Chapter 1678 – Selling

　　Chloe looked at him suspiciously, seemingly not able to understand what he was talking about.

　　Just then, the curtain of the carriage was pulled open, Zhan Yuwu stood in front of their carriage and waved his hand at Yan Zhong, “We need to replace the horses as well as procure dry food, you and I will go on a journey…

　　Brother Seven Nights, you guys just move around this neighborhood and rest, we’ll leave in half an hour.”

　　Lin Qiye nodded, “Good.”

　　”I’ll go with you guys as well.” Hu Jia thought for a moment and chose to follow Yan Zhong off the bus.

　　He was, after all, a newcomer to the Evil Suppression Division, while Zhan Yuwu and Yan Zhong were both considered patriarchs, so how could there be a reason for the patriarchs to run errands while he, a newcomer, rested? His status was nowhere near as high as Lin Qiye Huo Zaiwei’s.

　　Appreciation surfaced in Yan Zhong’s eyes with an expression of a teachable child, and the three of them discussed the matter before splitting up and leaving in different directions.

　　Lin Qiye and Chloe got out of the car one after another, looking at the ice-covered street, Chloe couldn’t help but stretch her legs:

　　”After sitting in the car for so long, my back is sore from sitting …… Is there anything interesting around here?”

　　”It’s my first time here too, how would I know about this.” Lin Qiye shook his head.

　　Just as the two of them were talking, Gongyang Wan and Wu Quan also successively got down from the carriage in front of them, but Huo Zhaodong’s figure was nowhere to be seen.

　　”Really sick.” Gongyang Wan frowned at the carriage, displeasure written all over her face.

　　”What’s wrong?” Lin Qiye asked.

　　Wu Quan opened his mouth, but still said, “Marquis drove us …… oh no, invited us out, he said he wanted to stay by himself.”

　　”What, this carriage is so big that it only sits him alone?” Gongyang Wan snorted coldly, “Champion Marquis, what a great official authority.”

　　Lin Qiye was stunned, then looked at the silent carriage with a somewhat worried expression.

　　In these days of traveling, Huo Daizi almost never got off the carriage, even eating and drinking was sent up by Lin Qiye, every time he waited for Wuquan and the others to get off the car, Huo Daizi was alone in the car vomiting blood……. By the time everyone was done eating and back in the car, he had already cleaned up the blood as if none of it had ever happened.

　　Since coming to this western region in the middle of winter, Huo Daizi’s body seems to be getting worse and worse.

　　”Marquis should be tired …… Let s walk around.” Lin Qiye looked like he thought of something and turned his head to look at Gong Yang Wan, “Yan Zhong told me that you are from Qing Shan County? Do you know of a suitable place to land and rest?”

　　”A person from Qing Shan County?” Gongyang Wan looked like she remembered something, a flash of coldness in her eyes, “I am not.”

　　Seeing that Gongyang Wan didn’t want to say more, Lin Qiye didn’t bother to ask more, he casually picked the busiest looking street and led the crowd there.

　　This period of time in the western borderlands, it was the coldest time, the ground was frozen into blocks, flying snow drifted in the air, and there were hardly any pedestrians to be seen on the road, and after they had only walked on the road for a few minutes, their hair and eyebrows were dyed white by the crushed snow.

　　Lin Qiye looked at the gray sky and walked to a store to buy a few oil paper umbrellas, which blocked the flying snow, but the icy cold air was still eating away at their bodies.

　　”It’s not a solution to walk around the streets like this.” Lin Qiye looked around as if he wanted to find a place to land as soon as possible.

　　Gongyang Wan followed behind the crowd, her gaze falling distantly on top of a building at the end of this street, her eyes narrowing slightly as she didn’t know what she was thinking.

　　”I know a place.” She suddenly spoke.

　　”Didn’t you just say that you’re not from Castle Peak County?” Chloe opened her mouth suspiciously.

　　”I’m not from Castle Peak County, but I’ve lived here for a while …… It doesn’t matter, there’s a place to keep out the cold, and there’s snacks and drinks, are you guys going or not?”

　　”Go.” Lin Qiye didn’t hesitate for a second, “Is it far?”

　　”Right there.”

　　Gongyang Wan’s finger pointed towards the building, the crowd nodded and walked forward quickly.

　　”Twenty taels.”

　　”Five taels.”

　　”Five taels??” The old woman’s eyes widened, “Chen Pickpocket! Have you lost your mind? I kindly sent you an egg-laying golden chicken, and you dismiss me with five taels of silver?!”

　　In front of the old woman, the short man sneered, the scar on his cheek hideous.

　　He looked back at the wooden hut behind him, and in the faint light of the flickering candlelight, he could see a dirty woman carrying a bowl of hot congee, tilting her head back and swallowing loudly, as if she hadn’t eaten for days.

　　”What do you think, what kind of place is our Liu Qing Fang?” Chen Paopi spoke unhappily, “We are in the skin and flesh business! If just any female beggar can be led to us for silver, then wouldn’t we be turning into a beggar’s nest here?”

　　”I’ve been choosing female prostitutes for so many years, I can tell with a glance if there’s any poise or not! Don’t look at her now, she is dirty, but she is definitely a good beauty!”

　　”Beggar born, how can she be good looking? Up to ten taels, if you don’t want it, take someone to get out.”

　　”…… line! Ten taels on ten taels!” The old woman clenched her teeth and said.

　　Chen Paipi unhurriedly pulled out ten taels of silver from his pocket and threw it to the ground in front of him, the old woman immediately bent down and picked them up one by one, her wrinkled face smiling like a chrysanthemum.

　　After giving the silver, Chen Paipi walked directly to the front of the wooden house and kicked open the wooden door.

　　Bang–!

　　The bowl of porridge in Jia Lan’s hand lurched as she turned her head and looked at this unfamiliar man in confusion.

　　”Who are you? Dame Zhou’s son?”

　　”Bah!” Chen Paopi spat, “That old bitch also comes with a son?

　　Now you’ve been sold to our Liu Qing Fang, in a moment someone will take you to bathe and change, let me taste the color first, and teach you some practical kung fu along the way, then you’ll enter the Fang and take on customers for me!”

　　Jia Lan was carrying the bowl of porridge, looking at him doubtfully, seemingly unable to understand what he was saying.

　　”I’m not going anywhere, after drinking the congee that Mrs. Zhou gave me, I should leave the city.” Jia Lan shook his head.

　　”Do you think that it’s up to you?” Chen Pickpocket snorted coldly, one hand slapped off the bowl of porridge in her hand, only to hear a crisp sound, the floating rice porridge mixed with the bowl fragments, spreading all over the earth under her feet.

　　In the next moment, Chen Paipi’s rough palm was directly grabbing at Jia Lan’s collar.

　　Jia Lan frowned, his right hand lightning-like locked his wrist, a light blue shimmering light flashed from his eyes, and he was about to strike, when his cheeks suddenly flooded with a burst of unhealthy blood color, and the shimmering light that had been tuned up quickly collapsed.

　　”Cough cough cough ……,” she weakly released Chen PiPi’s wrist, and the latter stomped backward several steps, looking at Jia Lan with a gaze full of astonishment.

　　”You’re a foreigner?!”

　　Jia Lan wiped away the blood seeping out from the corner of her mouth, a familiar feeling of vertigo surged up again, she looked down at the wounds all over her body and muttered.

　　”Are the injuries still too severe? ……”