"Why thank me? Just pledge yourself to me." Xiao Yan chuckled, teasing Xiao Yi Xian until her pretty face flushed red again.
"Hurry up and deal with these Greenwood Wolf carcasses. Other than the wolf king's magic core, I don't care about the rest."
Xiao Yan turned and addressed the mercenaries with an easy air.
At his words, the mercenaries' eyes suddenly lit up.
From what Xiao Yan had said, he did not even intend to take the ordinary Greenwood Wolves' magic cores. If that was the case, they were about to strike it rich.
Not every Greenwood Wolf had a magic core, but even so, once all the wolves had been butchered, each mercenary would probably earn three or four hundred gold coins. That was almost as much as they earned from an entire year of hard work.
With Xiao Yan's permission, the mercenaries quickly set to work carving up the carcasses. Now, many of them no longer looked at him with hostility; they even found him rather more likable.
That was human nature. If you could offer someone enough benefits, even an old enemy could become a good friend who raised a cup and drank with you. Besides, these people had never had any grudge against Xiao Yan in the first place.
After this, many even began to feel that the young man was quite a worthy match for Xiao Yi Xian, unlike Mu Li, who spent his days throwing his weight around under his father's name and was stingy whenever he opened his purse.
Once the busy work of butchering was finished, everyone set off again. Along the way, Xiao Yi Xian hesitated before taking a juicy fruit from inside her clothes and handing it to Xiao Yan.
"Thank you for what you did back there."
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