Tiejian City is the county seat of Shansong County, the city is built according to the mountain as its name, it is a pearl on the Haoyun Mountains, and it is the largest city in the north of Jinguo.

In fact, compared to the cities on the northern border, due to geographical restrictions, Tiejian City is actually not large, it is not even one-third the size of Jian'an City, and the permanent population is only about 300,000. Also due to the geographical location, in peacetime it has become an important gathering place for herdsmen, fishermen, hunters and southern merchants to exchange materials, silk, tea, wheat and rice produced in the country of Jin will be transported here by the wagons of the caravans, and then exchanged with herdsmen, fishermen and local hunters in the north and east for horses, cattle and sheep, animal skins, mineral products, seafood and other materials and then transported to the interior for sale, and the merchants earn the price difference in the middle.

But if in wartime, this city will become a pass on the northern border of the Jin Kingdom, and it is also a huge granary and material reserve behind the entire Northern Desert Army. It is the iron tooth of the northern gate lord forces, the gathering place and transit center of all kinds of military information and information.

The NPCs in the city are all martial arts but not literate, everyone is brave and good at fighting, all the people are soldiers, every household is rich and poor, and the walls are hung with armor and weapons, and the adult men of each family will definitely go to the Iron Blood Square to practice and compete in their spare time, 'You and I hang armor on the wall, and go to the square with itchy hands and feet' has become a popular phrase in the Iron Threshold City, and if there are disputes and grievances between neighbors, and they are not used to seeing each other and want to kill each other, they can go to the Yamen to set up a life and death situation, and then go to the Iron and Blood Square to fight you to the death.

There is a small story circulating here, the county governor of Shansong County, Lu Keyi, once said after getting drunk: "There is no threshold that cannot be crossed in the Iron Threshold City, all of them live by their ability, and if you fight grievances and divide life and death, you can fight it, and the government is responsible for burying it." "Then there was a non-local official who disagreed with the words of the county watchman, saying, 'The people should go to the court to file an appeal to seek a fair deal from the government, and no matter who they are, they must abide by the laws of a country, and they cannot gather people to fight or even kill people.'" Lu Keyi, who was eating at the same table, changed his face faster than turning a book, first squinted at this non-local official and snorted coldly, and then flipped the table and beat up this non-low-grade non-local official.

Therefore, the NPCs in this city are all not easy to mess with, they are all kinds of fish and dragons, they can be hunters hunting in the mountains, wandering traders, farmers farming, small workers repairing houses, or families of wealthy families, but once the war starts, the NPCs in this city are even soldiers in the city, and they are loyal to the king of Guangmo, and everyone is the Northern Desert Army.

They would rather look down on the street begging for Hanako than the Wenwen crepe reader, so players of the type of Guan Fuzi must not be treated well by NPCs when they come here (except for those who are favored by the Gatelord forces). On the contrary, many players who are willing to fight without saying a word are very appetizing to the people in the city.

This is an iron-blooded city, there is no so-called safe zone, there are various rich leveling locations on the mountains outside the city, and there are various material transactions in the city, and the players here are actually very happy to level up quickly and equip well.

A convoy of about twenty wagons and thirty men was moving along the official road, each loaded with a load of goods, and the coachmen did not sit on the carriages but held the whip in one hand and the reins in the other, and if the horses refused to walk if they wanted to eat the grass on the side of the road, they would wave their whips and pat them lightly on their buttocks, and the horses would go on again.

The horses dragged heavy loads, and the wheels of the car slowly pressed the ruts on the ground, and both men and horses were a little tired and walked cautiously.

An Ran and Fan Yuntian walked at the front of the convoy together, and at this moment, they acted as the escorts of the merchants like the players from the capital, and the long-haired man he met in Jian'an City, 'Sleeve Treasure' and 'Pity Fragrance and Jade', and an NPC wearing a Dongpo hat and a big belly were walking side by side with them.

According to what Qiankun said, this time the business of going north to Tiejian City is a test of the Taizhong Studio, if the cooperation with the NPC goes smoothly this time, then the Taizhong Studio can unite the gangs of the capital and Tiejian City to open up a way to make a fortune on this road, and ask An Ran and the Tai'an Gang behind him if they are interested in joining the gang.

An Ran refused them, of course he could hear what they meant, this is to see a piece of fat hanging from the capital to the iron threshold city, these people want to swallow it alone, if they establish this trade route, it will be difficult for others to do business on this line, for example, there are some bandits who block the road and rob in Leng Buding; or that your goods need to be inspected by certain people; Or if you drag goods between the two cities, you need to pay a certain fee, etc.

