It's dawn.

It's a pity that the Black Wind Horse is gone, they can only walk, Xiao Yi followed behind Ye Chen, looking around curiously, asking various questions from time to time, such as demon beasts, mysterious beasts, etc., but many times it was Ahri who patiently answered for him.

With Xiao Yi, Ye Chen felt that there was an extra translator between himself and Ahri, and Ye Chen would not have to guess what Ahri said in the future.

Listening to Xiao Yi and Ahri muttering about the language between demon beasts and mysterious beasts, it was also a different taste, Ye Chen listened to the vocabulary in it, with his learning ability, it might not take long for him to learn the beast language.

When they arrived in a small town, they went to the restaurant for a meal, Ye Chen immediately bought two horses again, and got dozens of cattle and sheep, and let the chef roast them into the arm guard space, he can be regarded as seeing Xiao Wing's appetite, Xiao Wing never chews when he eats, he swallows it with a bang, and in the blink of an eye, a whole sheep is belly, and there is nothing unusual in the stomach.

Such a small child, but with such an amazing amount of food, can arouse onlookers anywhere, Ye Chen didn't dare to stay in the town, lest he be regarded as a monster, and left the town after buying good things.

Following the official road, they went all the way in the direction of the imperial capital.

The official road is full of peddlers and pawns, leading mules and horses, transporting goods, and asked, they are all going to the imperial capital, this official road is not the main road, there are already so many people going to and from the imperial capital and various places, you can imagine the prosperity of the imperial capital.

"Brother Ye Chen, Sister Ahri said that the tanuki clan is different from ordinary demon beasts and mysterious beasts, and generally the tanuki will transform when it grows to three tails, and the later the tanuki learns to transform into shape, the higher the talent, and she doesn't understand why she has grown to six tails and has not learned to transform yet. Xiao Wing was eating a leg of lamb on the side, and said in a milky voice.

"Hmm. Ye Chen nodded and said, I see, it seems that Ahri's talent should be very high among the tanuki clan.

Sister Ahri said that she wanted to learn how to change shapes sooner. Tsubasa said.

"Why, doesn't it say that the later you transform, the higher your talent?" Ye Chen was stunned for a moment, and glanced at Ahri, but saw that Ahri's cheeks were slightly red, indescribably delicate and charming, and his heart fluttered.

Xiao Yi opened his eyes wide, looked at Ahri curiously, and then looked at Ye Chen, why did Brother Ye Chen suddenly stop talking, why did Sister Ahri suddenly become shy?

After following Ye Chen, Xiao Yi almost had endless lamb legs and beef along the way, he felt that he was so happy, it was so good to follow Ye Chen's brother and Ahri's sister, there was meat to eat every day!

They passed through the five counties, the imperial capital was already in sight, along the way, they walked on the official road, but nothing happened, chatting with the peddlers and pawns, and seeing a qiē along the way, Ye Chen had a general understanding of the situation of the Xiwu Empire.

In these counties, Donglin County is relatively good, there are several counties because of the shortage of food, the rebellion of the rebels is very strict, the county kings sent a large army to suppress, killing millions of rebellious people, many villages and towns are empty, on both sides of the official road, and from time to time you will see some people starving to death.

In troubled times, human life is like mustard.

Ye Chen sighed slightly in his heart, with his ability alone, he couldn't change so much at all, as long as he wasn't assimilated by this world, kept his true heart, and had a clear conscience.

From time to time, a large group of cavalry dressed in silver armor galloped past on the official road, and these cavalry did not do anything to these people selling goods in addition to clearing the bandits and homeless people on the official road, nor did they loot money, so it can be seen that there is still some order here.

Maybe Yin Mengtian is right, Emperor Ming Wu is still a good emperor, but this dynasty has rotted from the roots. The Xiwu Empire used to be a powerful country among the surrounding countries, but in the past seven or eight hundred years, it quickly declined, and after the war with the barbarian countries, the Xiwu Empire was on the verge of collapse.

Following a caravan, you can see a magnificent wall hundreds of meters high against the mountain.

"The border has arrived, and when you enter here, it is the imperial capital!" The people in those caravans shouted loudly, they came from different places, and they slept in the open air along the way, some walked for several days, and some traveled for more than half a month or even longer, and finally arrived at their destination, how could they not be excited?

Ye Chen followed behind the caravan, paid two yuan for entering the city, and entered the Linguan.

There are a large number of troops stationed in the pass, and every one or two meters near the city wall, there is a tall sergeant in silver armor, who does not squint and looks mighty.

I don't know which general is stationed at this pass, but he still has a very good way of governing the army.

After entering the pass, you will see a large stretch of houses, these houses are a little dilapidated, one by one, the streets, people come and go, those licensed dealers and pawns will rest here, so in the pass, there are many restaurants, inns, and even a large number of brothels, there are a lot of grease and whitewashed women standing on the street, are waving silk handkerchiefs to attract merchants.

