I Rely on Drawing Cards to Set Up a Persona

Chapter 27.2: Qiao’s Big Fool

Qiao Xingnan is now the most concerned about what just happened. He must understand clearly what happened before so that if the tyrant looked for himself afterward to chat about this matter, he would have something to say in response.

Ruiert looked at Qiao Xingnan and carefully recalled what happened before. Inwardly, he was still pent up with anger, but because he almost got his master into trouble, he spoke with a bit of weakness in his voice, although the content of his words did not reflect this emotion in the slightest.

“He spilled my wine out of nowhere, didn’t apologize, and brushed me off. He deserves to die.”

Ruiert’s statement is similar to what Qiao Xingnan guessed.

The stimulation of the Wine Grabber Must Die is inseparable from Ruiert’s jug.

However, Qiao Xingnan mulled over Ruiert’s words and asked, “If there is an apology, will your skill still activate?”

“If he apologized, I would have forgiven him this time, and it would not have activated.” Ruiert looked quite casual at this time.

Hearing this, Ster recalled whether Chi Jin apologized thirty years ago or not. Tsk, it’s been too long. I can’t remember too well. In his eyes, these two are not good things. It’s only a pity for his carefully prepared banquet.

Qiao Xingnan took out his paper and pen to write down a few notes, asked a few more questions about the attitude of the silver-armored knight, and then stopped writing.

“Okay, I roughly understand.” Qiao Xingnan leaned his face on his hand and said, “Next, let’s talk about this matter. Ruiert, you secretly took the gold coins from Zero.”

Ruiert stiffened, it was finally coming.

In fact, Ruiert also knew that no matter how gentle the master in front of him looked, he would not take the matter of stealing money lightly.

Qiao Xingnan’s expression at this time is still the same as before, and the golden eyes did not have the disgust and impatience that Ruiert expected.

Zero’s dark, sunken eyes slowly looked to the side at Ruiert. The matter of stealing money is Zero’s greatest concern.

“Because I want to drink.”

Ruiert didn’t know why he didn’t quite want to face his master and Zero’s eyes, so his gaze couldn’t help but stray to Ster’s face.

Then, he met Ster’s eyes, which were filled with the usual mockery and disdain, and his whole face seemed to be filled with looking down on him as a loser.

Ruiert’s inexplicably guilty heart instantly calmed down, and he even very much wanted to fight with this old immortal in front of him.

“Ruiert.” Qiao Xingnan’s tone is naturally cold, but because he is quite smiley, he can sound pleasant, just like his soft voice when he spoke now.

Hearing Qiao Xingnan call his name, Ruiert touched the jug and subconsciously looked over. In his dark gray eyes were embarrassment and helplessness that he didn’t even realize.

“After your jug was empty, because I was outside at that time, in order not to collapse my persona, I did not replenish your gold coins in time, nor did I tell you in advance that I would replenish your gold coins when you returned to the room. This is my fault.”

“But I admire that you were able to restrain your desires and did not collapse your persona before the tyrant and his subordinates.”

Qiao Xingnan knew that Ruiert’s card attributes were just that. He was an alcoholic card, who drank all the time, and it was really unexpected for him to be able to hold back from drinking during that time.

Ster, who was on the side, clutched his cane. The master’s sweet words came, and he looked at the trash compassionately.

Sure enough, when he heard this, Ruiert froze.

Ruiert, who had long been used to being scolded by his previous masters for being inseparable from wine all day long, had expected to be scolded today as well but did not expect his master to praise himself.

His heart was suddenly a little sour.

The attributes of the card are decided from birth in the card pool. It is his nature to love to drink, but none of them will care. They will only think he can’t live without it and is a greedy alcoholic.

Ruiert also knew that in this matter, the master Qiao Xingnan was not at all wrong. He was just doing his best to preserve their lives.

Ruiert wanted to say something but found that though the words came to his throat, nothing could be said.

Then, he heard the master in front of him continue gently, “I know that you, Ruiert, took the gold coins from Zero because of your nature, but at the same time, you are someone who cares a lot about self-cultivation.”

“You’ll forgive someone for knocking over your drink when they apologize, and you’ll be mad at them for not apologizing, won’t you?”

Ruiert was really touched at this time.

He suddenly felt that the master in front of him was his confidant!

He understands me!

