Although it is only five watches, the summer sun rises early, and the sky is already bright. Li Er was stunned when he heard the sound of the man's boy in the city, and slowly shook out of the ear room on the city wall with a spear and yawn, and glanced down, many surrounding vegetable farmers and firewood sellers were already waiting outside the city gate. So they kicked Wang Qiang, who was still asleep in the house, and walked down the city wall together, and opened the city gate.

After opening the door, Li Erstunned stood at the door, glanced at the people who were honestly waiting to enter the city, nodded with satisfaction, and said loudly: "Everyone knows the rules, those who don't need to pay go to the left, and those who should pay come from the right, don't want to mix up, they are all old acquaintances of the villagers, and I caught everyone's face and didn't look good." ”

The Daxuan court took care of the people at the bottom, and there were not too many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, ordinary pedestrians did not need to pay the city gate fee when entering the city, only those who came to do small business every day had to pay five to fifteen yuan of entry tax, and then got a "Xu Shi" note from the city gate official, and on this day he no longer needed to pay taxes for all his business in the city. Of course, the tax department is in charge of the entry of large quantities of goods into the city, and there is nothing to do with the city gate captain.

In the past, there were some prefecture lords and county officials who increased taxes privately, but they were punished by the wrath of Emperor Daxuan and the nine clans, and gradually no one dared to do this. Anyway, this is the only one who can become an official, either his own strength is superb or his family is powerful, and there will be no shortage of businessmen to take refuge, and it is not worth it to give the life of the whole family for this money.

Daxuan started with businessmen to overthrow the Zhou Dynasty, and it was precisely by encouraging commerce to obtain a lot of taxes so that there was no need to squeeze the low-level commoners, and the imperial court itself had its own government-run commercial village, and the business not only did all over Daxuan, but even Beiyao and Dongyi had the figure of Daxuan Emperor Shang.

After half an hour, the population gathered at the gate was considered to have entered the city, Li Er looked around for a while, nodded with satisfaction, and wanted to enter the city gate to hide from the sun. It took a lot of effort to queue up to collect money just now, and my head was sweating.

As soon as Li Er turned around, he saw a little beggar shrunk under the city wall by the city gate, bowing his head and hugging his knees, not knowing whether he was alive or dead. He frowned, walked over and kicked lightly: "Hey, what about you, are you alive?" ”

The little beggar was awakened suddenly, and suddenly raised his head and glared at Li Er, although his face was dark, but his eyes in the messy hair were big and bright, revealing a wolfish ruthlessness, which frightened Li Er.

"Hey, you're quite energetic, don't nest here if you're alive, hurry up and go into the city to order food, how can you get money for food when you squat here?" Li Er didn't care about him, he was also born in poverty, he didn't want to see those strong adult beggars, this kind of teenage beggar was lonely, he had some sympathy, so he always took care of it.

The little beggar saw that he had no malicious intent, so he stood up, nodded to Li Er, and turned around and walked towards the city gate.

"Well, you'll wait. Li Er stopped him again, "I see that you are from the surrounding villages and counties, right?" There are several beggars in this city, and the group in Dongcheng is the most vicious, often catching a kid of your age and breaking his hands and feet to beg, you better not go over." The ones in Beicheng and Xicheng are not bad, as long as you are obedient, you can have something to eat. Xicheng is the residence of officials and big merchants, you must be careful not to cross the line, otherwise you will be killed by the patrol and no one will redress your grievances. After speaking, he took out two big coins from his arms and handed them to the beggar, "You haven't eaten this night and are hungry, you can use these two big money to buy steamed buns to eat." ”

The little beggar didn't seem to expect to meet such a reasonable soldier, and looked at Li Er deeply before taking the big money, bowing to Li Er in a dignified manner, saying "thank you", and then went into the city.

Wang Qiang next to him saw this scene, walked over and said to Li Er, "You are really kind, not only show him the way, but also reward him with a lot of money, hey, this thin and small look, I don't know how long I can live in this city." ”

"Alas, I also had such a period back then, fortunately appreciated by adults, so that I had something to eat, and now I see such a person, I can help it. You see that he saluted me, obviously he also looked like he had read a book, and it is estimated that his family had suffered a misfortune to get here. Li Er was stunned as he walked inside, shaking his head and sighing.

Wang Qiang didn't speak on the side, anyway, he didn't understand Li Er's pedantic kindness.

