Your Teacher I, am Hella Rich

Chapter 16 - My Benign And Open-Hearted Senior Brother Still Has Leg Hair?

The lofty mountain range, at the Great Wall of Jiayuguan.

The blue-clad swordsman wielded a long sword and the dark-robed assassin concealed a short blade. Ji Xiaoli and One Wet Hand’s eyes met from a distance away. No words were exchanged between the two. It was like the showdown at the peak of the Forbidden City in a Gu Long* novel. However, it did not take long for the silence to be broken between the experts.

*古龙 Gu Long was a Chinese novelist, screenwriter, film producer, and director based in Taiwan. He is best known for writing wuxia novels and serials.

【Current】One Wet Hand: Noob, come get me.

【Current】Teacher Orders a Salute: Watch me!!!

According to Milk Tea Small Crisp, Ji Xiaoli’s PK skills could only be considered average and definitely nowhere near stellar. One Wet Hand’s PK skills were slightly better compared to Ji Xiaoli, but it was not very clear-cut. When the two weren’t caught in a fight, there was a lot of fun to be had; and once they did, Ji Xiaoli very quickly forgot the chain moves that Milk Tea Small Crisp had once taught him. 

At this point, the few real-life experiences he had with Boss Yang was brought to the forefront of his mind.

One Wet Hand realized Ji Xiaoli had fumbled and hurriedly went into stealth mode, preparing for a surprise attack to finish off Ji Xiaoli. Ji Xiaoli counted the seconds in his mind.

Boss Yang once told him:【A Youquan can cloak themselves for no longer than eight seconds. Ordinary Youquan will attack immediately after stealth goes down, and a top-tier Youquan will find the time to attack as soon as you reveal a blunder. So, when going against an expert Youquan, you have to intentionally reveal holes in your defenses, but for the average Youquan with some skills and are not too formidable, they’ll get cocky and choose to attack in the last second or two of stealth.】

Ji Xiaoli kept count, and when he was down during to the final two seconds, he suddenly opened his shield.

One Wet Hand had really gone on the offense; one slash landed on Ji Xiaoli’s shield that failed to break it but instead rebounded back for one-third of his health.

This was his chance!

Ji Xiaoli was on a warpath. With a blow that even he failed to clearly see, the black-clothed Youquan shrieked, crumpling to the ground and perished.

Ji Xiaoli stood stupefied.

One Wet Hand who was sprawled on the floor was also silent.

A few moments passed.

【Current】Teacher Orders a Salute: Holy shit? I won???

They had their PK near the Great Wall dungeon’s revival point. When One Wet Hand revived, he stood not too far away. He tabbed open Ji Xiaoli’s equipment only to stare in a stupor before going off:【Fuck. It’s just because you’re well-equipped. Would I still lose to you if we had the same cultivation? 】

【I’ll keep my word. I admit defeat. Don’t fuck with me in the future.】

【Megaphone】One Wet Hand: Teacher Orders a Salute, daddy!

【Megaphone】One Wet Hand: Teacher Orders a Salute, daddy!

【Megaphone】One Wet Hand: Teacher Orders a Salute, daddy!

The players in the World chat were perplexed by the three Megaphones. Some people still remember the confrontation that took place earlier in the day between One Wet Hand and Ji Xiaoli. It had been barely a day. Why did one side suddenly give in and refer to the other as daddy?

One Wet Hand got onto his horse to prepare to leave after having called him daddy three times. But, within the next second.

【Megaphone】Milk Tea Small Crisp: All players who kill “One Wet Hand”, PM me your screenshots as proof. 44RMB per kill.

The World chat erupted into a frenzy.

【Fuck!!!】

Ji Xiaoli also exclaimed in his heart: “Holy shit!!!”

One Wet Hand had yet to depart from Jiayuguan. Upon seeing the Megaphone announcement, he blew his top.

