Escaping a Pursuit

Mu Yuchen looked down and the buckets near his stall and sighed. He's already been in the city for quite some time, but he still has another 30 buckets to sell…

It would be good if that little kid could come and buy his chestnuts daily, wouldn't it? Everyone would be happy, the little girl could bring chestnuts to her family, he could go home earlier and his lady would have her money…

Well, Mu Yuchen thought of going back to Liuojia Village to spend more time with his lady and got back his spirit. No point in standing here and doing nothing, might as well look for some more clients.

"Fresh chestnuts for sale, 150 copper coins per bucket. Taste guaranteed!" He shouted.

Although the amount of traffic was much lower now than during the peak hours in the morning, some people were still going by, hearing Mu Yuchen's shouts.

Most of them, after hearing the ridiculous price of 150 copper coins per bucket, simply ignored Mu Yuchen and looked for other shops selling food. After all, only idiots would buy something so expensive without knowing the quality first…

But some people did come to Mu Yuchen's stall, even if just to watch the fun. In this way, after another hour of hard work, Mu Yuchen finally managed to sell out all of his chestnuts.

Not wanting to lose more time, Mu Yuchen pushed back the stall towards Liujia Wood Workshop and prepared to go back.

Liu Jiahao saw him coming inside the shop and asked, "Are you done selling for today?"

"Yes, I've sold out all the buckets again…" Mu Yuchen nodded his head, before pushing the stall to the back room and moving towards the exit.

"Boy, wait for a minute…" Liu Jiahao quickly called him, before saying, "Are you planning to stay in the business for a long time? If you can guarantee to buy buckets from me every day, I can hire more people and increase the amount of buckets made daily…"

Mu Yuchen thought about Liu Xiaolan and what she wanted to do. He had no idea if his lady planned to stay in this business for a long time, since they've already changed the way they earn money once before, going from selling mushrooms to selling chestnuts.

But he couldn't be sure of what his lady wanted to do, so he said, "I'm not sure myself, I need to ask my lady about it…"

Liu Jiahao also knew that Liu Xiaolan was the mind behind this operation, so he said, "Ask girl Liu once you go home what she thinks. If she can guarantee to buy the buckets I make, I can increase the amount of buckets made to 200 per day, this should be enough for her for now…"

Mu Yuchen agreed with him and said, "Alright, I'll ask my lady about it and tell you her answer tomorrow…"

Seeing that Liu Jiahao didn't have anything more that needed his attention, Mu Yuchen quickly went outside and started running towards the exit of the city. Compared to yesterday, it already took him much longer to sell the chestnuts, there's no more time to lose now…

Thinking of going back to his lady, Mu Yuchen had a smile on his face, while the speed with which he run increased.

Meanwhile, in an alleyway nearby, a group of people gathered and were waiting for Mu Yuchen to come out. Once they saw him, they quickly followed in his steps.

"Boss, this guy wouldn't know that we want to take care of him?" One of the people asked.

Another guy said, "He shouldn't, Mao Long called for us to take care of him not long ago, how could the news be known by that guy?"

"If he doesn't know, then why is he running so fast?"

The boss looked at the running Mu Yuchen and said, "Stop talking and try to keep up with him, otherwise he'll escape and we won't know where to look for him…"

However, it would seem that luck wasn't on their side today, since Mu Yuchen managed to lose them just a few streets later. After all, these little guys from the local gang pretend to be the local grandfathers, where would they have the strength to follow in Mu Yuchen's speed?

Not to mention that the gangs in Shenyang can't be considered to be real gangs. Because of military's control over the area near Shenyang, the lives of gangs aren't too good.

Let's not mention that they need to be careful of breaking the law in public, but compared to gangs in other cities of Datang Empire, they didn't even dare to have any weapons on them.

After all, what do they need the weapons for? If they dare to kill someone and the military decided to investigate, wouldn't they all end up dead?

Because of this, even if the little gangsters had enough strength to follow Mu Yuchen, they wouldn't dare to show their intentions in public, otherwise they wouldn't have any good days in the future.

Hell, compared to the gangs in other cities, they are more like people from the usury, taking care of people not paying their loans, taking money for offering 'protection' etc. Because of that, they don't break too many laws and even the city officials for most of the time simply ignore them.

Mu Yuchen continued to run while looking behind himself and sneering. He has actually noticed that he was being followed by a group of people, but he couldn't be bothered to take care of them for now.

'They should count themselves lucky, if not for the fact that my lady waits for me at home, they wouldn't want to go back today…' Mu Yuchen thought to himself.

Anyway, a bunch of weaklings like these guys weren't much for him. They can't even keep up with him, much less try to fight against him. If they dare to come again in the future and bother him, he can just take care of them at that time…