The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

Few students found satisfactory jobs the first day. They were under pressure because their school allowance was suspended for the time being. Some didn’t want to work and were instead looking for another way to make money. There had to be a way to make money without working.

Feng Wu returned to the dorm and wrapped Little Bun up to take him downstairs to play. Since Xi found a job and was out working, it was only Annika and Jasmine in the dorms with Feng Wu.

“Xiao Wu, did you find a job?” Annika asked when she saw Feng Wu come down with Little Bun in her arms. Jasmine didn’t bother to look up, completely ignoring Feng Wu.

“No.” Feng Wu shook her head.

“I heard there’s someone at the end of the street whose job is to help us find work. If you want to find a job, you can try there. There are a lot of students in our class who went to register, but in order to register you have to pay five hundred copper coins.” Annika shared her information enthusiastically.

Feng Wu’s reply was short. She only nodded and said that she knew.

This left an awkward silence in the room, but Annika being Annika didn’t mind too much. She knew people had different personalities; not everyone could be the warm and cheerful type, so this type of Feng Wu was acceptable too.

Annika tried talking to Feng Wu a bit more before leaving the dorms together with Jasmine to go to class. Annika and Jasmine got along better because they were both in the Magic Division.

Feng Wu stayed behind and played with Little Bun a bit before eating the lunch Little White made for her. It was a combination of fried and roasted meat with a side of lettuce salad. She inhaled her lunch in typical Feng Wu fashion. Once finished she handed Little Bun to Little White and left to go find Jier. They were supposed to meet to talk about his plan to make money. Feng Wu had no opinions about it; she was just there to be good and cooperate with him.

While Feng Wu and Jier were meeting, Zi Cheng and Yifu were trying to sell some recipes to a big hotel, the kind that had its own dining establishment. Zi Cheng dressed in normal clothes and was behaving deferentially to the man in front of her.

“Little girl, these dishes you made were very good. Our boss likes them and wants to buy them. What do you intend to sell them for?” The person talking was a middle-aged plump man who worked for the restaurant. He eyes were sharp and shifting and he waited to bargain.

Yifu sat to the side with an excited look on her face. Zi Cheng’s dishes really amazed and startled the restaurant manager to high heaven. Who knew her good friend had such a wonderful skill? She smiled large, incredibly proud of Zi Cheng.

“How much is your boss offering?” Zi Cheng didn’t answer but smiled and asked another question instead.

“How about fifty gold per dish. Ten dishes for five hundred gold.”

“OK, deal.” Being able to sell recipes for that price was pretty good. What she really wanted was a percentage of the proceeds, but her current task was to make money in an allotted time, so despite her heart’s desire, she accepted.

Although she had enough to satisfactorily complete the mission, she chose not to finalize her report to her teacher, remembering that James had said there was a prize for the highest earner. She intended to fight for that prize.

Zi Cheng went to the kitchen to teach the chefs how to prepare the dishes once she finished negotiating with the restaurant manager. The day was almost over by the time she was done. At the end of it all the manager gave her a pink crystal card with five hundred gold on it; thus placing her first on the ranking list. She went back to school in a great mood.

Hers was the only name on the list so it grabbed a lot of attention. The seniors were amazed at her ability to earn so much in just two days. Zi Cheng was oblivious to her new-found fame though.

After she left the manager went to the top floor of the hotel and walked over to a man in gray. “Master, she has left.”

The man addressed as Master first noticed Zi Cheng when she entered the restaurant. He had given his permission to allow her into the kitchen. It was because of this that she had such an easy time selling her recipes. The restaurant manager would never have dared allow a random stranger to enter the kitchen otherwise.

The manager was truly surprised at how tasty the Zi Cheng’s dishes were. They were not something available on the continent. This discovery made him admire the Master’s foresight even more.

“Notify me when she comes again.” The man in gray picked up a book after speaking, not bothering to even dismiss the manager.

The manager bowed his head and left the room, only wiping the sweat off his brow after he closed the door. The Master’s presence was too powerful!

Zi Cheng earned a lot, but Jier and Feng Wu were not idle either. The two didn’t look for work but were in fact looking for targets. Their targets were impulsive people who spent money frivolously. This was a problem shared by the wealthy and the nobility. Feng Wu and Jier found plenty of people who fit that description in the city.

The two of them followed their targets and checked what jewelry shops they frequented and who their sweethearts were. Just these two things took a huge amount of time.

Fortunately Feng Wu was not the type to complain. Even if her work was just to follow Jier around, she did it faithfully and honestly.

They learned to not stay at the small hotels in the area. They were convenient and cheap at twenty copper coins, but were still too expensive for school children who were trying to save money and budget for food.

They went to the woods outside the city to hunt game and gather some wild vegetables. Feng Wu was a poisonous cook but that didn’t mean she was ignorant when it came to wild edibles. She was very clear about what plants were edible and which ones weren’t. Even if she didn’t know, the plants themselves could tell her.

Because of Feng Wu, they harvested a bunch of wild plants in no time at all. Their space rings were confiscated so they had to haul everything back by hand. It was hard at first but they quickly got used to it.