【One Wet Hand: Milk Tea Small Crisp, you bitch. What’s the meaning of this!?】

Milk Tea Small Crisp did not pay him any heed, only saying to Ji Xiaoli:【The treasure hunt event is starting. Let’s go.】

【One Wet Hand: …..】

The black-garbed Youquan made a direct attack against the female Emei. Milk Tea Small Crisp, however, maneuvered much quicker. Within a few moves, One Wet Hand laid motionless on the ground and had become a fresh corpse.

He watched with wide eyes as Ji Xiaoli and Milk Tea Small Crisp departed from Jiayuguan.

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Ji Xiaoli was so shocked by his own disciple’s flex that he was still stuck in a trance. When he came back to himself, he suddenly murmured:【Eh disciple, this doesn’t seem right? People in the World chat are saying they plan to collaborate with One Wet Hand to cheat your money!】

44RMB. It did not look like much at first glance when compared to Ji Xiaoli’s bounty for One Wet Hand at 444RMB.

But that was for killing “One Wet Hand” once.

In “Knight Errant Road”, everyone can only have arrest warrants set on their heads three times a day. Killing was different. As long as One Wet Hand was online, anyone had a chance of killing him anytime, anywhere.

Many a little makes a mickle. As long as players were willing to cooperate with One Wet Hand, he could pretend to have been slain by the other party and cheat Milk Tea Small Crisp out of his money. 

In the game, the female Emei stopped in her tracks and seemed to be giving the blue-clad swordsman a bewildered look.

Milk Tea Small Crisp:【You suddenly got smarter?】

Ji Xiaoli: “…….” Excuse you, I’ve always been smart!

【It will work out.】

???

How was it going to be resolved?

This was an answer that Milk Tea Small Crisp did not enlighten Ji Xiaoli with. But after that, he did see the outcomes of the settlement. There were indeed some players who came intending to cheat money; though all were recognized by Milk Tea Small Crisp at a glance.

The teacher and disciple went to the banks of Qinhuai River and located a painted boat to enter.

They were not here to seek pleasure. In reality, Milk Tea Small Crisp, who played as a female character, would not normally be able to enter one of these boats. It is only during the treasure hunt event when the “Fishing Tournament” takes place will the Qinhuai painted boats be opened to all players.

The fishing tournament was a solo competition. Thus, the duo were fishing side-by-side.

Ji Xiaoli could not help but stare at his disciple’s aloof figure. He was now deeply aware that however strong someone was, there would always be another who was stronger. He did not know whether his disciple was more foolish than he was, but he was sure that he was far more affluent. When he took a step back to reexamine the methods and how rapidly both parties spent their money…

“He is definitely more foolish than me!” Ji Xiaoli decided.

In the World chat, players were in a tizzy over Milk Tea Small Crisp’s cash bounty. In the deep, obsidian night of the Qinhuai River, in the small painted boat, the Huashan swordsman and the Emei heroine were engaged in fishing. 

Ji Xiaoli had recalled something out of the blue:【Oh yeah, disciple, you said you would tell me a secret!】

【Just ask.】

Ji Xiaoli:【?】

【Whatever you ask, I will answer.】

Whatever you ask, I will answer. The choice is yours.

Ji Xiaoli thought about it. Although he had little interest in Milk Tea Small Crisp’s secrets, everyone had a skeleton in the cupboard. Moreover, Milk Tea Small Crisp himself did not know what to tell him. After sitting on it for half a day, he was reminded of the types of questions his classmates liked asking when they used to play Truth or Dare in college.

Ji Xiaoli jested:【Aiih, this teacher does not really know what to ask you, but will be considerate of his disciple and not make things difficult. Do enlighten your teacher on the color of your underwear this fine night.】

【Milk Tea Small Crisp: ……】

Having just finished speaking, Ji Xiaoli recalled that he could ask one question, and he really had one that had him dying of curiosity.

【Milk Tea Small Crisp: Black.】

【Teacher Orders a Salute: I remember now! Hurry and spill. How much did you spend to buy this account!?】

They replied at the same time, leaving Ji Xiaoli confounded.

