Chapter 16 Liu Qingyue has already become familiar with the Qin family…

Liu Qingyue had already become familiar with the Qin family. After coming out of the outhouse, he went into the bathroom to wash up, and then went to the kitchen to find something to eat.

Qin Ren left some hot porridge for him in the rice cooker. He awkwardly ladled himself a bowl of porridge and started slurping it down.

After he finished eating and drinking, Qin Ren had finished modifying the mountain bike.

Calling it a renovation is actually a bit of an exaggeration.

Qin Ren simply put some oil on the mountain bike and added a soft cushion to the seat to prevent the ride from being too bumpy on rough roads.

This mountain bike belongs to Qin Ren; he bought it specifically to exercise.

Qin Ren planned to take it over for a test first. If it was rideable, he would buy another one. Then he would have one and Liu Qingyue would have one, so they could travel faster.

When Liu Qingyue returned to the basement, Qin Ren had already dragged his mountain bike into the passageway.

Liu Qingyue did not follow, but changed her clothes instead.

He only has one set of clothes, and now he wears Qin Ren's.

Qin Ren's clothes were all strangely styled, but they were very convenient and provided better warmth than his own clothes.

After getting used to wearing Qin Ren's clothes, he felt that his own clothes had no other advantages except for being a little more beautiful.

In times of chaos, beauty is the most useless thing.

Liu Qingyue tossed her clothes aside and changed into a gray tracksuit.

The clothes were worn by Qin Ren when he was in high school. At that time, Qin Ren was already very tall, but his height had not fully developed, so the size of the clothes was slightly smaller.

Qin Ren had originally wanted Liu Qingyue to wear his shoes, as it would be really uncomfortable to travel such a long distance without sneakers.

However, Liu Qingyue's feet were too small, and Qin Ren's shoes didn't fit. Qin Ren had to buy her shoes online, and they wouldn't arrive for another day or two.

Liu Qingyue has very small feet; she is 1.7 meters tall but only has size 36 feet.

Of course, size 36 is super small for Qin Ren, but it's not small for Liu Qingyue's world.

Because of the peculiar fetishes of some men, women and boys in their world bound their feet.

Foot binding wasn't mandatory, but because small feet made it easier for children to get married, many families still bound their children's feet to please men, even if it wasn't mandatory.

Liu Qingyue's family was well-off, and they only bound his feet when he was a child. Later, he cried so much that his mother couldn't bear it and stopped binding them. However, even after they stopped binding him, his feet were still much smaller than normal feet.

Qin Ren was unaware of any of this. If he had known, he certainly wouldn't have forced Liu Qingyue to travel with him.

Qin Ren still believes Liu Qingyue is a boy, and in his view, boys shouldn't be too delicate in chaotic times.

You need to be tempered and challenged more to grow quickly and avoid being bullied.

After changing her clothes, Liu Qingyue began packing her things.

After he finished packing his things, Qin Ren came out of the passage.

Qin Ren said to him, "Let's go, I'll teach you how to ride a bike first."

"Riding a bike?"

"Yes, let's go."

As Qin Ren said this, he urged Liu Qingyue to hurry up and catch up.

Liu Qingyue's foot is still hurting, so she walks a little slowly.

The two of them went out of the passage and found a makeshift vehicle parked outside.

It was only then that Liu Qingyue realized that this was the car Qin Ren had told her about earlier.

"This... is the car you were talking about?"

"yes."

"This is way too small!"

Is this kind of car really safe for passengers to ride in?

Qin Ren also has cars and electric vehicles, but the cars cannot pass through the passage.

Qin Ren's car wasn't an off-road vehicle, so it might not have been easy to drive in ancient times.

In extreme weather or road conditions, such a vehicle would actually be a burden.

But mountain bikes are different. Not only are mountain bikes easy to ride, but Qin Ren can also handle even extreme road conditions.

Moreover, mountain bikes are small, making it easy for them to hide and slip into tunnels anytime, anywhere.

As for whether he is worried that what he brought might change the original course of Liu Qingyue's world?

First of all, this world has nothing to do with Qin Ren's world; the two worlds are two independent planes.

Even if Qin Ren changes the course of this world, it will not affect Qin Ren's world.

Also, this place is in ancient times, and it's a chaotic era.

It was a time of both drought and war.

The imperial court doesn't care about the disaster-stricken people at all; cannibalism has even occurred among them.

However, in times of war, backwardness, and famine, it is always the ordinary people who suffer.

Those true nobles and royalty were still indulging in song and dance.

This world couldn't be any worse.

The things Qin Ren brought were all things for later generations.

Their appearance will not push the world in a worse direction.

On the contrary, their emergence will accelerate the development of this world.

The sooner the backward feudal dynasty ends, the sooner ordinary people can escape the fate of being cannon fodder.

Qin Ren: "Come on, I'll teach you how to ride a bike first. Once you've learned how, you can ride it to get around."

Liu Qingyue protested softly, "We can get a horse; riding a horse should be more convenient than this."

Qin Ren shook his head. “Riding a horse? The horse is alive, and we have to feed it. We can’t hide the horse in the passageway either; it has so much flesh on its body, and it’s easy for someone to steal and kill it. But a cart is different. It’s just a metal frame. We don’t have to feed it, and we can hide in it. Also… it runs very fast. Once you learn how to use it, you’ll know how useful it is.”

