Chapter 18 The Unusual Path of Limitlessness
On the ice field not far from Tianmen, many tents are set up.
Standing on the speeding sled, Su Yuyao looked at the various tents and asked in confusion, "Godfather! Why are they living here?"
Sahan was also puzzled. "I don't understand. They usually just collect their monthly salary and leave. Why are they all staying here this time?"
At the end of the ice field lay green meadows. Sahan stopped his sled, arranged for someone to guard it, and took off his thick fur coat, changing into a light robe and trousers.
Su Yuyao had been traveling in freezing weather for several days, her face turning black and red from the cold wind. Now, dressed in boys' clothes and carrying a crescent-shaped sword, coupled with her natural mischievousness, it was impossible to tell whether she was a plump young lady or a plump young master.
Once they reached the grasslands, they were already within the territory of the Wuji Dao. Ruixue no longer needed to go ahead to scout the way, so she slowed down and followed behind Sahanyi.
Su Yuyao asked excitedly, "Where is the Heavenly Gate?"
"The Heavenly Gate is over there!" Sahan pointed with his hand, and Su Yuyao finally saw that at the end of the grassland, there were two mountain peaks standing opposite each other, with a canyon in between. That canyon was the Heavenly Gate!
"Oh? That's still a long way!" Su Yuyao said, standing on tiptoe.
“Yes, so we need to go to Hengcheng ahead to rent a carriage first,” Sahan said with a smile.
Su Yuyao had lost interest in the carriage. She glanced at Ruixue, who was expressionless beside her, and asked, "Can I ride Ruixue?"
"Hahahaha," Sahan laughed loudly, "you naughty girl! All you ever think about is riding Ruixue!"
"Ruixue! I want to ride you!" Seeing that Sahan didn't object, Su Yuyao grabbed Ruixue's belt and shouted.
Ruixue suddenly lunged forward, transforming into a snow wolf and running across the grassland.
Su Yuyao glanced at the belt in her hand, then at the pants that Ruixue had flung off as she charged forward, and laughed, "Ruixue! Just let me ride you to my heart's content! Your pants are all down! Let's see how you turn back into human form!"
After saying that, he chased after her and mercilessly grabbed Ruixue's tail and started climbing up. Ruixue whimpered helplessly, drooping her head and glancing at Sahan.
As soon as Sahan picked up Ruixue's trousers and belt, he laughed and shouted, "Ruixue! You've met your match!"
Su Yuyao was already riding on Ruixue's back, tugging at the fur on Ruixue's neck, and shouting, "Charge!"
Ruixue's nose was practically about to break, but once Sahan let Su Yuyao do as she pleased, he didn't dare to resist and could only let Su Yuyao torment him.
If I had known this fat girl would bully me like this, I should have let her freeze to death!
Hengcheng, though an isolated city on the grassland, is no less prosperous than Feilongcheng and Huangshangcheng, which Su Yuyao had seen.
The streets inside Hengcheng were very wide, but the houses were not tall and all had flat roofs. As soon as Su Yuyao rode Ruixue into the city gate, she attracted a lot of attention. However, Su Yuyao did not care and continued to ride the grimacing Ruixue, refusing to get off.
"Godfather! Should we go to that carriage shop to rent a horse-drawn carriage?" Su Yuyao asked, pointing to a courtyard not far away filled with carriages and horses.
"Yes! But we don't need to go, let the uncles go, let's go eat!"
"Let's go eat?! Great!" Su Yuyao exclaimed, squeezing Ruixue's belly tightly. "Ruixue! Let's go eat!"
When they arrived at the restaurant, they discovered that Ruixue was too big to fit inside. Since she didn't have pants, she couldn't transform into human form and could only squat at the entrance waiting for Sahan and Su Yuyao.
The restaurant was filled with frowning, oddly shaped people who immediately surrounded Sahan as soon as he stepped inside.
Sahan looked at everyone in surprise, "Why are you still here? Shouldn't you have already gone back?"
