Chapter 283 Who is cheating whom?
Wu Yu looked at Lin Xiaoman helplessly, turned around and walked out of the courtyard wall, searched for a while at the collapsed courtyard wall next door, walked over with a stone and handed it to Lin Xiaoman.
"Look, this is a stone from your courtyard wall. When your wall collapsed, a stone flew out and hit the wall of the neighboring courtyard, destroying their formation. That's why their wall collapsed."
Lin Xiaoman frowned, "Is it possible?" Is her thunder talisman so powerful?
Wu Yu seemed to know what she was thinking and said, "Your thunder talisman is very powerful. You were testing the power of the thunder talisman in the yard, right?"
Lin Xiaoman nodded hesitantly. Of course, she was just testing the effect of the talisman as she used to do in the courtyard of Tianyan Sect. She didn't expect that the formation of Wuji City was so weak and was easily broken.
Wu Yu sighed. Sometimes he felt that Lin Xiaoman’s luck didn’t seem to be very good.
Although his second uncle was a bit exaggerated and serious about this matter, he had never seen him be so serious before. Well, he had never seen a cultivator survive a thunder tribulation in the City Lord's Mansion of Wuji City before, or blow up a corner of the courtyard formation while trying out a talisman.
He felt somewhat guilty because, after the shock caused by the beast tide to Wuji City, Wuji City had to recheck and revise the formations of all the houses. This was a common practice in previous years, as they were afraid that the formations in the city defense formation caused by the beast tide would become loose, thus causing the formations inside the city to become loose.
After a month of getting along with each other, Wu Yu felt that Lin Xiaoman was a pretty good person. It was really pitiful that he was betrayed by his second uncle.
"Xiao Man, have you offended my second uncle?"
Lin Xiaoman blinked, "Your second uncle? Senior Wu Shan?"
"Um."
"No, I haven't even spoken to Senior Wu Shan."
Seeing the indescribable expression on Wu Yu's face, she subconsciously looked at her collapsed courtyard wall. Suddenly, an idea occurred to her, "Well, I have to compensate for the damage caused by the collapsed courtyard wall, right?"
Wu Yu nodded silently.
Seeing the sympathy in his eyes, Lin Xiaoman felt so upset that she almost suffocated. "What? How much is it this time?" Why did she feel so unsurprised?
When she saw Wu Yu outside the door saying that he was here to calculate the losses, she had some guesses.
Sure enough!!!
"The overall estimate is 10 million spirit stones."
Wu Yu said this, not daring to look towards Lin Xiaoman.
"How many?!"
Lin Xiaoman widened his eyes, raised his voice and asked in disbelief.
Wu Yu scratched his head helplessly. Well, he didn't know why his second uncle would make such a strange suggestion.
"How could it possibly cost 10 million? This is just the corner of a courtyard wall. Even if you add the wall of the next courtyard, it still can't be 10 million. Well, the City Lord's Mansion lost so many courtyards, and it only cost 18 million."
"Xiao Man, Xiao Man, don't get excited, just listen to me first."
Lin Xiaoman took a deep breath and paced back and forth in the yard. She also wanted to calm down. Ten million, and another ten million. Her previous debt of eighteen million was still nowhere to be seen.
"Is that so? My second uncle said that he knows it's not easy for you. He said that the 10 million is just for show. After all, the City Lord is still here. He doesn't have the final say in the City Lord's Mansion. Right? Aren't you going back in five years? Can you help me train an apprentice within these five years?"
"apprentice?"
Lin Xiaoman was surprised and paused, "Wait, five years? How do you know I'll be going back in five years? No, your second uncle."
Wu Yu froze for a moment and chuckled dryly. "Well, didn't you sign a contract with the Yunling Chamber of Commerce to become their Talisman Master? The Yunling Chamber of Commerce usually signs five-year contracts with Talisman Masters."
Lin Xiaoman suddenly realized that this was the case. She thought Wu Shan and Yu Xiuqi knew each other, or had colluded with each other.
But think about it, she is just a small talisman cultivator, who is only at the Jindan stage. In front of big guys like Wu Shan, they probably won't care about her.
"But I don't know how to teach apprentices, and I haven't thought about accepting any."
She hasn't even made any progress herself, and she's already teaching an apprentice? The thought of it is unbearable.
Besides, she has no time. She has to draw talismans day and night to pay off her debts.
"No, there's no need to teach him. Just let him draw talismans the way you draw them. It doesn't matter if you take him to your side five years later. If he can become a Heavenly Talisman Master as powerful as you in the future, you can just let him return to Wuji City. Is that okay?"
After saying this, he realized that he hadn't mentioned the most important thing. "My second uncle said that if you agree to accept me as his disciple, the ten million will be waived immediately."
Lin Xiaoman: ... "No, I don't know how to teach apprentices, don't bring bad people."
"Besides, I don't have time. I still have 18 million in debt to pay off."
"You can ask your apprentice to help you pay it back."
Lin Xiaoman looked at Wu Yu speechlessly, "How many basic talismans do you think my apprentice needs to draw to pay off this debt?"
Besides, she doesn't like to be in debt.
Wu Yu's eyes sparkled, and even Lin Xiaoman could see his anticipation. "Well, Xiaoman, my second uncle has another suggestion. I wonder if you're interested."
"What's the proposal?"
Lin Xiaoman took out her barbecue grill, lit the fire, took out the barbecue seasoning, took out the sixth-level monster meat she hunted this time and started to barbecue. Now that things have come to this, there is no point in thinking more. Worrying will only make herself more troubled. She might as well reward herself with a delicious meal. She has worked very hard this month.
Wu Yu was stunned when he saw this. A cultivator has reached the Jindan stage, so does he still need to eat?
He had felt strange when he saw Lin Xiaoman collecting all the meat of monsters above level six. It turned out that this was how they were to be eaten, and it tasted strange and fragrant.
Wu Yu walked forward, salivating over the barbecue, but… "There's a little fellow in our clan who has a pretty good talent for talismans. Can you take him in as your disciple? If you're willing, the 18 million will be the tuition."
Lin Xiaoman's eyes lit up slightly, and he looked up. "Oh? What about the other 10 million?"
Wu Yu was helpless. Why did he suddenly have a feeling that it was not his second uncle who was cheating them, but Lin Xiaoman who was trying to trick them?
"If I can help that little guy break through to become a Heavenly Talisman Master, then the ten million won't be necessary."
"Heavenly Talisman Master, do you know how many years it took me to reach the Heavenly Talisman Master level after learning talismans since I was a child? If your little one succeeds in reaching the Heavenly Talisman Master level, how many years will have passed? By then, I would have already earned 10 million."
Lin Xiaoman nodded with a smile, then began to calculate his account. "By the way, you know how much the Yunling Chamber of Commerce pays us talisman masters, right? Actually, if I work there for five years, drawing talismans according to the procedures, I could earn not just ten million, but twenty-eight million."
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