Adoption brings disaster

I didn't guard against Tang Shan, so I fell into his trap. Not only was I poisoned, but Duoduo was also implicated. If Duoduo hadn't tried desperately to protect me, I would not only have lost my life, but also suffered a great humiliation.

After Duoduo took me to jump off the cliff, I passed out due to the poison.

When I woke up again, Duoduo and I were in a shabby thatched hut.

The poison in my body has been cured by Duoduo. After being unconscious for so long, I feel more energetic. I opened my eyes in a daze and looked at everything in front of me with interest.

I saw that the thatched hut was in a dilapidated state, with a big hole on the top and weeds growing underneath the hole.

I lay on the bed of hay, and Duoduo curled up beside me. Her breathing was very shallow, which meant that she was not sleeping deeply.

I tried to move my body and found that there was nothing wrong with me. Except for some sore muscles, everything else was normal. I tried to test my true qi and found that it was flowing smoothly without any blockage.

Duoduo woke up immediately when she heard the sound of me moving my body. When she saw that it was me who woke up, she completely relaxed and fell into a deep sleep soon.

Seeing Duoduo's vigilant look, I felt very distressed. I walked up to her quietly, put clothes on her, and stood in front of her, looking at her tenderly.

Duoduo must have been extremely tired. She slept very deeply and for a long time. When she woke up, it was already late at night.

In the afternoon, when Duoduo was sleeping, I took some time to go out for a patrol. The ecology in Miaojiang is good and there are many animals. I easily got a few bird eggs in the woods, found some wild vegetables and fruits, picked up some firewood, and found a broken pottery jar in the thatched house. These were enough to make a makeshift dinner.

I saw Duoduo wake up and said, "Come and eat something."

I wrapped the wild fruits and bird eggs in leaves and handed them to Duoduo.

"You actually know all this." Duoduo said in shock.

Duoduo put the bird eggs and wild fruits aside, chuckled, and said, "Actually, we have better things to eat."

After saying that, he saw a rabbit walk into the thatched hut by itself, and fell down beside the fire.

"How did you do that?" I asked with my eyes wide open.

I was also shocked by Duoduo's method and said, "If he could control dozens of elephants and tigers, he would be invincible."

As soon as I said this, I could clearly feel Duoduo's disdain. She rolled her eyes at me and said, "Controlling other lives is against the will of heaven. Let alone an elephant, even this rabbit wouldn't succeed once in ten attempts. If it were really that powerful, would Miaojiang still bow down to you, Beishang?"

"Hahahahaha." This made sense. I was also very embarrassed, so I could only laugh and go to deal with the rabbit.

I didn't know how to cook a rabbit, so I just skinned it, removed its internal organs, skewered it with sticks, and roasted it over the fire.

Duoduo and I were really hungry, so as soon as the rabbit was roasted, we couldn't wait to share it.

How much meat can a rabbit have? We only ate half full, but it was a great thing that we could still eat half full after escaping death.

After eating the rabbit, Duoduo and I snuggled on the hay. I looked at the dilapidated thatched house and suddenly had a strange idea.

I said smartly, "Do you think there might be secret martial arts manuals or peerless magical weapons in this place?"

"What did you say?" Duoduo didn't understand why I said that for a moment, and asked in confusion.

"Think about it, how come we didn't get hurt after falling from such a high place?" I stood up, turned around twice and said, "Look, I don't even have a scratch on my body. Isn't it amazing?"

"Are you trying to say that those who survive a great disaster will surely be blessed in the future, so they either have secret skills or rare treasures? That's what you mean, right?" Duoduo no longer looked at me with disgust, but looked at me as if I were a fool.

"Yes, yes, yes." Seeing that Duoduo understood me, I also said excitedly, "I've looked around, and there are no rare treasures nearby, so I suspect there must be peerless secret books or magical weapons in this thatched house." After saying that, I started to search.

Seeing that I was flipping through the pages in a chaotic manner, Duoduo hurriedly stopped me and said with disdain, "Read less storybooks. If we fell from that height, not to mention the two of us, even the King of Zhenbei would be seriously injured. We are okay because your clothes and shoes suddenly turned into a ball to protect us."

