It is said that Zhang Fan and the two of them retreated at home for half a month and gained a lot.

At noon that day, the two had just finished lunch. Xue'er saw her son-in-law in a silent daze in the courtyard, and thought, "What's wrong with the son, he has been cultivating diligently for half a month, and today he is actually in the courtyard." With a feeling full of doubts, she asked Zhang Fan, "Childe, what are you thinking, so distracted?"

When Zhang Fan heard this, he smiled reluctantly, and thought, "Son, the reason why I have been reluctant to talk to Xue'er more in recent months is because I am worried about the murder of the purple-robed young man and the disappearance of his parents. Although my parents' chances of survival are slim, I should try my best to find out what happened to them. Although the murder of the purple-robed youth is little known, it is only a matter of time before the powerful Zhennan Royal Mansion is located, and if I don't take the initiative to find them, they will find me sooner or later. At that time, although I was not afraid to fight them alone, would those guys be so stupid? A special medicine collector in the palace has a bone refining realm cultivation, can other people's cultivation be low? When the enemy comes to attack, can I protect Xue'er? Sometimes there are too many ants to bite the elephant to death, hey! As the old saying goes: The hatred of killing one's father, the hatred of taking one's wife, is nothing more than that!" He wanted to think about it, but he couldn't let Xue'er worry, so he smiled: " Xue'er, it's been nearly a month since we returned from the training, and it's the end of the year in half a month, I want to take you to Changrong City to have a look and buy something, how about it?"

When Xue'er heard this, she was a little happy in her heart, in fact, her cultivation has increased greatly in recent months, and she has already been itching and wants to go out to play, so she responded to her son-in-law and said, "Okay, childe! I really want to see what is delicious and fun in the city, let's go." ”

"Okay, then you go and get ready now, and we'll leave later. Zhang Fan smiled when he heard this, and said, "I think we should be able to get to the city before dark." ”

Then Xue'er and Zhang Fan went back to the house to prepare to go.

It didn't take long for both of them to get ready and ride out of their yard gates. Zhang Fan was wearing a white robe, carrying a black sword, riding the black wind and running happily in front, Xue'er was wearing a green long skirt, and a snowy sword containing a sword box carved from rosewood hung around her waist, sitting on Bai Xue followed closely behind.

Zhang Fan and the two walked all the way, passed through Wanjia Town, walked on a wide and straight avenue, and walked quickly towards Changrong City.

In the evening, there was still some time before it got dark, and Zhang Fan and the two came to the south gate of Changrong. They found that there was a blue brick city wall five or six zhang high on the periphery of Changrong City, and hundreds of Bone Refining Realm guards holding four-grade spears on the city wall were lined up, and the atmosphere was overwhelming. On the avenue in front of the city gate, the peddlers and pawns came and went, the lone warriors hurried away, and the sons and ladies drove and galloped. The voices of the crowd mingled together, making the place seem a bit noisy and noisy.

"Have you heard? I heard that the Zhennan Royal Mansion has recruited guards again?" A voice suddenly came from in front of Zhang Fan.

Zhang Fan looked up and found that two Muscle Refining Realm martial artists, one tall and one short, wearing gray cloth robes, were talking. As soon as he heard the news about the Zhennan Palace, he immediately became interested, so he listened attentively.

Then, the short martial artist was a little unconvinced, and questioned: "Cai Si, are you kidding me, right? A few months ago, didn't the palace recruit a group of guards, why are they recruiting again?"

The tall Cai Si had some disdain for the short warrior in his heart, and with a smug smile on his face, he said: "Fan Wu, why are you so stupid? Don't you know that the palace lost tens of thousands of guards in the 100,000 mountains last time? Now the palace is short of manpower, and the high price of a minimum of 100 taels of silver per year for each martial artist is offered to recruit people, and they still have to eat and live, this is a good errand." ”

The short Fan Wu shook his head and sighed: "Hey, are you stupid? Last time, so many people died in the palace, you still dare to go, don't die?"

Cai Si's face became even more sarcastic and disdainful, and he said with a smile: "Pig brain, it is precisely because of the death of the palace last time that we low-level martial artists have a chance, otherwise how can there be such a beauty difference in the world, haha." Besides, the palace just lost a large number of martial artists last time, so it will not let the newly recruited martial artists go to the 100,000 Great Mountain, after all, the hundred-year-old ginseng has been found. It's a good time for us to apply now. ”

Fan Wu thought about it, patted his head suddenly, and shouted: "Yes, why didn't I think of it! As he spoke, he jumped up from the ground, and was half a head taller than Cai Si, but then he fell to the ground again, making his nose blue and his face swollen.

Seeing this, an elderly martial artist next to him sighed: "Young people now, they are so uncalm, sad!

Then a middle-aged aunt also felt the same way: "Yes, if you don't die, you won't die!"

The surrounding pedestrians also lamented Fan Wu's misfortune.

Zhang Fan and the two rode horses and followed the pedestrians all the way slowly, and entered Changrong City after a while.

Changrong City is extremely majestic and magnificent, lively and prosperous. Countless luxury mansions of all sizes are located on the vast plains, dozens of horizontal or vertical avenues, connecting the north and south, running through the east and west, countless pavilions and shops are lined up along the road, bustling with cars, horses and pedestrians, noisy shopkeepers and customers spitting everywhere, this qiē constitutes a prosperous and wealthy city.

Zhang Fan and the two walked from south to north for a while, and found that there was an inn in front of them, and they felt at home. So he dismounted and took Cher to the front of the store.

