After returning to Zuoqiu City, Bu Ye announced that everyone would be given a ten-day holiday. Of course, this kind of vacation is not a vacation, and you can't go back to the yang world, so you must stay in Zuoqiu City and stand by. As soon as the caravan receives a new mission, it will assemble and set off at any time.

I ran the merchant for a month, and my salary was saved for a month, plus the commission, and I had money in my hands again. The income of being a dart master is indeed more than double that of being a chef, and I have also bought the medicinal herb that was scarce at the beginning, which has also allowed me to continue to implement the "Yin Meal Plan".

During the journey, because everyone eats and sleeps together, it is very tiring to travel day and night, and it is inconvenient to open a small stove by yourself. When you come back, of course, you're going to have a lot of food. Of course, with my current income, it is impossible to eat every day, it seems that in the future, I can only form this kind of law, when I go out to make money, I will eat yin food and practice when I come back!

There is also a separate kitchen in the dormitory of the trading house, so no one should suspect me if I sneak over at night to have a supper. But it's still not convenient to do this kind of sneaky approach, maybe in the future I can consider renting a place to live elsewhere, but I don't know if the rent is expensive.

finally came back, so I naturally wanted to find Cao Zhe, a "drinking friend". Drinking is just the beginning, in fact, I still want to learn some recent news from him in Zuoqiu City. Needless to say, the meeting place is still at the Lotus Bar.

Cao Zhe stared at Xiaohe's twisted waist when he turned to leave after bringing the wine, his eyes were straight, and his saliva was about to drip out. I saw his stupidity and almost burst out laughing without taking a sip of wine.

"Hey! You've been staring at her for a year, and Yin Yuan has spent hundreds, when do you dare to muster up the courage to ask her out? I quipped.

"You don't understand!" Cao Zhe glanced at me contemptuously, and said solemnly: "What I want is this wonderful feeling that I can get it as soon as I stretch out my hand, and I can't bear to blaspheme!" ”

"Blasphemy? Are you overusing this term? ”

"No, no, no, it's not an exaggeration at all!" Cao Zhe closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and said, "Celebrity Cloud: What you can't get is always the best!" ”

I couldn't stand his nymphomaniac performance, so I patted him on the head and scolded with a smile: "Since the best thing can never be obtained, then you still toss a ball?" ”

"Hey, you don't understand! Vulgar! "Cao Zhe actually despised me in turn.

I shook my head and couldn't understand it, so I decided to divert the topic and asked him, "I'm not here for a month, is there any explosive news in Zuoqiu City?" ”

"There is no explosiveness, there is one on a regular **, do you want to listen?"

"What timing**? Two more ghost gangs are going to war? ”

"Humph! What is the Ghost Gang War? This time, even the city lord of Zuoqiu was alarmed! Cao Zhe scoffed at my speculation and actually sold Guanzi.

"So exaggerated? What's going on? Speak quickly! ”

"I said yes, you have a treat in the next round!"

I shook my head helplessly and promised, "Okay, okay!" I have the money to drink, I'm afraid you won't have enough to drink! ”

Cao Zhe was satisfied, and leaned over and whispered: "Crystal City recently sent someone over to form an alliance with Zuoqiu City, and it took half a month to talk about it, and it is said that the Zuoqiu City Lord had already signed the covenant the day before yesterday!" ”

"Alliance? Isn't it true that these Yin Cities are originally in an alliance with each other? Otherwise, how could there be such frequent caravans? "I was stunned. Take Hanglou Town as an example, the road guide document of Zuoqiu City has also been approved there, and this cannot be done without an agreement.

"Caravan exchanges are caravan exchanges, it is just a trade convention that the major Yin Cities reached a long time ago, and there is still a big gap with the alliance!" Cao Zhe still shook his head, thinking that I was lonely and unheard.

"Then tell me, why did Crystal City take the initiative to come to form an alliance with us?" My interest was immediately aroused by him.

"Because they have recently received rumors, it is very likely that the ghost army has set their sights on Crystal City, and may have begun to plan to send troops to attack them. Moreover, their people did find the spies of the ghost army around Crystal City! ”

"Ghost Army?" It's been a long time since I've heard that term.

"The commander of the ghost army is called the ghost marshal, I told you about this before, right? He has been peeking at the wealth of Crystal City, if he can really capture Crystal City, the strength of the ghost army will definitely increase greatly! ”

"Is Crystal City so rich?"

"Nonsense! Crystal City is rich in crystals, so the city lord of Crystal City may be even richer than the city lord of Zuoqiu! ”

I was dumbfounded. Richer than the city lord of Zuoqiu? What does that have to be?

"What happens after the alliance? What does it mean for us? "I think this is the question that should be concerned, otherwise what does it matter to us whether the ghost army can fight Crystal City or not? After all, Crystal City is still far away!

"It may not be visible in the near future, but in the long run, it will definitely be good for both sides." Cao Zhe continued to analyze for me, "Zuoqiu City is the largest Yin City, with more people and ghosts, and various resources are also abundant. Although Crystal City is small, it is the richest Yin City. Once these two join forces, even the ghost army will not dare to act rashly! ”

"Has there been a specific alliance agreement?"

