Li Maocai, as usual, got up at the hour today, then washed, ate, arranged for the only two handymen at the post station to clean the yard, and then sat leisurely in the room drinking tea and humming songs.

This is a post station, the post station is Li Maocai, because the post station is only twenty miles away from Kyoto Prefecture, ordinary people rarely choose to live here, but are a few more steps into Kyoto Prefecture, and then have a good rest, after all, there is everything to eat, drink and play, it is much stronger than this bitter post station that does not have a village in front of the village and no store.

So this post station is very deserted, so deserted that sometimes Li Maocai doesn't think that this will be a post station.

There are only three people in the post station, including Li Mao, one post man, and two miscellaneous servants, well, if you can pant for breath, there is a very lazy donkey in the backyard that should also be counted as one.

"My lord, the donkeys in the backyard are barking again."

Li Maocai said impatiently to the handyman who came to make a report, "This dead donkey, it's not spring, what kind of door is it calling, isn't it feeding it forage?"

"Ouch, my Lord Yicheng, how dare we lose that master, even if we don't eat, we have to give them food."

Because no one came to the post station, with the little money sent down by the Kyoto Prefecture to this is not enough for a few people to eat and drink, so this donkey has become an additional source of income for these people in the post station.

In Li Maocai's words, "This donkey can earn us some money now, and when he is old, he can't do anything, and he can still sell it. ”

So the lazy donkey was kept in the backyard of the inn as a spare ration.

"My lord, my lord, go and have a look" Another handyman also ran over, and before he could catch his breath, he shouted intermittently to Li Maocai.

"Mother, what's wrong with this donkey today, is it going to rebel" Li Maocai was annoyed, and then scolded and dragged the two handymen to the donkey shed in the backyard.

When the three of them came to the backyard, they saw that the donkey didn't know what kind of stimulus it had received, and kept barking there

Make move.

Li Maocai grinned, and then showed a painful look, "Mother, what's wrong with your ancestor today, I usually let you call you not to scream, but now it's good, why are you still screaming." ”

Just when Li Maocai was still worried about why Uncle Donkey kept calling, Chu Zizhan and his party also came to the post station.

Everyone stopped, Chu Zizhan lifted the curtain and poked his head out, looked at the somewhat desolate post station in front of him, and said, "I remember that when I came here, it wasn't so desolate." ”

"My lord" Shang Luoyan also looked at the post station in front of him, with the same look of disbelief, "Is there really anyone here, will it be withdrawn by the military department?"

The post station itself belongs to the military department, because of the prevalence of caravans in the past few years, the role of the post station is much smaller, and because of this, the military department withdrew many post station strongholds that year, and the desolation of the post station in front of him, no wonder Shang Luoyan will not think about it.

Chu Zizhan also shook his head noncommittally, and said, "Because this place is around Kyoto Prefecture, it is not under the jurisdiction of the military department, so the action of canceling the post station stronghold did not affect here. ”

"So there's still someone on duty here."

"Well," Chu Zizhan nodded, and then said to Shang Luoyan, "Go call the door, pay attention to hiding your identity." ”

Shang Luoyan nodded, and went over to call the door.

At this time, in the backyard of the post station, Li Maocai and the three of them finally calmed down their donkey uncle, and they heard the sound of someone knocking on the door.

The three of them were startled at the same time, and then stunned, and did not react at first, when the courtyard door was knocked three times, the expressions of the three of them changed from stunned to ecstatic, like a man who had not seen a woman for several years, and then rushed to the place they longed for.

Li Maocai opened the courtyard door, and saw Shang Luoyan who came to call the door, and then looked up and down, and said to Shang Luoyan with a smile on his face: "This guest, are you here to stay Don't look at me, this place is relatively desolate, but how to say that it is also an official post station within a radius of 100 miles, you don't have to worry about safety here, although there is no first-class cuisine here, but the game is also unique, our chefs here are all chefs from famous restaurants in Kyoto Prefecture, you can't enjoy it elsewhere."

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Li Maocai saw that Shang Luoyan's team naturally wouldn't let go of this opportunity, and he didn't wait for Shang Luoyan to speak, it was a set of rhetoric, saying that his post station where birds don't was in the sky, and it was in the clouds, and even the Tianxianglou in Kyoto Mansion and Tingyuxuan in Linqing Mansion couldn't compare with his own small post station, obviously a master in the people, if you don't live here, you will feel like you have suffered a big loss.

Seeing that Li Maocai was going to continue, Shang Luoyan was about to stop him, but before he could speak, he was interrupted by Chu Zizhan who got off the carriage.

Shang Luoyan looked at Chu Zizhan with a smile on his face curiously, and seemed to understand something, it was obvious that the eldest prince was interested in the person in front of him.

Li Mao saw that the person who called the door on the other side wanted to speak but was stopped by someone, so he thought that the price he offered was not enough to attract the other party, so he gritted his teeth and said to them: "If you live with us, I will give you a discount of twenty." ”

The post station of the official family is naturally only free for people from the official family, so others will have to charge for it.

Originally, it should have been Shang Luoyan who was talking to Li Maocai, but now that Chu Zizhan came over, Shang Luoyan closed his mouth in amusement.

"Aren't you an official post station, why do you still have to charge for it" Chu Zizhan looked at Li Maocai with a smile and asked.

Li Maocai didn't like this young man who had just come over, because the other party felt a little uncomfortable for him, but he didn't know how uncomfortable he was.

But if it's uncomfortable, it's not comfortable, and this business still has to be done.

"Yo, this guest officer, dare to ask if you are from the official family?"

Chu Zizhan originally came to this post station to hide his identity so that he could plan for the future, so he shook his head and said to Li Maocai, "Naturally not. ”

When Li Maocai heard this, he raised his eyebrows and said to Chu Zizhan, "Since you are not from the official family, you naturally have to collect money." ”

Originally, Li Mao thought that with such an attitude, this business was to be yellow, after all, if he didn't collect some money, the donkey uncle in the backyard would really become the ration for several of his people.

Just when Li Mao began to mourn for Uncle Donkey, he heard the young man opposite say, "Then we will stay here for one night." ”