novelraw Chapter 72: Picking Up a Little Rakshasa
Chapter 72: Picking Up a Little Rakshasa
This Boss Tang's behavior and conduct wasn't the way proper businessmen operated.
Proper businessmen haggled over every single copper coin. How could there be any logic to randomly finding someone on the street and making them your shopkeeper?
That wasn't doing business. It was more like selling straw sandals.
After selling straw sandals, grabbing the red-faced man selling green beans with one hand and the big-eyed tough guy selling pork with the other, the three hitting it off and sleeping side by side then after a half-lifetime of entrepreneurship losing the family fortune, when the company was on the verge of bankruptcy, dragging out an old farmer from the countryside to be the CEO...
Boss Tang didn't care much about money.
The reason Li Qiuchen could tell was because he followed the same approach as Boss Tang in this regard.
Not lacking money, and just liking to keep a low profile.
This merchant caravan of his appeared on the surface to have strong backing with elite personnel, but was actually filled with the atmosphere of a makeshift operation.
What kind of family would hire a glutton as a guard?
From the moment he entered, Li Qiuchen had noticed that the giant called Aye was constantly eating.Sesame buns the size of fists, he tossed them into his mouth without even chewing, like eating milk beans, swallowing them straight down his throat.
Just eating continuously like that. By the time the Li brothers had eaten and drunk their fill and were ready to leave, three entire large baskets of sesame buns before the giant had been completely cleaned out, and he still didn't look full.
How much money could you earn from one haul to afford to feed this thing?
Liu Da hadn't noticed issues in this area. His thinking was very straightforward—with someone like me, what could they be after?
Even if problems arose later, he was just someone running errands. It wouldn't come to losing his head.
Look, wasn't Squire Zhao living just fine?
Originally he hadn't planned to say anything good about the county magistrate. What standing did he have to evaluate the county magistrate?
But the fact that Squire Zhao, the town mayor, and the others had returned alive had invisibly added quite a bit of height to the county magistrate's image in the hearts of Blue Stone Platform's townspeople.
They truly hadn't understood before, but through this matter, they could at least draw the conclusion that the county magistrate's brain was fairly normal and wouldn't implicate the innocent.
There were abnormal ones out there.
Randomly finding a pretext to raise taxes, then starting some wasteful but completely useless large projects.
Or casually beheading a couple troublesome commoners for no reason, arbitrarily fabricating a few charges, conveniently boosting their own performance.
Liu Da had experienced such rotten people when he was young, and the impression was extremely deep.
"Third Brother, this Boss Tang is no ordinary person. Our family's future wealth and honor might very well fall on him..."
Liu Da had drunk too much and couldn't quite control his mouth. The moment he stepped outside, he started rambling to Li Qiuchen.
Hopefully there would only be wealth and honor, and nothing else.
Li Qiuchen was internally complaining when he suddenly sensed something flying from behind. He instinctively tilted his head to the side. A snowball whooshed past his ear.
Turning to look, he saw a little figure wrapped tightly in furs standing on top of a wall, holding up a second snowball and taking aim.
Li Qiuchen silently turned his head away, counted two seconds silently, then suddenly raised his hand to catch the flying snowball and turned to throw it forcefully back along its incoming trajectory.
Only hearing an "Aiya!" of alarm, the snowball precisely hit the little one's face, knocking them off balance and making them fall from the wall.
"What was that noise?"
Liu Da's reaction was rather slow. Only now did he notice the anomaly.
"Nothing. Probably just the wind."
Li Qiuchen didn't take it to heart at all.
Just throwing snowballs, a child's game. With snow this thick on the ground, you couldn't kill anyone from a fall. Let them learn a lesson.
The snow was indeed thick.
After four straight days, the blizzard had finally subsided. The accumulated snow in town had reached an average thickness close to three chi. Over half the houses were submerged in snow, making it hard to tell if what was before your eyes was the road surface or rooftops.
And this was merely an appetizer at the onset of the long winter. The real main course hadn't yet been served.
Liu Da set out carrying Boss Tang's personally written letter and gifts, his heart filled with wonderful expectations for future life.
With snow this deep, horses absolutely couldn't travel the roads. Even people had to wear specially made snow boots to walk.
Li Qiuchen went out for a stroll to breathe fresh air. He hadn't walked far when he saw a small mountain slowly moving toward him.
The giant named "Aye" walked on the road like a bulldozer. Wherever he went, he directly plowed out a path through the snow.
A fluffy little figure stood on Aye's shoulder. Pointing a hand in Li Qiuchen's direction, the giant moved this way.
Li Qiuchen had good eyesight. Activating his ocular technique to look carefully, he finally saw clearly that it was a little girl wearing a black sable fur coat.
No, it was a little Rakshasa ghost.
White hair, with a large sable fur hat on top of her head, so the horns couldn't be seen.
Chu people and Rakshasa ghosts had no reproductive isolation.
It wasn't about having any illegal intentions, but rather that Li Qiuchen noticed her eyes were brownish-black, not the golden eyes of Rakshasa ghosts in legends.
Impure bloodline. A mixed breed.
"You stop right there!"
The little Rakshasa ghost's accent was very stiff, but Li Qiuchen still understood what she was trying to express.
Recalling what he had done yesterday, he deliberated for two seconds on the spot, then turned and ran.
Only a fool wouldn't run. You want that big dummy to beat me up? Do I fight back or not? What if fighting back exposed my true cultivation?
However, you could hide for a moment but not forever.
Blue Stone Platform was only this big.
The little Rakshasa ghost steered her giant beast mount, chasing Li Qiuchen all over the streets. By the end of the chase, Li Qiuchen wasn't tired yet, but she started wailing first.
Northerners couldn't bear to see children cry.
When the surrounding people cast disdainful looks, Li Qiuchen had no choice but to stop and try to coax the child.
Actually, the child wasn't that small. Looking at her age, she appeared to be about ten or so. It was just that standing on the giant's shoulder, she appeared particularly petite and delicate.
"Stop chasing me. I'll let you hit me back, okay?"
"No!"
The little Rakshasa ghost, crying until snot bubbles came out, sobbed while grabbing a ball of snow from the ground, "You have to play with me!"
"Play what?"
"Throw at me!"
Li Qiuchen was speechless, "I'm already letting you hit me back. What more hitting?"
"Keep hitting me!"
"Are you sick?"
At this moment, two large Rakshasa ghosts appeared from who knows where, blocking Li Qiuchen's path on the left and right, saying coldly, "Don't run. Play with her for a while."
Can you people not understand Chinese?
Possibly.
Li Qiuchen calmed down and asked a few more questions, finally sorting out the reason.
Playing with her meant playing a snowball fight with her, the kind where you aimed at the head like yesterday.
Wasn't this child a bit dumb?
Of course, to return to the topic, a dummy was also fine because she was Boss Tang's precious only daughter.
Her brain didn't work too well, but her dad had money.
The little girl had traveled south following her father all the way. With no playmates by her side and traveling every day, she was about to go crazy from boredom.
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