The middle-aged man frowned, pinched the girl's palm, didn't say anything, just took his little daughter's hand and walked to the square table and sat down. The girl really looked like a lady, sat down gently, looked at Lian Chen carefully, and her eyebrows were curved into crescents again, as if she had found some interesting person, and covered her mouth and snickered.

"What are you laughing at, what's so funny? Haven't you ever seen Lao Tzu beat his son?" Although he knew that Li Xiaoer's cheap father was not his own father, Lian Chen was still grateful to him in his heart, after all, he was not a parent, and he worked hard to bring him up, if he met an unscrupulous black-hearted boss who directly chopped up his newborn baby to make human meat buns, it is not known, after all, it is said that some official eunuchs in the imperial capital are tired of eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, and they all begin to eat the toes of children under the age of a month as snacks. Although Boss Li often beats and scolds him, what effective good teachings can you expect from a small boss who opens a small shop and sells cloth shoes?

What's more, since the establishment of the Great Yan Dynasty a hundred years ago, it has been more than 120 years now, and the world has been peaceful for a long time. This person, if you have too many peaceful days, you have to be a demon. For example, in the first few years of the anti-alien front line in Qingzhou, Lanzhou, they were still waiting for the day all day long, waiting for the battle, working together, always preparing to deal with foreign invasions, killing the enemy to serve the country, and now the soldiers are tired, and the imperial court salaries are pumped again and again by those black-hearted generals, and the morale is also falling again and again. As the saying goes, the army has no combat strength, the general has no will to fight, the border politics are tired, and the entire imperial court seems to have entered a period of decay after entering its heyday, and all kinds of chaos are everywhere

Speaking of which, this is not without reason, according to the law of the empire, those who have fought on the front line for one year can bring the honor of "imperial hero" to Luojian City, the imperial capital of Zhongzhou, to retire, enjoy the imperial pension, and have no worries for a lifetime. Don't think that this pension is so easy to get, there is no one in ten who can survive a year of fighting, the alien race is strong, not only the physical body is strong and tall, the strength is infinite, the thick skin also has a good defense against the general sword cut, often the human race needs three to five people to tie with the alien race, this is still the premise of the support and assistance of the secret magician in the rear. Moreover, there are many alien races, and every time the city is attacked, it will be overwhelming, and there will be no end as far as the eye can see. They were organized and marched towards the city wall in a uniform manner, the momentum was magnificent, and the scene was moving, and the human race and other Kyushu tribes were often afraid before fighting. The injuries of the new Ding who have not experienced the baptism of the battlefield often reach more than sixty percent, which is not counting the fact that he was frightened by the alien race, turned around and fled, and was cut down by the supervision team and punished by the Ming canon.

But such cruel facts are generally blocked by people with intentions, and the recruitment propaganda within the empire will not tell you this, but will only tell you the glory and good life after returning to Zhongzhou. If they accidentally say something, they may be found quietly dying at home the next day or suddenly leaving because of something in their hometown, so for the anti-alien front, people have always known only about the cruelty and fierceness of the alien race and the bravery of the Terran heroes. But is that really the case?

But fortunately, each attack of the alien race only lasted from day to night, and at night, as soon as the sun set, it automatically retreated like a tide as if it had received some order, and disappeared without a trace. Even if the defense line of the Kyushu tribes seems to be crumbling, it is only one step away from breaking through the defense. Therefore, for more than a hundred years, there has never been a case of aliens breaking through the defense line and capturing the city. Over time, the veteran soldier Youzi knew that in the face of an alien attack, as long as he survived until nightfall, he could save his life, and sometimes he simply did not fight with the alien race, and closed the city gate and did not come out. Only push the new rookie as cannon fodder to fight with the aliens, firstly, there is an explanation to the above, and secondly, the generals can also use this as a military merit to receive rewards from the empire. And without the war, the training of soldiers was relaxed, and military discipline was also chaotic. Deserters from bandits to harm one side of the matter from time to time, originally the border because of the large flow of people, but also very lively and prosperous, but in this way it made the residents of the border towns are panicked, young and strong have fled to the Zhongzhou region to find another way to survive, especially ten years ago the seventh legion of the wolf legion deputy general Yang Zhenbei killed the main general, with a whole legion of people collectively escaped, after the grass for the coward, the sky in the north has changed, although there is no face to claim the king and hegemony, but Yang Zhenbei led by the blood wolf gang has become the actual emperor of the four continents in the north。 This is also the reason why Hongyan Town is so withered now, killing people on the street, forcibly robbing is not uncommon, people often can not go out without going out, because going out may be killed. can maintain an inn in such a world, and completely pull up a baby in swaddling clothes, our Boss Li is also a little capable, at least worthy of the four-legged red gold ingot pressed under the swaddling clothes.

I thought to myself, how could my own parents have lost themselves to such an unscrupulous businessman who was engaged in petty business, and they also lost four taels of gold to themselves? It can be regarded as stingy enough. Lian Chen's mouth was not slow: "Are the two guest officers eating or staying in the hotel?" Staying in the hotel, we have a good guest room here; for dinner, the cotton beef in the small shop is a must, do the guest officers want to come and taste two catties?"

