Solutions

Ryusei returned back from his morning exercise with Rongrong, he looked towards her and asked her, "So, would you like to visit some places with me Rongrong?"

Rongrong looked at him and beautifully smiled and nodded, she said, "I will." She then asked him, "But where are we going?" Ryusei lightly smiled at her question and said, "We are going to meet some people."

Ning Rongrong was confused as she said, "Meet some people, who are they?" Ryusei still had a light smile on his face and said, "You will know when you meet them. Alright, go and get ready."

Ning Rongrong nodded and returned to her room as she desperately wanted to take a bath after all the morning workout. Ryusei remained in the lobby and started thinking about the issues, he thought 'Hmm, maybe I should write some details about the future plans.'

He pulled out the sheet of paper from his space belt and again started jotting down the whole plan, but it was written in English so, even if he lost it to someone, they won't be able understand as to what's written on it.

First, he wrote the title of "ISSUES", then he wrote, "The first problem is the number of people whom I can ask to do this task. Maybe a thousand or ten thousand, and if all of them were provided 100 Gold Coins for a year, then the total money that I would require for them would be 100,000 Gold Coins for 1000 people or 1 Million Gold Coins for 10,000 people".

He then thought about the issue of their family members, he decided that only one person per family will be in a given area and only one person from the family will gather the information. The rest of the family would be in charge of going to the Shops to look for materials and weapons and report it back to Ryusei.

This was an important and a simple task after that Ryusei won't care about whatever they do. Ryusei took Rongrong around the town as he searched for some poor people. He didn't find anyone inside the town so he decided to check the outskirts of the town to search for them.

Ning Rongrong followed him without any complaints as they continued their search outside of the town. Ryusei smiled a bit as he finally saw a Straw-bale constructed house. This was the place he was looking for.

He decided to borrow some money from Rongrong's Clan to solve the monetary issues. He was still wasn't sure about Ning Fengzhi's motives but this would most likely confirm whether he was on Spirit Hall's side or his daughter.

However, he was a somewhat reluctant to ask for money from her due to his pride. But he swallowed his pride in front of his vendetta.

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Both arrived near the gate of a Straw Bale house, he stood at the entrance of that house as he observed the interior of the house and saw a middle-aged man and a middle-aged woman living in the house.

Both of them seemed around 30-40 years of age and it looked like they were starving from quite some time as their bodies were so thin and weak that even their bones were visible through their skin.

'Hmm, they must be famished as they literally look like bag of bones. It should be easy to convince them to work for me', thought Ryusei while observing them.

The man turned towards Ryusei and Ning Rongrong and asked in a nervous tone, "Who are you two? Why have you come here?" Ning Rongrong was about to say reply, but Ryusei didn't let her speak and said, "We are just two residents of the town."

He looked towards the woman and then once again stared at the man and said, "I suppose that two of you aren't exactly living a good life in these slums. It should be very hard to survive without even finding food for days." The man and the woman stayed silent as they listened to his words, it was indeed true that it was hard for them to survive in this town.

Even though there were some good people in the town who would sometimes give them food, but that wasn't enough because they would only occasionally give food to the poor people and it's wasn't necessary that they would be willing to help poor people every day.

So, it was pretty difficult to survive, the man looked towards Ryusuke and said in a rough voice, "Yes, it is very difficult to survive here." His eyes lit up with some hope and he said, "Are you perhaps willing to help us?"

Ryusei could see that the man had his eyes filled with hope, but he shook his head in denial and said in a calm and emotionless voice, "It is indeed true that I came here to help you but remember, I am not here because I pity you, rather I want you to do something for me. Something that only you can do."

Both the man and the woman were confused as they looked towards him and the woman asked him, "What can we do for someone like you?" Ryusuke looked at them and said, "I want the both of you to go to different cities and gather some information for me."

He ignored their looks of astonishment and continued speaking, "I won't give you a hard task. You just have to behave like poor people and talk to common people or other beggars about any info they know regarding the Spirit Hall. I want you to find about the people who have some sort of grudge against the Spirit Hall. In return, I will give you 100 Gold Coins every year with which should be more than enough to fill your empty stomachs and live a better life."

The man looked excited after he heard the offer and impatiently, "Is that all we have to do? We just have to go there and talk to some people and find out some information of the Spirit Hall."

Ryusei nodded and then said, "It is indeed easy but remember to ask these things discreetly otherwise someone could have some suspicion regarding your questions." The man nodded hastily and then asked him, "So, if we gather some information, how do we send it to you?"

Ryusei smiled at the man's question as he knew that the man wasn't some idiot and was using his brain instead, it meant that the man was serious about this, he knew that wherever this man will go, he will put every bit of his effort to find some information about the Spirit Hall.

Ryusei then said, "I will send a cart to the city where you are stationed with some food. You will find some hollow fruits, put the letter in them and ask the driver to return back here. I will put the money required to pay to the cart in those fruits. Now as for the money that I will give you…"

As he was about to continue, Rongrong who stayed silent for all this time while listening to his plans spoke up, "Brother Tian, how about you let me handle the issue of money."

Ryusei was a bit stunned, he was about to speak something but Rongrong spoke up with a determined expression as she looked him into the eyes, "Brother Tian, please let me help you. You even gave me two 100,000 years old Spirit Bones without asking for anything, so please let do this for you, for us."

Ryusei remained silent for some time, then said, "I didn't give you those Spirit Bones to ask for some compensation." His voice grew softer as he continued, "It was like a gift from me for the girl I love."

Rongrong hugged him with a lovely smile and then said, "But brother Tian, that is too valuable as a gift." She then paused as she remembered the matter of her Spirit and then said, "Besides, you even helped me upgrade my Spirit which has directly helped my whole Clan. So, please let me help out wherever and whenever I can. Please let me carry some of your burden."