The Xue family's reputation was no longer there. The mansion that the family had in the inner city of the imperial capital was already sold out when it was prosperous. Now the entire family has moved back to the old mansion before it became a family. If it weren't for Xue Hong's sudden appearance, it would have been difficult for even this old man to be saved. Perhaps the end of their family leaving the city and wandering in a foreign land.
Shangguan Lingxue has lived in the Nanhuo Empire for several years. In these years, he has more or less knowledge of some prestigious families in the past or present. Although he knows outdated families like the Xue family, he still knows very little. He has never set foot in the kind of market place where the Xue family's old house is. If it weren't for Han Xuan's status as a master of alchemy, Guan Lingxue would probably not have gone to the place that was called the lowest level by the nobles in his life.
But Shangguan Lingxue didn't care where she went. As long as she was with Han Xuan, the noble and supreme alchemy master's identity in the eyes of others was just a worthless name. At this time, she seemed to have suddenly become a little woman by her beloved.
It was a constant journey from where Han Xuan and the others were at this time to the Xue family, but the two did not take any means of transportation, as if walking together was the most suitable way of travel in their minds at this time.
The two of them were not boring on the road, and they seemed to have endless topics to talk about. As they got farther and farther away from the center of the imperial capital, they gradually could no longer see the noble and wealthy businessmen in luxury clothes. Instead, they were ordinary civilians in coarse linen and hawkers selling in the streets to live in the scorching sun.
Shangguan Lingxue's pure beauty seemed to have become a beautiful scenery on this noisy street, attracting countless men and women to stop and watch. Some civilians even shocked Shangguan Lingxue to the goddess in the sky. Her eyes were straightened and she didn't want to leave this girl with a face that was not mortal. The women around them were also envious and jealous, but they could only vent this inexplicable anger on these perverts who had already taken root with their feet.
Han Xuan was not disgusted with such a look, but instead felt a little proud. The dementia of these people shows that the woman he loved deeply was the beauty of the woman he had inverted the beauty of all living beings. The eyes of these people were full of looking up, not the lustful look like Jiang Long.
But after all, Shangguan Lingxue is really too eye-catching and has affected the normal walking of the two. She is no longer the lively and active beautiful girl from Xijinshi. Now she is a beautiful girl full of vitality and a hint of maturity. In order not to waste their time, Han Xuan finally brought Shangguan Lingxue to a place where no one was, and changed her face with changing her face.
In this way, Shangguan Lingxue's face was completely changed, but what made Han Xuan helpless was that changing the face talisman could only change Shangguan Lingxue's appearance and could not change his noble temperament. Han Xuan had to sigh in his heart, but no matter what, Shangguan Lingxue is no longer a person who is looking up to. Some of them are at most a rich family's daughter.
When he returned to the street again, he lessed the attention of others. Shangguan Lingxue also felt much more relaxed. The two gradually integrated into these ordinary people, especially Shangguan Lingxue, who rarely came to such places since he was a child, was novel about many things here. At this time, Han Xuan was not in a hurry, and slowly accompanied Shangguan Lingxue to look around.
Suddenly, a scent of fragrance attracted Shangguan Lingxue's attention. She took a deep breath of the fragrance and said, "It smells so good, it seems that some delicious pastry has just been released."
Han Xuan smiled slightly, pointed to a corner on the street and said, "You'll know if you go and take a look."
The two walked over in the direction where the fragrance came, and saw a small stall in the corner where five or six young beggars were standing in front of the stall. Several dirty little faces showed a look of desire, and some saliva was already flowing down the corners of their mouths.
There was an old man in his sixties busy behind the stall. At this time, he was using a wooden clip to gently clamp the pastries in the cage on the stall into a clean wooden plate next to it. The old man's movements were very slow and light, as if he was afraid of destroying the pastries that were burning red with fragrance.
After a while, only two pieces of pastries were left in the cage, and the others were neatly placed in the wooden plate. The old man took out a piece of oil paper and spread it on his palm. He gently picked up the remaining two pieces of pastries on the oil paper, handed them to the little beggar and said, "Come on, take them and eat them together. The business has not been very good these two days. Today I can only give you so much, otherwise I will lose money."
