Hearing that Jian Chen was going to go to the Qiangan Kingdom alone, the three powerhouses of the Gesen Kingdom all showed a look of surprise in their eyes, and they all couldn't understand in their hearts, with his identity as the protector of the Qin Emperor Kingdom, why did he have such a big grudge against the Qiangan Kingdom in his heart, although the Qiangan Kingdom sent a strong man to intervene in this matter this time, but this alone did not seem to be enough for Jian Chen to do this.

Although several people were very confused in their hearts, because of their identity, they didn't dare to ask, so they could only hold it in their hearts.

"Master Protector of the Country, let Xiaotian go with you. Xiao Tian opened his mouth and said, now Jian Chen's strength is not yet at the realm of the Saint King, and he is afraid that Jian Chen's trip will encounter danger.

Jian Chen shook his head and said, "No, I'll go alone, Xiaotian, you can stay here for the next few days to prevent the powerhouses of the Wind Blue Kingdom from attacking again." ”

Xiao Tian showed a trace of helplessness on his face, and said: "Okay, then the Lord of the Protector must be more careful on this trip, although there are a few strong people killed in the Qiangan Kingdom, there are still many of their strong people." ”

Subsequently, Jian Chen left Huang'en City alone, flying in the sky at a height of thousands of meters, and rushed towards the Qiangan Kingdom. And in his arms he was holding a tiger the size of a kitten.

Originally, Jian Chen didn't plan to take the little white tiger over, but when he left, the little white tiger relied on him, and he was forced to take him away together, he was also very confident in his current strength, in front of several opponents of the Sky Saint Master, he believed that he had the ability to protect the safety of the little white tiger.

In the blink of an eye, the sky had already darkened, and in a second-level city in the territory of the Qiangan Kingdom, the figures on the streets were also rapidly decreasing, and the originally prosperous city was gradually quieting down.

At the city gate, a general-like man looked at the sky, and then said to the people below, "The hour has come, close the city gate." ”

Immediately, more than a dozen soldiers ran out of the city, and together they pushed the heavy city gate and slowly closed it.

"Wait a minute!" At this moment, a voice came from outside the city gate, and then a white shadow flashed away, and at the moment when the city gate was about to close, a young man with a small monster in his arms had already dodged into the city at a very fast speed, and then walked away.

For the entry of the youth, those soldiers did not hinder them, they guarded the city gate and saw a lot of various characters all day long, and they had already trained a pair of fiery eyes, and from the speed of the young man entered, it could be seen that the other party's strength was very strong, at least he was also a great saint master.

This young man is Jian Chen, now that it is getting late, Jian Chen doesn't want to go to the palace of the Qiangan Kingdom in the middle of the night, so he plans to rest for one night and continue to hurry tomorrow morning.

Jian Chen walked on the already deserted street with the well-behaved little white tiger in his arms, and entered several inns in a row, all of which were full and there were no extra rooms.

At this time, Jian Chen entered a smaller inn and asked, "Boss, is there any extra room?"

"Yes, yes, I don't know how many rooms do you want?" Immediately, a young man in his twenties walked out of it and said with a smile on his face.

Seeing the young man's face, Jian Chen's expression was stunned, and a person's face suddenly appeared in the depths of his mind, but he quickly came back to his senses and said, "Give me the best inn, and give me a plate of barbecue beef." As he spoke, as soon as Jian Chen's hand flipped over, a gold coin appeared in his hand, and he stretched out his hand to hand it to the young man.

The young man immediately took the gold coin thrown by Jian Chen, and said with a smile, "Guest officer, please sit casually, and I will go and serve you food." So saying, the young man went down.

Jian Chen looked at the back of the young man leaving in a daze, gradually pondered, casually walked to a clean table next to him and sat down, his mind couldn't help but appear in the face of Uncle Kende, and he fell into the memories of the past for a while.

"Objectively, the dish you asked for has come up. But after a long time, a voice woke Jian Chen from his contemplation, and he saw that the shopkeeper was already holding a large plate of barbecue beef in front of Jian Chen's table, and it was the young man who had just left.

The little white tiger let out a happy cry, jumped onto the table, and unceremoniously began to gulp.

Looking at the little white tiger like this, Jian Chen couldn't help but show a wry smile on his face, and said, "Give me a plate of barbecue beef." ”

"Okay, objective!" the young man readily agreed, and then left.

Jian Chen looked at this inn, this inn is not big, there are only about 20 old wooden tables in total, they are wiped clean, smooth and shiny, and a middle-aged woman who looks like a shopkeeper is sitting at the counter and keeps settling accounts, the crackling sound of abacus fluctuations is endless, and there seems to be no one else in the entire inn except for this young man and a shopkeeper.

