Chapter 277: The Bustling Xuzhou Wharf

Several people went to the inn and asked for a few guest rooms.

When it came time to pay, Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but click her tongue; one guest room cost 200 wen per night!

The prices in Xuzhou were too expensive; it was almost catching up to the price of a bar of soap.

Her face was full of pain, while Yu Ying'er threw out a silver ingot directly.

Jiang Xiaoxiao's eyes went straight.

This Princess Consort Duan was indeed wealthy; even a little maid had so much money.

Seeming to notice her gaze, Yu Ying'er raised her chin and glanced at her quite arrogantly: "Little girl, if you don't have money to pay for the room, I can help you pay for it."

"No need." Jiang Xiaoxiao took two hundred wen from her purse and handed it over, smiling at the shopkeeper inside: "Just one guest room is enough."

Seeing Jiang Xiaoxiao refuse her kindness so ignorantly, Yu Ying'er hummed lightly, and a trace of unhappiness rose in her heart.

These Jiang family people looked like they came from a rural village; not only were they dressed plainly, but they also had no knowledge. They were probably coming to a big place like Xuzhou for the first time. She was really worried that walking with them would lower her grade.

That cheap slut Su Wanwan was worthy of being the daughter of a cheap maid, actually getting along well with such rural village people.

Thinking this, Yu Ying'er subconsciously distanced herself from Jiang Xiaoxiao, as if afraid that staying beside her would lower her status.

Yu'er took the initiative to lean over, looking worriedly at the somewhat shriveled purse at Jiang Xiaoxiao's waist: "Xiaoxiao, did you not bring enough money? You have to pay an extra fee for eating at the inn later. I still have some here that can be used..."

"It's okay, Sister Yu'er, I'm going to eat outside with my mother later." Jiang Xiaoxiao shook her head.

She actually wasn't short of money. The two small boxes Su Wanwan gave her earlier contained several silver ingots. She felt they were heavy, so she didn't put them in her purse.

Now that her purse was flat, it was because she had put the anesthetic gun back into her bosom for convenience to take it out and use it at any time.

Xuzhou had many people and mixed eyes; in case the capital sent people to kill them again, she could take out the anesthetic gun to deal with them at any time.

After choosing the rooms, several people ordered a table of food in the lobby on the first floor of the inn.

Several people hadn't eaten anything since last night and were already hungry. As soon as the food was on the table, they didn't care about the taste and started eating.

"Xiaoxiao, come and eat a little too; I'll treat you to this meal." Yu'er didn't forget to invite Jiang Xiaoxiao to eat together.

Jiang Xiaoxiao shook her head with a smile: "No need, Sister Yu'er, you guys eat first; I'm going to the medical hall to find my mother."

After saying this, without waiting for Yu'er to keep her, she slipped out of the inn.

After that incident on the ship, she was even more afraid to eat food outside; she'd rather go back and eat the lobster feast in her mother's space!

The inn and the medical hall were not far apart.

But she came out alone and was afraid of something happening, so she rushed to the medical hall without stopping.

But halfway there, she still felt a gaze following her from behind.

She paused, then pretended to be fine and continued walking to the medical hall.

Her hand, however, quietly touched the anesthetic gun in her bosom.

She arrived safely at the medical hall, but that gaze didn't disappear; it seemed to be staying somewhere not far away.

So, she didn't enter the medical hall but shouted outside: "Mother, I'm back."

Jiang Wei walked out immediately.

Jiang Xiaoxiao stepped forward, naturally took her hand, raised her head, and revealed a sweet smile: "Mother, let's go eat together."

Jiang Wei seemed to understand her hint, glanced at a place not far behind her, and then smiled and replied: "Alright, Mother will take you to eat something delicious."

Saying this, she held her hand and walked toward the bustling street.

"Don't worry, the person following you is the waiter from the inn; it's probably that girl Yu Ying'er who sent him to follow you."

Jiang Wei's voice rang quietly in her ear.

Jiang Xiaoxiao was stunned; so the person following her was sent by Yu Ying'er?

"Why did she send someone to follow me?"

Jiang Wei looked at the medical hall behind her and said softly: "Probably wanting to see when we leave that medical hall, so it's convenient for her to take action, and finally push the blame onto us."

"She's too hateful!" Jiang Xiaoxiao clenched her fists, "Then wouldn't us leaving now give her a chance to take action?"

"Don't worry." Jiang Wei curled her lips, "Before you came back, the area around that medical hall was already secretly filled with Duan Wang's dark guards."

Jiang Xiaoxiao: "..."

Alright.

Then her worry was indeed redundant.

With so many dark guards guarding, even if she had an accident, Su Wanwan wouldn't.

This Duan Wang's speed was really fast. They had only just landed, and he had already sent so many people. It was estimated that he knew everything that happened on the merchant ship.

In this era, although there was no navigation or telephone communication, people in this era had their own eyes and ears and information dissemination channels.

But especially for those in high positions, the speed at which they obtained information was not slower than modern people at all.

But...

Since Duan Wang had sent so many dark guards to protect Su Wanwan's safety, why was he unwilling to show his face?

Could it be that Su Wanwan really did something to apologize to Duan Wang?

Thinking of this, Jiang Xiaoxiao felt a bit depressed.

Shen Que and Su Wanwan, how could they be childhood sweethearts who knew each other since they were young?

Thinking of the things Su Wanwan told her in the carriage earlier, Jiang Xiaoxiao felt tired.

Sigh, no wonder that guy Shen Que was hated and hunted down by so many people in the capital.

She admitted that Shen Que looked quite good, but how could he make Su Wanwan miss him for so many years, even breaking with the Su family for him, and even after marrying Duan Wang for many years, still thinking of him...

The scumbag husband chasing his wife plot she thought of, how did it turn into abandoning her husband and children for love, and cheating with her childhood sweetheart's white moonlight?

This dog-blood abusive love between Su Wanwan, Shen Que, and Duan Wang, if put into a novel, would probably start at several hundred chapters.

If she hadn't read the original work, she would probably have mistaken Su Wanwan for the female lead.

Thinking this, she couldn't help but shake her head and sigh.

"Why do you always sigh, like a little adult." Jiang Wei glanced at her.

Jiang Xiaoxiao smiled, then pointed to the vendor selling aquatic products not far ahead: "Mother, look, there is a vendor selling aquatic products."

Jiang Wei looked in the direction Jiang Xiaoxiao pointed.

The street they were strolling on was not far from the Xuzhou wharf. The streets on both sides, where people came and went, were filled with all kinds of seafood aquatic products, including live fish, crabs, white shrimp, clams, scallops...

A glance swept over, and it was all fresh, large seafood products.

The vendors' hawking voices were endless, greeting customers coming and going.

"Come, come, come, this freshly caught Jiangdao fish is the freshest, selling for eighty wen each!"

"This freshly caught small shrimp, a handful for five wen, does anyone want it?"

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