When a few little beggars heard this, they immediately stepped forward to take the pastry in the grease paper and didn't say anything. Each of them bowed to the old man and ran to the steps beside him to eat the pastry that was not big. Looking at the little beggars, the old man shook his head and said to himself: "I am so young and wandered on the street. When will this end!"
Just as the old man said that, he turned around and looked at the fire behind him, Han Xuan and Shangguan Lingxue had already arrived at the stall, looked at the red pastries on the plate, and then looked at the few little beggars who had already divided the pastries and eaten them. Shangguan Lingxue suddenly asked, "Boss, are there no adults in these children's houses?"
When the old man heard that a customer had arrived, he quickly turned around and saw that Han Xuan and the other two were of good temperament. He was obviously stunned. Then he said, "Ah, these little beggars are all orphans. They have been here for several months. I heard that the family was hit by disaster and their parents were dead, so they came here together to beg here. I saw that they would give them a few cakes of pastries every day. Maybe they would come to stay here every day because they were kind to me. Unfortunately, my small stall might not last long, and they would have to leave here at that time."
When Han Xuan heard this, he said, "What kind of pastry are you? It should be so delicious. How could it not be able to hold on?"
"You two think you came from another place, right?"
"Yes, old man, neither of us is from the Southern Fire Empire."
"I said that's it. My old man He's fire cloud cake is famous far and wide. Even the nobles in the inner city know one thing or two, and they have never had to worry about sales. However, the government's tax revenue is so high now that I am old, I can't make much pastry a day, and the money I earn is basically handed over to the government, so I said I can't hold on anymore."
"No, didn't the Southern Fire Empire always love the people as much as their sons and not implement the imperial power system?" Shangguan Lingxue had never heard of such a thing, so she said.
"Silly Xueer, the so-called "Nanhuo Empire does not engage in imperial power" is just to share the rights to various major families. As for the common people, they are only divided into various families. If they encounter good family management, it would be fine. If it is a family that is greedy, I am afraid that this life will be even more miserable than the people of other empires. Am I right? Old man."
"This young master is right. That's it. When the Xue family was strong, they were very good to us people. We just had to pay a small part of the tax. But now the Xue family is not good. After the Lin family controlled the place, the tax was mentioned again and again. We also found the Xue family, hoping that they could speak for us based on their previous reputation so that we could survive, but..."
"Why, they won't help?"
"That's not the case. I'm saying that. Unfortunately, the Lin family is very powerful and does not buy the Xue family's account at all, so the matter will be left alone."
"So that's the case. Humph, when the matter here is done, I'll see if I can find someone to say something for you." Shangguan Lingxue thought for a while and said.
At this moment, a cold voice suddenly appeared and said, "What are you here who dares to speak shamelessly? Do you want to bewitch people's hearts?"
Han Xuan and Shangguan Lingxue looked at him and saw more than a dozen people walking in the distance. Among them, the one who was walking in front was a thin black man in his thirties, wearing a black warrior uniform, a short knife on his waist, and a dozen people who were also dressed in a thug at the same time, and then walked over with a fierce look.
From a distance, Han Xuan could see that this person had the cultivation level of a general, and the people behind him had mixed cultivation levels and were just low-level cultivators. I thought it was just a group of Lin family thugs and guards. Han Xuanli ignored them and turned to Old Man He and said, "Old man, I've made the Huoyun Cake today. Put down the wooden plate and clean up the stall early and go home."
After saying that, Han Xuan took out a small bag of hundreds of gold coins and handed it to Old Man He. Old Man He naturally knew what Han Xuan meant and hurriedly said: "Thank you, this young man, but my Huoyun Cake doesn't use so much money, just one gold coin is enough."
"Haha, just take it, take these children as far as they go, the faster the better."
With these gold coins, let alone these little beggars, even if there are a few more savings, it will be enough to raise them into adulthood. Old Man He knew that this might be bad today, so he hurriedly greeted a few little beggars, cleaned up the stall and put down the Huoyun cake and left the place. The man in black had brought people to Han Xuan and the others at this time.
He couldn't see through Han Xuan and Shangguan Lingxue's cultivation, but they had always been accustomed to being domineering here and never knew how to be afraid. They were the only ones who bullied others here, and no one dared to say no to them. Today, these two people dared to ignore him. He had already made plans in his heart and wanted to teach these two eyes a lesson.
But he didn't know that Han Xuan had already planned to teach them a lesson when he sent Old Man He away.