The dark-haired man sighed softly: “But the matter of stealing money is still wrong. Come to think of it, I think you, Ruiert, must be able to bear the consequences of stealing money, right?”

“After all, it is obvious from your obsession with wine that you are a card with firm beliefs, isn’t it?”

Ruiert choked up a little for a moment as he kept nodding, and his dark gray eyes seemed to glitter with hints of tears, “Yes, master.”

He really understands me!

“Eight hours until this evening.”

“You will let us see a swordsman who sticks to not drinking for eight hours to prove that he can take up the word self-cultivation, right?”

Ruiert’s eyes filled with tears, “Of course, master, I can go eight hours without… drinking?”

Ruiert froze. He wanted to somewhat withdraw this promise and replace it with one that could be done, such as being beaten by Ster with a few hundred blows…

Qiao Xingnan’s eyes flashed with admiration at his words, “Ruiert, you are a person worthy of being respected.”

Ruiert’s mouth opened and closed, finally losing himself in Qiao Xingnan’s compliments.

Heh, idiot.

Ster lightly glanced at Ruiert, feeling that he had insulted his intelligence by constantly cursing with the other side. A few sweet words from his master had even left him dizzy.

“Uncle Ster.” Qiao Xingnan’s eyes fell on the elegant elder in a tuxedo: “I’m going to sort out the script now. Can you take care of Ruiert for me?”

“After all, he can’t have alcohol for eight hours. I’m not quite sure what effect it will have on Ruiert, so if he is having a hard time, you can help him.”

What impact can there be? It’s just that it will be hard not to drink.

Ster secretly sighed that his master’s heart was really black ah. Such torture on the drunkard Ruiert and even let himself, Ruiert’s enemy, help supervise.

This thing, he is very happy to do it!

Qiao Xingnan nodded with a smile. He had also confirmed with the system long ago that eight hours of being unable to drink alcohol would have little effect on Ruiert, except that perhaps the other party would cry out in distress.

Hopefully, this incident will give him a lasting memory.

Qiao Xingnan, who was just about to write in his notebook, suddenly saw a stiff-faced Zero from the corner of his eye. All the cards had their things to do, but Zero did not.

Qiao Xingnan patted Zero’s shoulder and said gently, “Uncle Ster is old. Can Zero go and help Uncle Ster?”

There was a faint glimmer in Zero’s dark, empty eyes, and he said slowly in a hoarse voice, “Yes, master.”

After settling down all his subordinates, this finally freed up Qiao Xingnan for his script.

This matter today gave him a wake-up call that, just like Ruiert, every card may have something they care about greatly. Therefore, he needs to get things all clear and master everything so that he will not panic and save his own little life in the future when facing such unexpected events.

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Qiao Xingnan pondered for a while. Now, he needs to know the most about Ruiert’s jug. In the end, can a hundred gold coins be enough for Ruiert to drink for a few days?

There is also Ruiert’s skill, Wine Grabber Must Die, which is very powerful, but the activation method is too trivial.

It was not always possible to have the enemy grab the jug first or get them to spill Ruiert’s jug during a fight.

So he still has to find a way to activate Ruiert’s skill whenever they need it.

Qiao Xingnan lightly tapped the pen on the paper. He turned his head to look at Ruiert, who was sitting on the stool with his eyes fixed on the jug on the table, “Ruiert, for us to survive, I need to ask you a few questions now.”

“You try not to get too carried away.”

Not having drank alcohol for five minutes, Ruiert, who felt his throat was a little tickled, nodded, “I will control myself.”

“How many days can you drink with a hundred gold coins?”

After thinking about it, Ruiert gave an exact number: “Twenty days.”

Qiao Xingnan clenched the pen in his hand. What a gold-devouring beast!

Then, Qiao Xingnan tried to calm himself down and continued to ask: “What will happen if your wine is gone?”

“I can’t be without wine. I won’t be without wine!” Ruiert seemed to be stimulated by something and, with his hands shielding his bottle, was about to pick it up and take a sip.

——Bang

The hard ebony cane struck him hard on the shoulder to calm him.

The pain cleared Ruiert up a bit, and he reluctantly responded, “If it was for a while, it is okay. If there is no wine in the jug for a long time, I will do whatever I can to find gold coins and put them in the jug to replenish the wine.”

Obviously, without wine, Ruiert would be uncontrollable.

