The next day, the traveling merchants set up stalls on the spot, filling the area with various goods. A small marketplace quickly formed, attracting the herdsmen who fell over each other in their eagerness to buy. The lively scene naturally piqued the interest of Su ZiLi, and he could not resist impatiently pulling Hong Xu into the crowd.
“Slow down, baby!” Hong Xu said helplessly as he was dragged behind. “Whatever you want, I will buy it for you as soon as we get back. There is no need to rush here in the middle of the day. Your body has not fully recovered yet!”
“Different, this is different. This is called going to a market, understand!” Su ZiLi squeezed to the front of a stall and looked at the various items. “Besides, I want to properly study the stuff you ancient people used! Wow, a mirror! Amazing, it is surprisingly just like the ones we use, not those face-distorting bronze mirrors! It turns out you already know how to use glass to make mirrors!”
“You’ve got a good eye, young man. This is a unique mirror, brought from overseas. There’s only one left. If you like it, I’ll sell it to you at a loss. How about it?”
“How much is it?”
“Not much, not expensive at all, only thirty taels of silver!” The vendor held up three fingers as he spoke.
Thirty taels of silver? Su ZiLi, unfamiliar with the local currency conversion, blinked in confusion. He then turned around and asked earnestly, “How much is one tael of silver worth?”
“One thousand wen!”
“One thousand wen? How much is that in RMB?”
“One thousand wen can exactly buy one thousand steamed buns!”
Su ZiLi’s eyes widened in shock. “One tael can buy a thousand steamed buns, so thirty taels can buy thirty thousand steamed buns?”
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“That is right, thirty thousand, baby!”“This palm-sized thing is worth thirty thousand steamed buns? Why don’t you just rob me?” Su ZiLi exclaimed. “In that case, I might as well make a crappy mirror like this myself!” He then disdainfully tossed the mirror back.
‘Clang’!
They stared at each other in shock!
“Wow, look, there’s actually a fish flying up there…… Let’s go, let’s go, Hong Xu, hurry!”
“Hey, you broke my mirror, pay up! Don’t run away!”
“Booohooo―― my thirty taels of silver! Booohooo―― my thirty thousand steamed buns!” Even though Su ZiLi was not the one paying!
“Baby, don’t be sad. It is just thirty taels of silver. I will compensate you with thirty thousand taels when we get back, all right?” Hong Xu said dotingly, amusement in his voice, as he walked over to pat Su ZiLi’s small butt, who was lying on the bed biting the corner of the quilt.
“Even if you give me a million taels, it won’t make up for it. He extorted thirty taels from this laozi!” Su ZiLi said, holding up three fingers with a pained expression, as if it were a serious matter. Then, he flopped back onto the pillow to continue lamenting.
Just as Hong Xu was about to comfort this little money grubber, Fourteen’s voice suddenly came from outside the tent, “Lord, the Clan Elder requests your presence!”
Hong Xu glanced back with displeasure, then turned Su ZiLi over, pecked his lips, and said, “Baby, the Clan Elder has requested our presence. As guests, shouldn’t we go over?”
“Not going, I am not in the mood! If you want to go, you can go!” Su ZiLi pouted and spoke.
“You really are not going?”
“Yes, not going!”
“All right, baby, then you just wait here for me obediently and do not run around. I will be back soon!”
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“I know, you are just as nagging as your mother!”“Huh?”
“Nothing, I did not say anything. Go and come back quickly! I want to eat sliced mutton for lunch!”
“Got it!” Unable to resist, Hong Xu stole another kiss before getting up and walking out.
“Sigh, buns, steamed buns, money, silver……” Just as Su ZiLi was muttering with a sad face, his shoulder was suddenly patted.
“What now?” Su ZiLi turned around unhappily, then immediately widened his eyes in surprise.
***
Watching Fourteen leading the way ahead, Hong Xu suddenly spoke, “You have been following me for several years, haven’t you?”“Yes, Lord!”
“Then you should be very clear about what I cannot tolerate the most!”
Fourteen turned around, lowered his head, and fell silent.
“Why are you not speaking? Are you perhaps afraid?”
“This subordinate is terrified!”
“Oh, truly a clever answer!”
“……” Fourteen lowered his head even more.
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The sudden change in Hong Xu’s expression made the surrounding air instantly fill with a chilling, terrifying aura!“Then, could such a clever person like you tell me what your purpose is in disguising yourself as Fourteen and lurking by my side?”
“Fourteen does not understand what the Lord means!”
“Do not understand?” Hong Xu sneered coldly, “Things have already come to this point. Do you really still think there is any need to continue acting?”
The person in front of Hong Xu suddenly raised his head. The simple and honest expression belonging to Fourteen had completely vanished, and was replaced by a mocking smile.
Hong Xu looked at the spot under his feet with an ice cold look, then his body suddenly leaped backward for more than ten meters.
“I am really curious about how you found out. I have no doubts about my disguise skills!” The other person spoke, and surprisingly, the voice turned out to be a high-pitched female voice.
Wearing Fourteen’s face and speaking with a woman’s voice, the combination was as strange as it could get. Yet Hong Xu remained unmoved, coldly staring at her as if he had even anticipated that she was a woman!
"You are the woman who deliberately lured
This happened in chapter 78.
1 Fourteen to save you, right? The purpose of that was nothing more than to choose a disguise target. From just a brief encounter and a few words, you could imitate him so well. It seems you are quite a rare talent, but you are not using it for your own benefit. No matter how skilled you are, if you are not using your talents wisely, they will ultimately become a hindrance!”
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“You talk like you know it all! But what can you do to me?” the woman said with a sneer.“Haha, there is nothing in this world that I cannot handle, and no one that I cannot deal with!” The overwhelming presence and arrogant confidence in his words stunned the woman for a moment. “It is said that in the Jade Tower, where masters are as numerous as clouds, making you vanish into thin air is nothing more than a snap of the fingers, let alone killing someone as insignificant as you, Yun Ji!”
If Hong Xu had merely startled her earlier, now he truly terrified her! She was certain that she had not revealed any trace related to the Jade Tower until now. So how did this man, this man, find out about them? And he even knew her name!
“Surprised, aren’t you?” Hong Xu sneered as he looked at her shocked expression.
“You, how did you find out? I recall you never left this place!”
“That is something you are not qualified to know!”
Yun Ji looked at the extraordinary man before her and realized that the Jade Tower had stirred up trouble with the wrong people this time! Looking up, she suddenly noticed the vulture that had been circling for a long time suddenly flap its wings and fly east. A strange smile appeared on Yun Ji’s face.
Hong Xu frowned. At the same time, an Imperial bodyguard who had been separated for many days flew over with a worried expression.
“My Lord, the Young Lord…… is missing!”
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