Ziyan walked to the door, and at this time Xiaoqing was being pulled by three men around the wall.

"Please don't do that. Xiao Qing frowned and tried to break free from the encirclement of several men, but there was no way.

Ziyan saw that the other maids were just watching, and they didn't seem to want to help, so he stepped forward and asked, "What's the situation? Why do you allow these men to play tricks here?"

The maid glanced at Ziyan: "We also have to be able to manage it." ”

"What about your boss?" Ziyan looked at a few people teasing Xiaoqing there, and he didn't want to help, but stood next to the maid and asked.

"Our boss doesn't care about these at all, as long as we hand in the money regularly every month, and don't ask anything else. ”

"And such a boss, can I also open a store and sit and collect money without worrying about anything?" Ziyan asked.

"If you want to, do it. The maid saw that Ziyan had no malicious intent, so she spoke casually.

Ziyan: "Ha, it's really fake, then I'll give you the money, how about you open a store like this for me?"

"You're not kidding...... It would cost a lot of money to open a shop in such a location......"

"How much?" Ziyan asked with interest.

"Uh...... Maybe five hundred taels?"

Ziyan couldn't help but smack his tongue: "It's so expensive, what about the usual expenses?"

"It's just counting the expenses. ”

"Oh......" Ziyan thought about it, this seems to be good?

Bang, a loud slap reached Ziyan's ears, and I saw Xiaoqing with her head down, covering her face, and sobbing.

"Hey, you're still doing it?" Ziyan stepped forward to stop.

"Get out of here, how old are you?" The man kicked Zi Yan, and the force was quite strong, causing Zi Yan to fall to the ground hard.

"Huh. Ziyan twisted his neck, took the sword off his waist and handed it to the maid next to him: "Help me get it." ”

"What? disagree?" the man glared at Ziyan viciously.

Ziyan didn't say a word, walked over and punched him directly in the face, and in an instant, all four of them scuffled together.

Five minutes later.

Ziyan kicked the man lying on the ground fiercely:

"You're pretty good at fighting, aren't you?

"You, you have a kind of don't go, wait here for me. The man crawled out of the door of the teahouse and said viciously.

"Then you guys hurry up, call as many as you want, I won't go. ”

Seeing several men limping away, Ziyan's eyes returned to Xiaoqing, only to see Xiaoqing looking at him with a pair of teary eyes, completely losing his former elegance.

Ziyan was speechless for a while, and couldn't think of what to say, so he said casually, "Are you okay?"

Xiao Qing shook her head, looked at Ziyan and asked tentatively, "Are you... Iron sword?"

"Who is Iron Sword?" Ziyan pretended not to know.

"Nothing...... Admit your mistake. ”

"......" Ziyan found a table and sat down: "Forget it, bring me another cup of tea, I still have work to do when I rest." ”

As soon as everyone heard the fun, they all had the mentality of watching the show, but a few kind-hearted people came over to remind Ziyan that the three of them were also the little overlords nearby, and there were a lot of people, so it was best to leave.

Ziyan listened and asked, "The Son of Heaven dares to do evil at his feet, and no one cares?"

"Anyway, they themselves have to fight every three or five times, today I will kill you in the west, tomorrow in the east you ambush me, we can save a small life is good. ”

"......" Ziyan touched his chin, it turned out that the power of the empire had reached such a precarious situation......

I have to go to the Chamber of Commerce, and no matter what, the city in Muxmubai's hands has to be developed.

After making up his mind, Ziyan left a tael of silver: "No need to look for it." ”

When he went out, Ziyan glanced at Xiaoqing, and saw that her eyes were empty and blank, and her heart softened, so he took five taels of silver and handed it to her: "Let's go outside and avoid it first." ”

Xiaoqing raised her head and forced a smile: "Thank you." ”

Leaving the teahouse, Ziyan went to the Chamber of Commerce, but this time, Ziyan paid attention to the passers-by, but he didn't feel any different from before.

Bang, a bottle shattered in front of Ziyan, Ziyan turned his head and looked at the store next to him, only to see a middle-aged man pulling a young man's hair, and the young man was dragging the middle-aged man's clothes - because the middle-aged man is bald, so don't pull his hair.

