Chapter 492 - 308: Visiting Again

Yang Chunxi was a little stunned. "You needed to buy it?"

"Even renting would have been fine. You bought a place just to host a guest?"

Gao Lingwei replied, "They’ve lived here for three years to support my studies, so they know all the neighbors. When another parent who was doing the same thing wanted to sell their house, my parents just bought it directly. You know my father’s physical condition, so living on the first floor is more convenient for him."

Hearing this, Yang Chunxi nodded. That made sense.

Mr. Gao, Gao Qingchen, had indeed lost an arm and a leg. Climbing to the sixth floor every day wasn’t a sustainable solution.

Besides, Songbai Soul Martial High School is the largest high school in the northern Snow Realm, and this community is prime real estate for the school district. It’s not like the value would drop if they bought it.

"Heh," Xia Fangran, who saw right through it, muttered under his breath, "I’m guessing Lao Gao and his wife are getting older and want to be closer to their kid in the future."

"Living so close, it’s convenient to bring dumplings upstairs or downstairs for the New Year, isn’t it?"

As he spoke, a peculiar smile spread across Xia Fangran’s face. He clapped Rong Taotao on the shoulder. "Right, Taotao?"

Rong Taotao: ???

’What is Xia Fangran talking about?’

Gao Lingwei’s face flushed slightly, and she quickly ushered everyone. "Let’s go, Teachers. We can talk inside."

Yang Chunxi, however, understood Xia Fangran’s implication. A smile touched her lips as she said, "He has a point. You two earned so much prize money from the Outer League and the national competition, so buying a house is no big deal. It’s good not to let your parents live too frugally; helping them out a little is fine."

Gao Lingwei just smiled and didn’t respond.

For the Outer League, they had each won one million. For the national competition, they had won five million total. Pine Soul Soul Martial hadn’t given them a monetary reward, but the Soul Pearls they would receive in the future were something money could never buy.

"Can’t buy"—that was the fundamental issue!

Soul Martial Artists like Gao Lingwei and Rong Taotao were clearly different from ordinary people; after all, they pursued different things.

Although they lived on the same planet as everyone else, the "world" they inhabited was completely different.

What did they have their eyes on?

Supreme Treasures on the level of the Lotus Petal! Or at the very least, Divine Pets with the Quality of a Snow General Candle or a Snowball Cat. At that level, money was completely useless.

Of course, if the two of them were like Poachers and cared more for worldly desires, then they would be truly short on cash.

In this dazzling world, once you got a taste for the high life, no amount of money would ever be enough...

This time, their visit didn’t involve climbing any stairs, because the Gao family lived on the first floor.

Gao Lingwei had barely knocked twice when the door swung open.

Mrs. Gao, Cheng Yuan, greeted them with a smile. "Teachers, please, come in, come in."

"Lao Gao! Look, I brought Old Li for you! The drunkard I told you about last time we had dinner!" Xia Fangran clapped Li Lie on the back, nudging him into the room. "I’m telling you, you’d better be ready to drink your fill today..."

"Haha!" Gao Qingchen let out a hearty laugh. He seemed to be in high spirits, nodding repeatedly as he leaned on his crutch.

Li Lie’s gaze flickered imperceptibly over the empty sleeve of Gao Qingchen’s right arm before he extended his left hand.

Gao Qingchen extended his own hand, grasping Li Lie’s broad one firmly. "Coach Li, it’s a pleasure."

Li Lie grinned. "Taotao’s dad gave him two bottles of fine wine to bring back from the Imperial Capital. I’ve been craving them for ages, but this kid just wouldn’t open one for me."

"Looks like today’s my lucky day."

"Heh heh." The men chuckled and turned to look at the doorway.

They saw Mrs. Gao, Cheng Yuan, holding Rong Taotao’s hand with one of her own while gently patting the back of it with the other, her eyes looking him up and down.

Her face was wreathed in smiles, and the more she looked at him, the more delighted she seemed. "Good boy, you played so well in the competition. Once your Uncle Qingchen starts watching, he can’t stop. He even gets up in the middle of the night to watch the replays."

"Heh, heh," Rong Taotao said with a bashful smile, putting on a well-behaved act and nodding repeatedly.