The sky gradually brightened, a wisp of green smoke dissipated from the brazier, and Jiang Xingchen, who was leaning on the corner of the bed, moved his eyelids and slowly opened.

Before he was fully conscious, he heard a squeak, and subconsciously turned his head to see the door being pushed open, and Mei'er walked in through the door, holding a clay pot in both hands.

"Brother, you're awake, I've got some water, come down and wash!" Mei'er saw Jiang Xingchen's eyes open, smiled, put the clay pot on the table, and closed the door as she spoke.

"Huh?" Jiang Xingchen woke up instantly, and was surprised in his heart: "The little girl slept on my lap last night, and I didn't even notice when she got up, how could she sleep so deeply?"

He had been sleeping very lightly, and since he had just crossed, it was even more impossible to sleep to death in the new environment. But at this time, when he pondered, he found that he didn't even have a dream last night, as if he closed his eyes, and when he opened his eyes again, the sky was bright.

"Could it be because of that way of breathing!" "When he was fully awake, his mind was surprisingly clear, and all the details of yesterday's crossing were vivid, as if it had just happened.

"Brother, are you having a headache again, didn't you say okay last night!" Mei'er saw Jiang Xingchen sitting on the bed and was distracted, so she hurriedly came to the bed and asked.

"Oh, I'm fine, don't worry!" Jiang Xingchen hurriedly put down his thoughts, smiled at Mei'er, lifted the quilt, raised his hand and patted her little head.

"Are you really okay?" the little girl looked serious, and her two slender eyebrows furrowed, forming a small pimple in the center of her eyebrows.

"You're still hoping I'm going to have something...... Woo" Jiang Xingchen didn't finish speaking, Mei'er suddenly leaned forward, and two small hands ran around his neck and inserted them into his arms.

The little girl had just come back from fetching water, and the temperature on her hands could be imagined, as if ice cubes were sticking to her skin, Jiang Xingchen's body shook suddenly, the smile on her face was completely out of shape, and a miserable howl rushed out.

"Whoosh" Mei'er jumped out, looked at Jiang Xingchen, whose face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and said quickly: "Brother, don't be angry! You were sick two days ago, and you didn't respond to any stimuli, I just wanted to make sure, and now I know that you are really fine!"

Jiang Xingchen kept a straight face, stared at the little girl's pitiful expression for a moment, and then said: "I believe you this time, but next time, be careful of your ass!"

"Oh! got it!" Mei'er's little face was slightly red, she responded weakly, her little hand covered her back, and then she lowered her head and stuck out her tongue, and the corners of her mouth hooked up with a smile: "Brother really won't change back!"

Jiang Xingchen got down to the table and walked to the table to wash his face, the cold water irritated his skin, making him shiver, and he raised his head after two casual strokes.

As soon as she washed her face, Mei'er brought him a clay bowl filled with water: "Brother, rinse your mouth!"

Jiang Xingchen frowned, took a sip of cold water, and vigorously encouraged his cheek muscles: "Living in a leaky house, eating flour cakes like coal ash slag, a patched sheet is covered by two people, the little girl is dressed in tatters, her shoes are leaking toes, she can only use cold water to rinse her mouth, and she has no ...... toothbrush and toothpaste."

There was a loud noise, Jiang Xingchen turned his head, and saw Mei'er washing her face in front of the clay pot with her head down.

"Poof!" The water in his mouth squirted out, and Jiang Xingchen frowned and said, "I used that water!"

"What are you afraid of, it's not dirty!There's a well nearby, and a lot of people are lining up, and it's very slow to fetch water!" Mei'er said, wiping her little face.

The little girl washed off the stains on her face, and her face was very delicate, but her skin was slightly yellow, obviously malnourished.

"It's hard to even use water...... This kind of day of not having enough food and clothing must end as soon as possible, the little girl is only thirteen years old, and she will definitely fall ill after a long time!" Jiang Xingchen's face darkened, and the little girl washed her face with the water he had used, deepening the touch in his heart.

"Brother, let's go!" Mei'er rinsed her mouth with Jiang Xingchen's remaining half bowl of water, cleaned up the house again, and then beckoned him to leave.

"Have you packed everything up?" Jiang Xingchen asked.

"It's all here!" Mei'er took out a cloth bag and shook it, and there was a clanging sound of copper coins colliding inside. Then he patted a clay kettle on his back.

