Early in the morning, the group of four people left the room, left the inn, and came directly to the north gate of Mingde City to wait.

It was now past seven o'clock in the morning, and the north gate of Mingde City was already overcrowded, and several caravans were waiting for the garrison to open the city gate and let them leave Mingde City and go to Fengcheng. At first glance, the total number of these caravans was about two or three hundred men, and the goods and wagons almost surrounded the road out of the city.

There is a rule in Mingde City that the gates are closed at 6 p.m. every day and will not be opened until 8 a.m. the next morning. Once there are no caravans entering the city during this time, Mingde City will not open again. So since this rule was issued, caravans have camped on the plains outside Mingde almost every day, waiting for the city gates to open the next morning before entering the city.

Ren Tianxiang took a look and found that there was no Mingwei caravan mentioned by the third number last night, and he thought that most of this caravan had not yet come. Last night's agreed time was eight o'clock in the morning, and the leader of this caravan must also want to stagger the waiting time here, and wait for the caravan on this side of the city gate to leave and they will come back.

Because he was idle, Ren Tianxiang dealt with the caravan employees who were waiting. According to them, none of them can be regarded as a regular caravan, but a kind of security team called a dart team. Some small chambers of commerce could not afford to maintain complex and large caravans, so they had to appoint a few security personnel to escort their cargo. So gradually, there was the emergence of such an industry as the dart team. This is also why so many "caravans" can be seen in front of the city gate early in the morning waiting to open the door, you know, the dart team is charged by the trip, go to charge once, come back can be charged again. If they start early, they can probably go back and forth every day, and if they have a base in Maple City, they can even go back and forth and then go again, and they can earn money three times a day. Of course, the cost of the dart team is far lower than the cost of raising a caravan by the Chamber of Commerce, otherwise there will be no small Chamber of Commerce looking for these dart teams to dart.

The caravans of the large chambers of commerce are very different from the dart teams. Caravans tend to be huge, with an average number of more than a hundred, and they only make one trip a day, bringing all the goods needed by the chamber of commerce on the other side. Moreover, the caravan does not have to travel every day, and when the opposite chamber of commerce has enough goods and does not need to replenish, they can also rest. Because they only travel once a day, the caravan travels less early, and in order to avoid the dart caravan, they basically travel between 8 a.m. and 1 noon.

After learning about the situation here, Ren Tianxiang also returned to the three girls standing under the root of the city.

Seeing Ren Tianxiang coming back, Ren Tianqing stood up and asked, "Brother, did you ask anything?"

"We guessed correctly, the caravans of the big chambers of commerce don't wait here so early, they travel from eight in the morning to one in the afternoon. The Mingwei caravan mentioned by the third number last night was afraid that it would not arrive at the north gate until eight o'clock. ”

"There is still more than half an hour to go. Mo Ji looked at the time on the communication bracelet and said, "What are we waiting here?"

"Why don't you just wait? There's no place to sit around here, and the people over there say that no commercial activity is allowed near the city gate, and even the nearest breakfast shop is a few kilometers away. Ren Tianxiang shrugged, "It's also my fault for this, I woke you up so early, did you rest well last night?"

"It's fine. Ren Tianqing replied with a smile, "I didn't have much rest last night, and there must be enough time." ”

In order to respond to Ren Tianqing's words, Xing Lingluo, who had not spoken just now, also said: "Sister Qing'er is right, after you left last night, we washed and went to sleep, and we must have rested well." Besides, it's okay to arrive a little earlier, so wouldn't it be nice to know more about the situation like this. ”

"It's good to get a good rest. Ren Tianxiang nodded, very satisfied with their answers. Because the next step is to enter the Dragon King Empire, although the danger factor is not very large, but it is easy to deal with it with good energy.

At this time, four men came from the east on horseback. Looking at it from a distance, they seemed to be wearing armor, and that kind of armor Ren Tianxiang was quite familiar.

