I am a prince in Zhutian Films

Chapter 156 Kaiyang City News
Southwest Road, Kaiyang City.

As everyone knows, there are two families in the entire Southwest Road.

One is the Gu family from Jinqianfang in Chaisang City.

The other is the Yan family of the Wood and Jade Shop in Kaiyang City.

The Gu family has been the number one family in Southwest Road for many years, suppressing the entire Southwest Road family.

However, in recent years, the Yan family has somehow connected with Yuelu City and has been developing rapidly, even to the point of surpassing the Gu family.

In other words, the Gu family has always occupied Chaisang City, the richest city in Southwest Road. Their family wealth is really too rich, otherwise the Yan family would have squeezed the Gu family off the throne of the number one family in Southwest Road two years ago.

Early that morning, Chu Zhao and his group of four rode horses to Kaiyang City. A girl about twelve or thirteen years old hurriedly ran up and stopped them.

"Sir, would you like to buy a maid? My sister and I are easy to support. If you buy one, she can work and warm your bed."

The girl who was speaking had a flattering smile on her face. Behind her followed three little girls, who looked to be about four or five years old. They were pale and thin, with exposed hands and feet with distinct joints like chicken claws. Their bodies were tattered and they looked sickly. It seemed that they would not even survive this autumn, let alone this year's cold winter. If no one bought them, they would eventually die.

Along the way, the four had seen too much killing and death.

If someone died in front of them, they might not even blink.

But when they saw the orphans and widows selling themselves, they were still somewhat moved.

Chu Zhao, who was riding on a horse, frowned tightly.

Yueyao and the other two got off their horses. Yueyao even helped the skinny girl who was kneeling on the ground up. She smiled as kindly as she could and asked, "From your accent, you sisters are the survivors of Beique?"

"Yes!"

It was just one short word, but the girl said it with great difficulty, as if she had used up all her strength, and then she lowered her head after she finished speaking.

Chu Zhao dismounted and looked at the girl and said, "Why did the remnants of Beique come to Kaiyang City when they are not in Beique's native land? Tell me the reason first, and then I will consider whether to buy you or not."

The girl nodded and began to narrate.

The story is not that complicated. The girl's family originally lived in Beique's hometown, but her father followed the crowd and sold himself to a man from Chaisang City who came to Beique's hometown to do business. So her family moved to Chaisang City. However, after selling themselves as slaves, life was not as good as they had imagined. Her father was disliked by the servants of the master's family because he worked hard and was never complained. They falsely accused him of stealing money and beat him to death without any investigation. When her mother got the news, she took the four sisters and fled Chaisang City overnight, but they eventually starved to death on the road. After that, they begged all the way to Kaiyang City, where they finally settled down.

The girl's story is not uncommon. They have met many people along the way whose parents and elders wanted to be dogs for the Beili people. In the end, their endings were miserable, and there were many who were even more miserable than the girl's family.

After listening to the girl's story, Yueyao asked, "Do you hate Beique?"

"I hate it, but I hate my father even more. If he hadn't wanted to get rid of his identity as a Beique survivor and wanted to have the identity of a Beili person, my mother wouldn't have starved to death, and we wouldn't have sold ourselves into slavery now."

Chu Zhao took over the conversation: "If I remember correctly, the atmosphere in Kaiyang City is quite good. It is not difficult for orphans like you to find a family to adopt you. Why do you insist on selling yourself and your sister?"

"Because we are Beique people, we are Beique people who voluntarily sold ourselves to Beili people. You Xichu people look down on us. Beili people don't care whether we live or die. Only those who spend money to buy us will cherish us. Otherwise, if we break, they will throw us away as rags. Only by spending money will they feel sorry. Only by spending money can my sister and I survive. So we sell it at a very high price, one hundred taels. Sir, do you still want to buy it?"

No one cherishes things that are easy to get, and no one cares about things that don’t cost money. Even if you die... no one cares.

The girls' actions were essentially a screening exercise. If they spent more money, they either felt bad about it or had more money to be kind. In both cases, they would have a greater chance of survival. Of course, if they met a wealthy pervert, they would also die, but the probability of this was low.

"You are very smart. How did you know that I am from Xichu?"

"I have seen the style of the jade pendant on your waist on many people from Western Chu."

Chu Zhao nodded: "You are from Beique, I can arrange for someone to send you back to Beique, or to Tianwaitian."

"As long as you are willing to buy us, we will be people of Western Chu from now on. If possible, I would rather be born a Western Chu person."

They had encountered situations similar to this girl before, but this was the first one who said she would rather be born a Western Chu person.

Chu Zhao couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, then he said thoughtfully: "I will give you two choices. You can choose to follow me, but I won't pay you for selling yourself. You can also choose to go to Beique or Tianwaitian. I will give you 100 taels, which is enough for you and your sister to settle down and live, and I will send you there safely."

