Chen Ning looked at this inn, this inn was not big, there were only about twenty old wooden tables in total, which were wiped clean and smooth.

And a middle-aged woman who looked like a shopkeeper was sitting at the counter and kept settling accounts, and the crackling sound of abacus fluctuations was endless, and there seemed to be no one else in the entire inn except for this young man and a shopkeeper.

At this moment, several big men with five big and three thick heads and shirtless bodies walked in from outside, and one of them immediately shouted: "Boss, the deadline for this month has arrived, hurry up and pay all the fees that should be paid." ”

Hearing this, the middle-aged woman who was making an abacus in front of the counter raised her head and looked at a few men, with a look of embarrassment in her eyes, and she was verbose for a while before taking out a handful of gold coins from under the counter and said, "A few nights, the sound of the small shop this month is not good, and I can only barely make ends meet, and I don't even have the cost of hiring a partner, so I can only take out so much." ”

"That's how much, one hundred and thirty-five gold coins, you are asking for food when we are, I don't care what your business is, in short, three hundred gold coins a month is a child." A big man shouted viciously, and he started to do it as soon as he didn't agree with him.

The proprietress was forced to be helpless, so she had to make a bitter face, and reluctantly took out a handful of gold coins again, a total of just three hundred.

Several big men counted the number of gold coins and made sure that they were correct before leaving the place.

As soon as they left, the young man walked out of it with a plate of barbecue beef and said, "Mother, are they here to collect the fee again?" ”

"yes." The middle-aged woman sighed and sighed, looking weak, and her face was full of melancholy.

"Mother, we can't go on like this, how much money do we only make a month, and once we pay the fees, we don't have much left." The young man said with an indignant face.

The middle-aged woman sighed and said, "This is also something that can't be helped, who makes us have no one behind us, it's the same everywhere we go." ”

Hearing this, the young man also hung his head and looked helpless.

"Shopkeeper, I wonder what they charge? Does everyone who opens a store have to pay a fee? Chen Ning, who was sitting not far away, suddenly asked.

The young man took a towel in his hand and carefully wiped the table, and said without raising his head: "Of course, it is the protection fee and the site fee, three hundred gold coins a month is indispensable, our small shop only earns more than 1,000 gold coins a month, and after removing the five hundred gold coins handed over in the city lord's mansion, there is not much left, and we can only barely make ends meet." ”

"Does every store have to pay such a fee?" Chen Ning then asked.

The young man shook his head and said, "The taxes of the City Lord's Mansion must be paid by every shop, but the people in the back are all members of the mercenary group, relying on their own forces in the city, they began to pick those small shops that have no backstage support to collect fees indiscriminately, and if they don't pay, they will be directly annexed." ”

Chen Ning was silent, he also knew in his heart that things like this happened everywhere, in this world of the jungle, if you don't have strength, you can only be bullied, this is almost the unspoken rule of every world.

"Hostess, is there any room to spare?" At this moment, a voice came from outside, and I saw several young men in white robes walking in from outside.

Seeing the guests coming up, the shopkeeper in the inn hurriedly greeted him and said with a smile on his face; "Yes, yes, of course, there are guest rooms, I wonder how many guest officers need a few rooms?"

Several young people looked around the inn with a proud expression, frowned slightly, and said with some dissatisfaction: "This inn is inevitably too bad, can the young master live in it?" ”

"We're too late, the other inns are full, let's take a look first." A young man next to him said.

"That's it, shopkeeper, we've chartered all this inn, let's get all those irrelevant people out." A young man said arrogantly.

Hearing this, the shopkeeper and the middle-aged woman sitting at the counter both looked embarrassed, and the middle-aged woman spoke: "Guest officer, there are still a lot of rooms left in our inn, because it should be enough for you to rest." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, tell you to do whatever you want, are you afraid that our Anode Sect won't be able to give money?" The young man in the white robe had a proud face.

As soon as they heard that it was the Anode Sect, the middle-aged woman and the shopkeeper's expressions changed, and they were forced to be helpless, so they had to go upstairs to invite all the guests who had lived in the inn, and for a while, there was a noisy cursing sound from time to time on the second floor of the inn.

"Damn, how does your store do business, uncle, I paid to live in, why did you let me go temporarily, don't you want your store to open, uncle, I'm a member of the Blood Thorn Mercenary Group." On the second floor of the inn, a deep voice came down.

But the next moment, the voice of the person who spoke suddenly changed, and he exclaimed: "What, people from the Anode Sect, forget it, when I didn't say anything." ”

Then, I saw a big man with a bear's waist and a tiger's back quickly walking down from the upper floor.

