CH 36

Looking at the six taels of silver, Li Huowang didn't bother to decline and put it in his pocket. He really needed the money now.

"Little Daoist, take your time eating. We'll prepare and continue our journey tomorrow."

After eating and drinking their fill, the Lu family members were also tired and went back to sleep. After all, they hadn't slept all night yesterday.

After the Lu family left, there was only Li Huowang in the room. He looked at the roast chicken in front of him, which was bigger than his head, and asked the servant beside him, "Is there anything to pack things in?"

Not long after, Li Huowang walked out of Wuligang with a donkey and a cart full of bags of food. Although six taels of silver was not much, he couldn't afford a horse, but an old donkey was still possible.

With this thing, at least they didn't have to carry food and other things on their backs all the way.

When Li Huowang came out, he saw that the others were still huddled in the rice straw stack in the field.

They didn't enter the village, obviously because they were afraid that their strange appearance would scare the villagers.

As he walked over, Li Huowang saw them roasting sweet potato chips over the fire.

Li Huowang reached out and pulled out a fragrant roast chicken from the cart. "Eat this."

After eating dry food for so many days, they couldn't resist when they saw this thing. They rushed over excitedly.

More than ten people shared a chicken, and although each person didn't get much, they all ate it very seriously. Even the chicken bones were carefully chewed into small pieces and swallowed.

"Senior Brother Li, where did you get this chicken? And this donkey cart, where did you go last night?" Bai Lingmiao asked, holding the chicken neck in her hands.

Li Huowang sat on the rice straw stack with his eyes closed and briefly described the cause and process.

When Bai Lingmiao learned that Li Huowang had risked his life to get this thing, she put down the chicken neck in her hand and climbed over to Li Huowang, looking at him with a heartbroken expression.

"Senior Brother Li, I'm sorry. It's our burden that's dragging you down. If it weren't for us, you wouldn't have to risk your life like this."

Li Huowang opened his eyes and looked at the girl with a blue cloth covering her eyes. "It's not related to you. Since that thing can come to the Hu family ancestral hall, it must have been eyeing us for a long time. Even if there was no incident last night, we would have met sooner or later."

"And..." Li Huowang paused, remembering when he was completely trapped in the illusion in Qingfeng Temple. "And in the future, who knows who will be the burden."

Li Huowang thought for a moment, then looked back at the girl in front of him, and took her hand.

Bai Lingmiao shyly shrank back, but immediately stopped.

But after a while, Li Huowang thought again. He lay on the rice straw stack, closed his eyes, turned his gaze to the side, and slowly let go of her tightly held hand.

However, in the instant he let go, those soft hands quickly chased after him and held him tightly.After a good rest, the two groups of people with different goals set off again.

Their next destination was Jianye Town, which would be a large gathering place for Li Huowang to enter this world.

"Xiaodaoye, Wuligang is not far from Jianye Town. According to our schedule, it will take about four or five days to get there," Lv Zhuangyuan reported to Li Huowang.

Li Huowang turned his head and looked at Zhao Wu, who was carried by a fool. "How about it? Going home soon, happy?"

Before, Zhao Wu had said that his home was in Jianye. After these days of contact, Li Huowang had a preliminary understanding of Zhao Wu.

He felt that the other party had a very good brain, but because of physical disabilities and illiteracy, he had not fully realized his potential.

"Zhao Wu, we're almost at your home. What do you say, invite us brothers to go to the restaurant?" Gouwa teased on the side.

However, Zhao Wu's reaction was unexpected. He smiled bitterly, "What's the point of me, a useless person, going home? I can't carry anything with my hands or shoulders. I'm just a burden at home."

As soon as he said this, the atmosphere became quiet, and his words touched the hearts of all the medicine collectors.

Except for Li Huowang, who could stay in the medicine room, everyone else had some problems. Even if they returned to their original place, they were still the freaks that people feared or hated.

Escaping the fear of death from Qingfeng Temple was good, but returning to an environment where they were despised and hostile was not something worth celebrating.

Feeling the atmosphere was a bit depressing, Li Huowang turned his head and looked at Zhao Wu. "Who said you are useless? Take advantage of this time and I will teach you alchemy. Remember as much as you can. You can be a barefoot doctor when you go home, and you won't starve to death."

Zhao Wu was stunned when he heard this, and then his expression became excited, and his eyes were full of strong desire. "Senior Brother Li, I don't want to learn alchemy. Can you teach me how to read?"

"Why do you want to learn to read? It's better to learn more alchemy prescriptions and have a job as a doctor when you go home, isn't it?" Li Huowang could not understand the emotions of the locals about learning to read.

It's not that learning to read is useless, of course, it is very useful. But it takes five years to finish elementary school, and teaching an illiterate person who can't even write their own name to read is a huge project that can't be accomplished in a few years.

"It doesn't matter! Even if I can't learn much, it doesn't matter. I will learn as much as I can."

Although Li Huowang didn't understand Zhao Wu's thirst for knowledge, since he wanted to learn, he could teach him.

"Fool, put Zhao Wu on the donkey cart, and I will teach him to read."

Zhao Wu didn't know anything, so Li Huowang could only use the simple wooden mouth language to enlighten him.

As he taught, Li Huowang noticed that it was very quiet nearby. He looked up and found that everyone, including the members of the Lu family, was listening attentively.They listened attentively and looked at him with awe, as if Li Huowang was doing something sacred.

"Hehehe, well, Mr. Tao."

Lv Zhuangyuan smiled and walked over with two sausages in one hand and his young son in the other.

Just as Li Huowang was waiting for the other person to speak, a cloud of dust rose from behind the path in the woods.

Soon, a horse stopped in front of them, and a young chubby boy jumped off.

Lv Zhuangyuan clearly knew this person from Wuli Hill and quickly bowed. "Oh, Mr. Hu, where are you going?"

"I'm not going anywhere! I'm going to sing with you guys! That way, I can listen to music every day!"

Excited, Hu spoke in a childish voice, despite his sturdy appearance.

"Hey, you better not joke like that. Go back quickly, don't worry your grandpa."

"Don't worry, I'll pay to listen to the music!" He handed a golden longevity lock to Lv Zhuangyuan.

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Lv Zhuangyuan looked conflicted, holding the golden lock in his hands.

But soon, someone came from behind on horseback and helped him out of the situation.

"Dad! Don't drag me back! I'm not going back! I want to sing!"

"Slap!" A loud slap on Hu's face startled everyone around them, and the boy's face quickly swelled up.

"How dare you become a performer! How dare you be so low! That's the lowest of the lowest! If you dare to bring shame to the Hu family by becoming a performer, I'll fucking beat you to death!"

He snatched the golden longevity lock from Lv Zhuangyuan's hand, carried his son, and rode away on two horses.

Li Huowang looked back at Lv Zhuangyuan, waiting for him to finish what he was about to say.

Lv Zhuangyuan stood there awkwardly with two sausages, opening his mouth several times as if he wanted to say something but couldn't make a sound.

For the first time, the usually smooth-talking old man was at a loss like a child.

In the end, he didn't say anything, forced a smile and nodded at Li Huowang, and walked towards the nearby carriage with his son, hunching over even more than before.