readx;? Heading north from Beiling, you will reach the boundary of the northern frontier of the Holy Land, and the most powerful place in the entire northern frontier is the Border Guard Mansion. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The first person in the Frontier Guard Mansion is called the Governor of the Frontier Guard, no matter which Frontier Guard Mansion, all the people who can be appointed as the Governor by the Emperor are cronies of the Imperial Family, and they must have carried the great merit of loyalty to the Emperor, otherwise they would definitely not be able to take on this position. Such a feudal official like the governor of the territory, the emperor will naturally not install other people casually.

The Northern Frontier Mansion can be called the most dangerous of the four frontier mansions. There are two reasons, one is that it is only separated by a thousand miles of ice fields from the Desolate Beast Domain, and this distance is really like child's play for the real powerhouse, and it is extremely easy for the strong beast clan with ulterior motives to break into the realm of the holy realm. The second reason is that the relationship between the Sanctuary and the Beast Domain has been very tense in recent years, and there are often frictions and battles between the two, especially since the Battle of the Zhuo Wolf Grassland, the relationship between the Sanctuary and the Beast Domain is even more incompatible, and the trend of incompatibility between water and fire is also particularly vividly manifested in the northern Xinjiang area. Therefore, being an errand in the Northern Frontier Guard Mansion is definitely not something that everyone can easily do.

There is no city in the huge northern border, people live mainly in villages and tribes, although there is no city in northern Xinjiang, there is a town that is no less than a small city, and the reason why it is called a town instead of a city is because this town is not blessed by a tall city wall, and second, because there are no permanent people in this town, although the population is quite large, but most of them are traders and passers-by, businessmen, Traveling powerhouses and many mysterious people of unknown origin occupy most of this town, but the number of people who have taken root here in a normal year is less than 100 households.

The town is only 2,000 miles away from the north shore of the North Ridge, and it is also 2,000 miles away from the northernmost Zhuo Wolf Grassland, which is impartially located in the middle of the northern frontier. This town also has a very appropriate name "Dingbei Town", the meaning of which is just like the literal interpretation, intended to stabilize the northern Xinjiang, a certain auspicious meaning. And the reason why the word 'Dingbei' is used here is another extremely important reason, that is, the famous Northern Frontier Mansion is being placed in Dingbei Town.

The status of the Frontier Guard Mansion in Northern Xinjiang is like the status of the city lord's mansion in a city, sacred and inviolable, mighty and domineering.

The number of people in the Frontier Guard Mansion is not small, and there are 1,000 people including the governor, but it is really a bit stretched to maintain the stability of the entire northern Xinjiang with only a thousand people in this area. But even so, the Border Guard Mansion cannot be expanded at will, this is an iron order of the emperor. In order to ensure the stability of northern Xinjiang, there is a large border defense battalion stationed three hundred miles north of Dingbei Town all the year round, but there are 100,000 elite soldiers guarding there in that large camp, and this number can definitely withstand most of the fluctuations in northern Xinjiang.

The Frontier Guard Office and the Frontier Battalion are two independent existences, the Frontier Battalion is only responsible for garrisoning, but has no right to interfere in anything in northern Xinjiang, and although the Frontier Guard Office is in charge of all matters in northern Xinjiang, it has no right to mobilize a single soldier of the Frontier Battalion. Both of them were under orders from Jinling City, so it was natural that all orders would have to wait for Jinling City's reply before they could take action. Legend has it that there is also a teleportation array built in a secret room in the Border Guard Mansion, and the teleportation array goes directly to the palace of Jinling City, and the emperor can understand all the changes in the northern Xinjiang and make arrangements in an instant. But this teleportation array is never opened under normal circumstances, unless the situation is extremely urgent, no one dares to open this teleportation array easily, not even the governor of the Wei Mansion can not act arbitrarily.

