Chapter Ninety-Two: Huzhou City
"Yan Gongzi, this is Huzhou City, not far in front of the city gate, the gate of Huzhou City is open day and night, there is no curfew, the Lingshan Sect Huzhou Courtyard is in the city, you can enter the city and inquire about it......"
"Thank you, Uncle Zhao!"
Yan Liqiang jumped out of the carriage pulling the wood, and thanked the uncle who drove the car, this carriage was met by Yan Liqiang halfway, the coachman uncle saw Yan Liqiang alone on the road, and directly asked Yan Liqiang if he was going to Huzhou City, if he arrived, he could take his carriage together, Yan Liqiang also got into the carriage on the road, and chatted with the uncle who pulled the cart all the way here, saving a lot of foot effort.
It is not an exaggeration for a person to be handsome, and it is not an exaggeration to see people love cars and cars.
"You're welcome, you're welcome, it's just a drop-by!"
The uncle who drove the carriage smiled innocently, waved his hand to Yan Liqiang, and then "drove", shook the horsewhip, and drove the carriage in another direction.
Yan Liqiang looked at Huzhou City in front of him and walked directly towards the city gate in the distance.
The state city of Shangzhou, are less war-torn and chaotic, after thousands of years of accumulation, prosperous and magnificent, all of them can be called giant cities, the city wall of Huzhou City in front of you, from a distance, it is as high as nearly forty or fifty meters, just the height of the city wall, it is more than the ten-story building, in the position of the city wall tower, the city tower is also seven or eight stories high, divided into four sides, just a city tower, it is more magnificent than Yan Liqiang went to Japan to travel to see the castle tower in his last life.
There was a brazier at intervals on the tower, and now it was just getting dark, and the fire in the brazier was lit, and the fire was so bright that the whole city wall was illuminated, and in the light of the fire, you could see rows of sergeants patrolling back and forth on the tower.
chatting with the big tree driving the car along the way, Yan Liqiang also learned a lot of useful news.
One of the news that stunned Yan Liqiang the most was that the current time was October of the sixteenth year of Yuanping of the Han Empire.
Yan Liqiang still clearly remembers that just "yesterday", when he went to the hill where the Qingliang Temple is located, it was October of the thirteenth year of Yuanping, he didn't know how this body came about, he felt like he had slept for a while, thinking that only one night had passed, where did he know, the "one night" he felt, in fact, three full years had passed - this new body didn't seem to come so easily, at least in terms of time, more than a thousand days and nights had passed.
In the past three years, the Han Empire does not seem to be very calm, some undercurrents are turbulent, just catch up with Uncle Zhao knows, it seems that the Han Empire has fought two battles with the Shaman people in the north, and the relationship between Ganzhou and Fengzhou and the Black Capricorn people has also become tense, there are four or five vassal states of the Han Empire, in the past two years, they have successively broken away from the Han Empire and thrown into the arms of the Crescent Dynasty, and the White Lotus Sect in several states in the south began to resurge, conquering two county seats, destroying several local big families, claiming to establish the White Lotus Heavenly Kingdom, making the place unpeaceful......
However, those tens of thousands of miles away wind and waves don't seem to have anything to do with the Huzhou City in front of them, and the entire Huzhou City still can't see the slightest abnormality, and the gate of Huzhou City is bustling with people coming in and out, coming and going.
Yan Liqiang, who came to the city gate, originally wanted to enter the city, but the entrance fee of three copper plates per person at the city gate stopped him from the city gate.
Touching the empty pockets, Yan Liqiang turned around and left the city gate, only when there is no money, you know what it means to force a penny to kill a hero.
In order to run away, he didn't dare to eat too much at the overlord meal at noon, plus Yan Liqiang has been having a great appetite since he cultivated the Yi Jin Washing Sutra, and the body in front of him is completely the same as the body in front of him.
The embarrassment of having no money has already made Yan Liqiang have a deep sense of crisis.
It costs money to go to the city, money to eat, money to dress, money to live in a store, money to run errands, and even money to go to the toilet to buy some raw edge paper.
You can eat one meal or two meals for the overlord, and can you still eat it every day? There is also housing, transportation, and use, all of which cost money.
No, you have to find a way to earn some money, otherwise, you won't even be able to enter the city gate, and your future survival will be a big problem.
Yan Liqiang thought as he walked towards the Fang Market not far away.
Like Huzhou City, a big city that has been leveled for a long time, the city has long been overcrowded, so many places outside the city are also very lively, there are many people, and there are several lively Dafang cities, and at night, the red and orange lanterns are lit up in the city, which is the time to be lively.
As an outright proletarian without any means of production and interpersonal relationships, it is not easy to make money when he comes to a strange place.