Because I was unconscious when I fell, I didn't know anything. I had no idea what Duoduo said, so I could only ask, "Ball? What ball?"

Duoduo replied, "I don't know either. I was in a daze at the time and was wrapped in a ball. I think it must be some kind of mechanical device."

Recently, Qingyu has been taking care of my daily life. It seems that I have changed a new batch of clothes and shoes, and Qingyu even asked me to touch them with my true qi before wearing them.

I have never understood the basic principles of how this world works. When Qi is not involved, it is no different from the previous world. But once Qi is involved, it becomes magical, just like artificial intelligence, or a particularly advanced artificial intelligence.

But these are not important. I am not a scientist, so why should I be a boring and annoying researcher?

Now I knew I wasn't a savior, and I was very depressed, but I still had a fantasy in my mind. I said, "Why is there suddenly a thatched hut here? Maybe it's where the martial arts masters used to live in seclusion."

"First of all, we're a long way from where we fell. There's a village nearby, and if there were any secret manuals, they would have been taken away by the people there long ago," Duoduo said. "Secondly, this is just a temporary residence for the Miao people who go into the mountains to collect herbs. It's not what you think, and it's definitely not the retreat of some martial arts master. It's best to go to bed right now, because we're going back tomorrow."

Duoduo's angry look was still very scary. I didn't dare to search anymore. I hugged Duoduo and fell asleep on the hay.

Nothing happened that night. The next day, Duoduo and I ate some wild fruits and washed ourselves in the ditch not far from the thatched hut. Only then did I realize that my clothes, pants and shoes were all torn and full of holes, like a clean beggar.

But now there is no one to serve, and there are no tools such as needles and thread, so there is no way to repair it. I can only find a town to find a solution.

After going down the mountain, we soon arrived at an official road and saw a Miao man driving an ox cart from afar.

"Hello, sir. My husband and I were attacked by bandits and all our belongings were stolen. Thanks to the blessing of the Bodhisattva, we managed to survive. Now we want to find a town to make a living. Could you please show us the way to the town?" I said politely.

"What did you say, little kid?"

"I told you to pull these words." Duoduo looked at me with disdain, then said to the old man, "Grandpa, we want to go to town, how do we get there?"

"Let's go to town. I want to go too. Come on, little kid." After getting on the ox cart, Duoduo chatted with the old man. I couldn't say a word and could only lie down on the ox cart out of boredom and fell asleep.

"Little boy, we're in town now, get up quickly."

I rubbed my sleepy eyes, looked at the low city walls and the people coming and going, and was a little slow to react. It was Duoduo who pulled me up from the ox cart and took me to thank the old man.

After entering the city, I saw that the houses were low and without any decoration, and the pedestrians were wearing coarse clothes. If you look closely, even the coarse clothes have been worn for a long time. Some are full of patches, and some are much shorter.

Seeing how poor these people were, I sighed, "I used to think the Miao village was poor, but after seeing what I've seen today, I realized that life in the Miao village is not so bad."

"With my grandma here in the village, things are relatively peaceful, and everyone's life is naturally much better." Duoduo said, "Now stop lamenting. What should we do now? We are penniless. Are we going to have to beg for food?"

This made me a little panicked, but after being the boss for so many years, I still had some basic composure. I pretended to be nonchalant and said, "Let's go shopping first. I won't let you go hungry."

The town is not big, with only five or six streets in total. It didn't take long to walk around. Finally, I found the way to wealth in a dark alley not far from the center of the town.

"You sit here for a while. I'll go borrow some money from someone later." I said confidently.

Duoduo looked at the dark alley. There was only one house with a lantern, which was flickering. She couldn't think of any place where she could borrow money.

Duoduo was a little confused and looked at me and said, "I'm afraid this is a place where no ghost would come. Where can you find someone to borrow money from? And you don't know anyone here, so who would lend you money?"

"It's said to be borrowing, but actually it is..." I made a gesture of taking with my hand.