Dingbei Town is bustling every day. After all, only Dingbei Town is the most prosperous in the whole Northern Xinjiang, and the items needed by the people in various parts of Northern Xinjiang can only be purchased in the market of Dingbei Town, so this important town that carries all the business with the outside world in Northern Xinjiang is naturally favored and admired by all the people in Northern Xinjiang, and it is not surprising that it is prosperous and noisy all day long.

As soon as Lu Yifan and his party entered Dingbei Town, the shouting and shouting on the streets were endless, and its liveliness was much more prosperous than many cities in the Holy Domain, and the goods sold here were very interesting, most of which could not be seen in other places in the Holy Domain.

Because Dingbei Town is located in the desert of northern Xinjiang, so it is hot to death during the day, but it is cold and scary at night, the temperature difference between day and night makes the people here dress very interestingly, it is noon at this moment, most of the men on the street will fade the thick felt clothes to the waist, one by one open chest and breasts, bare shoulders to show a dark and strong body. The women are wrapped into skirts, and at night the skirts are wrapped in a layer of cotton robes, and during the day, they take off the cotton robes and only wear the skirts to enjoy the shade. Compared to the center of the Sanctuary, the folk customs here are more fierce and courageous, and the same is true for the women, as can be seen from their bold words and deeds and colorful gauze skirts, which probably has something to do with the fact that this place is closer to the Beast Domain.

After all, the rough wind of the beast clan is famous in the Five Realms.

"No matter how you look at this place, it looks like a group of barbarians live!" Lan Chen looked at the pair of ill-intentioned eyes around him with disgust, after all, Lu Yifan and Lan Chen at this moment were out of place with the locals in terms of dress.

"We should probably also take our clothes down to our waists so they don't look weird!" Lu Yifan said with a light smile, after experiencing a turmoil in Night City, now the relationship between him and Lan Chen is no longer as incompatible as before, although on the surface Lan Chen is still cold to Lu Yifan, and Lu Yifan also ignores Lan Chen, but in fact, the relationship between the two has become invisibly much closer, not to mention anything else, just from the fact that they have now brought the two sides together to rush together, it is enough to prove this.

"Hmph, if you want to be a barbarian, you can do it, Young Master Ben doesn't want to be embarrassed with you!" Lan Chen said sarcastically, and then turned his head to Sanchun and ordered, "You go and inquire where the Border Guard Mansion is, the brothers are tired of sleeping all the way, hurry up and find the Border Guard Mansion so that we can settle down!"

"Yifan, look there!" Liu Sandao suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed not far away, only to see that in the open space between the two stalls, there were three young children, two women and one man, kneeling in a row. The oldest girl looked no more than ten years old, the younger one was seven or eight years old, and the youngest boy was only five or six years old. At this moment, there was a middle-aged couple with a miserable expression sitting on the ground behind the three of them, especially the sad look on this woman's face, and her tearful eyes had been silently looking at the three children in front of them from behind.

"It's selling children again!" Xie Yun glanced at it and then said softly, "This kind of thing has often happened in Wenyang City before!"

"Sell children?" Lu Yifan and Liu Sandao couldn't help but glance at each other in surprise, "Can children also be sold?"

"If the family can't survive, what can't the children sell?" Xie Yun said with a wry smile, "In order to exchange for stuttering and some money, some poor couples specialize in selling their children for a living, selling one child can make them live for two or three years, and when the money runs out, they sell another one, they have neither strengths nor their own land, so they can only ...... Alas!" Xie Yun couldn't help but sigh softly when he said this, he couldn't bear to say any more.

"How can there be such a thing in the world?" Lu Yifan looked at the three childish children not far away in disbelief, at this moment the three of them were kneeling there and talking and laughing, as if they didn't know that their father and mother were about to sell them to others, and this situation looked even more sad from a distance.

