With the help of Mu Shuyu and Xiao Jinfeng, Xiao Jingting’s pressure was greatly reduced.

 The day after Xiao Jinfeng took over the protective work, there were two rank three demon beasts that came running from the wild, allowing Xiao Jinfeng to easily clean them up.

After seeing Xiao Jinfeng’s strength in killing demonic beasts, Xiao Jingting finally understood how bad his fighting accomplishment was.

“Second brother, you are amazing.” Xiao Jingting couldn’t help but say.

Xiao Jinfeng shook his head and said, “It’s nothing, your traps helped quite a bit, and the demonic beasts that came were not particularly fierce.”

“Second brother, you are too modest.” Xiao Jingting said.

“Shuyu said that you planted your fields well, better than the average fourth rank Spiritual Master Planter, so it is evident that you are very talented at planting.” Xiao Jinfeng said.

Xiao Jingting laughed and said “I have two sons to raise, I always need to earn more money.  Second brother you will soon be the one who is going to get married, so you should also earn money for your wife.”

 Xiao Jinfeng shook his head helplessly and said, “You, ah!”

After the story of Xiao Jinfeng’s solo fight against two grade 3 demonic beasts spread, it quickly attracted the attention of many people in the village. For a while, the attention of many people in the village shifted from Xiao Jingting to Xiao Jinfeng.

“That Xiao Jinfeng is amazing, he can deal with two demonic beasts by himself.”

“I heard that he is Xiao Jingting’s elder brother and the young master of the Xiao family.”

“The young masters of a big family are just different. Even those who come here at random are already so strong.”

“That’s not true. However, it’s not surprising since these young masters of large families have been eating high rank treasures since they were children, even a pig they had eaten would have been a golden pig.”

“That Xiao Jinfeng is nothing special. He had bad moral character, robbed people of their prey and was expelled from the mercenary team. Then after returning to the Xiao family, he raped the wife of his brother and was driven out of the house.” Qiu Li held his head high, full of disdain.

“Qiu Li, where did you hear this news?”

“That means you are still being encouraged, this story has spread all over Mocheng. I have heard from the merchants that Mound Village is not a good place for those young masters. These young masters came here because they could no longer live at their old place. Xiao Jinfeng was ungrateful and acted recklessly, so his fiancee could not bear to watch it and broke off his engagement with him.” Qiu Lo said in a smug way. 

Qiu Li was originally regarded as a “talented man” in the village, but after Xiao Jingting changed his ways, his “talent” was comparable to dust. After Xiao Jinfeng came, the focus of the villagers was on the two brothers of the Xiao family, making Qiu Li dissatisfied for a long time already.

“No way, that young man is quite handsome.” Some aunt said.

“Knowing one’s face doesn’t mean knowing their heart, that Xiao Jinfeng isn’t a good person.” Qiu Li said.

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After the spiritual plants in a few mu of medium grade fields gradually matured, Xiao Jingting invited a few people from the village to help with the harvest. Originally, he was afraid of demonic beasts that come out from time to time, making some villagers not dare to help. However, with Xiao Jinfeng watching, the villagers were relieved.

Xiao Jinfeng’s reputation of low moral character and lustfulness spread throughout the village, however, it was still necessary to make money. When Xiao Jingting offered a high price all the villagers scrambled to help.

Xiao Jinfeng took a sip of wine and spread his spiritual energy, ignoring the suspicious, inquisitive eyes of the villagers.

Xiao Jinfeng knew that his bad reputation was spread everywhere in the village, but he did not really care. He has already experienced the double betrayal from his mercenary brothers and his own family, those villagers spreading some gossip were not painful to Xiao Jinfeng.

Qiu Li, who originally spread the gossip about Xiao Jinfeng, felt a little proud. However, when he found out that people still eat and sleep like usual and villagers still rushed to the Xiao family house to help, Qiu Li suddenly felt that he became a villain in vain.

Qiu Li felt that the villagers were really unscrupulous and scolded people for being worthless behind their back, but when Xiao Jingting took a little money out, they all ran over to help. 

Edited by: Tetsu

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