Ethan Brooks returned to his room, but he was thinking whether he should buy a cell phone. However, when he thought about it, he realized there was no use in buying one—he didn’t know anyone here, so who would he contact? After considering it, he decided to forget about it.

The fifty thousand yuan he had on him was spent on rent and buying some medicinal herbs, and with his daily expenses, he had less than twenty thousand left. Ethan Brooks decided to go set up a street stall again.

But this time, he wasn’t going to sell talismans. Talismans were just too hard to sell. If he hadn’t happened to meet that woman in a hurry last time, he might not have sold even one by now.

This time, he planned to set up a night market stall as a traveling doctor. The idea of being a street doctor was actually inspired by Yvonne Green’s job.

Another reason was that a traveling doctor’s stall was highly mobile, so he wouldn’t be easily targeted by others. Besides, setting up a stall at the night market meant he only had to watch out for city inspectors, and he could practice cultivation while running the stall. Of course, the main reason was that being a street doctor was prohibited by the government, so he could only do it at night.

Ethan Brooks’s plan was the same as selling talismans: either no business at all, or one big sale that would last him a year.

Chapter 9: The Campus Belle of Ninghai University

The next day, Ethan Brooks didn’t go to Qingdu Lake Park to exercise. Instead, he got up early and practiced a set of martial arts in the courtyard, then went out to buy supplies.

He bought a small medical kit and a set of silver needles. In addition, he bought a pile of medicinal herbs to make some simple pills and decoctions himself. Of course, these didn’t even count as the most basic pills, but for Ethan Brooks, they were enough for him to set up his stall.

As a result, the money he had left once again put him in a financial crisis. By the time he was fully prepared, Ninghai University had already started the new semester, and Ethan Brooks was now a senior at Ninghai University.

As everyone expected, Ethan Brooks didn’t pass a single course and had to retake all of them. But Ethan Brooks didn’t care, and neither did the school. For ordinary students, failing more than three courses might result in serious punishment or even expulsion, but Ethan Brooks belonged to a privileged group.

Although he had already been kicked out of the Ye family, the school wouldn’t offend the Ye family over something like this. Who knew what tricks these big families had up their sleeves? Anyway, he would leave after four years, and the school wouldn’t lose anything. In fact, he hadn’t even gotten into Ninghai University through the entrance exam.

As for having to retake all his courses, Ethan Brooks didn’t care at all. He didn’t give it a second thought. He was still focused on preparing his night market stall, which didn’t conflict with going to the library during the day and setting up his stall at night.

Ethan Brooks ran to Ninghai University every day, mainly to train his “Cloud Shadow Step.” Now, his cultivation had reached a bottleneck, and if he couldn’t even master mundane martial arts, he really felt a sense of crisis. Fortunately, he didn’t feel the same life-and-death danger here as he did on the Luoyue Continent, which put his mind at ease.

It was already the second week of the semester. Although Ethan Brooks hadn’t set up his night market medical stall yet, he could already feel great progress in his “Cloud Shadow Step.” It seemed that running nearly seventy li every day, going out early and coming back late, was doing him good.

That morning, Ethan Brooks got up a bit late—he slept an hour longer than usual. By the time he ran to Ninghai University, it was already past seven. He went to a small restaurant outside the campus for a bowl of soy milk and a few buns, and by the time he finished, it was almost eight o’clock.

“Big brother, would you like to buy a flower?” Outside the restaurant, a thin little girl holding a bunch of fresh flowers nervously and timidly approached Ethan Brooks and asked.

Ethan Brooks looked at the frail little girl. It was the end of September, and the mornings were still a bit chilly. For her to be out selling roses so early, her family must be having a hard time. Ethan Brooks thought of his own childhood—he was a street orphan until he was nine, when an old Taoist took him to his master’s sect. But less than a year later, the old Taoist died. After that, he followed his master, Luo Ying, and his life finally improved.

“Why aren’t you in school?” Ethan Brooks thought to himself that it should be class time now. This was the nine-year compulsory education period, so this little girl shouldn’t be skipping school.

“It’s Saturday. I’m helping my sister sell flowers.” The little girl’s voice was very soft, but Ethan Brooks could still hear her guilt. Still, he couldn’t do much about it, so he just asked, “Alright, I’ll buy some. How much for one?”

He thought to himself, so today is Saturday. He’d been running around every day and had lost track of time.

“Five yuan each, but if you buy more, it’s three yuan each.” The little girl’s voice became a bit clearer when she heard Ethan Brooks wanted to buy flowers. Obviously, his words gave her confidence.

“Alright, I’ll take all the flowers you have. Here’s the money.” Ethan Brooks looked at the roses in her hand—there were about twenty. He took out a hundred yuan, handed it to the little girl, took the flowers, and turned to leave.

“Big brother, I need to give you change.” The little girl saw it was a hundred-yuan bill. If he bought them all, she should only charge three yuan each, and even at five yuan each, she could still bargain.