"Childe, this kind of thing is extremely common in Northern Xinjiang, and someone persuaded my mother to sell me too!" The sympathetic Ah Chang explained on the side, "This kind of thing may be rare for Childe, but it is commonplace for Ah Chang! Childe, you ...... Can you help them......" Ah Chang's words were so small that even she couldn't hear herself, after all, now that she was penniless, if she insisted on helping them, she could only rely on Lu Yifan's strength, but she thought that she already owed Lu Yifan too much, so how could she be embarrassed to ask for anything?

"En......"

"There are so many tragic things in the world, how many can you manage?" Lan Chen saw that Lu Yifan was about to be moved with compassion again, and couldn't help but sneer and dissuade, "It's important for us to find the Border Guard Mansion, and you don't need children, why bother to join in this fun!"

"We don't need it, then who needs these children here?" Lu Yifan frowned and looked at the people around him, seeing that none of these five big and three thick men with swords and swords seemed to be the master who wanted to buy a child and go home to live.

"There will always be someone who is interested!" Lu Yifan's words were only halfway through, Xie Yun nodded lightly into the distance, and at this moment, he saw six or seven big men with a fleshy face walking slowly towards the three children with a woman wearing a hat, and a white scarf was wrapped around the hat, covering the woman's face, making it difficult to see her appearance, but through this woman's slender and white hand, it was not difficult to see that she was not too old. Looking at the woman's hurried steps, it seemed that she was very interested in the three children in front of her.

"What's the price?" the woman's voice seemed to be deliberately suppressed, and it sounded a little hoarse.

"Five hundred silver shells for the female baby, eight hundred silver shells for the male baby! Which one do you want, this girl? It's all negotiable!" The middle-aged man saw that someone was interested, and hurriedly stood up and replied politely, but when the man quoted, the woman sitting next to her could not hold back the tears in her eyes.

In fact, the price given by this man is already very high, and it is rare for ordinary people to quote such a high price when they come out to sell their children.

However, the young woman did not seem to react in surprise when she heard the man say the price, but leaned down to take a closer look at the three children kneeling there, while reaching out and kneading the faces of the three children a few times.

"I want them all!" the young woman suddenly straightened up and said with a smile, "This is two thousand silver shells, don't look for them!" As she spoke, she took a bulging money bag from the big man next to her and threw it to the man.

"Thank you...... Thank you, girl......"

The man subconsciously took the money bag, and after a little weighing, he knew that there would only be more silver shells in it than the woman said, and it would never be less. At the moment, she was also overjoyed, and nodded her head again and again to thank her, but the woman was stunned for a long time, speechless, with her mouth open, wanting to say but not knowing what to say, obviously she did not expect that this young woman would agree so happily.

After giving the money, the young woman directly ordered several of her senior men to pick up the three children and turn around to leave, while the three children, who had not yet figured out the situation, also cried loudly in panic.

"Father, mother...... You let go of us......" The child's cry made people feel a burst of heartbreak, and at the same time attracted the attention of the people around them, and for a while the people on the street cast curious glances here, but because of the fierce-looking men behind the woman, no one dared to approach.

The woman, who had been sitting next to her without saying a word, could no longer bear the torment in her heart, struggled to get up, and knelt down towards the young woman.

"Wait a minute......, girl," begged the woman, looking pleadingly at the young woman, with tears on her face, "can you ...... Can you leave us one and we'll give you some money...... I lost three children at once, and I was ...... I can't bear ......."

"What are you doing here?" the man looked at the woman in surprise, "This girl has already given us money......

"No, I can't lose three children at once...... woman's voice began to harden.

The young woman turned around faintly, although through the hat, the woman could still feel the disdain in her sharp eyes, and the woman was frightened to tremble, but the reluctance to the child in her heart made her stubbornly raise her head and look at the young woman through the white veil.

"The money is already yours, and the three children are already mine!" the young woman's tone sounded a little mean, "if you want to redeem one, then the price is not up to you!"

"Girl, please say, how much will I redeem one?" The woman looked a little flustered at the moment, she probably didn't have much room to think, and there was only one persistent belief in her heart to support her.

