Chapter 15

Bei Qiao turned around and closed the door: "You only brought this small bag and planned to stay here for a few days."

"Hey, in this weather, clothes can be dried on the same day. Since we won't be staying outside for long, we can just grab one set of clothes and go out." Yu Qian leaned over the table and used her fingerprint to unlock the hidden air conditioning button on the desktop, turning on the cooling. Then she tilted her head and opened her bag, pulling out paper and a brush. "Submission deadline is almost here... Ah, I don't feel like writing. I have no ideas, no clue! I'll open the forum to play for a while to clear my head. Qiao Qiao, can you confirm the application to open the forum?"

"OK."

After confirming the situation, Bei Qiao didn't bother opening the Wutong County forum and simply sat down on a stool inside the room and logged off. Qi Zhi was still waiting on the donkey cart, and she couldn't afford to dawdle and waste time here.

Bei Qiao took off his holographic glasses and walked quickly into the kitchen. He used the extra dishes that Qiao Lin had made for breakfast as stew and made himself a bowl of braised noodles. He quickly finished it, then hastily peeled an apple and stuffed it into his mouth.

After finishing lunch, Bei Qiao washed his hands and rinsed his mouth, then ran back to the bedroom and logged into the game again. At this time, exactly fifteen minutes had passed.

After saying hello to Yu Qian who was still posting on the forum, Bei Qiao left the room, went downstairs and returned to the donkey cart: "Azhi, I'm back. Do you want to go to Yu Qian's room to get some hot water? This is an inn with a five-pointed star." It's really inconvenient to live in a different world without modern automation and technology. You have to chop wood to cook even for a little hot water.

"Yes!" Qi Zhi licked her lips and hopped out of the car, clutching her empty water bag. "There's tea for sale outside, but no one has too much money. Every penny saved counts..." It's so hot! I have to shower when I get home. So annoying! Why does my in-game body smell weird when I don't shower? Two bodies means two things to worry about. In the summer, I have to shower once a day, both in-game and in real life. It's exhausting! Can't there be a one-click cleansing function?

Official: Please take the term "time travel" seriously. Although you are not real natives, you are real living people. Living requires eating, drinking, and sleeping. No one should expect special treatment. Not needing to relieve oneself in another world is already our last kindness.

After Qi Zhi finished drinking water and returned, Bei Qiao drove the donkey cart out of the inn and set off on the road home. Qi Zhi opened the forum in the car and chatted with Bei Qiao while browsing the forum, killing time without a phone to browse.

Yes, theoretically speaking, a carriage can also be considered an enclosed space, so all you have to do is lower the curtains.

The sun was very strong at noon. Even with a cone hat on, Bei Qiao still felt his face burning from the heat.

"Driving is such a hard job." Bei Qiao sighed and put his hands into his sleeves: Next time I go out, I'll try bringing some mint leaves with me to see if it can help me cool down.

"Why isn't it hard work?" Qi Zhi lifted the carriage curtain and said, "By the way, regarding the fare, I want to ask you, do you want seventy-eight copper coins or the equivalent in silver, or a bow and arrow?"

"Bow and Arrow" Bei Qiao turned around and asked, "Seventy-eight copper coins shouldn't be enough to buy a bow and arrow, right?"

"I don't know how much the bow and arrow sell for outside, and Sister Tie doesn't sell bows." Qi Zhi shrugged: "This was left here by a wounded soldier whose identity was unknown. He had no money to buy medicine, and he refused to take my medicine for free." The bow was a very common bow. Qi Zhi himself was not strong enough to use it, and the hunter in the village didn't want it either, because he thought the bow was too light and not powerful enough.

"Are there any arrows?"

"There are only three, but you can ask Sister Tie to make some for you."

"Okay, thank you then." Bei Qiao took the bow with one hand: "I can still use a bow and arrow. It's probably a little more convenient than a stick." Bei Qiao is not bragging. As long as she is within the range, she can hit the target every time.

Gong: It's because my range is limited. If you have the guts, why don't you switch to a sniper rifle? Oh, sorry, I forgot there's no sniper rifle here.

Bei Qiao put away his bow and continued driving. Qi Zhi returned to the car and reopened the Wutong County forum: "If I had known that lifting the car curtain wouldn't be considered an enclosed space, I wouldn't have done it. I'm logging back into the forum in a short time and actually have to do Chinese language tests to verify my knowledge. Fortunately, I haven't completely returned all my knowledge to the teacher."

Since visiting Wutong County, the forums in the area have been accessible. Since most of the local players in Wutong County are still working, only a few are online, so not many people are posting in the spam group. Qi Zhi stared at the group for a while, feeling no desire to chat with unfamiliar players, so she exited the spam group and started browsing the posts: "So many soft ads..."

"The soft advertising posts that haven't been blocked by the authorities probably still contain valid information, but I don't know how exaggerated they are." Bei Qiao felt his pocket and said, "I envy this way of making money by advertising. I work hard all day and only make a few dozen coins."

On this trip, he gained thirty-two copper coins and a bow. This was not too little, not too much, but not too much either. If it was too little, it could buy a lot of food; if it was too much, it wouldn't even cover the cost of a night's room at the inn.

