The Ordinary Man's Guide to Fast Travel

Chapter 135 The Son is a Villain 4

Wanqi Xiao successfully established his foundation after practicing for a year. He didn't care about the sword, but instead could fly directly on any material he came across.

Chao Yao was deeply moved when he saw that he could just summon a cloud floating on the top of the mountain and make it fly.

"Will I really not fall if I step on the soft clouds? It seems that Xiao'er is never picky about the tools he steps on to fly."

Wanqi Xiao was puzzled. "What I'm stepping on is just a tool. Why should I worry about what it is? Mom, come and try it. It's most comfortable to step on the clouds."

"Okay, let me try too, to see if clouds formed by water vapor can also fly."

Chaoyao was led by Wanqi Xiao to step onto a large cloud. There was still plenty of space for the two of them to stand on. As expected, as Wanqi Xiao said, the cloud was not wet vapor, but soft and very comfortable.

It's like shapeless cotton, fluffy and soft.

Wanqi Xiao took Chao Yao and flew around in the forest, visiting the entire forest.

"Mom, is this world only as big as the forest?"

"No, there is a bigger world outside the forest."

"Why don't we go check it out?"

For the first time, Wanqi Xiao wanted to go somewhere farther to take a look.

"That's fine. Now that you are strong, you should be free in this world. But there is one thing you must remember. We are different from the outside world. We have special abilities. Don't show them to outsiders."

"Mom, what is a strange ability?"

"For example, we can fly and we can cast spells."

“Why don’t people outside know this?”

"Hmm... I don't know either. Maybe the forest outside is different from ours. We'll know when we go and take a look."

It's time to let Wanqi Xiao go.

The arrow that originally hit the original body was shot by Wanqi Chunxi. They took great pains to find the mother and son, so they must have been afraid for some reason.

Chao Yao and Wanqi Xiao went back home, took the necessary daily necessities, and set up an invisibility barrier for the entire yard to prevent animals or people from entering. Only then did they leave the place where they had lived for four years.

Wanqi Xiao kept asking Chao Yao various questions along the way.

"Mom, do some people out there look like us?"

"the same."

"Mom, will there be little deer Beibei outside too?"

"should not."

"Mom, are there any delicious foods like ours out there?"

"There should be some. There may be other delicious food. Mom will take you to eat then."

Just after saying this, Chao Yao suddenly remembered that they didn't have a penny on them and couldn't buy anything.

"Mom will take you to get something, otherwise we won't be able to buy those delicious foods?"

"Mom, what do you mean by 'buy'?"

Chao Yao patiently explained: "'Buy' means using the money in your hand to exchange for what you want."

Wanqi Xiao nodded, not quite understanding, and asked, "What is 'money'?"

Chao Yao was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect Wanqi Xiao to ask such a deep question, but she still tried to explain it in simple words:

"'Money' is a tool we use to exchange things. Just like you can exchange small stones for sugar, money is like a more universal thing that can be exchanged for many different things."

Wanqi Xiao asked again: "What does 'universal' mean?"

This time Chaoyao was really stumped by the question. She thought for a moment and said:

"'Universal' means it can be used anywhere. As long as you have 'money', you can exchange it for many different things."

Wanqi Xiao nodded, as if he understood the concept of "money".

"Mom, where are we going to get the money?"

Chao Yao chuckled. She was going to go to Wanqiyou's palace to get money. His family owed her family several lives, so let them pay back some first.

"Go get it from the person who owes our family money."

Wanqi Xiao continued to ask, so Chao Yao explained to him what happened four years ago.

After a detailed explanation, Wanqi Xiao might not understand, but he remembered that Wanqi You and Wanqi Chunxi owed their family, leaving him without a father, although he didn't know whether a father was a thing or a human being.

Chaoyao found the nearest county government office in the town. The main purpose of their coming to the county government office was to get the map. Without it, the mother and son would not even know where the gate of Wanqiyou's palace was.

At least we must first know the location of the imperial city where the Wanqi royal family lives, so that we can eventually find the place.

Chao Yao looked at the dilapidated county government office in front of him and the county magistrate wearing patched clothes, and he also had a preliminary understanding of the primeval forest where he was.

Although the forest is rich in resources, no one has ever been seen coming in over the years.

