Outside the Shilixiang Gate, Zhang Fan turned over his horse and prepared to leave on the black wind. As soon as the man in black came out, he found that Zhang Fan was leaving, and hurriedly shouted, "Big brother, wait." ”

Zhang Fan asked puzzledly, "What, do you really want to go with me?"

When the man in black heard this, his fair face turned red, and he said in a coquettish voice: "Big brother, the younger brother just finished spending the coil yesterday, and his hands are a little tight, can you see if you can lend me some silver taels? I will definitely pay you back in the future." ”

Zhang Fan smiled, took out a small package from his arms, threw it to her, and said, "Haha, you said earlier, this is two hundred taels of silver, you can take it as the fare to go home, and you don't have to pay me back." I'm leaving. After he finished speaking, he shouted: "Ride!" and rode northwest on the black wind.

The man in black looked at Zhang Fan's departing back, Nunu's mouth, and muttered: "Alas, if I hadn't left in a hurry, didn't bring any money, and even sold my horses to flee here, I wouldn't have fallen into this field." After she finished speaking, she walked in the direction where Zhang Fan left.

Zhang Fan traveled all the way west along the avenue, passed through countless hills, and finally came to Shuoyue City, only to see that Shuoyue City was very tall, the city walls were made of huge stones, three gates several meters wide were open, there were no guards to guard, and several carriages hurriedly entered and exited the city gates, making it seem a little cold here. When he saw this, he did not look much further, but rode quickly into the city gate.

Towards evening, Shuoyue City looked a little dim under the light of the setting sun. The rows of shops left long black shadows on the streets, making the avenue several feet wide a little dark. On both sides of the street, although most of the shops are closed, some are still open, and pedestrians rush to and fro the streets, making the huge city look very depressed.

Zhang Fan walked forward along the central avenue for a while, and saw an inn called "Yuelai" open in front of him, so he stopped in front of the inn.

When the second child in the shop saw a customer coming, he immediately came out to greet him, and said, "Objectively, please, the horses will be handed over to the small one." Seeing this, Zhang Fan didn't say much, but just instructed: "Feed my horse good forage, and I will pay for the extra money." Xiao Er pulled the black wind and replied respectfully: "Okay, you can rest assured." The little one will definitely feed your horse. When he had finished speaking, he took the black wind to the stable.

Zhang Fan entered the inn, and a female shopkeeper asked in a coquettish voice: "Guest officer, do you want to stay in the hotel?"

Zhang Fan looked at the young female shopkeeper and said loudly: "Yes, what kind of guest rooms do you have here, tell me about it?"

When the shopkeeper heard this, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly introduced: "Guest officer, our small shop has three kinds of guest rooms, thirty taels of silver per night for the Tianzi room, fifteen taels of silver per night for the ground room, and eight taels of silver for the human room. What kind of room do you want?"

When Zhang Fan heard this, he said, "Tianzi guest room." Stay one night first, it's silver taels, and I'll give the rest when I check out. As he spoke, he took out an ingot of a hundred taels of silver and handed it to the female shopkeeper.

Seeing this, the shopkeeper took the silver tael and said to the second child on the side: "Third son, take the guest to room No. 6 of Tianzi." ”

When the gray-clothed junior heard this, he immediately replied: "Okay!" and then said to Zhang Fan: "Guest officer, please come with the little one." Then he went upstairs. Zhang Fan followed Xiao Er to the second floor of the inn, Xiao Er opened the Tianzi No. 6 room, handed the key to Zhang Fan, and said: "Guest officer, this is your key, and the small one will bring you exquisite meals later, and the small one will go." Zhang Fan nodded and took the key. Xiao Er also went downstairs.

Zhang Fan entered the room, turned around a few times, and found that the guest room was very thoughtfully arranged, with a living room, study, bedroom, bathroom, toilet, etc. He came to the room, put down the package, took a shower, went back to the living room, found a chair to sit down, took a blue book placed on the table, flipped through it, and saw that this book actually introduced the general geography and main roads of the Qi country, so he looked at it carefully.