Zhang Qing walked along the road to the city, looking at the scenery and people around him, while thinking about the city gate soldier just now. He didn't expect a lowly-ranking soldier to have such kindness, which made a trace of warmth appear in his heart.

Speaking of which, Zhang Qing has really suffered this way, and the urban children completely underestimate the difficulty of living in the jungle. In summer, the jungle is not only hot and humid, but also has countless snakes, insects, rats and ants, as well as large carnivores. Zhang Qing once met a big bear with a foot long, at that time he thought he was dead, fortunately the bear had just eaten, ignored his little bean ding, let him escape with his life.

Even so, on the third day, Zhang Qingcun's fish was either eaten or rotted because of too much humidity and heat, but fortunately he caught a snake and persevered for another day. Then he starved for two days, and when he was almost unable to support it, luck favored him again, and an old hunter who went into the mountains to hunt found him, gave him some food and drink, and pointed him to the road to Huinan. The most important thing is that Zhang Qing got table salt, which allowed him to regain his strength.

In order to thank the old hunter, Zhang Qing secretly put a piece of loose silver in the other party's bag before saying goodbye and continuing on the road.

In addition, although there was a hunter's trail, Zhang Qing still lost his way halfway, but fortunately he knew that Huinan City was in the northeast direction, and he grasped the direction by looking at the sun, and walked back to the right path.

After a full ten days of trekking through mountains and rivers, I finally got out of the mountains and forests, and it took another five days to pass through several villages and small towns before I arrived at Huinan Mansion in the early hours of this morning.

To be honest, in addition to being lucky, "Knife Record" also contributed a lot to the perseverance along the way. In the past few days, he has replaced sleep with meditation and cultivation, so that his internal qi has continued to grow and increase a lot of strength. And there are punches and kicks in "Forging Body", which also makes him more able to control his hands and feet, and the snake was caught the moment he wanted to bite him.

What is recorded in the Heavenly Sword Forging Chapter is some basic punches, kicks and sword techniques, but they are different from ordinary external moves, not only can they be used against the enemy, but also can be used to forge the practitioner's body by cooperating with the Heavenly Sword's internal qi, increasing the strength of the body, making it easier for the practitioner to break through the innate in the future.

It is precisely because of the body forging method that the famous sects with advanced exercises will not worry that their children will not be able to break through the innate nature. When people like Zhang Ling are trying to make a breakthrough but can't get through, people are like they are playing.

Zhang Qing found that the fatigue during this period of time is also a kind of practice, in just half a month, his progress in building the foundation has reached two-thirds, he thought that at least two months of foundation building time, now it seems that if he can maintain the current progress, it will take more than half a month to build the foundation and successfully carry out the next step of cultivation.

Although Li Erxuan reminded him not to go to Xicheng just now, the Zhang family's mansion was located there, and no matter what, he still had to go and see the situation. And by observing the degree of surveillance around Zhang's house, he could also know that this matter was not over for the Tinghe Gang.

Zhang Qing dug into the memories in his mind and walked slowly towards Xicheng, while constantly observing the doors of the surrounding shops, and there was an indescribable weirdness in his heart.

He didn't feel that he was trying to survive in the wilderness before, but now looking at these architectural styles and ways of dressing that look like ancient China, as well as the names of the shops written in Chinese characters on the doors, he feels more and more that this world is not so simple, and it definitely has some connection with the earth!

Since Zhang Shanyi has not been out a few times, his memory is very vague, Zhang Qing turned around several times, and bought two steamed buns in the middle to satisfy his hunger, and finally found Zhang's house in Xicheng at noon.

To be honest, Zhang Qing didn't expect that Huinan Mansion alone would be more than ten miles in size. You must know that the city of Beijing at the end of the Qing Dynasty was only so big! Huinan is still the most dilapidated city in Yunzhou, it is said that Tingyin Mansion is five or six times larger, and Yunzhong Mansion, the capital of Yunzhou Prefecture, is even larger than Tingyin. Not to mention other famous cities and capitals in Daxuan. Zhang Shanyi, who is not doing his job, has heard that Mr. Storyteller said that the city wall of Shenjing, the capital of the emperor, is hundreds of miles long, 50 zhang high and 30 zhang wide, which can accommodate 50 cavalry running side by side. When Zhang Qing recalled it before, he thought it was an exaggeration, but now when he saw the five-zhang high city wall of Huinan Mansion, he fell silent.

Zhang Qing has gained a new understanding of the productivity of this world, is this the reason why there can be a martial arts powerhouse with a broken void?