CH 266

"An epidemic?" Li Huowang, who was about to leave, was instantly attracted by the conversation of these two people. His intuition told him that this might be what he was looking for.

Completely ignoring the Lv family troupe on the stage, Li Huowang quickly approached the two, waiting for them to continue talking.

However, what made Li Huowang anxious was that when he unintentionally listened, the other party kept talking non-stop, but when he focused on listening, the other party stopped talking.

Li Huowang thought for a moment and went directly to the fat man's side, gently pushing his shoulder with his arm. "Excuse me, friend, what's happening in Pixian? I've never heard of an epidemic there before."

The fat man, who was focused on watching the opera on stage, was displeased when Li Huowang asked him. "What's it to you? Who are you--"

When the fat man saw the two broken silver pieces handed over by Li Huowang, his eyes widened. The impolite words on his lips were swallowed back.

"Don't worry, your uncle is fine, and there is no epidemic in Pixian. Everyone is alive and well." Here, the fat man with a watermelon hat paused slightly.

"But, my friend, if you're really close to your uncle, it's best to take him out of Pixian. The feng shui there is bad." As he spoke, his voice unconsciously lowered, as if he was afraid of being heard by something.

"I'll tell you, the last time I went there to do business, I found that the people living there were all crazy, with bad complexions. It's no wonder they were said to be suffering from an epidemic. Their faces were even worse than those who actually have the plague."

"The whole county is crazy with bad complexions?" Li Huowang, standing in place, carefully pondered for a moment before asking again. "Besides that, is there anything else unusual happening in Pixian?"

Although nothing in this world is surprising, these two points alone cannot determine what happened to the people in Pixian.

"I don't know about that. I just passed by there and didn't stay long. If you're really worried, you can go to Pixian and take a look. It's only about ten days away. There's nothing to worry about. Look, I came back, didn't I?"

"Ten days away?" After thinking for a moment, Li Huowang turned and walked towards the inn.

When Bai Lingmiao's map was spread out in front of Li Huowang, he quickly found the location of Pixian, which happened to be on the same road as Niu Xinshan.

After careful consideration, Li Huowang finally decided to go and take a look. When the behavior of an entire county's population becomes strange, it is definitely not a small matter. And the probability of encountering the Monitors of Heaven is very high.

Moreover, this is his only choice now. Even a backup plan doesn't exist.Just then, Lv Xiucai rushed in excitedly from outside. Li Huowang looked up at him and said, "Go tell your father that we're not performing after today's show. We'll continue on our journey tomorrow."

Lv Xiucai nodded repeatedly while holding a copper coin, then turned and ran outside.

The others were used to Li Huowang suddenly leaving and had already prepared the ox cart and the new carriage, loading everything they needed onto them.

They didn't bother asking where Li Huowang was going or what he was going to do. They just followed him.

What was different this time was that the previously despondent Lv Troupe had a new face, and everyone was full of energy. They had regained their spirits after being beaten down by their peers before.

"Hehehe, Xiao Dao Ye, Xiao Dao Ye, as we agreed before, this is your share, and this is mine." Lv Zhuangyuan happily handed Li Huowang a handful of copper coins mixed with silver.

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Li Huowang looked at the smiling Lv Zhuangyuan and asked, "Why? Did we get so much reward money?"

He knew that the Lv Troupe used to sing without getting much reward money.

"Hehehe, after all, this is Daliang, and those people all have money, all have money~" Lv Zhuangyuan said with a smile, putting the copper coins and silver on the ox cart.

Zhao Wu, who was driving the cart, saw that Li Huowang didn't refuse and took out a thick thread to string the scattered copper coins together one by one.

Li Huowang certainly didn't refuse. Although the silver was not much, it was still a steady stream of income, saving him from wasting time on these daily trivial matters.

And with this silver, everyone could eat better. "Let's have a good meal tonight. Take out the preserved meat and make some preserved meat rice."

Just as he finished speaking, a clear sound of someone swallowing saliva entered Li Huowang's ears. In theory, after eating so much meat on the Qingqiu grassland, no one should be so greedy.

"Whose voice is that? Did you not eat today?" Li Huowang turned his head and saw that the person was not one of his own, but an old wheat harvester with gray hair and a lean body. There was also a simple-looking young man beside him.

As if sensing that Li Huowang was looking at him, the old wheat harvester pretended not to care and looked at the harvested rice fields on the other side.

"Gugu~" his stomach growled, and the old wheat harvester grabbed the rope of his shoulder pole with both hands and tightened his belt a little.

Li Huowang looked at their shabby patched clothes and turned his head to continue on his way.

Along the way, only Gouwa talked a little, and no one else spoke.

As the sun began to set, the ox cart slowly stopped. As usual, everyone began to prepare dinner.

"Li Senior Brother, look! There's some Po Po Ding on the side of the road. We can make wild vegetable soup with it, which can be used to relieve the greasiness of the preserved meat!" Li Huowang, who was looking at the map, didn't even hear who said that.His attention was now focused on the map in his hand. Who knows if the scale of this map is correct? If they take a wrong turn, they will waste several days of travel.

Soon, dinner was ready. Tonight's dinner was rice cooked with preserved meat and wild vegetable soup.

Looking at the large bowl of oily rice in front of him, as well as the red and white preserved meat mixed in the rice, Li Huowang glanced at the two wheat gatherers squatting in the distance.

They were swallowing down the cornmeal cakes they had just taken out of the bag, using the cold water they had just scooped from the creek.

The little wheat gatherer stared straight at the rice in Li Huowang's hand, but was quickly pressed down by the old wheat gatherer.

"Go and get two bowls of rice and bring it to them." Li Huowang said to Bai Lingmiao next to him.

"Okay." Bai Lingmiao nodded and walked towards the pot.