I am the Odd One Out Chapter 58

Gu Yimin's servant set out for Shanghai with a letter in his arms. When the servant walked out of the city gate, he saw four ragged northern men and a dilapidated cart approaching, with a person lying on the cart. The four northern men stopped and looked up at the two big characters carved on the city gate. They were talking to each other. When they saw Gu Yimin's servant coming, they asked him if the two big characters carved on the stone were Xi Zhen and Gu Yimin. The servant nodded and said it was Xizhen. They felt that the pronunciation of Gu Yimin's servant was different from theirs, but when they saw the servant nodded, they knew that this was Xizhen. They said happily:

"Here we are, here we are."

They entered Xizhen with the cart. Some people looked at them curiously and came forward to ask. The four northern men looked at the people in Xizhen dullly and could not understand the fast words of the people in Xizhen. After talking for a long time, the four northern men realized that they were being asked where they were from, and they named a place unknown to the people in Xizhen. Someone asked where that place was, and they looked at each other and said the name. Someone continued to ask them, is it north of the Yangtze River? They asked several times before they understood. They shook their heads and said it was on the north side of the Yellow River. The people in Xi Town almost knew where they came from.

At this time, someone pointed at the man lying motionless in the carriage and asked him what illness he had. They understood this immediately and said:

"Dead."