“Young Master Mo, you’re back, where’s Miss Smokey?” As soon as Mo Wuji walked to the grocery room rental house that he and Smokey had, he saw Auntie Lu pushing a trolley back. Auntie Lu also had a surprised look on her face when she saw Mo Wuji, presumably she had heard that Mo Wuji’s brain was better now.
Mo Wuji bowed, “Thank you Auntie Lu for taking care of me and Smokey over the years, Smokey was taken away by her family. I will soon be leaving Raozhou as well, I came here today because I want to take Smokey’s things as well.”
It was the first time Mo Wuji saw Aunt Lu, in her thirties, with a somewhat dark complexion. The pressure of life would have left her face with many more signs of age, which had obscured the best years that should have belonged to her.
Looking at Auntie Lu’s tired face in front of her, she had not returned until now, she wondered if it was because the business of the stalls was not very good last night.
“That’s good, that’s good, smoke that girl although understand, but also too small, need people to take care of ……” Aunt Lu subconsciously stopped his words.
Smokey would have needed someone to take care of her, in fact Smokey had also been taking care of this big young master in front of her.
“You go in and clean up, the room has been kept for you guys.” Aunt Lu said before hastily pushing the cart away.
Mo Wuji walked into the grocery room where there were no chains and only a rope tying the door, and what came to his face was a pile of dust.
Having not been here for a few months, the place had long since gathered dust.
Mo Wuji had only stayed here for two nights, his side only had a bed and a blanket that was still considered decent. Smokey’s side was even shabbier, apart from a few pieces of neatly folded worn out clothes, there was nothing else. This was to say that when Smokey slept at night, she didn’t even have a blanket.
Mo Wuji’s heart was a little sour, for a girl like Smokey to meet one, she was already knocking over countless wooden fish. After experiencing being backstabbed, he was even more aware of how rare a girl like Smokey was. He carefully patted away the dust from a few of Smokey’s clothes and stowed them in the backpack he brought with him, and underneath a few of the clothes, he saw a hairpin.
This hairpin Mo Wuji had the impression that Smokey had never used it before, although the hairpin was just an ordinary iron product, it looked like it should be Smokey’s most precious accessory.
Mo Wuji wrapped the hairpin up and walked over to the mirror that had several scratches on it. This was Smokey’s only cosmetic item, perhaps this mirror was used by Smokey to dress up for him, the king, every day.
With a sigh, Mo Wuji put this mirror into his backpack as well.
After looking at this tiny grocery room once again, Mo Wuji then walked out.
“Young Master Mo, Smokey isn’t here, why don’t you come and have some dinner with me.” As soon as Mo Wuji walked out, he saw Auntie Lu who was wearing an apron.
Mo Wuji once again bowed to Auntie Lu and took out a cloth bag and handed it to Auntie Lu and said, “Auntie Lu, I’m about to leave Raozhou, the things inside this cloth bag are from Smokey and I to Auntie Lu. Aunt Lu should not go to the stall at night in the future. If you can, please also ask Aunt Lu to keep the grocery room where Smokey and I live. I’m leaving, Aunt Lu take care.”
After saying that, Mo Wuji did not stay any longer and turned around to leave quickly. Auntie Lu didn’t have any earth-shattering protection for him and Smokey, but provided that shelter, as well as that unceremonious half bowl of rice and a few handfuls of rice. To Mo Wuji and Smokey, it was the greatest favour.
One hundred gold coins was enough for an ordinary family to live an ordinary life for the rest of their lives, too much he was afraid that it would bring uneasiness to Aunt Lu.
It wasn’t until Mo Wuji disappeared into thin air that Aunt Lu remembered the cloth bag in her hand, she opened it and the bright golden shimmering light almost made her lose her voice and shriek out. She then realised what was going on, Smokey and that Mo Clan young master had met a nobleman. She hurriedly ran back, still unable to stop her heart from pounding.
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An hour later, Mo Wuji stopped before a mansion.
The ‘Cold Mansion’ two large ancient characters told Mo Wuji that this was the place where he would be living in the recent months, the residence of the old county duke, Han Sheng’an.
