Chapter 628 All Sincere Feelings Are Never Gained
Those who remained at home watched the two of them leave, and naturally, they were all filled with worry.
Especially Zhuiyu, who paced restlessly in the yard.
Sha Yi was annoyed: "Can you stop swaying back and forth? If you really can't sit still, I don't mind having a sword fight with you to see whose swordsmanship is better!"
His eyes already revealed a murderous intent.
Zhuiyu completely ignored him.
"The girl must be hiding something from us."
"It has something to do with her health."
“She is not just your girl, but also my princess.”
How could I not worry?
"If anything were to happen to the young lady, I would have no face to face His Highness even if I were to return with my head."
They waited and waited, but returned in less than a quarter of an hour.
They also brought back several packages containing steamed buns, roast chicken, and large meat pies.
Everyone, who had been starving all day, rushed over as soon as they smelled the delicious aroma.
They were like hungry wolves, none of them polite, and they started grabbing things as soon as they reached out.
Fortunately, Li Qing had already eaten her fill while shopping outside.
So he stood aside and watched them eat, and placed the things he had prepared in advance at the door of Qin Ling and Li Yun Chu's room.
She knocked on the door and said in a cold voice, "It's right at the door. Come out and get it yourself."
She left after saying that, and by the time Li Yunchu excitedly ran out to get it, she had already disappeared.
Although Li Yunchu was somewhat disappointed, she was so moved that she almost cried when she saw the delicious-smelling food placed at the door.
"No one has ever..."
“Even my two older brothers wouldn’t think of me like this, and would even know to leave me food.”
Li Yunchu cried, her eyes red and her voice stinging with tears.
Qin Ling lay down beside her and said, "Wife, is it possible... that she was being extra kind to us today because I worked all day?"
Li Yunchu pretended not to hear.
He happily opened the two steamed buns, half a roast chicken, and a large meat pie.
Ah, I really want to possess them all, and I don't even want to share with my husband.
Seeing her like this, Qin Ling rolled his eyes: It's over. Sure enough, no matter how much sincerity I give, it's not worth a single smile from her blood relative!
Indeed, all sincerity is wasted.
Waaaaah...
While everyone was still eating, Li Qingluo and Xuan Cang quietly climbed over the wall again and went out onto the street.
"Junior Sister, I did see Second Junior Sister just now."
The two emerged from the dark corner, walked freely into the street, and blended into the crowd.
Li Qingluo: "Is it at that restaurant over there?"
She gestured with her eyes toward a brightly lit, five-story building not far away.
The architecture of Loulan was also very different from that of the Central Plains.
Almost all of them were made of mud bricks.
There are not many doors and windows, but they are more magnificent and more colorful.
Moreover, Loulan had no curfew.
It's already past 7:45 PM, and the streets are still packed with people.
People of all ages strolled around the streets as casually as during the day, enjoying the lively atmosphere and leisurely pace.
Moreover, the Loulan people were quite different from other people from the Western Regions.
Everyone was dressed lightly, and the women went out on the street without covering their faces or wearing elaborate hairstyles.
Almost every woman had long, flowing hair, some with low ponytails, and wore only one or two hair accessories as decoration.
There seemed to be no attempt to avoid suspicion between men and women; they stood freely on the street, talking and chatting as they pleased.
Even when Li Qingluo and Xuan Cang passed by, no one cast curious glances their way.
Loulan is truly an anomaly in this world.
Li Qingluo listened to their cheerful laughter, but all she could hear was Loulan language, which she couldn't understand.
Even though she envied such a free and idyllic paradise, she knew that if they were to slip up even slightly, they would immediately face unmanageable trouble.
So she and Xuan Cang kept their eyes down, not daring to look too long or linger, and walked straight into the restaurant in front of them.
Loulan waiter came up to greet her. Although he rattled off a bunch of things in a language that Li Qingluo couldn't understand, Li Qingluo remained calm and held up two fingers.
She stated that there were two of them.
That's all I'll say.
The waiter didn't suspect them and greeted them with a smile, leading them to a corner by the window.
Li Qinglu casually gestured to a few things, but to her surprise, the waiter could actually understand them.
He stopped babbling and quickly responded to Li Qingluo with sign language: "Coming right away, please wait a moment, sir/madam—"
"Six tables on the west side, one pot of tea, two kinds of pastries—"
Li Qingluo never expected that sign language would be even more effective than speaking.
Xuan Cang lowered his voice, using his teacup as a cover, and said, "Have we managed to get away with this for now?"
Black eyes and brown-green eyes don't look much different at night.
Unless they were deliberately looking at it in the light, it would indeed be difficult for the two of them to distinguish themselves from the Loulan people around them.
Li Qingluo: "Don't be careless. Try not to talk or communicate."
However, Xuan Cang didn't know sign language, so he could only anxiously scratch his head.
Fortunately, seeing Li Qingluo's calm and composed demeanor, seemingly in complete harmony with her surroundings, Xuan Cang gradually regained his footing.
