Doupo: Rebirth of Gu He, Starting with a Strategy to Win Over Yun Yun

Chapter 137 Ye Xinlan, Can I Help You?Zi Yan suddenly came to find him, saying she wanted to go out and play. Gu He had thought she had discovered some treasure trove of delicious food.

As it turned out, it was just an ordinary market.

At a stall filled with the chaotic sounds of animals and livestock, Zi Yan grabbed an old hen that had been fed with Spiritual Plant and Spirit Medicine, shouting loudly, ”I want to eat this!”

Gu He hurriedly stopped her, ”You can’t eat it raw.”

Gu He had originally been worried that there might be some animosity between himself and Zi Yan because of Xiao Yan.

Who would have known, Zi Yan had never even had contact with Xiao Yan at Jia Nan Academy.

Perhaps because Gu He had changed the course of the original story, Zi Yan never met Xiao Yan. Later, because she missed her Family too much, she secretly snuck out of Jia Nan Academy and headed to the Central Plains.

However, being young and inexperienced, she didn’t know that the Central Plains were filled with experts, and she looked very easy to bully, so she suffered quite a few hardships on the road.

Of course, given Zi Yan’s personality of retaliating on the spot, she didn’t suffer too much of a loss.

Zi Yan held the hen by its claws, looking aggrieved: ”It grew this big, isn’t it just for me to eat?”

”It’s so unreasonable!”

Gu He hurriedly comforted her. After paying, he instructed the owner to kill the chicken later, ”A storage ring cannot hold living things. Once the chicken is killed, I will put it inside and take it back to cook for you...”

Zi Yan nodded in satisfaction. Who knew that as soon as she put the old hen down, it would flap its powerful wings, flutter several times in mid-air, and successfully fly up, ”Cluck, cluck, cluck—”

The old hen was about to pounce on a beautiful woman in blue. The woman in blue was quick-witted and used her Qi to knock the chicken down, ”Cluck!”

The woman in blue didn’t mind the chicken; she directly picked it up by its two claws, letting it hang halfway. Then she looked at Gu He and Zi Yan, who were walking over, ”Is this your chicken?”

Gu He nodded, ”Sorry.”

Zi Yan added somewhat awkwardly: ”It’s the chicken we just bought. It was my fault for not holding it tight...”

The woman in blue nodded, ”I just used my Qi to kill it. I hope you don’t mind.”

Zi Yan turned her head, ”I wouldn’t mind at all!”

Gu He took the old hen, put it into his storage ring, and then looked seriously at the woman in blue, ”I am Gu He, and she is Zi Yan. May I ask, Miss...?”

The woman in blue smiled charmingly, her expression approachable: ”My name is Ye Xinlan.”

So it was Ye Xinlan... The granddaughter of Ye Zhong, the Grand Elder of the Ye Family, one of the Five Great Families of the Pill Tower.

But just as the atmosphere was still relatively relaxed, ”Hmm? Isn’t this the Young Miss of the Ye Family, Ye Xinlan?” An arrogant and domineering male voice, filled with intense bluster, suddenly erupted in the air.

Cao Dan of the Cao Family, accompanied by a large group of servants, walked with an arrogant stride and swaggered in front of Ye Xinlan and Gu He.

Ye Xinlan frowned and said nothing.

Cao Dan, as if savoring the image of Ye Xinlan ”grabbing a chicken with one hand,” smacked his lips: ”Tsk tsk, it seems your Ye Family has completely given up on the Family assessment!”

A cold chill curled the corner of his mouth: ”Among the Five Great Families, your Ye Family is already at the bottom. You might as well just concede!”

Ye Xinlan was naturally unwilling. She had a delicate and beautiful Face, and a flash of impatience at dealing with the Cao Family members crossed her eyes. Her voice was slightly cold, ”Our Ye Family naturally has our own methods and arrangements. It is not your place, a junior of the Cao Family, to point fingers!”

