Heroes of the Fantasy World

Chapter 170

(4)

The carriage moved slowly along the uneven sandy ground.Along the way, there are several houses and shops passing by, all of which are no more than two stories high. Compared with the towering mountains in front of us, they really pale in comparison.Trying to compete with it under the thousand-foot-high natural danger, everything should become extraordinarily small.

Most of the buildings in Gunma Town are simple and plain, mostly made of blue bricks and old tiles.Merchants usually come and go with horses, carrying luggage and goods on horseback, and come and go in a hurry.There are pausers from time to time, but they just go in and out of shops and restaurants to buy and sell some necessities needed for the journey.

It seems that for more people, Gunma Town is just a passing place.

Zhao Kuo and the two women beside him sat in front of the carriage pulled by two maroon pack horses, and walked through the market at a speed slightly faster than ordinary people walking.

Walking along the road, they found that every corner of Qunma Town was covered with a layer of yellow dust.Most of the passers-by on the road are men, including Han Chinese and foreigners. The only similarity between them is the rough and dark skin on their bodies, which is the result of years of exposure to wind and sun.Obviously, none of them had a prominent family background or outstanding abilities. Their journey had no end, and they had been running around and wandering around for a living until they died.

Therefore, the two pretty girls on the carriage are particularly eye-catching.A discerning person only needs to glance at them, and they can tell from their delicate and fair skin—which family's young lady or aunt is coming out to play again.

In fact, this is true, and the two of them have no taboos.Just now when they reached the busiest part of the market, Zhao Xiaomei and Ajuan couldn't help jumping off the carriage, and made an appointment to taste Xiaomei's favorite food.

Although Zhao Kuo couldn't help shouting, but he also paid attention to not letting his sister bring a penny, and immediately wanted to sit and watch Zhao Xiaomei's embarrassment because she couldn't get the silver taels.

I saw Zhao Xiaomei and Ajuan walking up to the Xianbei old man who was waiting by the roadside with his horse in a daze, and then pointed to a skin pouch on the horse and asked for two bowls of cold "yogurt".

The Xianbei old man brushed his half-white beard around his lips, then smiled and reached out to ask for money.The little girl searched herself and found out that she was penniless, then she walked up to her brother in aggrieved manner and asked, "Brother, how much silver do you have?"

"It's barely enough for us to go home. What are you buying?"

"That's it! I haven't eaten it for two months..." The little girl looked at the white bowl of yogurt in her hand, and couldn't help scooping another spoonful into her mouth, feeling the familiar the taste of.

"I don't have any spare money, so let your sister Ajuan help me." After finishing speaking, Zhao Kuo raised his right arm and rested his head on the carriage to take a nap, as if he had nothing to do with himself and was superior , I was so angry that my little sister couldn't express her suffering, so she had to let it go.

In the end, Ajuan seemed to be angry with Zhao Kuo, and bought the entire body of the Xianbei old man, and put on a pair of silver earrings for it.

Seeing the two girls who complained about him holding a skin bag several times bigger than his own face, Zhao Kuo sneered after they got into the car: "You have to finish eating quickly, this yogurt is far away from you. If it is stored cold with ice cubes, it will go rancid and smelly within two days."

This shrewd rich man would know that girls from the Miao family like Ajuan never carry broken silver.According to the primitive law of bartering, two small bowls of yogurt are not worth the value of a fine silver jewelry, so in the end she and her younger sister had no choice but to buy back the bagful of yogurt.

"Don't worry about it, our little sister doesn't have a brother like you!" Ajuan replied, and quickly shared what was in her bag with others.

Even though Bai Feng and Murong Yan, who had tasted yogurt for the first time, were full of praise, they still ate far less than A Juan and Xiaomei.

The result is that the two girls who have been angry have been eating the bag of yogurt in the process of walking to Lou's mansion.Soon, their bodies began to feel unwell.

Just after the young girl and Ajuan clutched their bellies and complained endlessly, the carriage stopped suddenly. It turned out that they had already arrived at the gate of Lou's mansion.

Just looking at the door, one can feel that the Lou family's family property is huge, and there must be many household servants.Unexpectedly, after Zhao Kuo knocked on the door curtain, the only person who came to answer the door was an old woman who was over fifty years old and could not see clearly.

"I have met the old man, can you introduce me to me. Zhao Kuo, my father and Uncle Lou are old acquaintances."

"Ah? What are you talking about... I can't hear you." The old woman's clothes were fairly neat. Although she couldn't say it was luxurious, she still couldn't lose her dignity.It's just that her hearing loss made her completely lose her appearance advantage when communicating with people.

