Chapter 4921 — You Really Can Refine Pills?
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Good heavens! Wei Zhao was speechless and on the verge of losing his mind. Wang Xinyan and the others were doubled over with laughter, and Lu Xiaozhong kept pounding the ground flat on his belly, laughing until tears streamed from his eyes.
"There's no getting through to you. I'm leaving—are you coming or not!" Wei Zhao could not be bothered to keep talking with this silly little girl; drag this on any longer and he might well rupture something inside from sheer frustration.
"Coming, coming—take me out of here, heroine!" Ni Caiyue nodded like a chicken pecking at rice and hurried eagerly after him.
"Heroine?!" Wei Zhao stumbled and fell flat on the ground. He was a perfectly good grown man—since when had he become a heroine?
"You don't like being called a heroine?" Ni Caiyue gave him a strange look and muttered to herself, "Well, if you're a woman, then of course you're a heroine—that's what my master taught me. Oh, never mind. Since you don't like it, I'll just call you elder sister. Or younger sister works too!"
This time Wei Zhao went completely mad. Wang Xinyan and the others had laughed themselves out of strength and could only look at him helplessly, one after another. Now this was rich—from this day forth, the world had one fewer Young Hero Lin and one more Sister Lin!
"Listen carefully, little girl—I am a man, a real, honest-to-goodness man, not some heroine, and certainly not anybody's elder or younger sister!" Wei Zhao could only clarify in a voice drained of strength. Talking with this silly girl was truly a killing affair; he simply could not keep up with her bizarre twists of logic.
"Huh? Then why did you call yourself my little silly girl? You really are a strange one!" Ni Caiyue looked Wei Zhao up and down with the expression of someone observing a madman.
"I—" Wei Zhao pointed at her for quite a while, choked speechless, unable to get out a single complete sentence. In the end he abandoned all hope of self-clarification and said helplessly, "Are you coming or not? So much pointless chatter!"
"Coming, coming, of course I'm coming. I've been wanting to go back for ages." Ni Caiyue nodded eagerly.
"Then what's in it for me?" A thought suddenly stirred in Wei Zhao's heart. He halted and turned his head to look at her with deep meaning.
"In it for you?" Ni Caiyue blanked for a moment, then suddenly gave a startled cry and clapped both hands over her chest, staring at Wei Zhao warily and stammering, "Wh-what do you want in return? My master said that if it comes to that sort of thing, I must sooner die than submit!"
Wei Zhao's face went dark with exasperation. Rubbing his forehead, he said helplessly, "Where has your mind wandered to? As a little girl, could you keep your thoughts a little pure?"
"You're teasing me again!" Ni Caiyue glared at Wei Zhao, puffing with indignation.
Wei Zhao had always been good-natured, but dealing with this silly girl, he had lost count of how many times he had come close to losing his mind. He quickly took a deep breath to calm himself and came straight to the point: "Let's not drag this out. I'll ask you—once you take this Nurturing Mystery Grass out of here, who do you plan to have refine it into Nurturing Mystery Pills?"
"Why, I'll give it to my master, of course, and she'll go find the academy's pill refiner. No one else knows how to refine Nurturing Mystery Pills," Ni Caiyue said, as though it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"And what price will you have to pay?" Wei Zhao asked again.
"Price?" Ni Caiyue instinctively clutched her chest again and said warily, "My master won't make me do that sort of thing. Not even if I die!"
Everyone burst out laughing once more—this silly girl was a rare treasure indeed. Wei Zhao said with a dark face, "Who said anything about that sort of thing! I mean, even the academy's pill refiner surely won't refine pills for you for nothing. There has to be a price, doesn't there?"