readytorunbook Chapter 412: The Couple Who Pretend to Be Pigs and Eat Tigers
Chapter 412: The Couple Who Pretend to Be Pigs and Eat Tigers
Liao Ji looked at the stick drawings on the ground and said, "You are really smart to come up with the idea of drawing. This way, you don't have to cooperate with them in juggling!"
When Panda heard Master Liao's praise, he proudly puffed out his hairy chest.
At this time, Master Mo asked someone to bring small stools for the abducted children to sit on.
To train these children, the first thing to do is to win their hearts.
Master Mo gave each child a piece of candy and said, "Perhaps you don't know what we do yet. We are actually animal trainers. We can train animals to perform with us."
"Do you want to see an animal show?"
He asked this question aloud, and although the children below did not dare to answer, their eyes were full of anticipation.
Master Liao, who was standing nearby, pretended to be excited and said, "I want to see it!"
Master Mo didn't expect that this little fool could still support him, so he relaxed his vigilance against Master Liao.
"Okay, then our circus troupe will give you a wonderful animal taming show!"
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The camp where the eldest prince is located is located in the northeast of Anemone City, between Anemone City and the eldest prince's Manxing City.
Xu Laoqi left the camp and rode his horse all the way to the main road. He was in a dilemma as to which city to go to to find the painter.
The camp is farther away from Manxing City, but a fight could break out in Anemone City at any time now.
There were groups of people walking in twos and threes on the official road, all of them coming from the direction of Haikui City and fleeing to Manxing City.
Just then, a female voice caught his attention.
Xu Laoqi saw a girl with a maid's hair combed in her hair holding three scrolls, and she asked the refugees passing by one by one whether they wanted to buy any paintings.
Next to the girl, a handsome young man was sitting in a wooden wheelchair, looking very sick.
There was a cart parked behind the two men, with the reins still loose on the front of the cart.
These two people were Jiang Lili and Xin Che who had disguised themselves.
Based on the location of the eldest prince's camp provided by Master Liao, the two calculated that Xu Laoqi would take this path, and had been waiting here for a long time.
Jiang Lili performed immersively, shouting: "Brother and aunt, do you want to buy paintings? No money, just give me some food!"
At that time, those who fled were all from the lower classes with poor families. Who could afford to buy paintings? They had nothing better to do!
The people who were asked all shook their heads and refused.
"No, no! I don't want it even if you give it to me for free!"
"Girl, let me tell you, even if you ask here all day and all night, no one will buy your paintings!"
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Xu Laoqi rode his horse leisurely, secretly keeping an eye on the master and servant.
The maid-dressed girl was frustrated after being rejected again and again. She walked to the man in the wheelchair and said, "Sir, what should we do? Paintings are worthless now. We will starve."
The young man sitting in the wheelchair forced a soothing smile on his face: "It's okay, Xiaoli, if big brother finds out I'm lost, he will definitely send someone to look for me."
The girl immediately showed a distressed expression when she heard this: "Sir, the eldest master clearly wants to abandon you! We have to find a way out ourselves!"
The young man in the wheelchair looked helpless and sad. He took the painting scroll from the maid, looked up and lamented, "I never thought that I have learned painting since I was a child and spent ten thousand taels of silver to ask the master to buy painting materials, but now the paintings are worthless."
Jiang Lili sat on the cart behind the two men and angrily hammered the cart: "Why am I so unlucky? The donkey pulling the cart got scared and ran away. Otherwise, I could have used the donkey to exchange for money."
Seeing Xin Che really pretending to be a sad young man by looking up at the sky at a 45-degree angle as she had taught him, she could hardly hold back her laughter and could only pound the cart to distract himself.
Xu Laoqi observed the two men for a long time. After hearing their conversation, he figured out the whole story. The man in the wheelchair was the second son of a wealthy family. His brother thought he was a burden, so he abandoned him and the maid and fled. The donkey that was pulling the two men also ran away.
Xu Laoqi looked at the scroll that the young man spread out. Even he, who didn't know much about the subject, could tell that the painting was of very high quality. The bird in the painting looked like it was about to fly out of the picture.
He was delighted. He had been worrying about running around to find a painter, but now he was really sleepy and someone handed him a pillow!
Moreover, from what the maid said about selling paintings, the two of them only needed someone to give them food to sell the paintings. In that case, there was no need to spend money to hire them. They could just take them to the camp and provide food and lodging. Wouldn't they be grateful?
What's more, this maid is quite pretty, while this young man is lame and powerless. Won't they control him?
Xu Laoqi showed a greedy and obscene smile, what a bargain!
Although it was too much of a coincidence that they happened to meet someone selling paintings as soon as they got on the official road, a normal person would never have thought that they were tricked by a panda and a two-and-a-half-year-old child.
Xu Laoqi rode his horse to Jiang Lili and Xin Che and said, "Our boss is in urgent need of a painting instructor. He can provide food and lodging for you two. Would you be willing to do so?"
Even if they are unwilling, it would be fine to just tie up the master and servant and take them to the camp.
Xin Che had already noticed Xu Laoqi's existence and reminded Jiang Lili, and now both of them showed expressions of surprise tacitly.
Jiang Lili blinked her innocent eyes: "Brother, you are really not lying to us, right?"
Xu Laoqi looked at the maid, who looked innocent and inexperienced, and gave a hypocritical smile: "Why would I cheat you? You have no money, what is there for me to cheat you of?"
"If I wanted to harm you, I could just find someone to kidnap you. The government won't care about it now because of the war."
Jiang Lili's eyes widened when she heard that, and she nodded foolishly, as if she agreed with Xu Laoqi's words: "Yeah, what you said makes sense!"
Xin Che saw Jiang Lili, the scheming little fox, pretending to be stupid in a very decent manner, and then caught a glimpse of Xu Laoqi's smug look on the opposite side, and tried his best to resist the urge to curl up the corners of his mouth.
He raised his eyes to look at Xu Laoqi, with a puzzled look on his face, "I wonder where this big brother's boss is now, how are we going to get there?"
Xu Laoqi pointed at the horse under him and said, "Don't you have a cart? I'll pull you over."
"As for where our boss lives..."
Xu Laoqi showed the badge on his waist that allowed him to enter and leave the Great Prince's camp, and said with a smug look on his face: "I am the Great Prince's man. Can you trust me now?"
He was not afraid that these two people were spies sent by the second princess or the third prince. On this official road, several refugees who stopped by the roadside to rest were the eldest prince's spies.
Once we enter the eldest prince’s camp, it will be impossible to escape.
“Oh my god…”
Jiang Lili's eyes widened when she heard what Xu Laoqi said.
She stammered, pointing at the badge, covering her mouth in surprise, looking like she had never seen the world before, and excitedly pushed Xin Che: "Sir, it's the eldest prince's man!"