On the fourth day, Tianmiao indeed took everyone around to eat, drink, and shop.
On the fifth day, Jie Wenzhan calmly asked Tianmiao, "Miss, are we going to the west or east of the town to shop today?"
"No, today... just wait." Tianmiao didn’t move but sat calmly, sipping porridge and eating the breakfast Ye Chenfeng bought from another shop.
Jie Wenzhan almost fainted, not expecting that today he would finally not have to accompany her shopping, despite having steeled himself for it.
Just as Jie Wenzhan was about to ask what they were waiting for, the sounds of excited conversations flooded in from outside the inn.
"Hurry up and get in the queue, the City Lord is distributing charity again."
"Doesn’t the City Lord distribute charity often? Why are you rushing?"
"This time is different! The City Lord said everyone who goes gets two taels of silver, including children."
"What? Everyone? Does my grandson who was just born two months ago count?"
"Yes, yes! As long as you’re a person, even newborns count!"
"What about those still in the womb?"
"They probably count too, hurry up, hurry up."
The street was full of hurried footsteps and commotion.
Ye Chenfeng and Jie Wenzhan exchanged glances, both sensing something unusual from this.
Looking over at Tianmiao, she remained calmly eating breakfast.
"Finish eating first," Tianmiao said slowly, "Some things cannot be rushed."
Jie Wenzhan still wanted to say something, but Ye Chenfeng simply sat down, also starting to eat breakfast, leisurely.
Seeing this, Jie Wenzhan kept silent and sat down to eat as well!
Once Tianmiao had gracefully finished her meal, she slowly stood up and said, "Let’s go see."
By that time, the street had thinned out, with only a few people still rushing forward.
When Tianmiao and the others left the inn, the shopkeeper hurriedly closed the door and dashed past them towards the City Lord’s distribution site.
The distribution location was a giant square in the center of the town.
When Tianmiao and the others arrived, a sea of people already stretched before them. Almost everyone in town was there, regardless of age or gender. Among the crowd, there were indeed many newborns and pregnant women.
Two taels of silver was a considerable amount for ordinary families. A typical family of four’s annual expenses were about twenty taels of silver. Now, the City Lord was giving two taels of silver to each person; naturally, families with larger numbers stood to gain even more. No wonder they brought along children and pregnant women.
Tianmiao and her group stood quietly at the outermost edge, watching as the City Lord on the high platform benevolently promised everyone that by queuing properly, each person would receive silver.
The crowd was all smiles, lining up under the supervision of the City Lord Mansion’s guards. They didn’t notice the demonic qi around the City Lord growing thicker.
Tianmiao and her companions noticed, but said nothing, nor did Ye Chenfeng and Jie Wenzhan make a move.
Others noticed too, like the City Lord’s son and daughter. The City Lord’s family, a cultivation family, had produced cultivators with high cultivation in the past, but that was many years ago. Currently, only the City Lord and his eldest son had the highest cultivation. The sudden rapid increase in the City Lord’s cultivation recently seemed ominously unusual to the eldest son.
"Father, the presence on you, it’s demonic qi!" The young man gasped in shock. Is this the reason for father’s sudden advancement in cultivation lately?