My Life Can Be Simulated Infinitely – Chapter 22

Ch 22: Enduring Humiliation

After leaving the Lian Mountains, they arrived at Tianshui City.

Around noon, outside Tianshui City, four figures, two men and two women, appeared. It was Gu Yang and his group. Su Qingzhi and Zhixing were too beautiful, so to avoid attracting attention, they both wore veils.

“Tianshui City!”

Gu Yang looked at the three characters above the city gate. He had a deep impression of this city.

In one of his simulated lives, he had taken root here and become the richest person…

Zhang Xiaohai, who was beside him, asked, “Young Master, have you been here before?”

Gu Yang shook his head and said, “Let’s go.”

When they entered the city, they were not harassed; they looked like people who were not to be trifled with.

The four of them went to the largest inn in the city and booked two rooms. Zhang Xiaohai took one room, and Gu Yang shared one with the two women.

Su Qingzhi was a maidservant, so naturally, she would share a room with her master.

And Zhixing was Su Qingzhi’s maidservant, so of course, she would stay in the same room as her young mistress.

Gu Yang was doing this on purpose. He wanted to see how long this young mistress could endure.

For the past ten days, the four of them had been in the mountains, eating in the open and sleeping in the open. Now that they were in the city, they naturally needed to rest and recuperate.

Gu Yang sent Zhang Xiaohai out to buy some daily necessities. When he returned to the room, he saw Su Qingzhi tidying up the bed.

Zhixing whispered beside her, “Miss, let me do it—” Seeing him come in, she quickly stopped talking and turned her back to him.

Ever since this little girl found out that he wanted Su Qingzhi to be his maidservant, she had been angry and had not spoken to him along the way.

She really had a temper.

Gu Yang walked up to Su Qingzhi and saw that she had lowered her head, looking as if she had accepted her fate.

She had actually endured until now. Even when he had just said that he would share a room with her, she had not objected.

He was really starting to look at her in a new light.

Gu Yang reached out and took off a jade hairpin that she had inserted in her hair, saying, “I’ll borrow this for a while. I’m going out for a bit. You guys stay here and don’t wander around.”

After speaking, he turned and left.

“Hey—”

Zhixing called out, about to stop him, but Su Qingzhi held her back.

She said anxiously, “Miss, that hairpin is a memento that your madam left for you…”

Su Qingzhi shook her head, “It’s just an external object, it doesn’t matter.”

“Miss, I’ll go beg Brother Gu to let you off the hook. I’ll be his maidservant instead.” Zhixing didn’t want her to suffer such humiliation.

Su Qingzhi said, “I want to live, and I want to practice martial arts, to avenge my parents myself. Right now, only he can help me. I must endure humiliation to fulfill my mission.”

“Miss—”

Zhixing’s eyes were filled with tears. She felt that her miss had really changed. Before, when she was captured by the Over the Mountain Wind bandits, she would rather die than submit.

Now, she could actually endure such humiliation from Brother Gu.

Her miss was such a proud person before, but now she was actually serving as someone else’s maidservant.

Brother Gu was really going too far.

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After leaving the inn, Gu Yang asked the people on the street for directions and arrived at a pawn shop.

He took out the jade hairpin and handed it over, asking, “How much silver can I get for this?”

The appraiser in the pawn shop, an old man, glanced at the jade hairpin and then sized up Gu Yang. Seeing that he was a hunter and judging from his accent, he knew that he was from out of town. He had already made his calculations in his mind and said, “A jade hairpin, can be pawned for two taels of silver.”

“So little? I won’t pawn it then.”

As soon as Gu Yang heard this, he reached out to take the hairpin back.

“Wait.”

The old appraiser grabbed his hand and smiled, “Young brother, would you like to come inside for a chat?”

Gu Yang also smiled slightly, revealing his white teeth, and said, “Sure.”

After entering the back room, the old appraiser had someone serve tea and said, “May I ask, young brother, where did you get this hairpin?”

“It’s none of your business where I got it. Just tell me, how much is it worth?”

The old appraiser chuckled, “What a coincidence, our pawn shop was robbed a few days ago, and we lost a few items. One of them was this hairpin. I guess, if you were the thief, you wouldn’t be so stupid as to bring the stolen goods from our shop to pawn. So, let’s just say you found it. Here are two taels of silver, you can take it, and the item will be returned to its original owner.”

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He said it as if it were the truth.

Gu Yang didn’t expect them to fall for it so easily. He had prepared many methods, but it turned out that they were not needed at all.

It seemed that they were used to scamming outsiders, which was why they were so skilled at it.

Gu Yang “angrily” said, “B*llshit, this is my wife’s dowry. How could it be something from your pawn shop? Give me back my item.”

The old appraiser’s face turned cold, and he said, “It seems you don’t know what’s good for you.”

Immediately, two burly men with clubs appeared at the door.

“Take him to the government, and say that he stole a jade hairpin worth three hundred taels from our pawn shop.”

“Yes.”

The two burly men stepped forward menacingly, about to grab him.

Gu Yang looked at them and chuckled, “You guys are really black-hearted.”

Two “ouch” sounds were heard.

While speaking, he kicked the two burly men to the ground, and they could no longer stand up.

The old appraiser was dumbfounded.

Clang!

A saber was placed against his neck. His hand trembled, and with a snap, the teacup shattered.

A light, teasing voice sounded in his ear, “Tell me, how do you want to resolve this?”

The old appraiser was lamenting in his heart. He knew that he had misjudged, and had actually kicked a steel plate.

He said tremblingly, “Hero, please spare me, everything can be discussed.”

“Okay, you said it, discuss it.”

Gu Yang stuck the saber into the table and said, “Send someone to notify your boss. If he doesn’t come to see me within half an hour, I’ll go to his door and have a good talk with him.”

“Yes… yes…” The old appraiser didn’t dare to say no and quickly sent someone to notify him.

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A quarter of an hour later, Gu Yang was sitting leisurely, with his legs crossed, drinking tea.

He had taken this jade hairpin from Su Qingzhi in order to bait the hook.

There was no other way, he was broke. It didn’t seem appropriate to just rob people directly, so he came up with this idea to filter out the unscrupulous merchants.

As a result, it went exceptionally smoothly.

“Which little thief dares to come to Tianshui City to cause trouble?”

Suddenly, a sharp shout came from outside. A figure flipped in from the outside, a saber in hand, stabbing towards him.

The person who came was at the ninth-rank.

Gu Yang casually waved his hand and sent the person flying.

The person only felt a terrifying force surge over, and did not stop until they crashed into the wall. Their entire body was sore, and they could not even hold their saber, which fell to the ground with a clang.

“Young Miss—” the old appraiser exclaimed in alarm.

Gu Yang looked at the woman. She was about seventeen or eighteen years old and quite pretty.

“She should be the wife I married in that simulated life, right?”

Thinking of this, he felt a little strange.

That’s right, the owner of this pawn shop was the father-in-law who had poisoned him in that simulated life.

Although all of that had only happened in a simulated life, he was a vengeful person, and he had to get back at them.

“Yu’er!”

At this time, a rough voice sounded, and the next moment, a middle-aged man rushed in from the door.

The main character had arrived.