Traveling through troubled times, he fled with his stepson

There are coarse salt, ironware, and a wide variety of other things.

Salt and iron are important strategic materials. Under normal circumstances, they are controlled by the government. Selling salt and iron privately is a serious crime.

"Xiao...Awan." As soon as he opened his mouth, Wei Qiqi called out other names in a low voice out of consideration for the people around him.

When Li Yuan heard this name, he couldn't help but chuckle.

"you--"

As soon as she opened her mouth, Li Yuan pulled her over and said, "Qiniang, see if there is anything you want here."

The things here are relatively hard to get and rare.

But it's nothing strange for the two of them.

Wei Qiqi looked at them one by one, "It doesn't look like the things here can be obtained by these people."

The people who set up stalls here are all from the slums. Their eyes are filled with a mixture of desire for survival and numbness. They can be easily identified by their eyes.

"He is just a hired hand. The owner of the things is someone else."

This sentence is worth pondering. Does "there is another master" mean that different people become the masters of these people, or only certain people are the masters of these people?

"Is there nothing that Qi Niang wants?"

Li Yuan spoke, his eyes swept across the place. It was a small yard full of vendors, and the things on display were not very good.

"Nothing I want."

"That's fine. He's not a good guy anyway. From now on..." Wei Qiqi didn't hear the rest of Li Yuan's words. Just when she was about to ask him, a man came towards her.

"The shopkeeper wants you to come over here."

He bowed slightly and spoke to Li Yuan.

Li Yuan nodded and followed with Wei Qiqi.

"Qiniang, when you go out later, remember two things. First, remember the person we are going to meet now. Second, remember how to find this late market."

Wei Qiqi tilted her head, wondering why she had to remember these two points. The person who led the way brought them into the house and pushed open the dark room at the back of the house.

"Xiao Wan."

The person who was speaking was wearing brocade clothes, was slightly fat, had inverted triangle eyes, and looked like a shrewd businessman.

"Shopkeeper Ma."

Li Yuan saluted respectfully, and Wei Qiqi followed behind him, bowing slightly.

"Why are you here today? What happened?" the man asked puzzledly.

"Nothing, bring your family over to have a look, it will be an extra insurance for the future."

Shopkeeper Ma focused his eyes on Wei Qiqi and spoke after a while: "I wonder if this person..."

"Step-relative in the family."

The shopkeeper Ma's eyes changed slightly, and he couldn't help but look at Wei Qiqi carefully. He noticed her since Xiao Wan and the woman entered the door.

Even with her face covered, her temperament and figure are still excellent.

Such a young woman, is she a step-relative?

Step relatives include stepmother, step-sister, step-sister, step-aunt, step-aunt...

Even if we exclude the small ones, the range is still very large.

Wei Qiqi also took off the cloth covering her face and looked up at Shopkeeper Ma.

Li Yuan waited patiently for Shopkeeper Ma to finish reading it carefully, then stepped forward and stood beside Wei Qiqi, covering half of his face.

Knowing that he had lost his composure, Shopkeeper Ma lowered his head, then raised his eyes to look at Li Yuan.

"Brother Xiao Wan, I understand what you mean. Don't worry, I will definitely help you if you need me in the future."

Hearing this, Li Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't show it on his face.

"Then I won't bother Shopkeeper Ma. I'll leave first."

"it is good."

Only after leaving the door did Wei Qiqi finally ask what she wanted to ask.

"Tell me the truth. What is your relationship with this place? You didn't just ask me to come here to see something strange today, did you?"

Li Yuan blinked his eyes. Two people had just come out of a small door. In the dim environment of the late night, their words sounded like whispers.

"Don't try to get away with it, just speak up!"

Every time this kid didn't want to say something, he would blink his eyes. The boy's long eyelashes blinked wildly and he couldn't think of anything else.

But today's matter is of great importance and he cannot let it go.

"I saved Shopkeeper Ma by accident before, so Shopkeeper Ma brought me here." Li Yuan knew that he was going to have a hard time today, so he confessed honestly, "Later, I sold some news to Shopkeeper Ma, and we became familiar with each other."

Wei Qiqi frowned slightly, fearing that there were a lot of twists and turns involved, and it was not as simple as he said in just a few words.

"Humph."

He snorted to show that he understood and the matter was over.

"Why did you think of bringing me here?"

It doesn't seem like Li Yuan is willing to bring her to such a lowly place.

"The world is unstable, so we should be prepared for whatever happens in the future."

Wei Qiqi lowered her eyes and said, "Okay, I'll remember it."

The two people slowly left through the small door and missed Ling Zizhenyi and others who had just entered the slums and were at a loss.

"Are you sure they went in here?"

"We're all looking in this direction. How could so many pairs of eyes make mistakes?" someone argued.

"It's Zizhen, but what are they doing here? It's a place where untouchables live, and it's so dirty."

Ling Zizhen ignored everyone else. He looked around carefully, feeling like he was missing something.

"Forget it, Zizhen, let's get out of here first. It stinks."

"If we leave, there will always be a time when Cheng Feiyue and Li Yuan will be left alone. By then..."

Someone elbowed the person who was speaking: "How dare you touch the city lord's son?"

The man then remembered that Cheng Feiyue was the city lord's son, and his father was still working under the city lord, and he immediately fell silent.

"Humph, so what if he's the city lord's son?"

Ling Zizheng said this, glanced around, and waved his hand to signal to leave.

Others didn't understand what Ling Zizheng meant. They just thought that he could do whatever he wanted because his father was the city lord's deputy.

But they were different. They followed Ling Zizhen only to please the young master and make things easier for their father. They only dared to bully people like Li Yuan who had no background.

Ling Zizhen returned home with doubts.

Just when she was about to go back to her room, she saw that the light in her father's study was on. Lingzi, who hadn't seen her father for several days, really wanted to see him, so she went straight over and pushed the door open.

"who?"

There was a loud shout from inside, but it was not my father's voice!

Ling Zizhen immediately became alert and quickly turned around the screen. The scene inside the room appeared before his eyes.

A man with a beautiful beard, about the same age as his father, looked at him fiercely, and next to him was a young man who was older and taller than him.

The young man walked up to him and kicked him hard on the knee, forcing him to kneel down, then grabbed his hair crown and made him raise his head.

"who are you?"

"Nephew, please show mercy, this is my son."

The young man turned his head to look at Ling Feng, then looked at Ling Zizheng. After looking at them carefully for a few times, he slowly let go of his hand.

"It was my fault, please don't blame me."

As he spoke, he rubbed his fingers on Ling Zizhen's scalp and then pulled them out.

This man's fingers were like snake tongues, making Ling Zi shiver a little.

"Hurry up and get out of here. How can you be so reckless?" Ling Feng looked at his son who was half-kneeling on the ground with an unpleasant expression.

"Why step down? My nephew is so ambitious at such a young age. We should let him listen so that he can inherit Lord Ling's position in the future."

Ling Feng looked towards Zhan Ying, unconsciously showing signs of panic.