Chapter 965: Chapter 299: Letter! Relay Station! Small Town! Miss Xiangxiang!

Yuchi felt that his idea of buying a vermilion hairpin should be perfectly fine, so he chuckled awkwardly.

Of course.

For Yuchi, such things happened quite naturally.

It’s roughly two men fighting over a woman, and the result is that the woman’s original partner flies into a rage to provoke a rich kid, but ends up getting killed in retaliation.

So for Yuchi, since he saw someone else’s letter, he might as well go take a look. After all, no one is asking him to kill this man named Cao Qingyu. Since there is no animosity between the two, he just needs to find this woman named Xi Jiayu and buy her a vermilion hairpin.

As for the thirty thousand taels of silver that Xiang Shaoyuan has amassed, he might as well give the silver directly to Xi Jiayu. This thirty thousand taels of silver is really nothing. With the expenses at the Ascension Gate, thirty thousand taels of silver is only a matter of half a month’s work. Honestly, he can’t rely on this man’s sheer infatuation within the Ascension Gate.

Even if it’s just to earn some goodwill with the disciples of the Ascension Gate, to have a nice chat with a young lady, it should only take a few days before and after. This shouldn’t be a problem.

"Hmm, so what was the name written in that letter just now?"

"Let me check."

"Songquan County."

"I hope Songquan County isn’t too far from here, and I hope the owner of this letter hasn’t left too long ago. Otherwise, if it has been over a hundred and eighty years, how am I supposed to find Xi Jiayu?"

Yuchi packed up the things around him, and after confirming once again that no one saw him, he muttered to himself as he flew into the sky.

Then he began flying along the official roads within the region.

As long as he followed the roads and rivers, he was bound to find towns and cities. After just two hours of wandering, Yuchi successfully found a station at dusk.

The station was established by the government.

In prosperous areas, the distance between stations is about five miles. In remote areas like this, it’s thirty miles. The purpose of the station is very simple; during wartime, it acts as a route for delivering messages and intelligence, while in peacetime, it’s for important trade routes and the like.

As long as there are stations at both ends of a stretch of road, bandits generally don’t appear, since the government’s requirements for the stations are straightforward: no bandit incidents should happen on the roads around each station. And if there is an incident, failing to handle it correctly results in severe accountability.

Yuchi found the station and decided he could ask for directions, at least to get a general direction. Otherwise, if it has been over a hundred and eighty years, finding Songquan County would be unlikely.

And this was a small station, with only two thin horses in the stables. If a war were to break out, the person in charge of this station might lose their head.

Yuchi descended from the sky and landed a mile away from the station. When he reached the entrance of the station, he learned that the place was called "Tea Garden." As for why it was named this way, no one knew. But as long as it wasn’t called "By the Water Well," "Next to the Stove," or "On the Balcony," it was good.

Just as Yuchi entered the station, the people from the Defense Department immediately approached him.

They saw from afar a young lad passing by at dusk, seeing his solitary and desolate appearance, presumably one of those travelers arriving lately. So if they didn’t bring him into the station to have a meal, they would be squandering the opportunity. But just when a young lad from the Defense Department came over to reap, an older man from the Defense Department stopped him.

"Don’t act rashly."

"Huh?"

The young lad looked at the older man in confusion. Why was his boss being so calm? Normally, when travelers passed by, they would offer an Eight-Eight-Eight set meal. Was it because he saw the youth was a boy, so he felt merciful?

"What do you know? A solitary young lad shows up at this station; even if he looks completely like an ordinary person, in reality, he surely isn’t. Otherwise, how could a timid young lad have such an ambiguous smile at the corners of his mouth? How could he be out here after dark without any fear?"

"How could someone travel alone without female companions? Especially the last point: a young man in his prime who doesn’t even like pretty young ladies? That must mean he is incredibly detached. So this young man before us definitely has great perseverance!"

As he spoke, he crossed his arms and looked at Yuchi from a distance, quietly adding:

"So now we should present ourselves as good-natured folks and not cause trouble by picking on others, or we might hit a snag."

"When others leave the station unscathed, and they talk to people about what happened here, we would become the laughingstock in their stories."

"Do you want his friends and family to mock you behind your back? Do you want to fail, ending up worse off instead of gaining something? Do you want to be seen as a fool by others? The troupe doesn’t have money, so we shouldn’t be acting with a main character-looking young lad like this."