Cai'er is actually right.

If she hadn't told Xingyuan what was in his heart, as well as the content of the conversation between the two of them in her barracks dormitory when Tan Wan went out to find someone to help take his shift.

She estimated that even if she said that she was not angry with Xingyuan, she would definitely feel resentful, and there was no subsequent scene of her going to the Magic Temple with Xingyuan to find Li Zhengzhi.

No matter how much Li Zhengzhi valued Xingyuan, he did not show enough sincerity and did not get Tan Wan's forgiveness, so it was even more impossible for him to agree to let Xingyuan, who changed his mind twice, take Tan Wan away.

"Thank you."

Perhaps from Cai'er's perspective, she was simply helping sister Tan Wan, who took good care of her when she was a child and was the only one who was truly kind to her besides Xingyuan, to untie a knot in her heart.

However, from Xingyuan's perspective, Cai'er has done much more than that, so she deserves his thanks.

"Eh?"

However, this time it was Cai'er who was stunned. You know, she originally thought that Xingyuan would take this opportunity to quarrel with her like an old couple.

Then she saw Xingyuan pick out a "thin stick" with colorful beads and pretty patterns carved on its surface from the stall in front of them.

When the young stall owner saw that Xingyuan only took one of the pair, he subconsciously opened his mouth, wanting to tell him that these were chopsticks.

But after taking a look at the badge on the chest of Xingyuan's magic robe, which he didn't know only what level of magician could possess, he swallowed his saliva and swallowed his words again.

However, the next scene was somewhat beyond her understanding.

This young magician, who looked as good-looking as the elemental gods worshipped in their magic academy, walked around behind the sister who was traveling with her, holding the chopsticks in his hand. No one knew what he did.

Just by circling the chopstick a few times behind the other person's head, she was able to curl the waist-length, lavender-like hair into a ball, creating a beautiful hairstyle that she had never seen on anyone else.

"When we return to the Holy City, I will personally make you a real hairpin."

Xingyuan looked at Caier's delicate and white neck and spoke to her with a smile.

"Eh?"

Cai'er seemed to have no idea what was going on. The stall owner in front of her took the lead and took out a bronze mirror the size of a plate and handed it to Cai'er.

"The little sister is not only dexterous, but also very sensible."

Xingyuan took his finger off the storage ring and looked at the thin and weak-looking girl. "Weaponsmith?"

"…Well, sir, is there anything you need me to help you forge?"

She looked at Xingyuan's face and replied cautiously.

Xingyuan couldn't help but laugh when he heard this. This little girl in front of him, who might not even be an apprentice weaponsmith, actually wanted to accept his commission.

However, based on the belief that meeting is fate, Xingyuan decided to give her a chance.

Cai'er, who was extremely satisfied with her new hairstyle, looked left and right in the bronze mirror, and then listened quietly to the conversation between the two, one big and one small.

Based on her understanding of Xingyuan, he should help the little girl.

"M-Mage?"

Seeing that the other party did not reply to her, the expression on her face became visibly tense.

"Don't be nervous, I just want to ask you to forge something for me."

This was not the first time Xingyuan had come into contact with a magician with this kind of personality, so he naturally knew how to get along with them. Especially since this time the child was a little kid, he was able to calm the other person's emotions.

After a little thought, Xingyuan had a rough draft in his mind.

Xingyuan took out paper and pen from the storage ring and began to write and draw on it.

He also took out all the raw materials that would be used in the forging process. All the "precious materials" that the young stall owner could only see at the counter of the alchemy material store were piled up next to her stall.

Of course, these materials are only precious to her.

However, to Xingyuan, it was no longer of any use to him. It was tasteless to eat and a pity to throw away, but it was just an ordinary thing that took up space in the storage ring.

It’s not that Xingyuan can’t come up with other better materials, but those things may be beyond the scope of a magic apprentice with only the second level of internal spiritual power. That is equivalent to assigning an impossible task to the other party.

"All right."

Xingyuan handed the finished blueprint to the dirty-looking girl with both hands, with a kind smile on his face, "In seven days, you make this thing for me..."

As he spoke, a heavy bag of gold coins appeared out of thin air in Xingyuan's hand.

"Then this is the deposit, and the money for buying things."

"too much."

As a qualified blacksmith, the little girl took a look at the "pointed chopsticks" on the drawing handed to her by Xingyuan, weighed the purse and the materials piled in front of her, and hurriedly pushed the purse back to Xingyuan.

"What's more?" Xingyuan asked, looking into her eyes.

"There are too many materials, and we can't use so much."

She broke off her fingers with tiny wounds and calculated with Xingyuan, "The deposit is only two silver coins. Mage, you gave too much."

“Not much at all.”

Facing the other party's gaze that seemed to be looking at him as if he was an idiot, Xingyuan, who had originally had a faint smile on his face, immediately frowned.

In view of the fact that children speak without restraint and the other party's good heart, Xingyuan was patient, but said to her in a somewhat unpleasant tone: "Silly girl, this is because your brother thinks you have talent, so he sponsored you these forging materials and funds. You don't think I'm a sucker with money but nowhere to spend it, right?"

As he spoke, Xingyuan showed him his certificate as a senior blacksmith master of the Blacksmith Association, adding some persuasiveness to what he had said before.

……

After agreeing on the delivery date with the panicked little girl, Xingyuan leisurely left with Cai'er.

"Is there anything else you want?"

Xingyuan asked Caier.

Although there are many kinds of novel foods here, it’s a pity that Cai’er has no chance to enjoy them because her sense of taste has been deprived by the Reincarnation Spirit Furnace.

"Nothing."

Cai'er shook her head with a satisfied look on her face, then reached out and touched the hair that Xingyuan had tied for her, "This is enough."

"Are you a little too easily satisfied?"

Xingyuan couldn't help but shook his head when he saw this.

"That little girl is quite cute. What are you going to do?"

Cai Er did not argue with Xing Yuan about this issue, and instead asked about his future plans. (End of this chapter)