At nightfall, a faint commotion comes from the silent Gobi Desert, the sound of which comes from the only inn in the area.

From the outside, except for the old door, this small shop hidden in the depths of the desert is no different from an ordinary inn, but once you walk into the store, even the heroes who have been famous for a long time on the rivers and lakes have to be frightened.

At the time of the meal, there were more than a dozen men with swords and swords sitting in the store, they were all ringing horses rampant on the Gobi Desert, with fierce faces and tendons and flesh, tattoos on their faces and dragons painted on their bodies, and they looked like hard stubble.

These people are carrying at least a few lives on their bodies, and it is said that when such people get together, they should look at each other unpleasantly, and if they don't agree with each other, they will draw knives and splash blood on the spot. It is also true that if they meet outside, they will have a lot of fighting, but in this humble little shop they are all as honest as quails.

The ringing horses here know that there are three places on the Gobi Desert that must not be fooled:

One is the ghost crying kiln in the west, and those who set foot in it have no life; the second is Qu Xianwei in the north, and the general Wuying stationed there is notoriously decisive in killing, especially not soft on Xiangma; The last place is the current inn.

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The inn is an expansion of a steamed bun shop, although the area is several times larger than the original, but both the decoration and materials are as poor as ever, and this group of rough men is indeed not worthy of too elaborate stores.

Although they didn't dare to make trouble in the store, they had already developed a rough temperament after living in the desert for a long time, and the 100-pound weapons in their hands were thrown on the table casually.

The innkeeper is hand-eyed, but he can't ask for the other party's head for the dishes, and these people are afraid that she is afraid of her, so he obediently took the initiative to lose money without talking nonsense.

The humble inn can be opened on the Gobi Desert full of jackals, tigers and leopards for decades, all because the boss is Xu Erniang, and there is a saying in the entire desert, whether you are hunted down by the enemy or hunted by officers and soldiers, as long as you enter Xu Erniang's bun shop, you will be safe.

Of course, the premise is that you can honestly pay for the store, only the silver is in place, even if you live in the ground, no one cares, if you have money left, the inn will also help contact the shroud and the coffin, but if there is no silver, then there is no need for the outside enemy to do it, Xu Erniang herself will chop it into bun filling.

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Twenty years ago, Xu Erniang was quite kind, although the buns were more expensive, but they were also worth the money, a few taels of silver could be a full meal plus a night's accommodation, but now after the expansion, it will cost one hundred and eighty taels for a single meal, if you want to stay, you must prepare at least three hundred taels of snowflake silver.

Even so, there are still a large number of people who come to take refuge, such as tonight, they were chased all the way by the officers and soldiers of the nearby guard post, and finally there was no way, so they came here to avoid the limelight.

came out to make a ringing horse, the head was pinned to the belt, and a few gangs of bandits could also see it, eating meat and drinking a lot, as for the famous buns, they didn't touch them, except for a gray-faced teenager, who was sitting in a remote position and eating buns, although his face was muddy, but the appearance of the pink and jade was very handsome.

The young man starved to death, ordered three drawers of buns in one breath, one did not finish eating and hurriedly rotated the next, not far away a group of ringing horses saw it, muttered a few words in a low voice, and then burst into laughter, if it was left in normal times, the young man had to have a good fight with them, but now he only has buns in his eyes.

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"Erniang, he won't hold himself to death, right?"

At the counter, a graceful woman finally couldn't help but open her mouth when she saw the teenager lift the lid of the third cage drawer.

The woman in her fifties next to her smiled when she heard this:

"What, it's distressing?"

The woman, who was no more than twenty years old, blushed and defended herself with a little crampedness:

"I'm looking at his poor and sour look, I'm afraid he won't be able to pay for food."

"It's okay, it's the big deal like before, just slaughter it and bury it in the backyard."

"There's no place to bury people in our backyard."

"Then chop it, chop it, throw it out to feed the wild dogs, when did I make a loss-making deal?"

Xu Erniang said casually, but her eyes were staring at the girl named "Ruhua" from beginning to end, she watched this girl grow up since she was a child, how could she not know her thoughts.

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On the Gobi Desert, women have always been more precious than gold, especially young girls, enough to make the ringing horse heads within a radius of 100 miles move.

Ruhua has been in the inn for more than ten years, and she will go to the nearby guard house alone to buy some rice, noodles and vegetables for three days, but she has never made a mistake, which Xu Erniang's name is naturally indispensable, but more because the appearance of the girl is really not worthy of her graceful figure.

Ruhua is a child picked up by Xu Erniang at the door, she was only two years old at the time, wearing a pink cloth dress with two brand-new embroidered shoes, no matter how she looks, she doesn't look like she is too poor to be able to afford it. It's a pity that the child is not very handsome, with a square face, small eyes, a flat nose, and scattered freckles on his face.

It is said that the eighteenth change of the female university, but this word has not been fulfilled in Ruhua, as she grows older, not only does her appearance not show signs of good looks, but even her face shape is getting longer and longer, and now at the age of fifteen or sixteen, the length has reached twice that of ordinary women.

Even the lustful horses in the store didn't tease her when they saw her, but laughed at her appearance one by one, saying that she had a horse face.

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The poor mountains and bad waters of the desert can't raise the small jasper in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Ruhua who has followed Xu Erniang to open a shop since she was a child will not be a weak woman who can be beaten and scolded, when she was twelve years old, a regular customer once again made a mistake with her appearance, and lost an ear on the spot.

After that, everyone realized that this little girl's temperament was even more pungent than Xu Erniang, and later there were a few people who were not afraid of death who said things that should not be said with the strength of wine, and all of them paid the price without exception.

It is very common to mix in the desert, and it is common to break hands and feet, but it can be cut off by a teenage girl, which is enough for others to laugh at for a lifetime.

After this happened many times, the customers in the store gradually had more fun, they would pout their faces to provoke Ruhua, and then bet on what part of the other party would be cut off, and finally the winner would often drink and laugh, the wrong person would open his mouth to scold a few ugly words, and the chosen unlucky ghost would lie on the ground with his wound covered and wail in pain.

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Today, the boy sitting in the corner has once again become the target of everyone, although he is dressed up a little, but he is better than being young, and he is a young man who has just come out of the rivers and lakes, and this kind of young man who does not know the height of the sky is the most suitable for being used as a gunman.

After a full meal, several ringing horses exchanged glances, and one of the men with pigtails stood up and walked towards the young man who was gnawing on the bun, although the other party was carrying a sword, but in the eyes of these bandits who licked blood from the edge of the knife, the sword was designated to be used as a façade.

The man walked up to the young man and said:

"This young man, looking down at the wind, it is best to make friends with heroes from all walks of life in his life, just now I saw the little brother with a lofty spirit and outstanding demeanor, he must be from a big faction in the rivers and lakes, I don't know if I can have a drink together?"

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