Liu Qingyue still didn't dare to touch it, so Qin Ren had to go up and demonstrate it for her first.

Even on roads with poor conditions, you can handle them with ease as long as you are skilled at riding.

Qin Ren circled around the area and even jumped down a slope, which startled Liu Qingyue quite a bit.

Later, encouraged by Qin Ren, Liu Qingyue sat down and tried it out.

Qin Ren helped him lower the seat so that he would feel safer when learning to ride a bike.

"This is the handbrake, this is the bell, this is the pedal... Don't be afraid when you get on. You can support yourself with both feet and then use one foot to pedal..."

Qin Ren taught very carefully and patiently, and Liu Qingyue learned very diligently.

Liu Qingyue initially thought it would be difficult, but after trying a few times, he gradually got the hang of it.

It doesn't seem too difficult, and it's quite easy to pedal.

He felt that if his foot hadn't hurt, he could have learned faster and better.

It took the two of them a morning for Liu Qingyue to learn to ride a bike on her own.

Cycling wasn't tiring on her feet, but the road conditions here were bad, and Liu Qingyue found it a bit bumpy.

If they could ride their bikes onto the official road, the journey would probably be much more comfortable.

Qin Ren: "How is it? Is it easy to use?"

Liu Qingyue nodded. He discovered that if his feet hurt, he could pedal with his toes or heels, and the bike wasn't difficult to pedal. With just a light push, the bike could go quite a distance, much faster than walking.

Liu Qingyue: "Then, if there's only one, it's not enough for the two of us, is it?"

Qin Ren: "You rest for the next couple of days. I can travel on my own. Once your foot is better, I'll get you a car."

"So you're not selling anything anymore?"

He remembered that Qin Ren was short of money.

Qin Ren doesn't speak their language yet, how is he going to sell things all by himself?

"It's alright, I've already learned a few words. Like money, exchange, that's enough."

Moreover, he had to ride his bicycle to get there and shake off the large number of disaster victims behind him, so he couldn't sell much along the way.

Qin Ren does need to sell things to the disaster victims, but if he encounters a large number of disaster victims carrying their goods, it will be very dangerous.

Between making money and surviving, surviving is of course more important.

Therefore, they must not be overtaken by the main force behind them; ideally, they should be several days ahead of them in terms of distance.

After that, Qin Ren let Liu Qingyue go back by herself, and he rode his bicycle south alone.

They encountered several people on the road, and those people were quite surprised to see Qin Ren from afar.

First, I was amazed by Qin Ren's strange car. Why could the wheels spin so fast?

They had never seen anything like it before, and were both curious and terrified.

Secondly, they were surprised by Qin Ren's short hair and strange attire, and curious about where he came from as a foreigner.

Some people saw something on Qin Ren and wanted to join forces with a few others to stop him.

However, because Qin Ren was driving too fast, they were ultimately unable to stop him.

Qin Ren rode his bicycle for two days straight, and he originally planned to continue riding like that. Unexpectedly, on the evening of the second day, he encountered a rich but foolish young man on horseback.

The boy rode alone on a white horse.

He sped past Qin Ren, then, attracted by Qin Ren's "vehicle," turned back with a look of curiosity.

The boy followed not far from Qin Ren, smiling as he asked, "What kind of car is this? I've never seen it before."

Qin Ren couldn't understand what he was saying, so he stopped and gestured for a while.

The boy was taken aback for a moment, but quickly realized that they couldn't understand each other's language.

Looking at Qin Ren's attire and backpack, the young man guessed, "Are you a foreign merchant?"

He had met many foreign merchants when he was in the capital.

In order to sell their goods to Dayong, many of them learned Dayong Mandarin.

Qin Ren: "I don't understand what you're saying? Are you trying to trade with me?"

In the end, the two talked at cross purposes for a long time, and only managed to communicate with the boy because Qin Ren used the local language to say "exchange" and "money".

Qin Ren wanted to ask the boy if he wanted to trade food with him.

The boy only heard the words "exchange" and "money" and assumed that Qin Ren was willing to sell him the mountain bike.

Yes, he came for the car from the very beginning.

When he saw Qin Ren riding his bike, he thought Qin Ren wouldn't sell the bike.

Upon hearing Qin Ren say that they could exchange, the boy immediately and generously took out his money.

The boy threw Qin Ren a bag of gold beans and then "stole" Qin Ren's mountain bike.

Of course, it wouldn't be accurate to call it robbery, since they did pay money, and even gave us a bag of gold.

Qin Ren was stunned by the gold, so he didn't bother to argue about his car being stolen.

Qin Ren thought that since this guy was so stupid yet so rich, he might as well rip him off... no, he should sell him more things.

So Qin Ren took out an ordinary lighter from his pocket.

The boy, who had never seen a lighter before, was tricked out of another gold bean by Qin Ren in less than three seconds.

Qin Ren was a little worried that the boy would regret it, and also worried that the boy would think he had a lot of good stuff and then try to detain others.

A young man like this, who is naive, rich, and living alone far from home.

He either has something special about him, or he's backed by other powerful figures; he's definitely not an ordinary rich young master.

That's exactly right. If Qin Ren hadn't slipped away quickly enough, the guards following the boy would have definitely caught him.

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