Jingzhou is located in the southeast of the Great Zhou Dynasty, north of Huaizhou, east of Jingshi, although not as rich as Huaiyang and Yangzhou, but its prosperity is far beyond the Qingzhou kind of bird does not boundary.

This point can be felt by Qin Lang from the time he first entered the Jingzhou region.

……

"Hard noodles - gluttony!"

"Rock Candy - Gourd!"

"The big dome fruit, the big chunk of the boat!"

"Big Lobe! It's a big seamato! It's delicious and easy to use——! ”

……

The completion of the transportation official road of the Great Zhou Empire was indeed at a certain level, and Qin Lang, who fell asleep because of morning exercise along the way, was not disturbed by the bumps of the carriage on the road.

What made him slowly open his eyes was the shouting of the big and small outside the carriage.

……

"Count the spiritual hexagram!"

"Ancestral bone-beaten wine!"

"Old and young masters, take a look, this slate is genuine! How many pieces to smash, how many pieces to reward! ”

……

Abundant hawking represents abundant livelihood, at least Qin Lang has never heard of anyone hawking on the street in Jianping County.

It doesn't take a few steps to walk from the east end of the street to the west end of the street, and the pedestrians on the street are basically neighbors.

But Jingzhou is different.

At present, it seems to be a small county seat, but compared to the scale of Jianping County, this small county town is enough to be called a big city.

"Qin... Lang..."

“？”

When Qin Lang woke up, among the girls who were also asleep opposite, Nan Lingyue also rubbed his sleepy eyes and opened his eyes:

"You... How long have you been awake...? ”

"I just woke up."

"Oh..."

The saint muttered a little mouth, as if still dreaming, opened her eyes slightly, and then realized that there seemed to be a crystal clear line of water at the corner of her lips, which was gently holding on to her swelling breasts.

And Yu Ran didn't know what kind of sweet dreams she was having at this time, and eating hands seemed to have become a habit of hers.

"Hmm...~"

The little maid ate her hands, and Nan Lingyue on the side was pillowing her soft heart, and her delicate face like porcelain and jade hung with two touches of drunken red after falling asleep, and the sandalwood mouth was drooling, dripping on the snow-white "pillow", like a jade plate of fairy brewed white dew.

The original casual and coquettish posture of the two demon girls was enough to reveal a bit of natural charm, Qin Lang saw it in his eyes, and his heart couldn't help but ripple slightly.

To be reasonable, life in the world, if one day you wake up from your sleep and can see such a moving scene of two girls by your pillow, how happy it should be...

"Ahem..."

Of course, it's all just a matter of thinking.

Qin Lang cleared his throat, and by the way, he also cleared the little charm in his heart, looked at the sky outside and said strangely:

"The sun is about to go down, why is it still as lively as the morning market outside?"

No matter how prosperous Jingzhou Mansion is, people also want to rest and sleep, right? I haven't heard of the night market selling shouting.

However, Nan Lingyue tilted his head when he heard this:

"Qin Lang, are you confused, do you know how long you have been asleep?"

"How long?"

"It's been a whole day."

"Huh?"

Qin Lang lifted the window to observe again.

The wide road outside the carriage is lined with pedestrians and shops, in addition to the common rice and flour shops, artisan shops, and even small gambling houses, rouge shops and other stores.

Including a three-story attic in the distance, looking at the appearance of hanging red colors, it is definitely not an inn, it should be a stage or a green building or other hooked land.

These things, Qin Lang is not visible in Jianping County, or in most of the counties in Qingzhou.

Looking at the sky outside, it was not evening, but the rising sun.

In other words, Qin Lang is now in Jingzhou, and according to the time calculation, he has indeed slept for a day.

"Is this Jingzhou..."

"Yes, it's time to Jingzhou~"

The little maid also woke up at this time, yawned, and took a deep breath:

"It's been a long time since I've slept in the carriage, and I feel like I'm sleeping pretty soundly~"

Hey... Anyway, how wet is the chest...

Yu Ran blushed at first, glanced at Qin Lang secretly, and then quickly rejected the speculation in his heart in disappointment.

In the past two days, she and Miss have roughly figured out Qin Lang's temperament, it's hard to say whether it's lustful or not, but at least she's upright, and he is by no means a small person, no matter how big, sweet and juicy some things are, they will definitely not be eaten secretly while others are asleep.

