Jielan is like a stubborn child, never looking back at Chengfeng from beginning to end, and Chengfeng leans aside, his cold appearance is like a stone carving, and he has never changed his curve.

After the two finished eating, the shopkeeper came to collect the money: "Are you two good at it?" It was a tael of silver in total. The shopkeeper's expectant eyes shone brightly, and his impatient expression could not hide his eagerness.

Jielan was suddenly a little embarrassed, since she left Liluo Village, she had little money left, where did she get a tael of silver, she looked at Qi Xue, Qi Xue shook her head: "You know, this is the first time I have left Xueling Mountain in more than a hundred years." ”

Jielan frowned, she looked at the shopkeeper apologetically, and said in a low voice: "I'm sorry, boss, I didn't bring enough silver when I came out, or I owe it first, and I will make up for it later." ”

The shopkeeper's face immediately sank: "Girl, you're not joking, I'm a small business, and I'm still waiting for this money to save my life." ”

"Help? It's so serious, it's not just this bit of silver. Qi Xue replied angrily.

"Seeing that you are not from this city, alas, today is the deadline for paying taxes, if you can't pay fifty taels of silver, my inn will be confiscated and sealed, or I will be arrested and imprisoned, and a few nobles will take pity on me, don't joke with me." The shopkeeper's expression was solemn, and it didn't seem that he was lying, and that Wuluan had already mentioned the tax last night, so Qi Xue Jielan naturally believed it, but even so, how could the two of them hand it over.

Qi Xue's fingers curled her long hair, and she looked a little indifferent: "What's this, this store is closed, it's not bad to go to jail, it feels quite fresh." ”

Her words completely angered the shopkeeper, and he said angrily: "You people who were born into noble families only know pleasures, how can you understand the suffering of our people, hmph, I don't care about it today, if you can't take it out, I'm not kind to you." ”

"And what do you want?" Qi Xue obviously didn't back down at all.

"Do you know how criminals are treated in our city? I only need to report you, but I'm afraid you won't be able to get out of prison for the rest of your life. ”

"Isn't it just that you owe some silver taels? Who are you trying to scare? ”

"Don't believe me? Do you know what the name of our other city in Chiyan City is? Call it the city of sin, and those who commit crimes will never come back alive, so I just need to report you to the officials here, and you will wait to go to hell! ”

Qi Xue was a little shocked by how vicious his words were, but soon became angry, "I didn't expect you, an old man, to be so vicious, are you cursing us to hell?" ”

The old man suddenly saw Qi Xue, whose eyes were shining with cold light from anger, and suddenly became frightened, and he saw patrol officers and soldiers walking outside the store, and hurriedly ran towards them, shouting as he ran: "Demon... Devil! ”

Although Jielan didn't believe what he said about the City of Crime Prison, if he really recruited officers and soldiers, he was afraid that the three of them would be known by Kong Jing, and then it would be really troublesome! Jielan's figure flashed, blocking in front of the shopkeeper, her eyes were cold, and she said: "If you want money, I'll give it to you, if you shout nonsense again, don't blame me for being polite!" ”

The shopkeeper didn't know if he was frightened or whatever, so he didn't dare to scream.

Jielan hesitated to tear off the string of red stone beads left by her mother, the center of the bead is a piece of red stone, and the lower half of the ring wrapped in the red stone is inlaid with a white moon-shaped case, and the upper half of the circle is inlaid with a red sun-shaped case.

Looking at this string of beads, Jielan not only thought of her mother, but also thought of the man who was like the moon in the middle of the night, he had said to himself, no matter when he should not give up this bead, but now it was so unavoidable, she handed the beads out with trembling hands, "This should be enough!" ”

When the shopkeeper saw this rare thing, his hands trembled a little with joy, Qi Xue knew that since Jielan was wearing it closely, it would definitely not be an ordinary thing, how could he be willing to let her give up her beloved things, Qi Xue was about to take it back, but Jielan grabbed it with one hand: "Don't be willful, this place is not better than in Xueling Mountain." ”

"No, that's your business."

Jielan shook her head: "If we can avoid the trouble of this trip, I think my mother and the criminals will definitely forgive me for doing this." She turned to the shopkeeper: "This thing is temporarily mortgaged to you, and I will redeem it after a while, if I can't see it when I come back, don't blame me for being unkind to you." ”

The shopkeeper guessed that these three people must not be mortals, and he didn't dare to refuse, so he casually took Zhulian and left them alone.

Chengfeng on the side looked at Na Zhulian sideways, his brows furrowed slightly, thoughtful, but he didn't say a word, just quietly looked out the window, letting the wind blow his long hair.

The shopkeeper retrieved dozens of taels of silver and handed them over to Jielan, and sent the three of them out. The shopkeeper stood at the entrance of the inn, his bony face like a skeleton suddenly smiling, and it made people feel frightened when they saw it.

Maybe relying on this pearl to be able to save his life from now on is what he is most happy about.