C3 Since ancient times, many calamities have been fatal

After the injuries on his body had been completely healed, Xu Heng would go and watch Luo Yi work — Actually he had nothing to do, and the things he wanted to do had not progressed in the slightest. Instead, he would think that rather than lying in bed wasting his time, it would be better to come out and experience the local customs and customs of the people at the border.

But he never would have thought that he would meet Luo Yi.

She used charcoal to paint her face, her hair was uncombed, and her clothes were dirty. She was squatting in a corner with a broken bowl in her hands, her black grape-like eyes darting around the crowd.

Xu Heng sat at the window on the second floor and looked down. His gaze just happened to fall on her corner.

At that time, he had already been kicked out of Lin Ting's home for more than half a month.

He still remembered that day when Luo Yi tilted her head and tried to reason with him, acting as if she was in a difficult situation, "First, let's not talk about the differences between males and females, but look at how poor I am. I have no reason nor money to raise a living person like you, am I?"

Xu Heng nodded his head, feeling that what she said made sense. He turned around and paid the deposit for half a year at the biggest restaurant in town.

Luo Yi: "..."

Why didn't you say so earlier if you had the money!

Luo Yi said with a sullen face, unwilling to part with her money as she watched Xu Heng get further and further away from him. But her heart was big, and the thing she would never do in his entire life was to make life difficult for himself, so he just left. Xu Heng left and left, but in her heart, she felt that it was a pity that all the silver was gone after half a day, and he had indeed never thought that he would meet Xu Heng again.

However, this idea was somewhat unrealistic. After all, this town was just a little big, although it could not be considered as seeing one's head and doing nothing, it was not too far off. As a result, Xu Heng's right hand supported his cheeks on the table, and once his gaze landed on Luo Yi's body, he did not move his eyes away.

He watched on like this for several days, and gradually, he was able to make sense of the situation.

"So he's a thief with a beggar's skin …" He muttered to himself.

However, with his many years of education, he could not rashly comment on other people's methods of survival, so he did not look down on Luo Yi. Furthermore, in these few days, Luo Yi was not like an ordinary thief.

Xu Heng changed his posture and looked at Luo Yi.

The one that was touched was a fat headed big eared merchant, Luo Yi hated him very much.

This merchant's name was Liu Dingxi, and he was a lustful person. He had flirted with many good women before, and he was very annoying. The year before last, he had taken a fancy to a fifteen-sixteen year old girl. He couldn't force her to marry him, and she actually forced his entire family to die in the wilderness. However, because he had an uncle who was an official in a neighbouring town, the matter was put down just like that.

Luo Yi resisted the urge to vomit and pounced on the man as she passed by, her claws leaving two clear fingerprints on the man's robes.

Liu Dingxi had an important guest to see today, and after hearing that the guest had a daughter who was as beautiful as a flower, he changed into a set of pure white clothes and made himself look like an elegant young master.

He took a deep breath and used his strength to kick Luo Yi in the stomach. At the same time, he cursed: "Scram, where did this dirt come from!"

Luo Yi had been kicked by him, and probably because her ribs were injured, the pain slowly spread from his stomach down to her entire body. Her hands no longer had the strength to grab him, so she held his stomach and laughed apologetically as she retreated to a corner.

However, Liu Dingxi was a merchant, and just as she took two steps forward, she was about to touch her own purse. She felt empty for a moment, but then she suddenly thought of the beggar that suddenly jumped onto her, causing her to immediately blush and turn around, cursing as she turned back.

But by that time, Luo Yi had already disappeared.

She was wrapped around by Xu Heng's waist, and when Xu Heng touched the wall, he easily flipped the wall with her.

She opened her mouth to shout, but before she could finish, Xu Heng forced her to turn her head and look at Liu Dingxi, who had returned with an overbearing aura.

What a joke. This sort of situation was naturally more important than keeping his life.

She was stunned in Xu Heng's embrace, and did not notice that the other person's arms were grabbing onto her injured ribs, so she only secretly reached out a hand to cover her stomach while cursing in her heart: "What the f * ck … "How ruthless …"

For this reason, Lin Ting didn't know how many times he had said it, but she couldn't change it. He didn't think that after Lin Ting left, there would still be someone who would scold her for this.

