"Young man, here you go again, this time it's the same as before?"

"The shopkeeper, the old way, two catties of turbid wine, the old man in the family is guilty of drinking insects, hurry up and buy it back to relieve his hunger."

"My wine here is appetizing, it's not that I'm boasting, in the Beicheng territory, the wine is comparable to my shop, and it hasn't opened yet."

"I don't drink, but the elders in the family haven't changed after drinking for so long, so you shouldn't be bad. Well, you have the money. ”

"Your parents know the goods. Remember to come back next time. ”

The young man said yes, turned and walked away.

The young man carrying the wine gourd, when he walked along the north-south road to the entrance of the street called Qifu Street, turned his head to look inside, but could not see the imaginary figure, shook his head and felt that he was doing too much, and it was impossible to see that person here and now.

Continue walking along the main road, come to the last alley, called "Wuyi Lane", turn around and turn in.

This alley can take a shortcut out of the city, although it is easy to get out of the city with the skills of a teenager, but at this time, in order to avoid people's eyes, you still have to make a show, such as asking acquaintances for help.

Of course, it's not like that, he wants to go all over the corners of the city, and he will always meet interesting people and things, both in the south and the north.

Wuyi Lane is a short alley, only two hundred steps away, brothels and casinos are all over the place, pawnshops and liquor shops are also incorporated into it, there are not many serious transactions, and there are many shops that make money.

For the rich people of Zhao'an City, here and on the other side of the street Fengnian Lane is the best place to sell money, some get rich overnight, and some lose to the point of leaving their pants, but the latter is far more than the former.

Won the brothel wine shop day and night tour, lost the pawnshop loan painting worried.

In a word, it is easy to get in and difficult to get out, whether it is people or money.

At the moment, there is no business, although it is all open to pick up customers, but in the end it can't attract the group of "night owls", only a few drunks fall asleep on the stone slab in front of the store, there is a clean air, no peace of mind.

Only in the evening can you see the prosperous scene, the sound of the brothel coming out, the sound of the sister's call, the sound of the casino betting, the beating and scolding of the wine store, full of vitality.

The young man walked to the end of the alley and stopped for a moment in front of the three-story attic of a brand name "Spring Breeze Pavilion", the air was filled with a thick smell of fat powder, even if he had been here many times, he was still not used to it.

Rao went to the back of the Spring Breeze Pavilion and knocked on the door of the hut next to the city wall, and after a while, a big-nosed boy dozed off and opened the door.

The young man's nose is too big, making it difficult for ordinary people to look away at the first glance, and the eyes set off are getting smaller and smaller, and the big-nosed young man rubbed his sleepy eyes and looked at the knocker, and muttered, "Brother Jing, come to borrow the road today?" ”

Without waiting for the other party to answer, he turned around and went to open the secret door in the room, obviously familiar with the visitor.

Chen Jing walked into the house familiarly, and before he could pass through the secret door, the round-faced young man said, "Brother Jing, I will receive my salary tonight, can you still come tomorrow?" I invite you to drink a fragrant drink. ”

Chen Jing patted him on the shoulder, "Interesting, I know that I don't drink." But Xiaowen, didn't you say that you wanted to save a dowry for your sister, if you can save it, you can save it, I'm not in a hurry here. ”

A young man named Xiaowen said with a hippie smile: "I've been saving it, and it doesn't cost a lot of money to invite Brother Jing to drink a cup of fragrant drink." Besides, whether it is the sisters upstairs or the eldest brothers in the gang, as long as they are in a good mood, they will reward me with a few dollars, and my sister's dowry does not have to worry, at most in two or three years, I can save all the expenses of the one-stop marriage, maybe even I can save enough money for my own daughter-in-law. ”

Chen Jing encouraged him and said: "It's good to have this heart, your sister's life is good, and you have a good brother to take care of it." ”

Without waiting for Xiaowen to be happy, Chen Jing's words changed sharply, "But, Xiaowen, do you know?" Your smiling face, it's a fake smile. ”

Xiaowen Ting stretched out his hands and rubbed his face a few times, and said helplessly: "Haven't I stayed here for a long time, and I learned this by following my sisters." As long as I stay here, it's hard to change it, and I'll try to smile more sincerely at Brother Jing in the future. ”

Chen Jing sighed secretly and stopped talking, feeling somewhat unworthy for this young man who was one year younger than himself.

Xiaowen's name is Wenliang, and his sister's name is Wenrong, after his parents passed away last year, Wenliang was the pillar of the family, and in order to make a living, his head was broken.

