On the road to escape famine, others ate vegetables but I ate meat

Chapter 78: Strange Town, Here Comes the Money Delivery Again
Not only teenage girls didn't see it, even some women rarely saw it.

Also, the way the innkeeper looked at them seemed a little strange.

"I'm afraid this town has some secrets."

Lan Yue looked at Doctor Ma and said, "Doctor Ma, while you are feeding the horses, find an excuse to chat with the servants and see if you can learn something from them."

Doctor Ma nodded and said, "Leave this task to me. My horse hasn't been fed yet. I'll go down to feed the horse and ask around at the same time."

After Doctor Ma left, Lan Yue asked Liu to take Gu Xue and the others to rest in the room and not to leave the inn unless necessary.

Gu Yan and Lan Yue went downstairs together and decided to stroll around the town.

The innkeeper looked at them with complicated expressions when he saw Lan Yue and Gu Yan leaving the inn.

There are still people selling things in the town, but most of them are elderly people.

"Gu Yan, go to the jewelry stall over there and take a look." Lan Yue walked forward for a while, stopped at a stall of an old lady, and picked up a wooden hairpin. "Auntie, how much is this hairpin?"

The old lady had been dozing off, and the cold voice startled her awake.

She waved the fan in her hand, rubbed her eyes, glanced at the hairpin, and said casually, "Three cents."

"for you."

A white and tender palm appeared in front of her eyes, and the old lady immediately opened her eyes wide and looked up.

hiss!
Where did this fairy come from!
You are so beautiful, do you still want to let people live?
Her skin is fair and tender, and her eyes are bright and shining as if they can speak, which makes people feel good about her.

"aunt?"

Lan Yue waved her hands. What was this for?
"Ah, haha, this girl is not a local, right?" The old lady took the copper coin and looked at Lan Yue and the man beside her happily.

Yo ho!

This young man is also very handsome, but he looks a little weak.

"Well, I just arrived in town today."

"Girl, you should go out less during the day, and not at night either. Our town is not peaceful." The old lady kindly reminded, "Do you think there are not enough girls in the town?"

Lan Yue nodded.

"Our town wasn't like this before..." The old lady looked far away and sighed, "Forget it, just buy your things and go. Stay out less and leave early tomorrow."

Lan Yue and Gu Yan looked at each other.

"Auntie, can you tell us about it?" Gu Yan asked, "Maybe we can solve it."

The old lady sneered and looked Gu Yan up and down. "I'm not saying anything bad about you two. Look at yourselves. One of you is pretty, and the other looks okay. You two look like spoiled brats. Can you beat the bandits? Can you beat the mountain king?"

"In a small town like ours, which is small and far from the county town, there are many outsiders who want to take advantage of us." The old lady became sad as she spoke, "Even if you have the ability to solve it this time, you can't control it forever. Many girls..."

When Lan Yue heard this, she roughly knew what was going on.

If something happens to her, she will definitely solve it, especially if it involves girls!
"Auntie, do you know where their lair is?" As soon as Lan Yue said this, Auntie and Gu Yan looked at her instantly.

Lan Yue's eyes were clear and firm, giving people a feeling of strength.

"You..." Tears welled up in the old lady's eyes. She couldn't bear it and advised: "Girl, don't do anything stupid. Don't interfere in the affairs of our town."

Lan Yue knew that no matter how much she said, she couldn't persuade the old lady, so she had to take the hairpin and leave.

In a small town, there must be a village chief or a town mayor. She could just go find the mayor, wouldn't that be enough? For the safety of the people in the town, she didn't believe that he wouldn't tell her.

"Where are we going?" Gu Yan looked at Lan Yue. "People on the street seem to be very wary of us."

Lan Yue walked forward without answering. After walking for a while, they saw an open pharmacy.

Lan Yue walked in.

"anyone there?"

Lan Yue shouted, the tables and chairs inside were very clean.

"Yes, yes, yes. Who is sick?"

An old man in his sixties with a white beard ran in from the back door.

He wiped his hands while running, "Who needs medical treatment?"

"Doctor." Lan Yue said indifferently.

The doctor looked up and saw what a beautiful girl!

"You are not a local? Did you just come here today?" The doctor narrowed his eyes with scrutiny.

Lan Yue hummed, "Does your town have a mayor?"

"Mayor? There were some a few years ago, but they are gone in the last one or two years." The doctor asked indifferently, "Do you want to see a doctor or buy medicine?"

"I want to ask you something." Lan Yue played with the hairpin in her hand. "Something happened in your town? Why are there so few girls on the street? Young and beautiful girls can't go out?"

The doctor looked at Lan Yue deeply and asked, "Why are you, a girl, asking about these things?"

"Nothing, maybe I just like to help others?" Lan Yue smiled and asked directly, "When will they come? How many people are there? Where is their lair?"

The doctor was shocked. Could it be that he had made a mistake? Was this girl not just a pretty face? She was a person with real abilities?
"Do you really want to know?" The doctor was helpless, and with a gamble in mind, he stared straight at Lan Yue, "Girl, you have to think about it. This kind of thing is not easy to solve once it is involved, especially for a beautiful girl like you."

Lan Yue was speechless, "Don't say irrelevant things."

Finally, the doctor told what he knew.

"In the past, girls in our town could go out at any time of day or night... Just last year, a group of gangsters passing by here took a fancy to a girl here, and took her by force regardless of her wishes.

In order to satisfy their desires, they became the kings of the mountain. As long as the girl was an adult, they would calculate the time and go down the mountain to kidnap her..."

When the doctor said this, he became angry, fierce, regretful and helpless.

In a remote place like theirs, there would be no officials patrolling and no one to provide protection.

They also thought about moving, but the mayor did not agree. Until something happened and the mayor ran away, they became ordinary people with no one to take care of them.

"Why didn't you move later?" Gu Yan asked curiously.

"We wanted to, too, but something unexpected happened the day before we were supposed to move."

Gu Yan knew what changes he was talking about, and could only say...it was fate.

Gu Yan added, "You wanted to rescue those girls, so you didn't move?"

The doctor nodded and sighed. It was a pity that they were unable to fight those people. When they wanted to move, it was already too late.

They were watched closely by those people. If they ran away, their relatives in their hands would be bullied badly. In order to prevent their children from getting hurt, they had no choice but to accept their fate and compromise.

"If you run at the beginning, maybe you won't lose too much."

Hearing Gu Yan's words, the doctor shed tears. For some things, they will regret it only after they happen, but it is too late to regret.

(End of this chapter)