Chapter 3: Burial
The sun was shining brightly, and Yang Buo quickly followed the shadow of the building to the main entrance of Tiandou City.
Under the cover of the shadows of various buildings, Yang Pio relied on his continuous practice of the Tang Sect's basic skills in the past few years and did not attract anyone's attention.
Yang Fu looked at the majestic door in front of him and showed a sneer.
There are people coming and going in front of me, and the door that anyone can walk through is a place that my mother has never set foot in this life.
It's not that the gatekeepers don't allow slum dwellers to leave, nor do they allow lowly, dirty slum dwellers to appear on clean and tidy streets.
However, when people in slums step out of the gate, they often die early.
From a slum dweller who came to Tiandou City to pursue his dreams but ended up in poverty, Yang refuted many things outside Tiandou City that only ordinary people would pay attention to.
Leaving Tiandou City, the nearest village is sixty kilometers away, and this is still a straight-line distance. If you walk on the main road, it is not strange to walk nearly a hundred kilometers.
Moreover, the highway of the Tiandou Empire at this time is not the highway of modern society like Yang Pi's first life.
If a person walks on the main road, he will encounter wild animals, robbers, nobles who treat civilians as playthings, and other creatures that will actively take his life.
Even if you are lucky enough not to encounter those creatures, you will still fall into physical difficulties such as hunger and lack of water.
The people in the slums are ordinary people who cannot become soul masters. Even if they have some innate soul power, they cannot go that far without food and stable water sources.
Of course, if someone wants to take a gamble and walk straight through the forest towards a known village, then he or she can only hope that he or she can leave a whole body.
As for regretting running out of Tiandou City and wanting to turn back to the city and return to the slums, that is also something that cannot be done.
Ordinary people do not need to pay city fees when leaving the city, but they have to pay city fees when entering the city.
Where do people in slums get the extra money to pay city fees?
The guard at the gate doesn't care whether you get out of the city or not, but he cares very much about whether you enter the city or not.
Even those high-ranking officials dare not enter the city without paying. After all, it is the capital of the Tiandou Empire. Who dares to disturb Tai Sui?
If you don't pay the city fee, the guards will at best chase them away. But if someone doesn't pay and wants to force their way in, the guards are the ones who are responsible, and they deserve to be beaten.
Because of this, as long as a person ends up living in the slums of Tiandou City, he is almost destined to be unable to leave Tiandou City for the rest of his life. There are only two ways to live in poverty in Tiandou City or find a place to reincarnate.
Walk.
Yang Pi's mother is naturally one of the majority in the slums, and has never left Tiandou City even one step in her life.
Therefore, Yang Fu planned to take his mother's ashes through the gate of Tiandou City and bury her outside Tiandou City, so that she would not be trapped in Tiandou City even after she died.
Yang Tuo held his mother's urn in his arms, left the shadow of the building, and walked outside Tiandou City.
Yang Pi, who did not hide himself, was immediately looked at by many eyes, and various small words were heard around him.
"Where did this little thing come from? You go out on the street dressed like this?"
"What's going on with this kid? Why did he run away from that place?"
"Untouchables in the slums? How long have you not seen them?"
...
These sights and words were full of contempt and disgust, and Yang Pi didn't find it strange that his appearance naturally caused a stain on the "magnificent and beautiful" Tiandou City Avenue.
But Yang Pi didn't care about those eyes at all, and walked towards the door at the normal walking speed of a child.
Yang Puo walked to the gate, and the guards guarding the gate also cast their gazes, but their gazes were more filled with surprise.
They have all seen people from slums leave Tiandou City on their own initiative before, but regardless of whether they were men or women, they were all adults.
Moreover, they only leave the city in the early morning when it opens or when it closes in the evening. These guards estimate that the people in the slums have low self-esteem and do not dare to appear in front of too many people.
But this time it was different. It was actually a child who wanted to go out of the city, and he left the city at almost noon. It was very strange.
These soldiers are not considered to be nobles or upper-class people, and they have a more pitiful attitude towards the people in the slums.
When the captain of the guard saw Yang Pi walking towards the main entrance, he was also confused and stepped forward and asked:
"Kid, why are you here alone? Your..."
The guard captain wanted to ask where Yang Tuo's parents were, but when he glanced at the jar in Yang Tuo's hand and the word "mother" on it, he suddenly fell silent and didn't know what to say.
As the saying goes, don't hit the smiling person. The guard captain was here to care about his little child. Yang Pio naturally treated him with courtesy, raised his head and said politely:
"Uncle, I want to bury my mother outside the city. Can you let me out?"
The guard captain looked at Yang Tuo's face covered with dust and his eyes that looked dull compared to those of his peers. Even though the guard captain was a man who considered himself well-informed, he felt heartbroken.
"Of course you can. Just come back and tell your uncle." The guard captain actually wanted to send Yang Pi to a land suitable for burial, but he had the responsibility of being the guard captain, and all he could do was to open a burial for the child.
back door.
What Yang Pi just heard from the guard was a bit surprising. According to what he had heard in the slums over the years, the guards in Tiandou City had never opened the back door for anyone. He had prepared the burial and climbed the wall in the middle of the night before going in.
's ready.
But when I think about the age of my current body, it is normal. In any world, as long as it is not a troubled time, children are always easy to take care of.
"Thank you, uncle." Yang retorted and said thank you. Without saying anything more, he held the jar in his arms and walked out of Tiandou City for the first time in his life.
The air outside the city was no different from that inside the city, but seeing a different scenery again after six years, Yang Pi was still a little touched in his heart.
Tiandou City is the capital of a country, and wars generally do not reach this place, so there is no need to fortify walls and clear the country.
So as Yang Pio learned in the slums, except for the main road and the area a hundred meters or so around the city, it was covered with lush trees, forming a continuous forest. Even from the main road, it looked like nothing.
You can't even see the end of the forest.
After walking five or six hundred meters into the forest, Yang Pi chose a relatively flat area with soft soil and dug a small hole with his bare hands into which he could place the jar.
After Yang Bu buried his mother's ashes, he took a small stone and carved his mother's name on another larger stone, and finally inserted it into the ground to form a monument.
Chapter completed!