Becoming the Villainess: I Dominate the Cultivation Realm with My Wok!-Chapter 418

"Although I have done my best for the children, it is indeed difficult to support the Qian Ding Sect alone as a woman. If it weren’t for Lord Huo’s kindness, Changgui might not have been able to attend school."

Chen Muxue spoke, sighing as she lowered her head, looking very pitiful.

Even though Lord Huo was unaware of when he actually sponsored Changgui, he thought it might be his good son Huo Lian who, for his sake, added a good reputation for him. Moreover, this woman in front of him was Huo Lian’s love interest, so Huo Lian must have wanted this woman to also have a good impression of his father...

Lord Huo internally filled in many nonexistent things, touched his large belly filled with fat, and looked at Chen Muxue, who appeared to want to speak but refrained, looking pitiful. He waved his hand grandly: "Miss Chen need not worry, Changgui is a good child. He previously concocted a better recipe for Qi Smoothing Pill, greatly aiding my Huo Family. How about this? I’ll decide to give you a thousand taels of silver to let you relax a bit."

Receiving a thousand taels of silver right away, Chen Muxue, who has been penniless since she transmigrated, was secretly delighted, yet maintained a very calm face: "A thousand taels... Haha, indeed, Lord Huo is generous..."

Seeing Chen Muxue looking awkwardly reluctant, Lord Huo felt a jolt inside. Yes, this girl, having been with his son for so long, surely wouldn’t be unfamiliar with a thousand taels; she must have seen large sums before. Huo Lian probably even provided a lot. He mistakenly thought, given that such a girl seemed similar to a rural farmer, that she’d never seen a thousand taels and hence he was stingy, causing him to make a fool of himself!

Lord Huo felt uneasy, as just now Chen Muxue looked at him without much respect but there was admiration. Yet now when looking again, though Chen Muxue looked calm, he inexplicably saw an expression saying, "Are you this stingy? Has Huo Lian been lying to her?"

However, in reality, Chen Muxue did not act excessively; she merely stayed there calmly, thinking maybe she could bluff him.

Considering the Qi Smoothing Pill recipe was a secret of the Qian Ding Sect, Huo Lian took and used it without asking, akin to deceiving a child. Given the scale of the Huo Family business, just selling Qi Smoothing Pill alone might have already brought in silver worth more than tens of thousands, right?

Simply considering how Changgui thoroughly enjoyed studying at the Huo Family Academy, Chen Muxue couldn’t directly criticize or say anything for fear the Huo family might change their attitude towards Changgui, resulting in an attitude shift from the teachers, and Changgui could not adapt. If both parties’ attitudes became strange, classmates would certainly notice, possibly leading them to change as well.

The small world environment of a school is always perilous; little changes can turn school life from heaven to hell.

Huo Lian himself showed no indication, acting as if she didn’t know, so it would seem reasonable for her to take a little from his father without feeling affected?

Lord Huo, not particularly intelligent to begin with, couldn’t bear that someone who admired him a moment ago might change due to his moment of stinginess, even secretly disdain him. He slapped his belly and said: "A thousand taels? What thousand taels? Miss Chen, you are so young yet seem hard of hearing. What I said was ten thousand taels!"

Lord Huo finished speaking, watching Chen Muxue’s expression with pride, thinking, hum, can’t get you now?