Jiang Xingchen nodded and said, "Let's go out and buy something to eat first, we ate half a ...... last night."

"No!" Before Jiang Xingchen finished speaking, Mei'er shook her head again and again: "Find a house first, let's just twenty copper coins, and if we spend it, we won't be able to find a place to live......"

After a pause, Mei'er pursed her lips and said, "Brother, bear with me first, when we find a place to live, I will go to work in Chunxiang Building to earn money to buy food!"

Jiang Xingchen opened his mouth, and was about to speak, but Mei'er blocked him back again: "Brother said last night, everything is up to me!"

"Okay!" Jiang Xingchen twitched the corners of his mouth, and responded a little helplessly.

"Then let's go!" Mei'er secretly waved her fist in her heart, and a triumphant smile appeared on her little face.

Jiang Xingchen walked to the door, took a deep breath, opened the door and stepped out, and really walked into this shijie......

On the narrow hard dirt road, Jiang Xingchen followed Mei'er forward, his eyes looking left and right. Whether it is an old house with mud bricks and tiles, or a long-sleeved shirt worn by people on the street, it makes him feel like he has changed time and space, as if he has walked into a film and television city.

The buildings are all bungalows, some high and some low, obviously not planned, and they seem very disordered. Garbage and sewage can also be found on the walls on both sides of the hard dirt road......

The windows were all covered with wood chips, and to Jiang Xingchen's surprise, he didn't see a room using pasted window paper......

Most of the pedestrians on the street are dressed in cheap linen clothes, and occasionally they wear clean cotton clothes, and they walk with their chins slightly raised...

After walking for a long time, Jiang Xingchen had already met three people who were selling things, but without exception, they were all black flour cakes, which made him sigh: "Is the food of this shijie so monotonous and poor, and there are no ...... for selling vegetables, meat, melons and fruits."

While Jiang Xingchen looked at this shijie, passers-by also cast surprised glances at him. In the civilian gathering area, people live at the bottom of society, and almost no one can afford to wear expensive silk.

The little girl was unusually quiet, and she barely spoke except for asking someone to ask if there was a room to rent every time she passed by. Compared with when he was alone with Jiang Xingchen, it seemed to be a different person. However, every time she saw someone selling black flour cakes, she would pull Jiang Xingchen to hide......

The morning passed quickly, but they found nothing, and the cheapest house cost ten copper coins a day. Mei'er's expression was a little depressed, she knew that a house like Uncle Huang could not be found at all, and the price of two copper coins a day was the same as that of living in vain.

After drinking a sip of water from the pot, the narrow dirt path they walked on came to an end. Looking up and looking forward, Jiang Xingchen only felt that it suddenly opened up, in front of him was a road paved with bluestone strips, more than 20 meters wide, the houses on both sides were also much taller, the outer walls were made of large blue bricks, and at a glance it felt neat and clean, and it was no longer a wooden board that blocked the windows, but a row of haode bamboo pieces, which were neat and ventilated.

Most of the doors on both sides of the road were open, and many flags were hung at the door, and Jiang Xingchen immediately recognized the handwriting on them, which were all kinds of shop signs, clothing stores, shoe stores, weapon shops, pharmacies, restaurants, and inns......

There were also a lot more pedestrians on the streets, and there were many well-dressed people in and out of the shops. On the street, there are a few stalls selling goods, and there are many onlookers.

"This is a bazaar!" Seeing this scene, Jiang Xingchen knew that he had thought wrong before, this society was not as backward as his first impression! The food was single and poor, the environment was dirty and dilapidated, it was just a civilian area, and other places were very prosperous, just looking at the several restaurants connected to the street and the endless stream of pedestrians entering, if the food was single, how could there be so many people to eat.

A familiar aroma of green onion boiling pot came, Jiang Xingchen's stomach gurgled, he couldn't help but sniffle, and without saying a word, he turned his head and walked towards this street.

"Brother, why are you going, it's not a market in a civilian area......" Mei'er hurriedly grabbed him.

"Little girl, don't look for it!Uncle Huang's is a warehouse where charcoal is stored, so you can rent it for two copper coins a day!" Jiang Xingchen sighed lightly, showing a bitter face, and begged: "Let's eat first, I'm already too hungry to walk!"

