Rebirth: Living in Wilderness with My Superpower-Chapter 973 A False Alarm

"These two are the notorious slackers of the Seventh Lane; no use pouring your heart out to them. It would be strange if they actually listened."

"Scholar Feng’s dad used to have some connection with us, and this is how you treat his kid?"

"He’s been dead for so many years, why bring that up? Besides, it’s Scholar Feng himself who’s not striving; he doesn’t even cherish himself. Why should anyone else care about him?"

The couple kept babbling on to each other as they slowly walked away and disappeared at the end of the lane.

Walking out of this long alley leads to a straight main road, where at this time, the streets were still full of patrolling soldiers who would stop anyone who looked suspicious.

The couple took notice when they emerged from the alley and realized the area they lived in was called Lower Left District, with Lower Right District across the street.

Bai Junjun suddenly remembered what Mei Hua had told her about meeting today in the Right Lower District. It turned out that the destination was just across the street. But what for?

Compared to Lower Left District, the buildings across the street were even more dilapidated and there were more guards on duty.

Seeing this, they didn’t dare to look around anymore and naturally walked on; however, experienced as they were at acting nonchalant, they still drew the attention of the soldiers.

Observing these two individuals trying to stay under the radar, a soldier immediately called out to halt them.

"Halt."

The two obediently stopped in their tracks.

Following that, a series of footsteps resounded from behind.

Without a word, they turned back and saw a small group leader with seven or eight people rushing over.

"Take off your face scarves, and show your household registration papers!"

"..." The couple cooperatively took off the scarves around their heads, revealing their bruised and swollen faces.

The Guard lifted an eyebrow upon seeing this, and the people behind him became alert as well.

Li Wenli awkwardly smiled as he took out their household registration document from his bosom, causing the small leader to almost bulge his eyes out.

"Feng Zhan?"

This Feng Zhan he knew quite well, a renowned slacker from the Seventh Alley of Lower Left District. His family used to be quite well-off and lived in the Fourth Left District. Driven by his father, he even earned the title of Scholar, but after his father passed away, he began to indulge and became well-versed in eating, drinking, and gambling. Eventually, he squandered his family fortune and had to move to the Civilian District of Lower Left District.

Recently, the Ninth Prince ordered the closure of all the brothels in Biluo and the redemption of the sex workers. Consequently, he followed the crowd and bought a Brothel Sister back home.

However, this couple has been fighting every other day. At first, their quarrels would draw intervention, but now almost the entire city Guard has given up on them.

The slight shift in the guard leader’s gaze signified his awareness of their disruption the night before, as if to say, can’t you two just give it a rest?

Li Wenli embarrassedly smiled, "You’ve caught us at a bad time, so humiliating. I was too ashamed to even greet you properly before."

"You two are really..." The small group leader shook his head. "With both of you in this state, why bother going out at all? Don’t you know the situation in the city is tense lately? If you’re mistaken for suspects and get arrested, you’d suffer for nothing."

Li Wenli nodded repeatedly, "You’re right. The main issue is we’ve run out of rice at home, and we had to go out to buy some."

"Do both of you really need to go out together just to buy things?" The Junior Guardsman behind couldn’t help but mutter.

Li Wenli continued with his awkward laugh, "Well, it’s nice to have company, isn’t it? We don’t want to keep you Official Masters from your duties, so we’ll make it quick."

The group leader waved his hand, signaling them to move along.

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