Chapter 38: Jianye
"Fifth brother hurry in, where have you been these days? Sixth sister and I were worried about you, we thought you had some kind of accident."
Seeing that bare-chested boy assisting Zhao Wu and heading inside, Li Huowang lifted his foot to follow, he felt that things were not so simple.
"Why are you back?" When he saw that the person who was planning to make a plate had just opened his mouth in an uneven manner, Li Huo Wang knew that he had guessed correctly.
Zhao Wu, who had just been very agitated, the emotion on his face gradually disappeared, stating in a trembling voice, "Father, I was captured with a sack over my head, they took me to a faraway place, and it was these friends of mine who sent me back."
Looking at the several black bucket hats at the door, Zhao Wu's father impatiently waved his hand repeatedly, "All disperse all disperse! , how can we do business with you guys blocking the doorway like this."
The other party's attitude made Li Huowang very upset, what does your father-son relationship have to do with us outsiders?
One snatched the long sword in Zhao Wu's hand and raised it high, with a flash of cold light, the sharp blade slashed straight onto the other party's wooden table cabinet, almost cutting it in half.
"What are you going to do? The town's constable is my relative!" Zhao Wu's father was so scared that he backed away.
Li Huowang took out one or two silver pieces in his right hand, and in front of him, slowly chipped off a small piece along the blade that was turning over with a cold light, and immediately pushed the broken silver with his hand in front of him. "Buy rice!"
Inside the small backyard of the rice store, Zhao Wu was pouring tea for Li Huowang. "Senior Brother Li, calm down, my father is just like that, his heart is actually quite good."
Li Huowang picked up the tea cup and drank it all in one go, who cares if he's good or not, he's too lazy to care about other people's family matters, and he didn't come over just to see Zhao Wu off.
"These last words notes are domestic, since Jianye City is familiar to you, find a reliable dart company and bring them all over." Li Huowang pushed seven or eight notes in front of Zhao Wu.
Zhao Wu picked them up with both hands and nodded cautiously. "Don't worry, Senior Brother Li, these things, I promise to do them!"
"Alright, that's it, you stay at home, we're leaving." Li Huo Wang stood up after saying that.
"Leaving so soon? Why don't we eat at my house for lunch, I can come back alive, it's all thanks to everyone."
Zhao Wu was obviously a bit reluctant to part, this parting might not be seen again.
"Forget it, don't get busy." Li Huowang patted Zhao Wu's shoulder, just looking at his father's attitude just now, I'm afraid this meal will be uneasy.
"You memorize more of the words I've taught you these days, especially your name. If you can write your own name, you are at least not purely illiterate."
Just as Li Huowang commanded the last sentence, a nearby female medicine guide with long black hair suddenly rushed forward and put her mouth to his ear and said in a very low voice, "When you go home, look into it, maybe you weren't kidnapped, but sold by your father!"
These words made everyone silent, waiting for Zhao Wu's third brother to carry the rice over, Li Huowang waved his hand, letting the fool take the rice and leave with the others.
Walking down the road where people were coming and going, Li Huowang and the others were looking for an inn to land in.
"Why do you think Zhao Wu was sold by his father?" Li Huo Wang turned back to the woman who had just spoken the last words to Zhao Wu and asked.
This woman who suffered from hirsutism was very quiet along the way, and usually basically didn't talk to anyone else, but today she suddenly opened her mouth, which really made Li Huowang a bit surprised.
"A tiger's venom is still not as bad as his son's, he may not be that bad."
When Li Huowang said this, the woman's body inexplicably trembled, and said with sadness in her voice: "Tiger venom does not eat the child, but people are much more venomous than tigers! Because I was sold by my parents!"
The moment these words came out, everyone stood still and looked at her with shocked gazes.
"Two taels of silver, a mere two taels of silver! He sold me like an animal! Didn't even look back."
Feeling the pain in the other party's heart, Bai Lingmiao walked over and gently hugged her, patting her back comfortingly.
Li Huowang spoke again after some thought. "He's sold you out, so are you still going back?"
"Go back!" The woman gritted her teeth and yelled lowly.
Looking at her chest that was rising and falling sharply due to her excitement as well as the extreme hatred in her voice, Li Huo Wang was immediately able to guess that she was afraid that her purpose for going back was not the same as Bai Lingmiao's and theirs.
"Dong Lai Inn, let's stay there today." Li Huo Wang pointed with his hand towards the plaque on the left side of the street and took the lead to walk in.
"Guest inside please, stopping by or staying at the inn?"
"Staying in a store, how much is a room."
"We have three types of rooms, A, B and C. Room A is ninety Wen with food, Room B is sixty Wen without food, and Room C is twenty Wen but you have to live with someone else."
"Sir, you have a total of seven adults, five children, a total of twelve people, you can choose four room B, our inn room is spacious, a room to sleep three people no problem, two adults with a child to sleep together also safer."
"Okay, let's do it as you said."
"Okay! Twelve honored guests ~ four rooms in Room B ~ upstairs please ~ be careful of the steps."
At night, Li Huowang leaned against the window and looked at the ancient people walking on the street outside.
He had finally had time to sit down and observe this world, which was completely different from his past.
The strong man leading a horse, the scholar with a fan, the small child carrying a lantern, and the hunchbacked peddler carrying food on a flat stretcher.
Everything here was so real, but so alien to himself.
A different face in front of his eyes flashed, watching, suddenly Li Huowang spirit trance for a moment, the next second his body muscles instantly tense, he saw Yang Na in the street!
That delicate face was already pearly at this time, her expression was so sad that she couldn't even catch her breath from crying. "Firewang, wake up!"
"Drink!" Li HuoWang, who was scared into a cold sweat, hastily took a step back, followed by a quick lunge back, looking downwards.
It turned out that it wasn't his childhood friend Yang Na, but a yellow-flower girl with a few similarities to her appearance was just a girl.
"Also, I have grown so big, if Yang Na really exists, how can she still be a young girl ...."
Li Huowang's back rubbed against the wall and slowly slid down, his eyes looking listlessly at the wooden beams above him. "Are the hallucinations about to start again?"
"Knock, knock," the knock on the door suddenly sounded.
"Come in, the door is open." Li Huowang had thought that the one who came in would be the doggy who lived with him, but it turned out to be Bai Lingmiao.
With a smile on her face she held a lotus leaf bag in both hands and sent it to Li Huowang, the lotus leaf opened up to reveal that inside were several large steaming buns. "Senior Brother Li, you're hungry. Eat the buns."
Li Huowang reached out and grabbed one and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing on it with a big mouthful.
Bai Lingmiao held the bun and squatted on Li Huowang's left side, quietly watching him, and as soon as she saw that he had finished eating, she immediately and thoughtfully handed over a new one.
"This place is quite special ah, there are still buns for sale in the middle of the night." Li Huowang spoke up.
"Isn't it quite common to have buns for sale at night? If it's special, then there's still the fool to talk about, he's eating buns and actually dipping them in vinegar!"
"Hehe, I also don't know which person he is, and this way of eating."
Li Huowang, who was chatting with Bai Lingmiao, suddenly remembered something, "I didn't give you any money, where did you get the money to buy the buns?"
Bai Lingmiao averted her gaze and moved away, but she first put the rest of the buns on her lap, followed by pulling out a few large pieces of silver from her own waist and cupping her hands to send them to Li Huowang.
"Senior Brother Li, I pawned that gold anklet, it's too hard for you to work alone, and I can't do anything else, so this is all I can do to help you."