Cao Dan did not jump in anger as he usually did when stung by Ye Xinlan’s words. Instead, he lightly cast a gaze, filled with a sticky sensation, upon Ye Xinlan’s beautiful Face, ”Then I shall see, what rank your Ye Family will take among the Five Great Families during the assessment!”

”Cluck, cluck, cluck—” Just then, chicken feathers flew into the sky.

An old hen flew out from Zi Yan’s hand. It was unclear if she did it on purpose or not, but the hen seemed to have been grabbed painfully. Yet, as it flew into the sky, it was as if its heart had grown eyes, and it flew straight at Cao Dan’s head.

Cao Dan hurriedly launched an attack, his Qi striking towards the hen, but the old hen ignored him entirely, flying straight over his head.

Cao Dan’s attack missed. But immediately, he felt a warmth on his head.

He couldn’t help but raise his hand to touch his hair. His hand touched something warm, sticky, and foul-smelling.

!! ”Chicken poop!!” This time, Cao Dan really jumped in anger.

As the eldest young master of the Cao Family, this was the first time he had suffered such an unexpected setback.

After Cao Dan hurried to clean his hand, he looked up and saw that Ye Xinlan was already far away from him, and that strange man and the little girl who had let the chicken go were the same, looking up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle with expressions of ignorance.

”...” Cao Dan’s anger was as vast as the sea.

The hen had flown from the hands of that little girl with purple twin tails, but it wasn’t as if she had chased the chicken to fly; it was the chicken itself that had taken the initiative—to fly onto his head and poop.

The stall owner caught the old hen and apologized repeatedly, ”It ate too much today, I am so sorry, so sorry—”

”I think you don’t want to do business anymore!” Cao Dan raised his hand in a rage, and a surge of Qi struck towards the stall owner’s several chicken coops.

”Boom!” A slight roar echoed. The chicken coops were unharmed because Ye Xinlan had raised her hand to block Cao Dan’s attack.

”Don’t run wild in the market managed by our Ye Family!” Ye Xinlan was truly angry this time.

Cao Dan had come to provoke them first, and now he wanted to attack the people and goods in their market. If it weren’t for the sake of the Cao Family, one of the Five Great Families, Ye Xinlan would not have tolerated it again and again.

Thinking of the upcoming assessment of the Five Great Families, Ye Xinlan’s expression darkened. Their Ye Family simply did not have an Alchemist who could defeat the Alchemist carefully cultivated by the Cao Family.

Cao Dan had high talent for Alchemy, and Cao Ying of the Cao Family was a woman who could be called a Prodigy.

She was accepted as a Disciple by the Pill Tower at fifteen, receiving their full Legacy. By twenty, she was already a Seventh-Rank Alchemist, piled high with Heaven And Earth Treasure, and enveloped in a myriad of glorious light.

Whenever Ye Xinlan thought of these things, she would fall into deep distress over the Family’s honor.

Cao Dan glanced coldly at Ye Xinlan, a sneer flashing in his eyes: ”I’m not in a rush. When the assessment comes, I will just sit and watch the miserable sight of your Ye Family’s defeat...”

After delivering this line, he unexpectedly smelled the scent of chicken poop drifting into his nose. He frowned in disgust and, with his swarming entourage behind him, left the market managed by the Ye Family.

Watching Cao Dan’s arrogant back, Ye Xinlan bit her lip, a flash of resentment in her eyes. Then, remembering something, she turned to Zi Yan and said, ”Your name is Zi Yan, right? Thank you for earlier... I can tell that you intentionally let the old hen fly.”

Ye Xinlan briefly explained the conflict between the Five Great Families to the two, then said, ”Our Ye Family’s position is very awkward right now. I want to vent my anger, but I cannot fight back directly. The only way is to defeat them in the assessment, but unfortunately, our Ye Family’s strength is too weak, and we don’t have an Alchemist suitable to Face the challenge...”

Ye Xinlan had been holding it in for too long and was extremely depressed, otherwise, she would not have poured her heart out to two people she had just met.

But who would have known, this clear and handsome man dressed in black looked at her with gentle eyes, his voice steady: ”I am a Grade 8 Alchemist. Can I help you?”