It is indeed much more prosperous than Donglin County.

"Brother Ye Chen, is this the imperial capital? There are so many people in the imperial capital, there are many more than our town!" Xiao Yi opened his mouth wide and said excitedly, along the way, due to the improvement of food, Xiao Yi has grown into a little fat man with fat hands, with a bulging face, pink and tender, just like the Fuwa in the New Year painting, which looks very cute.

"It's just a pass here, and the horses have to run for half a day to get to the imperial capital, which is much more prosperous than here. Ye Chen smiled.

"Ah, isn't this the imperial capital?" Xiao Yi's eyes widened, in his opinion, this place was already very prosperous.

There are all kinds of fresh things bought and sold on the street, there are all kinds of things, Ye Chen has never seen many things, there are many stalls on the street to buy and sell medicinal herbs, Ye Chen's spirit swept over, most of these herbs are very ordinary, the year is very low, although some are better than ordinary herbs, but for Ye Chen, it is useless at all, these herbs are just for ordinary people, used for alchemy, but it is not enough.

I don't know if I can find some good stuff here.

The spirit swept over a pharmacy and felt that there was something good there, Ye Chen turned around and said, "Ahri, Xiao Yi, let's go to the pharmacy in front and have a look." ”

Walking along the street for a while, I saw a magnificent shop on the side of the street, with a flag fluttering in front of it, and the words "Hao's Pharmacy" were written on it.

Could it be the Hao family of Xijing?

Ye Chen had heard his father and uncle say that the Xijing Hao clan was the largest family in the Xiwu Empire except for the imperial family, and the Hao clan had many talents, until today, there were many tenth-order powerhouses in the family, and there were several intermediate senior pharmacists, one of whom seemed to be learning the way of alchemy from Xuanyi Yaozun.

Ye Chen is here to buy medicine, he doesn't bother to pay attention to Hao's background, Ye Chen's arm guard space, but there are 300,000 Qi Gathering Pills and more than 5,000 Qi Condensing Pills, what kind of concept is this?

If there are any good herbs, he will buy them first and stuff them into the arm guard space, and then he may be able to use them in the future, depending on whether there is anything in this Hao's pharmacy that he can see.

Ye Chen walked into the Hao's pharmacy, the shopkeeper of the pharmacy was a middle-aged man, about forty years old, strong and tall, at first glance, he was a cultivator, an eighth-order peak master, sitting behind the counter and drinking tea leisurely, dozens of guys were constantly busy.

In the Hao family, the children of the family who are generally not in the stream will be sent outside to manage the family industry, and an eighth-order peak master is actually sent here to watch the store, which shows the heritage of the Hao family!

People come and go in the pharmacy, many people grab medicine here, most of them buy ordinary herbs, some cherished herbs, are placed in an iron cabinet behind the counter, and the soul is swept away, and there are many good things in it.

That iron cabinet was built extremely solidly, with a heavy lock, and it was conceivable how much attention Hao's Pharmacy attached to those cherished herbs!

Hao's medicinal herbs were bought and sold throughout the Seibu Empire, and they would collect a lot of herbs every year, many of which were cherished herbs, and some things they didn't need were put on sale in the shop.

Although there are dozens of customers in this shop, none of them buy rare herbs from Hao's.

With a huge Hao's Pharmacy, the trading of cherished herbs may not be able to meet a single case for a few days, but once it does, it is enough to be worth the sum of the trading income of ordinary medicinal herbs for several months!

Ye Chen walked towards the counter where the cherished herbs were placed, the shopkeeper saw Ye Chen, his eyes lit up, he was here, he had seen a lot of the three sects and nine streams, and when he looked at Ye Chen, he knew that Ye Chen was a cultivator of a martial arts family, and the tanuki he was carrying on his body should be a demon beast of the second and third order. The children of this kind of family often spend dozens or hundreds of times more money on buying and selling pills and herbs than ordinary guests.

"This guest, do you want to buy something, or pawn pills and herbs?" the shopkeeper stood up and said politely, "Old man Hao Xu is a third-generation disciple of the Hao family in Xijing. When he spoke, he looked at Ye Chen and guessed Ye Chen's origin.

"Can you pawn pills and herbs here?" Ye Chen asked in surprise, he didn't expect Hao's Pharmacy to have this business.

"Yes, our Hao's Pharmacy collects all kinds of rare herbs and pills at a fair price. Hao Xu said, frowning slightly, Ye Chen didn't even know this, I am afraid that he is a child of some small family from a poor countryside.

In general, in big business, Hao Xu will go out in person, and ordinary small business can be entertained by a buddy, but since Ye Chen has been received, Hao Xu is also quiet.

"I don't know what you need, do you want to buy it or sell it?" Hao Xu asked lightly.