Guild Boss's Ambition

"What's good or bad about it? Isn't it just Ruan who is alone?"

Corvina chuckled, his mouth temporarily away from the long pipe, his tone was self-deprecating, but also seemed to be indifferent: "Ruan gave birth to three daughters, but all three daughters were heartless and lost money. The eldest daughter was always hanging around the Chamber of Commerce chasing goddesses. The second daughter left home ten years ago and said she wanted to find the truth of the world. I don't know if she is dead. The youngest daughter──"

Corvina blinked his eyes belatedly and said, "My youngest daughter went to study abroad in the Dark Alliance in her early years. I heard from the letter she sent home last month that she was going back to the Snake House. And then, for some stupid reason, she said she would be a trainee adventurer in your guild for a while. If nothing unexpected happens, she should report to your guild in a few days."

Corvina's daughter!?

Although I haven't seen Corvina's youngest daughter for a long time, judging from the tragic characters of her mother and two elder sisters, this third daughter has probably grown into a difficult weirdo. I can fully imagine what kind of ugly expression Meng'er or Hai Lao would show when they hear the last name Caesar. It would probably be the concept of eating rotten grapes.

As the mother in question, Corvina also sighed: "Well, you know the situation in our family. Doris is a little crazy. If she does something strange in your place, you should tolerate it and don't stimulate her too much. Otherwise, if she goes crazy, I don't know what she will do."

“But there are already quite a few freaks in our guild now,” I said with a wry smile.

"Freak? Does our guild have any special freaks?" Gu Shan asked with shining eyes at this time.

Hearing this, Corvina shook off the burnt tobacco and said with a smile, "It is true that there are more strange young people. For example, the blue-haired fox and the necromancer are enough to annoy you. But you also know that the Stone House needs these reckless freaks, not those dull guys who act cautiously."

Having followed three generations of guild presidents, I naturally understand the true meaning behind the stone house. I also know that the more adventurers with abnormal brains, the better. Judging from the current situation, if we can have one or two more strong people like Raftan, our generation may have the opportunity to send out the first powerful search team and continue the mission of expanding the horizons of civilization.

To the Stone House, a hundred platinum-level adventurers are no match for one fearless desperado.

"They are all very energetic new generations. Bai Ye is very executive, Raftan is determined, and I also see the uncertainty needed for adventure in ViVi. But it is not easy to support these little bad guys, especially ViVi. Her mind is more difficult to guess than Bai Ye's. It's like many personalities sharing one body."

Corvina smiled charmingly, "Ruan was also very curious about the blue-haired fox, so he used some means to investigate her. She is not safer than Bai Ye, but at least she is not as smart as Bai Ye. She has been in jail fourteen times for illegal intrusion, theft, robbery and criminal damage. What's interesting is that the targets of her men are not good men and women."

"You mean...she's a good person?" I asked.

Corvina laughed cheerfully, "I don't know if she is a good person or not, but unlike Bai Ye, her behavior is not so intolerable that Meng'er wants to kill her. Her goal is also very clear. She just wants to see all kinds of expressions on people's faces. Controlling other people's emotions through various methods can bring her great satisfaction."

Given the financial resources behind Corvina, I'm not too surprised at what she found out.

"Planning strategies and winning battles from thousands of miles away." - This is the glorious portrayal of the Caesar family left in history.

In terms of intelligence, she is as terrifying as Bai Ye, but she is more reassuring than Bai Ye.

After all, she is a lady snake who hibernates in the snake house all day long, and it is unknown whether she goes out once a year.

"Oh, I almost forgot. Your old man came back to see me a while ago. He looked so gray and haggard. It seems that he has not been doing well recently. He is so old that I can hardly recognize him. The next time we meet, I advise you to quickly catch him and take him back to the stone house to raise him. Otherwise, if he dies of old age, you won't know where to pick up his body."

Old man?

The former former president?

He came back to Mopolis but didn't come to see us?

Or……

"Why did he come to you for something important?"

"Good guess, but it missed."

