Chapter 53

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Chapter 53 – The Royal Capital
After resting for half a day, Mu Xiaofeng and his group continued to head towards the king’s capital. After crossing the King’s Mountain Range, they were very close to the King’s Capital, they walked through a few ragged little villages and arrived at the entrance of the King’s Capital before sunset.
At this time, there were two people standing at the entrance of the royal capital, one was tall and thin while the other was short and fat. When these two people saw Mu Xiaofeng and his party coming, they walked forward to greet them. One of them, the short and fat one, complained, “According to reason, you guys should have arrived by noon, why did you dawdle for so long?”
It seemed that this person should be the messenger who greeted them, but Blood Spirit Zifeng hurriedly went up and told the short and fat messenger all that they had experienced on the road, that they were late because they had encountered bandits. However, after Qiao Zi saw the tall and thin person, she immediately shouted, “Uncle.” Then he rushed up and hugged the man.
Mu Xiaofeng took a close look at this person, this person had half silver hair and half black hair, but not half a beard, and his face looked very young, just in his twenties. However, Qiao Zi directly calling this person uncle was also something that everyone couldn’t believe, feeling that this person in front of them should be Qiao Zi’s brother almost.
Qiao Zi then introduced this uncle to everyone, this person was the patriarch of the Qiao family, named Qiao Tong. Although it looked like Qiao Tong was only in his twenties, his real age was already over fifty, it was just that his face was as childlike as his name.
Qiao Zi was a branch of the Qiao Family and resided in Luo Hai City, but Qiao Zi traveled with his parents every year to visit the people of the Qiao Family’s Zong Clan near the royal capital, which of course meant that every year, Qiao Zi had to pay his respects to Qiao Tong.
Qiao Tong of course adored this lovely niece, he lovingly stroked Qiao Zi’s head, then greeted everyone and said, “All of you have traveled a long way, hurry and enter the city for a rest, the king has already prepared the best inn and wine and food within the king’s capital for all of you.”
Qiao Tong than that short and fat messenger is much more amiable, he should and that short and fat messenger together are the king sent to meet Mu Xiaofeng people messenger, so Mu Xiaofeng and his entourage followed the two messengers into the king’s capital.
Inside the royal capital, the buildings are very luxurious, each building is very elegantly decorated, it seems that the people inside the royal capital have status, not the common people can live inside the royal capital, the general public can only live in the dilapidated villages outside the royal capital.
Mu Xiaofeng and his group of children were new to the capital, everyone was looking around carefully, after all, it was very difficult to enter the capital, maybe this time would be their last time.
It wasn’t long before they arrived at a luxurious inn, at this time Qiao Tong stopped at the door, then turned to Mu Xiaofeng and the others, “I’ll be sending you here today, the next thing you’ll be doing is letting Lord Qian Roll arrange for your food and lodging, so I’ll take my leave first.”
This hadn’t even met for long, when Qiao Zi heard that Uncle Qiao Tong was leaving, she reluctantly tugged on Qiao Tong’s clothes and asked, “Uncle, how come you’re leaving us so soon? Can’t you stay and keep us company for a while longer?”
Qiao Zi pouted at Qiao Tong, hoping that Qiao Tong could stay and accompany her, after all, the two hadn’t seen each other for a long time as well, and Qiao Zi certainly still had a lot of things to talk about to this loving Qiao Tong. But Qiao Tong helplessly smiled a smile, shook his head to indicate that he could not stay.
At this time, Qian Rolling who had been watching from the side for a long time spoke, “Little girl, don’t think about it, for a period of time after dark, people without the qualification to reside in the royal capital are not allowed to stay, how can your Qiao family, a family that has fallen, stay in the royal capital at night?”
This Money Rolling said this, but it made Qiao Tong’s face unable to hang on, Qiao Tong’s face twitched for a bit, but still forced a smile and said goodbye to the crowd.
Although the Qiao family was a large family, they could only live in the neighborhood of the royal capital and had no qualifications to live within the royal capital. However, this Qian Roller in front of him reminded Mu Xiaofeng of the bullies in the story of Li Sheng, so Mu Xiaofeng directly asked Qian Roller, “Uncle Qian Roller, may I ask if you know a person called Li Sheng?”
When Qian Rolling heard the name Li Sheng, his face changed in shock, and then he immediately replied to Mu Xiaofeng in an unfavorable manner, “Hmph! That hairy thief Li Sheng used to be classmates with me, but after being defeated by me in school, he didn’t have the face to stay in school, so he went out to fall into the grass and become a bandit.”
Mu Xiaofeng couldn’t help but laugh when he heard Qian Rolling say this, this Qian Rolling was obviously beaten the hell out of by Li Sheng, yet he is bragging about bragging and bragging, it’s really comical.
Mu Xiaofeng knew that bringing up Li Sheng would only be even more meaningless, so he also stopped talking about this topic and followed the others into the inn to settle down. However, Mu Xiaofeng and the others should be able to guess that Qian Rolling is one of the bullies who bullied Li Sheng back then.
After the group settled down they were ready to take an early rest, they were going to meet the king the next day and they were already exhausted from all the tossing and turning along the way. After having enough wine and food, Mu Xiaofeng returned to his room, of course he was in the same room as Zhang Wenyu.