After a while, Zhang Fan made the general situation of Qi clear that there were five states in Qi State, namely Xiliang Prefecture, Beishuo Prefecture, Dongyue Prefecture, Nanchang Prefecture and Zhongluo Prefecture. Changzhou is close to 100,000 mountains, the herbal medicine trade is frequent, it is the place where the rich people of the world gather, and because of the 100,000 mountains and beasts, the people of Changzhou have a strong martial style, and everyone has a good cultivation; Liangzhou is connected with the great Rongguo of Tianxi Shenzhou, and the trade of brute beasts and weapons is frequent, and countless adventurous merchants come and go between the two countries all the year round, selling weapons and brute beasts, and they can make a lot of money every time; Shuozhou is connected to the central Shenzhou in the middle of the Tianyuan continent, and the central Shenzhou is full of families, prolific silk, and martial arts are prosperous, and the surrounding countries have frequent exchanges, and it is the second largest state in Qi after Luozhou; Yuezhou is bordered by the sea in the east, and produces many sea beasts such as fish and shrimp。 Luozhou has a dense water system and many families, which is the location of Luojing in Qi and the most prosperous place in Qi. Shuoyue City, where Zhang Fan was at this time, was a small city in the northwest of Liangzhou, close to the border of Qi State, and there used to be an endless stream of merchants, but since tens of thousands of people died of plague a few months ago, it has become deserted.

After Zhang Fan finished reading the general introduction of Qi Guo, he heard Xiao Er's voice coming from outside the door, and Xiao Er said: "Guest officer, the meal is here, will the little one bring it in to you now?" When Xiao Er heard this, he said, "Okay." Then he quickly came to the table, put the food away, and said, "The guest officer is slow to use, and the small one is on call." He withdrew with that.

Zhang Fan looked at the seven or eight steaming dishes on the table, and found that they were fried well, so he sat down and ate them.

At the same time, in the lobby of the inn, a bare-chested strong man in a gray shirt carrying a big knife strode in from outside the door, shouting loudly: "Shopkeeper, quickly serve the wine and food, Lao Tzu is hungry!"

Seeing this, the female shopkeeper frowned, and then asked in a coquettish voice: "This guest officer, do you want to stay in the hotel?"

The strong man glanced at the female shopkeeper and shouted, "Lao Tzu is here for dinner! Don't be verbose, hurry up!"

The female shopkeeper smiled: "Guest officer, then you wait a minute." Then she instructed Xiao Er: "Fourth son, this guest officer wants to eat, you can prepare it for him quickly." ”

A young man in Tsing Yi standing in the hall saw that the strong man was dressed up, although he felt that this strong man was dressed a little shabby, but he looked a little vicious, so he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Guest officer, what do you want?"

The strong man shouted, "Give me all the most expensive things in your shop, quick! There must be a large piece of beef and spirits!"

When Xiao Er heard this, he frowned and said, "Guest officer, the beef and spirits in our store are just ordinary food, are you sure you want these?"

The strong man said impatiently: "That's all, hurry up! If Lao Tzu can find a place to eat, he won't come to the inn to grind with you?"

A look of sarcasm on Xiao Er's face flashed away, and then he replied: "Okay, guest officer, you wait a minute." ”

Then Xiao Er entered the kitchen, and the strong man also came to the middle of the hall, and without looking at the strange eyes of several people who were eating, he put the big knife on his shoulder on the table, and then sat down at an empty table and waited.

After a while, Xiao Er came out with a big bowl of beef stewed potatoes and a big bowl of white rice, put it on the table next to the strong man, and said, "Slow use it for the guest officer." Then he left.

The strong man smelled the smell of meat wafting from the big bowl and muttered, "It's so fucking fragrant." Then he picked up the big bowl and ate it, and for a while there was a rude sound of eating in the whole hall, causing everyone around to sigh secretly, but they didn't dare to say anything.

After a while, the strong man finished eating the two large bowls of food, then picked up the big knife on the table, got up and walked briskly outside the door.

Seeing this, the fourth son shouted, "Guest, guest, you haven't settled the bill yet." ”

At this time, everyone who had been disturbed by the unpleasant sound of the strong man's eating saw that this strong man actually ate the overlord meal, and they couldn't help but feel a little contemptuous of the strong man in their hearts, and they thought of the resentment just now, so they shouted in unison: "Yes, you haven't paid the bill yet, do you want to eat the overlord meal?"