Everyone chimed in, "Boss Sa! You've finally arrived! Something's happened!"
"What happened?"
"Boss Sa, did you know that the Heavenly Lord of the Dao has been replaced?"
"I've heard about it, but it has nothing to do with us!"
"Logically, it shouldn't matter, but all the Heavenly Gate Generals of the palaces have resigned! The person now in charge of the Heavenly Gate of the Dui Palace is the newly appointed Bei Ao, who is extremely greedy. If the various tribes and regions that go to collect their monthly stipends don't leave something behind, they won't receive anything!"
"What?! They're withholding our monthly salary?"
Su Yuyao tried to squeeze into the crowd to ask Sa Hanyi for money to buy food, but she couldn't get in no matter what she did. She sighed, walked out of the restaurant, looked at Ruixue who was full of expectation, and said, "Ruixue, let's earn money to buy food ourselves!"
Ruixue glanced out the door and saw Sahanyi surrounded. Helplessly, she drooped her tail and followed Su Yuyao.
There are many people in Hengcheng, but Su Yuyao is afraid of being discovered and dares not perform divination casually anymore. What should she do? What method can she use to make money?
"Big dog!" a little boy shouted, pointing at Ruixue.
The childish voice instantly sparked Su Yuyao's train of thought.
"Little brother! Want to pet the big dog?" Su Yuyao forcibly pulled Ruixue over and said to the little boy, "If you want to pet it, you need two copper coins. If you have five copper coins, you can ride it!"
"Then... I'll ride it for a bit!" The little boy took out a small money bag, poured out five copper coins, and handed them to Su Yuyao.
Su Yuyao chuckled as she pocketed the money, then pressed Ruixue's head to the ground so the little boy could climb on it.
Ruixue grinned and carried the little boy around twice.
"I want to ride too!"
"I want to ride too!"
Su Yuyao was overjoyed as she watched the growing number of children gather. In no time, she had earned several dozen copper coins.
"Alright! We're going now!" Su Yuyao put away the copper coins and pulled Ruixue to buy some delicious food.
No matter what she bought, Su Yuyao would share half with Ruixue. Even if it was candied hawthorn that Ruixue didn't like, Su Yuyao would force two pieces down Ruixue's throat and then bury the last one in the soil for herself.
Su Yuyao patted her belly and said to Ruixue, "Alright! Let's go back to the restaurant!"
Inside the restaurant, the first group of people surrounding Sa Hanyi were already sitting quietly at the table, watching as a group of women chattered and demanded an explanation from Sa Hanyi.
Su Yuyao staggered inside and saw Sa Han take out a money bag and hand out money to each woman.
A woman holding the money turned around, saw Su Yuyao, and said with a sneer, "You brat, see if your dad beats you later! You even cheated a child out of his money!"
"When did I cheat children out of their money?" Su Yuyao retorted, "I let them ride the snow wolf, and they gave me money. It's a fair trade!"
"Fairness what?!" a woman exclaimed angrily. "My son went back and stole the money!"
“Then you should teach your son a lesson instead of coming to my father for money. Your son riding my Snow Wolf for free is robbery!” Su Yuyao retorted.
The woman glared at Su Yuyao, too angry to speak.
“Everyone, please go back first. I will raise my own child,” Sahan said coldly.
The women finally all left, leaving only the crowd who sat obediently watching the show and Sahan, who was rolling up his sleeves.
"Ningbao, come here!" Sahan rolled up his sleeves to his elbows, revealing his strong forearms, and rubbed his thick palms as he said, "One copper coin for one slap, you can count for yourself how many slaps that is!"
Su Yuyao swallowed hard, turned around and looked at Ruixue sitting by the door, constantly licking her nose. She smiled awkwardly and said, "Those children insisted on riding it, and it exhausted Ruixue, so I asked for a few copper coins to buy her some food..."
"Woof?" Ruixue actually barked in surprise, licking her nose while pawing at her paws.