"Even if Lao Tzu wants to do this business, it won't cooperate with you," An Ran thought to himself, "I, Tai'an, help hundreds of thousands of people and the wealthy Huang Yuanwai, can completely test this route, and Lao Tzu has the power of the prince behind him, and these things are incomparable to you at all." But business doesn't do this, how can there be a reason why one person can't drink the soup by eating alone? Besides, this official road is not for you to earn money, it is the throat road from the south to the north of the Jin Kingdom, and this road can only be a life channel for the soldiers to transport military supplies and run horses to transmit military information, according to the news of Brother Guyan, the emperor Lao'er is preparing to start a war with the Rohan State, and you still want to make oil and water on this road? Go home and play in the mud! It's good not to pay you to death. ”

"Yesterday, that group of mountain bandits was so fierce," the pot-bellied NPC merchant Lu Buwei still had a lingering fear when he talked about it, "There are sixty or seventy people rushing out of the mountain, all of them are adventurers with machetes, bows and arrows, and the law enforcement staff in their hands, if it weren't for the help of An Ran Daxia and Fan Yuntian Shaoxia, I'm afraid we would all have to explain to the Eagle's Beak Cliff." ”

What he said was the truth, the pile of mountain bandits they met in their convoy yesterday was a small force entrenched in the Eagle's Beak Cliff Tianbao Village, in the language of the online game, this is a splash of wild monsters that the system provides players with to upgrade their equipment in the wild, killing and removal. These wild monsters are all more than sixty levels or so,Led by the commander-level boss reached level 70 by one level,For ordinary players, these monsters are not easy to mess with,So the general leveling and playing equipment players can only choose to take a detour,Or there are players who are bold enough to try their luck,But most of them suffer、Lost equipment and experience will no longer go,There are also some players who will cooperate with the NPCs with higher IQs here,Live together in the treasure village that day to hunt equipment and take the opportunity to rob passers-by., The adventurers with magic staff that Lu Buwei said belonged to such a category.

An Ran and Fan Yuntian are two perverts, they were just passing by there, just wanting to kill these wild monsters to upgrade and get some equipment, who knew that by chance they saw the mountain bandits killing the caravan people to the ground, so it became natural for Lu to draw a knife to help.

Then the two of them killed the mountain bandits to the ground, and the accompanying players didn't know why this sudden passerby was so strong, and An Ran didn't know when he and Fan Yuntian became perverts, in their words, well! Lao Tzu is probably Huaxia's own son!

"Brother Lu doesn't have to worry about trivial matters," An Ran waved his hand and said with a smile, "Even if you don't show up, we still have to go to find trouble with that wave of bandits." ”

"Yes, there's no need to keep it in mind," Fan Yuntian took over the topic at once, "Just don't forget the hard-earned money you gave us when you get to Tieji City." ”

"It's a must!" The pot-bellied businessman patted his chest in reassurance.

They entered the boundaries of Yamamatsu County at noon, but they were still about fifty miles away from Iron Threshold City. An Ran inadvertently found a problem, next to the third carriage, a coachman walked calmly, and everyone else was panting after a long journey, but he didn't say a word, just looked ahead with tenacious eyes. The young man deliberately slowed down his pace and secretly looked at the palm of the man's hand, and found that his tiger's mouth was covered with calluses, which should be the traces left by holding the sword often, and it should not appear in the hands of a man who can only drive a carriage.

So An Ran quietly used the mind-contemplation skill on some coachmen, which was startled when he didn't know if he didn't know, in this team of more than thirty people, there were actually several NPCs of about level 75 hidden, all of whom were coachmen who drove forward. And yesterday in the eagle's beak cliff, it was these coachmen who were frightened by the bandits, but An Ran dared to guarantee that once these NPC coachmen made a move, those bandits probably didn't even know how they died, but they didn't make a move from beginning to end, but instead let the ordinary NPC coachmen get injured and lose their lives, and also resurrected some players who accompanied them.