Corvina lifted his thighs, posing in a child-like graceful manner, and angrily cursed: "Ruan originally thought that he was here to provide Ruan with some important information, but I didn't expect that he came all the way back from the Dark Alliance just to bring Ruan local specialties, and they were the extremely spicy Mapo Tofu, which made Ruan unable to bear it and killed him!"

Thinking of Meng'er's grandfather's temper, I couldn't help but smile knowingly: "Don't be offended, Corvina. The president is such a simple fool. Besides, he is old and his brain may not work well. When he saw delicious food on the road, he wanted to bring it back and share it with you. Even this friendship across the forbidden land of light and darkness should be enough to make you calm down, right?"

Corvina rolled her eyes in a charming manner and said angrily, "I'm still angry, but I've had diarrhea for a long time. That tofu is highly poisonous."

"It's going to make a half-Medusa sick. The president's tofu is not ordinary..."

"But why didn't Grandpa go home to visit after he came back?"

Thinking of this, I couldn't help feeling a little lost.

No matter how forgetful the president is, he will never forget the way home.

He didn't come back because he didn't want to.

At this time, Gu Shan, who had been listening to the adults talking obediently, raised her hand with a curious expression, totally unlike a child who was scared to the point of peeing her pants by a big white snake. She knelt on the sofa lively, leaned most of her body in my direction, and shouted in a loud voice, "President Grandpa? Big sister, who are you talking about?"

Gushan's mouth is as sweet as honey.

The sweet voice of "big sister" immediately made the century-old Corvina smile: "Little Gushan is worthy of being the rising star of our Stone House. He is honest and knows how to talk. But when it comes to your chairman grandfather, it's not something that can be explained in a day or two. Ruan thinks you should wait until you return to the Stone House to ask your sister Annie?"

Undoubtedly, Corvina had seen through my thoughts and hinted that she disapproved of my approach.

She was pushing my Gushan into me.

But at this moment, I couldn't find any reason to refuse.

Under Gu Shan's innocent and expectant gaze, I had no choice but to continue playing the role of my intimate elder sister, smiling and nodding.

After seeing Gushan successfully attack the city wall, Corvina's ladder also showed me a malicious smile: "Well, let's not talk about those antique topics so early in the morning. It's a rare opportunity for little Gushan to come to my humble house. As the host, Ruan should take out some good things to entertain you. In our Snake House, the best treasure is naturally the Hell Cobra."

As he finished speaking, a three-meter-tall giant eagle flew in from the window of the living room on the second floor. The giant eagle did not run into the house, but just dropped something into the house through the window and flew away with its wings. The dropped object was a colorful giant snake with nine tails. Even a stupid girl like our Gushan Loli could immediately realize that this was the Hell Cobra that Corvina had just mentioned.

"Snake—it's a snake!"

I don't know if it was Covina's careful design, but this super-sized prison cobra hit Gushan again. The loli with twin ponytails turned pale, and she held the huge snake head tightly with both hands. Then her eyes rolled back and she was frightened unconscious.

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30. Blessings (Blanny)

(Branny Erhard)

It snowed again in the middle of the night.

Tonight, Xiaolan is still unconscious in Miss Baiye's room.

Although it was only less than a week, I felt like I hadn't seen her for a long time. Even the entire stone house seemed to have shifted its center of gravity because of her coma. This was not an exaggeration, but was truly reflected in every part of the guild. It was as if the protagonist of a novel suddenly disappeared, causing people to temporarily lose their focus.

Xiaolan possesses such an important influence, which makes her have the potential to become the most beautiful girl in our Stone House.

Judging from the current situation of the stone house, Senior Anne should have the largest and widest customer base for the time being. The beauty of half-elf is fascinating, and Senior Anne is so gentle, steady, and considerate. People with troubles and those without troubles will come to her to chat and drink, and thus she has gradually gained a good reputation among adventurers.

But this is all based on the fact that Senior Anne has always been working at the forefront.

But Xiao Lan is different.

Xiao Lan usually just stays on the third floor and studies with Hai Lao. The number of customers she comes into contact with is not large and they are very fixed. There are only a hundred or so contracted adventurers coming and going. But despite this, she still made it to the front page of Qunfangshu as a newcomer. Because of the marching wolf incident two days ago, her name even appeared in major newspapers and magazines.