Therefore, it is impossible to let Ruiert’s wine jug lack wine for a long time.

“In the future, when you need gold coins to exchange for wine, you should tell Zero in advance and let him replenish the gold coins for you.”

Having said that, Qiao Xingnan had some more headaches. Making money is really a difficult thing.

Putting aside the lack of money for the moment, Qiao Xingnan continued to think about the matter of Ruiert’s skills.

Perhaps it was the lack of money that inspired Qiao Xingnan, and he quickly came up with a solution, but this solution still needed the cooperation of Zero and Ruiert, and most critically, whether Ruiert could accept others to touch his jug.

After writing down the general plan, Qiao Xingnan let the three people come over first. He slowly described his plan and then looked at Ruiert.

“Ruiert, can Zero touch the wine jug with your permission and without becoming the object of your attack?”

Wine Grabber Must Die, this skill does not distinguish between friend and foe. As long as you touch the wine in Ruiert’s jug, you will become Ruiert’s enemy in the next second.

But if this wine jug was given to Zero by Ruiert of his own accord, could Zero be an exception to this skill?

“The jug is fine, but the wine is not.”

In short, with Ruiert’s permission, it was okay for someone else to touch his jug without activating the skill, but they could not try to drink or spill the wine.

After a few more questions were asked and answered, Qiao Xingnan enriched his plan again and let everyone look it over.

“It seems like it’s possible, but it needs to be tried.”

Because he had never done anything like this before, Ruiert didn’t know what kind of reaction he would have when the time came.

“So, when the time comes, you and Zero will need to work on it to see if this method can work.” Qiao Xingnan drew on the paper with a pen, looked at Zero, and smiled faintly, “Go find Ilir and the others.”

Under the shade of the tree, Ilir was practicing his sword one after another. Whether it is his elder brother or Zero and Ruiert, who seem to be about the same age as himself, they are all stronger than himself. Ilir feels deeply that he is slacking off, so he practices his sword daily in his free time.

In the past, there were no people here, but today, Ilir had not been practicing for long before a white figure suddenly emerged not far away.

It was the white-robed man.

Ilir’s hand practicing his sword paused. He made a retracting gesture and then looked at the other man: “What is the matter, your Excellency?”

“I, Ruiert, want to go hunting and practice skills.” The white-robed man spoke slowly, his hoarse voice carrying a hint of indifference.

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Ilir instantly understood the other party’s meaning, the two of them, he and Ruiert, wanted to go out and fight.

Ilir understood the other side very well. After all, no strong person can endure the boring life of the manor. Such a calm day will always make people tired down. Otherwise, why would he gather a group of knights daily to go hunting?

But this matter, he can not decide alone. After all, the identity of this group of people is too mysterious. After briefly explaining to Zero, Ilir let him go back first, and he went to his brother to discuss this matter.

Howard pondered for a moment and said, “Let them follow the knights, and you stay close to the two of them on the way, don’t let them scatter.”

This was to prevent them from contacting the people outside.

Ilir nodded, “I know.”

On the other hand, Qiao Xingnan, who had gotten the news, had long been prepared that someone would be watching Zero and Ruiert and didn’t feel surprised as long as they could get out.

Qiao Xingnan was slightly relieved.

They wanted to let them leave the manor because Qiao Xingnan wanted to use a magical beast as a practice tool, taking the opportunity to hone Zero and Ruiert’s tacit understanding and take advantage of Ruiert’s skills.

Of course, if the two of them can really hunt high-level magical beasts, they can also exchange them for gold coins.

The system space could only be used by Qiao Xingnan.

But 035 said that it could help him with this. When they hunted and killed the beast, Qiao Xingnan would directly call 035 to make the transaction remotely, which was a pleasant surprise.

Everything has been arranged, but Qiao Xingnan is still a little uneasy. In order not to arouse suspicion, this “hunting” is only with Zero and Ruiert.

Although he can control Zero from a distance, he was too far to be able to help, and Qiao Xingnan encouraged them for a long time.

At this point, Ruiert’s eight-hour commitment had ended. He was sweating uncomfortably, gulping down wine furiously, and then said happily, “Master, don’t worry. Tomorrow, Ruiert will definitely be able to earn you gold coins.”

What a fool.

Seeing Ruiert, who was left dazed by his master’s sweet words, Ster felt a slight pain in his heart. He really pulled himself down in class by going against such a person.