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Ye Yueming sighed, waved his hand and said, "It's my negligence, let's go, find a store to invest in the store." It's still the old rule, four upper rooms.

Listening to the crane followed them for two months, rarely spoke, and in most cases was willing to be a listener, only when there was something abnormal in Emperor Xi's body, he would be silent and prepare a good pill for Emperor Xi to take. Such a sensible, obedient and little boy who has nothing to do took less than half a month to gain the favor of the emperor.

It's just that Emperor Xi didn't dare to fully believe in Tinghe, after all, he was Mr. Kunwu's person, and Mr. Kunwu obviously had a lot of friendship with Luo Yu, and whoever had some friendship with Luo Yu, Emperor Xi would always keep some eyes on him.

The five of them wandered around the city for a while, and then they barely found an inn in a very dilapidated corner, not to mention a person like Dixi who had suffered hardships, but Panruo, who had never cared about the accommodation conditions, had a little dark face when they saw such an inn at first glance.

The corners of Ye Yueming's mouth twitched a little and pointed to the wine trick, and asked the shopkeeper, "You guys are the only inn in Broken Leaf City here?" ”

"At first glance, the guest officer is not from our Northern Desert, right? To tell a few people, the environment of a small store is already very good. A few people don't know that in the past few years, several cities in the Northern Desert have been harassed by herdsmen every year, although they don't harm people's lives, but they are not soft at all when they take money and food, and over time, where do people dare to sell along the street? Not to mention the merchants, if you can not go to the North Desert, you will not leave, even if you are really forced to go to the North Desert, you would rather be stationed abroad than never live in a store. The small shop has not been open for half a year, except for some old customers who will come to eat, no one will come to stay at all. ”

The shopkeeper couldn't tell how old he was, but his face was full of sadness and his expression was discouraged, and he couldn't bear it in the hearts of several people.

Emperor Xi thought about the situation in the city carefully, and it was indeed similar to what Xiao Er said in this shop. In order to find a guest room to live in a hotel, the five of them walked around this not very large city, the sky was blue and daylight, and there was not a single street along the way, originally the emperor was going to replenish their food and water in Broken Leaf City, but after turning around, he didn't even see a pastry seller.

"In that case, we will stay, and we will leave early tomorrow morning, how much is the house?" Ye Yueming guessed that what the shopkeeper said should be the truth, so he no longer disliked this inn.

The shopkeeper was overjoyed, and said with a smile: "A few people who are willing to come to live in the small store will be full of glory, what money do you need?" Besides, it's not enough to be robbed if you ask for money, so if you really want to pay, why don't you give me this sword. ”

The shopkeeper said, pointing to a long sword on Ye Yueming's waist. Ye Yueming didn't say much, and directly untied the sword and handed it to the shopkeeper: "Then I'll give it to you." ”

Each of the five of them had a sword for their bodies, which they had bought a month ago, because they had heard that there were many bandits along the way, and Ye Yueming was worried about the safety of several people, so he spent three hundred taels of silver to buy five swords of different lengths and distribute them to everyone.

Emperor Xi now has a soft sword wrapped around his waist, he can't see it at all if he doesn't look closely, he listens to the crane people, the sword is short, it looks more like a dagger, and the sword of Panruo was directly folded by him as scrap iron and thrown into a nearby blacksmith shop, and it was beaten into a pack of poisonous long needles, Ning Yi didn't know how to use a sword, and when he grabbed the sword, he chopped and stabbed, and he couldn't grasp the essence of using a sword at all, so his sword was also taken by Prajna to cast a long needle, Di Xi smiled bitterly at the time, and bought a long whip for Ning Yi to defend himself.

It was precisely for this reason that the shopkeeper only saw the long sword worn by Ye Yueming's waist.

got the sword, the shopkeeper hurriedly welcomed the five people in, and instructed his mother-in-law to clean up a table of elegant wine and food, and it was brought up after a short time.

This journey is tiring, even if it is pampered since childhood, it has long been accustomed to the days of simple clothes and rough food, as soon as a few plates of dishes come up, a few people will gobble up, and the wind and clouds will sweep away all the food.

Of course, there is no such thing as Prajna and Listening to Cranes. Prajna just drank the sake in front of him, and didn't move a single chopstick to the dish, and Tinghe just ate a small half bowl of rice and some green vegetables, and then put down the chopsticks.

After the three of them were full of wine and food, Emperor Xi followed Prajna and poured some sake for each of them to drink.

The wine poured out was very clear, and the smell of the wine was very thin, and when you drank it, it was very coarse, like a pot of wine poured into a vat of water diluted, and the taste was very bland.

Emperor Xi only took a sip and put down the wine glass: "Shop, is this the only wine in your store?" ”

"It's like that all over the city. The grain has been plundered by the herdsmen, what do we use to make wine? Now drinkers can only taste this kind of wine to satisfy their cravings, as for the wine...... There are several cities on our border, only Yuzhuo City still exists, and the broken leaves are really gone. A few guest officers dealt with it and drank it. The shopkeeper smiled bitterly and pointed to his own meal with the proprietress: "Don't hide it from a few guest officials, my mother-in-law and I eat leftover broken rice, which was used to raise chickens and feed cattle when the herdsmen were not rampant in the early years. ”

When Ye Yueming heard this, she finally couldn't help but knock on the table, and said hatefully: "Didn't the imperial court send 500,000 elite soldiers to the border town a few years ago?" Even the taxes of several border cities are exempted, how can you still live like this? ”

"This son doesn't know that our regent is the squire of the military department, and he did send 500,000 elite soldiers to the border at that time, and our life was better for a while. But the next year...... In the second year, those soldiers became old, weak, sick and disabled, not to mention defending the city, and even we had to provide food and drink. Later, I heard that these military masters were all leftovers from the front-line war, Childe, you said, where can such people be able to hold on? If we lose the battle too much, our majesty will not be happy to afford to spend money on the border anymore. When the shopkeeper said this, he put down his chopsticks with a long sigh, and his face was full of sadness: "Our broken leaves are still being sent down by adults to defend the city, but if the herdsmen really come, it will be us ordinary people who go into battle." Childe, you see, there are several scars on my body. ”

The shopkeeper lifted his sleeves, and his thick arms were covered with four or five terrifying-looking scars, one of which had only been scabbed for a long time, and it looked very new.

"Shopkeeper, little ...... I ask you, would you like to join the army? Ye Yueming stared at the scars on the shopkeeper's second-hand and asked word by word.

Emperor Xi secretly screamed badly, and pulled the corner of Ye Yueming's clothes under the table, but Ye Yueming threw off his wrist.

He looked straight at the shopkeeper, and when he saw that the shopkeeper didn't answer, he asked again: "Is the shopkeeper willing to join the army?" ”

"Childe, even if we don't want to, we have to pick up weapons for our own home. Otherwise, my mother-in-law, my daughter, who will protect me? Aren't you on your own? The shopkeeper was asked twice by him, and he couldn't help but burst into tears.

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