◎She no longer has to deal with people looking down on her!◎

At the door of Village Chief Kent, Xia Li released Booker's hand and knocked on the door. "Village Chief Kent, can I trouble you with something?"

The candlelight flickered in the house. After a while, there was a sound of the door bolt loosening, and a short old man walked out.

"Who are you?" Kent looked her up and down and found that she was a stranger.

"Hello, Mayor Kent, I'm Xia Rihua."

"What's going on?" Kent spoke slowly, word by word, only to realize Booker and his aunt Angie were standing behind her. "You two...?"

Hearing the noise, Angie strode forward and started to complain. "Kent, she's a human trafficker! I just saw her almost snatch Booker away. Luckily, I opened the door in time and discovered her scheme. Otherwise, I would have lost Booker. Oh my God, if Grandpa Booker knew about this, he would crawl out from under the altar and beat me to death!"

After saying this, he suddenly felt a chill on his back, and the slanted black shadow by the window once again appeared in his mind.

Angie swallowed and raised her voice: "Kent, you have to punish her!"

"No, Village Chief Kent, Sister Lihua did not kidnap me," Booker stood up from behind and retorted loudly.

"Oh?" Kent glanced at Xia Li with an ambiguous expression, then said calmly, "But I heard from Hans that she seemed to have taken your kite and even broke it, right?"

Booker hesitated for a moment: "I didn't steal it, I lent it to her..."

Perhaps because he lied, Booker glanced at Xia Li guiltily.

"Is that so?" Kent continued to ask Booker.

Booker took a small step back behind Xia Li. "Well, Lihua said... if she wanted to defeat the dragon, she had to use my kite to fly into the sky, so I lent it to her."

In fact, except for the last sentence, everything Booker said before is true.

Xia Li had also told him the real reason for borrowing the kite during the day.

Although Booker is a child, he still knows which is more important, defeating the dragon or stealing the kite.

In addition, she did have the title of "Dragon Slayer" on her head, so Booker was sure that she was not lying, so he took the initiative to help her intercede for the village chief Kent.

"No, Kent! Don't listen to this kid's nonsense. He must have been confused from playing all day and can't even tell the good guys from the bad guys." Angie pulled Booker over and stared at him with her bulging eyes, as if threatening him.

"Hey, isn't that Aunt Angie and Booker?"

"It seems there is another outsider?"

"What happened?"

"Come on, put on some clothes and go out and take a look."

Because of the noise at the door of Kent's house, other villagers living near Kent's house came out of their homes curiously, stood not far away, and listened with their ears pricked up.

This was the moment she had been waiting for. Seeing the crowd gathering around her, Xia Li slowly pulled out a pen from her backpack that was thicker than her finger. The material of the pen looked strange; it wasn't a common feather pen, but rather one made of stone, and it felt quite heavy in her hand.

Then he took out a blank piece of parchment, placed it on the ground, and pressed the top of the pen.

As if sensing something, the stone pen automatically stood on the parchment and began to write...

"Booker? You little thing, you eat and drink my food every day..."

"Forui, give up on this idea! This house is already mine..."

"Fury, you old fool, you still don't forget about Booker even after you're buried in the ground! Hum, I'm telling you today, I won't let Booker go to school. School doesn't make any money for me, and you still want me to pay for it. You're dreaming!"

"...You want me to return your inheritance to Booker? Bah, now that the money is in my hands, no one can take it away, not even an old, dead bone like you."

All the onlookers opened their eyes wide, staring in surprise and disbelief at the automatic writing pen and Aunt Angie's face, which was gradually turning pale.

In fact, the parchment was a little distance away from the onlookers, and it was late at night, so they couldn't see clearly what was written on the paper, but everyone understood what Aunt Angie said to Booker half an hour ago.

Because of this pen, you can actually automatically play Aunt Angie’s words while you write!

Xia Li stood by and looked at everyone calmly, while Aunt Angie's voice recorded by Poseidon's pen continued to reach her ears.

[Poseidon's Pen: What happens after writing?]

After obtaining this prop, the first thing Xia Li did was to try it boldly and verify it carefully!

After some experiments, she miraculously discovered that this pen actually functioned as a voice recorder. No, it could even be said to be more powerful than a voice recorder because it could play back text while writing, perfectly achieving the unity of words and sounds.

Unfortunately, rare items always have a usage limit.

Just like the previous body protection brooch, it only has 3 uses and it will be gone after use.

The same goes for this Poseidon's pen, which can only be used three times in total. One was used in her experiment, and the other was today. This means that she only has one chance left to use the item she just obtained.

But Xia Li didn't feel sorry. Good steel should be used on the blade, and this time the blade was Aunt Anji.

Until the last word was written by Poseidon's pen, Aunt Angie finally finished reading what she said to Booker in the evening.

Everyone secretly gasped. They didn't expect that Aunt Anji, who seemed stingy but generally honest and decent, was actually such a person behind the scenes!

Taking advantage of the death of Booker's grandfather Fury, she stole his property, as well as the living expenses and tuition fees he left for Booker before his death. She did not allow Booker to go to school and even tricked him into trying to persuade Booker to help her farm!

"Oh my God, God will definitely punish you, Aunt Angie." A middle-aged woman couldn't help but shake her head. She also had a daughter, so how could she bear to see Booker being delayed by Angie like this?

"Fury was so good to you back then. He bought you new clothes and jewelry even though you were broke when you got married. How could you treat Booker like this after he left?"

