The Defeated Saintess Is On A Journey To Tame The Evil God Book 01 Chapter 07.01 - Red Epiphyllum

Saturday morning, Xing Mo was yawning, wandering through the morning market in the Northern District.

At this time, on this habitual day off, she should be lying in bed, wrapped in a blanket, hugging a pillow... or rather, she should be the one being hugged like a pillow.

So why did she get up so early to go to the market? Of course, it was because of Aurora!

"Young Saintess, hurry up—"

Aurora walked ahead, holding Xing Mo's hand, her rosy cheeks flushed with excitement in the cold morning breeze.

This girl had dragged Xing Mo out of bed early in the morning, saying she had a brilliant idea that she needed Xing Mo's help with.

And so, Xing Mo was dragged along to the morning market.

Xing Mo yawned, pulled herself together, and scanned the stalls in the market.

The morning market was the busiest this time of the day. To ensure the freshness of produce, full-time housewives and servants would come during this period to buy food.

Xing Mo glanced at vegetable stalls, where a multitude of vegetables were neatly arranged in baskets, glistening with dew—most were brought by farmers at the brink of dawn from the suburbs of Academia.

In addition to vegetable stalls, there were also some stalls selling bread: large chunks of rye bread were casually placed in large baskets and sold by weight.

Most of the people buying rye bread at these stalls were relatively poor—the bread at these stalls was coarse, with the cheapest being often just a mush made of mixed grains with low nutritional value.

If you wanted better-tasting white bread, you had to buy it from bakeries. But many residents of the Northern District couldn't afford it.

"..." Xing Mo sighed as she looked at the poor people scrambling for the bread, then asked Aurora: "So, why did we come here this early?"

"Last night I received a lot of faith force." Aurora said seriously, "Many of the workers we rescued yesterday had prayed to me!"

"Isn't that great?" Xing Mo yawned, "So why are we here?"

Aurora's eyes dimmed for a moment: "They were praying to have enough food to eat tomorrow..."

Upon hearing this, Xing Mo felt as if something was stuck in her throat, unable to utter a word.

She nearly forgot one thing: the workers in Derek Larson's factory were all slaves. After Derek's fall, they didn't even have enough food to meet their immediate needs!

Although... I don't even know what they usually eat... Xing Mo's heart was heavy.

Aurora seemed to see through her emotions and immediately beamed her a bright smile: "So, we're here to prepare food for them! That's right! Not only will we prepare food for them, but we will also have to teach them how to prepare food themselves!"

"This way, when their bellies are full and satisfied, they'll pray to me even harder!"

"By then, my faith force will grow even stronger..."

Those last two sentences were just to cover up the previous ones... actually, there was no need for that...

Xing Mo's lips curled into a smile, then she uttered: "But, I don't have enough money to prepare food for so many people."

"No worries, I have money." Aurora patted her chest, "I won a lot of money before. Isn't this exactly the time to use it?!"

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It took about half an hour for Xing Mo to make a shopping list, listing the items they needed to buy.

The small birds—the small nuns—that Aurora summoned took the shopping list, then got some money from Aurora and went to the major markets in the Northern District to buy stuff.

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Xing Mo looked at the big basket in her hands: it was filled with vegetables such as carrots, cabbage, tomatoes, onions, and corn.

The basket that Aurora was carrying was even simpler: it was filled with rye bread.

"This is much worse than what we usually eat..." Aurora wrinkled her brow, "There's not even any meat."

"Considering the number of people, we can't focus on quality too much if we want to make it last." Xing Mo stated, "Besides, I will teach them culinary skills to raise the quality."

"Your culinary skills?" Aurora's eyes lit up, "I'm starting to look forward to it!"

Gourmand... Xing Mo thought to herself with amusement, and then called for a carriage, which took the two of them to Derek's factory.

In the aftermath of yesterday's event, most of the workers were still living in the factory at this time. The sun was shining brightly, piercing through the morning mist, and most of the workers were in the large courtyard outside the factory's main building, breathing fresh air, nibbling on bread.

According to the Church, they would soon be assigned housing and new jobs, but they still had to wait for a while.

After getting out of the carriage, Xing Mo was surprised to find that Senior Alice was standing in the center of the courtyard, distributing bread with several Church personnel.

She went to greet her, carrying a basket of vegetables: "Good morning, Senior Alice."

Alice turned around, seemingly unsurprised to see Xing Mo here, and waved: "Good morning, Junior Xing Sheng."

The senior swept the baskets in Xing Mo and Aurora's hands with her eyes and nodded thoughtfully: "Let me guess, you're here to do volunteer work?"

"Yes. Thinking that they might not have enough to eat, I couldn't rest easy..." Xing Mo scratched her head shyly.

"This won't happen. Since I'm aware of them, I won't let them go hungry."

"Then I feel reassured." Xing Mo breathed a sigh of relief.

"You bought so many vegetables, it must have cost a lot, right?" Alice looked at the large basket of vegetables in Xing Mo's hands with some concern, "It's good that you care, but if I remember correctly, your and your sister's financial situation isn't that great, right? How about I reimburse..."

Before Alice could finish speaking, carriages stopped at the factory's gate, and small nuns jumped off, carrying baskets of vegetables in their hands.

They placed the baskets of vegetables at Xing Mo's feet, ten or so... twenty or so... thirty or so...

After they were done, the small nuns looked up at Xing Mo in unison, with smiles on their faces.

Xing Mo: "..."

Alice: "..."

Aurora: (>ω<)

Darn it! There's the issue of the source of this huge fortune! Xing Mo suddenly panicked.

She deliberated for a while before stammering: "Ah... this... um... actually, these vegetables are sponsored, yes, they are sponsored by Saint Auroth Cathedral's Holy Nun... yes! Miss Lilis is really generous. She used the church's funds to buy vegetables for the workers. I'm just here to do volunteer work. It's not my money."

To make it sound more convincing, Xing Mo said to Aurora beside her: "Isn't that right?"

"Mhm." Aurora nodded cheerfully.

"..." Alice still had a hint of doubt in her eyes. But the workers had already started gathering around, so she didn't say anything more.

Seeing this, Xing Mo cleared her throat and said to Aria, who had quietly appeared next to her: "Well then, find me a pot! I'll show you all how to make delicious food!"

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