At this moment, several big men with five big and three thick heads and shirtless bodies walked in from outside, and one of them immediately shouted: "Boss, the deadline for this month has arrived, hurry up and pay all the fees that should be paid." ”

Hearing this, the middle-aged woman who was making an abacus in front of the counter raised her head and looked at a few men, with a look of embarrassment in her eyes, and she was verbose for a while before taking out a handful of silver coins from under the counter and said, "A few nights, the sound of the small shop this month is not good, and I can only barely make ends meet, and I don't even have the cost of hiring a buddy, so I can only take out so much." ”

"That's how much, one hundred and thirty-five silver coins, you and we are asking for food, I don't care what your business is, in short, three gold coins a month is a child. A big man shouted viciously, and he started to do it as soon as he didn't agree with him.

The proprietress was forced to be helpless, so she had to make a bitter face, and reluctantly took out a handful of silver coins again, the total number was just three hundred.

Several big men counted the number of silver coins and confirmed that they were correct before leaving here.

Just as they left, the young man walked out of it with a plate of barbecue beef and said, "Mother, are they coming to collect fees again?"

"yes. The middle-aged woman sighed and said a word, looking weak, and her face was full of melancholy.

"Mother, we can't go on like this, how much money do we make a month, and once we pay the fees, we don't have much left. The young man said with an indignant face.

The middle-aged woman sighed and said, "This is also something that can't be helped, who makes us have no one behind us, it's the same everywhere we go." ”

Hearing this, the young man also hung his head and looked helpless.

"Shopkeeper, I don't know what fees they charge? Do everyone who opens the shop have to pay fees?" Jian Chen, who was sitting not far away, suddenly asked.

The young man took a towel in his hand and carefully wiped the table, and said without raising his head: "Of course, it is the protection fee and the site fee, three gold coins a month is indispensable, our small shop only earns a total of more than a dozen gold coins a month, and after removing the five gold coins handed over by the city lord's mansion, there is not much left, and we can only barely make ends meet." ”

"Does every store have to pay such a fee?" Jian Chen then asked.

The young man shook his head and said, "The taxes of the City Lord's Mansion must be paid by every shop, but the people in the back are all members of the mercenary group, relying on their own strength in the city, they began to pick those small shops that have no backstage support to collect fees indiscriminately. ”

Jian Chen was silent, he also knew in his heart that things like this happened everywhere, in this world where the weak eat the strong, if you don't have strength, you can only be bullied, this is almost the unspoken rule of every world world.

"The hostess, there is no room to spare. At this moment, a voice came from outside, and I saw several young men in white robes walking in from outside.

Seeing the guests coming up, the shopkeeper in the inn hurriedly greeted him, and said with a smile on his face, "Yes, yes, of course there are guest rooms, I don't know how many guest officers need a few rooms?"

Several young people looked around the inn with a proud expression, frowned slightly, and said with some dissatisfaction: "This inn is inevitably too bad, can the young master live in it?"

"We're too late, the other inns are full, so let's take a break. A young man next to him said.

"That's it, shopkeeper, we have all this inn under wraps, and let's drive all those irrelevant people out of the city. A young man said arrogantly.

Hearing this, the shopkeeper and the middle-aged woman sitting at the counter both looked embarrassed, and the middle-aged woman spoke: "Guest officer, there are still a lot of rooms left in our inn, because it should be enough for you to rest." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, tell you to do whatever you want, are you afraid that our Anode Sect won't be able to give money?"

As soon as they heard that it was the Anode Sect, the middle-aged woman and the shopkeeper's expressions changed, and they were forced to be helpless, so they had to go upstairs to invite all the guests who had lived in the inn, and for a while, there was a noisy cursing sound from time to time on the second floor of the inn.

"Damn, how does your store do business, uncle, I paid to live in, why did you let me go temporarily, don't you want to open your store, uncle, I'm a member of the Blood Thorn Mercenary Group." On the second floor of the inn, a deep voice came down, but the next moment, the voice of the person who spoke suddenly changed, and exclaimed: "What, the people of the Anode Sect, forget it, when I didn't say anything." ”

Then, I saw a big man with a bear's waist and a tiger's back quickly walking down from the upper floor.

Next, people came down from the second floor one after another, although there were many hot-tempered people among them, but as soon as they heard the name of the Anode Sect, they immediately tightened their necks, and left here obediently without saying a word, their faces full of fear.

Soon, the guests in the inn had been cleaned up, and only one man and one beast were left eating barbecue beef leisurely on the first floor of the inn, seemingly indifferent to everything around them.

"Guest officer, I'm really sorry, you have to change to an inn to live, these two plates of barbecue beef ru shop should also be given to the guest officer for free, and I hope the guest officer will forgive me." The shopkeeper returned a gold coin to Jian Chen, and said apologetically.