Chapter 282 - The Lost Child (1/2)
“You just let her mess around!”
“She is well-behaved. She is not messing around.”
Li Hongmei stomped her feet angrily like Liu Qianqian did.
“I won’t care about you two anymore!”
……
In the desert.
Jin Xiaoyu and Tarico went along quite well.
She would do whatever Tarico and others did, eat whatever they ate.
At first, everyone thought that she would make trouble and be fussy along the way because of her beauty, but Jin Xiaoyu was even rougher than a man and could also involve in their chat easily.
These men were always mannerless before, but they restrained themselves a little because of this woman in the team.
It turned out that Jin Xiaoyu’s personality was the same with these men’s and could even talk to them about women, so they were not overcautious.
Jin Xiaoyu did almost everything except rotating the night s.h.i.+ft with them. Her reason was that women was easy to get old if they always stayed up late.
She would divide water and food for the team during the day.
She ate fast, then she would find a sand dune and sit on it to look into the distance when others were eating.
In fact, only sand could be seen. No one knew what she was looking at, so they whispered.
w.a.n.g Wen said, “She looks rather blue.”
w.a.n.g Wu, “She has something on her mind.”
Mcginon asked, “Do we need to ask someone to ask her if there’s something wrong?”
Tarico immediately refused.
Tarico said, “She’s not easy to mess with, and it seems that she doesn’t want to be disturbed by us. She will come by herself when she really needs to talk.”
So they left Jin Xiaoyu alone.
The journey of the desert was so tight that everyone had no time to rest and sleep. How could they waste their time chatting?
……
The camel team finally arrived at Beihui City.
Jin Xiaoyu donned her veil and entered the town with the camel team.
The guard already knew Tarico and greeted him, “Quite early this time.”
“Yeah.”
“Hey, why is there a woman?”
“A girl from our tribe who wants to come out and see the world,” Tarico said.
Because the garrison was familiar with Tarico, they let him go without questioning him too much.
Jin Xiaoyu entered the town and inadvertently glanced at the bulletin board of the city gate. She saw a portrait of her own with the word “wanted” written on it.
However, it was put up a long time ago. And her portrait had already been almost covered by other criminal suspects’ recently. Revealing only half of her face and the word “gold” below.
She was now dressed as a woman in Tianshan tribe with a veil, so the guards couldn’t recognize her naturally.
At the post house, she went to wash herself and then slept.
Tarico and the others were going to unload the stock. Since Jin Xiaoyu was a woman and they didn’t dare to call her out to help, they let her go to bed.
……
Jin Xiaoyu slept until evening. She was a little dazed after woke up.
It had been a long time since she opened her eyes and saw the simple roof of yurt. She only saw tent and sand the first ten days or so.
It had been a long time since she’d seen this kind of house with beams.
She almost thought she was still in Longmen Inn.
As she heard the noise outside later, she slowly realized that she was in Beihui city, the most prosperous place except the capital.
She opened the window. Although it was already late, the streets outside were still bustling with people. Even livelier than the day, with snacks and stall peddlers everywhere.
She dressed up as a woman from Zhongyuan, tied her hair again, and then went out with the silver.
She first walked around the street and bought a lot of things, including hairpin, comb, Rouge powder, etc. Then she felt very hungry.
Tarico had reminded her that they would eat separately because some liked to go out for snacks and a few liked to wander the flower streets, so Jin Xiaoyu naturally couldn’t hang out with them.
Jin Xiaoyu went to a bistro, ordered two appetizers, a pot of wine, then drank alone.
……
Tarico was currently wandering on the street.
The brothers went to brothels, but he went there once and felt bored, so he went out to eat alone.
Coincidentally, he entered the pub where Jin Xiaoyu was drinking.
Jin Xiaoyu was drinking when she saw Tarico, then greeted him. Tarico’s eyes lit up and he didn’t expect her to be here too.
Tarico walked towards her and Jin Xiaoyu pointed to the stool beside her, motioned for him to sit down.
“Would you like to have a drink together?” Jin Xiaoyu asked.
“Sure,” Tarico said unceremoniously. He picked up the gla.s.s on the table and poured himself. Then he called the waiter to stir-fry two appetizers.
He was a man, always embarra.s.sed to eat girl’s food for free.
“Why are you alone?” Jin Xiaoyu asked.
Tarico smiled, “They all went to brothels for fun.”
“Then why don’t you go?” Jin Xiaoyu raised her eyebrows.
“It’s boring.”
“Is it no interesting to have fun in brothels, or you have been to brothels too many times that you feel bored?” Jin Xiaoyu added, “If you get bored with a certain brothel, just change to another one. You can always find someone you like around a bevy of young girls.”