Chapter 230, The Inside Story of the City
"Are you hungry, why don't we go to the cyclamen to eat?" Shu Shu asked, looking down
"Hungry, hungry, we're hungry. The stomachs of the two little guys have never been filled with a bottomless pit, and Shu Shu deeply feels that their simple greed is greater than hunger.
"Then let's go. ”
A few people walked on the streets of Nanyao City, there were indeed a lot of people on the street, but they always felt that something was missing, and after thinking about it, Shu Shu felt that there might still be a lack of market gas.
After the small vendors are gone, the streets do look neat and tidy, but the real life is gone, and the clean streets are full of constraints and rules, which are not approachable at all!
The cyclamen restaurant has the same sign as the cyclamen inn, and I don't know who the owner is behind the scenes.
A few people walked in and found that the business inside was full, and it was almost as good as the food on the same street.
"Wow, there are so many people here, will there be no place!" Po sighed with his mouth wide open.
"Yes, there are several private rooms or lobby, we all have a place. The shopkeeper greeted him, smiling and smiling, and he could see that the service attitude was still good.
"It's in the lobby. Shu Shu also thought that she could hear some gossip in the lobby where there were many people.
The enthusiasm of the shopkeeper has visibly faded a lot: "A few here, please." ”
Shu Shu glanced at the shopkeeper strangely, this attitude became too fast.
Xue Ya leaned into her ear: "Shushu, look at the back." ”
A few more guests came in behind them, and they opened their mouths to ask for a private room, and the shopkeeper who greeted them smiled as enthusiastically as the noon sun, stinging.
Then those few people threw two inferior immortal stones over, and Shu Shu understood that the guests could get more money in the private room. No wonder this attitude!!
After a few people finished ordering, the shopkeeper's face was a little better, probably they ordered more!
The two little guys were playing and clapping their hands next to them, Shu Shu looked around and looked at the situation in the lobby, there were indeed a lot of people, so many that at a glance, it felt like there was no empty seat.
Shu Shu is looking forward to the food in this restaurant, in her opinion, if the taste is really good, how can the business be so good!
The two chubby people next to them kept looking at them, and finally couldn't help but ask, "Where are the merchants, why have you never seen them?" ”
Shu Shu felt strange, where someone came up, he was sure that he was a merchant.
"We're not merchants, we're just passing through here for our travels. ”
The man sighed: "No wonder I have children with me when I go out." ”
Shu Shu asked again: "Why does Your Excellency say that we are merchants?"
"This Nanyao City is a well-known commercial city, and there are merchants from all over the world who come and go. The man who spoke suddenly realized.
"It's no wonder that a few people who seem to be of great strength didn't go upstairs. ”
Shu Shu wanted to ask again, but the food here had already come up, huh...... Let's eat first.
I was looking forward to a big meal, but when the meal came up......
Huohuo and Ah Bao snorted twice, and spit out everything that had been eaten in their mouths back into the bowl. Sect Master Shu and City Lord Xue silently put down the dishes and chopsticks, drank saliva and rinsed their mouths.
"Shushu, the things here are so unpalatable, Ah Bao doesn't want to eat them. ”
"Huohuo wants to eat Sister Lily of the Valley's cakes!"
Someone next to him sneered at what the two children said: "It's good to have food, but it's still suspicious." ”
Shu Shu looked over dissatisfied: "It's your business!"
The man wanted to scold twice, but he felt that the world next to him was extraordinary, and he couldn't be provoked.
"Xue Ya, check out and leave. ”
"Good. ”
The only thing that can be swallowed on this table is the glass of water, after all, pure water that has not let go of anything!
Xiao Er came over to see that the things on the table didn't move or say anything, after all, it's not the first time, but these people haven't made a fuss yet.
"A few, a total of ten medium immortal stones. ”
Ten medium fairy stones!!This price is many times more expensive than the same street food house, and what kind of flavor is the food house, what kind of flavor is this.
Shu Shu is simply ...... happily entered the store, and then ate a stomach full of grievances.
"Shushu, Po is hungry!!"
"Huohuo is so hungry and wants to eat cakes. ”
Sect Master Shu was also anxious to eat some good stomach washing, and the group rushed back to the inn to close the door. Or Xue Ya went to the city of Lingfu and asked the fairy of the lily of the valley to make a table of delicious food!
"This is the food, this is the food! What the hell is that thing just now, and their taste is still so good business, these people's tongues are all broken, or whatever. ”
Shu Shu complained while eating, and was angry about eating such a pit meal.
"Shushu, they shouldn't be serious about going to eat. Xue Ya said.
"You didn't notice that most of them hadn't touched much of the food on their tables?"
Shu Shu was stunned, but she was overstimulated by the meal and didn't pay attention at all.
"So what are they for? ”
"To cling to the owner at the back of the shop. ”
Although Xue Ya doesn't understand business, he understands people's hearts. These people looked up frequently as they ate, as if there was something great upstairs asking them to wait to see them.