"That's right, Booker is 8 years old. According to Shia law, he is old enough to go to school."

Everyone was talking at once, and Aunt Angie was standing at the center of public opinion, her face turning pale with fear.

"No, that's not the case. Listen to me, I didn't steal Fury's inheritance, nor did I stop Booker from going to school..."

However, no matter how she explained, the villagers no longer believed her.

With it written in black and white and the perfectly recreated live recording, everyone was disgusted by what Angie had done.

"Village Chief Kent, I don't think I need to explain any more, right?" Xia Li smiled faintly at Kent. She believed that everything that happened tonight would allow him to make a decision.

Sure enough, a moment later, Kent said, "Angie, take out the money that Fury left for Booker and return it to Booker."

"But Booker is still a child. How can he understand money? I have to keep it for him."

Facing the attention of people around him, Anji was afraid, but he still refused to give in for the sake of money.

"You don't have to keep it. I will pay this money directly to the college on Booker's behalf. His tuition and living expenses will be deducted from it regularly. I will also go to the school to check regularly, so you don't have to worry about it." Kent's voice was not loud, but every word he said was powerful.

"Yes! The village chief is right. The money that Fury left for Booker should be given to the school!" The people around nodded in agreement.

"No! No way! That's mine! Not Booker's!" Angie was a little anxious and shouted hurriedly.

Xia Li glanced at her lightly: "Aren't you afraid that Grandpa Booker will crawl over to your bedside in the middle of the night to settle the score with you?"

Angie froze in place for a moment. That ghostly black shadow... could it really be Fury?

Goose bumps immediately appeared on my arms.

"Okay, it's getting late, everyone should go back and rest."

After all, they were from the same village and saw each other every day. Kent didn't want to embarrass Angie too much, so he asked the crowd to disperse.

The villagers gradually left, and only Xia Li, Booker and the other three were left at the scene again.

"Village Chief..."

"Okay, stop talking. God knows everything you do."

Angie wanted to beg again, but Kent interrupted her with a cold face: "Be content with what you have. If you try to take advantage of Fury and Booker again, I will never let you off next time."

Angie's lips trembled, and she seemed to feel that the outcome was inevitable. She collapsed to the ground and burst into tears.

She cried about how tragic her life was and how hard her life was. She also cried about her husband who died young and was not a good person. He left without even a child. She and Booker were the only ones left in the family to depend on each other, and yet she was still being criticized by everyone.

However, Kent didn't relent. He simply ignored Angie's sobbing and walked up to Xia Li, bowing to her. "Thank you, Xia Lihua. If you hadn't come forward to testify today, I'm afraid Booker would have lost this opportunity to study."

Booker, the person involved, was stunned the entire time. He opened his mouth and thought for a long time before asking, "So... can I go to school now?"

Village Chief Kent touched his head and said, "Of course, my good boy."

"Great! I can learn great magic! I can finally stand on my own!" Booker danced with excitement.

After saying this, Booker remembered the initiator of all this plan. He immediately put away his excitement and extended his hand to Xia Li: "Thank you, Sister Lihua."

If she hadn't arranged this plan and played the role of his grandfather Fu Rui, he would definitely continue to live a repetitive and boring life in Gera Village, flying kites or doing hard labor for Aunt Angie every day.

I can't see the future and I can't feel any hope.

But starting tomorrow, everything will be different.

"Thank you, my friend," Xia Li smiled. If Booker's friend hadn't exaggerated the rumors outside Aunt Angie's house, spreading rumors about wronged spirits crawling out of the night altar, Aunt Angie wouldn't have been scared into telling the truth.

The next morning, Xia Li woke up again in the Morgan family's shabby house.

The system sent her two messages in the middle of the night:

[Kent's favorability towards you +1]

[Booker's favorability towards you +5]

very good!

Her favorability rating in Gla Village is finally higher than 0! She no longer has to deal with people looking down on her!

Xia Li looked out the window with tears in her eyes. It was the first time she felt that the scenery outside the shabby house was so beautiful.

The people of Gela Village were no longer hostile to her. After paying the silver coins and having breakfast as usual, Xia Li went straight to Gela Village from the small shabby house.

From sewing, cooking, anatomy to planting, breeding, mining, diving, etc., Xia Li spent the whole day running NPC tasks and learned all the life skills she could learn.

In the skill panel, all the originally gray icons light up, and a small 1 or 2 is marked in the upper right corner of the icons, which indicates the current level of the life skill.

Life skills are divided into four levels: Entry, Skilled, Master, and Expert. Levels 1 to 10 are Entry, 11 to 20 are Skilled, 20 to 35 are Expert, and 36 and above are Master.

If you want to live comfortably in Miracle, in addition to improving your character's combat power, it is essential to learn proficient life skills!

Like before, she had always wanted to cook meat so that she could make delicious pork ribs for Xiaoguai to eat, but due to the invisible obstacle of Gela Village, she had never been able to do so.

Now that the cooking skill has been activated, the first thing Xia Li did was to take out the raw meat stored in her backpack, and after some simple processing, she made it into fried pork chops and threw them to Xiaoguai to eat. Xiaoguai's loyalty increased with each feeding.

In addition, planting and breeding skills must also be utilized, but the home system has not been opened yet, so she doesn't need to rush.

Ever since she completed the activating dungeon yesterday, she has been busy with the favorability issues in Gla Village. It was not until she was free in the evening that Xia Li had time to check her friends' messages.

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