Chapter 424 Threat (1)_1
"It can’t be my second uncle," Ma Zhicai kept reminding himself. Perhaps, he had mistaken a stranger who resembled his uncle for him due to too much drinking.
After successfully reassuring himself, Ma Zhicai decided to sit down and continue drowning his sorrows in alcohol.
While drinking, Ma Zhicai still felt uneasy. The figure of that man indeed resembled his second uncle, Ma Erlang. Even if he had mistaken him due to blurred vision, that man and his uncle looked too alike.
Unable to shake off his anxiety, he immediately put down his liquor bottle and ran out of the tavern to check, yearning for another confirmation.
People were bustling to and fro outside. Where could he find the person what he was looking for?
Despite the vastness of the Northern Land and its scarce resources, Feng City, its center, remained very prosperous. Numerous shops lined both sides of the street, and merchants wearing various ethnic costumes were everywhere - coming from the south, heading to the north.
It was almost impossible for Ma Zhicai to find a single person in this overwhelming crowd.
He stood outside the tavern for a while, observing, until he confirmed that the person he was looking for wasn’t there. Then Ma Zhicai returned to the tavern to continue drinking, a bit disheartened.
After he drained another pot of liquor, his face reddened like a heated iron, "Waiter, I want to settle the bill, please."
He stood up unsteadily, took out some copper coins from his pocket, handed them to the waiter, and then staggered off.