When a junior second saw a guest coming, he immediately stepped forward to say hello and said, "Miss Son, you plan to stay, please inside, and your horses will be handed over to the little one." ”

When Zhang Fan heard this, he didn't have any opinions, and replied: "Okay." But my horses are very expensive, and you have to feed them with the best fodder, and you won't be less rewarded when you come back, so go." ”

When Xiao Er heard this, he immediately smiled and said, "Okay, son, you can rest assured." I will serve your horses as well as if they were your parents. He finished. took the reins from Zhang Fan and the two of them, and pulled the horse to the stable.

Zhang Fan and Xue'er entered the inn, came to the counter, and said to a middle-aged shopkeeper: "Boss, what good places do you have here?"

When the middle-aged shopkeeper heard this, he introduced with a smile: "If you go back to Gongzi, there are three kinds of rooms in our store, which are divided into three classes. The guest room only provides basic accommodation and two meals in the morning and evening, two taels of silver per person per night; the ground room provides bathing, refreshments, breakfast and supper, etc., five taels of silver per person per night; the first-class room not only provides good food and bathing services, but also the guests can also instruct the staff of the store to do some small things, or you can call the young and beautiful woman of the store or the husband to comfort the good night, a room is twenty taels of silver a night, but the spring festival money is paid separately, hehe. What kind of room do you want?"

When Zhang Fan heard this, he replied directly: "Okay, then ask the shopkeeper to arrange a first-class room for us and stay for two nights, which is forty taels of silver." As he spoke, he handed the silver to the middle-aged shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper quickly took the silver with one hand, and with the other hand, he took out a key from the drawer, handed it to Zhang Fan, and said with a smile: "Childe, this is your room key." Then he shouted to Xiao Er, who was busy in the hall: "Sixth son, come here, hurry up and take the two guest officers to the No. 1 room of Tianzi, if there is anything to the guests in the future, you will listen to their orders." ”

"Yes, shopkeeper. The sixth son responded, and then said to Zhang Fan and the others, "The two of you are objective, please come with me." ”

Then Zhang Fan, who was already holding the key, took Xue'er and followed Liuzi to the third floor and came to the Tianzi No. 1 room.

Not long after Zhang Fan and the two came to the room, Xiao Er brought exquisite food, and the two then ate, bathed and changed clothes, and finally went to bed early.

Early the next morning, Zhang Fan and the two got up early, had breakfast, and left the inn.

Zhang Fan took Xue'er to the street market, walking around and seeing the new things in the city. The two walked all the way and found that although it was still early, Changrong City was already full of people. In each shop, the guys have already cleaned the shop and are ready to welcome customers on the new day. One by one, the peddlers were already carrying baskets, cloth bags, wooden plates, or carts neatly shuttling through the bustling crowd. One stall after another, the boss who had eaten several meals of coarse tea and light rice in a row was already wearing single clothes, sitting at the stall in high spirits, constantly wiping the dust on the objects with both hands, always looking at the passing guests, and constantly praising the gold of his own things.

"Childe, look!" Xue'er's exclamation suddenly sounded, interrupting Zhang Fan, who was silently watching the crowd. He came back to his senses, looked in the direction of Xue'er's finger, and found that it was actually a stall selling rock sugar gourds, and said with a smile: "Xue'er, why are you still like a child, you like rock sugar gourds, I'll buy them if you want." When Xue'er heard this, she understood that her son-in-law had misunderstood herself, and hurriedly said: "Childe" Zhang Fan finished speaking, but didn't hear Xue'er's words, so he squeezed into the stall. Xue'er was stunned for a moment, then blushed and happily chased after Childe.

Zhang Fan came to the stall selling rock sugar gourds and asked loudly: "Boss, bring me four strings of rock sugar gourds." "Okay, here you go. A total of eight cents. The gray-clothed peddler replied as he quickly picked off four strings of rock sugar gourds and handed them to Zhang Fan. Zhang Fan took the things and was about to take the money from his arms to pay the bill, but he heard Xue'er say in a clear voice: "Boss, here you go." When he looked up, he saw that Xue'er had already handed eight yellow-orange copper coins to the vendor in her jade hand, and she couldn't help but blush, but she didn't stop it.

Zhang Fan turned around when he saw Xue'er paying, so he handed her three strings of rock sugar gourds and said, "Xue'er, give it to you." Xue'er blushed, shyly took the sugar gourd, and said, "Childe, why didn't you listen to me before?" Zhang Fan smiled when he heard this, and said: "There's nothing wrong with you liking snacks, and besides, this rock sugar gourd is still good, haha." "Childe, it's not about rock sugar gourds. I just saw the hunter I rescued last month, but the guy ran away like a rabbit when he saw me from a distance, as if he was afraid that I would trouble him. Childe, how can you say this person can be like this?" Zhang Fan heard this, thought about it, the cold color on his face flashed, and said with a slight smile: "Haha, Xue'er." I think that guy saw the woman in his heart, and immediately felt ashamed of himself, and ran to hide in some armpit. Xue'er thought about it, her white face was slightly red, and she smiled sweetly: "Maybe, but next time I see him being bullied by a wolf again, I must wait until he has no strength to take it down, hehe" Zhang Fan heard this, and said with a smile: "Haha, Xue'er has grown up these days." But this morning was a little cold, I didn't put on a cotton coat, I was a little shivering, and I didn't want to go shopping anymore. Let's go. After he finished speaking, he was about to pull Xue'er back quickly. Xue'er was stunned when she heard this, her face was full of doubt, and she asked, "Childe, we are high-level martial artists, how can we be afraid of the cold?" Zhang Fan smiled awkwardly when he heard this, and then his face was full of surprise, and said: "Who said that only the dead are not afraid of the cold, I can't stand this ghost weather." After he said it brazenly, he didn't look at the red sun in the sky, and pulled Xue'er to the inn without looking back.