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Chapter 8 Return

Three years later

After the winter solstice, the sky in the Southwest Plateau is still blue. Under the bright sunshine in the morning, there is an endless stream of cars and horses on the road from Southwest Wanshou Temple to Linnan Prefecture City.

Mi Yuyan is wearing a black linen shirt, with a coarse cloth belt of the same color tied around her waist. Her complexion is dark, and her hair is tied on top with a wooden hairpin. She looks like a young man from an ordinary family in the Southwest Plateau. Walking towards the prefectural city in a hurry.

At this time, those who go to Linnan Mountain are usually sick and want to go to the Southwest Wanshou Temple to seek treatment; while those who go to the city, except for those who have been cured and return to the city, are either going to Wanshou Temple to observe life at the foot of Linnan Mountain. common people, or villagers along the way.

No matter what, it was a lively scene. Mi Yuyan looked at the people coming and going around her with great interest but without revealing any traces. For some reason, she suddenly felt like she was in the world.

For the real Mi Yuyan, three years, nearly four years to be precise, living on Linnan Mountain is like a world away. Of course, this feeling is even more true for Zou Jingzhi, living another life , this is a completely different identity and place from the previous life. When they overlap, everything is unfamiliar to Mi Yuyan now, but she has to do something.

It seemed that Mi Yuyan was neither fast nor slow, but in fact her footsteps were extremely fast. When she descended the mountain at Mao Shichu, by Si Shichu, the gate tower of Linnan Prefecture City was already in sight.

There are many hawkers carrying burdens doing business outside the city gate. At the breakfast stalls, after the hot and sour food has been poured with hot oil, the mixed fragrance floats far away. Everyone feels hungry when they smell this smell. There are crowds of people inside and outside the thatched shed stalls, and business is very good.

Not far across from the thatched hut, several beggars looked eagerly across the way, hoping that some kindhearted person would give them a bite or leave some leftovers.Probably these beggars are very well-behaved and never take the initiative to go to the stalls to disturb other people's business. The stall owners are also very cooperative. Whenever there are leftovers from the guests when clearing the tables, they will gather together and rush to the opposite side. If you wave your hand, there will be a beggar holding a big bowl that has been knocked off the edge. He will accept it with great gratitude, and then bring it over to share some food.

Some diners who came back for the first time saw this scene and were very surprised. They sighed with the stall owner who was collecting the tables: "Why do you have such rules even for beggars? It's really strange!"

The stall owner chuckled and forgot to glance at the other side, but he was still busy working under his hands, and said: "Your Majesty, you don't know. It turns out that these beggars were also beaten badly. Not only can they not eat, but they are also tired." They stole our business and stole some food from our place. Then a beggar came and I don’t know what tricks he used. Now he just waited for us to greet us. After begging for something, he went back and shared the food with everyone. I’m not hungry anymore…”

The stall owner put away the table and bowed to the diners: "Sir, please take a seat. That compartment will be ready soon!"

The diner looked at the other side and sighed: "Hey, they are all pitiful. If there is some way, who would be willing to beg like this? I don't know what changes are happening in the family. Forget it, boss, these are the beggars. You Count them, give each person a piece of cake, and I’ll come and settle the bill later!”

"Hey, the guest is so kind. I would like to thank you for them. Dalang, give this guest a fried chicken!" After saying this, the stall owner waved to the other side.

Seeing a little beggar coming, the diners were a little dissatisfied: "Boss, why didn't you wait until I left?" The stall owner smiled and shook his head: "Guest, please don't worry, they are very well-behaved now and only know how to do it." I am grateful for your kindness and will not bother you."

The little beggar opposite ran over and just stood outside the shed looking at the stall owner. He obeyed the rules and did not go in. After a while, the little beggar took it from the stall owner and wrapped it in a big lotus leaf. There were a dozen hot pancakes, and the stall owner was a little dumbfounded. He pointed at the diner and said something softly.

The little beggar quickly ran back to the opposite street with the pancake in his arms, handed the pancake to the other beggar's hand, pointed to the other side and said something, then saw the beggar who had received the pancake put the pancake aside and walked away into the street. He knelt down on the other side, no matter whether the diners opposite him saw him or not, and kowtowed three times.

After kowtowing and wiping the dust off his hands, the beggar opened the lotus leaf bag and took out a few pancakes for the other beggars to share. He, like the others, did not eat more than he wanted. He silently put away the remaining pancakes, and the beggars beside him didn't show any signs of resistance. It was obvious that they were extremely convinced of this beggar.

In the thatched shed, the diner who had just sat down next to him saw the beggar kowtow, and said to the diner who had left the pancake and was feasting on the sour soup noodles that had just been brought to him: "Look, look, the beggar is kowtowing to you. If you are a good person, you will be rewarded."

The diner raised his head from the noodle bowl and saw the scene opposite him. He couldn't help but feel a little startled. Then he sighed: "I have also suffered a lot. I survived because of a meal from my benefactor..."

The beggars gnawed a third of the pancakes in their hands with great taste, chewing them carefully and carefully. Then, with the water in the big gourds that their companions kept passing around, they seemed to have eaten the whole pancake. The feeling of having the most delicious food in the world.

The leading beggar took a sip of water, raised his head, and saw Mi Yuyan walking towards the city gate with the crowd. For some reason, he always felt a sense of familiarity, and he covered his face with a drink of water without leaving a trace. Secretly looking at Mi Yuyan.

When Mi Yuyan was about to reach the city gate, the beggars all noticed something strange about the boss, but they didn't know what he was looking at. Just when Mi Yuyan's figure was about to disappear into the city gate building, the beggar left what was left in his hand. He stuffed a piece of pancake into his mouth, stood up quietly, made a sign to the beggars beside him not to move, threw the gourd to them, and walked along the edge of the road to the city.

Linnanzhou City takes the main street facing the city gate as the central axis and is divided into east and west sides. The east side is the courtyards of wealthy people, and the west side is the world of businessmen. There are markets for jewelry, medicinal materials, spices, etc., divided into categories. It welcomes merchants from inside and outside Guancheng to enter and exit goods.

Mi Yuyan remembered that her family lived in the west of the city. The front door was Spice Street and the back door was Linnan River. Of course, for her and her grandmother, the door at Linnan River was the door they used to enter and exit daily, because they lived there. There is a small courtyard behind Mi's Incense Store, and next to it is the warehouse. There is a door outside the warehouse. On weekdays, the goods of the incense store come in and out from here.

Mi Yuyan followed her usual habit and walked toward her home along the embankment of Linnan River. As she walked, she suddenly squinted her eyes...

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