"Third brother, what are you doing?"

Shen Yibin simply put down his chopsticks, he didn't like this person as soon as he appeared, a man who looked too demonic was not a good person at first glance.

"Man'er, who is he?"

Shen Man'er then remembered that she didn't seem to have introduced Wuye to the third brother, and even if she did, it was still a person who was half-covering her face.

"Third brother, do you remember, at the martial arts conference, the ghost sect who saved you was the one who had no night. Or did he help solve the trouble of the Cheng family? ”

Demon Venerable?

The one who missed a few times with himself?

"It turned out to be the Devil's Sect Venerable, and it was rude under it before, and I hope to respect Haihan. ”

"Brother Yibin, those who don't know are not guilty. ”

Half an hour later, Shen Man'er looked at the two who were talking happily, and had to admit that she was completely abandoned by the two.

Two days later

Shen Man'er, Wuye and An Hu, who were dressed in cloth clothes and men, appeared in front of the city gate of Mo Yu City, and Wu Ye proposed to act alone, in order to check the real situation of Mo Yu City.

It was obviously not yet noon, but Mo Yucheng's gate was closed at this time, and there was not even a single soldier guarding it.

"What's going on? Is something going on in the city? Why are the gates closed?"

Shen Man'er looked at the empty city gate, except for a few people outside the city gate who were wandering aimlessly, there were very few people who wanted to enter the city like them.

"Miss, wait a minute, I'll find someone to ask. ”

After An Hu finished speaking, he walked to a beggar-looking man next to him, who knew that when the man saw him walking over, he was so frightened that he stood up and ran directly.

When the others saw Shen Man'er and the others, they were also frightened and hurriedly dodged.

The three of them were stunned for a moment, although they were dressed in shabby, but they didn't look like bad people, why did they run away when they saw them.

"You're a foreigner, aren't you?"

Shen Man'er was puzzled, when she heard an old woman's voice sound, Shen Man'er looked for the sound, and saw that not far from the city gate, an old woman was setting up a shelf, selling baked cakes.

Listening to the old woman's question, Shen Man'er walked over and bowed respectfully to the old woman.

"Old woman, we are indeed foreigners, and we have come here to do business in Moyu City.

I heard that Mo Yu City was very rich and well-populated, but now in broad daylight, why is Mo Yu City's city gate closed? Is there something big going on in the city?"

The old woman lifted her old face, glanced at the city gate, and then sighed.

"The Mo Yu City you are talking about was a year ago, and now this Mo Yu City has long since lost its former glory, if you want to do business, I advise you not to go.

As for whether something big happened in this Mo Yu City, you still don't care, you know more, it won't do you any good. ”

The old woman was talking, fiddling with her baked cakes, now that there were few people at the city gate, she had been waiting here all morning, and she had not sold a few baked cakes.

Originally, there was still a little bit of hot baked cakes, but they were already completely cold, and the city gate was only open for half an hour at noon, and after the city gate was closed, she could only go back with these baked cakes.

Shen Man'er looked at the baked cake stall in front of her, although she was not hungry, she also wanted to help this lady.

"Old woman, please bring me six baked cakes, I am in a hurry to leave in the morning, and I am hungry at this time. ”

The eldest lady saw that Shen Man'er was good-looking, and she was away from home, so she took six baked cakes for the three of them, and intimately served three bowls of noodle soup for them.

Shen Man'er sat down in front of the stall, watching the situation outside the city gate return to the previous situation, curled up and wandered outside the city gate one by one, like the wandering spirit of the underworld.

"Old woman, have you always set up a stall here?"

Shen Man'er nibbled on the baked cake in her mouth, although it was cold, it still tasted good.

"Little brother, my baked cake tastes good.

It's not that I'm talking big, but I'm setting up a stall at the gate of this city to sell baked cakes, and I've been selling them for almost 20 years. ”

When the old woman said this, her face was smiling, but she collapsed in an instant, and she couldn't help but sigh.

"Hey, but this year's baked cakes are almost unsold, the old body originally planned to come out in a few days, and now you can eat my baked cakes, which is also fate. ”

The old woman said, watching An Hu drink the noodle soup in one go, and added another bowl to him with a smile.

"Old woman, you said before that you persuaded me to leave, and you also said that Mo Yu City is no longer as prosperous as it used to be, what happened to Mo Yu City?

When I came, I only heard that the city lord of Moyu City was sick, and I didn't hear about anything big happening in the city. ”

When it came to the city lord of Moyu City, the old woman lamented again and again.

"Little brother, it's not a secret, now Moyu City is in chaos, just because the city lord is sick.

A year ago, our old city lord of Moyu City suddenly fell. In the past year, the three sons of our city lord of Moyu City, because of the position of the city lord, have fought in the dark, and our people have suffered deeply, and the people have a hard time.

Everyone can run, can scatter, like those of us who have been in Moyu City for half their lives, are really reluctant to leave, so we stayed, but we only barely survived.

A month ago, there was a snow disaster in the south of the Yangtze River, which made the situation even worse.

Originally, the imperial court allocated relief grain, but Ling Ruofeng, the current temporary city lord of Moyu City, not only did not distribute the relief grain to us, but also added taxes, saying that he wanted to support the imperial court in fighting the disaster.

Half a month ago, the imperial court sent a lord to Jiangnan for disaster relief, I heard that it was still a county lord, we thought that a good day had finally come.

Who knew that the eldest prince actually ordered the city gate to be closed, and only opened for one hour at noon every day, and he had to pay ten wen to enter Moyu City.

How do we live, don't say ten articles, even one article we can't get out now.

So, little brother, I don't think you guys are dressed like rich people, if you really plan to do business, go to Moyun City, or go to the nearby Mofeng City, this Moyu City or don't go in. ”

Shen Man'er listened to the old woman's narration, this was even more serious than when Li Yi left.

When Li Yi left, Ling Ruofeng didn't dare to blatantly oppress the people, what is the difference between this and robbery now.

Mu Yingqiu also did a little face-saving project, at least he didn't force the people to death, but what is the difference between Ling Ruofeng's approach and forcing the people to death.

The three of them talked to the old woman like this, and inquired about the situation in Moyu City, and before they knew it, it was almost noon, and the city gate was about to open.

"Thank you, old woman, for the pancakes. ”

Shen Man'er took out a silver ticket from her arms and put it in the old woman's hand, the old woman thought that it would be ten taels at most, she just wanted to say that she couldn't find it at all, but when she looked closely, what was this ten taels, this was actually a silver ticket of one hundred taels.

The old woman raised her head in fright and looked at the three people, but when she looked again, there were still shadows of the three people in front of the stall.