Chapter 380: The First Storyteller

“Ahem!”

Shi Qingxue knew that something bad would happen, so before Mo Junyang spoke, she coughed twice and interrupted the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper looked at Shi Qingxue in confusion. “Girl, what’s wrong?”

Shi Qingxue secretly glanced at the shopkeeper to ask for help and begged in a low voice, “Sir, I know that you are kind-hearted, but he is my husband. If you make him unhappy, he will get mad at me later. Please stop, okay?”

After hearing that, the shopkeeper thought that it was true.

Then he stopped talking and just glared at Mo Junyang with disdain before continuing to make the sesame seed cakes.

He said to Shi Qingxue in a soft voice, “Good girl, I will give you one more cake in secret later and won’t let him see it. Just eat to your satisfaction.”

Shi Qingxue hurriedly showed a bright smile. “Thanks, Sir.”

They talked like whispering, yet Mo Junyang had sharp ears and their conversation entered his ears.

However, Mo Junyang thought for the first time that it would be better if he didn’t hear it.

From beginning to end, he didn’t find a chance to cut in. He just saw Shi Qingxue and the shopkeeper talk happily.

Fortunately, Shi Qingxue didn’t forget her job even though she joked.

She received the hot sesame seed cake from the shopkeeper and asked casually, “By the way, Elder, why did you say that Beipo Town has become a dead town?”

The form of address “elder” invisibly made them closer, and the shopkeeper almost took Shi Qingxue as his daughter, so he certainly told her everything that he knew.

“Girl, you came from another place, so you don’t know that there was an epidemic in Jiangzhou City in the south in the past two months, and almost the people in half of the city died. Even our town suffered then.”

Shi Qingxue opened her eyes wide in surprise and looked around subconsciously. “Is it so horrible? But now it doesn’t seem to…”

She said hesitantly, as she was uncertain.

It was because Beipo Town looked desolate now yet there was no feature of the spreading epidemic. There was no officer or soldier guarding the entrance to the town, and the chests and faces of the common people they saw in the town were revealed. They didn’t cover their bodies, and it didn’t seem that they were afraid of being infected with the epidemic.

If there was an epidemic in this town, wouldn’t all the people who didn’t protect themselves die?

The shopkeeper nodded at Shi Qingxue with a smile and praised, “Girl, you are so smart. Right, there is no epidemic in Beipo Town now.”

“Gee?” Shi Qingxue was more surprised. “The epidemic came all of a sudden, which was fine, but why did it disappear so soon?”

Was the epidemic like typhoon which would disappear after passing?

The shopkeeper looked serious.

He sighed. “It’s hard to say. Nearly three fourths of the people in the town were missing. Some of them fled, and some of them died or disappeared. Who knew what they had done? Anyway, the epidemic has disappeared now.”

What did it mean?

Did the people in the town have other choices except fleeing or dying?

Did they make the choice?

There was much information in the murmuring words.

Shi Qingxue still couldn’t figure out how this epidemic was avoided.

“Elder, how did those people disappear? Doesn’t the government…” Shi Qingxue was reluctant and continued to ask.

However, the shopkeeper had finished the last sesame seed cake and put it in Shi Qingxue’s hand, interrupting her conveniently. “The sesame seed cakes are finished, and it’s late now.

“Good girl, hurry up and go back to the hotel with the sesame seed cakes. There is curfew in Beipo Town. Don’t walk randomly in the evening. You will be in danger if you cause trouble.”

Afterward, he pushed her out of the shop without demur and then packed up his tools, seeming to close the shop.

Seeing that, Shi Qingxue knew that she couldn’t get any information from this shopkeeper, so she had to go back with Mo Junyang.

Looking at the big sesame seed cakes in her and Mo Junyang’s hands, she suddenly laughed.

Mo Junyang glanced at her. “Why are you laughing?”

Shi Qingxue gesticulated with the extra sesame seed cake in her hand and stated playfully, “We didn’t suffer losses this time. At least, we got one more sesame seed cake.”

Mo Junyang continued looking at her, and his cold and black eyes were forceful at any time, as if he could see through her.

Shi Qingxue felt that she couldn’t be used to being stared at by these eyes for a long time. Every time he looked at her for long, she would become timid.

She hurriedly showed a flattering smile. “I didn’t play about. I did that in order to ask the shopkeeper for information.”

“You talked about the wife and concubine in order to inquire?” Mo Junyang wouldn’t be fooled by Qingxue easily.

At the mention of this, Shi Qingxue was bolder with sufficient reasons.

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She snorted in a low voice. “It’s because you got involved midway and didn’t allow me to taste the sesame seed cake. Under the situation, if I didn’t make it reasonable but made the shopkeeper know that you dislike his sesame seed cake, believe it or not, he would beat you with a broom and kick you out?”