Xu Heng lifted his hand and lightly pressed down on her injured body. When the latter was in so much pain that her tears were flying, and he was about to curse at him, his expression was indifferent as he glanced at her.

Luo Yi clenched her teeth and swallowed her foul language.

In actuality, there wasn't much emotion in that glance, but it carried a sense of majesty instead. Luo Yi was unconsciously frightened, she curled her lips and no longer looked at her, her expression was too intolerable, and also caused Xu Heng to smile when he looked at her.

As usual, Luo Yi did not notice, but after the pain subsided, she started to lose focus.

She and Xu Heng could be considered to be old acquaintances, so in this kind of situation, she would always feel that it was hypocritical to say thanks. She wouldn't say it, they were indeed not that familiar with each other yet …

Luo Yi's mind raced. Just as sshe thought of a compromise way to greet them, he was interrupted by Xu Heng: "You're planning on using this way to raise the travelling fees?"

"Huh?" Luo Yi was stupefied for a moment, as if she did not understand what he was asking.

Xu Heng also didn't mind. After putting Luo Yi down, he turned around to look at the remaining ointment. "Didn't you want to go look for him?"

Her intentions were obvious, but she was naive enough to think that no one could see them.

Since he had been exposed, Luo Yi was also no longer conflicted: "Besides this, I don't have any other methods to raise travel fees."

Indeed, she had planned to look for Lin Ting since a long time ago, but she didn't have any money on her and she didn't have any proper work to do.

Luo Yi raised her eyebrows, and felt that it was time for Xu Heng to ask her why she wasn't looking for a proper job to do. Thus, just as she was making up an excuse in her mind, she saw the other party raise his eyebrows at her, "Li City isn't like you, a small place. If you leave so rashly, you probably won't be able to find anyone even after spending the majority of half a year."

"But …" He meaningfully glanced at Luo Yi: "I can help you."

These words were said too unexpectedly, Luo Yi opened her mouth wide.

She knew that Xu Heng came from the Li City, and from the extent of his wealth, she guessed that he was a rich family. Therefore, if he were to help her, finding him would be twice the result for half the effort. Because of that, she closed her chin and stared unblinkingly at Xu Heng for a long time. Then, with a slight smile on her lips, she said, "Thank you, there's no need."

You rich people … Gadflies, she thought. Who knows what harsh conditions you will put forward for this? I don't want to risk my life.

Zhang He was as adorable as a rabbit eating a radish.

Xu Heng looked at him with curved eyebrows, and asked without thinking: "Do you like eating carrots?"

"Huh?"

Luo Yi suspected that something was wrong with his ears, and his eyes moved back and forth, seeing that Xu Heng did not have the slightest bit of awkwardness, she touched her nose and said: "It's not bad, I'm not picky with food."

She was not the only one who was not picky with food. A child of a poor family. She had been so hungry before that she had even eaten tree bark before.

Oh.

Xu Heng nodded his head to indicate that he knew and did not continue with the topic. Instead, he replied, "Since you like it, then eat some radish tonight."

As a result, during dinner, Luo Yi stared at the radishes, cabbages, and various types of vegetables on the table and remained silent for a long time.

She picked two mouthfuls of vegetables and put them in her mouth. After a while, she suddenly put down her chopsticks and said with a stern expression, "Actually, other than radishes, I also like to eat meat …"

"Big fish and big meat in particular." she added.

Xu Heng immediately laughed.

He used to smile lightly with a slight curve on his lips, but now he seemed really happy. With his arms leaning on the table, he shook with laughter, which attracted the attention of many customers.

Luo Yi felt ashamed, lowering her head and burying her face in the dish.

The two of them were currently at the restaurant that Xu Heng was staying at temporarily. For some unknown reason, Xu Heng had never mentioned letting Luo Yi go back, nor did he mention it. Luo Yi was also enjoying the peace and quiet, even thinking that she could save a meal here.

This was probably the amount of money the legendary fools had!

Thinking that, looking at Xu Heng was like looking at a moving purse. Only when his gaze caught Xu Heng's attention too openly did he lower his head and bury his face in the bowl in front of his again.

Xu Heng looked at her, but did not linger any further.

