Chen Zhiyuan had a bizarre dream on the first night he left home, he dreamed that the rice in his father's field matured overnight, and every grain of rice produced was the size of a fist, and his father grinned in the field until a mouthful of yellow teeth were exposed. As for himself, Chen Zhiyuan dreamed that he had become a new teacher in the school, and every day he came and went with monks wearing glowing clothes, and he sat on the stage, teaching them how to write big characters and how to write Fu characters.

It wasn't until the next day that the rooster crow in Old Man Cao's yard woke everyone up, and a group of people of different ages got up in the dark and quickly cleaned up and went to the school.

Old man Cao is actually not a very serious person, although he has a serious national face, but obviously lives in a courtyard, everyone calls him in private, and Old man Cao knows that he is not difficult to get along with.

"We have a new student in the school, and I believe everyone has already greeted him yesterday, so I won't waste time by introducing too much to everyone. If you have any questions about your studies, you can come to me and discuss them with each other. With that out of the way, let's continue with the previous lesson. ”

Old man Cao was talking eloquently on it, but Chen Zhiyuan was listening in a fog, it was not that he didn't work hard, but he actually started to stop these seemingly very advanced classes without finishing the words, Chen Zhiyuan really didn't have any way to send it.

Looking around, in the same way, there are several people who can't understand it like himself, some are only seven or eight years old, some are a head taller than themselves, and they look like they should be eighteen or nineteen years old, it seems that he is not the only one who has no foundation like this, Chen Zhiyuan is relieved.

Three years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Chen Zhiyuan has already left the school, according to his parents' request, he is a shopkeeper in an inn in the town, instead of going home to farm like his father.

The shop is basically full of people from the town, and the work is not hard work, but it will definitely be busier than farming at home, although there is less effort, but the errand work does not stop all day long.

Every day, I see almost the same people, and they all do the same thing, and on ordinary days, there is no interference from the outside world, and everyone seems to have forgotten that this is a cultivation realm where the law of the jungle eats the strong.

Just like what is written in the book, the peaceful life will eventually be broken by external forces, and on this day, a group of uninvited guests came to the inn.

Chen Zhiyuan opened the door of the inn as usual in the morning, and before he could pick up the broom next to him and sweep the front of the door, he was blocked by a group of people.

It was a small team of five people, why did it say that it was a team? Because Chen Zhiyuan could clearly see that these five people were headed by one of them, and the remaining four people were all centered on this person.

Those who are looking for a position find a position, drag a stool that drags a stool, close the door when the door is closed, and go straight to the window to see the wind.

Looking at these five people wearing long black cloaks, hats and black scarves wrapped their faces tightly, they closed the door of the inn in a daze, the shopkeeper didn't dare to speak, the account room didn't dare to speak, but Chen Zhiyuan, who was kicked by the shopkeeper, had to speak.

Chen Zhiyuan cautiously leaned over with a smile that was more ugly than crying, and said with a trembling mouth: "Ladies and gentlemen, eat or stay in the hotel?"

The black-clothed man at the head looked up at him, but did not speak, but the person who was dragging the stool just now looked smaller from the appearance answered: "Staying in a hotel, five upper rooms." ”

Chen Zhiyuan glanced back at the shopkeeper, and after seeing the shopkeeper nodding, he cautiously moved back to the back of the counter.

"Shopkeeper, who are they?" Chen Zhiyuan glanced at that side cautiously and asked in a low voice.

"Don't ask, they're all people we can't afford to mess with anyway. The shopkeeper looked calm on the surface, but some trembling voices betrayed him.

After taking the five room keys handed over by the shopkeeper, Chen Zhiyuan changed back to the smiling face and leaned over cautiously.

As a result, before he could hand over the key in his hand, the door that had just been closed was kicked open, and his heart beat half a beat slower in fright.

"The surname Jiang, what are you doing when you close the door for most of the day, you don't want to do business anymore?"

The people who came were a few big and five rough men, gang members of the notorious Long Knife Gang in the town, usually no one in the town cared about it, so they were powerful in the town, fortunately, they were also a group of people with a bottom line, except for collecting money every month and occasionally eating an overlord meal, they didn't do too many bad things.

Everyone's attention was immediately attracted, after all, the movement of kicking the door was really not small. Out of the corner of his eye, Chen Zhiyuan saw the man in black guarding the window and shook his head gently, and the man in black beside him, whose hand had touched his waist, put his hand back on the table.

There was no sound from such a big movement of kicking the door, and the fool knew what was going on, and a few rough men who were originally very smug had just stepped into the inn with their front feet, and they took it back with a roll of their eyes, and closed the door by the way.

"Ahaha, the weather is really good today, let's go somewhere else to see what's fun......"

The voices outside the door faded away, and the people ran away like this.

"We didn't mean to bother, but we also asked the shopkeeper to close today, and this money will be counted as our accommodation expenses and compensation for the past few days. ”

It was still the person who spoke just now, and while taking the key in Chen Zhiyuan's hand, he handed over five gold leaves.

Chen Zhiyuan hesitated, but still took over the gold leaves under the hint of the shopkeeper.

It's just that before Chen Zhiyuan turned around, the man in black took out two more silver leaves and put them on the table, knocked the table twice with his fingers, and motioned for Chen Zhiyuan to come and get it.

"Ask you something, Xiao Er, answer that these two pieces are yours. ”

Chen Zhiyuan looked at the two silver leaves on the table, this was his two months' salary, of course he wanted to take it. But thinking about the reaction of the shopkeeper and the people of the Long Knife Gang just now, he didn't dare to stretch out his hand.

"Answer him, Zhiyuan, answer him with money!"

The shopkeeper was still loading quails behind the counter, but it was Lao Li in the accounting room who whispered to Chen Zhiyuan behind him.

Although he had never seen the world, but someone behind him gave him advice, Chen Zhiyuan still took the money in his hand, and said in his mouth: "If you ask, I will definitely know everything", his eyes were only staring at his hands, and he didn't dare to look around.

"Don't be afraid, we're not good people. I could hear that the man in black was smiling, perhaps because everyone's fear of the unknown made him happy, "I'm just asking a few questions, and it won't threaten your life." ”

Chen Zhiyuan was even more frightened when he heard these two words.