Just as they were getting bored, a man came to the inn.
"Gui San, give that beggar some food."
The few couriers who were chatting saw the man's appearance and immediately felt pity for him.
"Sigh, it's not easy to survive in this world. Let's help each other out if we can."
"Everyone has their own difficulties."
When the courier named Gui San saw the man walking toward the post station, he went to the kitchen and brought back two steamed buns.
"Hey, beggar, here's some food, take it."
After taking the steamed bun, Gui San walked up to the man, looked at him with pity, and handed him the bun.
The man in front of me had hair that looked like a bird's nest, his scholar's robe had more than a dozen large holes, and his face was covered with dirty dust. He did look quite pitiful.
This man was Li Boyang.
Half a month ago, after Liu Bowen and Zhang Junbao left, Li Boyang used Xueying as a hostage to keep Chi Bilie at home for three days.
Li Boyang kept his word. Three days later, when he thought he had gotten away with it, he released Xueying and immediately ran away.
Unfortunately, Chi Bi Lie's hatred for him was stronger than he had imagined. Once Xue Ying was safe, he immediately began to hunt him down.
Along the way, after leaving Dengfeng Town, Chi Bilie chased Li Boyang all the way to Ruzhou County, where he intercepted Li Boyang at the county government office ahead of time.
The two fought fiercely in the county government office, destroying the entire building. Li Boyang barely managed to escape Chi Bilie by relying on his nimble and agile skills and fled directly towards Ye County.
Unexpectedly, Chi Bi Lie still pursued him relentlessly, chasing him all the way from Ye County to Luohe, and then from Luohe to Zhoukou. The two fought more than ten times along the way. Although Li Boyang was at a disadvantage, he was able to escape each time by relying on his lightness skill.
It wasn't until they were almost in Haozhou that the two had a final battle. Chi Bi Lie finally realized that he couldn't defeat Li Bo Yang, who had no scruples, and then he stopped the pursuit.
The contest between the two along the way has fully demonstrated that in a contest at the Qi Refining Realm, unless the gap is too large, it is easy to defeat one side if they want to escape, but very difficult to kill them.
Seeing that Chi Bilie had finally given up, Li Boyang breathed a sigh of relief. Chi Bilie had been chasing him for half a month, and now he had finally gotten rid of him.
When two steamed buns were handed to him, Li Boyang was dumbfounded for a moment. Then, looking at his current appearance, he felt embarrassed and, after a long pause, said:
"Thanks."
For the past two weeks, I haven't been able to eat a proper meal or take a shower. I've even been sleeping with my eyes half-open. I'm in a terrible state right now.
Seeing that Li Boyang didn't eat the steamed bun after taking it, Gui San said with pity:
"Eat quickly, then we'll get going."
"You're fleeing to Jinling, aren't you? Sigh, I've seen plenty of beggars like you fleeing to Jinling. But Jinling is definitely much better than this wretched place of ours."
"Can I ask you something?"
Li Boyang awkwardly took a bite of his steamed bun. After all, it was the other party's good intention, and he wasn't angry at all that the other party had misunderstood him as a beggar. With his clothes, anyone would think he was a beggar.
"Go ahead and tell me, but I can't guarantee I'll know."
"Have you ever seen two people, one of whom is a woman who is very beautiful, the kind of beauty that you can remember at first glance?"
Li Boyang emphasized the word "handsome" because he couldn't help it; if he described a handsome man to a stranger, the other man probably wouldn't remember him.
Describing a beautiful woman to a stranger is different; basically, any man who has seen her before will have some impression of her.
Gui San shook his head and thought for a moment, then said:
"Beautiful women? I don't think there are any."
After saying that, he added:
"Although many people pass through this post station every day, if a woman is as beautiful as you described, I will definitely remember her."
"Have you ever seen a scholar like this before...?"
Li Boyang had no choice but to describe Liu Bowen's appearance to Gui San.
"Scholars like that..."
Gui San recalled for a moment and said:
"There really was one. I just saw him this morning. He looked distraught and headed towards Woyang County."
Thank you.
Li Boyang frowned, sensing something was amiss. Why was Liu Bowen alone? Where was Shen Rong? He had specifically instructed Liu Bowen to take Shen Rong with him to Jinling.
Moreover, Gui San said that the scholar he saw seemed somewhat lost and disoriented, and Li Boyang felt that something might have happened.
After calculating the time, he realized that although he had taken a long detour while being chased by Chi Bi Lie, he should have arrived in Haozhou around the same time as Liu Bowen. Moreover, Gui San had just confirmed that the scholar had passed by in the morning, so Liu Bowen should be nearby.
After exchanging a cupped-hand greeting with Gui San, Li Boyang sped off towards Woyang. In his haste, he used his lightness skill, covering dozens of meters in a single step, and disappeared from Gui San's sight in a flash.
"Oh my god, am I seeing things?"
"It turns out he's a reclusive master. I actually mistook him for a beggar. I was so blind. Luckily, he's a magnanimous person who doesn't hold grudges."
Gui San rubbed his eyes blankly, then pinched his left arm hard with his right hand. After confirming that there really was someone in front of him, he seemed a little scared.
On the official road from Haozhou to Woyang.
Liu Bowen was marking a spot in front of a large tree with a tile-shaped stone. He would leave a mark in a conspicuous place every few hundred meters along the way. Beside him was a steed that was losing weight, obviously exhausted from the journey.