"Brother Wu, come in quickly. Where have you been these days? My sister and I are so worried about you. We thought you had an accident."
Seeing the shirtless boy supporting Zhao Wu and walking inside, Li Huowang followed him. He felt that things were not that simple.
"Why are you back?" When he saw the man with the abacus speaking indifferently, Li Huowang knew that he had guessed right.
Zhao Wu, who was very excited just now, gradually lost his emotions on his face and stated in a trembling voice: "Dad, I was caught with a sack covering my head. They took me to a far place. My friends sent me back."
Looking at the several black hats at the door, Zhao Wu's father waved his hands impatiently, "Disperse, disperse! How can we do business if you block the door like this?"
The other party's attitude made Li Huowang very unhappy. What does the discord between you father and son have to do with us outsiders?
He snatched the sword from Zhao Wu's hand, raised it high, and with a flash of cold light, the sharp blade chopped directly on the opponent's wooden table cabinet, almost cutting it in half.
"What are you going to do? The head of the police in the town is my relative!" Zhao Wu's father retreated in fear.
Li Huowang took out a tael of silver in his right hand, and in front of him, he slowly cut off a small piece along the blade with a cold light, and then pushed the broken silver in front of him. "Buy rice!"
In the small backyard of the rice shop, Zhao Wu was pouring tea for Li Huowang. "Brother Li, calm down. My father is like that. He is actually quite good at heart."
Li Huowang picked up the teacup and drank it all. He didn't care whether he was good or not. He was too lazy to care about other people's family affairs. He didn't come here just to send Zhao Wu off.
"These wills are from China. Since you are familiar with Jianye City, you can find a reliable escort company to take them all over." Li Huowang pushed seven or eight notes in front of Zhao Wu.
Zhao Wu took them with both hands and nodded carefully. "Don't worry, Senior Brother Li, I promise to do these things!"
"Okay, that's it. You stay at home and we're leaving." Li Huowang stood up after saying that.
"Are you leaving so soon? Otherwise, you can have lunch at my house. I can come back alive thanks to everyone."
Zhao Wu was obviously reluctant to leave. He might never see him again after this farewell.
"Forget it, don't bother." Li Huowang patted Zhao Wu's shoulder. Judging from his father's attitude just now, he might not be able to have a peaceful meal.
"Remember the words I taught you these days, especially your name. If you can write your own name, you are at least not illiterate."
Just when Li Huowang was giving the last sentence, a female medicine guide with black hair all over her body suddenly rushed forward, put her mouth close to his ear and said in a very low voice: "After returning home, check carefully. Maybe you were not kidnapped, but sold by your father!"
This made everyone silent. When Zhao Wu's third brother came over with rice, Li Huowang waved his hand and asked the fool to take the rice and leave with others.
Walking on the busy street, Li Huowang and others were looking for an inn to stay.
"Why do you think Zhao Wu was sold by his father?" Li Huowang turned around and asked the woman who had just said the last sentence to Zhao Wu.
This woman with hirsutism was very taciturn along the way. She basically didn't talk to others. Today, she suddenly spoke, which really surprised Li Huowang.
"Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. He may not be that bad."
When Li Huowang said this, the woman's body trembled inexplicably, and she said with sadness in her voice: "Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, but people are much more poisonous than tigers! Because I was sold by my parents!"
When these words came out, everyone stopped and looked at her in shock.
"Two taels of silver, just two taels of silver! He sold me like a beast! He didn't even turn his head back."
Feeling the pain in the other person's heart, Bai Lingmiao walked over, hugged her gently, and patted her back comfortingly.
After thinking for a while, Li Huowang spoke again. "He sold you, so are you going back?"
"Go back!" The woman growled with gritted teeth.
Seeing her chest rising and falling rapidly due to excitement and the extreme hatred in her voice, Li Huowang could immediately guess that her purpose of going back might be different from Bai Lingmiao and the others.
"Dongli Inn, let's stay there today." Li Huowang pointed to the plaque on the left side of the street and walked in first.
"Please come in, sir. Do you want to stay overnight or stay in the hotel?"
"How much is a room for staying in the hotel?"
"We have three types of rooms, A, B and C. Room A is 90 wen including food, Room B is 60 wen without food, and Room C is 20 wen but you have to share with others."
"Sir, there are seven adults and five children, a total of twelve people. You can choose four Room Bs. Our inn has spacious rooms. It is no problem for three people to sleep in one room. It is also safer for two adults and a child to sleep together."
"Okay, let's do as you say."
"Okay! Twelve distinguished guests ~ Four Room Bs ~ Please go upstairs ~ Be careful of the steps."
At night, Li Huowang leaned against the window and looked at the ancient people walking on the street outside.
After running all the way, he finally had time to sit down and observe this world that was completely different from his past. A strong man leading a horse, a scholar holding a fan, a child holding a lantern, and a hunchbacked vendor carrying food on a shoulder pole.
Everything here is so real, but it is so out of tune with him.
Different faces flashed before his eyes. As he looked, Li Huowang suddenly became dazed. The next second, his muscles tensed up instantly. He saw Yang Na on the street!
That delicate face was already tearful. Her expression was so sad that she couldn't even breathe. "Huowang, wake up!"
"Hey!" Li Huowang, who was frightened and sweating all over, took a step back, then rushed back quickly and looked down.
It turned out that it was not his childhood sweetheart Yang Na, but a virgin girl who looked a bit like her.
"That's right. I'm so old now. If Yang Na really existed, how could she still be a girl..."
Li Huowang's back rubbed against the wall and slowly slid down, looking at the wooden beams above with a dull look. "Is the hallucination about to start again?"
"Knock knock knock" the door suddenly sounded.
"Come in, the door is not closed." Li Huowang thought that the person who came in would be the dog boy 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 handed it to Li Huowang. The lotus leaf was opened, and several steaming big buns were found inside. "Brother Li, you must be hungry. Eat buns."
Li Huowang reached out and grabbed one and put it in his mouth, chewing it in big mouthfuls.
Bai Lingmiao held the bun and squatted on the left side of Li Huowang, watching him quietly. When she saw that he had finished eating, she immediately handed him a new one.
"This place is quite special. There are buns for sale late at night." Li Huowang said. "Isn't it common to sell buns at night? If it's special, then you have to call him a fool, he actually eats buns with vinegar!" "Haha, I don't know where he is from, and he eats like this." Li Huowang, who was chatting with Bai Lingmiao, suddenly remembered something, "I didn't give you money, where did you get the money to buy buns?" Bai Lingmiao looked away evasively, but she first put the remaining buns on her legs, then took out a few large pieces of silver from her waist, held them in both hands and handed them to Li Huowang. "Brother Li, I pawned the gold anklet. You are too hard alone, and I can't do anything else, so I can only help you like this."