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Chapter 173 Lu Xiucai has gone crazy

"Brother." The short man whispered in his ear, "This Lu Xiucai is crazy. He looks like he wants to chop you with an axe. Shall we...leave first?"

The tall man looked at the short man and said, "Lu Xiucai is crazy. Let's leave his house first. You go and scare him a few words, and then we'll leave."

The short man took a step forward, then quickly retreated. "Lu...Lu Xiucai, my elder brother will let you go today, and we will come back to beat you another day. You...you wait for us."

"Wait a minute." The two people who were about to walk out of the courtyard heard a cold voice. They turned around slowly.

"Who kicked down the gate of my courtyard?" Qian Mingduo walked down the stone steps and slowly walked towards the two people.

"It was my eldest brother who kicked him!" The short man said tremblingly, "It wasn't me, it wasn't me who kicked him."

"Lu Xiucai." The tall man said with a fist. When he saw that he still had half a pair of scissors in his hand, he quickly put the scissors in his arms. "We kicked it together, not just me."

Qian Mingduo narrowed his eyes, his eyes gleaming with ferocity. "I don't care who kicked you, pay me back."

"Compensate, compensate, we will." The short man said quickly: "How much silver do you want to pay?"

"How much did you ask me to compensate you just now?" Qian Mingduo said lightly.

"Two...two taels!" The short man looked like he was crying.

"Then I'll pay you what you said!" Qian Mingduo held up two fingers, "Two taels."

The short man said aggrievedly: "How come your broken door is only worth two taels of silver?"

Qian Mingduo raised the axe in his hand.

"Pay, pay, Mr. Lu." The tall man said, "Put down the axe first, and we will pay."

The two of them scraped together for a long time, but only had about twenty copper coins. "That's all we have, Mr. Lu, please let us go!" the short man said.

"Get lost!" Qian Mingduo shouted. "If you climb over the wall into the yard again at night, I will kill you."

Qian Mingduo picked up the copper coins on the ground and smiled happily. "At least I have some money to buy some food."

He turned around and saw the woman next door, standing by the wall and looking at him.

"A heartless woman." Qian Mingduo snorted and said to himself, "Yesterday I helped you drive that scoundrel away, and you didn't even say a word." He walked into the house and closed the door heavily.

Qian Mingduo was lying on the ball of tattered cotton, with his legs crossed and copper coins clattering in his hands.

There was a slight sound of footsteps in the yard, and the door was pushed open with a creak. Qian Mingduo saw through the broken hole in the window that it was the woman next door who came in. He lay still, closed his eyes, and still shook the copper coins in his hand.

"Thank you!" A woman's gentle voice came, and Qian Mingduo felt a faint fragrance floating in.

He opened one eye and looked at the woman, but said nothing. He closed his eyes again. "Go home and tell your husband to be alert when he goes to bed at night, and don't let anyone get into your house without you noticing."

The woman looked at Qian Mingduo curiously. "This most honest man around here. He's like a completely different person."

She smiled at Qian Mingduo who was lying on the kang, then turned and left.

Qian Mingduo was a little annoyed that he didn't hear any words of thanks. He saw the woman walking out of his yard slowly through the torn window paper.

He sat up suddenly, and the faint fragrance in the air calmed his angry mood instantly.

This should be the scent of high-end cosmetics, but it is not like the scent of cosmetics on the girls he smelled during his previous travels through time.

This faint fragrance gave him a sense of déjà vu, but Qian Ming couldn't remember where he had smelled it, no matter how hard he tried.

My stomach is growling again. I ate a few persimmons last night, and they all came out.

Qian Mingduo was really hungry, so he put on his worn-out cloth shoes and searched the dilapidated house inside and out, but found nothing except a mouthful of white flour in the flour jar.

"Let's go to the market on the street, maybe there's something to eat there." Qian Mingduo looked at the dilapidated gate and simply left it open. He turned around and walked towards the official road outside the village.

Not long after walking east, Qian Mingduo saw a place that looked like a market not far away. He took two quick steps, but found that people on the road were looking at him as if he were a monster.

He didn't care about that anymore and walked around the market for a while. Qian Mingduo found two people, one tall and one short, sitting at a low table. He smiled and walked over to sit next to them.

"Mr. Lu, how...why did you follow me here?" asked the tall man.

Qian Mingduo put his hands on their shoulders and said, "Long time no see, how are you two?"

"Didn't we...just come out of your house?" the short one said timidly.

A fat man brought over two bowls of steaming noodles and placed them on the low table.

"Do you two know that I haven't eaten since yesterday?" Qian Mingduo took out a pair of chopsticks from the chopstick cage and wiped them in the claws. "Thank you, brothers. I won't be polite then."

"Sit down." Looking at the two people who were about to leave, Qian Mingduo whispered, "Where do you want to go? Let's go together after I finish eating."

Qian Mingduo's eyes showed that frightening look again, and the two of them could only sit down slowly again.

"Lu Xiucai," the tall man asked in a low voice, "where did you get this outfit? Don't you realize that everyone is looking at you?"

Qian Mingduo had finished one bowl and took the other. "This is the kind of clothes that people will often wear hundreds of years later. In fact, it's not our country's clothes."

"What country is that clothing from?" asked the short one.

"People in Western countries all wore them, and then they were introduced to us, and then everyone started wearing them slowly."

The tall man said, "Scholar, how come you have clothes from hundreds of years later? Don't lie to us."

"Why aren't you eating?" Qian Mingduo shouted to the boss, "Give me three more bowls, one for each of us three."

The short man looked embarrassed and said, "Mr. Lu, we only have enough money for two bowls of noodles. You ate all of it. How can we have any money left?"

"How much is a bowl of noodles?" Qian Mingduo asked.

The short man took out two copper coins and put them on the table. "One copper for each bowl. These two copper coins are all we have."

"Eat, I'll treat you." Qian Mingduo took the noodles from the boss and said, "Eat quickly!"

The tall man took a few bites of noodles and asked, "Scholar, how many days have you not eaten? You ate three bowls in one go."

"Scholar, what are you wearing?" An acquaintance looked at Qian Mingduo and asked, "Are you wearing an opera costume?"

Qian Mingduo swallowed a mouthful of noodles and said, "Yes, this is the costume for opera performances. How is it? Does it look good?"

Everyone around laughed.

Qian Mingduo took out three copper coins and put them on the table. "Where are you two going? I'll go play with you."