The strong man didn't expect so many people to mock him, and his slightly darkened face turned red, and he shouted: "Who said that Lao Tzu ate the overlord's meal? Lao Tzu went out for some things, and he would come back to pay the bill after a while." ”

The female shopkeeper saw that this barbarian was short-tempered and had eaten the overlord's meal, and she still didn't admit it, so she was furious in her heart, and shouted coquettishly: "This guest officer, you have eaten the most expensive food in our store, and you can only leave after paying the bill!"

The strong man didn't expect the fair-skinned and beautiful female shopkeeper to scold himself, and he couldn't help but feel a little sour in his heart, so he said loudly: "Lao Tzu just went out to solve the physiological problem, how could he repay the debt?

Seeing this, the female shopkeeper said, "It's not much, just two taels of silver, pay the bill." ”

"Ah!" the strong man shouted, "You cheat me? A bowl of rice and a bowl of potato and beef stew cost two taels of silver? Lao Tzu used to eat for only 100 yuan, but you actually asked for 20 times the price?"

When the female shopkeeper heard this, she said: "Guest officer, the beef used in the small shop is all good fresh yellow beef, and it has just been slaughtered, not the sick beef sold in those mountain village nightclubs, and the rice is steamed from the best rice transported from the south, and the cost is far from being comparable to the bran rice in those small shops." It's already very cheap to count you two taels of silver. ”

When the strong man heard this, his face showed pain, and he immediately took out the crude big knife on his shoulder and shouted, "Okay, you see how much my ancestral treasure knife is worth? ”

When the female shopkeeper heard this, she frowned and said, "Guest officer, your big knife is only a third-grade weapon, the workmanship is rough, and it is damaged, and no one wants it at all." Although our Shuoyue City is not big, but five or six grade weapons can be seen everywhere, and it is useless for us to ask for your treasure sword. ”

The strong man was furious when he heard this, and shouted: "Who said that Lao Tzu spent ten taels of silver ten years ago to buy this treasure knife, why is it not even worth two taels of silver now?"

The shopkeeper said: "Guest officer, if you don't plan to pay the bill, just say it, this broken knife is a piece of rotten iron, and it is too much of a hindrance to kill chickens, who will want it!"

"Then I'll work here for you and pay you for food, right?" said the strong man helplessly, "I have a lot of strength, so it's okay to carry something casually." ”

The female shopkeeper glanced at the strong man with some disgust, and said, "We have distinguished guests here every day, and you look too terrifying, but you can't help us." Besides, there are no people in the city these days, and the income of the small shop is meager, and there is no spare money to feed the extra miscellaneous servants. ”

The strong man looked embarrassed and said, "I ate your food, and you don't want a treasure knife, and I can't help it, so you can just watch it, right?"

The female shopkeeper pondered for a long time, pursed her lips, and said, "You go, you don't have to pay for your meal." ”

"But. The strong man was stunned when he heard this, and said, "I"

At this time, Zhang Fan happened to come down from upstairs, saw the scene in front of him, and said: "Shopkeeper, this strong man's account should be counted on my head." ”

When the shopkeeper heard this, he saw the young man in white coming down, and said with a smile: "Okay." ”

The strong man saw a handsome man in a white robe who had advanced cultivation to pay the bill for himself, and immediately thanked: "Thank you, hero, Ma traveled a long way, happened to run out of coils, and because of hunger in his stomach, he came to the door to ask for some food. ”

Zhang Fan said with a smile: "Everyone goes out on a long trip, and when no one has a difficulty, Brother Ma doesn't have to take it to heart." ”

The strong man surnamed Ma thanked again: "No matter what, Ma has to thank the hero for his help." Haven't asked for the hero's last name yet?"

Zhang Fan smiled and said, "Don't be so polite, everyone is from the rivers and lakes, you and I are called brothers, my surname is Zhang." ”

When the strong man heard this, he looked at the people around him who were staring at him, and said to Zhang Fan: "Brother Zhang, the junior brother has something to do this time, and he can't have a good time with Brother Zhang, so he said goodbye." As he spoke, he bowed his hand to Zhang Fan, and then walked out quickly. Zhang Fan said with a smile: "Okay, Brother Ma walks slowly." Then he went to the window and sat down to rest and look at the scenery outside the window.