At this time, a woman next to him shouted: "Don't fight, don't fight." ”

Ziyan stood on the side of the street with great interest and watched, when a team of patrolmen happened to pass by on the side of the road.

The soldiers glanced around the shop and walked away as if they hadn't seen anything.

"Hey, there's a fight in the store. Ziyan said.

The patrol glanced at Ziyan and ignored it.

"Aren't you patrolmen?"

"Do you have to worry about someone fighting?"

"And what are you patrolling about?"

"Fun?"

"You ......"

The patrol finally turned back, and then ......

Ziyan was arrested inexplicably.

"Wait, it's not me fighting. ”

......

Halfway through, Ziyan was released again because he ran into Noonardo and Zero.

"Long time no see, two. Ziyan smiled.

"Pull it down, I don't want to see you. Zero rolled his eyes.

Noonardo smiled, "Looks like you're in a good mood?"

Ziyan: "Fortunately, just now I suddenly got the hang of it, and I think it's easy to make a fortune here." ”

Noonardo: "Oh?

"You see, as long as I spend money to open a green house, let others take care of it, and do some slave selling business by the way, there will be a steady stream of money in my pocket. ”

Zero frowned: "That's what only a lowly pariah would do." ”

"But who wouldn't want to have money and silver for nothing?"

Noonardo: "Are you short of money?"

Ziyan looked at Noonardo: "Who is not short of money? I am not an alchemist trained by the Chamber of Commerce. Ziyan paused, and then turned his gaze to Zero: "It's not the heir under the protection of a famous family. ”

Noonardo: "Well, that's your own business, but if you decide to get involved in these businesses, you'll have to deal with any problems in the future." ”

"Just kidding, don't be so serious. ”

Noonardo: "I don't think it's funny. ”

"Okay, how is the progress of the previous request for your Chamber of Commerce to settle in Mux Harbor City?"

Noona spread her hands: "I just came out of the academy and was about to go to the Chamber of Commerce." ”

"Can I be together?"

"Let's go. ”

Ziyan followed Noonardo and Zero to the Chamber of Commerce.

The headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce in the imperial capital is not very far, about twenty minutes away, but Zi Yan noticed that although the Chamber of Commerce does not do slave trading, it will also buy slaves to use as labor.

"President, Miss Noonardo has brought a living man to meet you. ”

In a simple and clean room, a maid stood in front of a mahogany tabletop, while opposite her sat an old man with pale beard.

"Let them in. ”

......

"President, long time no see. Noonardo calmly walked up to the old man.

"Well, who is this?" the old man looked at Ziyan, and there was a sharp gaze in his thin eyes.

"This is Ziyan, my friend. Noona said.

"It's rare that you'll make friends too. The old man smiled, and his face was kind.

"He's the one who asked us to settle in Mux. Noonardo said lightly.

"Oh, disrespectful, disrespectful. The old man stood up and stretched out his hand: "What you asked us to do, we have done." ”

Seeing this, Noona gave Ziyan a strange look.

"Uh... You don't need to be so polite, please take a seat. Ziyan shook hands with the old man, and then sat down himself.

Old man: "Then you came to us in person this time?"

"It's about some of the plans for Mux City. Ziyan said.

Old man: "Please speak." ”

"Yes, I want to make Mux City a transit city, not a complete industrial area like the outer city of the Imperial Capital. ”

"But the south is too backward, I'm afraid it ......"

"So I say make it a staging post, you know, the people in the imperial capital are rich, and the south is close to slave-like cheap labor. ”

Old man: "No, no, no, I don't think it's possible, the time and cost are unpredictable, and the difficulty is unpredictable." ”

“...... What is your plan?"

The old man asked the maid to take out a black leather-shell notebook.

Half an hour later.

"Okay, then follow your order, and I'll leave first. Ziyan stood up and said.

"Okay, Siri, send it off. ”

"No need. Ziyan kept the maid and left to find Noona and them.

Noonardo's studio

"Finished talking?" Noonardo was feeding the beast the reagents he had developed.

"Yes, the result is quite satisfactory. Ziyan found a stool and sat down.

