But the true gods in this world really don't seem to plan to take care of Xue An, and don't want to give him a chance to rest. The north wind blowing from the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info seems to be mixed with the shouts of people, and the voice is getting closer and closer, through eagerness and panic:

"Brother, where are you, why don't you come home yet?"

The fat man beside Xue An stood up at once, and rushed out like lightning:

"Xiaoju, why did you get out of the city gate!"

Xiaoju is a little girl who is not as tall as Xue An's navel, although her body is thin, her complexion is not bad, and she has not seen too much malnutrition.

She walked through the little fat who was about to go up and hug her, threw herself into Xue An's arms, and cried at the same time as the little fat:

"Brother An, why did it take you so long to come back, everyone is worried that you have encountered a fierce beast. Granny Hua did not allow the sisters in the family to cry, saying that it was unlucky to cry when Brother An did not come back, and whoever dared to cry would be driven out of the Xue Mansion. But, but, Xiao Ju really... Woowoo woo ......"

Xue An looked at Xiaopang on the side embarrassedly, and had no choice but to pat Xiaoju's head in desperation, which could be regarded as appeasing this "sister" who suddenly arrived. At this moment, Xue An realized that returning to Drifting Snow City was not all right, facing more than a hundred people in the Xue Mansion who he was very unfamiliar with, it might be more difficult than escaping from the mouth of the giant wolf.

Xiaoju didn't see any difference between the current Xue Anxue and the fat man Xue after a moment of emotion, but after a long time, he may not be able to find anything abnormal, and it will be difficult to explain it at that time.

But now it's more important to hurry into the city, it's too dangerous to take a little girl with a little orange in this wasteland. Chubby was going crazy, he didn't think that Ju would sneak out of the city gate to the wasteland to find him. After Xue An hurriedly asked Xiaoju that no other people from Xue Mansion had gone out of the city to look for him, Xiao Pang was a little relieved, if someone from Xue Mansion suffered from the disaster of a fierce beast because he came out to look for him, it would be too late for him to regret it.

The last part of the road is not difficult, the beasts usually do not come around the city, although it is common to see humans entering and leaving the city for them to prey, but the true god power attached to the city gate can also make them very painful.

When he arrived at the city gate, Xue An understood how Xiaoju and a little girl sneaked out of the city gate, because the guard at the city gate was actually just like a scenic spot conductor, if someone wanted to go out of the city, they would never pay attention, but if they wanted to enter the city, everyone had to pay five blood jades, regardless of gender, old and young.

Listening to Chubby's explanation, this is the rule during the expeditionary force. Each expeditionary force meant that the city was already in short supply of blood jade, and it had to be collected in large quantities regardless of sacrifice in order to survive. Most of the men and women in the city were forcibly driven out of the city gates, and in order to prevent these men from escaping back to the city in disguise as women and children, anyone who wanted to enter the city within a month had to pay five blood jades.

In the past, entering and exiting the city gate was to draw one out of ten miles from the personal harvest as an entry and exit tax, and during the expeditionary army, it became a fixed five, which was a disaster for many jade pickers with insufficient ability, but it was a preferential treatment for people like Xue An, who had gained a lot.

Xue An doesn't care, there are almost more than three hundred big bags of blood jade before Xiaopang, and the five pieces of Xiaoju are not a big deal, but Xiaoju hugged Xue An's leg and cried, although she was small but sensible, she was too worried that Xue An forgot it when she went out of the city, and when she returned to the city, she remembered that she had wasted five blood jades like this.

Xue An was most afraid of the girl crying, so she hurriedly grabbed a few more blood jade from the bag and put them in Xiaoju's hand, and after several comforts, she stopped crying. The guards guarding the city gate next to him saw Xue An pulling out the blood jade one by one, and his eyes lit up, but he didn't have too many thoughts, every time he sent an expeditionary army, some people died in the mouth of fierce beasts, and some people were lucky to return with a full load.

As a member of the expeditionary force, Xue An also had to go through some reporting procedures at this gatekeeper, and the city lord needed to collect information on the wilderness outside the city gate, mainly relying on these expeditionary troops who went out on adventures. This information will be collected at the end of the expedition and compiled into a handbook that will be distributed free of charge to the jade pickers who will go out to search for it in the future.

