Chapter 4 – Guanqi Descends the Mountain, Meets an “Old Friend”!
The road leading down the mountain away from Prosperity Village was narrow and treacherous, but to Li Guanqi, it might as well have been flat land.
He had lost count of how many times he had traveled on this road. Almost everyone in the village who drank relied on him to buy wine from the town below.
The descent was quick, and he had almost reached Changxing Town by noon.
Li Guanqi breathed deeply. Beads of sweat had sprouted from his forehead. A smile spread across his face as he gazed at the town still a few kilometers away.
“I’m finally here, and I'm much faster than before. I've improved once again!”
Then, he shot off to town like an arrow.
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Changxing Town was a large town with more than two hundred thousand people.
It was a market day, so the town was much busier than usual, filled with the shouts of vendors across the streets.
A girl wearing a light blue dress was looking around the place. Her dress had been washed so many times that it was turning white.
The girl was Meng Wanshu. She was carrying the rice, flour, and oil she had bought.