The Empress’s Gigolo

Chapter 916 Doubt
Ren Baqian felt relaxed after dumping the bodyguards. This was the first time that he didn’t have to go out with bodyguards after arriving in this world.

Although Lin Qiaole was still with him, there was no difference with or without her around.

As for Xin Zhe, she was at least eye candy? However, she really did keep to her word and even followed him to the toilet. Even when he returned to Earth during this trip, she would make her bed on the floor of his bedroom in full gear.

Ren Baqian felt that he was going crazy from being monitored at all times. With someone watching from behind, most people couldn’t even urinate!

Apart from this small problem, he was still full of expectations for this trip.

Thinking about it, besides Xin Zhe, there weren’t any aboriginals with him. On his left was the world’s third ranked expert, on his right was one of the 30 most powerful experts in the world, and behind him was one of the world’s top 20 experts, who happened to be stupid. Apart from Gluttonous Duke, Ren Baqian was accompanied by beautiful women, although most of them had problems with their heads.

However, the identities of these people made Ren Baqian feel a sense of anticipation to travel around the country.

This happiness continued until several people entered the city…

“What are you looking at? Never seen a bald head before?” His eyes swept viciously across the two guards at the city gate. They had been staring at his head for a long time.

One of them smiled and said, “Please wait!”

After just a few minutes, a man who held a slightly higher position, seemingly a team leader, rushed over and cupped his hands.

“May I know if you are an official of the aboriginals? Why have you come to Liang City?” he asked respectfully.

Ren Baqian knew that he wasn’t an aboriginal. Even though he didn’t think so, others felt that he looked like one!

He had a bald head and was tall, beefy, and fierce-looking. He made others feel terrified when he glared.

It wasn’t as if there weren’t any tall and beefy people in the Yun Nation or Great Xia, but there really weren’t any bald heads. Even if there actually was one, he would probably pluck some hair from other places on his body and stick them to his head to conceal the baldness.

In the past, bald heads were rare in the Yun Nation, but they had become quite common recently. However, all of them came in groups and usually left very hastily.

There were none who walked alone.

As such, the team leader felt a little nervous when he saw someone like Ren Baqian and wondered about his purpose here!

“Which part of me looks like an aboriginal?” Ren Baqian glared.

“Huh?” The team leader was stunned. This person in front of him looked like an aboriginal from all angles, but a true aboriginal definitely wouldn’t say something like this!

“I’m just a little bald? A little fat? Are there any aboriginals who are as good-looking as I am?” Ren Baqian swung his hand and tossed two taels of silver over.

The team leader didn’t know whether there were any aboriginals who were as good-looking as Ren Baqian was, but certainly none of them would offer a bribe at first sight.

If he was really an aboriginal, the guards would probably have gotten beaten up for taking up his time!

This was what had happened to two of the guards at the west gate. One of them got kicked and flew off while throwing up blood. He wasn’t able to get out of bed for half a month afterward.

At the thought of this, the team leader took it easy and quickly gave way with a smile.

Although the person in front of him wasn’t an aboriginal bigshot, he wasn’t someone to be trifled with.

Especially not when this group of people seemed a little weird. There was a baldy who looked like an aboriginal, a Daoist nun, two beautiful ladies, and a person who looked like a beggar. With these people arriving together in a group, there was no doubt that they were people who were part of the martial arts society.

Ren Baqian and his companions then entered the city. Even though he tried to make himself appear very experienced, his eyes immediately became like those of a curious baby. There were two small curious babies following behind as well.

After all, he had always been in Dayao after he arrived in this world. Although he had been to Great Xia once, it was in a bad state at that time with the whole place in shambles. He had never seen what Great Xia’s cities looked like.

“Oh, are those sugar people[1:Sugar people: traditional Chinese form of folk art using hot, liquid sugar to create three-dimensional figures]? This is a rare sight these days! How much for one? Give me ten of them! Shape them like our faces! I’m not going to pay if you don’t do a good job!”

“Those are handmade lanterns. This is my first time seeing such handmade stuff. They are quite pretty!”

“Boss, what fruit is this? Is it sweet? How much does 500 grams cost?” Ren Baqian asked a few questions and threw a few taels of silver over. “Give me ten kilograms!”

He quickly took those mango-like fruits and stuffed them into Lin Qiaole’s hands while keeping one and eating it as he walked.

Li Yuanzhu and Gluttonous Duke felt amused as they observed his behavior. They knew that these goods were uncommon in Dayao, but they didn’t know how rare these things were for him.

After walking for a long time, Ren Baqian suddenly stopped and asked, “Have you noticed that after walking for so long, we haven’t seen anyone who looks like they are from the martial arts society?”

His first thought was that these martial arts practitioners were hiding somewhere and waiting for the impending storm!

“We are too close to the border here. This place has been chaotic for the last two years. Which member of the society would come here for no reason?” Gluttonous Duke explained casually.

This was when Ren Baqian came to understand the situation.

Although the Yun Nation had already fallen two years ago and this was no longer the border, in the eyes of the commoners, it still was.

They spent a day in Liang City, allowing Ren Baqian to satisfy his craving for traveling abroad in a feudal society.

Over the next few days, they passed through several cities and found that in addition to Liang City, there weren’t any practitioners from the society in other cities either. This was especially the case when they arrived at Yu City, the heart of the Yun Nation. Here, they still didn’t see any traces of warriors. With the exception of three people, everyone else felt that something was amiss.

“Seems like the other party is pretty powerful!” Ren Baqian looked grave.

He still didn’t believe that all the warriors in the Yun Nation could have worked together to kill Wu Kai and the patrol teams. What he was seeing at present could only be tricks played by the culprits.

He just didn’t know how they did it!

Capture all the warriors in the Yun Nation? Apart from Dayao’s imperial court, who else could have the power to do such a thing?

Not even the imperial court of Great Xia could do this!

Ren Baqian wasn’t talking about pigs, but about thousands of experts who could leap on top of roofs and vault over walls!

“There’s a place called Shuibo Village about half a day away from here. I had a few encounters with the village chief back when I was traveling in my younger days. Let me go check out the situation!” Gluttonous Duke said. “You guys wait for me here. I’ll set off now and return tomorrow night!”

“Thank you!” Ren Baqian nodded.

Gluttonous Duke left his horse and vanished into the crowd. He found a less crowded place and leaped onto a roof in a flash. After a few moments, he was out of the city.

At this time, everyone’s mounts had been replaced with horses. After all, the mounts that the aboriginals used were too eye catching, especially the crow general. Once people saw that bird, they would immediately know that Ren Baqian was here without even having to prove his identity!

After Gluttonous Duke left, Ren Baqian searched around the city and found a grocery store with the word “Zhang” written on the signboard. He used his finger to make a mark at the foot of the wall before leaving to find a place to rest nearby.

In the current situation, he wasn’t in the mood to have fun anymore.