The next day, Xu Kuang appeared in everyone's sight with big dark circles under his eyes, which startled everyone.

Ryan hurriedly stepped forward and asked:

"Young Master, what's wrong with you? Are you alright? ”。

Xu Kuang smiled and said to Ryan:

"It's okay, by the way, Grandpa Lane, I broke something in the room, don't forget to compensate.".

Ryan nodded suspiciously, but didn't say anything.

Hathaway leaned in and asked:

"What's wrong with you? How is this going on? ”。

Xu Kuang smiled:

"It's nothing, I just failed to research alchemy props."

Xu Kuang did fail, but he didn't expect it to fail so completely, and he didn't succeed once in one night.

His problem is not that the key attributes are not enough, the intelligence attribute is over 40 points, and the mana is more than 2000 points, so he can try to make a space ring. What really bothered him was how to make the last stroke and the first stroke connect perfectly.

This is the most difficult.

Xu Kuang glanced at his watch and asked:

"Are you all ready?".

Ryan nodded.

Xu Kuang nodded and waved his hand:

"Let's go.".

The group left the inn and headed for the city gate.

After everyone left the inner city, they were quite embarrassed when they saw the scene of the outer city.

Ryan couldn't help but sigh:

"It's the same city, why is there such a big gap between inside and outside......".

Xu Kuang sighed and said to Ryan:

"Mushroom Ridge will be like this in the future, but it's not the same as here."

Hathaway couldn't help but ask:

"Why?".

Xu Kuang smiled:

"It's very simple, because we only have enough energy to develop a small part now, and the remaining part can only be put on hold for the time being, and when the remaining part can be developed, the developed part is prosperous enough."

Hathaway asked again:

"Even so, the latter part may not be able to catch up."

Xu Kuang smiled:

"That's true, but have you thought about it, the part that will be developed later will be bordered by other lords' plots, which will attract talents from other territories, and the first place will attract talents from the newly developed places.

Hathaway nodded, but her little head seemed to have endless questions, and she asked again:

"Then why do you say we're going to be different from them?".

Xu Kuang answered Hathaway's doubts in just one sentence:

"You've never seen a starving Mushroom Ridge citizen from Mushroom Ridge to the present?"

Xu Kuang pointed to the corpse next to him who was killed for stealing bread and said:

"When did this happen in Mushroom Ridge?".

Hathaway nodded, relieved.

At this moment, in a hotel in front of him, four or five fierce men ran out chasing a little boy.

"Stop!".

Xu Kuang, who was about to pretend not to be seen, looked at Hathaway in amazement.

Hathaway stuck out her tongue at Xu Kuang, and then said to a few guys in front of her:

"Why are you chasing him?".

This group of guys is also good at looking at people, they saw Xu Kuang and his party dressed gorgeously, and they were all honest, one of them stood up, saluted Xu Kuang and the others, and said:

"This guy came to our store to steal something to eat, and we chased him."

Hathaway's brows furrowed slightly, and she asked:

"How much money did he steal? I pay! ”。

The fellow scratched his head embarrassedly and said:

"I don't have to pay because he stole the swill ......."

Xu Kuang couldn't listen anymore, threw a gold coin in front of the group, and said:

"Let's go.".

The group got a gold coin and turned away.

The little boy bowed to Hathaway, and then said:

"Thank you."

Hathaway took out ten gold coins directly from her pocket, dismounted and handed them to the little boy, and said to him:

"Don't steal anything in the future, these ten gold coins are enough for you to make a small deal, you can go."

After saying that, he turned over and got on the horse.

Xu Kuang sighed and took the lead in turning the horse forward.

The crowd left in droves.

At this time, the group of guys just now came over and gave the little boy a gold coin that Xu Kuang had just given them.

"Don't steal food in the future, we are also begging for a living, the boss spoke, there is no way not to chase you, you can take this gold coin and do some small business."

The little boy looked at the group in amazement.

One laughed and said:

"Okay, you kid, I really think we can't catch you, we all know that you have a sister to raise, so we turn a blind eye every time.".

When the little boy heard this, tears fell like rain, and he respectfully knelt down and kowtowed to a few people, and said:

"Uncles and uncles, if I get mixed up in the future, I will definitely repay you a hundredfold and a thousand times."

Everyone burst out laughing and laughed:

"Then we'll wait.".

The boss in the distance shouted, and a group of guys hurriedly ran back.

Zou Hatxu looked at the city gate, as if he had decided something, and hurriedly ran back to his residence.

It's a kennel, a real kennel, and there's even a half-human-tall dog on a leash outside.

Zou Hatxu threw two loaves of bread on the ground, and then kicked the dog, who immediately stood up and went to eat the bread.

Zou Hatxu then got into the kennel, carefully opened the iron cage in the deepest part of the kennel, and took out a baby girl from inside.

Zou hated the baby girl with a loving face, with tears in his eyes:

"Sister, you and I are the only ones left in the family, and if we continue like this, we won't be able to survive. Now that I have a good place to go, I can't leave you behind, and you have to hold on along the way. ”。

The dog suddenly spit out the bread in his mouth and kept rubbing his head against Zou Hatxu's legs.

"You want to come with me too?".

The dog whimpered twice.

"Okay, I know, then you can go with me, you and I will be partners in the future, I hope we can all find a benefactor alive."

……

Xu Kuang said helplessly to Hathaway:

"You're going to hurt them."

Hathaway asked, puzzled:

"Why?".

"You gave that boy ten gold coins in front of so many poor people, do you think he can keep it?".

When Hathaway heard this, she immediately regretted it, she stopped the horse, and said to Xu Kuang:

"Then let's go back and take him with us......".

Xu Kuang shook his head, and he said to Hathaway:

"No need, maybe he's dead now, or maybe he's lucky enough to hide, anyway, we won't find what you want when we go back."

Hathaway was a little angry:

"Then why didn't you stop me just now?".

Xu Kuang asked rhetorically for a long time:

"Then will you believe me?".

Hathaway was speechless.

There was no doubt that she would not believe it. People are like this sometimes, they will dig into the horns, especially if they think that the evidence is conclusive, and they will not listen to the dissuasion of others, and only when the bloody facts are in front of him/her, he/she will wake up.

"So how much should I have just given?".

Xu Kuang said helplessly:

"You still don't understand, you can't give a single copper.".

Hathaway shed tears of remorse.

Xu Kuang struck his horse forward, waved his hand and shouted:

"Brother Henry! It's so early. ”。

……

Perhaps neither Xu Kuang nor Hathaway thought that Hathaway's unintentional move would bring an immortal general and a wise female officer to Mushroom Ridge.

But that's another story.