Late at night, the cold wind whistled outside the carriage, and Liu Dongchen sat alone in the carriage and closed his eyes to rest.

Because the place where I was going this time was nearly 10,000 miles away from the criminal family, ordinary carriages could not reach that speed at all, these three carriages were bought from the Zhu family at a high price, and the pigs and horses tied to the front traveled thousands of miles a day, and they could reach Zuowu City in ten days.

Liu Dongchen is also the first time to see this animal of pigs and horses, which looks like pigs, but has a horse-like body, to be precise, it is a horse that looks like a pig, and this thing does not eat weeds, it specializes in eating all kinds of strange herbs, and the lowest cost of raising a head a year is also five gold coins, and you can raise two hundred ordinary horses with these money.

But in terms of performance, it is indeed comparable to a hundred horses, and if an ordinary horse runs like this for a night, it is estimated that the horse's hooves are smoothed.

"Miss Xuan, isn't she going to accompany the young master?"

In the last carriage, Lin Shuang leaned against the window of the car and held the guqin with half-squinted eyes, looking at the night scene outside that disappeared in a flash, the torture spirit was a little restless, he couldn't stand the atmosphere when he was alone with a girl.

"My name is Lin Shuang."

Lin Shuang didn't move, still looking out the window.

"Miss Lin... Do you want to accompany the young master? ”

Xing Ling's face froze, it was the first time he had heard that the other party's surname was Lin, and he didn't know how to speak.

"You hate me so much?"

Lin Shuang turned her head to stare at the torture spirit, her eyebrows raised, she had already learned about yesterday's incident from the servant, and I heard that it was a small report from this guy and Liu Dongchen.

"No... No, I just..."

Xing Ling took a deep breath, then held his breath again, his face turned red, and he picked up the wine jar next to him and drank it, and the atmosphere in the car became more and more embarrassing for a while.

"Well, wait until dawn."

Lin Shuang seemed to see something, shook her head, and continued to lean against the car window with the guqin in her arms.

"Huh? What's wrong? Can't sleep? ”

The next day, early in the morning, Lin Shuang took advantage of the pigs and horses to eat, and got into Liu Dongchen's carriage alone.

"Almost, let that wood get a good night's sleep."

Lin Shuang was helpless, it was not a way to sit so dryly, it was still comfortable here, at least she could talk.

"Haha, then I'll wronged you first, the one that took the lead is going to load supplies, and it's very uncomfortable for me to be alone, so you can chat with me."

Liu Dongchen was not polite, he sat next to Lin Shuang, rubbing his stomach and looking very happy, and the three carriages soon moved again.

The two chatted a lot along the way, and soon after eating, it slowly got dark again.

"You say..."

Back in the carriage, Liu Dongchen leaned against the window and spoke slowly, but before he finished speaking, he saw Lin Shuang's drowsy appearance and smiled bitterly, she must have not slept well last night, and she chatted with herself for another day today.

"Huh? What's wrong? ”

Lin Shuang's voice was a little tired, and he looked at Liu Dongchen suspiciously, why didn't he say anything halfway through his words?

"It's nothing, let's sleep, I don't have a pillow, your piano is also hard, take this first."

Liu Dongchen took off his coat and threw it to Lin Shuang, he was also a little tired, it had only been two days now, and the next few days would have to bear.

"Don't you use it?"

Lin Shuang was a little surprised when she was holding her clothes, it was the first time she found that Liu Dongchen was so good, and she was actually taking care of her?

"Yes, or you'll take yours off to me?"

Liu Dongchen pouted, he didn't want to use it, the problem was that the other party was a girl, and he was really a little embarrassed to do this.

"Hmph, think beautifully!"

Lin Shuang snorted coldly, crumpled his clothes into a ball and pillowed his head, curled up in the corner, and fell asleep beautifully.

"Ugh."

.....

The white horse passed through the gap, and the five days passed in a flash.

Three days faster than originally planned, three carriages stopped at the city gates in turn.

Lifting the curtain, Liu Dongchen looked at the towering city wall, and had mixed feelings in his heart.

"Young master, do you want to enter the city?"

The gates of Zuowu City were wide open, and the convoys of people coming and going poured into the city, but there was a little less sense of wealth, all of which were ordinary horses and simple goods.

The coachman's voice relieved Liu Dongchen, and looking at the strange eyes around him, Liu Dongchen shook his head.

"No, our car is too conspicuous, you can follow the original plan and rush back to your home in the starry night."

Liu Dongchen packed up his things, put the saber on his waist, and walked out of the carriage.

Lin Shuang and the torture spirit moved quickly, and the two of them had already been waiting below for a moment when Liu Dongchen was in a daze.

"Young master, these should be caravans from the side of Mixed Zhou City, I heard that all the rich merchants in Zuowu City have already withdrawn, and the average daily consumption of coins per person in them is about one silver coin, and there were at least three hundred gold coins per person every day under the backdrop of rich merchants before."

The torture spirit opened the pamphlet in his hand, this is the comprehensive result of all aspects of the investigation of the criminal element here, whether it is military or economic, it is very comprehensive.

"In other words, after leaving Xu Dong, there is almost no consumption of civilians here?"

"Yes, and the military spending is also severely restricted, although the people are not taken away, but the treasury in the city has almost been emptied, but fortunately, there are still about three years of military rations left in the grain depot."

