"Hello."

Zhou Jinru nodded at him.

The thin young man was a little scared, but he still stood up from outside the wall and asked in a low voice, "Do you really want to live here?" ”

"Is there a problem here?"

As Zhou Jinru spoke, he reached out and picked up the teapot from the table, but unexpectedly there was nothing in it, so he had to sigh: "I originally wanted to invite you to a cup of tea, but now I don't even have tea." ”

"I don't drink tea, I'm not used to it."

The thin young man said a few words, he was no longer so timid, and his voice became normal.

"Well, the landlord really wants to charge you 600 yuan in rent?"

"Yes, then there can be a fake, and I won't want to lose a dollar."

The young man was silent for a few seconds, and said sincerely: "It's good to be rich, when will I be as rich as you." ”

Zhou Jinru smiled, I don't know if I should say that the young man in front of him lacks social experience, or if he is quite simple and did not continue the topic.

"I see you're an artist, where do you give your manuscripts?"

The thin young man looked embarrassed and quickly shook his head: "No, I'm a freelancer now, but my manuscript will definitely sell for a lot of money." ”

When Zhou Jinru heard this, he suddenly realized that he was a cartoonist, but he hadn't found his own direction of development yet, so that he owed rent, and he had to thank the landlord for not letting him roll up and get out.

And the room on the third floor is spacious and bright, with excellent lighting, and it is not as mixed as the first floor, and the monthly rent of 250 yuan can be said to be a philanthropist.

"Oh, when I walked this land, my code name was Mr. Four, and that's what you call me."

The thin young man didn't care what Zhou Jinru's name was, and said with a shy smile: "I've been chatting with Mr. Four for so long, I'm very happy, my name is Murata Shigeru, and my profession is to be a famous painter." ”

"Are you from the East?"

"yes."

Zhou Jinru exclaimed: "You can't hear the slightest Dongguo accent in your Longmen dialect. ”

"Because I lived in Longmen when I was very young."

Shigeru Murata suddenly opened the conversation, and Zhou Jinru guessed that it was because he was a lonely creator, suffering from not being able to achieve achievements, and there was no one to talk to, so he was so enthusiastic.

The young man from the east said sorry, ran out quickly, and ran back not long after, holding a pile of sketches in his hand.

"Mr. Four, these are my creations, which can probably be bound into three picture books, but unfortunately I haven't found a publisher in Longmen, maybe I won't have a chance again."

Zhou Jinru flipped through the two pages, and the general content was the story of a ghost clan from the eastern kingdom who ventured around and made friends in order to prove himself.

Twenty years later, there may be a market, but now the dragon gate urgently needs to reformulate the rules, a lot of swaying local aristocrats, and the economic crisis in the land of Terra has begun to show signs of it, and has not yet attracted the attention of various countries, and the dragon gate has not yet emerged, and later the famous dragon gate coins are still only design drawings and samples, and Murata Shigeru's wish is mostly difficult to realize.

"Murata, why do you say you don't have a chance?"

"I have been living in Longmen for a long time, and I received a letter from my father some time ago, and there will be an uncle of the family who will take me back to Dongguo these days."

The young man of the eastern kingdom lowered his head in bitterness, and Zhou Jinru felt that if there was wine here, he would definitely have to drink bitterly in his throat and make his heart ache.

"It's not a bad thing to go back, you said that you live in Longmen, how long has it been since you saw your family?"

"That's right."

Seeing off Shigeru Murata, Zhou Jinru packed up his room, left the apartment building, and entered the downtown area at night.

The Dragon Gate in 1077 is very different from that of 20 years later, with a lot less modern infrastructure, but more human.

The hot pot restaurant facing the main road on the side of the street is full, the cauldron filled with a faint mist is boiling and churning, and the diners are holding chopsticks, sweating profusely, and their mouths are full of the fragrance of spicy seeds.

Zhou Jinru squeezed into the store, and finally found a seat, and since he was alone, he shared a table with three other people.

"Have you heard, the bigwigs of various clubs have been invited to tea by the police station today, and there are rumors that the Guards Bureau will be established, and the nominees are all skilled experts, and the senior brother of Qin Han is also among them."

"Senior Brother Qin Han is beautiful, a pair of fists in a series of seven Usas Hercules, the first in the Dragon Gate, it is right to have him, maybe it is the Guards Bureau established by Chief Wei in order to win over the Martial Arts Association."

Zhou Jinru ate the meat in one bite and tasted the special flavor, and the three people sitting opposite him turned into critics, and told the big and small things that have happened in Longmen in great detail, which is more exciting than listening to a story.

But there are a lot of things they say wrong.

For example, the purpose of Wei Yanwu's establishment of the Guards Bureau was to consolidate his dominance, not to win over the local clan forces of Longmen, and the ambitious Wei Chiefs even regarded these local snakes as enemies that needed to be eradicated, and the specific reason was also very simple, because a considerable part of them were the grass on the wall, and when the Yan Kingdom and Ursas fought for the Dragon Gate, they wavered between the two countries, completely forgetting their identity as Yan people.

