Chapter 119

After logging off, Bei Qiao saw that it was still early, so she practiced in reality for a while before washing up and going to bed. Tang Yuan followed her back to the house, tail wagging, and fell asleep on her pillow, occasionally curling his tail around Bei Qiao's face, patting her, and then walking away.

Bei Qiao: “…” It’s hard to say whether Tangyuan did it on purpose.

The next day was Sunday, and Bei Gu went out for another run. He returned with a bag of loose mooncakes. After breakfast, Qiao Lin went out to take out the trash, planning to visit the morning market afterwards.

Bei Qiao flipped through the calendar and found that the Mid-Autumn Festival was next week. Unfortunately, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival was on the same day as National Day.

"So what was supposed to be a three-day plus seven-day holiday has become an eight-day holiday, and then I have to work seven days." Bei Qiao flipped through the calendar and confirmed again and again: Fortunately, I am not a social animal now.

"You don't take a day off." Bei Gu, who was washing dishes in the kitchen, replied to her softly.

Bei Qiao: "...I'm online."

"Why are you in such a hurry? Eat mooncakes first and then go." Bei Gu came out of the kitchen carrying a bucket of water. He looked at the time, changed his shoes and prepared to go downstairs to fetch mountain spring water.

"I just finished my meal and can't eat anything."

"It's meant to make you eat when you're not hungry. If you wait until you're hungry to eat mooncakes, you won't be able to eat lunch."

"Okay, what kind of filling... five-nut ones." After seeing the words on the mooncake clearly, Bei Qiao suddenly felt less hungry.

"Why, only those who don't like five-nut food are authentic!"

"I don't hate five-nut mooncake, I'm just afraid that it won't taste good." Bei Qiao broke off a piece of mooncake and stuffed it into his mouth: Buying a five-nut mooncake is like opening a blind box, and it's not as stable as hawthorn and jujube paste fillings... Ah, anyway, I haven't spent all the money from last time, so I might as well buy some milk mooncakes online.

After eating a few bites of mooncakes, Bei Qiao went back to the house and carried Tangyuan, who was still sleeping on his pillow, to the cat's nest outside, and started a new day of entrepreneurship.

Tangyuan, who had just woken up in the cat's bed, shook his butt unhappily, jumped onto the sweeping robot that was spinning on the floor, and yawned.

After logging on, Bei Qiao folded up the mosquito net, rolled it up into a tube, threw it up, and lifted the quilt to cool down. She didn't notice the crisp autumn air, but the mosquitoes' enthusiasm really bothered her. She could hear them buzzing in her ears even in broad daylight.

Although the pace of life in Mingquan City seemed quite pleasant, Beiqiao still planned to leave today. He had been carrying the deed to Linjie City in his pocket for far too long, and he really wanted to see what the house looked like.

Bei Qiao took the package and walked to the counter downstairs, greeting the shopkeeper.

Upon learning that Beiqiao wanted to check out, the shopkeeper sitting behind the counter looked up at Beiqiao's expression and secretly breathed a sigh of relief: It seemed that he was leaving as planned, and was not holding back his anger and wanting to move to another place because of what happened yesterday.

"Shopkeeper"

"Here it is, sir, here is your change." Bei Qiao had already paid for the room, and the shopkeeper was now giving him the refund after a discount.

Bei Qiao took the copper coins from the shopkeeper with his left hand, and waved his fan with his right hand. The sharp fan bones made the thug who was trying to grab the money take two steps back subconsciously. When he came to his senses, he was furious and said, "Fuck you!"

"I don't have any uncles." Bei Qiao replied calmly: In the other world, my only authentic relatives are my parents, and there are no more relatives above them, because the old people in my family don't like to play "Other World Martial Arts". They log in more often to "Happy Pastoral", which is a holographic manor game for all ages. You can farm, fish, and raise poultry and livestock. The user coverage rate ranks first in the country, and it has not changed for many years.

"Who the hell asked if you have an uncle? Fuck you, let me go..."

"Sorry, sir, I frightened you." The shopkeeper said coldly, asking the security guard to drag the man out: "The guests are about to leave, and you're doing this to me. The timing is really perfect! The beating didn't teach these hooligans a lesson!"

"It's okay." Bei Qiao waved his hand, collected the money, went to the backyard and drove away without going to see how the gangster was finally dealt with.

Word of what happened in the mine yesterday spread quickly. Bei Qiao heard some people discussing it as he left the city. According to the young people who returned home late, the incident had become a series of cases within a series of cases.

Originally, the child's uncle only intended to hold the child's father accountable for poor supervision and to take custody of the child afterwards. However, during the argument, the child's father accidentally let something slip in his excitement. The lawyer took advantage of the situation to investigate and uncovered nearly a murder case.

"Wait wait wait! What do you mean by almost one and a half murders?" Half is fine, but what the hell is almost half?

