After everyone had lunch, Ao Yu and Lu Mo took Lu Tiancheng out to find a place to trade houses, while Han Duan, Shuang'er, and En Ning came to a small pill room in the corner of the courtyard, first classifying the elixirs brought out of the valley, and then refining a few furnaces of elixirs.

Qin Wen returned to his room and crossed his knees to breathe, although he now had the treasures of Qiankun Bead and Bai Xuan in his hands, he didn't dare to take it lightly in a place like the City of Expulsion, with Qin Wen's understanding of the cultivation realm in his previous life, if there was no such thing as devouring divine blood.

Even if he encounters an enemy like Shangguan Zhu, he can find a secluded place suitable for his own cultivation, and wait until the realm is raised to the time when he can compete with Shangguan Zhu, but the mistakes of the world have brought him here, and it is completely impossible to cultivate quietly in the City of Expulsion.

After all, there is a shortage of spiritual objects to practice here, and there is no unified standard, if you have been staying in the inn, it will definitely attract the attention of some people, although most of them are low-level monks here, but it is difficult to guarantee that there will be people who will take risks, and when the time comes, they will find their own trouble for spiritual objects.

Therefore, Qin Wen took precautions, and planned to use a period of time to lay the foundation in the expulsion city first, and when he had the power of self-preservation in the city, it would not be too late to practice steadily, as for when he could go out, Qin Wen did not have a certain number in his heart, and no one could guess when he would follow his demon cultivation.

Early the next morning, after Qin Wen got up and washed, he ate some breakfast casually, and then walked out of the inn and walked towards the camp of the patrol monks, since Ao Yu and Lu Mo did not find a place to trade houses yesterday, so they also followed Qin Wen out of the inn today, preparing to go out to look for it again.

After Qin Wen came to the camp, he saw Lu Teamzheng. Team Lu Zheng arranged him to practice next to a burly monk first, and after the burly monk saw that Qin Wen was only a beginner of Xuanshi, he reluctantly took Qin Wen out, and said lightly: "Xiao Qin, my name is Xiao Zheng, you follow me during this time." Don't talk nonsense when you're out there, you have to report anything to me, you know?"

Qin Wen saw Xiao Zheng's style of reprimanding the newcomer, and knew that this should also be the practice of patrolling monks, so he nodded and agreed: "Brother Xiao, don't worry, I will definitely do what you ask, shall we go out today?"

Xiao Zheng nodded and said, "Let's be on duty at the city gate of Dongjie today, you can follow me, there are still three taxes at Dongjiekou that have not been paid." Let's get the tax money back, and this month's task will be completed. ”

Qin Wen was stunned for a moment, and said with some curiosity: "This store still has to pay us taxes?"

Xiao Zheng pursed his lips slightly, still with a cold tone: "If the store doesn't pay taxes, where will our monthly rules come from?" You should pay more attention to observation when collecting taxes, and maybe you will also lead newcomers to collect taxes in the future, and it will be good for you to learn more." With that, he strode forward.

Qin Wen didn't know either, he seemed to be resistant to himself. However, on his first day on duty, everything was still based on forbearance. followed Xiao Zheng quickly, and then the two of them did not speak, and came to the street at the very edge of Dongjiekou in silence.

Since the taxes were all set at the beginning, after these three stores received the notice some time ago, two of them had already prepared the taxes, and the other one was after Xiao Zheng and Qin Wen waited for half a pillar of incense. The boss also sent the tax money over.

Then the two of them walked around the streets at the entrance of Dongjiekou, and occasionally met patrol monks in gray shirts like them, and these monks also greeted Xiao Zheng warmly, and then they all walked away.

The two turned to noon, and Xiao Zheng only asked Qin Wen's master about it. Where did they come from, the other two basically spent their time in silence, Qin Wen still can't figure out Xiao Zheng's temperament, in case that sentence is not appropriate, it is better to be silent like this.

At this time, the two walked to the corner of the street, Xiao Zheng pointed to a teahouse next to him and said: "We have to be on duty for a day, I usually make do with lunch here, if you don't have a place to go, just come here with me to eat a little." ”

Qin Wen knew that this was an opportunity to get closer to Xiao Zheng, so he pointed to a restaurant with a black plaque on the opposite side and said: "Brother Xiao, you took me on duty all morning today, let's go up there to drink some wine and rest, I will be the host today, even if I thank Brother Xiao." ”

Xiao Zheng was stunned for a moment, but thinking that Qin Wen had only entered the city of expulsion, he regarded Qin Wen as a young man who didn't know the severity, waved his hand and refused: "Let's go to the teahouse, we don't have many monthly cases in the patrol camp, and you will have to buy spiritual objects to practice in the future, and you will know the importance of spiritual stones after a while." ”

Qin Wen casually walked to the restaurant with Xiao Zheng and said: "I must invite this wine, and I will rely on Brother Xiao more in the patrol camp in the future, so I will ask Brother Xiao to give face." ”

Xiao Zheng saw that Qin Wen had to be invited, so he had to follow Qin Wen into the restaurant, and after the two of them found a private room on the second floor and sat down, Qin Wen asked Xiao Er to have a table of haode banquet, and then the two pushed the cup in front of the window to change it, and drank until they were half-hearted, Qin Wen asked: "Brother Xiao, you are not a monk here, right?"

