Chapter 652: Finally Home (I)

Chapter 652: Finally Home (I)

Alright!

Lets do it!

Yingluo is the best!

The groups spirit was high. The women were all smiles. The men were also content because women were happy. The Bei Clan was finally back and their first stop was their old home.

Bei Yingluo led the way and the group set off. They left the city square with the teleportation array and headed down a main street. It was approaching sunset it soon got more crowded. People emerged from their houses to take care of chores or to open up their shops. Others set up stalls in the street to sell food and various wares.

Drifting Sand City was not a large city. At its peak, it could hold several hundred thousand souls but right now, there were barely over one hundred thousand. The population always fluctuated based on the season but after the monster invasion, it still had not recovered to its original level.

Strange, first aunt, I dont think I remember seeing so many southern food stalls before.

The one who spoke up was Bei Mingyu, Bei Yingluos little sister. She had been looking at each food stall with a keen eye as if she had not eaten in many days.

First Aunt Bei Yujing, the most senior of the women at the age of forty-three, looked around and nodded, You are right. There does seem to be more stalls selling southern food than before.

They referred to southern food as coming from south of the Great Hui Desert, from the Aiqin Mystic Archipelago. This cuisine included a lot of seafood and was not the style that people of the Bei Clan or most others that grew up in the desert preferred.

Look! Bei Mingyu shouted excitedly, Grilled sand lizard! I can finally have grilled sand lizard again!

Bei Yingluo resisted the urge to roll her eyes and so did many others. Sand lizards were a popular snack as well as a well-known pest. They dug holes in the ground and in the dirt walls of the houses within the city. They were abundant but they had little value for a cultivator. They could fill ones stomach and that was about it so they were popular with kids in the city.

Bei Mingyu ignored the others and dashed up to the stall. An old woman was busy cooking over an open flame, turning multiple skewers of skinny lizards. From head to tail, they were about twenty or thirty centimeters long. There wasnt much meat on them but the stall owner glazed the whole lizard with some kind of sweet and savory sauce that smelled great.

Bei Mingyu quickly bought two that were already cooked and immediately dug in. Yum! Mmmm!

Seeing her demolish two lizard skewers so quickly, the other Bei Clan women also gathered around the stall and bought the skewers as fast as the vendor could make them. Although it was cheap, it reminded them of their home, that they were finally back.

Second Aunt Bei Hao even fed tiny morsels to her baby who was no more than an infant.

Hey, Haohao, hes too young to eat that! Feng Xuqi, her first husband, tried to stop her.

"Hold on... the door is different." Bei Yingluo said.

"Yeah." Her mother, Bei Rongyin, added, "The door lock also different. Did somebody change them?"

"No way, Let me check." First Aunt Bei Yujing said and went up to knock loudly on the door. "Anybody there? Open up!"

She continued shouting for a while before the door creaked open.

A small-statured man with an unfriendly face peeked out, "Who's there? Go away!"

"Wait!" Bei Yujing forced the door wider, "Who are you, why are you inside the Bei Clan's home?

"I don't know what you're talking about! This place is the property of the city lord. If you want to cause trouble, go cause trouble for the city lord!"

Bei Yujing's eyes flashed with anger. "You dare! This land belongs to the Bei Clan, these buildings belong to the Bei Clan. Our clan raised these walls brick by brick. If you don't give me a proper explanation, don't blame me for being rude!"

"Ridiculous! We're done talking. Men, kick this old hag out!"

"Yes, steward!"

"Yes, sir!"

Several strong voices sounded from behind the man. The twin bronze doors swung wide open and a squad of guards in armor and carrying swords marched out, ready to fight.

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