Chapter 1660 He was there at the time

Shu Yu understood that Yuan Gui had no ties in Dong'an Prefecture, but here he had someone who needed his care.

"Then how come they've reappeared in Chenggu County?"

Yuan Gui let out a soft sigh of relief. "It was quite a coincidence. A few days ago, Grandma fell and injured her leg and her back. The village doctor was away, and I heard there was a doctor in the county town who was very good at treating sprains and bruises, so I took her to the town to see him. I thought that since so much time had passed, it should be okay for me to be in the county town, and Jiang Kuanyu wouldn't stay in a small county town."

Who knew that instead of encountering Jiang Kuanyu, they would run into bandits entering the city.

The old woman was quite old, and Yuan Gui wasn't familiar with Chenggu County. It took him a long time to find out where the doctor's clinic was after he entered the city that day. The clinic was very crowded, and the queue stretched into the afternoon. By the time he finished his appointment, it was too late to leave the city.

The two had no choice but to spend some money to stay overnight at the clinic.

However, that very night, bandits stormed into the county town, plunging the entire Chenggu County into chaos.

The clinic where they were staying was alright; it was relatively secluded and they weren't harmed.

I heard that the largest clinic in the county town was invaded by a number of bandits that night. Not only were all the medicinal herbs stolen, but half of the courtyard was also burned down.

The next day, Yuan Gui planned to take his grandmother and leave the county town immediately to return to the village.

Unexpectedly, the city gates were closed, and no one was allowed to enter or leave at will.

There were many people making a fuss at the city gate, but it was no use.

Yuan Gui could only take the old woman back to the clinic, but the clinic was about to close and did not intend to continue taking them in.

Yuan Gui had no choice but to try to stay at an inn, but the inns were also suffering. Some of the inns that hadn't been affected were raising their prices, charging one or two taels of silver per night.

They didn't have that much money, they couldn't leave the city, they had nowhere to stay, and they didn't know when the city gates would be closed. The old woman's injuries hadn't healed yet, and Yuan Gui was truly at a loss.

Later, the old woman said that she had a friend she knew before, and that she could stay at her house for a few days.

The friend did take them in, but the family was quite poor and life wasn't easy for them.

At least they had a place to live, a roof over their heads. However, they were still quite happy to hear that Yuan Gui was a skilled hunter. After all, the chaos hadn't completely subsided, and having a strong, capable person with martial arts skills made them feel safer.

“Grandma and I stayed at that family’s house, and who knew we’d be staying for so many days. We basically didn’t go out except when necessary. A couple of days ago, Grandma ran out of her liniment, so I went out to the clinic to buy medicine, and that’s when I saw Jiang Kuanyu.”

Yuan Gui wanted to avoid Jiang Kuanyu at all costs and originally intended to stay away from him.

But when he saw Jiang Kuanyu, the other man seemed to be injured. Yuan Gui was still unwilling to accept this situation. He had fallen off a cliff to save him, but now he was forced to hide in the village and couldn't go anywhere.

So when he saw that he was alone and injured, he followed him. Some things are better left unsaid if you don't encounter them, but once you do, you always want to figure them out.

“I saw Jiang Kuanyu sneak into the courtyard of the Meng Family Escort Agency by hiding from the patrolling soldiers in the alley. I didn’t know what was going on inside, so I didn’t dare to go in easily and waited outside. Not long after, a fight broke out inside the escort agency. When Jiang Kuanyu came out, he was completely unharmed. I knew he must have used some trickery again.”

(End of this chapter)