Next, people came down from the second floor one after another, although there were many hot-tempered people among them, but as soon as they heard the name of the Anode Sect, they immediately tightened their necks, and left here obediently without saying a word, their faces full of fear.

Soon, the guests in the inn had been cleaned up, and only one man and one beast were left eating barbecue beef leisurely on the first floor of the inn, seemingly indifferent to everything around them.

"Guest officer, I'm really sorry, you have to change an inn to live, these two plates of barbecue beef shop should also be given to the guest officer for free, and I hope the guest officer will forgive me." The shopkeeper returned a gold coin to Chen Ning and said apologetically.

Chen Ning glanced at the gold coin returned by Xiao Er in the shop lightly, and did not take it back, then turned his head to look at the few young men who claimed to be the Anode Sect, and said, "How much money do you plan to pay to buy this inn." ”

Hearing this, the eyes of several young people of the Anode Sect suddenly gathered on Chen Ning's body, their eyes flickered with coldness, and their eyes were fierce, if a timid person was stared at by them like this, I am afraid that they would be frightened to reveal a timid posture on the spot.

"Boy, who are you?" A young man from the Anode Sect spoke, his face was very ugly, and they had already heard a hint of provocation from Chen Ning's words.

The rest of the young men of the Anode Sect also stared at Chen Ning with a cold face, constantly thinking about which big force Chen Ning was, because in the Qiangan Kingdom, the reputation of the Anode Sect was very great, as long as it was the people of the Qiangan Kingdom, almost everyone knew about it, no one knew it, and looking at the entire kingdom, there were only a handful of people who could compete with the Anode Sect, and they were all worried that Chen Ning was a person in a certain big force.

A sneer appeared at the corner of Chen Ning's mouth, and said: "You are not qualified to know the identity of the next, and you haven't answered me if I ask you, how much money do you plan to pay for this inn." Although Chen Ning's tone was very flat, anyone could hear the arrogance in his words, and he didn't put the Anode Sect in his eyes at all.

The shopkeeper of the inn and the shopkeeper were all embarrassed, they knew that if the two sides continued like this, the strength of the Anode Sect would definitely not give up, and once there was a fight, then their small inn would not be able to withstand the toss.

The shopkeeper and the innkeeper wanted to step forward to persuade Chen Ning, but looking at Chen Ning's young face and extraordinary temperament, this made them stop the thoughts in their hearts. As the people who opened the inn, they saw a lot of all kinds of people in a day, so that they also practiced a certain vision, and they knew in their hearts that the identity of the young man was definitely not so simple, and they rushed forward to persuade him, I am afraid that not only will not play a role, but will provoke themselves.

Several young people of the Anode Sect were all very proud, relying on the powerful background behind them without fear of anyone, Chen Ning's contemptuous attitude immediately angered them, one of the young men took out a handful of gold coins from the space belt, and said with an arrogant expression: "I will give fifty gold coins to buy this inn, do you have any objections?" ”

Fifty gold coins, this is almost the income of this inn for many days, and using fifty coins to wrap this inn is indeed a thousand gold.

The proprietress of the inn and the shopkeeper were also shocked by the generosity of the people from the Anode Sect, and the mother and son looked at each other, both of them were a little moved.

Chen Ning sat at the table and leisurely ate barbecue beef, and as soon as his hand flipped, he took out a handful of purple and shining Xuanshi from the space ring and threw it on the table: "I took out ten Xuanshi to charter this inn, please leave." Chen Ning is not a person who likes to show off, but the actions of these people in front of him make him very unaccustomed to it, so he has such abnormal behavior, and most importantly, this shopkeeper is somewhat similar to his deceased eldest brother Black Panther.

Looking at the ten Xuanshi that Chen Ning took out, several young people from the Anode Sect were furious, and they became fierce and vicious, and they all began to ask: "Boy, you are deliberately going against our Anode Sect, you can't find death." ”

"Get out of here immediately, otherwise, even if you have money, we can let you lose your life to enjoy it."

"If you don't want to die, get out of here immediately, offend my Yang Ji Sect, even your prince won't be able to bear the consequences."

Several young people shouted one after another, slowly surrounding Chen Ning, and soon surrounded Chen Ning inside.

Chen Ning didn't squint, didn't look at them, still lowered his head and ate the barbecue beef on the table, and said, "If you can't afford it, please leave, now that this inn has been chartered by me, I don't welcome you here." ”

"Look for death!" Several young men were furious, and immediately two of them waved their fists and hit Chen Ning's head.

Chen Ning showed a look of disdain in his eyes, and the essence in his eyes flashed, and two chopsticks immediately flew out of the chopstick box on the table and shot towards the two people who were doing it like lightning.

Yes! Yes!