"I see that the president's attitude towards you has changed all of a sudden, what have you done?" asked Noonardo.

Ziyan spread his hands: "I don't know, I just asked Chen Dagou and Mux Mubai, the queen you saw that day, and they went to talk about cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce." ”

Noonardo observed the beast's reaction, "Really, who is that Muxmubai?"

"Just a down-and-out queen, the kind that poor boots can't afford, but the family property is a port city, can you imagine how funny it is?"

"Ordinary lords and lords don't take it seriously, you really didn't do anything else?"

Ziyan smiled: "I swear, lie to you as a dog." ”

"Childish oath, by the way, what else are you doing here?"

"It's okay, you can't sit down. ”

“...... By the way, you're going to stop me checking out? Regarding your awakening, the equipment wasn't very good last time. ”

"Okay, come on. ”

Noonardo took out a pair of single-lens gold-wire glasses from a box, and then took a pill the size of a little finger and let Ziyan take it.

"Can you just check my body from these glasses?" Ziyan asked curiously, this pair of glasses is quite good-looking, and it has an elegant temperament after wearing it.

"Don't speak, take off your shirt. ”

Ziyan obediently did so, and Noona got closer, her fingertips roaming over Ziyan's skin.

It's so itchy......

Ziyan endured this strange feeling, but was startled by the sudden sound of the door opening.

Ziyan turned his head, and Zero was glaring at him.

"What are you doing here?"

Ziyan was speechless: "Do a check, don't make such a fuss, right?"

"You!"

"Alright, Zero, sit down for a while. Noona said.

Zero Hate sat next to him, his eyes full of vinegar.

Soon.

Noonardo took off her glasses.

Ziyan put on his clothes: "How is it?"

"I think you'll have to get a pharmacist who has research on this. Noonardo said.

Ziyan: "Isn't your level enough?"

"Of course I'm enough, but I think some of the problems in your body are beyond the scope of my understanding, I suspect that it is the problem of smelting flowers, and smelting flowers, which are immortal herbs and immortal medicines, are still more professional pharmacists, you have to ask the pharmacist to help you take a look." ”

"The smelting flower is my master, and a pharmacist helped me fuse it. Ziyan said, suddenly, he remembered the pill that the master had asked him to take constantly, and he stopped taking it, could it be this problem?

As he was thinking, there was the sound of footsteps of metal boots hitting the ground.

Ziyan tilted his head sideways: "What's the situation?"

Noonardo shook her head: "Zero, go out and have a look." ”

Ziyan: "I'll take a look too." ”

The two men came outside the house, through the corridor, to another courtyard, where many guards stood and a group of guards surrounded the president's office.

Zi Yan saw that between the two columns of guards, there was an old man in an ice blue robe, he was tall and tall, although his beard and hair were white, he did not hide his nobility.

The president walked out of the office and bowed to the old man: "The villain didn't know that you were coming, and I hope you will forgive me." ”

As if he didn't see him, the old man walked straight into the office, and the old man half-bent over and followed him into the office.

"Who is he? ”

Zero glanced at Ziyan and walked back: "Look at the clothes of those soldiers, they are the guards of the Donglin family, and if you run into a distant point in the future, you don't know how to die." ”

Ziyan followed: "Dong Lin's family, is it Dong Ningxue's family?"

Zero: "You have to make it clear, Dong Ningxue belongs to the Donglin family, but the Donglin family is not Dongningxue's, and the power in each big family is in the hands of a family head and many elders." ”

"What are they doing at the Chamber of Commerce?"

Zero: "How do I know? But it's definitely not good, these families are also in business, and I guess the Chamber of Commerce has touched their interests." ”

"As far as I know, the Chamber of Commerce is very powerful, so it shouldn't be good. ”

Zero: "You look down on the nobles too much, the Chamber of Commerce is big, as long as it is in the imperial city, in the eyes of the nobles, it is like an ant, and it can be pinched to death at will." ”

As soon as the words fell, a terrible scream came from the chairman's side.

Ziyan stopped, unable to believe it.

"Isn't it, it's really killed?" Zero was also a little surprised.

Ziyan swallowed his saliva: "Terrible ......"