If you want to be like ordinary people, find an ordinary job or coolie that can earn money, it is estimated that it is not difficult, but this road is not what Yan Liqiang wants, this kind of work earns little money and is slow, he can only make ends meet, and he can't solve the urgent need in front of him, he now wants to go to the Huzhou Side of the Lingshan Sect to take the exam, I heard that the Lingshan Sect's Huzhou Side Academy only has the last three days to recruit disciples of the Other, this time it will be delayed, and I don't know how many times it will take to have the same opportunity in the future.
In addition to this road, he inherited his father's craftsmanship, and he can also make a little iron, but this kind of thing also needs a blacksmith shop, which he does not have now, even if he can find a blacksmith shop, the rules of the blacksmith industry, will not let him a newcomer to the blacksmith shop to hammer the hammer, even if he has the money to rent it, because he is afraid that the things he makes will offend the guests and ruin the reputation of the blacksmith shop.
In the end, Yan Liqiang thought about it, but he still thought of a way to earn money with the least resources in the shortest time - painting people!
This is a means of livelihood for the first time he entered the society in his previous life, and he didn't expect it to come in handy now.
The portrait he painted for Guoshan Feng was only seen by a few people around him, and that painting had already been burned by the Lu family, and it had not been passed out, it was 108,000 miles away from Ganzhou, so there was no need to worry that the painting he painted would be recognized as a person's painting, even if it was recognized, he was not afraid, because the previous Yan Liqiang was dead......
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As soon as he thought of a way to make a living, Yan Liqiang had already entered a market outside Huzhou City, and Yan Liqiang's ungodly appearance immediately attracted many people in the city to look at him.
Because there were too many eyes watching him around, at this time, Yan Liqiang didn't notice it, and one of them was staring at him, which was a little "special......
If you want to paint a portrait of someone, you naturally have to have the most basic tools, Yan Liqiang, who was walking in the market, was thinking about where to find a little charcoal, wood or hard paper and the like, thinking about how to open it, and a person suddenly rushed in front of him, blocking his way.
It was a middle-aged man with oily hair and a pink face, in his forties, wearing a brocade robe, but he couldn't hide his obscene aura.
"I don't know if this little brother is coming to Huzhou City for the first time?"
As soon as this man spoke, Yan Liqiang remembered the messy intermediaries and chicken heads he saw outside the train stations in several cities in his previous life.
Yan Liqiang frowned slightly and glanced at the person, "So what?"
"Little brother, do you want to find a job that earns a lot of money and is fast, and it is not a problem to earn hundreds or thousands of taels of silver a year......" The man glanced at the old clothes Yan Liqiang was wearing, and his expression was eager.
"I don't want to ......" Yan Liqiang shook his head and continued to walk forward, these nonsense words of this man can deceive those young people who are not deeply involved in the world, as for Yan Liqiang, how could he believe that there is a good thing that a pie falls from the sky, at this time, the bigger the pie is drawn, the deeper the pit behind it.
The man was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect Yan Liqiang to refuse so simply, he hurriedly chased after him again, chattering endlessly, "I'm also a good intention, look at the little brother, you are a talent, it is estimated that you have just left home to work hard, you are alone, and you are not familiar with life, why don't I invite you to sit in the restaurant over there......"
As the man spoke, he directly grabbed one of Yan Liqiang's hands and wanted to pull Yan Liqiang to the restaurant next to him.
"You let it go......" Yan Liqiang stopped and looked at the man with a frown.
"Hehe, little brother, don't you refuse people thousands of miles away, didn't your parents tell you that when you go out, many friends and many roads are ......" The man smiled, a picture of an old fritter in the market, one hand still tightly grasped Yan Liqiang's wrist, and he didn't take Yan Liqiang's words to heart at all, "Go, go, go, go over there, brother invite you to have a good meal, let's have a good chat......"
Yan Liqiang stopped talking, his hand shook, and he immediately broke away from the man's hand that was holding him, and then continued to walk forward.
"Hey, I said little brother, why are you so unreasonable, my brother just invited you to dinner......" The man still smiled, and stretched out his hand to grab Yan Liqiang's wrist.
Yan Liqiang knew that this man was bullying himself with a young face and no social experience, if it was an ordinary fourteen or fifteen-year-old fledgling boy, in the face of this situation, he might not know what to do, maybe he really regarded this man as a warm-hearted person, followed this man to eat, and then he didn't know it.
Before the man's hand touched Yan Liqiang's wrist, Yan Liqiang's hand had already been raised, and he slapped it over.
"Slap ......" Yan Liqiang's slap slapped directly on the man's face, and with just a little force, he directly knocked the man to the ground, and was directly stunned by Yan Liqiang.
"Get out of ......," Yan Liqiang scolded coldly.
The man got up halfway, wiped his swollen face, glanced at Yan Liqiang's back as he walked away, and said a cruel word, "You wait for me", and then he was a little embarrassed and disappeared into the alley of the nearby market......