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Chapter 375 Escaping the Huang Mansion 41

"That's a good idea. I'll ask Sister Huang if there are any suitable places for us to work near the school." Mu Baiyuan decided what he and his sister should do after arriving at Huang Muyan's school.

“Good idea, but… will Sister Huang agree?” Mu Wanqing only just realized one problem—Huang Muyan might not let them go to work.

"Well... we shouldn't worry too much, right?" Mu Baiyuan said. "She has to go to school, so she probably won't have time to care about us. If she doesn't agree, we'll just go find a job first, work for a couple of days, and then tell her."

While Mu Wanqing listened to Mu Baiyuan speak, she was also listening to Lu Renkui's other ideas.

Lu Renkui chattered on in the consciousness space: "Although it's a good thing that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, aren't you two a bit too reckless? You two don't even know a single word and you dare to go looking for jobs. Aren't you afraid of being ripped off?"

Hearing Lu Renkui's words in her mind, Mu Wanqing thought for a moment and decided to talk to Mu Baiyuan again: "Brother, we two haven't seen much of the world. If we don't tell Sister Huang, won't we get scammed?"

"Hmm, what you're saying actually makes sense." Mu Baiyuan started to think about it herself after hearing Mu Wanqing's words.

"So, should we discuss this with Sister Huang? She's literate, has seen more than us, and knows more people than we do, so she shouldn't be able to trick us. If she disagrees, we can just talk to her more and persuade her, then we've achieved our goal, haven't we?" Mu Wanqing suggested.

"Well, if we can really persuade her, that would be great." Mu Baiyuan sighed. This is the problem now; it's unlikely that Sister Huang will agree to let us go.

“I’ll go talk to her,” Mu Wanqing volunteered, taking on the task of persuading Huang Muyan. “Sister Huang isn’t an unreasonable person.”

Upon hearing that Mu Wanqing had offered to persuade Huang Muyan, Mu Baiyuan agreed, and he instructed her, "First, sound her out, but don't let her know that we both want to look for jobs. If she thinks it's okay for us to look for jobs, then tell her about our idea."

"Okay, brother." After saying that, Mu Wanqing left Mu Baiyuan's place and hurried back to where she and Huang Muyan lived.

On the way back to the room, Lu Renkui said to Mu Wanqing in his consciousness space, "You seem quite confident in persuading Huang Muyan to help you find jobs."

"Well, I mainly think Sister Huang is soft-hearted, and then I can persuade her with reason and evidence." Mu Wanqing answered Lu Renkui's words in her mind while paying attention to the road under her feet. "And I have something else to ask you."

"Ah, what is it? Tell me." Lu Renkui went through the original plot in her mind and felt that Mu Wanqing was probably not asking about her parents.

In the original story, the housekeeper revealed Mu Wanqing's parents' identities to Master Huang in order to put pressure on Mu Wanqing.

However, Mu Wanqing has not been favored by Master Huang, and Master Huang has been poisoned to death by the steward. The steward is gone, and the new person in charge of the Huang family's servants, Lu Renkui remembers being described as having questionable abilities in the original text. Therefore, there is no need to worry that Mu Wanqing's parents will be associated with Mu Wanqing and Mu Baiyuan.

"What else does Mu Wanqing want to ask of me?" Lu Renkui wondered.

"If I can't convince Sister Huang later, could you help me persuade her?" Mu Wanqing asked, hoping that Lu Renkui and the system WQBYRZM could help her.

There was a two-second silence in the consciousness space before the system WQBYRZM broke the silence first: "So you're using the two of us as external brains and teleprompters."

“It’s alright,” Lu Renkui accepted Mu Wanqing’s request and said to the system WQBYRZM, “It’s a good thing, at least this child is a little smart, isn’t she? She already knows how to use our power.”

Upon hearing that Lu Renkui and the others had agreed to her request, Mu Wanqing ran even faster, fearing that Lu Renkui and the others might change their minds.

Running back to her lodgings, Mu Wanqing went straight for Huang Muyan. Huang Muyan was easy to find; she was sitting at her desk, surrounded by several women.

Not long after Mu Wanqing entered, several more women, ranging from their fifties and sixties to their teens, came to Huang Muyan's table. They all had the same goal—to find Huang Muyan and have her pronounce the words they couldn't read.

Mu Wanqing pulled up a small stool, sat down, and watched the women leave one by one after asking their questions. Then she decided to ask Huang Muyan a rather insignificant question first.

When Huang Muyan turned around and asked what was wrong, Mu Wanqing looked up and asked, "Sister Huang, how do we get to your school?"

“Take the train,” Huang Muyan said with a smile.