Outside Luzhou City, Ye Yuanhang staggered step by step. More than ten miles away, in the world, how could he have traveled such a long way. Fortunately, I ate a meal of dog meat and barely managed to make it here. At the gate of the city, the crowd entering the city was lined up, and a group of soldiers were checking and letting them go one by one. Yuanhang thought to himself: I must enter the city today, otherwise I will have to let the wild wolves divide the corpses if I don't starve to death outside the city.

Finally, it was Ye Yuanhang's turn. A bearded soldier approached.

"Reach out and check." The soldier shouted with a flick of his arm.

Yuanhang smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Bing, don't check, my body is cleaner than my face." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, stretch out your arms."

The soldier checked carefully up and down, left and right, but there was not a single copper on his body. shouted angrily: "Where did you come from, poor boy, what are you doing without going into the city?" ”

"Big brother, I don't have it now, but I will have it after I enter the city." Yuanhang said with a smile.

"If you enter the city, you have to pay a penny city gate tax, and if you don't have money, hurry up where you come from and go back." The soldier waved his hand to check on the next one.

"Huh? Don't have it, I said big brother, I have no home to go, and if I don't go into the city, I have to die outside, you tell me to go in, and tomorrow I will send two cents to honor you. How is it? Yuanhang pleaded.

"Get out of here, I don't have time to talk nonsense with you, come over and check next." The soldier stretched out his hand and pushed the voyage away, moving on to the next one.

"Be generous, I will do what I say, and at this time tomorrow, I will send you two cents." The voyage had no choice but to continue to say good things.

Yuanhang did not notice that while he was negotiating with the soldiers, a carriage had stopped at the city gates. When the curtain opened, a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old came down, dressed as a maid of a noble family. Standing in front of Ye Yuanhang, it was not more than his neck high, but he raised his eyebrows, put his hands on his waist, and was domineering.

"Oh, here you go, my young lady is helpful. I'll send you a penny into town. I really don't know that such an adult doesn't even have a penny on him. The tone was full of discrimination, and he looked at the voyage with disdain.

"Reflecting the moon, don't be rude." An elegant and tactful voice came from the carriage. "Childe must be in trouble, don't hesitate, go to the city quickly."

The aftermath lingered around Ye Yuanhang, like a breeze blowing, like an empty valley orchid.

"Thank you, Miss, goodbye to fate, Xiaosheng will be rewarded." Yuanhang said to the carriage. It's really hard for a penny to be a hero.

"Childe doesn't have to be polite, Yingyue, let's go." The woman whispered softly in the carriage, and the carriage drove into the city.

Following the carriage, Ye Yuanhang entered Luzhou City. There are four states and one government in the Great Liang State. Luzhou is not the most prosperous state and county, but there are still rows of buildings and businesses on the streets.

"Sugarcane, extremely sweet sugarcane, two pennies a pound, come and buy it." A man chews on sugar cane and yells.

Hearing the shouting, Ye Yuanhang felt that he was thirsty, and he only ate dog meat all the way, and he didn't drink a sip of water, so he couldn't help but walk to the stall. Pitifully looked at the sugar cane in the man's mouth and swallowed his saliva.

Ye Yuanhang wanted to say some kind words to the stall owner, so that he could beg for some sugarcane to eat. At this time, a middle-aged man came to the stall, looked at the sugarcane and said, "How many catties of sugarcane do you have?" If I buy them all, can I negotiate? ”

"This is a guest officer, and the villain has a total of forty catties of sugarcane here, two cents per catty. If you buy them all, you are ...... Seventy-five dollars, do you think it? The man gestured with his finger for a long time before he made a bid.

"It's still a little expensive." The middle-aged man shook his head. "Seventy, how?"

"No, no, no, then I haven't lost too much." The man waved his hand again and again and said.

Ye Yuanhang listened on the side, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he took a few steps forward and said to the middle-aged man: "Excuse me, please move around, the villain will discuss something with you." ”

Walk across from the sugar cane stall and there is a tea shop. Ye Yuanhang shouted loudly: "Man, quickly serve two bowls of good tea, you want the best." ”

"Okay, wait a minute, the guest officer, it'll be fine right away." The guy answered loudly over there.

"Who are you? You and I have never lived in life, what are you looking for me? The middle-aged man looked at Ye Yuanhang vigilantly.

"That's right, I see that you sincerely want to buy that sugar cane, but that guy is really pedantic at a fixed price. Why don't you sit here and drink tea, I'll run an errand for you, seventy wen, and buy you sugarcane, do you think it's okay? Said with a hippie smile on his face.

"Can you buy it? Well, I'll be watching you here, and I'll pay you seventy cents if you buy all the sugar cane. The middle-aged man said with some disbelief.

"Okay, you'll see." Yuanhang smiled and ran back.

Ye Yuanhang ran to the sugarcane stall and arched his hand: "This big brother, I want to buy your sugarcane, I don't bargain, just two pennies a catty, but I have to walk a long way, this sugarcane is too long to take, can you help me divide it in two from the middle." ”

"No problem, will we separate the sugarcane now?" When the man saw the generous buyer, he hurriedly asked.

"Okay, you can divide it." Yuanhang swallowed his saliva and said.

In a few moments, the cane was split into two piles. Ye Yuanhang looked at it and said, "Let's count the money, your sugarcane is divided into two halves, that is, I have to divide the money into two halves and pay you." Buy this pile first, a penny a pound. Then I bought that pile, and it was also a penny a pound. It adds up to two pennies a pound, so you can calculate it. ”

The man scratched his head, thought for a while and said, "Yes, that's right, give the money." ”

Ye Yuanhang picked up a bunch of sugarcane and said to the stall owner: "This is half and twenty catties, I will take the opposite side first, and I will return the money to you immediately." ”

Returning to the tea shop, Ye Yuanhang put the sugar cane in front of the middle-aged man. Grab the tea and drink it all in one go. Taking a breath, he said, "I'm afraid that you won't be able to carry it, so I cut the middle of the sugar cane in charge, so that it will be much easier for you to carry the burden." I will bring you 20 catties first, you will pay me 40 wen first, and the other 20 catties will be sent over immediately, and you only need to pay me another 30 catties. ”

The middle-aged man didn't know the reason, but twenty catties of sugarcane were already in front of him. So he counted out forty dollars from his bosom and handed it to Yuanhang. Yuanhang hurriedly ran back and handed the money to the stall owner.

"These twenty wen is the pile of sugarcane money just now, what about these twenty wen, it is the money of these sugarcane, you count it, we have completed the transaction." Yuanhang said with a little weakness.

"Okay, thank you, Childe." The man happily put the money away.

Ye Yuanhang ran back to the tea shop, and after handing over the sugarcane to the middle-aged man, he collected thirty copper coins. Then he arched his hand and said: "There is an urgent matter at home today, so I won't accompany my brother much, another day, another day, I will invite my brother to continue to drink tea and say goodbye." ”

The middle-aged man got up and saluted and said, "Thank you, thank you, we'll meet again another day." After saying that, he picked up the sugar cane and was about to walk out of the tea shop. The guy hurried in front of him.

"Guest officer, you haven't paid for two bowls of tea, why don't you leave?" The guy said loudly, and everyone around looked over.

"Didn't check out? It was the man who invited me to tea. The middle-aged man turned around and saw Ye Yuanhang's back and hurriedly shouted, "Come back, you come back for me." ”

It's okay not to shout, this shout, Ye Yuanhang raised his legs and ran, and even his back disappeared after a while.