Hum...

In this way, it seems that the young lady is sleeping on her stomach again...

Yu Ran had a plan in his heart, looked at the young lady next to him who was pretending to look at the scenery, and decided not to give her a lie in the future.

Since entering the cardamom years, I have discovered that some things in the girl's house will become bigger and bigger.

For example, the small skirt I bought last year is almost unstable this year, and I seriously suspect that the young lady usually uses her chest as a pillow to pillow to pillow, so the pillow is bigger.

Alas, I hope that Miss can grow up quickly, and then she will be able to empathize with the hardships of walking the rivers and lakes all day long...

"Qin Lang Shaoxia~"

The little maid quietly complained in her heart for a while, and then opened the window on the other side:

"How does it feel? This is just a small county in Jingzhou, Puning County, is it much more interesting than Jianping County and Qingzhou? ”

"Indeed."

Qin Lang nodded and admitted that Jingzhou was indeed a grade higher than Qingzhou.

Not only are the streets and alleys more prosperous, but among the pedestrians, there are finally warriors with swords and swords.

In the past, in Jianping County, Qin Lang could rarely see one or two, but now in Puning County, it is two or three in a cluster, three or four in a pile, and you can see it from time to time.

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"Eldest brother, you bought this knife new?"

"Haha, Brother Li has good eyesight!"

"Old Zhou, I haven't seen you for a long time, can you talk about it in the tavern."

"You're big! If you don't pay back today, draw your sword! ”

"I heard that the top brand of the local incense condensation hall tonight intends to meet 'friends' with martial arts, hehe, can your Excellency be interested?"

"No, no, no, women will only affect the marksmanship below, so it's better to go to the capital Kyushu Dart Bureau another day to see the world..."

……

The conversation between passers-by was stumbling and stumbling, and the carriage slowly moved along the spacious main street, and Qin Lang also saw a new and more complete taste of the rivers and lakes along the way.

Of course, now that he is in the Tianhe Sect, he has nominally become the personal guard of the Holy Maiden of the Tianhe Sect, and this trip was originally mainly the inspection of Nanlingyue, and Qin Lang will also subconsciously pay attention to the most important Qinglou industry under the Tianhe Sect.

So after looking around, Qin Lang soon found that the three-story attic he had just seen seemed to have the three big characters of [Ning Xiang Pavilion] written on the plaque.

"Phew—"

The carriage convoy of Qin Lang and his party also slowly stopped when they approached the [Ning Xiang Pavilion].

Before the front foot could stop, the closed door of the attic on the back foot opened, and a graceful woman with a thin sword at her waist greeted her with a retinue of three or two, and gave a salute to the carriage:

"See the Holy Maiden."

"Sister Wen doesn't have to be polite~"

The two sides obviously knew each other, Nan Lingyue got out of the carriage with an uproar, Qin Lang followed, and unsurprisingly attracted a group of Tianhe Sect disciples led by "Sister Wen", Nan Lingyue naturally introduced Qin Lang briefly, and then followed into the interior of the Ning Xiang Pavilion.

The local incense hall did not have the habit of opening the door in the morning, and Qin Lang, who entered Qin Lang for the first time, followed Nan Lingyue and others into his backyard.

"Guys, please rest outside first."

"Okay."

After arriving in the courtyard, Nan Lingyue entered a room alone with that Sister Wen, and according to Xuanran, it was to hand over things related to the revenue of the account book.

Qin Lang understood this, and after waiting outside with the big girl for a long time, the door was pushed, and Nan Lingyue finally walked out with Sister Wen.

"Miss~ Finally finished?"

"Hmm... What are you doing? ”

"Oh, Qin Shaoxia taught me a game called backgammon, it's fun~"

"Is it..."

Nan Lingyue smiled, but Qin Lang saw a faint trace of melancholy between her eyebrows.

Could it be that the local incense hall in Puning County is not very ideal in terms of operation?

"Sister Wen, then we will go first, and then if there is any collective adjustment in the sect, you should pay more attention to Xin'er."

"Yes, congratulations to the Holy Maiden."

……

In the matter of inspecting the sect's industry, Nan Lingyue seemed to be in a hurry to come and go.

