did not react much at first when he heard that Jiang Nannan had been accepted by Shrek Academy.

But when he heard her say that she would not be able to return to the village often, he could not help feeling awkward.

It seemed Jiang Nannan had some misunderstanding about the phrase "returning home often."

Did returning only three or four times a year count as often?

Would it be appropriate to return home only four times a year during high school?

As for Jiang Nannan wanting to spend time with him, Su Mu completely ignored that part.

If he encountered trouble while running his stall, it would be fine if Jiang Nannan were not around. A Titled Douluo's strength would be enough to crush everything in a dangerous moment.

But if she were present, it would be a problem how he could even summon a Titled Douluo.

He could hardly tell her,

"When I was running a fried chicken stall, I happened to save a Titled Douluo who was nearly starving to death by the roadside.

"After I gave her two pieces of fried chicken, she decided to work for me because my fried chicken conquered her."

That was obviously not right.

While Su Mu was still thinking, Jiang Nannan grabbed his hand again.

"Actually, there's one more thing I wanted to talk to you about this time."

"Even if you do not plan to attend school, could you please not neglect your usual cultivation?

"Even cultivating for just one hour a day would be enough."

As Jiang Nannan spoke, she felt a little hollow inside.

After all, she knew Su Mu must have been working very hard setting up his stall outside by himself, yet she was asking him to keep cultivating.

Although she was saying this in the capacity of his fiancée.

Listening to her, Su Mu looked at Jiang Nannan's somewhat flustered expression, beneath which disappointment was beginning to surface, and said helplessly,

"I have not neglected cultivation.

"When I said I did not want to attend school, that did not mean I did not want to cultivate my Martial Soul and become a Soul Master."

"What I meant by not wanting to attend school was simply that I did not want to waste time at school learning all that theoretical knowledge.

"Besides, don't I have you?"

Su Mu added, "My father supported you back then

perhaps because he knew I had no interest in studying,

and wanted you to be my eyes, to be my brain."

As he spoke, he failed to notice Jiang Nannan's face growing redder and redder, until it was nearly like a ripe apple.

"Mm! Mm, all right! Then let's go hunt Soul Rings tomorrow!"

Jiang Nannan spoke excitedly, her hand growing hotter and hotter.

Her mind kept replaying Su Mu's words: "Be my eyes."

The more she thought about it, the hotter her face became, and even her blood seemed to race faster.

"Do you have a fever? Why are you so hot?"

Su Mu took her hand in confusion.

Jiang Nannan also noticed something was wrong with herself. Her face flushed red as she repeatedly pulled her hand away from Su Mu's.

"Th-then let's take the day off tomorrow. Don't set up the stall for now.

"I'll go find my friends early in the morning, and we'll set out around noon!"

With that, Jiang Nannan hurried into her room and shut the door.

Through the courtyard door, she called out to Su Mu.

After thinking it over, Su Mu nodded as well.

He really could absorb a Soul Ring now. The Red Fang Gang had also been causing trouble lately, so if he set up his stall tomorrow, he might not gain anything from it.

Then he would solve his Soul Ring problem first. It would also save him some Gold Soul Coins.

As Su Mu thought this, he weighed the heavy bag in his hand. If he wanted to hire Elysia and the others to hunt a Soul Ring for him, three hours would definitely not be enough.

But if they only acted at a critical moment, Jiang Nannan and her friends could protect him during the search, making things much safer.