A life of two souls traveling through time

Chapter 105 Darkness becomes a warehouse

It was not yet the hour of Mao and the sky was still dark. There were rustling sounds in the quiet courtyard. Soon, Li Yunye and An Yun tiptoed out of the room with their luggage in their arms. They walked through the quiet courtyard and just as they opened the gate, they saw Mu Liang's steady figure before them. Li Yunye was so scared that he quickly hid the luggage in his hands behind him.

"Hehe, Brother Muliang, how come you got up earlier than me!" Li Yunye laughed dryly with guilt.

"The journey from Liangdu to Xiyue Kingdom is long, and the disaster that befell the famous Li in Jiangnan this time was man-made. There will definitely be dangers along the way. As your brother, I can't let you take this risk." Mu Liang turned around slowly and looked at Li Yunye with a rare serious expression.

"In the current situation, I think it is more important to guard the cloth shop than to go out to look for dyes. Brother, you are father's right-hand man. When the famous Li family in Jiangnan is in danger, you should stay in Liangdu to stabilize the shop in the city!" Li Yunye didn't know where he got the courage from, but he suddenly argued with Mu Liang.

"But you are also the son of my adoptive father and the young master of Jiangnan Mingli. In the future, you will have to shoulder the burden of Jiangnan Mingli. If not for my adoptive father, you have to do it for Jiangnan Mingli..." Before Mu Liang could finish his earnest words, he was knocked unconscious by An Yun, who appeared behind him at some point.

Li Yunye looked at An Yun in astonishment, but soon stepped forward and supported the unconscious Mu Liang together with An Yun and gave An Yun a thumbs up. He did not expect that this usually silent boy could be so powerful. Then the two of them spent a lot of effort to carry the tall, heavy, unconscious person back to the room.

"Brother Muliang, I'm sorry. As a member of the Li family, I also want to help the Li family in this critical moment, but I can't guard the shop and appease people's hearts. So leave the search for dyes to me. Don't worry, I will be careful. Besides, An Yun is good at fighting and can protect me."

Li Yunye covered Mu Liang with the quilt and whispered to comfort him. Although he knew that his brother who was knocked unconscious could not hear him, it was indeed what he really thought. He admitted that he had always been a coward. Under normal circumstances, he would never go out alone and travel so far. But now that Jiangnan Mingli was in crisis, he had to make a choice.

Li Yunye and An Yun walked out of Liangdu City. Fortunately, Liangdu City did not have a curfew like Qile City, so they did not have to wait for the city gate to open.

"Why hasn't the carriage arrived after such a long time?" Outside the city gate, Li Yunye looked around anxiously. The carriage that had been arranged in advance did not show up as scheduled, which made him feel uneasy.

"Don't be anxious, sir. Let's wait a little longer." An Yun followed behind Li Yunye and comforted him in a low voice.

"I guessed that this uncle was unreliable. I should have hired the steady young man next to him." But Li Yunye still complained dissatisfiedly. He was so unpunctual on the first day. There was still such a long road ahead and he didn't dare to imagine what kind of situation would be waiting for them.

It was almost the morning of Mao and the sky was already slightly bright. Although the city gates were wide open, there were only a few small vendors doing business coming in and out, and the soldiers guarding the city who were yawning and waiting for their shift change.

The sound of horse hooves suddenly broke the silence from the city. A carriage slowly drove out of the city and stopped in front of Li Yunye and An Yun. A middle-aged man with a beard and casual clothes smiled at Li Yunye embarrassedly:

"Hehe, sorry for waiting for you, I accidentally overslept."

The late and lazy coachman in front of him made Li Yunye regret more and more that he should not have compromised with his pestering when he hired a carriage in the market yesterday. However, time was pressing and he couldn't find another carriage. Li Yunye sighed depressedly. He didn't feel like paying attention to the smiling coachman and got into the carriage directly.

An Yun followed silently and got on the carriage, but his eyes flashed slightly when he passed the coachman. He nodded at him, and the coachman also gave a mysterious smile.

"Master, master, we are back, the dyes are back!"

Early in the morning, Manager Yuan excitedly rushed into the Xingming Building of the Li Mansion again. He came to Li Xingyuan's bedside with tears in his eyes and couldn't help crying.

"But Butler Fang is back?" After several days, Li Xingyuan finally heard the good news. He sat up happily and asked Manager Yuan.

"It's Ange, little Ange!" Shopkeeper Yuan stepped forward to support the old man, nodded his head and then reacted, then shook his head repeatedly and continued to cry with joy.

"Ange?" Although Li Xingyuan was happy in his heart, he was puzzled when he heard that it was Ange who brought back the dye, and hurriedly asked Manager Yuan to call Ange in.

"Ange greets the master. Is the master feeling better?" Ange walked into the room exhausted and bowed solemnly to Li Xingyuan who was sitting on the couch.

After not seeing each other for just a few months, An Ge in front of him still looked pretty, but she had become much stronger, and her words and actions were more steady. She was no longer as timid and cowardly as before. Li Xingyuan was very satisfied to see An Ge's growth, but he was not in the mood to chat with An Ge at the moment, so he hurriedly asked the doubts in his mind.

After An Ge told Li Xingyuan the truth, he realized that in order to prevent any accidents, Butler Fang had asked An Ge to secretly go to Liunan Country with a letter to find the cloth owner of the dye merchant, while he went directly to Southern Xinjiang. But An Ge didn't know why there was no news from Butler Fang after so long.

Although the dyes that Ange brought back were far less than Li Xingyuan's expectations, they were enough to solve the immediate problem. The enemy in the dark had not yet emerged. Just in case, Li Xingyuan ordered Manager Yuan to block the news of the purchase of the dyes, and asked Ange to secretly transport the dyes to a farm in the countryside and secretly dye a batch of new cloth there.

The people of southern Xinjiang are hospitable, and the women of southern Xinjiang are even more unrestrained and generous. After entering southern Xinjiang, Butler Fang happened to catch up with the locals' singing and dancing. He was recalling what grand festivals there would be in southern Xinjiang in March when he was surrounded by a group of women in local costumes. Each of them held a bowl of sake in her hand and sang folk songs that were difficult to understand.

Butler Fang, who had followed the master on his travels for decades, naturally knew that this was a unique roadblocking wine in southern Xinjiang, and those who were stopped had to drink all the wine in their hands before they could pass. Butler Fang initially refused politely, but he didn't expect that his refusal would attract more people to block him, and he finally couldn't resist and had to drink all the bowls of wine in front of him. Butler Fang knew that he could drink well, but he didn't expect that he couldn't help but get drunk after drinking only three or five bowls. It was three days later when he woke up.

There is a small southern Xinjiang Miao village located in the deep forest valley. When Butler Fang woke up from his drunken stupor and looked at the strange room in front of him, he quickly became alert. When he walked out of the room, he saw endless peaks and mountains. His heart sank immediately: he had fallen into the trap again.