Chapter 218 The Thief's Heart Remains Undiminished
Ning Xuan looked at the suddenly appearing oasis, but realized that a water storage place was still missing.
Although she didn't know how long the oasis could exist in the desert, Ning Xuan still used magic to dig a pond in the oasis and then filled it with water.
Fortunately, because of Han Dongling, her storage ring always contained a lot of supplies, including water. She emptied most of the water in her storage ring and filled the small pond she had dug.
Once the pond was finished, Ningxuan hurried off to school.
Interpersonal relationships in university are much more complex than in the Red Star Brigade. Whether in class or in the dormitory, there are many more classmates around you, and the dormitory is also a communal living arrangement.
Ning Xuan was assigned to a 6-person dormitory, which was not as comfortable as a 4-person dormitory, but better than an 8-person dormitory.
But because it was a shared dormitory, Ning Xuan was worried that her puppet wouldn't be able to handle the situation.
The overall atmosphere in their dormitory was quite good. Most of them were in their twenties, and two of them, like Huang Xiaomei and Liu Jun, were among the first batch of people sent to the countryside. They were already married with children and were 30 years old.
However, there was another person in their dormitory who wasn't exactly bad, just rather self-centered. She was a local from Beijing and her personality was somewhat similar to He Qiaofang's, but not as purely evil as He Qiaofang.
This person is Li Yan, who is two years younger than Ning Xuan. She is the little princess of the Beijing circle. On the day she went to school and went to the dormitory, a bunch of people from her family came to escort her to the dormitory and helped make the bed and check the dormitory situation.
If it weren't for the current crackdown on slouching and other outrageous behavior, their family would probably be even more outrageous.
However, the spectacle at the time also made the other roommates realize that this roommate must come from a well-off family and that her family loved her dearly.
After graduating from high school, Li Yan did not go to the countryside. Her family helped her get a job in an office. Her work was very easy. Later, she was among the first to learn that the college entrance examination would be reinstated, and she started reviewing early.
Li Yan herself is not stupid, so she was able to get into Peking University smoothly.
However, she was not only spoiled but also arrogant. In the dormitory, she would always naturally want to order others to do things for her, such as fetching hot water, bringing food, making beds, and taking her place to clean the dormitory.
Her excuse was always, "I don't know how to do it, I've never done it at home."
At first, Ning Xuan helped her once or twice, but the other party took it all for granted and didn't even say thank you, so Ning Xuan eventually refused.
“If you don’t know how, you can learn. You were able to get into Peking University through studying, so why is it so hard to learn these life skills?” Ning Xuan didn’t spoil her at all.
“But I don’t have to do these things at home,” Li Yan said dismissively.
Ning Xuan interrupted her, "But you're not at home right now. We're students just like you, your roommates, not your nannies. We have no obligation to take care of you in every aspect of your life. You're an adult now. Either learn to take care of yourself, or you go back home."
“I also want to go home, but the school won’t let me. At least I can only apply when I’m older.” Li Yan also felt very wronged and thought Ning Xuan was heartless and lacked the love of her classmates.
After being rejected by Ning Xuan in person, Li Yan no longer dared to ask Ning Xuan to do anything.
The other people in the dormitory didn't want to either, but occasionally they couldn't refuse and would help Li Yan.
Before Ning Xuan left this time, Li Yan went home and seemed to have a change of heart when she came back.
Don't get me wrong, it's not that they've become enlightened and learned to be independent, it's that they've learned to use material incentives.
Mu Xinran was the oldest in the dormitory. She married a local man when she went to the countryside and now has a son and a daughter. She was luckier than Huang Xiaomei. Her husband's family helped her take care of the children, and her husband, like her, got into a university in Beijing, but not the same one.
Mu Xinran's family was not well-off; they were the poorest in the dormitory. She also missed her two children back in her hometown, so she was very frugal and tried to save her allowance to send home.
When Li Yan returned home this time, she knew that if she asked someone for help, she had to give them something in return. In order to avoid being accused of private business, Li Yan did not give money directly, but rather some receipts or other items.
Sometimes it's meal tickets, sometimes it's a small box of clam oil or something like that. Of course, you don't get these things just for helping out once, but rather after helping out for several days in a row.
The other people in the dormitory were unwilling to earn this meager "compensation," but Mu Xinran felt that it was just a convenient task, and she could earn some meal tickets or supplies to supplement her family's income, so she was quite happy to do it.
Mu Xinran was willing to do it, so no one else could say anything.
Ning Xuan was worried that since she wasn't the real person, the puppet's reactions wouldn't be as agile, and she might get tricked by Li Yan.
More importantly, the puppeteer couldn't handle those complicated assignments, but fortunately, she had only been out for a day. She was a Chinese literature major, and none of the assignments in her department were due on the same day, so it should be fine.
If there's a sudden, urgent assignment due, she can just go back and finish it.
Thinking about school, Ning Xuan rushed back as fast as she could.
At this point, the benefits of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage become particularly obvious. Although both used the Swiftness Talisman, the speed of the Foundation Establishment stage was significantly more than twice as fast as that of the Qi Refining stage.
Ning Xuan returned to school in just a third of the time it would normally take her to leave home. She used an invisibility talisman the whole way, so once she arrived at school, she immediately sensed the location of the puppet, then gave it the command to go to the toilet. She went to the toilet, put the puppet away, and then secretly switched back to her real body.
As for what happened during her absence, she had already read the puppet's memories before recalling it, and nothing went wrong.
At most, her roommates found it a little strange, feeling that Ning Xuan had become much quieter.
When she returned to the dormitory, her roommates were all doing their homework.
When Li Yan saw Ning Xuan, she remembered that Ning Xuan seemed to have spoken to her much more gently these past two days, so she said cheekily, "Ning Xuan, since you just came back from outside, why don't you go to the cafeteria again and get me some food? It'll be cold going out after staying in the dorm for so long."
Ning Xuan didn't expect that Li Yan was still up to her old tricks and was still trying to order her around.
Before she could react, someone rushed over from the dormitory.
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