Bei Qiao didn't plan to stay in Yuanshan Village forever, but if he wanted to go out, he would need at least a hundred copper coins to back him up. After all, the environment outside the city was not necessarily safe, and there was a curfew in the city, and people were not allowed to sleep on the streets.

"Haha, more than thirty copper coins is a lot, it can buy several buckets of rice!" Qi Zhi laughed.

"Yeah, take your time." Never mind, thirty-seven copper coins isn't a small amount. At least I can buy a nice-looking piece of cloth. The reason the cloth Dad bought last time was so cheap was because it was made of the worst material and had the ugliest pattern. If he didn't sell it at a lower price, he wouldn't be able to sell it.

Why do you ask why the store sells such cheap and ugly cloth? Of course, it's because someone will buy it! Some ordinary people can't even earn a thousand copper coins a year, so five copper coins of cloth is already a huge sum of money for them.

Bei Qiao: I suddenly feel like buying a bow and arrow at this time seems a bit wasteful.

"I don't make much money here, but it's good for me. The work pressure is not as great as before, and I can take action myself when I encounter medical disputes." Qi Zhi was really depressed when she encountered medical disputes in real life. Although medical disputes have been expressly prohibited after the medical reform, unreasonable patients cannot be stopped. Some patients, who don't know if they have done any special research, actually do some infuriating things that are not illegal. Some female nurses have been driven to tears several times because of anger.

Here, the clinic is her own, and she's the doctor. If a patient doesn't cooperate, she'd dare close the door: "People who disobey the doctor's orders and lose their temper are truly ill. I'm not the only doctor in the world. If they don't listen to me, then I'll find someone else... Hey, Qiao Qiao, Qianqian just sent me a private message saying there's something going on over there. Do you want to hear about it?"

"Of course I have to listen. The journey is too boring. What's so exciting?" Bei Qiao sat up straight.

"A passionate young man came to Guiyan Inn. In our words, he is a Poseidon. This time he hooked up with two young ladies at the same time. As a result, when he went to Wutong County with the two young ladies to stay in the inn, he was visited by a man in black." Qi Zhi summarized the message sent by Yu Qian and read it aloud, trying to make it clear to Bei Qiao outside without lifting the curtain of the car.

The "man in black" Bei Qiao silently looked up at the sky: "Wearing black clothes in broad daylight" this scene is a bit magical, right?

"Yes, and then this man in black kidnapped two girls and asked Aquaman to choose one of them. But that's not the point. The point is... Ouch! Qiao Qiao, why did you stop the car so suddenly?"

"Sorry, someone suddenly jumped out from the side of the road. If you don't stop, Huihui will run over him." Beiqiao jumped onto Huihui's back and patted its neck, calming the frightened Huihui down: "Baby, it's okay, baby..."

"Is that the robber who stopped the car?" Qi Zhi picked up the medicine box and asked, "Do you need my help?"

"No, maybe a monk..."

"Why do you say possible?" Qi Zhi closed the private chat dialog box and opened the car curtain: This is the first time I heard Qiao Qiao speak so conflictedly. What does that person look like... Wow!

"How did you tell this... was a cultivator?" Qi Zhi stood in the front compartment of the car, looking at the figure from afar, who was covered in dirt as if struck by lightning. "Well, the large artery in the neck is beating steadily, so it's a living person. Judging from the physical characteristics, the gender is male. Apart from that, nothing else can be seen clearly."

"He just fell from mid-air on the side of the road and rolled all the way to the middle of the road." Bei Qiao jumped out of the car and used a short stick to push the man into the grass on the side of the road from a distance. After making sure that the man could not be seen from outside, he climbed back into the car and pulled the reins again, ready to continue on his journey.

"Aren't you planning on bringing anyone with you?" Qi Zhi held onto the car door and saluted the person in the bushes. "I'm curious about what the monk is carrying."

"What do you mean?" Bei Qiao raised his eyebrows.

"Can I touch the corpse? I think he might have some magical herbs on him."

"...He's still breathing. Are you trying to wake him up?"

"Haha, I'm just kidding, let's go."

Monk: "..." I'm still alive, but I'm really about to be pissed off.

"Just now you asked me if I would save him, and I thought you were going to do it." Bei Qiao continued driving forward: "I helped him hide himself, and I think I have done my best."

Taking the child home for careful care is something the protagonist of a TV drama would do. Who knows if there will be any trouble behind this stranger?

Qi Zhi opened her eyes wide and waved her hands vigorously: "No, don't! I'm a doctor, not a Bodhisattva. How can I save everyone I see? If it was in the village, I would dare to do it, but now we are outside the village. What if he is a bad guy, I saved him, but he hurt me, wouldn't it be too unfair to me?" Don't pick up men on the roadside, as they are likely to encounter misfortune.

"Besides, judging by his condition, he's only fainted temporarily. He's not injured, and there aren't any pursuers around. He'll be fine as long as he wakes up. Plus, you've already hidden him, so why should I bother? It's not like there are any wolves around here, and a short nap won't kill anyone... Ahhh! He's caught up to us on his stomach!"