Zheng Qing was naturally not less polite than a little fox. He hesitated for a few seconds, then, before crossing the stream and entering Courtyard Number Fifty-Four, casually exchanged greetings with Su Ya in the water:
"Good evening!"
Supporting herself at the waist, Su Ya straightened up from the stream and let the clear water rush past her legs. She merely glanced up at the young publicly funded student from the corner of her eye and answered stiffly, "Not good."
The smile on Zheng Qing's face stiffened slightly.
That response caught him somewhat off guard.
But he immediately thought of something to ease the awkwardness. "Mm... busy?"
"Are you blind? Do you think I'm soaking my feet in the stream in the middle of the night?"
After mocking him, the Little Fox Girl lowered her head and pretended to mutter quietly, though her words were perfectly clear. "I really don't know why Miss asked this piece of trash to come to the mansion... Now I'll have to stay up late wiping the floor again... what a waste of lamp oil."
Zheng Qing stopped in his tracks.
He had to prove that he was not a piece of trash.
"Staying up late to wipe the floor?"
The young publicly funded student glanced inside the fence—good, no one was there—then put on an indignant expression. "Hiring child labor was wrong to begin with, and making you work this hard is even worse! I'll definitely report this to the Relevant Department... Isn't the Beta Town Management Committee conducting Thunderbolt Operation lately? They shouldn't turn a blind eye to something like this!"
The Little Fox Girl widened her eyes at the male wizard's righteous appearance, so surprised that even her ears stood upright.
After a long while, she finally said awkwardly, "Actually, there's no