Chapter 1152: Climbing the ladder of fame and wealth (8)
After waiting for three or four hours, Ao Shiyan and his sister finally waited for their cousin to send a maid to pick them up, saying that she was delayed due to something. But in fact, Li Xiuer just didn't want to receive her impoverished relatives. She wanted to disown them and drive them away. In the end, her mortal enemy, the Third Lady, squeezed her out and asked her if she looked down on her poor relatives because she was rich, and accused her of despising the poor and loving the rich. This forced her to accept this relative despite her unwillingness.
Li Xiuer acknowledged this relative so reluctantly, so naturally she would not be nice to Ao Shichu and his sister in the future. She only placed them in a dilapidated and remote small courtyard, and told them not to go out casually to avoid offending other nobles in the mansion. After that, she ignored them. As a result, those servants followed suit and bullied them.
Ao Shichu, who had known the development of the original world's plot for a long time, of course hoped that Ao Shiyan would figure it out and not go to Li Xiuer. So when she heard Ao Shiyan's words, she said happily: "Then brother, we have decided. Forget about the cousin and Rong'an Marquis Mansion. We have nothing to do with them. We are just an ordinary pair of siblings who came to Beijing from Mobei to make a living."
"Okay, brother will listen to you." Ao Shiyan said without hesitation.
"Since we have to make a living in the capital, we have to plan our future life well. First of all, we have to find a house with cheap rent. After all, if we live in an inn like this, we won't be able to stay there for long." Ao Shichu said.
"Then let's go to the brokerage office and ask where we can find cheap houses to rent." Ao Shiyan is also a very proactive person.
The brother and sister quickly found a real estate agency and asked a middleman, who introduced them to several houses that met their requirements.
However, the houses were not close to each other, and the brother and sister spent most of the day only following the middleman to look at three of them, but they didn't like any of them, so they had to go and look at the other several the next day.
"My two gentlemen, since you don't like this house, how about I take you to see other ones tomorrow?" The middleman said to the brother and sister as he locked the gate of the small house.
"Okay, thank you for bothering you today." Ao Shiyan said politely to the middleman.
"No trouble, no trouble." The middleman shook his head repeatedly. He did not look down on Ao Shichu and his friends just because they wanted to rent a cheap small house. He still smiled and had a good attitude.
"It's getting late. Would you like to come back to the pawnshop with me to check out other situations, or do your own thing?" asked the middleman.
"Don't bother you anymore, we can just walk back slowly by ourselves." Ao Shiyan waved his hand.
"Okay then, we'll see you tomorrow," Nakato said goodbye to the brother and sister.
After the middleman left, Ao Shiyan asked Ao Shichu: "Sister, what kind of house do you want to live in? The three houses we saw today are not very good. They are either too shabby or too remote. It is too difficult to find a good house."
Ao Shichu said with a smile: "Brother, we have only looked at three houses, and you think it is difficult? We have no money now, so the house can be a little shabby, as long as it doesn't leak when it rains. But the location must be good, and the surrounding environment must be safe. We can't choose a place with a lot of people, otherwise we won't live in peace."
Ao Shiyan seemed to be thinking about something. "Sister, you are more thoughtful. I only wanted a cheap and good house, but I didn't consider the location and the neighborhood environment."
Ao Shichu was about to say something when her ears suddenly moved, as if she heard a few faint moans. She paused, tilted her head and listened carefully, and sure enough, she heard a few more sounds. She involuntarily lowered her footsteps and walked towards the direction where the sound came from.
Ao Shiyan looked at her cautious appearance and couldn't help but get nervous for no apparent reason. He asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
"It seems like there is someone..." Ao Shichu answered in a low voice. At this time, in addition to the groans of people, she also smelled a faint smell of blood.
After walking about ten meters, Ao Shichu and Ao Shiyan came to a remote alley. The alley was narrow and dark, full of garbage, and smelly and dirty.
"There's a person there!" Ao Shiyan grabbed Ao Shichu's arm in shock, pointing at a human-shaped "object" not far away and shouted.
"He seemed injured and bled a lot, but he wasn't dead yet, and his feet were still shaking..." Ao Shichu described what he saw to Ao Shiyan.
"What should we do? Should we save him? What if he is not a good person?" Ao Shiyan was immediately confused. Finally, he suddenly closed his eyes and said, "Forget it! Let's bet that he is a good person... We can't just watch him die..."
It doesn’t matter if Ao Shichu doesn’t save anyone, but since Ao Shiyan has decided to save them, then she will follow suit.
So the brother and sister took great pains to carefully carry the blood-covered man out of the alley from a pile of garbage.
The man's head and face were covered in blood. When Ao Shichu and Ao Shiyan lifted him up, he suddenly opened his dark eyes. Even though he was on the verge of death, his eyes still flashed with ferociousness, and he stared at Ao Shiyan and Ao Shichu.
"Don't worry, we are here to save you." Ao Shiyan was frightened by his eyes and quickly comforted him.
It was not known whether the man believed it or not, but he closed his eyes and let Ao Shichu and his sister carry him out.
"Brother, should we carry him to the clinic?" Ao Shichu asked.
"No... I won't go... to the clinic..." The one who answered Ao Shichu was the seriously injured patient. He had a hoarse voice and squeezed out these words with difficulty, staring at Ao Shichu, as if he would not give up until Ao Shichu agreed to him.
"Then don't go." Ao Shiyan knew that this man must have a reason for not going to the clinic. Looking at his bloody appearance, he must have been chased by someone. He was afraid that if he appeared in the clinic, the people chasing him would know and his life would be in danger again.
"Then where do we send him? We are still living in the inn." Ao Shichu asked Ao Shiyan.
Ao Shiyan was suddenly in a dilemma. Looking at the blood-gourd-like person, he thought it would be inappropriate to send him anywhere. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and he said to Ao Shichu in surprise: "Sister, why don't we send him to the old beggar?"
Ao Shichu thought for a moment and said, "It's a good place to go." However, she looked at the man who was still staring at her and said, "We don't have a suitable place to hide you, so we can only send you to the beggars' den. If you agree, we will send you there. If you don't agree, we will just leave you here. You can't blame us for not saving you."
Beggars' den, you know it is a place where beggars live, but the man had no objection, probably knowing that he had no other choice but to live there.
So Ao Shichu and Ao Shiyan managed to avoid people and carried the seriously injured person to the beggars' den. Fortunately, it was already late at night and everyone was going home, so there were not many people on the road, allowing them to reach the destination smoothly.
(End of this chapter)
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