The beggar who was rescued insisted on his opinion: "My benefactors, you saved my life. I swear, if I had lied to you, I would be struck by lightning and die miserably!"
"Although I'm not a local, I've been here for several days and know a lot of things. For example, Beizhen is so remote and sparsely populated that there's no special road to get there! No one can go there without an acquaintance to lead the way!" he said confidently.
Seeing that he didn't seem to be lying, Lu Yunxi and Shen San couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
The two men looked at each other, left the beggar to rest on the road, and then they separated at the fork in the road and went to different villages to ask for directions.
"Uncle, please tell me, do you know where to go to Beizhen?"
"Excuse me, Auntie. I came here to visit my relatives. I heard that my distant relative is in Beizhen. I don't know where to go."
"Kid, I'll treat you to some candied haws. Can you tell me where Beizhen is?"
“…”
After asking for a long time, Lu Yunxi not only asked everyone in the surrounding villages, but even took a detour to find Cui Shishi.
"Ms. Lu, you're back?! Where's Mr....Mr. Chen?!" Cui Shishi came forward anxiously, and when she found that someone was missing, her heart skipped a beat.
"Don't worry, he's fine. He just went to ask for directions," Lu Yunxi waved her hand nonchalantly. "As for you, we've found some clues, but we're not sure if they're true. We need to find out more... By the way, do you and your family have any secret codes or anything? Otherwise, I wouldn't be sure if you're the person we're looking for."
"Secret code?!" Cui Shishi was stunned, then frowned.
Who would come up with a secret code for no reason?
She racked her brains for a long time but couldn't come up with any code. "We don't have any of them. Miss Lu, if you see someone who looks like the portrait, just tell me. I'll go over and see for myself and I'll know for sure."
Lu Yunxi had no choice but to put a protective shield on her and quickly went to find Shen San.
Before they returned to the fork in the road where they had parted, the two of them bumped into each other.
"Master, how are things going over there?" Shen San asked immediately when he saw her.
"Everyone I asked told me that North Town was heading in that direction. What about you?"
"Me too, they're all pointing in the same direction."
Lu Yunxi's face was slightly solemn, and he lowered his head as if thinking about something.
When they first went to Beizhen, they only asked two or three people and followed the route they pointed out to reach their destination. But before, it would have been fine if they had asked fewer people, but now there are so many people, and every one of them can point out where Beizhen is... How strange!
If a four or five-year-old could answer that, he might be a genius, but if all four or five-year-olds could point out the direction of Beizhen, were all the children in the surrounding villages geniuses? Furthermore, some elderly people, who couldn't even recognize their own children, could actually clearly point out the direction of Beizhen... Haha!
Lu Yunxi raised the corners of his lips and smiled coldly.
"It seems we've really fallen into a trap. I'm afraid this North Town is a trap, waiting for us to enter so they can catch us in the act!"
The expressions of the master and disciple became increasingly ugly.
After thinking about it, Lu Yunxi took out the Mantra Pill again and asked the villagers around him.
Lu Yunxi: "Where is Beizhen?"
The villagers were sweating profusely: "After leaving the village, go west first, and you will see..."
Lu Yunxi: "Why did you lie to us? And you even pointed us in the wrong direction."
The villagers were terrified: "The prefect said that if anyone accidentally reveals the location of Beizhen, our entire village will be buried with them!"
Lu Yunxi: "Where was the direction you pointed me to at the beginning?"
The villagers were about to cry, "It's a nameless town. The people there are all poor relatives of officials in Wuzhou. They are all very arrogant."
“…”
After asking a few more questions, the surrounding villagers still didn't know either.
Lu Yunxi and Shen San finally understood the situation.
It turned out that the person they rescued was not lying. They had been directed to the wrong way along the way and were deliberately sent to an unknown town.
Except for some special towns that have their names written on them, most towns do not have names written on them. They are not big cities and do not even have city walls. Even if the name of the city is written on them, no one knows where to hang it.
Thinking of how much time they had wasted in that town full of relatives of Wuzhou officials, Lu Yunxi couldn't help but grit his teeth.
She goes!
She said that Mrs. Cui didn't look like the person in the portrait at all! The eyes were so similar, the prefect must have found her specially.
Thinking of how "Mrs. Cui" was almost suffocating at that time, she couldn't help but shake her head secretly.
She admired the fact that he could be so cruel to himself!
The two looked at each other in silence for a long time before walking towards the fork in the road together.
The person who had been waiting there finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw them and came forward to greet them: "My benefactor! You, you are finally back?!" After waiting for a long time, he thought something had happened to them and was very nervous.
"Sir, we have something to do and are ready to leave. I wonder if you want to stay here or..." Lu Yunxi's tone softened a lot.
Before he could finish his words, the man immediately said, "My last name is Cui, you can just call me Little Cui. I have nowhere to go, so I wonder if I can go with you?"
"Cui?!" Lu Yunxi was shocked.
Now, when she heard the last name, it became a conditioned reflex.
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