Chapter 574: 574

Chapter 574: Place to Stay

Those hoodlums didn’t notice him and Yan Liqiang acted like he didn’t notice them either and just walked past .

The capital city wasn’t a completely unfamiliar place to Yan Liqiang . He knew that in a place like the capital city, those hoodlums had deep connections behind them . Most of them would be the eyes of different levels of government as well as the wealthy . Even the Emperor had some eyes like this .

If these hoodlums didn’t notice you on the streets, it pretty much meant that no one would notice you in the capital city .

It seemed like his image change was very successful this time . Yan Liqiang laughed to himself and kept walking ahead while munching on his flatbread .

Everything in the capital city was expensive . They weren’t affordable for a newcomer youth so Yan Liqiang didn’t go in the city and started walking around the town like an ordinary youth . By the time Yan Liqiang finished the flatbread, he arrived at an ordinary inn and walked in . He asked for the price and then took the cheapest room .

“This room sleeps ten, six copper coins a night . You can’t bring anyone in, and you don’t have a blanket . If you want a blanket, then it’s two extra copper coins per night . I’m going to tell you now — you need to look after your belongings in the common room . If you lose anything, it’s not our responsibility . There’s no use even if you report to the law enforcement office, you understand?” The attendant brought Yan Liqiang in .

Yan Liqiang heard this and could only nod .

In the inn corridor, there were quite a few random things stacked there . The people living here were pretty much all poor foreigners . During the day, they would all go out to find jobs, so most of them weren’t here . A few people were playing chess in the courtyard . When they saw Yan Liqiang, they just took a glance and lost interest .

In the blink of an eye, the attendant took Yan Liqiang to the common bedroom .

That common bedroom was indeed a common bedroom . In a twenty square-meter room, there were two wooden beds that reached from the door to the corner of the wall . There was a narrow passage in the middle and there was a hay mattress on the bed as well as a few tattered bags . The smell of sweat mixed with foot odor drifted in the room .

“There are only seven people in this room now, so just find a place to sleep . ” The attendant pointed at the bed and was about to leave . He didn’t want to stay here for one extra second .

“Brother, may I ask where I can find a place to work in the capital?” Yan Liqiang pulled the attendants sleeve and shoved a copper coin in his hand, acting like he didn’t know anything . “I just arrived, so please give me a few pointers!”

The attendant felt the copper coin and stuffed it in his chest before telling Yan Liqiang the places to look for work in the city . Then, he left after Yan Liqiang expressed his gratitude .

Looking around the room, Yan Liqiang casually threw his bag at the head of the bed and just went out . He went to the nearest job street and roamed around until night .

When Yan Liqiang came back, the rest of the people in the room came back too and were discussing job opportunities in the room . One of them had found a short-term job which was keeping horses for a wealthy family, but the others haven’t found a job yet .

Yan Liqiang was very quiet and listened on the side, rarely speaking . The group chatted for a while and then fell asleep .

Before sleeping, Yan Liqiang checked his bag . It had been searched indeed . In the bag, there were only two sets of tattered clothes and a fake family letter . There wasn’t a single copper coin inside . Yan Liqiang pretended he didn’t know and used the bag as a pillow and slept .

In the middle of the night, snoring sounds echoed in the room . Yan Liqiang felt a hand touch his body and reach for his arms, wanting to take what was there . Yan Liqiang kicked and there was a grunt . The hand retreated back and nothing else happened that night .

The next morning, the person who found a job left the inn . The rest of the people acted normal and cleansed themselves with the water from the well next to the hostel before leaving . Yan Liqiang was the last .

While washing his face, Yan Liqiang scooped the water up from the well and looked down at the reflection . Yan Liqiang smiled, and the face looked quite similar to Wang Baoqiang’s, full of ruralness . No one who saw this face would think he was some expert . This was what Yan Liqiang wanted .

In the next four days, Yan Liqiang left early and came back late, acting completely like an ordinary person . He also went to those job markets and walked around . He didn’t get anything these few days, but at his inn, two hoodlums and a law enforcer came at night . A few people sleeping in their room were called out . But they only scanned Yan Liqiang once and didn’t ask anything .

On the fifth day, Yan Liqiang left the inn early in the morning and bought two buns on the side of the streets . He chewed as he went to the Hundred Clans Market outside the city in the west . Yan Liqiang had been strolling around this area for the past few days . This was the place where Yan Liqiang hired Xu Enda and the rest .

At just daybreak, quite a few people had come to the empty space next to the river . Yan Liqiang came here and also found a place waiting for his ’employer’ to come .

It was the 24th day of the second lunar month in the 16th year of the Yuanping reign in the Great Han Empire . This was the day he arranged to meet Fang Beidou .

As the sun came out, more and more people started coming over to hire people . Yan Liqiang came up and when the sun was getting high, Yan Liqiang finally saw Fang Beidou…

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