Volume 1 Chapter 103: Jiang Guan Steals the Master (Part 1)

  Chapter 103: Jiang Guan Steals the Master (Part 1)

  The most bustling place in Lu Town is far less than Luo City, but there are still a few streets that are prosperous.

  "See, didn't you? Those girls looked at us with envy when we came out?" Green Chrysanthemum said to Mozi, Baihe and Xiaoyi while glancing inside a cosmetics shop.

  "What's there to envy? We're out to buy things for the girls. Right, and don't just focus on our girls, there are two ladies as well. As for Wei Liu girl..." Bai He had previously been rejected by Wei Liu when he gave her a fragrant pill, now he was hesitant.

  "It's fine with the two ladies, and let's just forget about Wei family's Sixth Miss. Only when facing her own aunt does she show a hint of humanity on her face; otherwise, she's always cold to everyone, an ice beauty. Once outside, Lu Jing's mouth is free to say whatever she wants."

  "Wei Liu didn't like getting close to people she wasn't familiar with." Bai He always looked at the good side of things and people.

  "Bai He, what do you want to buy?" Mozi made no comment about Weiliu Niang, only knowing that when she stared at Xiao Jia Er Lang, it was not compatible with the Ice Beauty.

  "I want to buy some seasonings, flour and ingredients, I'm afraid the girls on the boat can't get used to the food." Bai He is in charge of Qiu San Niang's stomach.

  "Green Chrysanthemum, are you putting on makeup for yourself or for a girl?" asked Mozi again to Green Chrysanthemum.

  "I know there are people selling deerskin, I want to take a look and see if there's any good quality one to make a big coat for our girl. The north is really cold, I've heard that the snow in winter can be as high as a person." Green Chrysanthemum looked a bit mischievous, but also had a sense of propriety.

  "What cosmetics shop are you looking at?" Little Clothes suddenly spoke up, glancing around.

  "I think the pattern on that scarf is quite refreshing, where are you looking at the rouge?" Green Chrysanthemum pulled White Lotus inside, "White Lotus, help me take a look, is it good or not?"

  "We only have two hours left, otherwise we'll have to split up and act separately?" To be honest, Baihe and Lüjing had already taken care of food, clothing, and lodging, and Mozi couldn't think of anything else she could buy.

  "Hmm, that's fine. I'll go with Green Chrysanthemum and you can go with Little Clothes. But we should also leave some time to eat, so let's meet at that restaurant in an hour." White Lotus is indeed the one who always thinks for others.

  "The girl punished me for three days without eating." Mozi remembered that he was "wearing a guilty body".

  "Miss says you can't eat rice, but it doesn't mean you can't eat dishes." Xiao Yi repeated what Qiu San Niang said and added her own understanding, "Eating buns is also okay."

  Pfft! - Mauve purple spits out laughter, isn't this just nitpicking and making a fuss over nothing?

  "Xiao Yi, you're really clever!" Green Chrysanthemum's eyes lit up, "Exactly, the girl said not to eat rice, eating noodles is fine."

  "You're all very clever, but what the girl said can't eat dinner, actually means can't eat anything." This loophole, Mozi is quite stubborn and doesn't want to take advantage of it.

  "It wasn't me who said it, it was Miss who said it." Xiao Yi solemnly "betrayed" Qiu San Niang, "She also said that even if she doesn't let you eat, Bai He and Lu Ju will secretly save food for you."

  "I told you our young mistress isn't that kind of person. If she really wanted to punish you, why would she let you come out shopping with us? Now that Xiaoyi has spoken up, it's even clearer - as long as you don't eat in front of the young mistress, everything will be fine." Baihe was truly delighted that Qiu San Niang hadn't gotten angry at Mozi. "The young mistress has always been hard on the outside but soft on the inside. Mozi, from now on you should also learn to hold back your words. We're just maidservants, we can't talk back to our master like that."

  Mozi smiled and nodded silently.

  After determining the time and place of the meeting, the four people went their separate ways.

  However, soon Mozi discovered that she had chosen the wrong teammates. She originally thought that by teaming up with Xiaoyi, she wouldn't have to follow Baihe or Lüjing, those two women who loved shopping so much that they would exhaust her. But she forgot that although Xiaoyi didn't like going for walks, she loved sneaking off to places where people couldn't see her. Before half a time unit had passed, Mozi became distracted by the beautifully crafted wooden water scoop in front of a certain teahouse and turned around to find Xiaoyi gone. Wanting to go look for someone, the dark grey sky suddenly started pouring down big rain again.

  "Miss, the rain will continue for a while, why not come in and have a cup of spring tea, two cents a pot." An old man with a white beard smiled and invited Mozi.

  In the tea pavilion, there are four tables placed at each corner. In the middle, a simple stove is set up for boiling water and steaming pastries. A tall cabinet made of green silk fabric holds rows of teapots, cups, saucers, as well as white porcelain jars with labels written in black ink on red paper indicating snacks such as peanuts, melon seeds, and sesame seed cakes to accompany the tea. Outside the pavilion is a well, next to which stands a large wooden basin filled with clear water.

  Just now didn't look carefully, originally this tea pavilion is very clean and bright, the old man selling tea is also sincere. Moreover, don't be afraid to avoid the rain without doing business, Mozi stretched out his hand to pat the raindrops on his shoulder and walked in.

  "Alright, old lady, then give me a pot of spring tea and a bowl of steamed cake." Since Qiu San Niang allowed her to cheat, she didn't need to pretend to be proud. Wei Liu Niang often put on an arrogant attitude, but she didn't think it was beneficial to do so.