Xing Ling flipped through the booklet and analyzed it for Liu Dongchen, he has been making up for this knowledge recently, and he is afraid that he doesn't know how to deal with this situation.

"Stop! You have to search your body when you enter the city! ”

The three of them had just walked to the city gate, and the soldiers guarding the gate looked Liu Dongchen's clothes up and down, and their expressions were a little frivolous.

"Bold! DID YOU KNOW..."

"Hey, this brother, everyone else can go in, why can't I go in?"

Liu Dongchen raised his hand to interrupt the words of the torture spirit, he wanted to explore the situation in the army first, so that he could make countermeasures.

"Hmph, Lao Tzu said that search is search! Do you have anything to disagree with? ”

The soldier glared at the torture spirit, and suddenly more than a dozen soldiers came out behind him, all of them had very arrogant expressions, the business at the gate of the city was originally promoted by his uncle, he would not let go of this opportunity, there were people behind him.

"It's really a poor mountain and a bad water!"

Lin Shuang sneered coldly, this person is used to robbing money at a glance, and the discipline in the army is completely empty, this is the most unacceptable low-level mistake, you must know that the city gate is the basic quality of a city, and it can be seen that there are some crooked melons and cracked dates in it.

"Yo, listen to this voice, or a little beauty? Come on, search this little beauty first, look at the little waist, maybe there are a lot of treasures hidden in the clothes! ”

The soldier at the door raised his eyebrows, stared at Lin Shuang's body and swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and several soldiers behind him rushed up, their eyes shining one by one, and saliva was about to flow out.

"I think you really don't want to live!"

Liu Dongchen's face was full of disgust, he pulled out the long sword at his waist, his hand rose and fell, and several bloody heads were cut off as soon as they approached him.

"You wait! I called my uncle to clean you up! Close the door, close the door! ”

Seeing that the situation was not good, the soldier ran faster than the carriage next to him, and slipped into the city, telling the other soldiers to close the gates, and he himself ran into the depths.

"Young Master, why are you doing this?"

Xing Ling smiled bitterly, if Liu Dongchen hadn't stopped himself just now, he would have rushed in and killed that little beast.

"Don't worry, it's not appropriate to go deep into the hinterland now, you have to deal with the leader first, although the three of us can use ancient skills, but we can't fight with the people of the second pattern."

Liu Dongchen is very calm, now the Tiangao Emperor is far away and no one can care about this, if he just revealed his identity, it is impossible to know the real situation, and the people he killed are all irrelevant people, just now that kid seems to have something to do with it, since they are all like this, why not catch a big fish?

"Uncle, that's that kid! He's fast, and he's probably a master! ”

At the head of the city, the soldier who had just run in pointed to Liu Dongchen below, and there was a middle-aged man with a scruffy beard standing next to him, and the armor should be the general guarding the city gate.

"Who's coming? I am Han Qing, the general of Zuowu City, the modern leader of the city, what does it mean for you to kill people at the city gate for no reason? ”

Han Qing frowned, he was originally Xu Dong's subordinate, this time I heard that there was a relative of the emperor who was going to come here to take up a post, and he was worried that he would not have the opportunity to receive the reward, this time it was just sent to the door, a few assassins who tried to break the card, but there was a lot of gold.

"Young Master?"

Xing Ling didn't know how to answer, this matter was a big deal, but I didn't expect that kid to be the nephew of the temporary city lord, and the relationship was not bad.

"Simple, ask him if he has the seal of the city lord."

Liu Dongchen glanced at the torture spirit, he didn't expect this result, but since the other party insisted on making a big conflict and didn't come out to ask about right or wrong, then he couldn't help it.

"Why do you say you're the lord of the city? But I've heard that there is no city lord here, so you shouldn't be the king of your own right? ”

The torture spirit responded loudly, and he didn't know what Liu Dongchen wanted to do.

"There is no evidence for empty words, this is the seal of the lord of this city! Don't wait until you get caught! ”

Han Yu felt funny when he heard this, and casually took out the city lord's seal and raised it above his head, his uncle is now the real city lord, are you afraid that they will not be suspicious?

"You ask him who the lord is."

Lin Shuang also realized Liu Dongchen's thoughts, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, this trick is wonderful!

"It's... Master? ”

The torture spirit didn't dare to listen to Lin Shuang's words, he was afraid that if he asked the wrong question, he would be in trouble.

"It's okay, that's what it means, just ask."

Liu Dongchen blinked his eyes, he didn't expect Lin Shuang to understand him quite well, and he couldn't help but feel a little more confident in his heart, and he felt that the money was worth it in an instant.

"Who is the lord of the city? Isn't that guy the gatekeeper? ”

The torture spirit stared at Han Yu with disdain.

"You..."

Han Yu angrily pointed at the torture spirit, the blue tendons on his forehead burst out, and his angry teeth itched, this person didn't take himself in his eyes at all, didn't he see who was standing next to him?

"Yu'er, you stand down for the time being."

Han Qing took the city lord seal in Han Yu's hand, and looked at the three people under the city with some hesitation, these three people were dressed rich and noble, they were still young, and they were the children of rich families at first glance, he was indeed moved by compassion, now that funds are in short supply, the military spirit is unstable, and it is not lost to the reward if he changes people's hearts with a wave of military spending.

"He's hesitating, you can keep asking."

Lin Shuang raised his head and glanced at Han Qing at the head of the city, the expression on his face was tangled, this was the time to force him to make a choice.