When Pei Wende rejected Dr. Lu's suggestion of "staying in the hospital" and walked towards the city gate, it was almost dark and the number of pedestrians on the road began to gradually decrease.
To be honest, walking at night is very dangerous in this era, especially when someone like Pei Wende is walking alone at night.
Not to mention the wild beasts you may encounter along the way, criminals with evil intentions who cannot enter the city like to rob pedestrians who go out at night.
Fortunately, Pei Wende has been recuperating in Ningxiang for the past month and has a fixed residence.
"If I go fast enough, I should still be able to have a midnight snack."
After getting along with Pei Wende for a long time, Xiaoqing naturally knew what "late night snack" meant, so she could only roll her eyes helplessly.
Having just received two hundred coins from Dr. Lu, Pei Wende would definitely find a place to have a good meal.
In this era when ordinary people only eat two or at most three meals, Pei Wende, who must eat three meals a day and occasionally wakes up at night to eat extra, is an out-and-out anomaly.
"Almost there."
Not noticing Xiao Qing's disdain, Pei Wende glanced at the gradually setting sun and soon felt the entrance to the West City.
"Huh? Isn't it time to close the city gate yet?"
However, at this time, Pei Wende noticed something unusual here.
It was obviously evening, so theoretically there should be fewer people at the city gate, and there should be more people coming in than going out.
But here it was just the opposite. A large number of businessmen and travelers who had not had time to leave the city gathered at the gate of the city. They were noisy and obviously were trapped in the city and could not get out.
"What happened?"
Looking at the residents who were coming in from outside the city one after another, but with the same confused expressions, Pei Wende suddenly felt an ominous premonition in his heart.
Could something happen again?
Pei Wende thought that he had been very honest during this period. He didn't even go back to Qingsi to recuperate from his injuries. He just didn't want to get into any big trouble again before his injuries healed.
But judging from the current situation, Pei Wende feels that his days of leisurely recuperation may be gone forever.
After all, Pei Wende is still very confident in his intuition. That kind of extraordinary perception is not so much intuition, but more like an early warning of some kind of upcoming crisis from the dragon veins in this area.
"In the end what happened?"
Holding the doubts in his heart, Pei Wende walked to the bulletin board of the city gate in three steps and two steps at a time.
Then wherever Pei Wende looked, the first thing he saw was the people surrounding them and the bright new notice on the bulletin board.
A small official who looked like a government official was standing at the innermost side of the notice board, reading the contents of the notice to the surrounding onlookers.
Due to the distance, Pei Wende could not successfully squeeze into the crowd, so he could not see the original content of the notice.
However, relying on his superb hearing, Pei Wende was able to piece together a rough ins and outs from the official's reading and the discussion of the people around him.
Anyway, the general content of the notice was that signs of some ferocious beast were found outside the city. In order to ensure everyone's safety, it is not advisable to leave the city for the time being.
Tomorrow during the day, the government officials will organize a hunting team to hunt the beast outside the city. Please be patient and so on.
However, the above are only official statements from petty officials.
Judging from the discussions among the surrounding people, it seems that things are not as simple as the officials said.
Traces of unknown creatures were indeed found outside the city, but some people said that it was not a large beast, but a more terrifying evil spirit, and it was very likely that it had already sneaked into the city.
Even the government officials knew this, so they closed the city gate in advance to prevent the monster from escaping.
In addition, there were also rumors that some murderous bandits were plundering outside the city.
Although there are not many, it is slowly spreading among the crowd.
"Beast? Evil? Murderous robber?"
Pei Wende didn't know whether these statements were true or false, or whether someone was deliberately spreading rumors.
Judging from what he could observe, most of the onlookers seemed to only regard these remarks as conversation topics after dinner, and no one took them seriously.
In fact, except for the caravans and travelers who were anxious to leave the city, the crowd blocking the city gate were mostly just watching the excitement.
As for the truth of the matter?
These ordinary people don't care. As long as the situation does not endanger themselves, they will not worry too much.
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After a while, among the neighbors near the West City Gate.
"Mom, I'm back!"
After a lot of effort, he squeezed out from the crowd again. Pei Wende went straight to a small house in the neighboring neighborhood and knocked on the door gently.
"Wende, is Wende back?"
Pei Wende did not wait long. An old woman with a vicissitudes of life gently opened the door, and then spoke with a look of complaint and concern.
"You went up the mountain to collect medicine again? Didn't you say that your injury is not healed yet? You should rest peacefully during this period!"
"It's just to collect medicine. Why did you come back so late? Did you run around again?"
"I told you to stop meddling in other people's business. They just see that you are kind-hearted and that's why they leave all this messy stuff to you. You have to learn to say no!"
Pei Wende was speechless as he asked several questions in a row, and could only honestly raise his hands in surrender.
"Auntie, my injury is actually almost healed..."
"And I stayed at Divine Doctor Lu's place during the day and didn't run around."
After Xiaoqing took him down the mountain overnight, it was the old woman who had been getting up early to set up a stall who discovered Pei Wende, who was still seriously injured, and took him back to her home to take care of him.
Thanks to the old woman's careful care during this period, Pei Wende was able to recover so quickly.
Therefore, Pei Wende always kept the old woman's kindness in mind, and gave most of the money he got every time he went to the mountain to collect medicine to the old woman.
As for Pei Wende's "nosy" that the old woman said, in his opinion, it didn't mean he was nosy in everything.
People living in small places will more or less help their neighbors.
On the contrary, the old woman who has been teaching Pei Wende to "reinforce" is more or less out of tune with the surrounding neighbors.
Of course, this may also be related to her experiences in the first half of her life.
After all, when her husband died young and her son died in infancy, the fact that the lonely old woman was willing to take in the unidentified Pei Wende was an "adventure" in itself.
In a sense, the old woman seemed to regard Pei Wende as a substitute for her son who died young.
"Auntie, this is the money I paid for collecting herbs from the mountains. You can keep them first."
Thinking of this, Pei Wende quickly handed over the two hundred copper coins he had on him to prevent the old woman from nagging her.
"you……"
Seeing this situation, the old woman sighed but hesitated.
"Wende, I know you are not an ordinary person, but you still have to save some money for yourself to marry a wife!"
Even though she has been with Pei Wende for so long, the old woman is still a little unaccustomed to Pei Wende's "heroic" style of not being able to keep a penny.
But what she knew better was that if she didn't take the money, the two hundred cash would definitely not last the next day.
Either Pei Wende took it out for a "late night snack" and ate it, or he gave it away to the neighbors, and he couldn't even think of keeping a penny until tomorrow.
In this regard, Pei Wende did not deny that he wanted to use this method to get the old woman to accept his "gift".
But on the other hand, it is true that Pei Wende's recognition of copper coins is far less than that of the ancients.
After all, no matter what, Pei Wende is a time traveler from the 21st century, and his knowledge and enjoyment are far beyond what the natives of this era can match.
Living in the 21st century, what tricks has he not seen? What haven't you played?
In this era, apart from eating and drinking, Pei Wende could not imagine that there was anything worth spending money on.
Anyway, in all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation, except for the food aspect, Pei Wende has no expectations at all.
—Recommendation ticket—Monthly ticket—