After a few seconds, Milk Tea Small Crisp sent out the numbers while keeping his cool:【200,000.】

Ji Xiaoli: “…..”

The invisible force is the most lethal!

【Teacher Orders a Salute: Aaaaa disciple, do you need a thigh hugger!? The kind that has gone to college, is unemployed, foolish, and hella rich!!! 】

【Milk Tea Small Crisp: ……】

On this fine day, Ji Xiaoli knelt to his tyrant disciple.

When the fishing tournament came to an end, Ji Xiaoli brought it up once more:【Oh yeah, disciple, why did you buy this account? I’ve heard that if Bei Yuan were to sell her account, it would only be worth no more than 300,000. If you wanted to play as an Emei, you could’ve just bought a boosted Emei account!】

【Do they have the Hands of Rejuvenation?】

【…No.】

Turns out his disciple bought this account just for that one skill.

Ji Xiaoli:【Then, why are you playing as an Emei?】

Ji Xiaoli finally asked the question he had always wanted to ask.

No matter how adorable the name Milk Tea Small Crisp was, his disciple was still male.

Most men preferred to play more PK-heavy characters, like Huashan, Wudang, or Youquan. While it was not as though there were no male players who enjoyed playing a healer, like Protect Our Meat Bun, it was clear his disciple was not like that. Even though he played a nanny, he was a blood-thirsty one with unbelievable damage output. Adding on to the golden skill “Hands of Rejuvenation”, the amount of healing was also extremely high.

Ji Xiaoli could vaguely tell that his disciple enjoyed PK and was also very proficient at it.

So, why on earth would he be playing on a wet nurse account?

As if Milk Tea Small Crisp was ruminating on how he wanted to answer the question, he did not reply for a while. Ji Xiaoli also had no intention of putting him on the spot and was about to say, “If you don’t want to talk about it, we can just let it go,” when he suddenly responded:【I want to give milk to this person.】

Ji Xiaoli: 【?】

【That person…has a very high health pool. A normal wet nurse would not be able to provide enough heals for them. The reason I have this account is so I can give that person… their own binded healer.】

Ji Xiaoli was stunned.

He shakily replied:【Bei Yuan… is also unable to provide?】

Milk Tea Small Crisp:【……】

Milk Tea Small Crisp:【The effects are average.】

Ji Xiaoli cursed internally. The reason his disciple played this game had come to light.

Why play as a wet nurse?

Because he wanted to gift a binded nanny to his beloved!

His beloved must be a big shot, and one with a very high health pool at that. In the first region of “Knight Errant Road”, the one with the highest health pool is Shaolin da shixiong “Pin Seng Fa Hao Jie Se”, followed by Ji Xiaoli’s arch-rival “YueJian ChunHe”. Following close behind the two is Tianshan da shijie “Braised Pigeon”!

A Tianshan warrior tanker with a high health pool!

Milk Tea Small Crisp, Braised Pigeon.

Both foods themed names with four characters*!

*奶茶小酥 Milk Tea Small Crisp and 红烧乳鸽 Braised Pigeon are made up of four characters in the Chinese text.

My disciple is so attentive!

However, he heard rumors that Braised Pigeon already had a significant other, and they seemed to be on the Tianshan leaderboard as well. Could it be that his disciple used a trap nanny account to approach Braised Pigeon to steal her away?

This doesn’t seem quite right though…

Whatever, this is still my disciple after all.

When Ji Xiaoli finally managed to reel in a fish during the final moments of the fishing competition, he stood up and lamented:【I will always have your back no matter what, disciple.】

【Milk Tea Small Crisp: …..?】

What?

It wasn’t long after Ji Xiaoli was done fishing, when Mrs. Ji rapped her knuckles against the door and yelled for him to go downstairs to enjoy some lotus seed soup*.