The other is the true influence of the senior brother of Qin and Han, Li Nan's status in the rivers and lakes is unlimited for a while, and he is recognized as the first in Longmen, but in front of the real ruler Wei Yanwu, he is a thug of a mixed society, and it is impossible to enter the Guards Bureau.

In fact, Li Nan's strength is above Chen Huijie.

In the past, Zhou Jinru didn't know enough about personal strength, and his understanding of senior senior cadres was quite vague, but today, he can basically figure out where the boundaries are.

That year, at the transit station of Longmen Penguin Logistics, Huai Hu almost lost with one enemy and two against two members of the Deep Sea Council, and Mostima easily suppressed them with the advantage of the source stone technique, Li Nan picked and killed one with a spear in two rounds, and the other was killed by the Rat King in the process of escaping.

With such a beautiful record, Chen Huijie can't do it.

But Chen Huijie entered the Guards Bureau as an inspector after leaving the school, and he was still the boss of the old fritter Xingxiong, and he was also wronged by Xingsir, and he was willing to be her deputy, and he worked hard.

Later, he was promoted to the director of the guards, and it was Lao Wei who helped him up, and the position of the director of the guards was Lao Wei's, and this wave belonged to the left hand to the right hand, and it had nothing to do with Chen Huijie's results.

It's not that Chen Huijie is inferior to her colleagues, it's just that because she flies too fast, faster than riding a rocket, but her own strength has not kept up, it is inevitable that she will be criticized.

Spit out the bones in his mouth, Zhou Jinru wiped his mouth with satisfaction, and when he left the hot pot restaurant, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.

When I returned to my residence, the lights on the third floor were on, and it seemed that Shigeru Murata was still struggling.

When Zhou Jinru walked to the front of his house, he passed by a man of medium stature, due to the lack of light, he didn't see the other party's face clearly, but when he took out the key to open the door lock, the two turned around almost at the same time, and in the dim light, the other party also stared at his face.

"I'm not mistaken, am I?"

"I don't think so."

"Oh my God, it's really you!"

"Where's your wife?"

The man of medium stature took two steps closer and said helplessly: "You guy, can you not greet other people's wives as soon as you meet?" ”

"Don't get me wrong, this is a special way of greeting from Yanguo......"

"I'm also half of Yanguo, are you a fool to me?!"

Sou!

A slipper flew from the depths of the darkness and smashed against the wall between the two people, and the landlord's voice followed: "What are you doing if you don't sleep at night?!" ”

Zhou Jinru pinched his chin, pushed open the door, and was very happy to invite his old friend in, took out a water cup and poured him a cup of tea.

"Xiaolin, we haven't seen each other in years, right?"

The medium-sized man sitting opposite was none other than Kobayashi Sonobu, who looked very different from what Zhou Jinru had seen in 996, first of all, his long flowing hair was cut short, his beard was neatly groomed, and the whole person looked very capable.

The most important thing is that he didn't carry that long knife.

"Mr. Four hid it from us at the beginning, and played a dumb riddle with Kelsey, Linlang said that you look familiar, I don't believe it, I didn't expect it to be you."

"The situation was special at that time, and I had no choice but to do it, Xiaolin, why did you appear in Longmen?"

"What about you?"

Zhou Jinru said: "I'm here to play, come and go freely." ”

Kobayashi Zongxin said enviously: "I'm not as free as you." ”

"Why, I remember Linlang said, you are a ranger, you are a family from all over the world, but now you are not free?"

"The civil war in the East has been going on for many years, and it has been difficult to quell the war for more than ten years, and now the confrontation between the north and the south is becoming increasingly tense, Linlang and I built a school in the east country, designed to take in those orphans who lost their parents because of the war, and they can't get out, and this time they came to Longmen to seek some help in educational resources."

When he said this, Kobayashi Zongxin paused and pointed behind him: "Another purpose is to bring back the exiled sons and nephews. ”

When Zhou Jinru saw Xiao Lin, he was speculating about his relationship with Shigeru Murata, and this matter was confirmed, and there was no surprise, after all, there was only one Dongguo who lived on the third floor, and Xiao Lin had no reason to appear except for coming to him.

"I see, I thought that people like you didn't care about blood and kinship for a long time."

Kobayashi Zongxin sighed: "People are not plants and trees, even after a hundred years, they must not be forgotten." ”

He raised his cup and drank it all, and after exhaling, he asked, "What is the matter with Mr. Four lately?" ”

Xiao Lin's sentence obviously has something to say.

Zhou Jinru put down the cup in his hand and squinted his eyes:

"It's okay, if you have something, just say it, you're welcome."

"Help me protect a person, and never let her be hurt in the slightest, this matter is not trivial, but the incoming enemy is not clear, the difficulty is quite large, I don't worry about finding others, if you are here, you can sit back and relax."

Zhou Jinru suddenly became interested and lowered his voice: "Who is the person you want to protect?" ”

"Princess Wenyue."