The people in the surrounding areas probably can only rely on the food they grow to avoid starving to death.

Chao Yao searched carefully and finally found the map in the county magistrate's study.

Tianqi Country is very large. The original body had been kept on the farm for sixteen years before she got married. Apart from going home, she had never been anywhere else.

Now that she saw the map, she realized how large the area was. It was twice as large as the modern China where she had lived before.

There are mostly lakes and forests, and the plain area is located in the imperial city.

Chao Yao made a copy of the map and put it back, then took Wanqi Xiao and continued to rush towards the imperial city.

On the map, the imperial city was called Shangyang City.

Shangyang City was far away from here. The two of them flew and stopped many times, and took rests in between, so it took them three days to get there.

The entire Shangyang City is a square city with a wide and deep moat. Chao Yao held Wanqi Xiao's hand and stood on the clouds, looking down at this seemingly prosperous capital.

In this prosperous Shangyang City, there are constant hustle and bustle of traffic and crowds of people, which forms a sharp contrast with the barren scenes that I have seen before.

It seems like another world here.

"Mom, where do the people who owe us money live?"

Chao Yao looked at the little boy Wanqi Xiao with indignation on his face and pinched his chubby little face.

"Mom has looked carefully. They live on the left side of the center. The charred ruins on the right are our former home."

Wanqi Xiao's face wrinkled, "Mom, why is our house still like this? Can't we rebuild our house right away and move in?"

"We can't build it yet, because we need to get some money now. If this house is built suddenly, it will be used as a raft by others, and then it will be more trouble than it's worth. When you grow up a little bit, you can build it yourself, okay?"

Wanqi Xiao was a little depressed, but he was willing to listen to what his mother said.

"Okay, I'm going to make this house more beautiful than the one in the middle!"

"Okay! I'll listen to Xiao'er."

"Mom, let's go get the money quickly. I want to see what money is."

"Let's go."

Chao Yao took Wanqi Xiao by the hand and flew over the sky above Wanqi You's palace. He cast the invisibility spell and the two of them slowly descended.

Just now, Chao Yao had carefully looked and found that there were many warehouses in Wanqiyou's palace.

There are at least several hundred boxes of gold, silver and jewelry just in the study and under the artificial lake in the middle.

Chao Yao brought Wanqi Xiao to the study first. Wanqi You was not there at this time, so it was convenient for the two of them to enter the secret passage directly.

This secret passage mechanism may be extremely difficult to find in the eyes of others, but it is completely invisible in front of Chao Yao.

The two entered the warehouse, and Wanqi Xiao looked at the room full of gold, silver and jewelry with some disgust.

After seeing all kinds of things Chao Yao took out at home, he looked down upon these things.

"Mom, are these things money?"

"These are not money, but things that can be exchanged for money."

Wanqi Xiao pursed his lips, "It's much worse than ours."

Chao Yao nodded, "Indeed."

What she took out from the space were all accumulations from previous lives, and each one was carefully selected.

"Mom, do we still want it?"

"Of course we do. This is just the tip of the iceberg. There's more in the lake. That's where the real universal money is. Xiao'er, keep the things here. You can melt them down later. It will look good if you change them into something else."

Wanqi Xiao reluctantly cleared out the entire warehouse. The two of them left the warehouse in the study, without locking the door, and came to the artificial lake.

There is a mechanism here at the artificial lake. After it is opened, the artificial lake will be divided into two. There is a staircase leading downwards. Walk down and open an invisible door to enter the warehouse.

It was broad daylight now, and there were many people coming and going in the palace. Chao Yao was thinking of some way to lure them away when a quarrel broke out in the study and everyone ran over.

"Mom, we must have been discovered while moving things just now."

"Well, while the situation is chaotic, Mom will open the mechanism and we can go in and empty the money out of the lake."

Chao Yao turned on the mechanism, and the entire lake was quickly divided into two, and the steps appeared. The two of them flashed to the invisible door.

But in the blink of an eye, the entire warehouse at the bottom of the lake was emptied by Wanqi Xiao.

By the time the guards discovered something was wrong, Chao Yao and Wanqi Xiao had already flown to the clouds to watch the show.

Wanqi You was hurriedly called back by the guards. After seeing that both of his warehouses had been emptied, he became furious.

"Who is it! Who is it? Ah!"