He didn't dare to retreat in the slightest, he had already found many places, and if there was no stable way to live, his sister would starve to death at home, so he didn't dare to retreat, and kowtowed to Boss Du of Cangyan Gang in Wuyi Lane, and blood flowed out.

Boss Du saw that he had done too much, and it didn't matter if he died, but he was a little unlucky in the early morning, so he reluctantly accepted him.

Chen Jing knew these things, but he couldn't help much, even if he could lend some money, he could only manage it for a while, and he was destined not to help for a lifetime, and he mentioned these things again and again, but he couldn't give any useful advice, but it was more like humiliation, even if he didn't mean it.

In response to Xiaowen's invitation, Chen Jing bent down and stepped through the secret door, turned around and told him to remember to close it, and then walked to the village in the east of the city.

Halfway to the road, look back at this city, a city north and south, very different.

Zhao'an City, surrounded by water on three sides, sits in the north and faces south.

Since the ancestors of Zhao'an City set foot on this territory, with a history of nearly 200 years, the ancestors of the first batch of Zhao'an City, displaced people, war criminals, fugitives, and the like because of the war in neighboring countries, have been exiled here and taken root to survive.

At first, those people only lived in nests, and did not build cities, because they were often attacked by wild beasts in the deep mountains and dense forests, and most of the people in the tribe were women, children, children, and the elderly, and there were very few people in the prime of life.

It's two things: continue to move into exile or stay here.

Of course, it is good to work together, but how can there be so many assumptions in this world, naturally they move away from one part and stay in another.

Maybe they were too anxious back then, or there were no craftsmen among the displaced people, or it didn't matter at all, the city surrounded by the city walls was not square, but an inverted triangle.

The city was built and the walls were really useful, although the beast attacks still occurred from time to time, but the casualties were always within the controllable range and could be bearable.

As for those who had moved away, they never returned. Maybe they have another place to live, or maybe they have been completely separated on the road.

In the following hundred years, this city far away from the big country, relying on the mountainous terrain and no one disturbed, the young and strong in the city gradually increased steadily, and there were a few foreign monks scattered in the city's population, although the number of small people scratched their heads and distressed, the monk cultivation made the knowledgeable mortals laugh a little bit behind their backs.

In this city where the young and strong are the highest military rank, the difference between whether there are monks or not is quite big, at least when leading the people in the clan to hunt some ordinary beasts in the dense forest outside the city, you can roughly protect them, and at worst, at least you can keep a complete corpse.

After the city settled down and slowly became rich, Zhao'an City was no longer famous, and the neighbors within a thousand miles or even farther knew that there was such a small neighbor who could hide in the mountain stream that they ignored.

In the years that followed, the population of Zhao'an City became more and more, probably because of the inheritance of the ancestors, most of the people who came came to flee, take refuge, and even seek revenge, smuggle and hire, and be spy spies, so they almost shouted the slogan of "all-encompassing". The aborigines of Zhao'an City do not reject these "outsiders", at least not on the surface.

Because of these, he was scolded by neighboring countries as "there are no good people in Zhao'an City", "Zhao'an Rotten Quagmire", and "Zhao'an Ghost Town".

The title is infamous, and Zhao'an City is relieved to be used, so he should be famous for free.

Every time he talked about the past of Zhao'an City, Xiaowen sneered at the corners of his mouth, sniffled, and spit out a few words, "It's just jealousy." ”

If there is more money, others will be jealous.

There is a lot of money, and others naturally have crooked thoughts.

There is a lot of money and it is very famous, and the crooked idea is not enough to make up for it.

Zhao'an City has not been attacked in history, and it has been captured, but unfortunately it has either achieved little or is like chicken ribs.

If the invaders are insufficient, they will fight hard in the city, anyway, there is enough food to hoard, and there is a risk of geographical advantages, and the grain outside the city can be harvested, and the unripe ones are collected, and it is really impossible to burn it and not cheap the bastard outside. From time to time, let the "bad seeds" in the city touch the darkness, sneak into the big military camp tent outside the city, set fire, poison and have fun, and in less than a month, they will be crippled.

If there are many soldiers and generals, such as the kamikaze country that has already perished, claiming to be strong and strong, and the treasury is full, it is committed in the name of begging thieves and suppressing bandits, and even the text has been written.

Zhao'an City will never resist or surrender, pack up and push the grain cart into the nearby mountains, over the years, the nearby mountains have long been groped clearly, there is no way for you to get out, and there is a road to give you no way back.

Naturally, it's not a fledgle, long before the arrival of the army, the spy in the city received the news, and it was you who were waiting.

