Gensokyo Detective, but surrounded by Shura Field

Chapter 165: Don't Blame Your Bestie, Blame Chu Bai for Being Too Charming… (4.3K)

Today in the Magic Forest, it was another day filled with spores.

Walking along the forest path, Chu Bai breathed in the poisonous air and decided to visit Kourindou first.

It wasn't that he had changed his sexual orientation and wanted to get up to something with his good buddy Rinnosuke.

The main reason was that Rinnosuke was a former shrewd merchant, and if he joined in, they might be able to come up with some new ways to make money.

So, he brought a gift and went to Kourindou to visit his friend:

"Yo, Rinnosuke, I'm here to see you!"

But Rinnosuke, who was sweeping the storefront, immediately changed his expression.

He dropped the broom and rushed inside as if being chased by a wild wolf, slamming the door shut.

Without a word, Chu Bai immediately accelerated and braced the doorframe:

"Brother, it's me, brother! Have you forgotten me?"

"I wouldn't forget anyone but you!"

Rinnosuke gritted his teeth:

"Rather, it's because I saw you coming that I locked the door!"

Chu Bai asked, quite puzzled:

"What's wrong? I haven't done anything to offend you, have I?"

"I even introduced customers to your shop last time when I saw business was slow. Have you forgotten that favor?"

"Favor my ass! You have the nerve to mention that!"

Rinnosuke's glasses seemed to be about to shoot out flames:

"I was secretly happy when I heard you were introducing customers.

But when I took a closer look, the two people you brought were named Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame…"

"I almost had my dinner stolen that day! If I hadn't spat in it in desperation, I probably would have starved to death!"

Chu Bai immediately retorted:

"Ugh, how disgusting, spitting in food…"

"You're the least qualified to say that!"

Rinnosuke held the door tightly shut from inside, banishing him from outside:

"Go away, Kourindou doesn't welcome you, at least until I have money to eat!"

"Okay, I'll leave then."

Chu Bai sighed helplessly, and then the sound of footsteps gradually fading away came from outside the door.

Rinnosuke leaned against the doorframe, carefully listening to make sure there was no movement outside.

After a while, he cautiously opened a crack in the door.

But as soon as he opened it, he met Chu Bai's comical gaze:

"Surprise!!"

"Nani?!"

Rinnosuke was so startled that his glasses fell off, and he hurriedly tried to close the door.

But Chu Bai directly used his incredible strength to squeeze in through the crack:

"Hey, we're brothers, why are you being so polite…"

"Who's being polite with you!"

A grief-stricken Rinnosuke leaned against the wall, watching Chu Bai walk towards his shelves.

But just as he was prepared to be swept clean, Chu Bai didn't ransack the place.

He just glanced at a few things and put them down with a lack of interest:

"Don't worry, I'm not here to stock up today."

"I'm just curious, those two guys come to rob you every now and then, why don't you drive them away?"

Rinnosuke squinted his eyes:

"Easy for you to say, do you think everyone is as strong as you, able to stand against the Red White Shrine Maiden?"

"Gensokyo is a place where the strong eat the weak. Ordinary merchants like me can only honestly do small business."

Chu Bai twitched his lips:

"Can you be considered honest? If I remember correctly, it seems that you were targeted by those two guys because you were too much of a shrewd merchant before."

As he spoke, he sat down quite naturally by the coffee table.

He took out a fragrant roast chicken from an oil paper bag, signaling Rinnosuke to eat some together.

Only then did Rinnosuke completely lower his guard, and snorted:

"You finally brought something with you this time, you little bastard has a conscience."

Then he also brought a few cans of beer, and the two of them sat around the coffee table eating and chatting:

"So what are you here for this time? Don't tell me you were dumped by a woman and want your brother to comfort you?"

"Of course not, what's so good about talking about women."

Chu Bai shook his head and said:

"Actually, my newly opened detective handyman shop is short of staff, so I came to ask if you want to help…"

……

……

After roughly explaining the current situation.

Rinnosuke finally understood his intention.

"Okay, no problem."

Without any hesitation, he directly showed a smile:

"Don't look at me starving now, but I actually understand business strategies very well. You definitely won't regret hiring me!"

"Great, I knew my good brother wouldn't refuse!"

The two men slapped each other's hands quite tacitly.

Then Rinnosuke pinched his fingers:

"So, what about the remuneration? How much money are you planning to pay your good brother each month?"

"……Eh? Money?"

Chu Bai was stunned.

Seeing his blank expression, Rinnosuke's expression also froze, and his smile slowly disappeared:

"Wait, you're not planning to pay me, are you?"

Chu Bai swallowed and murmured:

"I'm providing you with work, do I still have to pay you?"

"???"

Rinnosuke couldn't hold back on the spot:

"If you don't pay me, am I supposed to drink the northwest wind? Where did you get this twisted logic from!"

Chu Bai waved his hands repeatedly:

"Ahaha, just kidding, just kidding…"

Under the other party's expressionless gaze, Chu Bai pinched his fingers and said with some heartache:

"As for the salary… 500 yuan per month?"

"Go to hell!"

Responding to him was Rinnosuke's middle finger:

"So you're here to get free labor!"

"Don't worry, don't worry, for the sake of our close relationship, I'll give you 600 yuan a month…"

"So our relationship is only worth 100 yuan? You little bastard should just get lost and obediently hang yourself on a lamppost!"

……

……

He was kicked out by Rinnosuke.

Chu Bai walked down the road with a headache, finally remembering the concept of paying wages.

It can't be entirely blamed on him, after all, since coming to Gensokyo, he has completed almost all the operations alone.

The only assistant is Little Ai, but Little Ai didn't join for the sake of wages. Moreover, this top-notch rich woman doesn't care about this little money, so neither of them mentioned wages.

Until Rinnosuke woke him up, Chu Bai only had the concept of receiving wages, not the concept of paying wages.

"This is difficult…"

He still needs money very much in the early stage of starting a business.

On a small scale, the house's water and electricity bills, business tax, and researching magic and refining medicine are all very expensive.

On a large scale, Master still has a main quest to accumulate 10 million to find out the truth.

And as a magician, Chu Bai can't make money with all his strength every month like he does now, he always has to save more savings for when he doesn't do business in the future.

So at this time, hiring employees with money is not very cost-effective.

"If Rinnosuke doesn't work, I'm afraid Reimu won't be very good either…"

Chu Bai thought in his heart:

"Looking at it this way, it seems that I can only go to Marisa."

"It just so happens that I have something she is interested in on me, well, then let's go to Sasha's house by the way."

……

……

"So you came to my house?"

A moment later, Marisa's living room.

Faced with Chu Bai's invitation, Marisa scratched her ears and cheeks, revealing an obvious tangled expression.

Honestly, she certainly wanted to work with Chu Bai.

As long as she was with him, it was as if there were endless fun to be found and endless complaints to be made. And there was also the opportunity to get some goods from places like the Scarlet Devil Mansion, Eientei, and Myouren Temple, and make an extra income.

Marisa even occasionally couldn't sleep and would fantasize about her married life with Chu Bai. She couldn't help but think about confessing to him, living with such a man didn't seem bad.

But thinking about her good friend Alice's situation, she couldn't help but have a headache.

Little Ai was the first to be by Chu Bai's side and had liked this man very early on.

If she cut in at this time, it would definitely be an act of betraying her best friend's feelings, and it would definitely make Little Ai heartbroken.

She absolutely can't let Little Ai down again!

……Even if she had fantasized about Chu Bai doing this and that before.

……Even if all sorts of misunderstandings had occurred with him during the move.

But she absolutely can't continue to make mistakes!