Young Master, Don't Show Off - Chapter 18
[Chapter 18 Zhao Lingyin’s Evaluation]
Today’s Zhaiyue Tower is completely different from yesterday.
When Lin Xiu came yesterday, there was no one in the restaurant. Today, he and Sun Dali walked into the door and lifted the thick door curtain. They found that the hall on the first floor was full of people. The elegant rooms on the second floor were also crowded. The hall was much more crowded than yesterday, obviously because more tables were added.
It was not surprising that the business of Zhaiyue Tower had improved. It was scorching hot outside, but the inside of the building was like an air-conditioned room. It should be the only summer resort in the capital.
As soon as the two entered the restaurant, the shopkeeper of Zhaiyue Tower ran out from the counter, held Lin Xiu’s wrist, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, “Mr. Lin, you are finally here. The ice cubes from yesterday are almost used up. If you don’t come, I will go to my house to invite you personally…”
“I am here now.” Lin Xiu smiled and said, “Let’s get started.”
Under the leadership of Shopkeeper Qian, he came to the well in the backyard again. There were already fifty buckets filled with water. Before he arrived, Zhaiyue Tower had made all the preparations.
The next step was all Lin Xiu’s business.
After washing his hands, he put his palm on the surface of a bucket of water. Before the whole bucket of water was frozen into ice, a fragrant breeze suddenly blew behind him.
Zhao Lingyin stood behind Lin Xiu and asked in confusion, “What are you doing?”
Lin Xiu was surprised and asked, “Why are you here?”
Zhao Lingyin said, “I happened to see you, so I came to see what you are doing here?”
“Doing business.” Lin Xiu had already frozen the first bucket of water into ice, and his palm left the ice surface, saying, “In at most another month, the weather will turn cold, why don’t you make more money while it’s hot?”
Zhao Lingyin frowned and said, “You are so short of money, what if someone sees you?”
Lin Xiu rolled her eyes at her and asked, “How can you tell that I am not short of money?”
What a magician pursues should be powerful power. Using the magic power given by God to earn gold and silver is undoubtedly a self-degradation.
When Lin Xiu stretched his palm to the second bucket of water, Zhao Lingyin directly grasped his wrist and said, “How much silver do you want, I will give it to you.”
Lin Xiu was stunned for a moment.
When a rich woman tells you, “How much money do you want, I will give it to you”, few people can withstand such temptation.
Even if this woman is old and ugly, or even has some special fetishes, there will be many men who stick to her. Lin Xiu has seen many such people.
What’s more, this woman is beautiful, young, and has a good figure. This sentence is undoubtedly very lethal to men.
Unfortunately, Lin Xiu doesn’t buy it.
Why should I rely on others when I can make money to support my family.
He glanced at Zhao Lingyin again and said lightly: “Who do you think I am? Besides, what’s wrong with being seen by others? I make money with my own ability, and there is nothing shameful.”
Zhao Lingyin looked at Lin Xiu. In her heart, after Lin Xiu’s image of “lust”, there is another “greed for money”.
She waved her sleeves, and a cold air gushed out, and the water in dozens of buckets beside the well all condensed into ice.
She glanced at Lin Xiu calmly and asked, “Is that enough?”
Lin Xiu was amazed at Zhao Lingyin’s strength, and at the same time nervously said, “I can do it slowly by myself. If you do this, whose money will it be?”
Zhao Lingyin gritted her teeth and said, “It’s yours. I don’t want a penny.”
This made Lin Xiu feel relieved. Although he didn’t do anything, without Lingyin, he could finish it in an hour at most. This was what he deserved.
The shopkeeper of Zhaiyue Tower was also particular. He didn’t cause any more trouble because of Zhao Lingyin’s intervention. He honestly let people offer three hundred taels of silver.
He just felt in his heart that these powerful magicians made money like robbing money. If they were willing, they could easily accumulate huge wealth in a short time.
Walking out of the Zhaiyue Tower, Zhao Lingyin walked in front of Lin Xiu without looking back, and said lightly: “Even if you are greedy for money, you should think about your status. This will make others look down on the Lin family.”
Lin Xiu knew that Lingyin was doing this for his own good. In the royal capital, the rich and powerful should act like rich and powerful. How can rich and powerful people mix with businessmen? What’s more, Lin Xiu personally went down like this. Such behavior is undoubtedly a rare joke in the eyes of other rich and powerful people.
This is not only embarrassing for the Lin family, but also for the Zhao family.