In the morning, he received a letter from his father, saying that the new emperor on the side of the Li City had already started to replace the old officials who were still supporting the emperor in the imperial court. He reckoned that they would reach out to their Zuo Xiang Fu very soon, and even if the new emperor returned, it would be very difficult for them to fight him.

Xu Heng set the letter in his hand on the fire and extinguished it.

He had to speed up.

However, just as he made his decision, Luo Yi caused trouble for him again.

He placed the teacup in front of the table and asked with a faint smile on his face, "What can I do for you?"

Seeing that he was quite gentle, the burly man opposite him slammed the teacup on the table and asked: "What can I do for you?" Your boy broke our young master's face! "What other important matter do you have for me?"

Xu Heng turned around and glanced at Luo Yi.

Luo Yi hummed a small tune as she turned her gaze to the side.

Honestly speaking, under normal circumstances, Luo Yi was not willing to cause trouble, furthermore, with Lin Ting not here anymore, no one would be willing to help her clean up the mess he was in. However, the matter today, could not be blamed on her.

Yi Qiannan and her were old acquaintances, even though they were not good memories.

Luo Yi had once been a bartender in a tavern — yes, she used to have a proper job.

Her mouth was good at talking, and her hands and feet were nimble. She had been doing well in the tavern, but there were always a few dishonest people coming and going in and out of it. When they saw her handsome appearance, they always thought of teasing her.

However, the people coming and going in the tavern the most were still men. No one could stop her from making a move on a man of the same sex, so Luo Yi could only bear it, but there were all kinds of birds in the forest. After a while, she finally met a different person.

When Yi Qiannan placed his hand on the back of Luo Yi's hand for the third time, who was pouring wine, Luo Yi finally couldn't hold back and said with a fake smile, "Young Master Yi, we're all men, isn't this a little inappropriate with you?"

"What's wrong with it?" Yi Qiannan held onto Luo Yi's hand tightly, not letting her pull away, he even used his fingertips to rub the back of her hand gently and said: "We're all men, what's so good about this little bit of physical contact?"

The disgusting Luo Yi could not help but shiver.

Yi Qiannan, like Liu Dingxi, was a tyrant of Fringe City. The difference was that Yi Qiannan had a good set of skin and skin, and was the dream lover of most of the girls in Border Town. However, he was used to debauchery, and when he didn't open his mouth, he could still carry a young master that was like jade.

Luo Yi used a lot of strength but still could not free her hand, so she could only continue to smile: "I will not judge anyone about personal interests, but you can't force everyone to be the same as you, right?"

Yi Qiannan found this funny. His peach blossom eyes curved as he asked, "What kind of hobbies?"

Don't you know what your hobbies are?

Luo Yi rolled her eyes in her heart.

Even though she didn't have any prejudice towards this kind of preference from Young Master Yi in her heart, after all, it's a human's freedom to like. But honestly speaking, it's not right to steal from someone in your Broken Sleeve Dimension, right?

In short, Yi Qiannan kept pestering her, running to her tavern every few times. The entire town knew that the Yi family's young master had his eyes on a bartender, and this bartender was indeed a man.

The gossip intensified as more and more people began to gossip behind their backs. This naturally alerted Yi Qiannan's father.

The entire town's economic lifeline was in his hands, so with a slight movement of his finger, the tavern that Luo Yi went to changed owners, she was dismissed along with him.

Later on, she went to a few other shops to work, and all of them ended up with the same result.

So... It wasn't that she wanted to do this, but in this town, no one dared to take her.

She was about to die from grievance, and didn't dare to speak the truth with Lin Ting. Every time she went to find him, she would change her clothes and take a bath beforehand.

Lin Ting didn't go out often in the past, and upon hearing Luo Yi's words, he did not doubt her at all. He only repeatedly reminded her that she must be careful when she's outside, and not be bullied by others.

Luo Yi forced herself to nod her head and smile, swallowing the grievances in her heart.

She could bear it.

She told Xu Heng the whole story in a low voice, passing by the hardships she had endured when she was troubled by Old Master Yi, and the sadness she felt when someone pointed at her back and said "slander" on the way. However, when she mentioned Lin Ting, her tone slightly changed. But he quickly adjusted himself, and when he saw Xu Heng's line of sight, he stuck out his chest.

"Who asked me to have such a disastrous appearance!"