Urban Witcher

There were many carriages parked at the Guandao Pass. The driver of Ye Shaoyang's carriage went down to inquire, and brought back a depressing news:

At the junction of the two provinces, several small warlords mingled together. Taking advantage of the main force of the Anhui army being transferred to the capital to fight, they took the opportunity to invade and exchanged fire with some of the defenders who remained in Huizhou.

This kind of small-scale war did not have a big impact on the lives of the people, but coincidentally, the place where the two sides exchanged fire was the county where the horse-drawn carriages passed the official road. The Anhui army has now put the county under martial law. The people were unable to leave the city.

There was nothing anyone could do to catch up with this kind of thing, so they stayed in the county seat and waited for the situation to improve.

Ye Shaoyang took Cuiyun to find an inn to live in, wandered around the county, and found that everything was as usual, and there was no sign of war at all, but the city gate was closed, and there were no rumbling cannons outside, indicating that the place where the war was fought was outside the city .

This small county in southern Anhui is similar to Shangcai County where Cuiyun lives. However, because it is relatively close to Xuanzhou, the things sold are all things like the Four Treasures of the Study, but there are a lot of shopping, but not many shopping. There are also many refugees with their families on the street, begging on the street.

There are also some uniformed officers and soldiers wandering around in the county town, checking them at will, supposedly to prevent the enemy from sending spies into the city to wreak havoc. Ye Shaoyang was also interrogated once, but fortunately he had a resident certificate, which was equivalent to an ID card at the time, with a government stamp on it, proving that he was a certain person and where he lived.

Ye Shaoyang, a traveler, didn't have this kind of thing on his body, but after helping Mayor Qiu's house to catch ghosts, he asked Mayor Qiu to get a residence card under Cuiyun's reminder, and the address was filled in with Cuiyun's house. . Mayor Qiu is the official of one of the parents, and issuing such a resident certificate is just a piece of cake. In this way, Ye Shaoyang has a legal identity in this era.

Ye Shaoyang stayed in this county for a few days. Ye Shaoyang was very anxious, but he had no choice but to wait.

On the fifth day, the coachman who sent them here couldn't wait anymore, saying that he couldn't waste time here and had to go back. The passengers were dumbfounded when they heard this, and almost beat up the coachman. However, the carriage driver is very firm and willing to refund part of the travel expenses. He has already inquired for them that there is a small road to leave Huizhou and enter Xigan when they go out from the county. The carriages go to their respective destinations.

Everyone had no choice but to accept a refund, and then Cuiyun took the lead in negotiating with the coachman, and finally asked for almost half of the travel expenses.

Before the coachman drove the carriage away, he specifically told them that the road he found out was easy to find, but there were bandits on the mountain outside the city, so you need to be careful when crossing the road, and don't run into bandits.

After the coachman left, the eight passengers discussed it together. Some passengers often commute between Anhui and Jiangxi. They are somewhat familiar with the surroundings and know how to get there. However, as the coachman said, there are a few nests of bandits living in the nearby mountains, which is a bit risky. So everyone discussed, and immediately three passengers said they would not go.

Ye Shaoyang knew that Cuiyun didn't want to go back, so he thought about it and said, "Otherwise, you can stay in this county and wait for me, and I'll go over to do the work by myself, and I'll definitely come back to you when I'm done."

"No, I'll follow you!" Cuiyun was firm.

"This... you are not afraid of bandits?"

Cuiyun bit her lip, then shook her head. "I'm worried that no one will take care of you on the way."

Ye Shaoyang was a little helpless, and tried to persuade her, but Cuiyun's attitude was very firm, which made Ye Shaoyang very helpless. After careful consideration, he had no choice but to agree.

He was actually not particularly worried about Cuiyun's safety. After all, even though he had lost all his mana, he still had fists and kicks. If he really encountered bandits, it shouldn't be a problem to deal with ten or eight. The most important thing is that the well-informed old gentleman told them that although it is possible to encounter bandits, the chances are still very small. Moreover, the bandits in the mainland are not as tough as those in the Northeast. They usually seek money. If they do encounter them, as long as they give up some of their belongings, they should be able to survive.

"It's just..." the old gentleman looked at Cuiyun's face and said, "Forgive me for being presumptuous, my sister-in-law is handsome, if you meet a bandit..."

He didn't go on, but the meaning was obvious. Ye Shaoyang thought of a term that he saw on TV and was a little bit pleasant: Mrs. Yazhai.

Cuiyun smiled and said, "Don't worry about this, I have a solution!"

After deciding to take this mountain road, everyone made an appointment to meet here after an hour, and then went back to the inn where they lived to pack their luggage.

After Ye Shaoyang packed his luggage in his room, he went to look for Cuiyun, but Cuiyun told him to come later, Ye Shaoyang waited for almost half an hour, seeing that she still hadn't come out to look for him, he couldn't help but look for her again, After waiting outside the door for a while, footsteps sounded in the room, and then the door opened. Ye Shaoyang thought it was Cuiyun, and just about to speak, he froze for a moment. In front of him was a middle-aged man with a bloated figure, a dark complexion, and freckles. women.

"Auntie, you..." Ye Shaoyang wanted to ask where she came from, but suddenly he felt a little familiar, and after a closer look, he was immediately happy, "Damn, I almost didn't recognize it!"

Cuiyun laughed and said, "Does it look real?"

Ye Shaoyang looked at it carefully for a while, and it was really hard to see that she was wearing makeup, so he was amazed and asked how she did it.

"My family used to live in a revolutionary party. She was a sister. She was very young and beautiful, but it was inconvenient to travel around, so I made myself ugly. I thought it was fun at the time, so I learned this technique from her. Difficult, these freckles are made by crushing black beans and mixing them with water, then pasting them, and applying yellow rice juice on the face, after the yellow rice juice dries, the skin will peel off, which looks like wrinkles."

"So you went to the street to buy miscellaneous grains just now, and that's why?" Ye Shaoyang felt amused, his eyes fell on her bloated waist, and said, "Then why is your waist thick?"

"This one is simpler. I wrapped the blanket around my waist and wrapped it with cloth strips to make it look a little bit more like that."

Cuiyun looked at him with a smile, and said, "Now put it down, bandits won't take a fancy to a middle-aged woman like me who is not pretty."

Ye Shaoyang thinks so, although most of the bandits are single dogs, and their requirements for women are probably lower, but they are not likely to fall in love with such an aunt.

After leaving the inn, Cuiyun bought another square scarf and tied up her hair. She looked more like a middle-aged woman, and she was wearing the commoner clothes worn by ordinary women. A good-looking middle-aged aunt.