  "Alright, young lady, please sit down, I'll be right there." He thought it was a two-cash business, but unexpectedly it was a six-cash business. The thin old man was quite pleased.

  Mei Zi considered her own daughter's body and thought it was not suitable to sit by the roadside, so she went to the other side. A table at the east corner already had two people sitting there, so she sat down at a table at the west corner.

  Before long, the old man put the teapot and tea cups on her table and brought over a steaming hot rice cake.

  "Are you a young lady traveling alone?" The old man was the kind of boss who loved chatting with customers.

  "No, with three sisters, but they are shopping in the front store." Mò Zǐ used chopsticks to open the rice cake, and the sparkling red bean paste flowed out, emitting a sweet fragrance. With the idea that people who can make delicious food can't have a bad heart, she didn't mind chatting with the old man for a few sentences.

  "That's good." The old man returned to the stove, put a small cup of tea leaves in the sieve, and slowly picked out the focused leaves. "Recently our town has not been peaceful, it's best for girls not to go out alone." Indeed, he was very thoughtful.

  "Old man, what are you saying?" Mozi thought of the refugees outside the town, "Are you referring to the people who escaped from Yuling?"

  "It's not that they can't. People will do anything when their lives are at stake." The old man shook his head, "Although they're also quite pitiful."

  "You don't have to worry, I saw that there are checkpoints set up outside the town, many soldiers are guarding them and blocking everyone from entering, it shouldn't affect the townspeople." Mozi said what she had personally witnessed.

  "You don't know, miss. There are tens of thousands of refugees outside the town now. How can a few hundred soldiers stop them? Many have arrived early and I've heard they're already begging in West Town, causing trouble for the locals. Just two days ago, someone was robbed. I think it's only a matter of time before those outsiders break in too." The old man's hand trembled as he pointed with his pipe, "When that happens, I don't know if my pavilion will be smashed to pieces. This is all I have left."

  "Old man, you're not talking about refugees, but violent mobs." Mu Zi, now deeply aware of being a citizen of Yulin, naturally wants to defend his country. "If the two countries weren't at war, they would also be ordinary citizens of Yulin, minding their own business. They fled here just hoping to have a place to settle down and make a living, they won't harm innocent people."

  "It's clear that the girl is a kind-hearted person. But when a dog is anxious, it will jump over walls; when people are desperate with hunger, what can they do? I imagine myself as one of those people outside the town and feel that for the sake of survival, I would be willing to do anything." The old man has run the tea pavilion all his life and has seen a lot of human nature.

  "The local authorities should think of a way, right? Few words." Mozi knew that Lùzhèn wasn't a fortified city, "The naval forces let them in, they must have plans to settle them down."

  "Government office?" The old man chuckled, revealing his yellowish-brown teeth like tea leaves. "You're so naive, little girl. A hundred or two hundred is nothing. But with over 10,000 people to feed, the government can't do anything either."

  "But in the past, when disasters and difficulties occurred in various places, weren't there tens of thousands of people affected? The government opened granaries to distribute food, and the imperial court also provided relief funds, so they were able to get through the difficult times. Huazhou is a place with abundant fish and rice, as long as each prefecture works together, it's not impossible to solve the problem of feeding the refugees." A single person's power is infinitesimally small, but a country's power can be immense.

  "Miss, I'll just ask you one question." The old man became more and more enthusiastic as he spoke with Mozi.

  "Excuse me, sir." Mozi put down his chopsticks, having eaten half of the rice cake.

  The two people talking didn't notice that the people drinking tea and chatting at the table in the corner had all stopped moving, with one man facing sideways towards Mozi even looking over.

  "There are two poor villages. One had a fire, burning all the winter grain. The other village didn't suffer a disaster, but only has enough grain for their own villagers. All the people from the affected village ran to the other village asking for grain. If they give it, then the people of the second village will have a hard time this winter, and might not be able to take care of their own elderly and children. So I ask you, should we give them the grain? The two villages usually mind their own business and don't help each other."

  The old man was just making an example, wanting to say that Yuling and Dazhou are two different countries, and there is no obligation for Dazhou to provide relief to Yuling.

  "I just said that those refugees are pitiful. But they are people from Yuling, if the government of Huazhou opens up the granary to give them grain, what if in the future the common people of Huazhou suffer a disaster and there is no official grain to save them? What then?"

  "Old man, I understand what you're saying. Let me tell you a story instead of answering your question directly." Mozi had a belly full of stories that would emerge from his mouth at the right moment, and he couldn't stop them even if he wanted to.

  "A long, long time ago, in a small village, there was a family who raised two chickens and a pig, as well as a mouse. Of course, the mouse wasn't raised by the farmer. One day, a guest came to the farmer's house, so the farmer slaughtered the two chickens. The mouse saw this and became very afraid, so it ran to tell the pig that the chickens had been killed by their owner.

  But the pig didn't think it was a big deal, since it was the chickens who died, not it. As New Year's approached, the farmer started feeding the pig lots of delicious food every day. The pig ate happily and became so full it couldn't move after each meal. The mouse advised it to eat less and suggested they leave the farmer's house together, but the pig wouldn't listen.

  Soon, the pig grew big and fat. On New Year's Eve, many guests came to the farmer's house, and the farmer slaughtered the pig."

  The old tea seller Zhang opened his mouth and let out an "aiyo".

  The person at the eastern corner of the table who was originally facing away from Mozi turned around.

  Saw powder 120, and then quickly updated a chapter.

  The second chapter has just started coding and cannot be uploaded today at a certain time, striving for 8 o'clock.

  Chapter 103: Jiang Guan Steals the Master (Part 1)

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