*莲子汤 Lotus seed soup is a sweet soup usually served as dessert. They are typically boiled alongside lily bulbs, red dates, snow ear fungus, and rock sugar. The SEA equivalent of this would be the Leng Chee Kang. Image source

Ji Xiaoli had yet to recover from the shocking revelation that his disciple turned out to be a smitten, rich, stinking third wheeler. He opened his WeChat while sipping away at his lotus seed soup. He had received a notification from his Moments, thus tapping it open.

A warm, pale yellow avatar border appeared in the “Like” column.

『Roasted Psyduck: Halp, nearly got set up on a blind date….』

Cyril has liked your post.

Mrs. Ji: “Son, why did you stop drinking? Is the lotus seed soup not sweet enough? Aunt Li, hurry and add some sugar to Xiaoli’s soup.”

Ji Xiaoli responded with haste: “No, it’s very sweet. You don’t have to add any more sugar, Aunt Li.”

Mrs. Ji muttered: “All you do is play on your phone all day. Your phone seems to take priority even when drinking soup.”

Ji Xiaoli chuckled as he quit WeChat Moments. What greeted him next was a barrage of WeChat messages from the university chat group.

What a peculiar sight. Ever since their graduation in June, rarely anyone would make conversation in the group. Twenty messages a day was considered sufficiently good.

He curiously tapped into the group.

【Li Fengshao: Forget making plans to get a chicken dinner tomorrow night. My old man’s pride and joy has returned from America. The old man insists on picking him up from the airport himself and treating him to dinner. I’m going with him… [facepalm emoji]】

【Liu Yan: Pride and joy? You mean the senior with the Ph.D. who went to Massachusetts to study robotics?】

【Li Fengshao: No, he’s not my senior. He’s our old man’s pride and joy. A prince!】

【Xia Xiao: A prince born from the pits of grad school. It’s a good thing we didn’t get into graduate school, or we’d have to be tossed around by our lecturers all day, just like you.】

【Li Fengshao: The prince is the man of the hour in our school. Comparing the two of us would be like comparing the sun up above and a morning glory stuck on earth. You can check for yourself on our school’s official website. He’s famous, rich and on top of that, handsome.】

Ji Xiaoli had also heard of this prince from his former classmates.

Li Fengshao was the most promising one in their class. After graduating, he went to Fudan as a graduate student in computer science, and his lecturer was even a master in the industry. Their lecturer’s favorite student was in Massachusetts for the first two years. Li Fengshao perpetually lived in his senior’s shadow and was constantly berated by the lecturer for everything he did. “You’re still nothing even when compared to your senior’s leg hair!”

Li Fengshao also felt aggrieved: “My benign and open-hearted senior brother still has leg hair?”

The next thing he knew, he’d been kicked out of the institute by the old man.

Yet Ji Xiaoli found himself unable to remember the name of this legendary master.

【Li Fengshao: That Ruan Fenghe, he said he wanted to eat Peking duck… What’s a Shanghai native doing eating Peking duck*. What’s wrong with hot pot!?】

*北京烤鸭 Peking duck is a specialty dish from Beijing that has been prepared since the imperial era.

Oh yeah, his name is Ruan Fenghe.

【Ji Xiaoli: You’re a Shanghai native. What hot pot? That’s a Chongqing thing. You should eat Shengjian*!】

*生煎 Shengjian mantou, shengjian bao, or shengjian for short, is a type of small, pan-fried baozi which is a specialty of Shanghai. It is typically filled with pork and gelatin that melts into soup/liquid when cooked.

As soon as the topic of food was brought up, the group chat came to live with students springing out left, right and center. The crowd chattered merrily about food, and the group of youngsters who had already taken their steps into society seemed to have transformed back into the same youthful and innocent people they once were on campus.

T/N: Underwear color of the day —— Black! °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖° Today, we pray for JXL’s one functioning brain cell. Send halp.

In the next chapter, JXL and his precious disciple finally pick a guild to join! Drop your guesses on where you think they end up, maybe?