Chapter 106 Whereabouts

After leaving the place where the townspeople were staying, the group headed straight for the riverbank with perfect understanding.

"Old woman, just now, I didn't let you stay there any longer. You... won't blame me, will you?" Uncle Wang had been silent the whole way, but when they were almost at the riverbank, he finally couldn't help but ask the question.

"Oh, what's so strange about it? You can tell that Li is scheming against me, so how could I not hear the hidden meaning in her words?" Aunt Wang sighed and followed behind Uncle Wang, walking step by step.

Fan Xiaoxiao listened silently from the front, then suddenly asked the people behind her, "Uncle, Aunt, what are your plans next?"

Uncle Wang and his companion were taken aback by the question, as they really hadn't figured out what to do next.

"Girl, what are your plans next?" After a moment of silence, Uncle Wang asked Fan Xiaoxiao what they were going to do next.

When asked this question, Fan Xiaoxiao pursed her lips and hesitated for a moment before saying, "I once said that Father told me in my dream that there would be a great disaster coming, and I want to take my older sister and Xiaobao with me to the direction Father pointed out."

After speaking, Fan Xiaoxiao subconsciously looked at Fan Shi. The other party seemed to notice her gaze and smiled gently at her: "Yes, a family should always be together."

"Sister..." Fan Xiaoxiao felt a warmth in her heart, very grateful for the trust that Madam Fan placed in her.

"So, you will leave Jingchuan and continue heading northeast." Uncle Wang said this not as a question, but as a statement.

After he said that, the atmosphere suddenly became somewhat silent.

Xiao Bao looked left and right, then suddenly pouted and asked with a hint of grievance, "Are we... are we going to be separated from Grandpa and Grandma?"

Fan Xiaoxiao glanced at Granny Wang, stopped, and asked seriously, "Granny, would you like to come with us?"

"I……"

"Catch him!!!" A loud shout from the street interrupted what Granny Wang was about to say. Everyone was startled by the commotion and was about to look in the direction of the sound when they saw a blur and someone ran past them.

Then Fan Xiaoxiao felt a tightness behind her, and a familiar old man's voice rang out behind her: "It's just a roast chicken! Are you all making a fuss about it! You chased this old man for three miles!"

The men chasing the old man saw him stop and were all panting heavily.

"Old man! You! You! You didn't pay!! How can I not chase you!" The person who spoke seemed to be a cook, and his clothes were covered in grease.

Fan Xiaoxiao felt as if she had been pushed, and then she heard the old man behind her mutter, "You should look for her. She's rich. Look for her."

"!?!" Fan Xiaoxiao's eyes widened as she stared in disbelief at the old man behind her. What did he mean by her being rich?

Seeing Fan Xiaoxiao looking at him, the old man cleared his throat twice, tugged at her clothes, and whispered, "Little girl, you promised to feed me for seven days! You can't go back on your word!"

"Ouch!" Fan Xiaoxiao felt her teeth starting to hurt! She glared at the old man and said, word by word, "If you don't have money, then give that roast chicken back to him!"

"Hiccup." The old man burped, and the smell made Fan Xiaoxiao cover her nose and back away.

"Hehe, that chicken, it tastes alright, not as good as the duck you made yesterday." The old man chuckled, and Fan Xiaoxiao felt the veins on her forehead throbbing.

She gritted her teeth, turned to the disheveled cooks, and asked, "How much did this old man's roast chicken cost?"

"One tael of silver!" The head cook glared at the old man and announced a price.

Fan Xiaoxiao gasped, somewhat shocked, and asked again, "One, one tael of silver!??"

"Isn't this a bit too expensive?" Uncle Wang frowned, cupped his hands towards the group, and asked in a very amicable tone, "Gentlemen, although this old gentleman ate a roast chicken, it must have cost one tael of silver? I remember a chicken only costs about fifty coins."

"This chicken isn't just any chicken! It's a free-range chicken that we raise in the mountains on our estate! It's roasted with precious spices! Now that the flood has just receded, it's already difficult to get a chicken! Moreover, this old man not only ate the chicken, but also broke several sets of dishes in our kitchen. All of this adds up to at least one tael of silver!"

After the cook finished speaking, his tone turned cold: "You can't possibly not afford it, can you? Then we'll have no choice but to take you to see the authorities!"

After hearing the gist of the story, everyone understood what had happened. Fan Xiaoxiao twitched her lips, reached into her pocket, and looked apologetically at the cooks, saying, "No, no, we'll compensate... um?"

Fan Xiaoxiao paused, her hand still touching her purse, and her expression immediately turned grim. Seeing her freeze, Madam Fan stepped forward and asked softly, "Sister, what's wrong?"

"My purse...my purse is gone!!!!"

...

"I've brought what you wanted."

In a relatively intact courtyard in the western corner of Jingchuan County, several people stood. In the middle, a child was tossing a money bag up and down. If Fan Xiaoxiao were here, she would definitely recognize this child as the one who had ridden the oxcart with them that morning.

At that moment, she cracked her neck twice and instantly grew taller, becoming about the same age as Fan Xiaoxiao.

"Give it to me." A fair hand was extended in front of her, and the girl pursed her lips and handed it over.

Inside the purse was a one-hundred-tael silver note, and nothing else. The hand took out the silver note, then turned the purse over and carefully unraveled it along the stitches. The people in the courtyard were stunned.

"No!?" A man in black sitting in the courtyard stood up, walked quickly to the man holding the money bag, snatched the money bag, and carefully examined it.

"No! Really nothing?! How is that possible?!" The man in black's tone revealed deep shock. After confirming it several times, he finally accepted the fact that there was nothing in the wallet except for the hundred-tael silver note.

"Could it be that they took the things out?" The man in black stiffened slightly and looked up at his companion beside him, asking.

"Impossible, there was absolutely no sign of the money bag being opened when I opened it just now."

"This..." Both of them looked at the things in their hands, somewhat at a loss.

"Alright, it seems the intelligence was wrong. I'm afraid that thing is still in his hands." Under the trellis, a handsome young man lay casually on a rattan chair with his eyes covered, looking languid and relaxed.

"So what do we do now?" the man in black asked respectfully as he stepped forward.

"Ha, find the Ghost Doctor. Then, go to Tianshan."

(End of this chapter)