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Chapter 82: Yu SaoJing Rong, true to his words, gave yet another piece of silver to the boatrin and bon several ti to thee was deserted due to heavy rain, and the occasional passer-by would be running as quickly as they could to get to their destination as soon as possible Although Jing Rong and Ji Yunshu had umbrellas, they did little to prevent their coats and footwears fro cold climbed from their feet into the rest of their body
The two stopped at the doorstep of a derelict straw house Ji Yunshu knocked at the door, and it took a long while before the shabby door was opened with a loud creak
A hoary old woman with a hunched back appeared and looked at both Ji Yunshu and Jing Rong
“You are?”
“Excuse me, old madame, may I ask where can I find Yu Sao?” Ji Yunshuasked
“Oh, you mean Ah’Yu?” The woman said as she pointed in a particular direction, “Follow that path and walk around the forest You’ll find a wooden hut there That’s Ah’Yu’s home”
‘She lives in the forest?’
“Thank you, old madame” Ji Yunshu said
The woman looked at her with a affectionate smile and said, “You two aren’t from here, are you? Are you related to Ah’Yu?”
“Yes, you could say so,” answered Ji Yunshu, her coht nod, sighed and said, “Ah’Yu has had a hard life with many difficulties Her husband passed away early and it’s been hard for her ever since, especially in the last few years If you can help out, you should”
The syht-provoking precisely because of its simplicity Ji Yunshu assented and left her so was silent the whole ti his master The talked in the rain next to each other, and their figures, one tall and the other short, composed quite the picturesque scene under the paper u turned his eyes and asked without thinking “Weren’t you here for your father’s funeral procession?”
“……”
‘Hey, how did you jump to this topic, and did you really need to ask that?’
Ji Yunshu really would have liked to stuff so any further However, since that was evidently impossible, instead, she pretended that the noise fro’s question
The two of thean to thicken However, it rese ruins more than a lush forest The few trees which had been planted were uprooted by the heavy rain and winds The road that h them was an unpaved muddy path, with many unpleasant surprises for the traveller who chooses to set foot upon it
‘Even the poorest of people wouldn’t want to live in such a desolate and reht
Ji Yunshu looked at Jing Rong and said, “Milord, high-grade silk which is est you to wait for me here?”
“S these words of yours, I don’t want to hear thee in his expression
“But…”
“Aren’t you here to investigate? We could already be in there by noeren’t for your uess,” thought Ji Yunshu
Jing Rong lifted his robe and led the way into the squalid track filled with yellow dirt and pebbles His iure slowly vanished into the shadow of the woods
Ji Yunshu followed hie footprints, it seeined
The pathway opened up after a while, and Ji Yunshu saw a derelict dwelling on the verge of cru under the heavy rain To call it a shack would be an euphemisusts and covered in filth, completed the desolate picture