"My name is Zhao Kuo. My father, Zhao Wei, is an old acquaintance of Uncle Lou. I have an urgent matter to see you!" Zhao Kuo purposely yelled out his voice, fearing that the other party still couldn't hear him.

"Yes...it's the Zhao family! The Zhao family is here, so the old man will ask Miss Lou to come out..."

As soon as the words fell, the old man staggered and closed the door, and walked eagerly.

But wait a little longer, the old woman walked out through the door with a young woman.

I saw this woman combed her waist-length hair, black and beautiful; the light blue valerian skirt was set on her snow-white and flawless skin like the blue sky against the white clouds, which was charming.She held a yellow gauze fan lightly in her hand, embroidered with colorful flowers and birds, which she seemed to like very much.

At first, when she saw Zhao Kuo, there was a momentary surprise in her eyes, but this slight emotion quickly disappeared, and turned into an extremely serious attitude of hospitality.

"Young Master Zhao, I haven't seen you for many years, how are you doing recently..."

"Jinghua, I didn't expect you to recognize me! After all, I haven't seen you for almost three years."

"Why are you dressed like this? No wonder my nanny can't recognize you."

"Let's go in first and talk later. Look at the two girls behind me. They ate something wrong on the way. Now they want to take a break for a while."

After hearing this, Lou Jinghua poked her head out with a smile, and saw that besides Zhao Xiaomei whom she knew, there was also a woman from the Miao family and two mysterious figures wearing veils, so she asked curiously: "Are they all your people?"

"Yes, you just let them follow in?"

After Zhao Kuo spoke for a while, he suddenly had someone grab the corner of his clothes from behind, only to hear someone crying, "Sister Jinghua, let me in, it hurts me to death..."

After a while, several people followed Lou Jinghua into the gate of Lou Mansion.

Before this, no one would have thought that in this huge mansion, there was no sound and no one around.Lou Jinghua arranged for the nanny to take Ajuan and Zhao Xiaomei to soothe the nerves and recuperate, and then took the rest of the people to sit in the main hall, and asked, "Mr. Zhao, did you bring the silver?"

"Ah?" At first, Zhao Kuo thought he was deaf like the old woman, but after he realized it, he replied in doubt: "I don't have much silver, but this Lou's house, why is it so deserted? Where is Uncle Lou? "

"What did you say?" The lady of the family opened her weak eyes wide, stared at Zhao Kuo viciously, and reprimanded, "You don't have any silver? Then why are you here?"

"Jinghua, if you have something to say, talk about it, we haven't seen each other for a few years, shouldn't we catch up on the past first?"

"Reminiscing about the old days? Who is in the mood to reminisce about the old days with you?" Lou Jinghua grabbed the yellow gauze fan with both hands, and was so angry that he almost scratched the fan, and said, "Both of you father and son are not good people! It's a waste of our Lou family Before your Zhao family made a fortune, you sacrificed your life to help each other. Now it is our Lou family’s turn to be in trouble, but your Zhao family has ignored you, causing us to wait for a month! Now the building is empty, and only my father and nanny are left to suffer. Stay in this mansion, sit and eat..."

After listening to Zhao Kuo, he felt that the story was not simple, so he changed the subject and said, "Jinghua, you must have misunderstood. I didn't come from Yuyi on this trip, but I just came out of Cangzhou. I plan to come here to borrow money." Some people, so that we can reach Yuyi safely."

"So, you don't know anything about our Lou family?"

"Yes, I don't know your father, where is he now?"

"Daddy, he is depressed now, and because he listened to Uncle Zhao's words, he lent half of his troops to go out on business. As a result, you encountered bandits on the way, and we lost everything. Just the mourning expenses of the deceased, they will be deducted." A lot of our property. Now, even the horse farm has been mortgaged."

As Lou Jinghua spoke, he tremblingly walked to the threshold, looked up at the sky above his head, and said with emotion: "Now this huge house has nothing but the facade."

"My father knew about this, so he definitely wouldn't stand idly by. There must be something strange about this!" Zhao Kuo argued like this, and then said: "Why don't you let me see Uncle Lou first, and I, Zhao Kuo, will come forward I beg you, the matter of your Lou family will definitely be resolved!"

As soon as the words fell, Lou Jinghua immediately took Zhao Kuo and left the main hall, completely forgetting to show the friendship of the landlords to the two mysterious figures wearing veils.

(End of this chapter)