Chapter 5: The Strange Groom
The overall clothing of the carriage driver is taupe, which is the most commonly used color for ordinary people's clothing. However, this person's figure is too strong compared to ordinary people, and he also has an inverted triangle figure that is common among modern fitness enthusiasts.
As the old saying goes, the poor in culture and wealth in military affairs, in today's Douluo Continent, only people with a certain status and background can develop such a figure.
He wore a hood, but did not deliberately hide his face. As the carriage moved forward, his face was revealed when the wind blew.
If he were an ordinary person, he wouldn't be able to tell anything about it, but in his previous life in the Tang Sect, Yang Pi not only learned the Tang Sect's unique external and internal skills, but also learned how to recognize people as a compulsory course.
Yang Pi could see at a glance what was special and inconsistent about this coachman.
There is stubble from the chin to the nose, but it is shaved quite neatly and evenly, indicating that this person has requirements for personal appearance;
The corners of his mouth are habitually raised, indicating that this person has self-confidence that ordinary people do not have;
A pair of eyes that are somewhat sparkling and reserved, reflecting the person's self-confidence but not ostentation.
Such facial features would never appear on the face of an ordinary coachman.
The fact is just as Yang Pi thought, this groom is indeed extraordinary.
Just when Yang Pi's eyes turned to the coachman, the coachman also instantly noticed someone looking at him with a sharp gaze. The first time he noticed it, he looked at the source of the gaze, wondering who had noticed him.
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The carriage passed by at high speed, and the driver was the one behind him, so he only caught a glimpse of it.
However, just this one glance left a very deep impression on the coachman, because what he saw was just a child of about five or six years old, looking at him with such sharp eyes.
Surprised by what he saw, the coachman tightened his fist and pulled the horse's rope, which directly caused the carriage to come to a sudden stop, but it did not stop completely and continued to move forward.
"What happened?"
Following this sudden sudden stop, a soft girl's voice came from the carriage, but using the technique of soul power transmission, only the coachman could hear it.
When the coachman heard the girl's voice, his heart tightened for a moment, and he quickly replied using the method of soul power transmission:
"Miss, there was no accident. It's just that I haven't driven a carriage in decades, so something went wrong."
"Letting you drive the car is really overkill. I hope Haihan will do it." The girl in the carriage was extremely polite and showed no arrogance towards her own people. She was obviously a lady.
"Miss, you are serious. I am obliged to drive for you. I just disturbed you. It is my fault. I will never make any mistakes in the future." After the coachman finished speaking, he turned his attention to driving, as if it had just happened.
It's my own misconception.
On the other side, Yang Fu broke into a cold sweat when he looked at the carriage driving towards the main entrance of Tiandou City.
When his eyes met with the coachman's, Yang Pio remembered that with his current strength, he could never take the initiative to attract the attention of those masters.
Yang Pi had just been obsessed with thinking about his future, when something suddenly changed around him, and he reflexively observed the person coming. Fortunately, the opponent seemed to be hiding his strength and identity, otherwise the result would have been difficult to predict.
In order not to encounter the carriage just now, Yang Bo chose to walk slowly back to the main entrance of Tiandou City.
When he arrived, the white carriage he had seen before had indeed entered the city, and the captain of the guard at the gate did not break his promise. When he saw Yang Fu coming, he let him go directly.
Because he was just a child, this "bending the law for personal gain" did not cause any commotion. Yang Pio returned to the city smoothly and walked towards his home in the slums.
In Yang Pi's first life, the word "family with four walls" was often used to describe the poverty of a family, but this word is not enough to describe Yang Pi's current situation.
A small "room" of less than three square meters, not even a proper door, just three walls, with an alley on one side, and there was not even a curtain to cover it.
In the past, no matter what Yang Pi did, anyone standing outside could see it. There was no such thing as privacy. If he wanted to practice the Tang Sect's hidden weapon techniques, he had to go to the other side of Tiandou City, otherwise it would be too easy to be familiar with him.
People saw it.
Yang Pi sorted through the remaining things at home, a dusty rag used as a quilt, and a bowl full of chips. This was all Yang Pi had now.
Looking at these two old things, Yang Pi struggled for a while and made a decision.
'These two things can be regarded as my mother's relics. They must not be lost, even if I find a chance to bury them next to my mother's grave.'
"Xiao Tuo, are you back?" A middle-aged man's voice sounded behind Yang Tuo.
Yang Pi turned his head and immediately said with a smile:
"Uncle Chen, why are you here?"
The man Yang Pi called "Uncle Chen" was named Chen Di, and he was the only person in the slum who had a stove.
His stove was quite large. In addition to heating food, it was also used to cremate human remains. He cremated the remains of Yang Bu's mother, Yang Lin.
Nowadays, people on Douluo Continent naturally care about the integrity of a person's body after death. As long as they have the ability, they will bury the person's body as whole as possible.
But people in the slums will definitely not be able to find a cemetery to bury them after they die, because in the city, the only places allowed to be buried are public cemeteries, and burial in other places is against the laws of the Tiandou Empire.
You must know that the land in public cemeteries is not given away for free. If you want to be buried in a public cemetery, you must first buy a piece of land. The price is naturally not cheap. The equivalent per square meter is about the same as the housing price in prosperous areas.
People in slums naturally cannot afford to bury their relatives in public cemeteries. If they want to bury them outside the city, they will encounter a series of problems related to leaving the city.
Anywhere, corpses left unprocessed for a long time will cause plague. There are also educated people in the slums who have fallen into poverty due to accidents. They understand this truth, so cremating the corpse is the only choice for the people in the slums.
Generally, after the body is cremated, the ashes are placed in a jar and placed in a suitable location at home.
Yang Pi would choose to take risks out of the city that ordinary people would not choose, mainly because he felt that as a son of a human being, if he had the ability, he should let his mother be buried in peace, even if it was just her ashes.
Chen Di looked inside and didn't see the jar, so he asked:
"Xiao Pi, where are your mother's ashes?"
"It was buried outside the city. The guard at the gate saw that I was young and allowed me to enter the city without paying." Yang Pi knew that this was not the purpose of Chen Di's visit, so he continued to ask:
"Uncle Chen, what do you want from me?"
"Ah, Xiao Pi, I just heard that a new family has arrived in the east of the city. They seem to be recruiting people, and they only want women and children. I think you are alone now. Going there may be able to solve your livelihood problems." Chen
Chapter completed!