Chapter 617: About to Depart
Over the next month, many nobles and high-ranking officials from Xianning City came to visit the Daoist.
It wasn’t that Lady Chai or the young master of the Yang family had gone around telling others, the matter was simply too hard to keep secret.
Xianning City, though considered sizable for the times, actually wasn’t very large. Take the main street that ran east to west just outside the inn, and walking from one end to the other didn’t take long. That street essentially formed the city's perimeter.
When Song You visited the Yang family, Lady Chai had been so excited that many servants had witnessed the visit. Then, she had come to the inn twice herself, once with her sickly, bookish young master in tow, along with other relatives and distinguished guests. Plenty of people saw them.
The tale of the mysterious guest in Xianning had already spread throughout the city and beyond, and Lady Chai was a well-known figure.
In her story, there had once been a Daoist who traveled with a cat. Now, here in Xianning, there was another Daoist, also with a cat. Wasn't that quite the coincidence?
In time, people naturally took notice.
Many in the world longed for the Immortal Dao and were fascinated by the mystical and strange. And now, with a real cultivator and an actual strange tale of Immortal Dao right before them, how could they resist coming to pay a visit?
This was no fault of Lady Chai or the young master.
As for the Daoist, he didn’t much mind.
He went out strolling daily, meeting all sorts of people. Sometimes he just ate a bowl of rice vermicelli, bought a fried shrimp cake or a brown sugar sticky rice patty, or visited little shops unique to the region. When people recognized him as a Daoist and struck up conversation, he would pause and chat. Sometimes, he would even take the initiative to speak first.
Among the wide variety of people he encountered, there were naturally also nobles and officials. They were just less likely to be found while he wandered about.