Chapter 10: The Heaven and Earth Principle of Scooping Up Oil from Water

  "This thing, daughter, where did you pick this little thing up from?"

  "What's wrong?"

  "What's wrong with it, do you know how much it just ate?"

  "Girl, isn't it just eating a little something? Our family is the great rich man of Qingyun City, can't we even afford to eat a little bit? If Father hears you say this, he will definitely scold you for being petty!!" The young lady still didn't know the severity of the situation and thought that what was eaten was at most just a little more, but not too much.

  "If your father were here, he would have slaughtered this little beast immediately. Do you know how much it just ate?" Mother said angrily.

  "How much?" Looking at her mother like this, the young lady seemed to realize the severity of the problem and began to take it seriously.

  "It has already eaten up a month's worth of food for the entire household. If I hadn't discovered it early, it would have eaten everything here!!"

  "What?! Impossible!"

  "It's all because of you, this little girl, picking up anything and daring to throw it into the kitchen!"

  “……”

  ……

  "Eat eat, you glutton, are you willing to come back?"

  "Eat... eat..."

  That night, Xiao Yao found that Chi Chi seemed very satisfied, and he knew that Chi Chi must have met a wealthy family today!!

  ……

  Back in the present, Xiao Yao rushes back to Mo Jia on a cow cart, entering Mo Jia under everyone's astonished gaze.

  Of course, the astonished gaze of the crowd was not given to his carefree self, but to Mo Yu, the young mistress of the Mo family beside him. No one had expected that the young mistress would return so soon.

  Yes, they were not surprised that Big Sister came back by oxcart. They didn't think it was strange because they all knew that Big Sister could do anything.

  They were just surprised that the big sister who usually didn't come home until late at night actually came back home shortly after noon.

  "Xiaoyao, Master has already agreed, you can go to the pharmacy to get the medicine. Hmm, Xiaoyu, why didn't you go out today?" The second mistress found it a bit strange when she saw Xiaoyao with the young lady, but she didn't care about anything and just asked casually.

  "Then I'll go get the medicine, you guys chat slowly!" Xiao Yao immediately prepared to go get the medicine, looking very proactive.

  "Hey kiddo, I'm coming with you, don't rush!!" The big sister looked at Xiao Yao with a knowing smile on the corner of her mouth, "You little rascal, I can tell you're up to something."

  Before that, when the eldest sister came here, she saw the third young master stewing inside. She felt the third young master's seriousness and dedication, and at the same time, she also felt a bit uncomfortable all over her body.

  She had heard that this method was very difficult, and if she were to do it herself, she would absolutely not continue, so she also didn't intend to stay any longer and wanted to leave with Xiao Yao.

  The second lady looked at the eldest sister with a bit of curiosity, feeling that the eldest sister and Xiao Yao seemed to be getting a bit too close, but she didn't pay much attention to it.

  Firstly, the young lady is not her daughter; secondly, she is now concerned about her suffering son.

  "Carefree, how much did you spend on this medicine again? Is it enough?" The second lady asked very proactively.

  "That's enough. The pharmacy here gave us a 10% discount, so we still have some money left over. The receipt and the remaining money are all there, you can check it." said Xiao Yao.

  90% off? You little brat, you clearly bought it at 80% off and now you're making a profit of 10%!!

  "Well done! The Huang's pharmacy rarely gives a 10% discount! You can take the remaining money as a reward." The second lady said generously.

  "Thank you, Mrs. Two!!"

  He thanked him casually and then quickly grabbed the reward money before disappearing.

  As a family member, don't give him a reward, that's absolutely abnormal!! Xiao Yao previously just missed it, not that he didn't want to...

  Wow, this kid even got a reward! However, if I didn't know he was taking advantage of the situation, I would think the reward was well-deserved!! The big sister followed Xiao Yao, and the more she looked at him, the more interesting she found him.

  "Little one, weren't you just afraid that I would expose you?" said the big sister, patting Xiao Yao's shoulder as they walked away.

  "Don't be afraid!" Xiao Yao shook his head and said.

  "Why aren't you afraid? Logically, since you've been caught, you should be telling the truth, but instead you're still saying you got it for 90% off!" The young lady found this a bit strange. As she said, normally when someone gets caught, they would definitely confess and not try to swindle anymore, at least not this time, but Xiao Yao was still the same.

  This made the big sister feel very puzzled!!

  "Why bother saying the truth, you've already discovered it anyway. Whatever you want to say, even if I tell the truth, it's useless." Xiang said nonchalantly.

  "...... You little rascal have some guts, whoever sees it gets a share, you'd better divide this with me." The big sister said with a smile, and shamelessly wanted to take a share of the spoils.