"No wonder they were able to dodge the swords of the mountain bandits with rolling and climbing, it turned out that they were deliberately disguised!" An Ran thought as he walked, "If Lao Tzu and Fan Yuntian hadn't just met you, I think those mountain bandits who didn't have long eyes would have all died, and you really came to do business?" If this Lu Buwei was just an ordinary businessman, how could there be such a high-level NPC in his team? This is so abnormal, NPCs like this should only appear on a certain mountain, a certain gang, a certain military camp, and some big people, and never pull any wagon and ox cart for an ordinary merchant, unless the merchant itself is not simple. “

There is also the sleeve Qiankun and pity who met here again, and they didn't feel normal when they met An Ran in the capital, but the handsome young man who was abnormal in the specific place couldn't figure it out, maybe it was a bit too coincidental! For example, now they intend to pull An Ran to do business together, and the long-haired man said the same thing in his sleeve when he was in the capital.

"Are they also the prince's people?" An Ran was still talking to these people, but he was slandered in his heart, "Under the guise of doing business, go to the Northern Desert to investigate the situation of the eldest prince?" It's not impossible, just imagine that even if there are many eyes and ears in Iron Threshold City, who would be suspicious of a bunch of walking merchants? They privately understand the power of the eldest prince in the north, and win over local officials and wealthy families have since planted a nail, if the world changes suddenly in the near future, whether the eldest prince attacks the capital or not, the crown prince Li Jiade can also take the lead in dealing with it. Isn't this what the prince wanted to do before his trip north to the capital? If these people are really the prince's arrangement, then the young man in a high position is too terrible, he is fine and calculating, and he does not bet on himself, even if Lao Tzu does not obey his arrangement, there are still a bunch of chess pieces working for him. So, did Fan Yuntian and Xiao Wang Ba pay for the expenses of staying in the hotel and eating all the way to the end? Are they staring at the words and deeds of the old? ”

An Ran didn't know, and he wouldn't be stupid enough to ask directly, because if someone else wanted to deliberately hide something, he wouldn't say it if you asked. He is willing to treat them as the people of the rivers and lakes he met on the road to the rivers and lakes, and everyone can take a ride when they meet in Pingshui, but I don't ask you where you come from, and you don't have to ask where I belong.

He thought so and did so, so when he first arrived in Tiejian City, An Ran chose to say goodbye to this team and two acquaintances, as for whether others were doing business, or busy with other important things, or whether they would keep hiding in the dark and staring at him, the young man didn't care and didn't bother to care.

He just took Fan Yuntian to wander around the iron threshold city with a city in the mountains and a mountain in the city, they climbed the hill to buy accompanying materials and observe human customs, and everything they saw could be summed up in four words: 'The people are strong', and then at a stone intersection with a very steep slope, a bearded man wearing a hat and a saber hanging from his waist blocked the way of the two.

"Stop!" He leaned against the wall with his hands folded around his chest, and a dogtail in his mouth, looking a little hanging.

"What's the matter? Friend. An Ran asked.

"I heard you're very good at fighting?" He asked

"Who did you listen to? And what does it matter to you if we can fight or not? An Ran asked again.

"Lao Tzu's brothers at the Eagle's Beak Cliff said, good boy! You've bullied my brothers so badly, what's the matter? ”

"You...... From the Eagle's Beak Cliff? An Ran was blindsided by the man's words.

"Not bad!" The bearded man stood up straight and said loudly: "Lao Tzu is Li Dabao, the big boss of Tianbao Village, and the Northern Desert swordsman on the rivers and lakes is just below." ”

"You...... You...... How can I come to Iron Threshold City? ”

An Ran still couldn't figure out how a wild refreshed boss could come to the city, wouldn't they be cut down as monsters by the soldiers in the city?

"Why can't Lao Tzu come? Do you guys who beat Lao Tzu want to slip away? Boy! You guys let Lao Tzu find it all the way, now you two know why Lao Tzu is looking for you, right? ”

"You don't have to give Lao Tzu Lao Tzu," Fan Yuntian scolded at the waist: "My brother An Ran means to say, how can you run into the city as a wild monster?" Shouldn't you hide on your own turf, strip naked, wash up, and wait for those adventurer bastards to fuck you several times? ”

"Lao Tzu is also an adventurer." An Ran reminded in a whisper.

"I didn't say you Brother Enran." After Fan Yuntian explained, he still raised his chin and looked at the bearded man unconvinced.

The muscular and dark-skinned man looked at Fan Yuntian and then at An Ran, and then suddenly couldn't help laughing.

