Step Down, Let Me Come!

Chapter 28: Young Lady

Abnormal!

Too abnormal!

Shen Tang couldn’t help but glance around while rubbing her eyes.

After she confirmed that she wasn’t in dreamland, she asked Qi Shan: “Yuanliang… we didn’t go in the wrong direction, right? We didn’t carelessly step into strange fairyland, or cross over through some doors… this, this is wrong…” 

She couldn’t help but turn her head to look in the direction they just came from.

She couldn’t see the end of the line that was slowly going forward.

Most of these people’s cloths were shabby, what’s more they looked apathetic. On the contrary, the residents of the city had rosy faces and their clothes looked proper and neat. 

The strange discrepancy was like a visual attack that made her doubt the ways of the world.

Qi Shan was expressionless: “Where is it wrong?”

Shen Tang pointed in the direction of the gate.

“Look outside, then inside. Is it good?”

After getting used to the wilderness and destroyed surroundings, she couldn't believe that Xiao City, which was growing and lively, truly existed under the same sky. However, the reality was that – the two were separated barely by the city wall and one moat.

Qi Shan closed his eyes, when he heard her. Unknowingly, the sneer formed on the corner of his lips, showing his old-fashioned attitude: “Young master Shen, you still need to see more to not be so surprised later on”.

Shen Tang wasn’t satisfied: “Are you saying I’m making a fuss about nothing?”

Are you not going to give her face?

“That’s what I mean”. 

Correct, you’re not giving any face!

Shen Tang: “…”

She truly wanted to perform a craniectomy on this guy.

Passing by a restaurant, Qi Shan pointed to the place close to a door of the wine shop, then he told her: “Young master Shen, wait for me first. I’m going to ask about something. I will be back after around 2 hours. You have to be here, don’t run around”. 

“Ask around? Are you looking for the whereabouts of your creditor?” Seeing that Qi Shan didn’t answer directly, Shen Tang waved her hand indifferently, “If you have to go, then go. The sooner you leave, the sooner you can come back. We still have to find a place to stay. I don’t want to sleep on the streets or under the bridge”. 

Qi Shan “…”

His originally raging feelings disappeared, because of Shen Tang’s words. Suddenly, he felt like a deflated ball, without any feelings. His emotions didn’t have any place to go, so they mixed into a ball in his chest and finally changed into one long sigh.

Helplessly, he repeated: “Okay, don’t run around”. 

Shen Tang listened to his words and stayed near the entrance. She followed Qi Shan’s back with her eyes, until he completely disappeared on the end of the street. After that, her eyes suddenly shone – although she was here for about 1 month, she spent her days on traveling with Qi Shan, so she didn’t have any time for herself at all.

Naturally, she also didn’t get to properly experience this world.

She waited in one place for a while, then turned around to rent a small folding stool from the wine shop owner. Motor obediently laid down and accompanied her.

“This small lady, what’s your name?”

About a quarter of an hour later, a male voice came from above her head, he seemed to be feigning seriousness. Shen Tang raised her head to see a middle-aged man with wealthy appearance and rough features, looking straight at her.

She raised her hand to point at herself. She asked: “I?”

At this time, only one of the Japanese-style emoticons could express her mood.

Oh my god.

She was here for about 1 month, and it was the first time someone got her sex right!

In the past, there was no one that wasn’t misled by Qi Shan.

Truly evil, Qi Yuanliang!

The middle-aged man approached her with a smile: “Really, really”. 

Shen Tang was charming and pretty. It was possible to see that she would grow up to be a beauty, even though she was in her early teens. She only required one or two years to be able to be sold for profit. He skin was white and clear, manners neat, only her clothes looked cheap. He estimated she wasn’t from a rich family.

She kept glancing around like a curious bumpkin. A single glance was enough to tell that she was a tender, inexperienced kid.

Easy to swindle. 

He noticed when Qi Shan and Shen Tang appeared.

At first, he didn’t have those kinds of thoughts, after all, Shen Tang was with Qi Shan. — It was necessary to know that in this world there were a few kinds of people he couldn’t provoke, one of them was a scholar, an elegant man wearing a hat and hairpin. Who knew if this kind of person had wenxin or not? It wouldn’t be good if he carelessly suffered losses – Who let Qi Shan leave Shen Tang alone?

It could be heard from their accents that they weren’t from here.

If such a fat sheep wasn’t slaughtered, when could he open his business?

He just needed to take her with him, then Qi Shan would be powerless. 

At this moment, Shen Tang obediently sat on the small stool. She appeared innocent and even smiled kindly at the man: “What’s the matter?” 

The man smiled: “It’s like that. The man, you were with just now, told me to lead you to the inn”. 

Shen Tang asked: “Yuanliang, told you to call for me?” 

“Yes. I’m helping in the Youth inn. Your companion is wearing a white scholarly garment, right? He’s tall, meager. He said you’re waiting near the wine shop entrance”.  The man was gesticulating, while answering her.

Shen Tang looked innocent and simple.

When the man described him, she nodded. 

“Yes, yes, yes. This is precisely Yuanliang… but, didn’t he say he had something to do and told me to stay here…”

The man interrupted her: “This, apparently he met the enemy and can’t meet you for a moment”. 

Seeing that he “appeared to be saying the truth”, Shen Tang was uncertain.

The man asked again: “Young lady, are you worried that I may be a fraud? In this case, it’s better if I wait with you here for that young master. You are a small young lady, so it’s not safe for you to wait here”. 

Shen Tang promptly shook her head.

“No, no, no. It’s not like that”. 

She fell silent, while considering his words. She asked the man again.

“If you wait here, won't you delay your inn chores?” 

The man generously waved his hand, straightforwardly smiling. 

“It’s not a problem. Delay, then delay. I can’t let the lady wait on the streets, where it is not safe”. 

When he said that, her expression wavered a little.

This scene also fell in the eyes of pedestrians. 

The owner of the wine shop raised his eyes and glanced at the man, while snorting softly, but he didn’t expose him. The other shop owners were also familiar with this middle-aged man – a well-known gangster in this area, who often went to the villages near Xiao city to look for boys and small girls. Then, the child would be raised at home for two years, and if it didn't grow up badly, it would be sold at a high price. Some foreigners who didn't know the situation were also his targets.

At this moment, he clearly targeted this young lady.

The wine shop’s owner spat inwardly.

However, it was still none of his business. 

No one's business was easy these days.

Interrupting someone’s business was like killing their parents.

Offending this kind of hoodlum meant the end of the business in Xiao city for him. It was better to not get involved in this kind of affairs and pretend not to see them. 

At the same time, he sneered in his heart. He ridiculed Shen Tang for her naivety and stupidity.

This man was born with a pair of slender and narrow mouse eyes. When Shen Tang wasn't paying attention, he looked back and forth between her face and clothes. In addition to his frivolity, he was obviously not a decent person. Only the children of rich and noble families who were ignorant of the world would be fooled by him.

Unexpectedly, she even chatted with him, with a smile.

Little he imagined, there was a reason why Shen Tang behaved like that. 

Who made him the first person to call out her actual sex? 

Shen Tang was all smiles, and only because of that, she was willing to chat with the other party for a few more minutes.

Later - 

It would be fine if he changed his mind, but if he still wanted to play tricks –  

She would send him to heaven early.