The girl didn't talk, but carefully observed the every move of the little two who was called Sanya by the innkeeper, and listened quietly. But the scribe shook the sleeves of his robe, as if to drive away the flies that did not exist on the table, and said, "Then come two catties of cotton beef, and then a pot of bar." The sleeves were flipped over, and as if they were juggling, two silver bills appeared in the palm of their palms and were thrown to Sanya: "In addition, we still have to live in the hotel, this is a fixed money, don't look for it, count your reward more." ”

Sanya took the money, thinking that she should buy something for the fat girl when she turned around, two silver bills were already worth a month's salary, in addition to buying what the scribe wanted, he could also have most of the balance. I have always been blessed with the fat girl and shared the difficulties, if one day I was yin by Wang Liuma San'er and those people, I have to have someone to help me call someone to move the rescuers. At this moment, there was a whip at the door of the inn, and I saw several big men dressed differently, dismounted, carried the yellow sand outside like a gust of wind, went straight to the store, and stood in front of the table of the scribe's father and daughter. Even with a smell of sweat came to his face, so that the scribe sitting in front of the door frowned, the little girl next to him also covered her mouth and nose, and the thin willow eyebrows wrinkled beautifully, as if she was disgusted by the smell, and the third girl next to her didn't seem to smell it, just looked at this fairy-like little girl blankly, although the woman in front of her was not yet an adult, but a smile could touch the young and fiery heart of the young man.

Even the way she frowned was so good-looking, I don't know how good she should look under the veil. Sanya thought to herself. At this time, I saw that the girl was flustered, put her hand on her chest, as if she heard something, quietly glanced at him, and then seemed to be shy, quickly lowered her head, and covered her nose with her hand.

The middle-aged man didn't seem to see the black-faced man and the iron sign on the table, but just glanced at the little girl, and then at the young man standing stupidly beside him, smiled and said, "What? Is my daughter good-looking? How can you see through the veil?"

"I guess......" Sanya was looking at it, and when he heard someone ask him, he almost blurted out, but suddenly reacted again, thinking, "Hey~ No, uncle, how do you know what I think in my heart?"

The middle-aged man didn't care that Sanya was there, and turned his head to the girl and said, "Qingluan, don't pretend, I know you can hear it, although you don't learn the secret art well, but he still has a good grasp of this talent." ”

"The Blood Wolf Gang does errands, and the idle people are all avoided. Seeing that his group of people were actually ignored by the three "soft-footed chickens" in front of him, the black-faced man was angry, the black-faced man was called Wang Zhiyun, who was originally a disciple of the Hidden Martial Arts Sect, and for some reason went down the mountain and mixed in the world. Since joining the Blood Wolf Gang and becoming the captain of the squad, it has always been invincible to come out to do things, but I didn't expect to be dismissed by a few people in this small border inn today.

The Blood Wolf Gang, the largest bandit gang in northern Kyushu that has emerged in the past ten years, its members are mainly deserters and generals who have committed crimes, although they are bandits, they have the blood of soldiers, never bully the old and weak women and children, rarely oppose the imperial court, specialize in robbing the rich and helping the poor, cracking down on corrupt officials and corrupt officials, local bullies and gentry, and have won a good reputation among the people.

But the Blood Wolf Gang is not tolerated by the empire, and it is always sent to clear and suppress, but its whereabouts are secret, so far I don't know where the nest is, and there are people who report it, so the effect is only few, and over time, the court can only acquiesce to their existence, and even legend says that the two sides occasionally cooperate, but it has become an alien legend in a group of gangs.

The Blood Wolf Gang Sanya has also heard of it, after all, in the small place of the inn, the south and the north are mixed, everyone has it, and any news can be heard, and Sanya can hear some of it every day, but I am surprised that how this group of people can appear here? Didn't I hear a few days ago that they went to support the front line because of the tight war? How could they suddenly come to this Hongyan Town, and find such a pair of harmless father and daughter? There is a story in this, with the mentality of the people who eat melons, Sanya decided to stay aside and take a look.

Not to mention that Sanya muttered in his heart on the side, and saw that the scribe did not mean to evade, but lifted the painted teapot on the table, turned over another cup, poured himself a cup of tea, took a shallow sip, and slowly put down the teacup before saying: "You frightened soldiers, don't cat in the col, why do you come here to shake your majesty?"

"You old boy is so uninteresting, if it weren't for the fact that you were dressed like a scholar, I would have chopped you with a knife, Lao Tzu is full of guts, I want you to come and say, don't you get out quickly!" Wang Zhiyun felt that his majesty was provoked, and he pulled out the saber on his waist with a pout, but he seemed to be afraid of something, but he just raised it in front of his chest and made a gesture to cut, but he didn't cut it. For he felt a breath from this scribe, an aura that was both familiar and unfamiliar, as if he had seen it somewhere, and when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't remember it, and in the end he felt only three words about it—not to be messed with.