"No one died, but each one was more miserable than the other. They both lost half their lives, pitiful." Seeing everyone else captivated by her story, the woman with the vegetable basket felt smug. She planned on getting back to feed her children, who stayed up late eating melons, as she continued, "You know Daming's mother, Juan'er, who disappeared in the mountains yesterday? Daming's father pushed her off a cliff, but good deeds are rewarded. She was stopped by a tree branch and saved. We just don't know when she'll wake up."

"God bless you... then the other person must be Daming, right?"

"Yes, Daming woke up this morning." The woman lowered her voice and said mysteriously, "It is said that he saw a murder and was so scared that he ran into the mine, and was almost buried by the murderer. If someone hadn't started setting up a stall outside when he was halfway buried, the child would have died!"

"Oh my god, who did he see killed?"

"He wasn't killed, he was buried alive. Oh, how pitiful..."

Bei Qiao didn't hear what happened next because the soldiers guarding the gate urged her to leave and not block the door and hinder passage.

Bei Qiao left Mingquan City on a donkey cart. Following the official map on the forum, she would reach Yuanshan in two days. She didn't learn about the follow-up to the mine until two weeks later. By then, the three murderers had been executed, and the poor child who had been dug out from the bottom of the pit unexpectedly came back to life during the funeral. The child's parents, overjoyed, knelt in every temple in the city, kowtowed, tears streaming down their faces as they smiled.

The journey was as boring as ever. If Bei Qiao hadn't been afraid of attracting bandits, he would have wanted to hang a bell on the car to ring.

After leaving the capital, the road conditions outside the city were getting worse by the day. Outside the capital, it was common for carriages to travel side by side, and if they squeezed, three carriages could run side by side. However, today, Bei Qiao was squeezed into the grass by a four-horse carriage.

"Tyrannical..." Bei Qiao shook his head and pulled the reins to prevent Huihui, who was snorting in anger, from catching up: This road is not so narrow that you can't run side by side, but you have to run in the middle of the road to show off that you have four carriages... Oh, it's a four-horse carriage, then we really can't afford to offend them, so forget it.

"Come to think of it, I've never seen such a lonely four-horse carriage before." Bei Qiao subconsciously changed the route after driving the donkey cart back to the road, changing his destination to the closer Linhu County: I always feel uneasy, I'd better find a place with more people as soon as possible. It can't be that someone is chasing the owner of the four-horse carriage and all the guards have died, ha, ha ha...

"Gray and Red, speed up!" Bei Qiao swung the reins after a long absence: In this situation, it is better to believe in your subconscious. A four-horse carriage without any followers is really strange.

Linhu County was not far from Mingquan City. There were not many carriages on the road, and Huihui and Honghong worked hard enough, so it was just noon when they arrived at the city gate. Standing at the city gate, they could smell the aroma of food nearby.

Seeing the open city gate and the crowds coming in and out, Bei Qiao's tense nerves finally relaxed, and he slowed down and drove into Linhu County.

Linhu County wasn't particularly large, with few high-rise buildings. Near noon, smoke curled from every chimney. After passing a roast chicken shop, Bei Qiao found the county's official inn. He jumped out of the car and looked around, but couldn't find the back door.

"Hello, sir. Would you like to stop by for a meal or stay overnight?" The waiter came out of the door with awkward movements.

"Stay in the hotel."

"Okay, I'll stay with you for a while...Ah, are you staying at the hotel?" The waiter who was about to go back to the inn suddenly turned around with a look of shock on his face, almost spraining his waist.

"Yes, I'm staying at the inn. May I ask where the stables are?" Bei Qiao patted Hui Hui's neck. "Are you still angry? You're so stubborn. Can your four legs outrun sixteen of his?"

"Um, sir, I'm sorry, we don't have a stable." The waiter scratched his neck awkwardly.

"Isn't there a yard at the back?"

"That's for drying things. You can't put a horse in there." The waiter looked apologetic.

"Well, are there any other inns like yours?"

"No, our inn is the only one in Linhu County, there is no other branch." The waiter shrugged: Unfortunately, Linhu County is far from the main road and has a small flow of tourists, so the official funds approved for the inn are also limited, enough to open only a small inn.

"Well... can I let my carriage squeeze into the yard for a while? I can find the fodder myself." Bei Qiao was a little worried: he had originally planned to move to another place to stay, but he didn't expect that there was no stable here.

"It's not that you can't squeeze in. It's mainly because something happened before, so we sealed the gate to the backyard, leaving only a door at the back of the house. The front and back doors of our inn are only this wide. You can walk into the yard, but your carriage can't enter!" The waiter stood at the door and gestured: "Mounts can squeeze in, but carriages really can't enter."

"Okay, thank you." Bei Qiao sighed: "Is it safe to leave the carriage here? I want to rest for a while."

"Ah? Of course it's safe! I'll help you watch it for a while!" The waiter looked around, sat down on the doorstep, and smiled at Bei Qiao: I understand, isn't it just about going offline?