When these four people approached, Ren Tianxiang found that under the helmet of the leading knight, it was actually the face of Wende, the city lord of Mingde City, whom they had seen last night.

Wende led three people to Ren Tianxiang and got off their horses, and after each took off his helmet, he saluted the star spirit.

"See Her Royal Highness the Princess. ”

Xing Ling returned the salute in a proper manner and said, "See you again, City Lord Wen." ”

Wende straightened up, pointed to the two ladies and a man behind him, and said, "Your Royal Highness, let me introduce you." These three are the three deputy city lords of our Mingde City, Fu Luo'er, Snow and Mu Anthara. ”

With each name, one of the three saluted the starfall again. The older lady was named Fu Luo'er, the younger lady was Mu Anthral, and the man was Snow, as Wende said.

Xing Lingluo also returned the salute to the three of them one by one, and then as if he remembered something, he asked Wende, "City Lord Wen, I remember that you seemed to have called these three names last night?"

"Yes. Winder smiled and explained, "When I went to arrest you last night, the three of them were outside with the city's Changfeng army waiting for my orders. This is the rule of our Mingde City, and in order to prevent spies from escaping, both the lord and the deputy lord are present. ”

Hearing Wende say this, Ren Tianxiang suddenly remembered why he had a sense of familiarity when he looked at Wende's armor. This is the armor of the Changfeng Army, Ren Tianxiang had seen the Changfeng Army when he was in Dragon City to welcome Xia Ziren, the new city lord of Dragon City.

Ren Tianxiang glanced at Ren Tianqing and Mo Huan, and sure enough, they also remembered that they had seen the Changfeng Army when they greeted Xia Ziren. But Ren Tianxiang didn't squeak, he recognized it, it didn't matter much, could it still be almost impossible?

Just when Ren Tianxiang and the three of them were silent, they heard Wen De say to Xing Lingluo over there: "What happened last night was that we didn't figure it out and collided with Her Royal Highness the Princess, and I am here to apologize to Her Royal Highness the Princess." ”

As he spoke, Winder bowed deeply towards the Star Spirit Fall.

Xing Lingluo hurriedly supported Wen De and said, "City Lord Wen, get up quickly." We didn't tell you about this in the first place, so how can we blame you. Besides, I'm just a princess, you are the lord of the city, and you don't have anything to do with it impartially. ”

There is no problem with what Xing Ling said later, in the Star Emperor Kingdom, although the princess has a noble status, she is not as noble as ordinary people imagine. The Star Emperor is still martial, Her Royal Highness the Princess is just a false title, and if you really want to be respected by others, you have to look at your own strength. Therefore, Xing Lingluo said that Wen De acted impartially last night, which can not be called a collision, you must know that in the Star Emperor Kingdom, the city lord of the border city is much more noble than any princess.

Wen De was helped up by Xing Lingluo, but he still said with an unchanged face: "Your Royal Highness Princess, a few of us went back last night to discuss it, and in order to apologize, we gave this to Her Royal Highness the Princess." ”

As he spoke, Wende took out an arrow from the storage ring and handed it to Star Lingluo.

"This arrow is used in our army, and we can all see it in the canyon in front of Mingde City. Her Royal Highness the Princess is going to the Dragon King Empire, if you encounter danger before arriving in Maple City or before leaving Maple City and arriving in Mingde, you will use this order arrow, and when you see the arrow of the order, I will lead the elite of the Changfeng Army to rush to support as soon as possible. This is a little bit of our heart, and I ask Her Royal Highness the princess not to refuse. ”

Seeing Wen De's firm face, Xing Lingluo couldn't say anything to refuse, so he accepted the order arrow and thanked him: "Then thank you City Lord Wen and the deputy city lords." ”

Winder nodded, then clenched his fists and said, "We should also go back to the City Lord's Mansion." Let's say goodbye and wish Her Royal Highness a smooth journey. ”

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