If you come, it will be an empty city, and you won't leave a single pig, so you will definitely be able to make this loss-making transaction. Even if you tear down the walls and burn down the houses, you can rebuild them when you're gone.

In the depths of the dense forest, as long as the enemy country does not set fire to the mountain, a small city will be restored in a month, and a new city will be re-established in less than three months.

The people in the city who talk about the flowers, and they are not kind enough to call the king who came by the king's order "the craftsman".

If there is a gap to cooperate with the army, it is not impossible to succeed in suppressing the bandits, but unfortunately there is no if, because the gap in the city has already spread the news of the invasion of the country to all the surrounding countries.

"Hehe, there are always people in this world who don't like you, and there are always people who think of various ways to rectify people, as big as a country, your army will attack, the country will inevitably be empty, and the leader must not take the opportunity to tear the flesh down.

If you tear too much, you will be terminally ill, and in the end it is the old saying, 'Take advantage of your illness to kill you'. When the enemy general received the letter that said that he was in danger of losing his country, I don't know if he had fainted at that time. Hahahaha......", Xiaowen always spoke with a gloating tone.

Today, Zhao'an City has no worries about breaking the city for the time being. At that time, the neighboring countries also seemed to be shocked by the destruction of the kamikaze, and for decades, except for scouts near the border, there was no war that endangered the fortunes of the country.

When the fall of the kamikaze country caused a scuffle among several neighboring countries, some displaced people also came to Zhao'an City, which overwhelmed the originally full population of Zhao'an City, which is now Nancheng.

Later, people raised two side walls along the north city wall of Zhao'an, and also built a triangular siege city, which is now the north city, because the original south city has been close to the foot of the mountain, this time the north city occupies too small an area, the two cities are combined together, and the deformed city of the south and the north is small, and the north and south city walls have opened a doorway, even if it is an interchange doorway.

Speaking of this, Xiaowen pretended to be mysterious and said: "However, the southern and northern cities are now very fierce, and some of them regard it as a situation of hatred, and the doorway that communicates with each other has also been blocked, and there is a tendency to not get along with each other." This is not nonsense, the excavated artificial river is only in the "compound" of the south city to go through the motions, and the north city is stunned, which is probably the proof. ”

Chen Jing once asked Xiaowen, why is Nancheng so outside, and he doesn't want to see Beicheng at all?

Xiaowen smiled bitterly, "I also heard about it." It seems that the people in the southern city want to be good citizens, and they don't want to mess with our homeless people in the northern city. ”

"Now it's really a rare Qingping world!"

Chen Jing, who retracted his thoughts, continued to hurry home.

As soon as I entered the house, I saw Dong Chuanhai taking a nap in the courtyard, Chen Jing, who was still a teenager according to his age, walked two steps quickly, handed over the wine jug, and reminded: "Grandpa Dong, I helped you buy the wine back." ”

The old man who was woken up complained with a sigh: "But let me wait, you kid can't settle down, and come back after buying wine honestly, it hurts my stomach, and the wine worm is about to make a fuss." ”

After speaking, he unscrewed the wine cork and poured a large sip of wine, and burped with satisfaction.

Dong Chuanhai, who poured a large sip of wine, was careful, every time the teenager only brought back a small amount of wine for himself, and after a sip, he had to slowly sip the wine later.

"What was bought and sold this time? Is there a good price? ”

"Last time I met a leopard in the forest, I fought with it for a while, and finally killed it. In order not to arouse suspicion, I deliberately poked a few holes in the leather with my sword, and sold a few pieces of broken silver, which was not fair, but not so excessive. ”

After Chen Jing finished speaking, he took out two pieces of dough from his arms, one white and one with a little beard, "I saw this in the store in the city, and I thought it was very interesting, this time I had a few spare money in my hand, so I thought about it to see if it was still there, and if I was there, I would buy one or two and come back and play with it." ”

Dong Chuanhai took the dough, looked at both of them, and said with some disgust: "This is the sparse dough that the young chicks of the rivers and lakes fiddle with, some makeup masters are not uncommon to look at, wearing it can only pull a dead face, and the skin will be exposed if you shake it slightly, you buy these two pieces are no different from waste, no matter how little money you spend, you will pay a loss." ”

Chen Jing said with a smile: "You are an old Jianghu, a fledgling like me should fiddle with this kind of rag, or how to bring out your sophistication." ”

Dong Chuanhai couldn't stand his sycophancy, and waved his hand to tell him to get out, don't disturb himself to drink.

Chen Jing approached the window and lifted it, casually threw the two pieces of dough on the bed, and when he grabbed the green steel sword, he glanced at the other bed, stared for a moment, and then lowered the window.