As two desolate screams sounded, the fists of the two like Chen Ning were directly pierced by a chopstick, making their palms unable to open, and the two of them bared their teeth and were in pain.

Chen Ning's hand suddenly shocked several other young people who still wanted to do it, and their eyes were full of deep jealousy.

"You dare to do something to the people of our Anode Sect, are you impatient to die?" A young man shouted in a bad voice.

A cold glint flashed in Chen Ning's eyes, and with a wave of his hand, the two chopsticks in his hand flew out in unison, turning into two sharp swords that pierced the throat of the person who spoke, killing him on the spot.

Chen Ning's tactics scared several people a lot, and one of them said in a trembling tone: "You... You... You. How dare you kill the people of our Anode Sect? ”

"If you want to live, get out of here immediately, otherwise, I don't mind killing a few more people." Chen Ning said in a flat tone, his voice was a little indifferent, which made several young people feel cold.

Hearing this, several young men who were almost terrified looked at each other, and then left without saying a word.

"Stop, then this man is carried out." Chen Ning stopped a few people and stretched out his hand to point at the young man on the ground.

Several people from the Anode Sect did not dare to disobey, and immediately returned, carrying the body of the companion and leaving the inn.

As the people of the Anode Sect left, the inn suddenly fell into a deathly silence, and the innkeeper and the shopkeeper all looked at Chen Ning timidly, not knowing what to do next.

Chen Ning threw down the chopsticks in his hand and said, "Shopkeeper, I have chartered this inn now, and these ten Xuanshi should be regarded as expenses." Saying that, Chen Ning didn't wait for the proprietress to reply, and walked upstairs with the little white tiger who had already eaten the barbecue beef.

The shopkeeper and the proprietress looked at the purple and shining dark stones on the table, and their hearts were frightened and excited, ten dark stones, in the eyes of the world, are equivalent to five thousand gold coins.

Now that the sky has darkened, in the second-level city where Chen Ning is located, a carriage is slowly walking on the somewhat cold street, and more than a dozen guards riding demon beast mounts are walking on both sides, protecting the carriage tightly, so that people can know at a glance that the people in the carriage are either rich or expensive.

At this time, several young men ran over from the front, and finally came straight to the carriage, it was a few people from the Anode Sect who had just been driven out by Chen Ning, and on the back of one of them, he was still carrying the body of that companion.

"Young master, you have to be the master for us, someone dares to provoke the authority of my Yang Ji Sect, not only does he not take our Yang Ji Sect seriously, but he also kills Xiao Si."

"Young master, Xiao Si was killed, this matter must be brought to justice, otherwise, where is the authority of our Anode Sect."

As soon as several young men approached the carriage, they began to wail loudly, their faces full of anger.

"What's going on, tell me in detail." A middle-aged man riding on a demon beast mount asked a few people.

Next, several young people added fuel to the story of what happened in the inn, and completely pushed Chen Ning to the opposite position of the Anode Sect. And after hearing these words, more than a dozen guards riding demon beast mounts all had angry expressions on their faces, and murderous intent loomed in their eyes.

"Young master, this person is too arrogant, we must teach a good lesson, let those people know the consequences of the most self-anode sect." A guard on a mount spoke.

"Yes, young master, we must teach that person a hard lesson, and dare not take our Anode Sect in our eyes."

"He really can't be bullied by our Anode Sect, and he actually killed my disciple of the Anode Sect, if we don't ask for an explanation for this matter, then what face does our Anode Sect still have to stand in the Qiangan Kingdom."

Many of the guards began to speak righteously, and the expressions on their faces were full of anger.

"Everyone, don't be impatient, listen to what you say, that mysterious young man's strength must be very strong, at least he is also a half-step Xuan King, we must not rush forward, tomorrow the third uncle is just going to pick us up, and when the third uncle comes, the strength of our side will also be much stronger, and then it is not too late to seek justice." A calm middle-aged man stopped the impulsive crowd.

The middle-aged man was obviously very authoritative in this group of people, and as soon as he spoke, the rest of the people immediately fell silent.

A voice came from inside the carriage: "Uncle Zhou, just do as you say, that person can actually kill people with chopsticks, his strength must be very strong, even if we rush forward, even if we can catch him, the casualties will definitely be great, the gains outweigh the losses, let's wait for the third uncle to come tomorrow to look for him." ”

"Yes, young master." Many of the guards agreed in unison.

……

Early the next morning, Chen Ning didn't stay too long, and left the inn early in the morning, and continued to rush towards the palace of the Qiangan Kingdom.

The mother and son of the inn saw that Chen Ning had delivered ten Xuanshi and left after only one day, and they couldn't keep their mouths shut for a long time, but before they could be happy, a large group of people broke into the inn with great momentum......