"Senior brother, please check the surroundings as soon as possible to see if you see senior sister and the others."
Just as Li Qingluo dipped her finger in water and wrote those words on the table, the waiter arrived.
She quickly used her hands to paste the words away, and then deliberately drew a flower on the table.
The waiter naturally had no suspicions.
After serving the tea and pastries, he used sign language to say to Li Qingluo, "Sir, if you need anything else, just knock on the table and I will come over."
After saying that, he withdrew without disturbing anyone further.
Li Qinglu was moved and immediately wrote down these small but thoughtful details, intending to implement them in their own restaurant after returning to the Central Plains.
Consider the guests' needs and don't overlook any seemingly insignificant guest.
She was silently observing whether there were any other merits when Xuan Cang suddenly grabbed Li Qingluo's wrist.
He pointed in the direction of the stairs.
Sure enough, Li Qingluo spotted several Central Plains people who stood out in the crowd!
She immediately looked at Xuan Cang with a questioning gaze: Is it them?
Xuan Cang nodded heavily, his eyes revealing worry.
Because that group of Central Plains people were being pushed and harassed by a group of Loulan people.
"Don't think that just because you've been pardoned and allowed to stay, you can bully us Loulan people at will! Get out!"
"roll!"
Could these Loulan people speak Chinese?
Although her pronunciation wasn't perfect, Li Qingluo could understand every word she spoke.
She was surprised; the Loulan people were truly extraordinary.
Because not everyone in the Central Plains can speak the languages of the Western Regions, let alone the Loulan language.
Xuan Cang almost couldn't sit still and was about to get up when Li Qingluo grabbed his wrist and pinned it to the table.
She gently shook her head, signaling him not to act rashly for the time being.
Second Senior Sister: "You guys!"
"Who exactly is going too far?"
"We just wanted to go up to the third floor to take a look, but you treated us like thieves and kicked us off without letting us explain. Did we commit murder or break the law?"
“You Loulan people never truly accepted us; you deliberately targeted us at every turn.”
"Wherever we appear, your friendliness towards your fellow tribesmen is turned into deliberate nitpicking and targeting when it comes to us!"
"This is the true face of you Loulan people!"
The second senior sister's furious accusations only earned her the indifference of all the Loulan people around her.
"Stop talking nonsense!"
"You really can't stay here any longer, you should leave."
What are you doing staying in our Loulan?
“You foreigners are all harboring ulterior motives and will never bring good things to Loulan.”
"Either you dislike our place, or you try to change our Loulan customs and habits. We just can't stand you!"
"A bunch of hypocrites."
"We are simply not suited to live on the same land."
"You are simply not suited for Loulan!"
"That's right, get out of here!"
"roll--"
Second Senior Sister and the others were kicked out of the restaurant looking disheveled.
Li Qingluo and Xuan Cang exchanged a glance. After putting down the silver, Li Qingluo drank two more cups of tea and rolled up all the pastries. Then she got up and quickly left the restaurant.
Outside the restaurant, the second senior sister and her companions got into another fight with passersby.
It looks like he's arguing with a passerby.
They accidentally bumped into a stall and knocked the items off the shelves to the ground.
Therefore, the stall owner demanded ten taels of silver in compensation from his second senior sister and the others.
Ten taels of silver might not seem like much to the Loulan people, but to Second Senior Sister and her fellow martial arts practitioners, it was practically like eating human flesh alive.
They had brought all their money with them on this trip.
But even in Loulan, it was still far from enough.
The price of currency in Loulan was several times higher than in the Central Plains, and the people of Loulan always deliberately cheated them.
Touching their already empty money pouches, the group of people could no longer hold back.
"Why don't you just rob it?"
"We live in your Loulan houses and eat your Loulan food, yet you always charge outrageously high prices, several times higher than what you Loulan people charge yourselves! Why are you bullying us like this?"
"It's just a few shabby things, and you want ten taels of silver? Is this money so easy to make? Don't you even look at your own greedy faces!"
"That's a nice dream!"
"This time we will not tolerate this bullying! We will not give it to you!"
The vendor slammed his hand on his stall in anger: "What? You think you're in the right?"
"Didn't you destroy any of my things?"
"If you can't afford to live in Loulan, then don't shamelessly stay any longer. Get out of the city now!"
"Get out of the city!"
A group of Loulan people began to shout in unison.
The two sides were on the verge of fighting.
More and more Loulan people gathered on the street.
Second Senior Sister and the others were completely surrounded by the Loulan people.
Xuan Cang could no longer stand idly by, so he rushed into the crowd and threw his money bag in front of everyone.
"I'll give it to you!"
After saying that, he grabbed his second senior sister and the others and rushed out of the crowd, quickly disappearing into the darkness of the street.
Li Qinglu shook her head: "It's over."
When she found Xuan Cang and his group, they were still cursing and swearing.
Xuan Cang had no choice but to reveal his identity.
"Enough!"
"Can't you recognize my voice?"
"If it weren't for me, how do you plan to escape today?"
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