"Are you going to steal?" Duoduo is an upright person and cannot accept stealing.

After hearing what I said, he shook his head and said, "At worst, I can go to the Miao village to practice medicine. I can always go back. I can't do such a stealing thing, and neither can you."

Of course I wouldn't steal it. I hugged Duoduo gently, comforted her, pointed to the room with the lantern, and said, "Do you know where that is?"

"No matter where it is, you can't steal it." Duoduo said righteously.

I chuckled and said, "That's a brothel."

"Even if it's a brothel, that's not a reason for you to steal." Duoduo's voice was a little loud. After yelling, she realized something was wrong and said weakly, "What did you say that was, a brothel?"

"Borrowing is still borrowing, but not returning it is stealing. It's not like I won't return it. When we return to the Miao village, I will immediately order them to pay ten times back." I whispered, "Besides, if this money is someone's life-saving money, I wouldn't dare take a single cent even if I starved to death, but there's nothing wrong with taking this money for prostitution."

Duoduo's attention was not on the question of whether she could borrow the money. Instead, she stared at me fiercely and asked, "How do you know it's a brothel? Have you been there many times?"

"You're really wronging me." I quickly raised my hands in surrender and said, "I'm very busy in the capital. I don't have time to go to a brothel. Otherwise, do you think those things given to the Miao people came out of thin air?"

"Then how did you know?" Duoduo insisted.

I explained, "The children of the aristocratic families in the capital love places like this the most. Although I haven't been there, I've heard them talk about it so often that I naturally know about it."

"You just said you didn't have time to go."

"Yes, I'm very busy and have no time to go to a brothel." I said quickly.

Duoduo sneered: "According to what you said, if you were free you would go, right?"

I couldn't answer this question for a moment, and the situation was a bit awkward. At this moment, a man walked out of the brothel, and the purse on his waist made a jingling sound.

I didn't know what to do now. When I saw the person coming, I quickly signaled Duoduo to be quiet, then pretended to be a client and hurried towards the brothel. The moment I passed the client, his purse was in my hand.

The man didn't notice and continued to walk forward with an unsatisfied look. I used my Qinggong skills and soon took Duoduo out of the city gate.

"Bah, why are you still visiting brothels when you are so poor?" I said as I put the dozen or so copper coins and a few ingots of silver back into my purse.

"You haven't answered me yet. Do you go to the brothel whenever you have free time?" Duoduo asked, still not forgetting this matter.

I didn't expect her to still remember this topic, and I didn't know how to answer, so I could only say weakly: "Men are all the same. If I say I don't want to go, you definitely won't believe me."

After hearing this, Duoduo's face turned visibly worse. There was a rustling sound around her. I don't know how many poisonous insects were crawling towards me.

I was so scared that I quickly said, "Let's talk about this matter. Judging by the appearance rather than the heart, I have never been there before, and I promise you, I will never go there again."

After hearing this, Duoduo's face looked better, and the poisonous insects retreated like the tide. After a long while, she said in a gentle tone: "My husband is also a daughter of gold. How can you go to such a filthy place? If you really want, why don't you marry another wife? In Miaojiang, there is no distinction between wives and concubines. We are all wives, so it is not unfair to others. I think Qingyu is quite good."

"Look at what you are saying. Qingyu is like a junior to me. How could I do something worse than an animal?" I said angrily with a stern face.

Seeing that I was angry, Duoduo was not annoyed. Instead, she smiled and said, "I didn't think it through. Let's discuss it carefully after we return to the village. My husband is in his prime, so there's no need to rush."

Although I am not the kind of person who wants to be with one person for the rest of my life, I am not the kind of person who wants to party every night.

I really have no interest in arranging to marry another wife before even getting married. Besides, as a noble father, it is still very troublesome for me to get married and have children.

"Okay, let's talk about this later. Let's find a place to stay first." After saying that, he took Duoduo to find a dilapidated temple to stay temporarily.

"This poor guy has so little money that he can't even afford to stay in an inn." I cursed angrily.

Predict what will happen in the future, and listen to the next decomposition.