As the capital of a country, Yanjing City naturally has unrivaled prosperity and prosperity.

But at the same time, its hierarchy is unusually strict.

The most obvious is that Yanjing City is divided into three areas, namely Phoenix, Inner City and Outer City, decreasing in order;

The natural residence of Phoenix is the inner courtyard of the Emperor and his harem; The inner city is inhabited by the emperor's relatives and high-ranking civil and military officials above the fifth grade; The rest of the ordinary officials, ordinary people, merchants and peddlers lived in the outer city.

This 'one capital and three cities' implements the architectural pattern of "nine inside and seven outside the phoenix city four", that is, there are nine city gates in the inner city of Yanjing, seven city gates in the outer city, and four city gates in the east, west, south and north of the Phoenix city.

During the day, in addition to the heavily guarded imperial city, the inner and outer cities can be entered with orders, but at night, as soon as the hours are over, the three cities are subject to curfews at the same time, and they are not allowed to enter or leave unless they are ordered.

That's what it means to make a prohibition.

Xu Zhiyi drove a horse-drawn carriage through the unusually wide main road in the outer city.

There are many merchants on both sides of the road, and pedestrians come and go, and it can be said that the commercial trade is very developed.

Several people have never been to the capital, and they are curious about Yanjing.

Therefore, as soon as they entered the city gate, they all lifted the curtains one after another, and looked at both sides with fresh and curious curiosity, and were amazed again and again.

Even Yu Tang and Liu Rongzhao, who have recently taken pleasure in torturing Xu Zhizhi, have temporarily forgotten their contradictions with each other and immersed themselves in the fun of appreciating the prosperity of the city.

After traveling for about half an hour, Xu Zhizhi asked Fan Xia to stop in front of a simple and deserted inn, and asked her to settle a few people in the hotel, and he turned around to leave.

It's just that Yu Tang stopped her with sharp eyes, "Xu Zhizhi, why are you going?" ”

Xu Zhiyi was tortured on the way, and now he trembled when he heard the voices of Yu Tang and Liu Rongzhao.

She turned around and forced a smile to reply: "The exam is approaching, I want to go to the teahouse where the candidates are concentrated to find out the news, it is best to live with them for the next few days, so as to facilitate the exchange of knowledge." ”

"Really?" Yu Tang looked at himself suspiciously.

Xu Zhizhi immediately stood with his hands behind his back, making a gentlemanly and calm appearance.

Yu Tang saw that he couldn't see anything, so he pursed his lips, "Five hundred taels of silver left." ”

Xu Zhizhi: ???

Where does she still have five hundred taels?

Along the way, these two loser men, like crazy, kept spending money to brush their presence in front of her, and the silver had already been lost by them.

Xu Zhizhi suddenly had a kind of perception that he was poor at this time.

At this time, Fan Xia also walked over to her, "There is a small courtyard in the inn that has been rented separately, and the rent starts at 10 days, and the down payment is 5 taels of silver." ”

Xu Zhizhi: "......"

Three things to do every day to open your eyes –

Silver!

Silver!

It's still silver!!

So why did she bring so many mouths to the capital?

Are these industrious losers embarrassed to exploit her as a fresh candidate who is going to take the exam in three days?

The mentality exploded in an instant.

Fan Xia was still holding out his hand on the side, "The silver will pay me the rent." ”

Xu Zhizhi took out the last five taels of silver in his purse with black lines on his face and handed it over.

"It's not enough, we still have to eat."

Talking as if she wasn't hungry.

Xu Zhizhi grimaced and left a sentence: "Bear with it." ”

After saying that, he strode out of the inn.

I really don't want to stay for a second.

After making sure that there was no one following behind him, Xu Zhiyi inquired all the way, and finally stood in front of Xue Yuzhai's shop.