He had eaten half of the black bread yesterday evening, and his energy was still absorbed by the mist in his head, and after a morning of walking, he now felt as uncomfortable as being burned by fire.

"Goo~" Mei'er's stomach also let out a chirp, and her little face was slightly red, but she still said unwillingly: "We only have twenty copper coins, if we spend it, then ...... What about where to live?"

"Oops!" Jiang Xingchen pretended to be annoyed and covered his forehead: "If you don't eat, you'll starve to death, what else do you need to live!"

"You don't have to go over there for dinner, the things there are very expensive!Let's go, let's go buy black bread!" Mei'er dragged Jiang Xingchen and was about to go back.

"Who told you to eat black flour cakes, let's eat white flour cakes today!" Jiang Xingchen said, stretching out his hand to a small stall on the street not far away, on which a stack of snow-white flour cakes was placed.

"Huh?" Mei'er was stunned for a moment, glared and said, "No, it will cost two copper coins each, we only have twenty copper coins now, we must save ...... money"

"Take ten copper coins!" Jiang Xingchen suddenly interrupted Mei'er and said with a cold face.

Mei'er was stunned for a moment, her eyes were full of surprise, and then her face changed suddenly, her lips pursed into a straight line, and her eyes stared at Jiang Xingchen, which was filled with mist: "He promised me yesterday that he would not change back again!

Jiang Xingchen's expression slowly softened, his palm was placed on the top of Mei'er's head, and he said in a soft voice: "Regarding the house, my brother will find a way to ensure that there is a place to live at night...... But for now, you have to eat first!"

Hearing Jiang Xingchen's soft words, Mei'er's nervous mood slowly relaxed, but the grievances on her little face did not diminish at all, she turned her head to avoid Jiang Xingchen's palm, and said, "Do you have to spend more money if you are full, isn't it the same as black flour cakes?"

"You're just thirteen years old, and it's not good for your health to always eat food like slag!" Jiang Xingchen put his hand on the top of Mei'er's head again and rubbed it vigorously.

Mei'er was stunned again, looking straight at Jiang Xingchen, the mist in her eyes was even thicker, but this time it was obviously not a grievance.

"Look, little girl, I don't believe I'll find a house...... Tell you, in the future, we will buy a large courtyard of 1,000 square meters around the Imperial Academy or in the aristocratic area, eat rice every day, and buy ten catties of meat to eat every day. Go out and take the most beautiful carriage to see the performance of the most famous song and dance troupe in Hongyuan City...... My brother will also buy you beautiful clothes, the most haode silk in the summer, and the softest animal skins in the winter...... In the future, I will never let Mei'er wear shoes with loopholes, and I will redeem Mei'er's jade pendant......"

"Woo~" Jiang Xingchen didn't finish speaking, the little girl's tears were no longer controllable, and she hugged his waist and cried.

"Hey, why are you crying!" Jiang Xingchen was a little stunned, and he didn't know where to put his two hands......

"Gollum~" For a long time, Jiang Xingchen's stomach let out another thunderous roar, and Mei'er pushed him away, wiped her tears, took out the cloth bag she was carrying, poured out ten copper coins and handed it over: "Here, go buy white flour cakes!"

When Jiang Xingchen took it, Mei'er asked, "Weishenme murdered me with a cold face just now?"

"If I don't, will you give me money?"

"I'll let you lie to me!" When Mei'er pounced on her teeth and claws, Jiang Xingchen had already turned around and ran away.

Looking at Jiang Xingchen's back, Mei'er smiled, and then wondered: "What my brother just said, how can it be the same as my dream yesterday......"

Soon, Jiang Xingchen came back with five white flour cakes, and the two of them squatted on the side of the street, holding white flour cakes and eating them with their mouths open.

Mei'er's little mouth bulged like a bun and chewed hard.

Jiang Xingchen squinted at Mei'er while eating: "Is it so fragrant, and the taste is not good, isn't there a steamed bun, steamed buns, pies, ...... here?"

After a while, Jiang Xingchen had two cakes, and what he had been looking forward to appeared.

A hot current from his stomach rushed to the top of his head, and his breathing pattern began to work automatically, followed by a change in the thick fog, and a complex circular pattern emerged and melted into his mind.

At this moment, three words came to his mind: Taichu Formation

And with the appearance of these three words, he seemed to see that his mind suddenly turned into the night sky, and the sky was lit up with stars.