Path Of The Lilies

Lu Wan"s face darkened. "What do you want to say? I should find another way inside? I doubt that I"m going to find any."

"I"m just saying."

"But it"s rather clean," Lu Wan looked at his hand and there was barely any dirt there. It was as if the place was well maintained.

"For big cities, they will splash water after they dump everything. Even though some might be left behind and the smell is really bad, it"s not that dirty. Of course, it"ll be better if we head over to take a bath right away."

Seeing the smile on Qi Huan"s face, Lu Wan had the feeling he understood why this prince didn"t" mind. It didn"t like they were jumping into a lake full of….

Never mind, he didn"t even want to think about it.

"Let"s head over to the nearby inn. We can just say that our previous inn suddenly closed down, so we have to move," Ye Jiao beckoned for them to follow after her into the city.

Lu Wan blinked. "How did you come up with an excuse so quick?"

"I"m already used to it."

"From the missions?"

"Yes," Ye Jiao replied immediately. The three of them arrived at the nearby inn and the onlooker gave them a glance. After all, they smelled quite bad because of their entrance to the city.

The manager also frowned when he saw them. "Is there anything that I can help?"

"Our previous inn closed down, so we"re searching for a new inn to stay," Qi Huan answered. "Is there still any room here?"

Some people snickered when they heard that. Seeing the children"s appearance, it was apparent that they were kicked out. Probably, they didn"t even have money to afford the inn to stay before.

"I"m sorry, but…" The manager wanted to kick them out because of their smell. There were still some rooms left, but these children didn"t look like they would bring him a lot of money.

Lu Wan took out a gold coin. "Will this be enough?"

The manager"s eyes widened. "Yes! Yes! Sure, I"ll prepare the room soon enough."

"Three rooms please," Ye Jiao also took out a gold coin and place it on the table.

"Got it, I"ll prepare it right away."

Right now, the manager understood that these people were not lacking in money at all. They might just have some unfortunate incident to make them smell really bad, but who cares? All he thought was how these people would surely bring him money. 

Lu Wan pa.s.sed a glance to the people around him. He was in a bad mood because of their entrance and seeing these people belittle them only made it worse.

They quickly looked away as they knew that these children were rich. No one wanted to offend someone who could possibly have made their lives miserable. It would be better if they just backed away and tried to hide themselves.

"The rooms are ready."

"Take us there."

The three of them got large room on the second floor. As soon as they reached their respective room, the first thing they did was take a bath. Neither one of them could withstand the smell any longer.

It was too awful!

By the time they finished, they gathered in Lu Wan"s room as if they had agreed on it beforehand.

"Can"t we gather in other people"s rooms?" Lu Wan"s face darkened when he saw the two of them in his room. He had just finished taking a bath, so he hadn"t worn his s.h.i.+rt, only his long pants.

"I think it"ll be impolite to enter a lady"s room," Qi Huan smiled. "As for my room, I"m sure that you wouldn"t want to enter."

Recalling the traps that Qi Huan set up in his room, Lu Wan rubbed his forehead. He wanted to give this prince a surprise, but it ended up badly instead. He picked up his robe that he placed on his bed. "So, what"s the plan for today?"

"Investigating the city," Qi Huan smiled. "We should determine which place we"ll visit before we depart."

"I"ll head over to the streets and ask some punk there," Lu Wan answered.

"I"ll try to ask the children around. Children tend to be more honest, so I think I might get some good information about the city from them," Ye Jiao replied.

Qi Huan nodded. "Then I"ll try to ask in the restaurant to the servants and many other customers. Let"s head out."

As soon as Qi Huan said that, the three of them walked out of the room. Ye Jiao got out of the inn and walked around the city. There were a lot of boys running here and there, but she didn"t see a lot of little girls.

She stopped when she arrived by the square a she saw a group of children playing there.

"h.e.l.lo!" Ye Jiao greeted cheerfully.

The children stopped playing and looked over to Ye Jiao. "h.e.l.lo!"

"Are you new here?"

"I"ve never seen you before."

"I"m staying at the edge of the city and rarely come out," Ye Jiao scratched her head in embarra.s.sment. "Can I play along with you?"

"Sure!"

"Let"s play together!"

The children agreed and soon Ye Jiao had joined them to play the ball. Majority of the children were boys, but she could see that there were two other girls aside from her. After a couple of minutes playing around, they stopped to rest.

"You"re really fast at running, new girl," one of the boys remarked.

Ye Jiao just smiled. She couldn"t possibly say that she has higher physical strength than them due to her being Eon Energy Master, right? Even though she didn"t use Eon Energy at all, she was not losing in terms of speed.

"By the way, I have been wondering."

"Yes?"

"Why are there so few girls around?"

The boys looked at one another. "You must haven"t been here for long. It"s known that the governor loves little girls, so the number of girls in this city has decreased a lot."

"He likes little girls?" Ye Jiao was confused.

One of the girls shuddered as she nodded. "Yes! My mom says that I shouldn"t get out when the governor makes his trip around the city once a week because every little girl who enters his residence will never come out."

"That means he"s a bad governor?"

"Not really. He"s really rich and he helps out people," the other girl chirped in. "It"s just he has weird taste."

"Do you know what happened to the girls he took?"

The children shook their heads. Neither one of them knew for sure what happened to the little girls that the governor took in as their parents never told them too. Perhaps it was a way to protect them by keeping them in the dark of the matter.

"But I overheard the adults saying that he kills them all."

"Hii!" the girls shrieked.

"Yeah, he feeds them to the beasts."

Slap!

"Don"t scare us!" the first girl yelled to the boys with puffed cheek.

As the boys chatted around, Ye Jiao was holding back her feelings. When she heard that the governor killed the girls, she wished to kill that man instead. Treating innocent young girls as toys to kill…. He"s truly a sc.u.m that should go to h.e.l.l.