If you think about it carefully, Xiaolan is now considered a minor celebrity.

The God of Destiny is partial. He always arranges some fascinating plots for Xiao Lan.

At this time, I was drawing the Xiaolan in my memory in the room. This morning, Xiaolian and I went to Miss Baiye again, and were turned away again. However, compared to the beginning, the smile on Miss Baiye's face was obviously much more relaxed and bright. As long as I got this smile, my uneasy heart settled down, and I could promise Lian'er that Xiaolan would be fine.

At the same time, Lian'er was lying obediently on the bed in the room, kicking her legs back and forth while folding colorful paper cranes one after another. This was probably a way of praying that Xiaolan taught her, but she didn't know which god she was praying to. However, based on Xiaolan's personality, these paper cranes were probably just a way of expressing lovesickness and hope and had no practical effect.

Thump!

Suddenly, the door was opened without any warning.

I then thought of the blue-haired fox that didn't play by the rules.

"Senior Berlane - woo woo -"

But the person who came was not ViVi, whom I was afraid of, but Xiao Gushan from our guild.

Gu Shan walked in with a bitter face and asked pitifully, "Senior, do you have any candy here? Today, Senior Annie and I went to the snake house. It was a terrible place. From breakfast to dinner, it was all snake meat. My mouth is full of the taste of snake. I don't know if I have food poisoning..."

"Snake House?"

Recalling the mischievous Aunt Corvina, I can fully imagine how Gushan was treated in the snake house. If nothing unexpected happened, he would be forced to have intimate contact with various snakes first, and then, as Gushan herself said, he would be fed several whole snake banquets cooked by Aunt Corvina herself, and finally ride on the back of a giant eagle and fly straight back to the stone house.

But these are actually Aunt Covina's special care for her younger generations.

At first, Meng'er and I were tortured to death like Gushan, but after going there a few times, we gradually felt that those soft snakes were quite cute, and Aunt Covina's cooking skills were always very good. She always made delicious medicinal food with snake meat. It is said that each dish is carefully prepared, and you can't eat more or less.

According to Aunt Corvina, if you don't eat all the snake meat, you will die from the poison.

Amid this intimidating atmosphere, my sister Meng'er and I became the biggest eaters.

However, although the whole snake feast is delicious and nutritious, there is indeed a strange smell in the mouth for a long time after eating it. I thought it was the smell of snake meat at first, but it was not until much later that I heard the truth from my grandfather - the reason why we felt the strange taste in our mouths was actually because we had been poisoned by snake venom!

And that kind of snake venom can have miraculous effects on beauty and skin care with just slight adjustments.

So, Aunt Covina's love is often poisonous.

"Wait a moment."

I asked Gu Shan to sit down, put down his paintbrush and help her find some candy. Anyone who takes care of Lian'er will always have some candy with them. After all, Lian'er is still a child at heart, and a sweet candy is a great reward for her. As long as this ultimate weapon is used at the right time, the girl will immediately stop being upset and eat, take a bath, do homework, and go to bed obediently.

I picked up a few fruit candies with particularly strong flavors and gave them to Gushan.

"Thank you! Senior Berlani! You are truly my savior!"

As soon as he saw the candy, Gushan acted even happier than Lian'er usually did.

But Gushan's cheers also attracted Lian'er's attention. When she saw that her beloved candy fell into the hands of others, her chubby face, which had been fattened up by us, immediately swelled up like a hydrogen balloon, and she cast an accusing look at me with a pair of talking eyes - "It's not fair! It's not fair! Why does Gushan have candy to eat, but I don't!"

Although I wanted to control Lian'er's sugar intake, I had no choice but to give her two under the circumstances.

“Ahh—”

After politely taking the candy with both hands, the gray-haired girl happily continued to fold her paper crane.

On the other hand, after getting the candy, Gu Shan had no intention of leaving. She stared at my face without blinking, and I didn't know what weird thoughts she was thinking about.

I glanced at her suspiciously, but she just kept smiling foolishly with her cheeks pursed.