Mu Xiaofeng laid down on the bed, then turned his head to look at Zhang Wenyu in the neighboring bed, at this time Zhang Wenyu was gazing at Mu Xiaofeng, Mu Xiaofeng had never seen such a puzzled look in Zhang Wenyu’s eyes before, so he asked, “Zhang Wenyu, what are you looking at?”
Zhang Wenyu stood up at this moment and walked over to Mu Xiaofeng, carefully gazing at this Mu Xiaofeng’s eyes before asking, “Mu Xiaofeng, just how strong are you? How were you able to suddenly defeat those bandit leaders with ease?”
Zhang Wenyu was obviously surprised by Mu Xiaofeng’s rampage earlier, he had never seen Mu Xiaofeng so strong, nor had he ever seen Mu Xiaofeng that cold.
When Mu Xiaofeng heard Zhang Wenyu say this, he immediately avoided meeting Zhang Wenyu’s eyes, then lowered his head and said, “Am I strong? I think there are times when you are also suddenly going to be strong oh.”
Mu Xiaofeng was obviously taking the matter that Zhang Wenyu would storm out to divert this topic, after all, Mu Xiaofeng did not want Zhang Wenyu to know about those few shadows.
And Zhang Wenyu was pondered by Mu Xiaofeng, indeed his own situation had not been clarified yet. At this time, Mu Xiaofeng asked Zhang Wenyu, “Zhang Wenyu, I’ve known you for so long, but I don’t know anything about your past! You’ve never told me about your past either.”
Zhang Wenyu was frozen by Mu Xiaofeng’s question at this time, indeed he had never mentioned what happened before he met Mu Xiaofeng, and he had never invited Mu Xiaofeng to visit his home.
Zhang Wenyu thought back at this time, then sighed and said, “I haven’t seen my father since I was a kid, my family relies on my mom to support them all by herself, so that should be it.”
At this time, the door to Mu Xiaofeng and Zhang Wenyu’s room was suddenly pushed open, and a person came outside the door, this person was Qin Baoyi, she helped Zhang Wenyu and added: “And the neighbor is Qin Baoyi, I knew her a long time ago.”
Hearing Qin Bao Yi say this, Mu Xiaofeng also came to a realization, he finally understood why Qin Bao Yi was always clinging to Zhang Wen Yu, the two of them should be considered childhood friends.
However, Mu Xiaofeng and Zhang Wenyu were surprised by Qin BaoYi’s sudden arrival, they didn’t know what Qin BaoYi came to see them both for.
Qin Bao Yi looked at the puzzled expressions that Mu Xiaofeng and the two of them were giving themselves, so she spoke up, “Qiao Zi and I got a little bored staying in our room, so we decided to sneak out and check out the night market in the King’s Capital, so we’ve come to find you guys to go with us.”
These two little girls, Qiao Zi and Qin Bao Yi, were still very eager for the night market of the kingdom, they also knew that they would have to go to meet the king early tomorrow morning, they were only afraid that they would have to go out of the city after meeting the king, and then they wouldn’t have the chance to stroll around the night market of the kingdom again.
Of course, Mu Xiaofeng and Zhang Wenyu couldn’t let the two of them go out like this. Although they were a bit tired, they decided to accompany them. So they went downstairs with Qin Bao Yi to find Qiao Zi to meet up, Qiao Zi had already sneaked downstairs, ready to go out.
When Qiao Zi saw that Mu Xiaofeng had arrived, she happily ran up to him, took Mu Xiaofeng’s hand, and greeted him affectionately, after which the four of them went out of the inn to check out the night market in Wangdu.
The night market of Wangdu has everything, all kinds of delicious food and fun is to make Mu Xiaofeng four people are excited, the four of them in the night market constantly looking for all kinds of fresh things. After strolling for a while, Mu Xiaofeng came to the front of a theater, and the four of them watched the performance intently in front of the theater.
It wasn’t long before a man in fancy dress suddenly walked towards Mu Xiaofeng and said to Qin Bao Yi, “Hello Miss, my young master would like to invite you to the restaurant across the street to enjoy the show, and in the meantime, treat you to the most delicious snacks in the king’s capital.”
Hearing this person say this, Qin Bao Yi jumped up with excitement, she wanted to try the most delicious snacks in the King’s Capital, so she agreed to this person.
However, at this time, Zhang Wenyu pulled Qin BaoYi back, and then said to this person, “It’s fine to go, but the few of us will have to go together, I’m afraid that you don’t have enough delicious food for us to eat.”
Hearing Zhang Wenyu say this, this man in fancy dress happily replied, “How can that be, our young master is the richest man in this royal capital, treating the four of you is simply a piece of cake, please come this way.”
Zhang Wenyu was stunned to learn that this young master was the richest person in the royal capital, then he went with the others to the tall building opposite the theater with confidence. It was Mu Xiaofeng and Qiao Zi who didn’t think that much, they also wanted to see what kind of person the richest man in the royal capital was.
A few people soon arrived at this building, the decoration of this building is really gorgeous, everywhere is decorated with gold and silver, it seems that it is not a place that ordinary people can afford to spend money.
Mu Xiaofeng a few people were led to a room, a few people pushed the door and entered, inside there was actually a teenager who was not much older than them.