He shrugged and said, “What they think is their business. Last time, the family invited the imperial doctor and spent dozens of taels of silver. Later, several servants were dismissed and a lot of severance pay was given. If I don’t come out to make some money, I’m afraid I can’t even open the pot. If I don’t do these things, should I let my parents do it?”
Zhao Lingyin paused. She didn’t know that the Lin family had been in such a predicament. At this moment, she wanted to say something, but she didn’t know how to start.
At this time, Lin Xiu had passed Zhao Lingyin and continued to walk forward.
In the middle of the street, a ragged woman was holding a child in her arms, kneeling on the ground, anxiously and sadly saying: “Please, kind people, help us…”
Countless pedestrians walked past them, but just looked down at her, and more people didn’t even look at her.
Lin Xiu walked up, squatted down and asked: “Auntie, what’s wrong?”
Seeing someone talking to her, the woman with messy hair raised her head suddenly.
She held the child in her arms and said anxiously: “The child is sick. The doctor said that if he is not treated, he will not survive. I, I have no money…”
Lin Xiu took out a silver ingot from his arms, handed it to her, and asked: “Is this enough?”
“Enough, enough!” The woman grabbed the silver, and before she could even say thank you, she got up from the ground with the child in her arms and ran wildly in a certain direction.
Zhao Lingyin stepped forward and said, “In the capital, people like this are most likely scammers.”
Lin Xiu smiled and said indifferently, “What does it matter? It’s just a few taels of silver. A meal at Zhaiyue Tower costs more than a few taels. It’s okay if it’s a scam. What if it’s true? And the child’s illness doesn’t look fake.”
In fact, Lin Xiu has been very restrained in his behavior in this life. After all, he has thrown his wallet to beggars on the roadside on a whim many times before, and then rode his bicycle home.
In this life, he has a family, parents to honor, and a dog to raise. He can’t do things so casually.
Because Zhao Lingyin helped Lin Xiu a lot and saved him an hour of time, he had time to wander around the street, and took this opportunity to get familiar with the capital.
Zhao Lingyin followed Lin Xiu silently, observing him silently.
Then she found that he couldn’t understand many of Lin Xiu’s things.
He would give a begging woman a silver ingot without hesitation, and would argue with the stall owner for a quarter of an hour for a few cents.
He would spend one or two taels of silver to buy a few tables of food in a small restaurant and give them to the beggars on the street, but he would squat on the street and eat three cents a bowl of vegetarian noodles in clear soup, and he ate three bowls in a row.
He was the most unlikeable nobleman Zhao Lingyin had ever seen, but strangely, she liked him better than any other nobleman.
Lin Xiu drank the last mouthful of noodle soup, then put down the bowl, looked back at Zhao Lingyin, and asked, “Are you sure you don’t want a bowl? The food here tastes really good.”
Zhao Lingyin shook her head and said, “I’m not hungry.”
In the past seventeen years, she had never eaten in such a place, and of course she wouldn’t eat now.
But she couldn’t help but be curious. Is this noodle really so delicious? It’s so delicious that Lin Xiu and Sun Dali ate three bowls and five bowls respectively…
Lin Xiu ate three bowls of noodles because he, like Sun Dali, was easily hungry after awakening his power. He was tired of eating abalone and lobster, and liked those small restaurants with unique flavors in his previous life. Although these places were not elegant, they often hid the real deliciousness.
Zhao Lingyin looked at him and said, “I’m going back. I’ll find you to practice tomorrow.”
After that, she turned and walked towards the Zhao family. When she passed by a medical clinic, she saw the ragged woman, holding a few medicines in her hands, and holding the child in her arms, smiling and walking out of the medical clinic.
When she saw Zhao Lingyin, the woman knelt down with the child and said repeatedly, “Thank you, girl, thank you for saving my life!”
Zhao Lingyin didn’t dare to look at them for too long, and fled in a hurry. She felt ashamed of this kneeling.
After returning home, Zhao Lingyin was so worried that she was distracted even when eating. Opposite her, a middle-aged man smiled and asked, “How is it?”
Zhao Lingyin came back to her senses, looked at her father, and asked, “What do you mean?”
The middle-aged man said, “I heard that you have been with Lin Xiu these days. What is he like?”
Zhao Lingyin thought for a while and said, “He is a good person.”
The middle-aged man was stunned and asked in confusion, “Good person?”
Zhao Lingyin nodded, put down her chopsticks, and said, “He practices hard, is frugal, kind-hearted, just, responsible, and his only shortcoming is that he awakened his supernatural power a little late…”
“A-choo!”
Lin Xiu, who was strolling on the street, sneezed for no reason, and at the same time, a bad premonition arose in his heart for no reason.
(End of this chapter)
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