In the next few days, the convoy passed through three or four counties one after another, and Nan Lingyue basically went to the local Ningxiang Pavilion, and every time he came out, his mood was neither high nor low, and then he continued to hurry up.

In fact, there were two occasions when the Qinglou was open, Qin Lang made a brief observation and found that the business was actually okay, so he couldn't help but ask why Nan Lingyue always looked worried.

As a result, Nan Lingyue sighed, holding his collapsed little face with both hands, indicating that what he was worried about was not actually the county town he had inspected these days.

"The revenue of these small places is actually nothing, and now the problem of the sect is actually a big place, and I have been worried that when I get to Jingzhou Mansion, the account books in the city will be miserable..."

"The field of the big place..."

"Yes, Qin Lang, you should have heard of it in the rivers and lakes, and now the competition between the Ning Xiang Pavilion and Tingyu Xuan is actually quite fierce, especially in the larger state capitals and other places, the Ning Xiang Pavilion is becoming more and more unable to do the Tingyu Xuan of the imperial court."

“……”

The competition was indeed fierce, after all, the Blood Knife Sect wanted to sell Qin Lang to the Ning Xiang Pavilion at the beginning.

And the so-called incense pavilion can't listen to Yuxuan, Qin Lang will understand it as soon as he hears it, to put it bluntly, the folk prostitutes can't do the official prostitutes.

As for the reason, on the subsequent journey, Qin Lang also consulted with Nan Lingyue, and finally found that in fact, as early as when Jianping County was chatting with the storyteller, the storyteller had already explained the reason behind this.

Everything, or because since the war in Beili stopped, the Great Zhou Empire has been peaceful for a long time.

As soon as the days are peaceful, the style of Chongwen will gradually rise, and the development of culture and entertainment will be.

When it comes to the customs industry, a major change is the improvement of the taste of consumers.

To give a simple example, Tingyuxuan is an industry under the imperial court, and the girls in it are all carefully selected and trained, including many Qingqi people who do not sell their bodies, among which there are many cold fairies who are talked about and can only be watched from afar.

And these women are all serving all kinds of big officials, wealthy businessmen, sons and other figures.

In contrast, although the level of the girls in the Ning Xiang Pavilion is not bad, and they can also dance and sing, but when it comes to composing poems and lyrics, talking loudly, showing off their temperament, smelling elegance, etc., they are much inferior to the women cultivated by Yuxuan.

To put it bluntly, the girl in the Ning Xiang Pavilion is more "vulgar" than the girl who listens to Yuxuan!

This kind of custom was no problem in the past, because the incense hall originally took the route of "small profits but quick turnover".

But now that the war has stopped, the culture and economy of the Great Zhou Dynasty have developed rapidly, and vassal elegance has become a popular thing, and the taste of some ordinary civilians and scholars has also become higher.

For example, many people who read at present, when looking for flowers and asking willows, have to test a few lines of poetry before they are willing to let the other party untie their clothes, otherwise they feel that the money is too vulgar! Too low-level!

So they came and went, especially in the more affluent big cities, and the original customers of the incense hall gradually became, preferring to go to the incense hall a few times, but also to pool money to go to Tingyuxuan to experience the "high-end" taste.

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After learning about this situation, Qin Lang also felt a little unreal.

Originally, fighting and killing was the mainstream of the rivers and lakes in his heart, but he didn't expect that the Tianhe Sect was a huge sect, but the saint of the family would have to worry about her own Qinglou business.

"Qin Lang, this time I went to Jingzhou Mansion, in fact, I wanted to use the set you taught Lao He to tell stories in the business of the Ning Xiang Pavilion, what do you think?"

"There are also storytellers in the Ningxiang Pavilion?"

"Well, yes, although the income from storytelling doesn't account for the majority, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is also meat, and it can also attract popularity, I think if it is done well, it should also be good for the overall revenue of the incense hall."

"Yes, it's good, but..."

But for the business of Qinglou, it is far from enough to rely on storytelling to attract traffic, especially after a long time, no matter how wonderful the book is, once it spreads, no one will go to the Qinglou specifically to listen to the book.

Therefore, if he wants to support the development of the Ning Xiang Pavilion, Qin Lang has another idea in his heart...

It's just that before realizing this idea of being a little unprofessional, Qin Lang, who finally arrived in Jingzhou Mansion, had to take care of his "business" as a "young man" first and take care of one more thing.