Chapter 621 - 610: Thief
No matter the turmoil outside, once the three-day holiday had passed, Bai Shanbao had to return to class at the prefectural school.
And once at the prefectural school, the various messages from outside were even more abundant, and the circulation was faster.
Even though he had few friends, he still learned quite a bit of news from Wei Chen and Kang Xiaodong, mainly because these two were very talkative; after getting news from elsewhere, they couldn’t help but share it with him when they came to find him.
Once Bai Shan knew, he naturally shared it with his two little companions, and so Manbao and Bai Er also knew.
Once the two of them knew, everyone in the small courtyard knew too, including Mr. Zhuang.
After dinner, with nothing to do, everyone sat in the courtyard bathing in the setting sun, eating melons, and chatting idly.
They were literally eating melons, as the people who had come into the city were still confined within the city and could not leave; the day before yesterday had been too chaotic, and yesterday there was a search for assassins, so everyone was also anxious and uneasy. Today, the situation had finally improved a bit.
The villagers who had brought goods to sell in the city only remembered to sell the contents of their baskets now.
Zhou Silang went out today to buy bowls and jars and saw that there weren’t many people on the streets, but when he saw some people selling fruits, though they weren’t very fresh anymore, he still bought quite a lot to bring back.
As he put it, "Now even vegetables are scarce on the streets; having fruits to eat is good enough, where can you be picky about freshness?"
So, after dinner, everyone was there eating melons and chatting.