I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

"Let's find an inn to stay in later." There were no deserted houses in the south of the city. After getting rid of the two people who were following them, Bai Jingzhou simply suggested going directly to the inn.

Gu Wenxuan nodded, "Okay."

The provincial capital is still some distance away from Baijia Village. After they finish their business, it will be too late for them to go back. They have to stay in the provincial capital tonight anyway. They can find an inn and book two rooms so that they can have a relatively safe place to stay at night.

"Then let's remove the disguise on our faces first." Before walking back to the busy streets, Bai Jingzhou took out four doses of medicine he had prepared in advance.

After carefully identifying them, he handed two of them to Gu Wenxuan one after another, "Apply this one on your hair, and this one on your cheeks and eyes."

One medicine restored her black hair color, and the other removed her crow's feet and nasolabial folds. After applying the medicine, Gu Wenxuan only needed to take off her green skirt and slightly change her hairstyle, and it would be difficult for others to recognize her.

As for himself, his two portions of medicine, one can remove the disguised bumps on his face, and the other can turn him back to his original black and red color.

After applying the medicine, taking off his scholar's robe and rolling up his trouser legs, he became the country boy in the coarse cloth shorts again.

The two took advantage of the fact that there was no one in the alley, quickly applied the medicine, changed clothes, and completed the disguise in the shortest time possible.

When they walked out of the alley again, the "mother and son" who had climbed over the wall before were gone, and instead, there was an ordinary "sister and brother" wearing coarse cloth shorts.

The two of them walked from the south of the city to the north, where there was a cheap inn that was a suitable place for ordinary people like them.

On the way, the two first bought eight pieces of defective cloth that were sold at a discount, two large bags of scraps of cloth at ten copper coins each, and then bought some facial cream, combs, wine, crispy candies, and snacks, preparing to take them back to give to their families.

They bought things as they walked, and by the time they arrived near Geng's Cart Inn in the north of the city, their backs and hands were already filled with all kinds of things.

"This is it, we..." Bai Jingzhou pointed at the sign of Geng's coach inn. Halfway through his words, a half-grown child as thin as a bamboo pole suddenly jumped out of the Geng's coach inn.

The child was only half a head shorter than Bai Jingzhou, but seemed to weigh at least thirty pounds less. With his thin arms and legs, frail back, and sunken face, no one would doubt that he was a monkey if he were covered in hair.

He was thin but quick in his movements. The two middle-aged men and women who were chasing him and beating him were so exhausted that they couldn't even touch the edge of his clothes, let alone hit him with their fists and feet.

The middle-aged woman, who was out of breath, could not speak clearly, but she still pointed at the child and threatened him viciously, "You little bastard! Stop right there! Otherwise, I will beat you to death!"

"Oh my, what a sin." An old lady among the onlookers sighed, "Poor Qirui, he was kicked out of the house by his adoptive parents at such a young age, and he almost became a beggar on the street. It was not easy for the Geng family to give him a bite to eat, but his unscrupulous adoptive parents came to mess things up again."

Bai Jingzhou raised his eyebrows slightly, and he smiled and leaned over, "Auntie, can you tell me in detail?"

The people around looked over after hearing the noise. One of them, a middle-aged man who was watching the excitement with his hands in his pockets, said to Bai Jingzhou, "Young man, are you from another place?"

Bai Jingzhou smiled and shook his head, with a hint of embarrassment on his face. "I am also from Xingzhou, but my family lives in the countryside. This is my first time in the state capital."

The middle-aged man with his hands in his pockets nodded, "No wonder you didn't know."

Many people knew about the situation. As soon as the middle-aged man finished speaking, people around him started talking to Bai Jingzhou about the child and his adoptive parents.

According to them, the child was sold to his adoptive parents' home by human traffickers about five years ago.

His adoptive parents had been married for many years but had no children. They had seen doctors or prayed to gods, but all was useless. Finally, someone gave them an idea, saying that they should adopt a boy with good fortune for them, perhaps that child would bring them children.

The couple tried every possible means to find a man they knew and asked him to find a suitable boy for them.

The human trafficker agreed and sent the child over within a few months.

In the second year after the child came to his adoptive parents' home, his adoptive mother became pregnant.

In the nearly four years that followed, his adoptive mother gave birth to two sons and a daughter. Then, this outsider, who was renamed "Dai Di" by his adoptive parents, was kicked out of the house on New Year's Day by his adoptive parents because he was not liked by his older brother.

"You don't know, Qirui is a hardworking, sensible and obedient child. Everyone in the neighborhood praises him when they see him." The aunt who first lamented the couple's "evil deeds" slapped her thigh and sighed, "Unlike his older brother, who is already a big boy of four years old. He needs his brother to wear his clothes and his parents to feed him. Whenever he goes out, he needs his parents and brother to hold or carry him. The most important thing is that he is neither old nor young and is very protective of food. No matter how many delicious foods there are at home, he will stuff them all into his mouth, leaving his parents and brother unable to eat. His sister cried until her voice was hoarse, but he refused to share any with her."

When Bai Jingzhou heard this, he immediately understood. It turned out that the neighbors were talking about the older brother being sensible and hardworking, while the younger one was talking about being lazy and greedy, so the younger one could not tolerate his brother at all.

The couple was reluctant to let their adopted son, whom they had waited so long for, suffer any injustice, so they simply kicked him out of the house.

Tsk tsk, it’s no wonder that if you spoil your child like this, he will become the one who thinks he is the best in the world.

Bai Jingzhou glanced at the three people who had started the pursuit mode again, "What about what you just said, that after all the efforts of the Geng family to give him a bite to eat, his adoptive parents came to mess up the situation again, what's going on?"

The old lady said "Hi", "It's that couple. They always feel like they have raised Qirui for nothing for almost five years. If their biological son hadn't made trouble, Qirui would have been their eldest son for sure. Working for his family, earning money, and taking care of them in their old age, isn't that what Qirui should do? Now, there's nothing left. There's no one to do the housework, and the money Qirui earns in the future has nothing to do with them. It would be strange if they were willing to accept that."

A middle-aged woman carrying a basket curled her lips and agreed, "Qi Rui has already changed back to his original name. I don't know where they got the nerve to pester him again."

Usually, the child named "Qi Rui" is not only extremely diligent at home, but also will lend a hand when his neighbors have problems. Therefore, most people in this area have a good impression of the child.

Crowds of people stood by the street, watching the couple's joke while guarding against them really harming the child. At the same time, they kept talking about the couple's strange behavior.