"You ...... You guys ..... stupid, but I love it! He laughed and said, "That's the puppet that Lao Tzu put in Tianbao Village, I can call them Li Erbao, Li Sanbao, Li Sibao, and Li Duobao, but it will never be me Li Dabao." How many adventurers are still brothers and sisters with Lao Tzu's puppet? Aren't you funny...... Hahaha......"

He laughed alone, and then a woman with a dustpan was found all the way down the slope, and the bearded man immediately stopped laughing and secretly aimed his eyes at the woman's breasts.

"Yo!" The woman said, "It's been a long time since I saw you! ”

Li Dabao put the tip of one foot on the tip of his foot and replied in a posture that he thought he was very handsome, "Sister-in-law Lin's words are bad, Dabao will see you every day." ”

An Ran was speechless at this NPC who seemed to have a little problem with his brain, "What the hell is this advertising slogan?" ”

Then the woman gave him a blank look and went on, and the man's dog's eyes followed the house.

"Hey! That sister-in-law, she's peeking at your ass. Fan Yuntian suddenly reminded the woman.

"It's over!" An Ran thought, "Is there anyone who the reminds other women like that?" Why didn't this little bastard think clearly before he told him, his words could pull these two people to the opposite side of him at once! ”

He was about to pick up Fan Yuntian and run, but the woman's next move was unexpected.

"Phew! What kind of ability is peeking behind the scenes? The woman turned her head and snorted, "Dabao, you have a kind of old lady who came to my house tonight and stripped naked to show you." ”

"Don't!" Li Dabao waved his hand again and again, "Your man wants to break Lao Tzu's dog leg." ”

"Afraid of what?" The woman raised her voice, "Before you come, the old lady prepared a bowl of medicine for Lin Da to feed him to drink, and then the old lady rolled with you in front of him, okay?" ”

"It's all neighbors," the bearded man immediately panicked, "don't talk nonsense, don't talk nonsense!" ”

"Humph!" The woman turned around and continued to walk, "There are dogs who don't have the courage of dogs." ”

"Fuck you! Tough! The folk customs here are indeed strong! An Ran wiped his forehead and thought to himself.

Fan Yuntian, who did not provoke right and wrong, was full of disappointment.

"Now let's talk about our business," seeing that the woman finally left, Li Tianbao regained his demeanor, "How can you two count the matter of beating Lao Tzu's brother?" ”

"It's all hit," An Ran shrugged with her hands outstretched, "what do you want?" Lao Tzu may not be afraid that you will not succeed? ”

"Good!" The bearded man said, "It's a matter of turning the page to go to the Iron Blood Square to fight with Lao Tzu, but you have to invite Lao Tzu to drink before you go to the square to fight." ”

"Is that simple?" An Ran couldn't believe his ears, "Just ask you to drink and then fight with you and it's over?" ”

"Or else?" The bearded man sneered, "Do you think that our Iron Threshold City will be as stinky and long as you strangers in resolving grievances?" It is bullying and stumbling again, and all conspiracies and conspiracies emerge one after another. All grievances in our Iron Threshold City can be resolved with fists, friends can learn from the enemy to divide life and death, Lao Tzu first drinks with you is worthy of what you do, high ability, strong fists to the evil place is qualified to have a drink with my Northern Desert swordsman, and then fight, because no matter what, your two dogs will fight Lao Tzu's brother after all. ”

"Why didn't you please?" Fan Yuntian asked.

"Because Lao Tzu has no money." Li Dabao shrugged his shoulders and made a natural look.

Then they really sent him to a wine shop, and the man quite unceremoniously called out two large jars of the best local liquor--Red in the Snow, and he didn't pay attention to the wine and dishes, but only shouted the regular dishes of this street wine shop, a plate of peanuts, a roast chicken, half a catty of beef in sauce, six braised pig's trotters, and a plate of cold shredded radish.

He knew the shopkeeper, but the shopkeeper and Xiao Er didn't seem to like him very well, which caused him to squeeze his eyebrows at the shopkeeper when he shouted wine and food, and the young shopkeeper really spread his hand forward at one point.

"What do you mean by that?" Li Dabao frowned and asked.

"Brother Li, the rules in our store have changed, pay first and then serve the food." The old shopkeeper standing behind the counter with an abacus smiled.

"Huh!" Uncle Beard laughed dryly, "It's really a strange thing, guests have to pay before eating, why haven't I heard that you have this kind of rules before?" ”

"Isn't that because you're here?" The shopkeeper's face was full of displeasure, "Give money!" No money, no food. ”

"Do you see these two masters?" Li Dabao was not annoyed and cocked his thumb behind him, "Looking for them and asking them for money." ”

Then the shopkeeper glanced at him fiercely, walked to An Ran's side, immediately changed his expression, and said with a smile: "Two guests, you ...... the wine money."

