Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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What about being off the beaten track?! Wei Dedao lied to him!
Wei Xi slowly turned back under these scorching sights and looked at the endless mountains and rivers behind him. The road he came from was hidden in the vast forest, and it had long become difficult to trace. On the side not far away, a majestic building like he had never been seen before rose up from the ground, catching everyone’s attention.
The thick rope extended from the bottom of the endless mountain, straight into the mountain peak with the sea of clouds and connected to the end of the building. On the rope, a series of terrifying cages filled with people were sliding rapidly towards the peak in the opposite direction. Through the transparent gaps in the cages, one could still see the dense crowds crowded in them.
Wei Xi didn’t dare to act rashly for a while.
Someone suddenly approached from the side, and he subconsciously avoided it, only to realize that the woman who had come forward was the woman who was selling cakes.
Everywhere you looked, you could see that the arms and legs of those people were all white, and almost everyone looked disheveled.
Wei Xi’s eyes quickly stopped when they touched the woman’s chest, no longer looking down, but staring into her eyes warily.
“You kid.” The woman wasn’t angry after being shunned. She just asked in a funny way, “Isn’t it hot for you to wear so many clothes in the middle of the day? You are still standing in the sun, be careful of heatstroke. Come into our shed and hide for a while.”
As she spoke, she reached out and curiously lifted Wei Xi’s tattered robe. Sensing that she seemed to have no ill intentions, Wei Xi resisted the thought of opening her up and was pulled into the shady snack shed.
The woman poured him a glass of water and asked, “Would you like some cake?”
Wei Xi’s muscles were still tense, and his eyes swept over the finished cakes displayed on the stall. The steaming steam of glutinous rice filled the corner with its fragrance. He hadn’t been able to hunt decent food in the past few days, and he was indeed very hungry.
He still remembered the other party’s hawking just now. You have to pay for the food outside. After thinking about it, he said in a dry voice: “Ten yuan?”
“Yes, ten yuan a bowl.”
Wei Xi got an answer, but it was as if he didn’t get one. What did ten yuan mean?
He didn’t want to appear too unusual, so after a brief thought, he hesitantly took out a piece of silver from his pocket.
The woman selling cakes: “????”
“I took it by mistake.” It seemed that it was not ten taels of silver. Wei Xi quickly took back the silver ingot without changing his expression and replaced it with some game currency.
Other side:”………………?????”
First a piece of iron, then game currency. The woman glanced at Wei Xi’s patchwork robe and saw that this young man probably had no money and was probably a college student traveling on a budget. She had a headache, but when she saw the other person’s handsome face that seemed to be at a loss, she couldn’t get angry, so without any choice, she waved her hands: “Forget it, no more money, just take it and eat it.”
It was rare to see such a good-looking little boy, and he was about the same age as her own son, so it was okay to treat him to something to eat.
Wei Xi realized that he had made a mistake again the moment he saw the expression of the other party when she saw the game currency. He immediately became alert, but he did not expect that the other party would eventually give him something for free.
He pursed his lips, scrutinizing the other party’s movements, and still couldn’t believe it. But the woman just brought him something and said some incomprehensible words. Like he couldn’t go out for fun without any plan, and he couldn’t go on a trip being so poor that he would suffer.
Wei Xi finally lowered his eyes and silently took the paper bag handed to him. After examining the soft cakes in the bag for a while, he suddenly asked: “Aren’t you going back?”
The woman suddenly smiled and looked at him like an ignorant child: “You can’t go back so early when doing business. We usually close the stall at six or seven o’clock. It’s very hard for adults to make money. You will understand later.”
Wei Xi didn’t say anything. He stared at her for a moment and took out something.
The landlady initially thought it was money and was going to refuse, but when she took a closer look, she found it was a dusty talisman paper, and she accepted it dumbfounded. She set up a stall in front of the popular mountain temple. She had seen too many pretentious things, so she didn’t pay much attention to it. She just put it in her pocket and said, “Okay, okay, auntie agreed to treat you to food, so you don’t have to give me this or that, just sit here and rest, remember to pour your own water if you are thirsty.”
Someone happened to come to inquire about the price of the cakes. After saying this, she no longer cared about Wei Xi and hurried forward to greet the customers. When she finished selling the items, she turned around and found that the young man in the shed had disappeared.
The landlady was stunned and asked her husband and son. The father and son were busy working, and they didn’t notice when the boy left. She could only shake her head with a smile and forget about this little matter.
But soon she didn’t have time to think too much, because two tourists suddenly got into a fight on the Eagle Beak Cliff in front of them. It seemed that it was caused by greeting each other’s parents[1] when they were competing for a photo spot.
Fighting on the top of the mountain was no joke, especially since there was no guardrail on Eagle Beak Peak. If you accidentally fall, you would be shattered to pieces. The enthusiastic tourists around them all stepped forward to break up the fight, but they couldn’t hold back the two young men who had turned red-eyed. As soon as the proprietress saw the red eyes, she suddenly became anxious, wiped her hands and hurriedly went up to try to persuade them.
“F**k you! Why don’t you curse again?!”
“You squeezed me first, why the hell do you still talk reason?!”
“It’s not easy to go out for fun. The mountain gods and bodhisattvas in the temple are watching. Everyone should take a step back. Why are you causing such a fuss?”
“Stop it! It’s almost over!”
The wife of the boss also grabbed the sleeve of one of them: “Young man, it’s too dangerous here. If you want to fight, you can’t fight in the mountains! How worried will your family be if they find out?”
So many people came to break up the fight. And the two parties in the dispute had already calmed down a bit, but the one in white clothes said something angrily. So, the other one in green clothes suddenly became angry again and punched the other person in the face.
Not to be outdone, the man in white kicked his legs in response. The movement was so large that the crowd trying to stop the fight seemed to be in the way. The two of them impatiently waved away the hands that were pulling them: “You don’t have to worry about it!”
In the chaos, the landlady was suddenly squeezed out of the way by someone, and immediately stumbled a few steps, her feet suddenly coming up empty.
A wave of panicked screams erupted from the crowd. She looked back in confusion and could only see her husband and son running towards the stall with expressionless expressions——
“Juanzi!!!!!!”
“Mom!!!!!!!”
“Ahhhhhh!!! Someone fell down!!!”
The feeling of weightlessness was dizzying. The blue sky that could only be seen when looking up appeared in front of her. The mountain wind whistled past her ears like a trumpet in memory of death.
The boss lady finally understood that this song was sung to her, and she closed her eyes in despair and helplessness.
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[1] Cursing each other.