Chapter 90: Even a dog eating shit can't run as fast as you

Tang Xian was a calm and composed person who never liked to cause trouble, so he hurriedly pulled his donkey cart to make way for them.

"Wait." Yuan Qi threw the reins to Yuan Bo behind him, then wiped his temples in a self-righteous manner and walked towards Liang Jinyu with a burning gaze, "My second brother is a rough man with no education. I apologize to the beauty on his behalf."

Liang Jinyu looked around and pointed at herself uncertainly: "Are you talking to me?"

Yuan Qi leaned on the donkey cart and threw a coquettish glance at Liang Jinyu: "Besides you, are there any other beauties here?"

"I am a man—"

"Psst~ It's inconvenient to go out, I understand."

Yuan Qi interrupted Liang Jinyu with an expression that said "I am very considerate" and took off the purse from his waist: "Keep it, my beauty. Consider it my apology to you on behalf of my ill-mannered second brother."

Yuan Huan's face turned ashen, and he gritted his teeth and said angrily: "You are the one with no manners! I am not wrong, do I need you to apologize? You run up to every woman you see, even a dog eating shit can't run faster than you!"

Yuan Qi pretended not to hear anything and continued to look at Liang Jinyu with a passionate expression: "May I ask your name, my beauty? Where do you live? Are you married?"

Liang Jinyu stretched out her finger, pushed away the money bag in front of her, and said with a fake smile: "Sorry, I'm already married."

"What a disgrace!" Yuan Huan immediately laughed, pulled the horse, pushed Yuan Qi away, and staggered away.

Yuan Qi covered his chest with his hands, looking hurt: "We have always been deeply in love, but fate is so shallow. It seems that we are not destined to be together. We can only say goodbye now."

"Third brother, there are always better flowers in the world, why bother to love only one flower? I think you don't need to—"

"Shut up."

"oh."

Yuan Bo lowered his head in frustration.

"This is for you, as a gift for meeting you. By the way, my name is Yuan Qi, don't forget me, young lady."

Without waiting for Liang Jinyu to respond again, Yuan Qi threw down his money bag and left without looking back.

Looking at Yuan Qi's elegant back, Liang Jinyu asked Tang Xian: "Do you think he looks like someone?"

"If it doesn't look like a human, does it look like a ghost?" The man pushed away the haystack.

Tang Xian thought for a moment and asked, "Miss, are you talking about Master Yan?"

Liang Jinyu nodded: "We all act in the same way."

"He is romantic but not vulgar, knows when to act and when to retreat, and doesn't get entangled. He can be considered a gentleman," Tang Xian commented.

For a businessman, a playboy who spends lavishly is the best customer, and Tang Xian certainly wouldn't dislike him.

The man got off the donkey cart, looked around and said, "Just drop me off here, you guys can go now."

Liang Jinyu patted the donkey that was eating grass and said, "How about you ride this one?"

"Do you think I'm not dying fast enough?" the man asked unhappily.

This stubborn donkey was like someone who had epilepsy. He suddenly stomped his feet on the spot and was almost vomiting his breakfast due to the shaking along the way.

A whistle was heard faintly in the distance, and the man knew that his pick-up person had arrived.

"Ms. Liang, I am definitely not an ungrateful person! Don't worry, as long as you need me one day, I will go through mountains of swords and seas of fire for you!" The man promised loudly.

Liang Jinyu smiled instantly. This was better than she had expected.

"I'll remember this. Brother Feng, don't deny my debts when the time comes."

The man hesitated and wanted to say something, but after a while he only said: "See you later."

After saying goodbye, Liang Jinyu got on the donkey cart and drove slowly towards the ferry.

Seeing the donkey cart moving further away, the man turned around and walked towards the woods with difficulty.

There were two horses tied under a tree in the forest, but no one was seen.

The man yelled, "Come out."

A black shadow jumped down from the tree. He was tall and straight, with deep facial features and blue eyes. His black hair was loose and curly. He was actually a foreigner.

"Brother Wang, are you injured?" the visitor asked in surprise.

Only then did the man finally reveal his inner anger and grief. He punched the tree trunk and said with regret: "I deserve to die!"

"What's wrong? Where are your wife and children? Didn't you say you would take them with you?"

"I'm too late. Everything is too late." The man bashed the tree trunk again until his fists were covered in blood.

"What do you mean? Did something happen?"

The man was in agony as he thought back to the news he had heard.

"They said my wife remarried, but the family said she ran away with someone. I don't know who is telling the truth and who is lying. My mind is completely confused."

"Brother Wang, don't talk about you. I don't understand what you are saying either."

The man clenched his fists, then cheered up again after thinking of something. He said thankfully, "But the brother and sister are still alive. I saw them."

The man helped to lead the horse over and asked in confusion: "Since you saw it, why didn't you take it away?"

The man looked at his bloody fist and said with a wry smile, "They are living well now. Following me would make them have to hide from place to place, which may not be a good thing."

"That's true. By the way, Boss Feng sent us a message telling us to hurry back because there seems to be a big move in Jiuge."

The man struggled to get on the horse and asked with a frown, "I heard that Yuan Shanting was assassinated. Does this have anything to do with us?"

The other party laughed exaggeratedly: "Hahaha, what are you talking about, Brother Wang? We in the Fu Hu Gang don't have that ability."

The horses neighed, and the two men quickly disappeared into the woods.

...

In March, even in gloomy weather, Hongyan Ferry is bustling with activity.

There are frequent large and small boats on the river, the shore is crowded with various stalls, there are countless tourists and merchants, and the shouts are endless.

Liang Jinyu has lived for two lifetimes, but this is his first time at the ferry. He can't help but feel it's new, and he can hardly take it all in.

"Manager Tang, what is that?" Liang Jinyu asked, pointing at the densely packed bamboo rafts in the river.

Tang Xian explained: "It's for transporting wood."

Timbers are not like ordinary goods. They are heavy and take up a lot of space. Ordinary ships cannot transport much of them. So people came up with a way to put the arranged timber directly on bamboo rafts, and then the raftmasters weave the bamboo rafts into a large raft and then float it downstream.

As the two were talking, they heard someone shouting from behind: "Move aside, move aside, move aside, everyone, we won't be responsible if you bump into anything."

Tang Xian hurriedly pulled the donkey cart to the side, and passers-by also made way for it.

I saw a dozen ox-drawn carts pulling piles of white fir coming towards us. After a winter, the white fir had become dry and beautiful.

"It's amazing! As expected of the Xie family, they are so rich and powerful. I think all the white fir trees in the nearby villages have been taken away by their family."

"The Xie family has always been overbearing, especially after the young master Xie came to power, he refused to share even the soup. You'll see, if you do things too ruthlessly, you will get retribution sooner or later."

"It's still too late. He's already paralyzed."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone around burst into laughter.

"It's useless to have paralyzed legs. It would be a real retribution if the brain was paralyzed! The Xie family is the only one in the business and they don't give small businesses like us a way to survive. They should have been wiped out long ago!"