Sahan jumped up and walked towards Su Yuyao. Su Yuyao quickly turned and ran out of the restaurant, hiding under Ruixue. Clutching Ruixue's chest fur, she said with tears in her eyes, "Godfather! I was wrong! I shouldn't have let the children ride Ruixue! Ruixue was clearly hungry, and I saw you were so busy, so I thought I'd buy food for Ruixue first... We should have been hungry a little longer... If anyone has to be slapped, then Ruixue should get slapped more, he eats a lot..."
Ruixue was so angry listening to Su Yuyao's words that her nose twitched up completely, and she kept baring her teeth.
Sa Hanyi's expression didn't change, but the others had already started covering their mouths and snickering.
"Boss Sa, is this your adopted daughter? It would be so much better if she were a boy!" an uncle said with a smile. "You can beat a boy if he gets into trouble, but how can you bear to hurt a girl?"
Another middle-aged man stopped Sahan and pulled him back to his seat, saying, "We still have important business to discuss! Let's eat and talk! Let's eat and talk!"
He then turned back and nodded to Su Yuyao, "You should come in too!"
Seeing that Sa Hanyi had been pressed down, Su Yuyao finally mustered up her courage, went in, and quietly sat down next to Sa Hanyi.
Sa Han looked at Su Yuyao, whose lips still had a bit of sugar on them, and suddenly found it amusing. He tore off a chicken leg and handed it to her, saying, "This is the first and last time. If anyone complains about you again, I won't let them off easily!"
Su Yuyao took the chicken leg and said with a grin, "Don't worry, godfather! I won't let them tell on me again!"
Everyone covered their mouths and chuckled.
"Let's get down to business, Boss Sa. Are you going tomorrow?"
"You mean, we're going to demonstrate at Tianmen tomorrow?"
"Yes! We have gathered all the leaders of the tribes and plan to go to Tianmen tomorrow to demand an explanation!"
“Since you’re all going, I’ll go too!” Sahan said confidently.
A protest? Su Yuyao looked up and saw the roast chicken on the table that had been torn apart.
It was a living organism, but it was put into the disc and torn to pieces. This is bad!
"Godfather! Are we going to collect our monthly salary tomorrow? I want to go too!"
"no!"
"Why not? I want to see the world too!"
"I probably won't receive my monthly salary tomorrow..."
"If you can't get it, then don't go!" Su Yuyao said while munching on a chicken leg. "Although our wolf clan from Xuanhuang Valley only arrived in Hengcheng today, other clans have been planning this for a long time. How could the people in Tianmen not know that you've gathered so many leaders to demonstrate? Perhaps they're just waiting for you to go!"
"Ningbao! What do you mean?" Sahan asked curiously.
“I don’t know what happened inside Tianmen, but everyone inside knows what you’re planning to do. So if you go tomorrow, you’ll fall into a trap and be slaughtered.” Su Yuyao clicked her fingers and continued, “What if they capture all the leaders? In order to rescue them, the people in the tribe will definitely agree to anything. At that time, you really won’t get anything!”
"Then... Miss Ningbao, what do you think we should do?"
"Tomorrow, I'll go!" Su Yuyao picked up another pig's trotter, gnawing on it as she spoke. "I'll go collect my monthly salary and see how things go. I'll collect my salary normally. I'm not the leader, so they have no reason to arrest me. Besides, I'm just a child, so they won't do anything to me!"
“No! It’s too dangerous!” Sahan shook his head and said, “Tomorrow… I’ll go, none of you should go. Like Ningbao said, I’ll go and collect my monthly salary as usual, they won’t do anything to me.”
Su Yuyao looked up at Sa Hanyi and suddenly noticed a cleaver-shaped black shadow on Sa Hanyi's forehead. "Godfather! Don't go! You'll be in danger!"
"Don't worry! I won't. If I don't get my monthly salary, I'll come back!" Sa Han's suggestion was quickly accepted by everyone, but Su Yuyao's heart slowly began to race.
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