Mo Wuji roughly estimated that this Cold Mansion covered an area of at least tens of thousands of square metres.
In this bustling Raozhou city, a mansion of this size, how much money would it cost? He also didn’t know how big his Mo family’s county king’s mansion in North Qin was back then, but unfortunately, he didn’t even have an impression of North Qin.
“Hey, that kid, what’s he doing sneaking around in front of the county king’s mansion? Hurry up and get out of the way some.” While Mo Wuji was still sighing, the guards in front of the County Duke’s Mansion were already shouting at him in a very irritated manner.
Mo Wuji hurriedly stepped forward and cupped his fists, “Two buddies, my name is Mo Wuji ……”
“You are Mo Wuji? The one that the old county duke personally promised you to enter the mansion yesterday?” The guard who was still shouting at Mo Wuji earlier directly interrupted Mo Wuji’s words and shouted in shock.
Then he mumbled to himself, “Doesn’t it look like there’s anything special?”
Mo Wuji laughed, “It’s exactly me.”
The guard’s heart for gossip seemed to suddenly burn, carefully pulling Mo Wuji to a question, “I heard that you are also a pill refiner, by the way, why did you give up your position as the County King and come to the Cold Mansion to be a domestic servant?”
Mo Wuji immediately gave a false fist hug to the air of the Cold Mansion and said with a straight face, “Brother, what you are asking is just not right. My admiration for Old County Duke Cold is like a torrent of continuous water, how can a mere county king position be comparable to being a domestic servant in the Cold Mansion? In other words, if I were to ask you, mate, to choose between the guards of the Cold Mansion and the County King, which one would you choose?”
“Ah ……” this guard was instantly speechless, wasn’t it obvious that he would have to choose to become a county king. But how can he say this, once this is said out once it is spread out, wouldn’t it mean that he has no sense of belonging to the Cold Mansion?
“Hehehe, I also have no end to the old County Duke that whatsoever, so naturally I’m going to choose the Cold Mansion guard.” The guard rubbed his hands together and said with a smile.
Mo Wuji patted this guard’s shoulder, “That’s not the end of it, you have the answer to such a simple question and you still come to ask me? You’re deliberately amusing me.”
“No, no.” This guard said in a hurry.
Mo Wuji laughed, “I’m just joking with you, please also take me in to report.”
The guard’s chest slapped, “Brother Mo, it’s on me, from now on, you’re my Ding Bu Er’s friend, you come with me.”
After saying that, he greeted the other take guard and took the initiative to pull Mo Wuji inside to report. Although Mo Wuji did not know martial arts, he was coded in the Cold Mansion Guard and became a guard martial artist.
Ding Bu Er, Mo Wuji thought of Ding Bu San and Ding Bu Si when he heard this name without knowing what happened. This guy was a bit lewd looking, but his eyes were very godly and his speech revealed sincerity, which made Mo Wuji have a great liking for Ding Bu Er.
Ding Bu Er seemed to be trying to show everyone that Mo Wuji was under his protection, taking Mo Wuji round everywhere and introducing him to everyone.
However, Mo Wuji was able to see that Ding Bu Er’s status was not high. Not many of these household servants and guards took Ding Bu Er seriously, it was just that no one stood out to give him a hard time. It was the guards that he was in, not many of them greeted him, he didn’t even meet the chief guard.
In any case, the treatment of the house guards of the Cold Mansion was quite good. With a house servant like Mo Wuji who had only come in, he also had a separate residence.
“Bu Er, Elder Sheriff Lord Cold said that someone from our Cold Mansion is also going to participate in the Empire’s Leaping Immortal Gate Conference in three months?” After circling around and all living down, Mo Wuji had yet to see the person who was going to take him to the Empire’s Leaping Immortal Gate Assembly, he was a little anxious.
He didn’t really come here to be a houseboy, but to use the power of the Cold Mansion to go to the Star Han Empire’s capital city. The most important thing was to go and see the Leaping Immortal Sect Assembly, as well as taking the opportunity to escape from Raozhou.