"How much? I said 10,000 silver shells, can you afford it?" the young woman sneered and looked at the woman, and then her tone suddenly became cold, "Now these three children are mine, and I don't plan to sell them for any amount of money!"

"You ......" the woman was choked for a while, and she was trembling with anger and didn't know what to do, "This is my child'......"

"It was before your man took my silver shell, but not anymore!" said the young woman and shook her head with a sneer, then ignored the woman's pleas and turned away, while the big men behind her glared at the couple again before leaving.

"Mother...... Daddy...... "The child's cry was heard from the street to the end of the street.

"Child, my child!" and the woman's wail resounded from the end of the street to the street, and became more and more intense, and she reached out and struck his man fiercely, crying incessantly, "It's you! It's all you! You give me back my child! I shouldn't have promised you to sell my child in the first place...... I shouldn't have promised you to do such a conscientious thing...... Now we don't have children, Zhaodi, dumb girl, Dong'er...... Not a single one......"

"Girl, please wait a minute!"

At this moment, Lu Yifan, who had always been a bystander, couldn't stand it anymore, and walked straight forward, blocking the way of the young women with his body, the street was so wide, with Ah Chang, Liu Sandao, Xie Yun, Yin Xi and others swarming, the entire street was blocked by them.

And after Lan Chen saw that Lu Yifan finally chose to come forward, his face couldn't help but flash a touch of impatience, and then under Sanchun's smiling gaze, he slowly spit out two words from his mouth, "Eventful!"

"Who are you?" Seeing Lu Yifan, the young woman's body trembled slightly inadvertently, and then hid behind several big men quite vaguely, as if she had any scruples and fears about Lu Yifan, and her voice became more and more cold, "What do you want to do?"

"Girl, those three children ......"

"I bought the child for real money, what do you want?" Without waiting for Lu Yifan to finish speaking, the woman said quickly, "I don't know you, and I don't want to know you, please get out of the way, I want to go!"

"I know that this child was bought by the girl, you bought it with real money, but I am willing to buy it at ten times the price, I wonder if the girl can cut her love?" Lu Yifan insisted and said, "People's hearts are flesh and blood, and I hope the girl can sympathize with the pain of these children being separated from their parents......"

"Boy, do you want to find something?" A big man beside the woman pulled out the steel knife in his hand with a "poof", and threatened Lu Yifan with a grim face, "This is Dingbei Town, what kind of good person are you pretending to be? If we break the rules, you can seek revenge from the Border Guard Mansion, and if you want to break the rules, then don't blame me for being unkind to you, a stinky boy!"

"Who are you scaring about?" Liu Sandao had already pulled out the long knife from its scabbard at some point, and at this moment, the cold blade quickly slashed through a silver light in mid-air, and then landed firmly on the big man's neck, so fast that the big man didn't have time to react, "What if we have to decide on these three children today?"

With the tension between the two sides, more and more people are attracted to see the excitement, in fact, this kind of contradiction often occurs in Dingbei Town, which is fierce, and the people of Northern Xinjiang, who are naturally fond of fighting, are naturally happy to do such things.

"What are you doing around so many people? Watching a play? Get out of the fuck for Lao Tzu! I want to see which turtle king bastard who doesn't have long eyes dares to make trouble when Lao Tzu is on duty!"

Suddenly, with a buzzing roar, the crowd of onlookers was quickly pushed open a passage, and then I saw a middle-aged man in a black brocade robe scolding, with a dozen subordinates in the same brocade robe, rudely pushing away the onlookers, and walking quickly towards Lu Yifan's side.

Not only are these people dressed in uniform clothes, but even the sharp knives they carry around their waists are exactly the same. And the most eye-catching thing is that on the cuffs of the black brocade clothes worn by these people, there are also two small red characters embroidered with "wingguards".

"They...... It's the people of the Frontier Guards......"

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