Although there is still a long distance from the border, but Gukou Town already has a bit of a border town feeling, standing at the entrance of the town can see the road out of the town, this place not only has nothing to do with prosperity, it can even be said that it is still a little desolate, in the evening, the town has very few pedestrians, only the passing inn business is very prosperous.

The little second of the inn wore a small hat and a white rag, and was only in his 20s, when he saw Fang Ling and his party coming in, he hurriedly stepped forward with a smile and asked, "A few guest officers, where are you going?"

Fang Ling stepped down from the car and said in surprise: "Xiao Er, this inn doesn't just ask about playing tips or staying in the hotel, why are you asking where we went?"

The young junior smiled and said, "It seems that Gongzi is your first time in Gukou Town." ”

Fang Ling nodded and asked, "Could it be that this question is still a bit unlearned?"

The young junior pointed to the avenue out of the town and said: "Out of the town, this road is a mountain road, leading straight to the boundary of Shicheng, on this mountain road, there are many bandits, so the merchants along the way will find an inn to live in the town, and when there are more people, they will go on the road together, in case they encounter bandits, they will take care of each other." So you have to ask which county you want to go to, so you can have a partner. ”

Fang Ling then understood, glanced inside, just now he just saw a lot of carriages outside the inn, he thought that the business should be good, now he looked inside, and found that there were really many people eating on the first floor, there were twenty or thirty, and it seemed that they were divided into several batches.

He asked, "Then any of these people went to Stone City?"

As soon as these words fell, a fat merchant who had just gotten off the carriage on the opposite side laughed and said, "Childe, you really like to laugh, Shicheng is a den of bandits, and if you have a life to go in and not come back." ”

Xiao Er also nodded straight and said: "Boss Wang is right, I remember that two months ago, the imperial court also sent officials to bring a few retinues into Shicheng, and I heard that before entering the city, he was beheaded by bandits and hung his head on the gate of Shicheng." ”

Fang Ling asked, "Then these people don't go to Shicheng, they should go to the surrounding three counties." ”

Boss Wang laughed again, and said heartily: "Childe, I think you should put down your things first and book a guest room, if you want to know the situation near this stone city, come down to me, let's talk while eating." ”

Fang Ling didn't think about it for a while, so he walked to the back and helped his mother get out of the car, because Dong Canghai and the others were wearing civilian clothes, so it looked like a family member or something, but it would not make people suspect that it was a palace guard.

And in order to prevent a sensation, Su Shi and Xiao Xue both wore cloaks and veils, and they couldn't see their true faces, let alone that dusty temperament.

When he came from the county government next to him, Fang Ling had already sold some jewelry by the way, exchanged it for a few large boxes of silver taels, and put them on the newly bought carriage, so the carriage of the group became three.

After everything was arranged, Xiao Er sent the meal to the second floor, a few guards guarded outside, and Fang Ling and Dong Canghai came downstairs and found Boss Wang.

When I asked, I found out that this boss Wang's name was Wang Tieshi, a medicinal herb merchant, and because he had been going back and forth between the two places for a long time, he knew very well about the things near Shicheng.