"I don't know exactly what she was thinking, but it should be a happy fantasy?"

"Hmm - maybe it's better not to disturb her?"

Leaving the dazed Gu Shan there, I turned back to continue drawing my Xiao Lan. Unlike the Xiao Lan in May, the recent Xiao Lan has long hair and looks like a princess who walked out of a book. It's a pity that the lie that deceived Xiao Lan is destined not to be kept secret for long. By then, we may only be able to see the super long-haired version of Xiao Lan through recording crystals and pictures.

"Wow! Senior Berlani's painting skills are getting better and better!"

"Eh? Is this Xiao Lan? She looks a little different from the real person. She has a very peaceful feeling."

Just as Gu Shan said, the Xiao Lan I drew was not the usual Xiao Lan, but just the Xiao Lan that she showed at a certain moment when she was alone. At that time, she did not have that refreshing smile, nor did she have that shrewd and capable look. And I had long forgotten which fragment of time this scene was taken from. After I learned that she was in a coma, I kept seeing her like this in my mind - she was like a Sleeping Beauty.

I didn't answer Gu Shan and just focused on my painting.

Xiao Gushan obviously didn't need my response. She was happy as long as someone was willing to listen. "By the way, Senior Blanny, why don't you help Senior Annie paint a picture someday? I see she stays alone all day, and it seems boring. Besides, I've never seen her go out with friends. Come to think of it, Senior Annie, could she be suffering from depression?"

I was surprised to hear Gu Shan describe Sister Annie in this way.

"Nonsense, no respect for elders."

"Sorry... I'm sorry, Senior!"

I reprimanded Gu Shan for his excessive remarks on the spot, but when I think about it carefully, Sister Annie also had a hard time in the past three years. In that accident, my sister and I lost our parents, and for Sister Annie, she lost her lifelong friend. Even though Sister Annie didn't look very sad at the time, we all knew that she was a sentimental person.

Some people's sadness is like a heavy rain, and after the rain there is a rainbow in the sky.

Some people’s sadness is a foggy maze; seeing through it will lead to a bright future.

Sister Annie's sadness is like a wounded hedgehog. Even after she recovers, she can't forget the source of her injury.

Apart from daily necessities, Sister Annie rarely builds deep relationships with humans with short life spans. Even though Sister Menger and I are not happy to see her like this, what reasons can we come up with to convince her to put down her shield and let her face the sadness of the passing of life calmly? Perhaps, just as she herself said, a person may not need too many close friends.

But now Gu Shan seemed to want to break into Annie's life.

Should I encourage her or not do anything extra?

But if I ask myself honestly, I still prefer the original Sister Annie.

"Gu Shan, when you are free, bring Sister Annie to see me. I want to draw a picture for the two of you."

Upon hearing my request, Gu Shan immediately jumped up on the bed excitedly: "Hey hey hey! Really? That's great - thank you! Senior Berlane! By the way, if possible, can you sign the back of the painting for me? Xiao Lan often says that your paintings will be very valuable in the future and can be sold for tens of millions of gold coins! It will make people rich overnight!"

“Ahwu—Ahwu!!!”

At this time, Lian'er, on the side of the bed, waved her hands in protest angrily. Due to Gu Shan's reckless jump, the paper cranes that were originally neatly placed on the bed suddenly flew everywhere on and under the bed. Although this was a harmless little thing, it was a sin that could not be easily forgiven for a twelve-year-old child. She might even hate it for three days and three nights, and even curse in her dreams.

However, our precocious Gushan immediately wisely began to make up for his mistake.

"Oh no, I'm so sorry, it's my sister's fault."

“Ahh—”

"Hey, hey, hey! Lian'er, don't move around. Be careful not to step on them. Let me help you pick them up."

"Ah? Ah?"

"Hey, hey, hey, don't - don't sit down! Oh no -"

"Ah? Ahh ...

"Don't cry, my dear. Sister Gushan will help you fold a few more beautiful ones later!"

In the quiet night, I stared at these two girls, both twelve years old, as if I was looking at a puzzle with a missing piece.