Hearing that the shopkeeper of the belly burst Chen said that he would not make money, Qin Chuan asked puzzledly: "At the gate of this state, tens of thousands of people come and go every day, although not everyone is here to play the tip, but you are in a good position here, and the taste is good, thinking that it is not a problem to sell hundreds of bowls every day, besides, the price of your belly explosion is cheap, and many peddlers and pawns can afford to eat, it stands to reason that there is no reason not to make money." ”

The shopkeeper of the belly Chen got up, pointed to the state gate of Qingzhou City and said: "Little friends don't know, although there are many people coming and going in this Qingzhou City every day, but the rent of my small stall is not low, even comparable to some shops in the city, if it weren't for the decades of operation, some old customers are reluctant to do this, and some other reasons, I would have moved to other places long ago." ”

However, Qin Chuan really didn't understand, this stall was hundreds of steps away from the gate of Qingzhou City, except for people who entered and left the city, there were few customers who came here to eat, so why was the rent in this place so high.

Guessing what Qin Chuan was thinking, the shopkeeper explained: "Don't look at this place is a little dilapidated, more than 20 years ago, there were many courtyards, one of which is my ancestral house. Since the change of state guard, his nephew has forcibly bulldozed this place and prepared to build a new post house and other places, perhaps because he felt that he had used too much money, and rented this place to us again, which is really ridiculous, making a living on his ancestral home, and having to pay other people's rent. ”

Hearing the state guard, Qin Chuan asked tentatively: "The nephew of the state guard, but his name is Zhou Youliang?"

Hearing Qin Chuan say the name of that person, the shopkeeper of the belly Chen hurriedly looked around, but fortunately, at this time, it was almost noon, except for Qin Chuan and Lao Dao, there were no other customers.

The shopkeeper's right index finger was placed on his mouth, signaling Qin Chuan to silence: "Shh, this little friend, in Qingzhou City, no one dares to say his name at will, otherwise he will know it, so he will inevitably use lynching, and he will definitely be beaten to death, we generally call him Zhou Gongzi." ”

It turned out that the shopkeeper of Belly Chen rented Zhou Youliang's territory, but the place itself was the ancestral house of Belly Chen, and later after being forcibly occupied by Zhou Youliang, his descendants did not want the ancestral house to fall into the hands of others, so they took this place down.

Lao Dao picked up the tripe kernels, dipped them in sesame sauce and said: "You have good this week, you must have set a trap to let you in." Otherwise, he forcibly demolished the ancestral house, relying on his uncle to be the state guard, although the people of Qingzhou City did not dare to speak, but the reputation of the state guard was not very good. ”

The shopkeeper of Bursting Belly Chen smiled bitterly: "Hey, I have to blame for this." My grandfather founded the belly burst Chen, here set up a stall for more than 50 years, I took over when I was 14 years old, a lot of money every day, in Qingzhou City can be regarded as a small family, but also once renovated the ancestral house inside and out, many people in Qingzhou feel magnificent. However, Zhou Youliang opened a casino in the east of Qingzhou City, bought off a few of my friends, and tricked me into gambling for money. In the first three days, I won a lot of money, which is worth my small stall for three months. So I left the stall, ate and lived in the casino, who knew that after that, I lost day and night, first pawned the antiques and other things at home, and then pawned the ancestral house of the family to Zhou Youliang, thinking that I would definitely be able to return to the capital, but after the old father died of anger, I was unable to live in the ancestral house again, so I turned back and guarded the ancestral house here. ”

Qin Chuan shook his head and said: "Hey, what kind of world is this? Honest people suffer losses, but it is these rampant people who earn money, rather than living like this, it is better to go to the deep mountains and old forests to stay, so that they can be at ease." ”

The shopkeeper of Bursting Belly Chen walked towards the stall and said: "In this martial arts rivers and lakes, what is more terrifying than the jackals, tigers and leopards in the deep mountains and old forests is the human heart. Jackals, tigers and leopards can look directly, and people's hearts are like dark arrows, not knowing when they will shoot out, living in fear every day, thinking that one day they will be able to survive until the day when the ancestral house is redeemed. I often hate myself, I am not a person in the martial arts rivers and lakes, otherwise I will definitely cut Zhou Youliang with a thousand knives. But I was angry with myself, if I hadn't pawned the ancestral home, I wouldn't have fallen into such a situation. ”

Lao Dao heard the words of the shopkeeper of the belly burst, but he shook his head and disagreed with this statement: "If the design of the gambling game fails, then Zhou Youliang has other methods, and your ancestral house will eventually fall into his hands, and you may even be sent to prison." But you are still free, although the days are hard, but there is always a thought, on holidays, maybe you can really take back the ancestral home. ”

When the shopkeeper heard this, he smiled slightly: "If it is really as you say, you will eat with me for seven days in a row, and you will not be charged any money." ”

Qin Chuan was injured by Bai Changyuan in the ghost market before, and his newly made Dao robe was punctured, and he was covered in blood, so he naturally couldn't use it anymore. And on the day of the old Dao, in the mountains and forests, after fighting with Qiu Zhiyuan and Kong Nantian, the two people of the Izumo Valley, who were in the realm of the Dao, said bad luck, and when he came back, he changed the Taoist robe on his body.

Therefore, in the past few days, I have changed into ordinary cloth clothes, which do not look like Taoist clothes at all, and ordinary people will only think that it is a farmer on the outskirts of the city who brings his grandchildren into the city to buy things for the New Year.

At this moment, a guard came from the side of the state gate, looking very familiar, Qin Chuan fixed his eyes and saw that it was the guard of the city gate who entered the city that day to make things difficult for Qin Chuan and Lao Dao. It's just that Lao Dao moved out of Zhou Youliang's name with a whim, so the guard sent the two of them away, and also gave a pass token for a state city.

It's just that Qin Chuan thought that he would definitely not be recognized by this person if he was dressed like this, so he glanced at Lao Dao, deliberately lowered his head, and prepared to turn sideways and leave quickly.

Thinking about more things is better than less things, so as not to be recognized by the guards of the state city, and it will be troublesome if you can't figure it out when the time comes.

The guard found a table of eight immortals and shouted to the shopkeeper: "Old Chen, old three, hurry up, don't delay my fortune." ”

As the New Year approaches, there are many people who go out of the city and enter the city, which is another good time for the guards of the state gate to collect money in a year. You can just find a reason to stop someone and extort a lot of money. After all, the New Year is approaching, and the pedestrians and merchants who come and go have some silver money, and they are often unwilling to delay the time to go out of the city and enter the city, so they have no choice but to pay for the road. Therefore, for the guards of this state city, delaying for an extra second in the stall is making less money.

It didn't take long for the shopkeeper of Bursting Belly Chen to bring three large plates of sheep gourds, sheep sandan, and lamb triples, especially a large plate full of lamb tripe kernels, which was several times more than the plate eaten by Qin Chuan and Lao Dao before.

The shopkeeper of Bursting Belly Chen didn't know why, and said with a smile: "Master Xu, you are on duty today? ”

Qin Chuan was about to sneak away while the guards at the state gate were eating and bursting their stomachs, but the guards at the state gate had sharp eyes and said in surprise: "The two Taoist leaders haven't seen each other for a long time, it's good lately, but this time it's for Zhou Youliang and Zhou Gongzi's affairs?" ”

The guard surnamed Xu greeted Lao Dao and Qin Chuan familiarly, and seemed to be very familiar with the two.

However, after hearing this, the shopkeeper who burst his belly almost fainted - it turned out that the two knew Zhou Youliang......