"I'll follow you."

"Why don't you want to go to Beique or Tianwaitian?" Yue Yao asked puzzled.

"Yes, Miss, because I want to live with dignity."

After hearing this, Yueyao fell silent.

Chu Zhaoze was amused: "Interesting, follow me."

I took the four sisters into the city and found a stall to have breakfast.

A thin little girl, whose clothes were full of patches but very clean after being starched, who looked to be about six or seven years old, stood timidly not far away, looking at them.

Yueyao walked over, squatted down, and looked at her softly: "Are you hungry?"

The little girl nodded honestly, looking very well behaved. "Sister will treat you to breakfast." Yueyao said softly, and at the same time reached out and held the little girl's hand.

The little girl didn't move, she took out a small purse and shook it, then said with a smile: "Big sister, I have money, I have had breakfast, and although the food in his house is delicious, I won't eat it."

Yueyao was a little confused: "Why?"

The little girl didn't say anything. She broke free from Yueyao's hand and ran to the busy food stall owner. Before she could say anything, the food stall owner cursed, "Get lost. I won't sell my things to you criminals."

"You are the criminal. Your whole family is the criminal. When my brother comes back, I will beat the shit out of you!"

The little girl waved her fist at the vendor like an angry little leopard, then ran back to Yueyao and said with a smile: "Sister, you see, he doesn't sell things to us Western Chu people, but we won't buy his things either. We Western Chu people have backbones. We Western Chu people are not criminals. We Western Chu will restore our country, because the young master said that even if there are only three households in Chu, we will be the ones who will be destroyed!"

At this moment, Yueyao suddenly understood why Chu Zhao said that Xichu and Beique were different.

Along the way, I have seen too many Beique survivors who knelt and licked the Beili people. The backbones of many of the Beique survivors have been broken, but the people of Xichu are still standing.

She now understood why Chu Zhao was determined to restore his country.

Because the remnants of Western Chu are still resisting, Beili will increasingly suppress them. The situation of not selling things to them is just the tip of the iceberg.

Yueyao rubbed the little girl's head and said in a low voice: "Even though there are only three families in Chu, the dead must be Chu. Don't say such words again in the future, understand?"

"I've always known it."

Yueyao was stunned: "Then why did you tell my sister?"

"Because my sister came here with the young master, she's not a bad person."

"Little Lord?"

"Yes, Young Master Chu Zhao!"

Yueyao looked back and happened to meet Chu Zhao's gaze.

"Luoxue, come here."

Hearing the shout, the little girl took Yueyao's hand and ran towards Chu Zhao happily.

"Little Lord."

"What kind of clothes are you wearing? They're so ugly. Your brother is so stingy that he can't even afford to buy you a nice piece of clothing."

The little girl snorted: "My brother is not stingy. This is a patchwork quilt that my brother made specially for me."

There is a custom in Western Chu of wearing patchwork clothes to seek blessings, and Chu Zhao knew about it.

But isn't that for babies?

"Why did your brother make you wear patchwork clothes?"

"Not long ago, a very good master came to Kaiyang City and told my fortune. Later, my brother made me a patchwork quilt."

"That master wouldn't be called Wangyou, right?"

"Hey, young master, how did you know?" The little girl looked surprised.

"That old monk is quite capable, but you have a congenital deficiency like yours, so you can only rely on recuperation. You must come back to Yuelu City with me this time."

"If my brother goes, I will go too."

Chu Zhao nodded. He came to Kaiyang City specially this time. In addition to meeting someone, he also wanted to bring the people of Western Chu in Kaiyang City to Yuelu City.

"Go, everyone go. By the way, where is your brother?"

"I went to Yan Mansion early this morning."

Chu Zhao hummed and handed over a bun: "Would you like to eat some?"

The little girl shook her head: "I won't eat anything made by people who hate us, Xi Chu, no matter how delicious it is."

"You little girl." Chu Zhao smiled helplessly, "Okay, wait until I finish eating, I will take you to find your brother and Yan Bietian, and we will go to the Yan Mansion to eat delicious food."

Fifteen years ago, the Sword Immortal Gu Mo and the Confucian Immortal Gu Chen stood on the top of the city wall of Lausanne, fighting against Baili Luo Chen's nine thousand Wind-Breaking Army with one sword and one song.

In the end, Gu Chen vomited blood, Gu Mo's sword broke his head, both of them were stained with blood on the battlefield, and Western Chu was destroyed.

After the fall of Western Chu, Baili Luochen was granted the title of Marquis of Zhenxi for his merits, and the former people of Western Chu returned to Beili. The Yan family of Kaiyang City, which ranked second in strength in Southwest Road, was once a major family in Western Chu.

(End of this chapter)