Mo Junyang asked, “Even if you want to make it reasonable, what about Concubine Gui?”

Nobody knew what Shi Qingxue thought about, and she casually fabricated a favored Concubine Gui.

When Mo Junyang heard that, he was almost choked.

However, Shi Qingxue was more complacent and took it for granted. “Our purpose was to win the shopkeeper’s favorable impression. A bullied pitiful wife can arouse his sense of justice, right? Am I awesome?”

“…I think that you wanted more to see me being embarrassed.” Mo Junyang’s tone was cold, and he hit the nail on the head.

Shi Qingxue was seen through and didn’t dare to joke anymore. She quickly stood straight and expressed seriously, “I think that the shopkeeper’s words are strange. He didn’t explain the epidemic’s origin and ending clearly. Obviously, he knows something but refused to talk about the forbidden subject.”

She didn’t praise herself for the shopkeeper’s favorable impression of her.

If it were merely something common, he wouldn’t hide it from her or even kick her out.

In another word, he did that must because there was a secret that he couldn’t speak out.

What was it?

Mo Junyang knew that Shi Qingxue tried to change the subject, yet seeing that she seriously studied the shopkeeper’s each word, he got soft-hearted.

So he echoed, “As you said, even that shopkeeper refused to say it, and if we ask somebody else, we may not get more useful information than this, but we can be sure about one thing…”

Shi Qingxue looked up at Mo Junyang and expected his words.

“This epidemic must be more than a natural disaster.”

“What?” Shi Qingxue asked in a daze.

She seemed to find something, yet she was not sure, so she was more confused.

However, Mo Junyang shook his head at the moment. “Let’s go back.”

“But you said just now…” Shi Qingxue was anxious to ask.

Mo Junyang’s hand clung to her lips, and he shook his head again, repeating seriously in a low voice, “Let’s go back.”

Shi Qingxue instantly noticed something from his serious eyes and got nervous, so she quieted down at once.

She suddenly realized that even though they were dressed like passersby, in this dead town, they were too showy.

Shi Qingxue was smart and didn’t look around but grabbed Mo Junyang’s arm. She moved her head closer to his shoulder, as if snuggling up to his arms.

She raised her head slightly with a sweet smile on her face, calling intimately, “Honey, let’s go back.”

As Shi Qingxue called him in this way, even though Mo Junyang was always calm, he couldn’t say anything.

His expressionless face twisted and he looked at Shi Qingxue, as if he wanted to say something yet it was difficult to embody in a single sentence.

Qingxue was happy while playing about and didn’t notice it seemingly. She held Mo Junyang’s arm and moved on.

After they returned to the hotel, they found that there were few people in the lobby which had been bustling.

The workers in the hotel were wiping tables and putting chairs in order, as if they were going to close the door.

Shi Qingxue looked up at the sky outside the window. The sun had just set, and there was a long time before dark. Why did they close the door so early?

She asked one of the workers, while the latter looked hurried and said, “It’s a rule of our hotel that we should close the door before dark. After dark, no matter who knocks on the door, we won’t open it. Lady, please stop asking and go back to the room to have a rest earlier. If you have a good rest, you can continue with your journey next morning.”

After speaking, he ran to do his jobs.

Shi Qingxue still didn’t give up after returning to the room. She took out a gold ingot and gave it to the waiter who served water. “Tell me what happened in this town.”

When the waiter looked at the gold ingot, his eyes lit up. He reached out his hand to receive it unconsciously.

Shi Qingxue moved her hand and intentionally waved the gold ingot before his eyes. “If you say it, this gold ingot will be yours, and if you explain it clearly, that man will reward you more handsomely.”

The waiter swallowed in a high voice and couldn’t look away from the golden ingot, as if he wanted it but didn’t dare to get it.

Qingxue knew that he was tempted, so she gave methodical and patient guidance. “Don’t worry. We are not long-tongued. We just stay here, so we need to know something. If we die as we know nothing, it will be not worthwhile. Do you think so?”

The waiter was eager for action under the temptation of the gold ingot, and he was more tempted after hearing Shi Qingxue’s words.

Then he gritted his teeth and stated, “I tell you. You can’t reveal it to anybody else, especially to the outsiders. Otherwise, we will lose our lives then.”

“Of course. We just want to know some taboos, so that we won’t make mistakes.” Shi Qingxue agreed without delay and put the gold ingot in the waiter’s hand.

The waiter had never touched such a big gold ingot and clenched his five fingers, afraid that it would fly away.

He restrained his urge to bite the gold ingot and check if it was true. Then he lowered his voice and started to tell a story.

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