Chapter 13: Entering the City and Seeking the Skin of a Tiger
After the rain stopped, the officials immediately organized themselves and prepared to set off, rushing to the next place where they could take shelter before the rain came again.
Su Ying carried Mother Zhao and Hu Pi on her back and stood in front of Xiao Jin and the others. Bai Shuang had a good night's rest and felt much more energetic today, so she simply carried Erbao on her back.
"Everyone follow closely. If you don't want to get wet in the rain, hurry up." The officer shouted all the way, waving his whip.
These prisoners were already extremely weak by now, and they had been caught in the rain yesterday, so many of them fell down along the way.
For those fallen prisoners, the officers could only carry them onto wooden carts, and then throw them somewhere randomly after they died.
"Be careful!" Su Ying suddenly reached out and supported the uncle who was about to fall down.
The uncle put almost half of his weight on Su Ying's hands, but Su Ying still supported him without changing her expression.
Seeing that he really couldn't walk anymore, Su Ying stopped and waited for him to catch his breath.
After taking a breath, the uncle seemed to be feeling better. He weakly raised his eyelids and looked at Su Ying, wanting to thank her, but because he was too weak, he couldn't even utter a word.
Su Ying took out a one-person energy candy from her body and stuffed it into his mouth. The uncle only felt a sweet fragrance spreading between his lips and teeth, and his cold body also felt a little warm.
"Thank you so much, little lady."
"Keep going with the remaining strength."
The uncle was indeed weak, and he had to hold on for dear life to keep up with Su Ying and the team.
Strangely enough, after eating the candy, the uncle felt stronger and stronger as he walked, and even his cold hands and feet became warm. He looked at Su Ying in surprise, and felt that Su Ying looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen her for a while.
After he could walk by himself, the uncle no longer asked Su Ying to support him. He didn't say anything and just followed Su Ying, but he remembered Su Ying's help in his heart.
"If we keep going like this, where will we end up?" Su Ying felt that it was not her style to follow the team so blindly. She had to find a way to understand the situation along the way so that she could prepare for what was to come.
Hearing Su Ying's question, the uncle felt that it was time for him to be useful. "Young lady, we have already reached the territory of Yuecheng. If we walk fast today, we should be able to reach the outskirts of a county town under Yuecheng. We will probably have to rest outside the city tonight."
These words made Su Ying's eyes light up. If she could go to the county town and sell the tiger skin, she could then buy supplies in the county town.
"It seems that the uncle knows a lot about this."
The uncle smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I am an old man with a greedy tongue. When I was young, I loved to travel far and wide looking for something to eat." But he never thought that this bite of food would cause his family to be broken up.
"Uncle, what's your name?" Walking was boring, so Su Ying started chatting with the uncle.
"This old man congratulates the first uprising."
"My name is Su Ying."
He Shouyi was stunned for a moment, looking at Su Ying's cold eyes under the gloomy clouds, he was very surprised. Could the person in front of him be the infamous Princess Qi... The real person was not quite consistent with the rumors.
The officials were probably worried that it would continue to rain, so they did not stop on the way and walked all the way outside the county town, where they found an open space for their people to line up and prepared to send people into the city to buy dry food and corresponding supplies.
Fortunately, the weather was good. Although it was still gloomy, it didn't rain all the way to the outside of the county town.
The officials found a vacant lot outside the city for everyone to stay.
After Su Ying put Mother Zhao under a big tree, she found Li Da carrying the tiger skin.
Li Da felt his scalp tingling when he saw Su Ying. There was nothing he could do as the scene of her killing the tiger was still fresh in his memory.
"Sir, can you please spare me a moment?"
Li Da felt that he had nothing to say to her, but before he could say no, he was forced back by her phoenix eyes that shone with a terrifying light.
Li Da could only follow her to a big tree.
"what are you up to?"
Su Ying smiled, intending to make herself look kinder, but she didn't know that this smile made Li Da even more frightened.
"Don't be afraid, sir. What can a weak woman like me do to you?"
Li Da: “…” Thank you, a weak woman!
"If you can take me into the city to sell tiger skins, I can give you 10% of the profits." Su Ying directly stated her purpose.
Li Da was stunned for a moment and looked at the tiger skin in her hand. This was really a huge temptation. The white tiger was rare and the big tiger skin was very complete. If it was sold, it would at least get thousands of taels of silver. One tenth of it would be hundreds of taels!
It's nothing more than trying to get the skin of a tiger!
Li Da agreed almost without hesitation. After all, if Su Ying really wanted to run away, he couldn't stop her!
"Okay, wait."
In order not to attract attention, Li Da got Su Ying a set of official uniform for her to change into, and then he ordered two more people to go into the city to replenish supplies.
Li Da took Su Ying to the city gate. Because it was a county town, entry and exit were not too strict, and several people entered smoothly.
After entering the city, Li Da asked two officers to buy dry food, while he took Su Ying to another street.
Su Ying was walking on the streets of the county town, and she felt very fresh when she saw the vendors hawking their wares on both sides of the street. Living in the end-of-the-world war-torn era, she had never seen such a scene before.
Li Da took Su Ying to a pawnshop and stopped.
"After we go in, let's keep silent and let the other party make the first offer. A tiger skin like this is cheap if it's less than one thousand taels, and we can't sell it." Before going in, Li Da instructed Su Ying.
Su Ying nodded. The higher the price the tiger skin sold for, the more money Li Da would get. There was no need for him to lie to her in this regard.
As the two walked in, the clerk behind the counter came out to greet them. Seeing that they were wearing official clothes, he smiled and said, "Gentlemen, are you going to buy something or pawn something?"
Su Ying put the tiger skin on the table. The folded tiger skin actually filled the entire table. "Pawn the tiger skin and see what price you can give."
The clerk was stunned when he saw such a large tiger skin. He couldn't make up his mind about this big item. "Please wait a moment, gentlemen. I will ask our shopkeeper to come out and take a look." After saying that, he went to the back hall.
Not long after, a lazy and unhappy voice sounded from the back hall, "You disturbed my sweet dream, you'd better show me something great, otherwise I won't forgive you."
"Don't worry, boss. I have never seen a tiger skin this big in my life."
"There are so many things that young boys have never seen."
The curtain in the back hall was lifted, and a handsome man with a ruffian look in his brows walked out.
The front of his green robe was loose and slightly open, revealing his underwear. His hair was casually pinned behind his head with a wooden hairpin, looking lazy and unrestrained.
Xu San raised his delicate eyebrows, and his light-colored eyes fell on Su Ying, with a shrewd look in his eyes, "Oh, it turns out to be the official from the capital."
(End of this chapter)
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