  "Good!" Xiao Yao nodded, answering very succinctly.

  This kind of thing, indeed, is a matter of being present at the scene. If someone discovers it, they will get a share. He has received quite a few shares from others before, but he did it very secretly. It seems like this is the first time he's giving someone a "share of the spoils".

  "...How come you agreed so readily, is there something fishy going on..." The young lady looked at Xiao Yao with some suspicion.

  "I'm telling you, auntie, let's split it 50/50, you can calculate it yourself." Xiao Yao said with a bad tone and took out the silver to divide the spoils with Da Sao, splitting it exactly in half without any deviation.

  It's not because she is a rich girl, he would treat others the same way. In fact, he is just trying to get what he can from her, simply because he wants to.

  If he really cared about Xiaojie's identity, it wouldn't be a 50/50 split. He should have given more to Xiaojie.

  "But why, I think you have an ulterior motive?" The young lady took the silver coins very calmly, she didn't think about whether she should take this money or not.

  "...". He walked silently for a while, then continued on his way. Could he answer this question?

  Pretend you didn't hear it!!

  "Hey, you little rascal must be hiding some shady business!!" The big sister saw that Xiao Yao wasn't speaking up, so she thought there must be something fishy going on. Don't forget, her goal was to come and see what Xiao Yao was up to.

  If she finds out anything about Xiao Yao, she will definitely ——

  Ignore it!!

  That's right, she wouldn't care what Xiangyang does, she just wants to know what Xiangyang is going to do, that's all!

  “……, this young lady, I can secretly tell you that there is a bit of a cat's claw here. Since you know about it, let's split the matter evenly.” Xiangyang didn't struggle much and directly acknowledged it to the young lady, seemingly wanting to drag her into the water as well.

  "I knew you had a secret!! Haha, come on, what is it? Maybe I'll pretend I didn't see anything." The big sister looked triumphant, but she seemed to have no idea what she wanted to get out of this.

  "Alright, don't speak so loudly, or the whole world will know!!" Xiao Yao immediately stopped Big Sister's excited state, because at this time, many people were curiously looking at him and Big Sister.

  Walking with this young lady here is a very showy thing, and this young lady is also so strange!!

  "Hehe, got it! What are you looking at? Is there something good to see?!" The young lady said loudly while pretending to know, drawing even more attention to them, but no one dared to look directly at them.

  “……”

  Xiao Yao didn't want to say anything more, quickened his pace to fetch the medicine, and then immediately returned to prepare Third Young Master's medicinal bath. But now Eldest Miss was a bit confused.

  "Hey kid, aren't you going to take these herbs away?" The big sister saw that the carefree one had distributed them and found that there were only a few remaining herbs, which was normal, and even less than usual.

  The big sister had always thought that Xiao Yao just wanted to take away these medicinal materials, so she intentionally reported more materials, but now she found out that she was probably wrong.

  "What? No way! These are prepared for Third Young Master!" Xiao Yao said with a shake of his head.

  "Isn't there any extra?" The young lady asked with a frown.

  "No, these are all precisely calculated, there won't be much waste!" Xiao Yao continued shaking his head, shattering Big Sister's last bit of thinking.

  "Where exactly did you get stuck with a cat?" The young lady was furious. Was this little brat playing her?

  "This... you'll see next!!" Xīyáng fell silent for a moment, then continued with his work. He took the allocated medicinal herbs and went through various procedures - grinding, chopping, packaging, etc., to tidy them up before putting them into the medicine cauldron to start brewing.

  "Alright!!"

  “……”

  The big sister had been watching from the side all along, but she really couldn't see what was going on.

  "What did you take?"

  "Look at this!" said Xiao Yao, pointing at something.

  "Are you kidding me?! You little brat!" The big sister looked clearly at what Xiao Yao was pointing at, and got a bit angry. This little brat in front of her was obviously fooling herself.

  "No!" Xiao Yao replied very seriously.

  "What's this? Just some leftover medicine! That's what you call a trick!" The young lady asked in an ill-tempered tone.

  "Strictly speaking, these are not medicine dregs, but rather scraps of medicinal materials. Although they're a bit small, they still have some effect!! Medicine dregs refer to those that have been used..."

  "Get out! I don't need you to explain these things, I'm not a fool!!" The young lady interrupted Xīao's words, "What use do you have for these? They're just trash."

  "Miss, I just said that these effects are still there! Although it's this point at this time, it's only once. If there were ten times, twenty times, then it wouldn't be a small amount, and I could refine more elixirs." Xīu Yáo said very seriously.

  The young lady fell silent, she seemed to have understood Xiao Yao's meaning.

  "Overlooking the World"