"Then of course the top-secret agreement cannot be made public! Still, I've heard some speculation, and I'm not sure about it! Cao Zhe continued to keep his voice low, and the heads of the two of us were almost together, "The two city lords have reached an agreement, Zuoqiu City will assist Crystal City with a thousand ghost slaves and a large number of grain, grass and weapons and equipment, and will send people to Crystal City in the near future!" ”

"The Crystal City ......"

"Crystal City only needs to pay the market price!"

"Then Zuoqiu City didn't get any benefits?"

"Hey! Of course, this is only a deal on the surface, and where can we know about the secret agreement underneath? ”

I thought about it, and I thought so. Even if the Zuoqiu City Lord doesn't care about anything, in the face of the "landlord's old wealth" sent to the door like the Crystal City Lord, it is impossible to easily let go of such an excellent opportunity to fight the autumn wind, right?

"But just help a thousand ghost slaves?" I still have some doubts about this, "Zuoqiu City Lord doesn't plan to send a city guard to help?" ”

Although the major forces in Zuoqiu City are intertwined, the city guards are definitely the most important and reliable military force in the city. I have always felt that if the ghost army really hits the city of Zuoqiu one day, only the city guards can resist the mysterious and powerful ghost army.

"This is indeed what Crystal City hopes to fight for!" Cao Zhe also agreed with me, "According to rumors, Crystal City came to protect the city guards from the beginning!" They want to borrow at least a hundred city guards from Zuoqiu City, and they will borrow them for at least a year! ”

"! Do they dare to open this mouth? ”

You must know that there are less than 800 guards in Zuoqiu City, and if you borrow a hundred directly, then the defense strength of Zuoqiu City will be greatly affected!

"So! As soon as this proposal came out, the old witch strongly opposed it, and it was directly rejected later! ”

"Well, I think she did the right thing!" Cao Zhe always referred to Wu Fang as an old witch, but I had a good impression of her.

"If the city guards can't get it, Crystal City can only settle for the next best thing, asking to sell them a large number of high-level ghost slaves." Cao Zhe then broke the news, "This is easy to discuss, and in the end, the two sides negotiated a thousand integers, and there are also ten ink ghosts!" ”

"That's pretty good!"

The strength of the ink ghost is almost equal to the fourth level of cultivation in the Yin cultivation, and even in Zuoqiu City, it can be regarded as an upper-middle level. Among the many ghost gang bosses, except for only two or three of the most resentful ghosts, ink ghosts can generally sit on the top spot of a medium-sized ghost gang. The boss of the imp gang that is everywhere is a at best.

"However, there have been so many ghost slaves in the past, can the Crystal City Manager come over?" I asked Cao Zhe.

"You don't have to worry about this." Cao Zhe said with a smile, "Not all Yin Cities rely on Yin cultivation to be responsible for city defense affairs, if there are powerful ghost cultivators in Crystal City, ten ink ghosts can still be suppressed!" ”

"Then they are planning to use the 'ghost army' to fight the ghost army?"

"Well, that's pretty much what it means!"

Hearing this "big secret", I raised my hand in satisfaction and beckoned to Xiao He on the other side of the bar, and gestured two fingers. Xiaohe naturally understood, and twisted his waist again with a smile and brought us two bottles of beer. And Cao Zhe's eyes lit up again.

In addition to messing with Cao Zhe, I still took the time to go back to the Changshou Hotel, but the situation there was still depressing.

Teng Shuli pointed to the pile of building materials and said to me helplessly: "Look." It took a month to clean up the rubble from the rubble, and the foundation of the new building had not yet been dug up! ”

"Why is it so slow?" I don't know why, because there are still a lot of ghost servants on the construction site, moving bricks and shoveling soil.

"What else could it be! Lack of building materials! ”

"Lack of building materials?" I was stunned, pointed to the pile of building materials that Teng Shuli had just pointed out to me and asked, "Isn't so much enough?" ”

"You think these materials were just bought?" Teng Shuli asked angrily.

"That's ......"

"Most of them are still demolished from old buildings!"

"I see!"

Most of the time, it's much easier to build a new building on a vacant plot of land than to build it on the same site. This is because the demolition and clean-up work takes a lot of time, not to mention the selective separation of materials from the old building so that the remaining waste can be transported away and thrown away.

However, there is a shortage of building materials in Zuoqiu City, and if you don't do this, you won't be able to get together the materials needed to build a new building.

"I'm afraid the rebuilding will take longer than I originally expected, definitely more than a year!" Teng Shuli sighed.

Tian Laolu and the others were all shunted to Fulong Inn and other places, and I also went to visit them separately, and they were all living quite safely. However, Wei Dahu asked me: "I see that you are quite comfortable in the caravan now, if the longevity hotel is rebuilt in the future, do you plan to come back then?" ”

I hesitated, but I still didn't want to say anything, so I replied, "There is still a year left, and I will make a decision then!" ”