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Chapter 9

He can’t be cured

The aunt looked at Shen Jingyuan who was dressed like a beggar and didn't dislike it. She just smiled and said, "Little girl, my vegetable buns cost two cents and my meat buns cost four cents each."

Shen Jingyuan was shocked: "So expensive?!"

The lady setting up the stall pointed to the plaque on the city wall not far away: "This is Kyoto, little girl. Our land in Kyoto is very expensive. My stall here is worth two hundred coins a month, and the flour I use is also the best." Yes, four cents is the normal price! The steamed buns are only one and a half cents, do you want them?"

The fragrant meat buns on the steamer made Shen Jingyuan salivate.

Who eats steamed buns? What’s the difference between them and batter?

But a meat bun costs four yuan, which is an astronomical figure for her.

Shen Jingyuan was dejected and could only settle for the next best thing. He took out four cents and pointed at the vegetable buns: "I want two."

The lady running the stall responded, grabbed two vegetable bags, wrapped them and handed them to her.

Shen Jingyuan turned around and handed one to the boy: "Eat it."

Along the way, Shen Jingyuan relied on the meat-flavored pancakes given by Li Shang and Mr. Yan to eat and drink. Now she paid him a vegetable bun out of her own pocket.

The arrogant Li Shang took the vegetable bun and ate it and said, "You gave it to me voluntarily. I won't count it into the twelve taels of gold you owe me."

Shen Jingyuan was speechless: "Yes, yes, I volunteered, it doesn't count as a offset."

The two of them walked into the crowd of Kyoto eating delicious vegetable buns, but the lady who set up the stall frowned at the disappearing figure and muttered: "Why do I seem to have seen that little girl somewhere before?"

After Shen Jingyuan finished eating the vegetable buns and Li Shang, he went to find where the reward order in Kyoto was.

Now that Angelica is gone, Shen Jingyuan cannot pay back the money he owes him, so Li Shang can only make reward orders to earn money to buy Angelica again.

Li Shang asked after asking, and took Shen Jingyuan to the south of the city. He stood in front of the notice board where the reward order was issued and read all the tasks, and finally took off the bottom one.

Looking for the cat, the cat has a white body, eyes like glass, and a golden bell around its neck. It was lost by the wife of the eighth-grade Imperial College Supervisor. If she finds it, she will be rewarded with ten taels of silver.

The next day, Lai Qian looked puzzled at Shen Jingyuan who was looking for cats with Li Shang: "You won't go back when we get to Kyoto?"

Shen Jingyuan only felt that the money was as stupid as a pig: "How to return it? Go to the Prime Minister's Mansion openly and say that I am the missing eldest lady in the mansion? How can your intelligence be the weapon of a wise and mighty god like me?"

Shen Jingyuan followed Li Shang walking through the streets and looked around and said: "Zhao Jinjin is living outside and is naturally stupid. How can he recover his intelligence? Everything in Kyoto will make them suspicious. I will go back on my own and my brain will be fine." People will think there is something wrong with me, and I will go back alone after I have eaten enough."

"What I want is for them to find it themselves, because my current character...is that of Zhao Jinjin who has regained his intelligence but lost his memory."

Shen Jingyuan smiled and looked at the sky: "Zhao Yong is only Zhao Jinjin's daughter. He has more power than one person and more than ten thousand people. He can even cover the sky with one hand. He is so affectionate. He and his wife Qin Huairong raised the case and raised eyebrows. From then on, I didn’t take a concubine. I tried all my methods to conceive such a child. Jinjin, Jinjin, beautiful clothes and fine food, beautiful and prosperous. How much he loved and loved Zhao Jinjin did he choose such a name. So I hid in Kyoto. It won’t be long.”

With the money coming, it is undeniable that what Shen Jingyuan said is right.

"Zhao Jinjin? Why are you in a daze again?"

Li Shang suddenly came closer, startling Shen Jingyuan. The young man raised his eyebrows and said to her: "With your temperament, which is always lost and dazed, can you earn one or two gold in ten years?"

The boy was fifteen years old and half a head taller than her. He crossed his arms and looked at her condescendingly: "Don't forget how much money you owe me."

The girl pouted: "I will pay you back."

The two ended the conversation and continued to look for cats. Last night, they fell asleep against the corner of the city wall. Because the inn was too expensive, and the worst room cost thirty cents a night, they couldn't afford it. Shen Jingyuan suggested staying there. As for the other families, they were turned away because they looked too downtrodden and suffered a lot of looks. In the end, there was no other way. Li Shang wanted to go to the beggars' den for a rest. It turned out that the beggars in Kyoto were very territorial and they didn't even think about it. He couldn't fit in and almost got a beating.

The two of them could only walk and walk until they reached a dead end in an alley, leaned against the cold wall and fell asleep leaning on each other in the cold wind.

Today, only if they find the cat can they have a peaceful place to rest.

It's a pity that if this cat was really that easy to find, it wouldn't have stayed on the reward notice board for a month.

Yes, this cat has been missing for a month, and no one knows whether it is dead or alive.

Throughout the whole day, Li Shang and Shen Jingyuan wandered around the streets and alleys of Kyoto. They saw many cats and dogs, but none of them were all white and wore golden bells on their necks.

He didn't eat in the morning, didn't eat at noon, and didn't eat until evening. Li Shang took Shen Jingyuan to eat a bowl of Yangchun noodles.

A bowl of ten cents was divided into two portions. By the time the two of them finished eating, they had already had a curfew and had to go back to the dead end last night.

The early autumn of previous years has never been so cold. Shen Jingyuan's petite body huddled together, her hands stiff with cold. Li Shang held her hand in the package without changing his expression, but his ears were red in the dark night.

She can't be sick anymore.

He couldn't cure it.

Thinking of this, Li Shang faced the alley entrance to block the cold wind, lowered his head and said to the shivering girl: "Go to sleep, you won't be cold when you sleep."

The girl looked up at him: "Li Shang, thank you very much."

The young man's heart suddenly beat violently in the cold autumn night, and no one knew what he was thinking at this moment.

It had been several days since they arrived in Kyoto, but Li Shang and Shen Jingyuan still hadn't found the lost white cat. They had no choice but to give up and see if there were any other missions.

There were hundreds of reward orders. Li Shang saw a man helping to catch a dog. He was catching a vicious dog in Baimin Lane. This vicious dog can bite people and often lives in the deep alleys of Baimin Lane. It has a ferocious nature. He is so big that he can bite off human flesh with one bite. He has a bad habit of barking in alleys late at night and disturbing the people, so many people are annoyed by it.

One of the families offered a reward, and if anyone caught the vicious dog, he would be rewarded with two hundred copper coins.

Two hundred coins was much less than the ten taels of white cat, but for Li Shang, it was money that could solve his urgent need.

He unveiled the reward without hesitation, but Shen Jingyuan disagreed.

Vicious dogs are vicious, so what should you do if an accident occurs? If you are injured, it will cost you countless money.

However, Li Shang made up his mind and went to the place where vicious dogs often go that night. Unexpectedly, he found an unexpected surprise there.

In the dilapidated nest behind the vicious dog, a snow-white cat with a golden bell around its neck was sleeping inside. The vicious dog looked back at it, then turned and left the alley.

The two were overjoyed after being shocked,

Li Shang turned back: "It's important to catch the cat."
Chapter completed!
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