"Tianya just told me that there is a table of people upstairs, and other people call him the city lord!"
As a god-level master, Tianya completely ignored the shielding technique upstairs, and walked around the upstairs as if no one was around, and naturally heard many things that Xue Ya and Shu Shu had never heard.
"City Lord?Nanyao City Lord!!"
"You mean these people are here to wait to see the city lord of Nanyao City? ”
Shu Shu knows the absolute status of the city lord of a city in this city, let alone Nanyao City, or the waste wood city lord Fei Hong of such a small city as Mofei City, there are many people who are attached to it.
"But even the city lord can't afford such an unpalatable meal, and he has pulled so much business for this restaurant for free, thinking about it, there is only one possibility. ”
Shu Shu slapped the table: "Unless that restaurant is his tool for collecting money!"
Xue Ya nodded: "That's right." ”
"That's right, the person who talked to me just now said that nine times out of ten of them are merchants from all over the world, and most of the people sitting in the shop are merchants, who want to cling to the city lord for business convenience. ”
"But Shu Shu, other cities don't rely on the city lord to do business, why does this city seem to have to talk to the city lord!"
"And I heard the boy last night say that it was the lord of the city who would not let them sell! Is it fair to say that the lord of the city has monopolized all the business in the city, and cut off all the other merchants? ”
"Perhaps. Shu Shu is not sure, but there is definitely a tendency in this regard.
"Since the kid is coming tonight, it is better to wait for him to come. It's always inconclusive to guess here, so let's see what the people in the city have to say. ”
But they all knew that the only way to hear the truth was from the mouths of the desperate boy who had been like a kid last night.
Time passed quickly, the sky was dark, Xue Ya waited at the place where the child was sent away yesterday, and it didn't take long to see the child appear, but he didn't come alone tonight.
He was accompanied by an adult man, who was very dependent on the man, and looked like he should be the father of the child.
Sure enough, when the two of them came up to him, the child said, "Benefactor, this is my father." ”
He looked at Xue Ya tremblingly, for fear that Xue Ya would be unhappy because he brought his father.
"Let's go. Xue Ya grabbed the two and instantly led them to the room.
In the room, Shu Shu sat at the table, Tianya stood at the door, and the two little guys were rolling on the bed with a smile.
"Huh, two people!"
"The child and his father. ”
The father and son were a little cramped in the face of these people, and Ji Qing grabbed the corner of his father's clothes and whispered.
"Father, it's the elixir that the fairy gave me. ”
Ji Heng was shocked, and knelt down with Ji Qing.
"Thank you for the medicine you gave me to save my daughter. A loud kowtow slammed Shu Shu.
"Thank you for saving my sister. ”
Shu Shu waved her hand, and a burst of strength lifted the father and son up.
"What are you doing, I can't afford such a big gift!"
"The benefactor saved the little girl, and he is the benefactor of our whole family!" said that the boy did not flick when he had tears, but he did not reach the sad place. Ji Heng, a big man, actually shed tears in front of everyone, and Shu Shu was very sad to see.
They must have thought of a lot of things for the little girl's illness, she thought.
"Okay, sit down and talk, the little girl is well when she is sick. I asked the child to come over today because I had something to ask him, but since he brought you here, I will simply ask you. ”
Ji Heng wiped away his tears and said busily: "If the benefactor has anything, I will definitely know everything." ”
Xue Ya sat next to Shu Shu and poured a cup of tea for the two of them: "Actually, what we want to know is not a big deal, we don't hide it, we want to come to Nanyao City to do business, but after all, we don't understand the situation and want to find someone to find out." ”
Ji Heng's face was embarrassed when he heard the three words of doing business: "The two benefactors listened to my advice, if you want to do business, don't come to Nanyao City, this place is too dark." ”
The two glanced at each other, and Shu Shu wondered, "Why do you say this." ”
"You two must have walked through the city, have you seen any stalls on the streets?"
They just didn't see it, that's why they wondered.
"In fact, in the past, there was no shortage of small vendors who did business as city lords, but after this city lord took office, he vigorously implemented the new city rules, and we, the small city citizens who set up stalls for a living, had no way to live. ”
"What are the rules of the city that have pushed you to such a point? ”
Speaking of this Ji Heng, he was sad and tearful: "The new city owner banned all the street vendors on the roadside and requisitioned all the shops on the street. ”
"After that, if you want to do business, you can either rent a street shop at a high rent. Either... It's just like us, not allowed to do business at all. ”
Shu Shu frowned, this city lord was inevitably too domineering: "You haven't resisted?"
"How can I not, but the city lord's mansion is powerful, how can we ordinary small city citizens resist. Those who resisted desperately were all executed on the spot by the city lord. ”
Ji Heng remembered those who were killed at that time, and his heart was dripping blood.
"Execute on the spot!!" Shu Shu didn't expect that there would be such a city lord who didn't cherish the people of the city.
No, it's not that you don't cherish them, it's that you don't take them seriously at all.
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