Xue An needs to explain some information and harvest reports, Xiaoju doesn't need to do it, just received her five blood jades is already abiding by the rules, and the guards don't think that this thin little girl will be an expeditionary force.

Xiaoju volunteered to go home first to tell the good news that Granny Hua and her sisters Xue An had returned to the city, and Xue An was also happy, he also took this opportunity to learn more about the situation in Xue Mansion from Xiaopang, so as not to be recognized as having any problems when he returned home for a while.

Although Xiaopang grew up in Xue Mansion since he was a child, it was a little difficult to let him teach Xue An how to play him without revealing his stuffing, so Xue An had to ask him and he answered, talking about some of his own habits and the temperament of his family, hoping not to have too many flaws.

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Xue Mansion, main hall.

"Granny Hua! Granny Hua! Sister Xiaoju is back! Young Master An is also back!" Although Xue Mingyue ran all the way from the gate to the main hall to report to Granny Hua, she was a little out of breath, but every sentence she said was full of integrity, so that Granny Hua, who was already a little deaf, could hear clearly. She is not like Xiaoju is a close relative of the Xue family, she grew up with Young Master An, she is just one of the many people who eat in the Xue Mansion with the name of distant relatives, and it is her own cleverness that can make Granny Hua love.

"The little young master is back, it's back! It's great, it's great!" The crutches in Granny Hua's hand trembled, and she couldn't sit on the chair a little unsteadily: "Fortunately, it is the blessing of the old master and the young master that can let the little young master return safely." The old body is useless, and if you can't take care of the young master, you can't take care of the young master, the young master's disappearance has already betrayed the master's entrustment, if the little young master is again..."Granny Hua said a little choked, and her emotions fluctuated a little out of strength, and she was hurriedly supported by Mingyue so that she didn't slip off the chair.

The Xue family is called Young Master Xue Xiaopang'an, only Granny Hua calls him Little Young Master, Granny Hua has watched Xue An's father grow up and has managed the affairs of the entire Xue family for decades, although he is not surnamed Xue, but he is now the one with the highest status in the entire Xue Mansion.

"Granny Hua, what are you crying about, isn't it a good thing that Young Master An is back, we should be happy." Besides, Young Master An has been sleeping outside for so long, he must have lost his body, and it is urgent to prepare food for him to catch the wind and wash the dust. It's just that there is no food in the kitchen...... "Mingyue carefully asked Granny Hua for instructions, she has been in charge of the kitchen in Xue's mansion recently, but if you want to buy food, you still have to agree with Granny Hua personally.

"That's right, the little young master has been suffering outside for so many days, and now he must be extremely hungry! Do you know where the little young master is?"

"Xiaoju said that Young Master An has entered the city and is reporting at the city gate. ”

"Then it's time to go home, hurry up and prepare!" Saying that, Granny Hua carefully took out a delicate small pocket from her pocket, carefully opened the pocket little by little, and took out a piece of blood jade with a somewhat trembling hand and put it in Mingyue's hand, thinking that it was not enough, she gritted her teeth and took out another one:

"It's too late to go to the Four Seasons Garden, so let's go buy it directly. Remember, there must be fish and meat, and the most important thing is that there must be the kind of red-skinned agar berry that the little master likes to eat. Prepare more food, eat lunch together in the yard today, and everyone is happy when the little master comes back. ”

Mingyue felt that the two blood jades were a little hot in the palm of her hand, and the last time she got two blood jades at the same time was in the prosperous days before the old man disappeared. Nowadays, the people of the Xue Mansion are all frugal, and two blood jades are enough to exchange for more than ten days of rations in the Four Seasons Garden. She looked at Granny Hua with some hesitation:

"Are you running out of both, isn't it a bit much?"

"Don't say more, go quickly. Granny Hua had already closed her eyes, as if she was closing her eyes to recuperate, but there was a faint smile on her face, if it weren't for the fact that she was now old and her legs were inconvenient, she would have gone to the city gate to greet Xue An.

"Yes. Mingyue was startled, and then felt that she had something to say, and hurriedly retreated gently, preparing for the banquet to welcome Xue An's return.