It was just getting dark.

Ye Qin called out the big cow who was still asleep, and hurriedly hurried along the post road in the direction of Zhuqi County in the early morning when it was not hot. Da Niu ate meat and bones and drank some water last night, and his spirit was obviously much better, and he was able to walk on his own.

On the way, Ye Qin told Da Niu that he wanted to go to the county seat to see if he could be recruited into the medicine collection hall, Da Niu was very excited and agreed to go to the county seat.

Although it is a wilderness, there is a post road leading directly to Zhuqi County, and you can occasionally see some horse-drawn carriages, so it is not difficult to walk along the way.

In the scorching sun at noon, the two of them found a place to rest and dig up some bark and grass roots.

A little cooler in the afternoon, the two continued on their way.

Before evening, two thin figures appeared outside the east gate of Zhuqi County.

The county seat of Zhuqi is the most desolate and remote county seat among the eight county towns in Pingzhou, Wuguo, with a population of more than 100,000 living in the city. Within a radius of thousands of miles in the county, there are more than 10 small towns, and most of the rest are deep mountains and old ditches, dangerous peaks and mountains, rivers and streams.

The grain production in this place is not high, but there are a large number of rare wild medicinal materials growing in the deep mountains, and the herbs of Zhuqi County are famous throughout the territory of Pingzhou. The county seat of Zhuqi has naturally become one of the important sources of wild medicinal materials for the Yaowang Gang, and a medicine collection hall has been specially set up here to be responsible for collecting medicine.

This year's drought has not reduced the number of immigrants who come to Zhuqi County, and there are horse-drawn carriages entering and leaving the city gate, there are people in the rivers and lakes with swords on their backs, merchants with backpacks, and people who juggle folk arts, farmers and woodcutters, so it is not lively.

In particular, the matter of recruiting a group of medicine picking boys has unconsciously spread in some nearby towns, and some rural people have brought their own children to apply to see if they can eat in the medicine collection hall.

Ye Qin saw that under the light of the setting sun, the low city wall of the county town overgrown with grass and vines, the dilapidated city gate, and the few lazy down-and-out city soldiers guarding the door, his heart was excited. This place he's back again.

"Get out of the way, something that doesn't have eyes!"

A donkey cart pulled by two young donkeys trotted towards the city gate. In the car sat an old squire of sixty or seventy years old, wearing a rather elaborate cloth coat and a whip with an oxtail whip in his hand, shouting at Ye Qin and the others who were blocking the road.

The donkey cart ran so fast that it almost hit Ye Qin and the others.

Ye Qin hurriedly pulled the big cow to the side to dodge.

In the carriage, a chubby teenage boy suddenly poked his head out, with the oily appearance of a squire's child, his eyes turned around, and when he saw Ye Qin and the others, he immediately "phew", spit on Ye Qin and the two of them with a mouthful of water, and then grinned and clapped his hands and laughed, "Hit, hit! Dad, do you see it? I vomited two leper dogs!". The old squire didn't look at Ye Qin and the others, but just praised the little fat man.

The little donkey cart then stopped near the city gate, and the city steward did not check on them, and let them into the city.

Ye Qin stared at the little fat man fiercely, then quickly lowered his head, dared to be angry but didn't dare to speak, biting his lip and enduring. In the countryside, the squire was very powerful, occupying the most and best fields, the most mountains and forests, and raising many servants, all the tenants and hunters depended on them to get a bite to eat. He and Cheng Da Niu were both born as hunters and tenants in the countryside, and they didn't dare to offend these squires at all.

It's just that Ye Qin once followed his father up the mountain to fight jackals, and his surname was a little wild, and he dared to glare at the little fat man. Cheng Da Niu didn't even dare to stare, he kept his head buried, and waited for the donkey cart to enter the city before he dared to wipe the saliva off his face.

encountered such an unlucky thing, Ye Qin was not interested in looking at the scenery of the city gate anymore.

Mixed in the crowd, Ye Qin and Da Niu sneaked into the city.

On this hot day, the city diners would only interrogate those strange men at most, but they didn't have the heart to care about a few tattered children who sneaked into the city.

"Brother Qin, I haven't been here for a few months, but I didn't expect the county seat to be the same, it's really big and beautiful. ”

Da Niu shouted excitedly.

The two magnificent main streets run through the entire county, and the shops on both sides are the property of large families, many of which are still medicine pickers. Restaurants, teahouses, inns, martial arts halls, academies, mansions, and forest gardens are all next to each other.

The northeastern city is the county government, and some squires, local tyrants, big businessmen, and wealthy families live in this district. The northwest city is the entrance of the medicine collection hall, as well as some other powerful and small gangs. The remaining two urban districts, southeast and southwest, are mainly civilian areas, and ordinary residents of Zhuqi County are located in these two urban areas.

At 10 o'clock in the evening, the weather gradually cooled, and the residents came out of their homes to go shopping, do business, and do business, and the city began to be lively. It's very popular, and it's not like in the wilderness, where you can't see half a person in half a day.

Before entering the city, Ye Qin was also as excited as a big bull.

But after entering the city, Ye Qin was not excited, but became more and more cautious. A few months ago, they offended a gang of ruffians here. Who knows if these hooligans still have them in their hearts.

Ye Qin took the big bull and carefully avoided those who looked like hooligans and scoundrels, and did not look at the lively streets, and walked briskly towards the northwest city with his head buried in it. When I saw some local beggars, I didn't dare to stop, and hurriedly trotted over to avoid being pestered and scolded.

On the way, he encountered a few scoundrels walking towards them, which frightened him so much that he ran to the northwest city, and those scoundrels did not dare to chase them again.

In the northwest city, there are many fewer people, and there are very few civilians here.

Most of them are some people in the rivers and lakes who wear tight-fitting clothes, cross swords and swords, ride horses, are athletic, and burly and strong. Just by looking at their appearance, you know that they are very difficult to mess with, and any one of them can pinch them both to death.

Because of the large number of people in the rivers and lakes, there are few scoundrels and beggars in the northwest urban area.

Fortunately, these people in the rivers and lakes are always in a hurry, and they seem to be busy doing some big things, and they don't like to waste their time bullying beggars like hooligans, they don't have any interest in beggars, and they don't look at them much.

Ye Qin and the two came to the entrance of the medicine collection hall. It's a huge mansion that covers several hectares, and from the outside, you don't know how big it is. The two thousand-pound stone lions in front of the door are majestic. There are a pair of copper rings on the gate, which is extremely heavy.

A notice was posted at the door, writing something, but Ye Qin didn't know any of the words on it.