Quick Transmigration: Still Life Fairy

Chapter 136 Trials and Tribulations - I Am the Protagonist

"So it was this early in the morning..."

Had Gu Liang already appeared? Then it's not so hard to understand why Yun Leshi, after leaving here, greatly increased his skills, became famous, and became the leader of the new generation of martial arts talents.

This time, it's my turn to become famous!

Ju An revealed a confident smile.

Yu Liu looked at Ju An's somewhat distorted smile with a strange expression, thinking to herself, "I really didn't expect this handsome waiter to be such a pervert. He's watching another waiter bully the 'old beggar,' and he's laughing so excitedly. How far has he gone in his perversion?!"

Yu Liu shivered with disgust. She had been pretending not to exist with her back to the door, but her sharp ears caught Ju An's mutterings. Although she didn't know what he was saying, she turned around out of curiosity and immediately saw Ju An's smile.

I have to say, this is a beautiful misunderstanding.

Just as Ju An came to his senses, he met a pair of eyes filled with complex emotions. He was a little confused, but he still turned around and unconsciously put on a warm smile. After turning his back to Yu Liu, he reached behind his back and made a gesture.

No one noticed that a martial arts figure carrying a large knife, who had been sitting around Blind Wang, quietly stood up, walked quickly to the shopkeeper who was "oblivious to everything else and focused solely on the abacus," and gently pressed down on the shopkeeper's hand as he was working on the abacus.

"The master has ordered that the old beggar outside be brought in."

He muttered something under his breath and then quietly returned to his seat.

Only after receiving the order did the innkeeper finally raise his head and look outside the inn. After noticing the old beggar his master had mentioned, he loudly asked the waiter outside, "Lu Zi, what's going on outside?"

Upon hearing the innkeeper's voice, Lu Zi felt as if he had heard a savior. He stopped arguing with the onlookers and quickly replied loudly, "Innkeeper, there's an old beggar here. He's filthy and smells bad. He insists on coming into our inn. I'm afraid he'll disturb our guests, so I told him not to come in, but he just won't leave!"

"Then let him in. Watch him order, make sure he doesn't disturb the other guests, and give him some food if he wants. That'll be enough to get rid of him."

The shopkeeper gave the instructions seemingly casually, then lowered his head again and began frantically calculating on the abacus, returning to his previous state of complete oblivion.

Seeing this, Lu Zi, who had wanted to say something, had no choice but to helplessly say to the old beggar who was still gripping his wrist tightly, "Did you hear that? Our shopkeeper has agreed to let you in. Hurry up and go in to find your young master and then leave!"

The old beggar then released his wrist: "Alright, alright, find the young master..."

With slightly unsteady steps, the old beggar staggered toward the inn, and Lu Zijin followed closely behind him, as instructed by the innkeeper.

"Young Master..."

Stepping into the lobby of the inn, the old beggar was at a loss, facing a room full of people.

At this moment, Lu Zi only wanted to get rid of the old beggar as soon as possible, and his eyes were also patrolling the lobby of the inn, looking for the person who was very likely the old beggar's young master.

His gaze swept across the inn's lobby and finally landed on Jun Ran. Everyone in the lobby, even the commoners taking the opportunity to have a drink or the weary travelers from the martial arts world, were dressed reasonably well, and their auras clearly indicated they weren't from the beggar's circle. Only Jun Ran was dressed in tattered and dirty clothes...

It's hard not to mistake him for a beggar. Lu Zi was a little puzzled. How did this person get in?

Lu Zi reached out and patted the old beggar on the shoulder, then wiped his hands with the rag he was using to wipe the table, before pointing at Jun Ran and asking the old beggar, "Hey! Isn't that your little master?"

Yu Liu, who was crouching down and secretly observing, thought: "..." Damn it! What a terrible teammate!!

Before the old beggar slowly turned his head and turned his gaze, Yu Liu shrank to the side, hiding herself between the table and Ju An. Ju An blocked the old beggar's view from the front, and the table also blocked part of it from the side. Yu Liu was like a turtle hiding its head, praying that the old beggar outside would not notice her.

However, Lu Zi wasn't the only one with a bad teammate. Like Lu Zi, he wasn't the only one who suspected that Jun Ran was the young master the old beggar was looking for.

The main reason was that the two of them looked so alike that Ju'an, who was standing in front of Yu Liu, also connected them. He thought that the old beggar was one of Gu Liang's men, and that he had been saved by them in the past. He felt that he should not sit idly by, and that even if he did intervene, he might get unexpected benefits.

So, having made up his mind, Ju'an took two steps to the side of the table so as not to block the old beggar's view, exposing the two people at the table to the old beggar's line of sight.

Yu Liu: "...Holy crap! (╯‵皿′)╯︵┻━┻"

The moment the old beggar saw Yu Liu, an astonishing light flashed in his eyes. His figure disappeared in a flash, and before anyone could sense anything, they realized that the old beggar who had been standing there was gone. Upon closer inspection, they found that the old beggar had somehow run to Yu Liu's side.

"Young master, this old servant has been searching for you for so long!!"

The old beggar clapped his hands on his body, his eyes filled with tears, and looked at Yu Liu accusingly. His tone was no longer weak and feeble, but full of vigor.

"How could you sneak out, young master? You left this old servant there alone! You've caused me so much trouble!" He said, wiping his tears with his dirty sleeve. "Young master knows you're missing and has already sent his people to search for you. Young master, please come back with me!"

He reached out his filthy hand to grab Yu Liu, but how could Yu Liu let him grab her? Just thinking about going back filled her with a vision of blood and gore, and the thought of that bloody family... No, she absolutely wouldn't go back!

"I'm not going back! I'm not going back!!! If you want to go back, go back yourself!" Yu Liu jumped off the stool and immediately hid behind Jun Ran: "Hey! Weren't you sent to protect me? Hurry up and do something—"

Junran was interrupted from his reverie, and listlessly lifted his eyelids: "The contract I signed states that I can only intervene when your life is threatened..."

The implication is that your life is not currently threatened, so you cannot take action.

Yu Liu had no choice but to turn and run: "Don't come any closer! I don't want to go back!"

“Young master, wouldn’t it be better to go back? The family ancestral rites are approaching, and the ceremony cannot be without you. You must consider the bigger picture.” The old beggar lifted his foot to chase after him, but after taking only two steps, he suddenly found someone blocking his way.

The one who stopped people was naturally Ju An.

After listening for a while, Ju An only managed to glean one piece of information—the youngest of the three was actually the one with the highest status. Moreover, according to the old beggar, this girl was not only from Gu Liang, but also held a very high position within the group. The fact that the young master of Gu Liang personally ordered her to be found meant that she must be quite important.

So the person he was waiting for must be that little girl. He had worked hard in this inn for ten days, not just to watch her be taken away after he met her. So he had no choice but to step forward.