Xiao Zheng nodded and said: "In this East City, ninety percent of them are from outside, in fact, I am from the Purple Cloud Mountain Range like you, but you are a disciple of Hanfeng Valley, and I am a disciple of the Red Refining Sect, this wine is good, since I came to this ghost place, I have lived a tight life every month, and it is rare to drink such haode wine." ”

Qin Wen thought for a moment at this time and said, "Brother Xiao, I just arrived in the city of expulsion, I don't know the rules of our patrol camp, will I collect taxes every day on duty in the future like today?"

Xiao Zheng shook his head and said: "There are no special rules for patrolling the battalion, just like you follow me today, and then we are on duty every three days, and then we can rest for two days. ”

"In normal times, the duty every three days will be assigned to different places, and sometimes to other urban areas, but there are more cases of duty in the street under my jurisdiction, and the captain will also take care of it when he is assigned. ”

Qin Wen saw that Xiao Zheng kept pouring wine into his mouth, so he waved his hand and asked Xiao Er to bring another altar, and then continued to inquire: "Brother Xiao, Team Lu didn't say anything just now, I want to ask how much is our monthly allowance every month?"

Hearing Qin Wen ask this question, Xiao Zheng put down the wine bowl in his hand, and said to Qin Wen with his finger: "It is said that the monthly example of a month is two high-grade spirit stones, which is also a good income in the city of expulsion, but the monthly tax must be paid on time, if you don't pay it, you have to put it on yourself, if you run into the shop owner, and then you can't find the top account temporarily, then you can only consider yourself unlucky." ”

As he spoke, he continued to pull off a finger and said: "Like me now, I have to save as much money as possible every month to buy the elixir to prepare for the bottleneck, the elixir and elixir in the city are ridiculously expensive, and the magic weapon will have to be replaced in a few years, and it would be good to have three or five medium-grade spirit stones left for food a month, this is still living in the camp, if you rent it with others outside, even if you don't buy the magic weapon and the elixir, you can only barely sustain it." ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Zheng's face showed a slightly painful look, Qin Wen understood that he must have something on his mind, but now that he had just met Xiao Zheng, it was difficult to inquire, so he hesitated for a moment, then took out a bottle of Xuan-grade high-grade elixir from Han Duan from his storage bag yesterday, put it in front of Xiao Zheng and said, "Brother Xiao, let's meet for the first time, I don't have anything suitable to give, you can take this bottle of elixir first." ”

Xiao Zheng picked up the jade bottle a little drunk, and after lifting the cap, his eyes suddenly sobered up, his face was a little complicated and looked at the pill in the bottle, hesitated slightly, and handed it back to Qin Wen and said: "This bottle of Xuan-level high-grade pill is too valuable, you better keep it for yourself, you just arrived in the city of expulsion, the spirit stone and the pill should be saved, and it is not as good as in the Ziyun Mountain Range." ”

Qin Wen casually pushed the pill back and said: "Brother Xiao, I came with a friend, my friend is a Dan Master, the pills he refined are all cost prices for me, and he may have to grow some elixirs here in the future, there should be no problems with the pills, you can accept it." ”

Xiao Zheng took the pill into his arms with some hesitation, and he couldn't help but look at Qin Wen in front of him again, although the status of Hanfeng Valley was higher than that of the Red Refining Sect in the Purple Cloud Mountain Range, but a monk in the Xuanshi stage like Qin Wen was not conspicuous inside, and he suddenly ran to the City of Expulsion, which was obviously offending someone who should not be offended, but he made such a generous move, even if it was relatively rare outside.

Xiao Zheng kindly reminded: "Although there is private land outside, it is not too easy to plant elixir in the Expulsion City, if there is not enough security, even if those families do not come to find fault, those idle monks in the mountains and forests outside will come down from time to time to harass them." ”

At this time, Qin Wen thought of the ragged monks he met when he passed through the mountains and forests, some of them were monks in the Xuanshi period, if he planted the elixir outside at that time, in case those people joined forces to go down the mountain to snatch the elixir, it would indeed be a problem.

However, Qin Wen thought of the crops grown in the private fields outside now, so he asked, "Brother Xiao, aren't all the private fields of those families outside now planted with crops?

Xiao Zheng took a sip of wine and said, "Do you see that they grow elixirs? When those crops are ripe, each family will naturally send people to guard them day and night, but even so, every time the solar term is ripe, there are many monks who take risks to rob it. (To be continued......)