"How much?"

"No more than five silver coins." The shopkeeper said with a smile.

"What?" Fan Yuntian immediately blew up, "Why don't you rob it?" ”

The shopkeeper originally wanted to scold in his heart: "If you can't afford to drink, get away!" But thinking that these two people were first-time guests in the store, they could only hold back the fire in their hearts and explain: "The main reason is that the wine is a bit expensive, and the snow red in our store is the ten-year wine of the wind and snow gate on the mountain, and it tastes very good, and it is difficult to drink it in the entire Tiejian City." ”

An Ran sighed, this wronged person can only be taken by himself. This little bastard surnamed Fan has been able to take care of his own money and stuff since he terminated the master-servant agreement, but no matter what, his pockets are bulging, and he is a fucking little pick.

"Take it!" He pulled out the personal parcel bar of the game character, took out a large bag of heavy money from the small compartment and threw it to the shopkeeper. "You count, the extra silver coins are used for drinking!"

When they saw the money shop, Xiao Er and the old shopkeeper immediately smiled, and after a while, they put together the wine and food one by one.

"Guest officer," the shopkeeper walked up and poured a bowl of wine for each of them, "Lao Yu sees that you are a rich and noble person, Brother Li can be friends with a person like you, I don't know how many lifetimes of blessing, you have a total of twenty silver coins in your money bag, in addition to the five pieces of this meal of wine and food, there are fifteen silver coins left, according to the price, you can buy another six jars of snow red, but Lao Yu has a suggestion I don't know whether to talk about it." ”

"Uncle Dan said it was okay." An Ran said with a smile.

"This wine! If you don't buy it today, you will have it tomorrow, but friends! If you don't help today, you won't be able to help tomorrow. ”

"Uncle, you have something to say."

"Brother Li ate a lot of wine in the old decay store before, and of course he owed a little wine money on credit, I think you are a rich and noble person, so you might as well ...... As...... And you took the money your friend owes for the drink? ”

Fan Yuntian, who had just clinked glasses with Li Dabao and took a sip of wine, almost squirted out a sip of wine, but An Ran hurriedly took a sip of wine to suppress the shock.

This reminded him of his high school days, when he heard from his roommate that there was a boy who had bought something on credit in the commissary and had no money and had to avoid the boss, and one day the boss talked about it with the boy's friend, and the girl was a little embarrassed at first and then immediately settled the money owed by the boy.

Later, I heard that this boy would never give credit again, and finally the boy and the girl got together, and he probably needed to use his life to repay the girl's forgiveness and affection to him, right? In any case, there are still lovers, and they will eventually become married.

"How much does he owe?" An Ran asked cautiously.

"No more than twenty silver coins." The old shopkeeper gestured two fingers.

Then Fan Yuntian immediately gave a thumbs up to the bearded man, "You really fucking have a lot of debts, don't worry about lice, and don't itch."

"Shame! Ashamed! Li Dabaotian smiled shamelessly, and a pair of eyes stared at An Ran's next move.

"Hey! Lao Tzu is really a wronged man," he sighed again, and took out a bag of silver coins from his personal package and handed it to the old shopkeeper, "This is probably the remaining money of twenty silver coins." ”

System: You helped the mysterious NPC Li Dabao pay for the wine and get him to sign you a favor.

System: Who is Li Dabao? Some say he was a bandit from the Eagle's Beak Cliff; Some people also say that he is a swordsman walking on the northern desert; Some say he is a prodigal in the market; Others say he's the Iron Man of the Tent, a mysterious man who might surprise you when you know who he is. He has a lot of stories that you need to listen to, and he has traveled a lot of mountains and rivers and will become your guide on the road to the rivers and lakes.

"Is this all right?" An Ran looked at the bearded man who grabbed the pig's trotters directly with his hands and shouted, "What is this?" Good people have good rewards? ”

"What good people have good rewards?" Fan Yuntian naturally didn't know that An Ran received the system message and scolded while eating: "You are a stupid and rich boy." ”

"Yes!" He slapped An Ran's shoulder hard, slapping An Ran's body crookedly. "We're friends now, if you invite me to drink, I'll help you fight." The bearded man said with a grin.