Before he finished speaking, the guards began to arrest people on a large scale, and many people from the Chamber of Commerce were caught before they could escape.

"Let's go!" Ziyan saw that Zero was still in a daze, so he pulled her and ran.

"Stop!!" the guards saw this and ran with knives.

Coming to Noonardo's laboratory, Zero quickly picked Noonardo out, and the three of them fled over the wall, extremely quickly.

"What are you doing, my experiment has just begun!" Noona was stunned.

"I also want to know, what's going on?" Ziyan wiped his sweat.

"How do I know?" Zero frowned, under the constraints of the king in the imperial city, how could the nobles not dare to kill people openly, what happened?

Ziyan: "Where are we going now?"

Zero: "Go to our house, let's buy a few horses." ”

In the evening, the western city outside the imperial capital - the palace of the dragon descendant

In the hall, there are two rows of people sitting on both sides, and in the position of the head of the family, there is an elderly but still some charming.

"Sister-in-law, what can I do about this?" said a man with white sideburns with a sad face.

"Yes, sister-in-law, you have to come up with an idea. ”

The woman called the sister-in-law looked at the ground silently, in a daze.

She looks to be in her forties, but in fact she is already sixty or seven, the backbone of the Dragonborn's housekeeping, and the wife of the Eagle Dragon General, who is admired by all people.

However, just a few hours ago, a burden that should not have belonged to her fell on her shoulders.

Unfortunately came from the south, one of the twelve cavalry generals, General Li Xiaohu, the general of the Eagle Dragon, had died in battle, and it was the news brought by the people of Tianzhao City.

In addition, there is also her favorite grandson, Mo Yilie, who has disappeared and his life and death are uncertain.

The loss of a loved one was a great blow, and an even greater test was coming—the king and his army were besieged by a barbarian coalition on the front line and needed support.

This means that at present, there is no one in the imperial capital who can suppress the Donglin family, and the ministers have shown favor to Dong Sening, the head of the Donglin family.

The sky in the imperial capital may be about to change.

"Report !!" A secret agent rushed over: "Madam, it's not good, Dong Linjia led people to surround the Chamber of Commerce!!"

The Chamber of Commerce has dealings with the Dragonborns, which shows that they have swung their fists in the faces of the Dragonborns.

In the hall, the elders did not say a word, and the strange atmosphere was suffocating.

At this moment, outside the hall, Zero clashed with the guards: "Get out of the way, don't stop me!"

"Miss, you can't go in. ”

"Get out!" Zero kicked the guards away and made his way to the hall.

"Ling'er, you're back. The woman sitting in the head of the house said softly.

"Grandma, what's wrong?" asked Zero, glancing at the elders around him.

"Suzu, it's none of your business here, get out of here. One of the elders reprimanded.

Zero stared at him dissatisfied: "Why is it not my business?

"Ling'er!" the old lady waved her hand helplessly: "Go out, we still have important things to discuss." ”

"I don't! tell me where my brother is!"

"Get out!" said Madame, suddenly slamming the table angrily.

Zero was taken aback, his nose was sour, and he was a little aggrieved.

The elder next to him saw it and said to the guards, "Take her out." ”

Outside the door

Ziyan was a little strange when he saw Ling Ling's red eyes: "What's wrong?"

"Nothing. "Zero lowered his head and was depressed.

At this time, there was some movement outside the door, and it seemed to be a cavalry.

"It can't be the cavalry of the Donglin family, right?" Ziyan exclaimed.

Noonardo shook her head: "Probably not." ”

After a while, a young man dressed as a general came in with several people.

Ziyan looked at it, and saw that the general was following beside him, wasn't it the Demon Star?

The guards bowed slightly when they saw the general: "Hello two young masters." ”

"Well, is Grandma in there?" asked the general.

"Madame and the elders are meeting inside. ”

"Alright, let's go, Chenxing. The general glanced at the Demon Star Dao.

"Brother, I don't want to go in, or you should go in. ”

"Tsk, grandma is inside, you have to at least go in and say hello, let's go!" the general pulled Mochenxing into the hall.

Ziyan: "Strange, why didn't the guards stop them?"

Noona glared at Ziyan: "Don't speak. ”

Ziyan: "......"