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"You must be from out of town!" After hearing Song Yunxi's question, the shopkeeper asked directly.

"Well, we just came from the county town below. Maybe we don't know some of the rules after not being here for a long time. I remember that when I came here before, staying in an inn was not so expensive!"

Song Yunxi said nonsensically, not caring at all about the surprised look on Ye Yiyi's side.

Shopkeeper Pian really believed it. Hearing this, the shopkeeper sighed and said, "It wasn't so expensive before. Didn't you hear that several counties in the north of us were taken over by Zhenbei Hou?"

"If the imperial court wants to go to war, the tax will naturally have to rise. Originally, the imperial court could accept the increase. But we, the city lord, are the most greedy and could not let go of such an opportunity."

"I heard that other cities only increased a little bit, but in our city you have to pay 200 wen for one tael of silver. It's impossible to pay rent without increasing the price!"

When the shopkeeper said this, his whole body became decadent.

Song Yunxi had also done business, so she made some calculations in her mind, and secretly thought that if she really did business like this, she might not be able to do it.

"Well, isn't the city lord afraid that the emperor will chop off his head if he finds out?" Song Yunxi asked in disbelief.

"Hey, the current emperor is no longer the original emperor. Of course the city lord is not afraid. He is Concubine Rong's biological brother. Concubine Rong knows it! He is the biological mother of the prince. Our city lord has a strong relationship."

The shopkeeper gave a wry smile, then he glanced at Song Yunxi and said, "Girl, I advise you to stay here today. It's not safe outside!"

Song Yunxi paused when she heard this, not sure whether she should believe it or not.

However, she didn't want to risk her life.So I told the shopkeeper. "Then let's do this. Just give me two rooms. The room with the word "di" will do."

"Okay, the waiter will bring the guest up." Upon hearing this, the shopkeeper quickly ordered the waiter standing next to you.

"Incoming officer, please." The waiter respectfully stepped forward to lead the way.

When she got upstairs, Song Yunxi stretched her head and found that the environment was surprisingly good.I thought the ground-character room wouldn't be that good.

"Hey, waiter, wait a minute." Song Yunxi turned around and saw that the waiter was about to leave and called out quickly.

The waiter turned around and looked at Song Yunxi and his party with some surprise, and said in a surprised tone, "I wonder if the guest sir is okay?"

Song Yunxi smiled and stuffed a bunch of copper coins into the store clerk's pocket.

The waiter's eyes brightened when he saw the copper coins, and his attitude immediately improved a lot.

"Sir, what's the matter with you?" The waiter said with a smile, stuffed the coin into his sleeve and looked at Song Yunxi with some doubts.

"It's nothing, I didn't just come out here to inquire about the situation." Song Yunxi directly stated the purpose without going around the bush.

"Oh? I don't know what the guest wants to ask specifically. If it's something important, I'm just a waiter. I only know some rumors in the market and you can listen to the excitement." Naturally, the waiter can't break the copper coin for this. own future.

After hearing the waiter's suggestion, Song Yunxi immediately changed her explanation. "I just have nothing to do, so I wanted to ask about the city's gossip to relieve my boredom."

Hearing what Song Yunxi said, the waiter immediately followed up and said, "The guest has found someone. I'm afraid no one knows more about the gossip in the market than this boy." "Oh? Then you might as well tell us." Song Yunxi asked quickly .

"I don't know what you want to hear, sir?" the waiter asked tentatively.

"I don't understand, why does your store close so early?" Song Yunxin has always wondered. The sun will tilt slightly to the west tomorrow, and there is still a long time before evening arrives. How could it close so early?

"I'm afraid you don't know about this guest. A murder occurred in our city recently. Oh, you didn't see it! The body was chopped into pieces, which was scary. So far, the government has not found the culprit. .”

When he said this, the waiter started to tremble all over, as if he thought of some horrible scene.

"It's just a pretense of secrecy. In which city wouldn't something like this happen? Why is it like this?" Song Yunxi was a little surprised when she heard this.

"That's what I say, but this is not the first time the prisoner has committed a crime. That one is already the fifth. How can you not be afraid?" Seeing Song Yunxi's nonchalant look, the waiter explained quickly.

"The fifth one, then why haven't the criminals been arrested yet?" Song Yunxi looked at the waiter in disbelief, how is this possible?

"Hey, our city lord collects money and gets benefits. It's fast and ruthless, but if something happens, he can run away faster than anyone else. After this happened, not even a fly could enter the city lord's mansion, and we would be miserable. One person dies every month, and I don’t know who is so unlucky this month.” When the waiter mentioned the city lord, it could be said that his face was full of hatred, and his tone was full of disdain.

"Ah? Isn't he really afraid of something happening?" Song Yunxi asked in surprise.

"The mountain is high and the emperor is far away. He is the emperor here. Something happened? What could happen? Who doesn't know about the nearby cities? Is it useful? There was a wealthy businessman in our city who was a well-known good man. Because he had lived in the famine years before I basically didn’t starve to death at that time.”

"It's just bad luck that he only had one daughter, but he and his wife are deeply in love as a couple. Although he only had one daughter for many years, his life is enviable."

"In the end, because the young lady was so beautiful, she was forcibly taken into the city lord's palace as a concubine. How could the lady of that family bear such a blow? She soon died of illness. When the lady died, I can say that my hair turned gray overnight."

"It's so pitiful that the city lord directly robbed the family property." When he said this, the waiter's face was full of sighs, as if he was complaining about the wealthy businessman.

But Song Yunxi didn't miss it when he mentioned the daughter of a wealthy businessman.The boy's resentment was not that simple.

Thinking of what he just said about the beauty of the wealthy businessman's daughter, Song Yunxi said tentatively. "That rich businessman's daughter is really very beautiful."

Hearing this, the waiter in the shop became obviously emotional. "It can be said that she is extremely beautiful, with a slender figure. Her movements make her seem like a fairy falling into the mortal world."

After hearing the waiter's description, Song Yunxi seemed to know why he was so excited.This is probably what it feels like for the goddess you have always admired to be bitten by a dog.

"Then, if you want to run a business in the city, isn't it appropriate?" Song Yunxi asked tentatively, thinking of the purpose of this trip.As a result, when I looked up, I met the waiter's strange eyes.

"Why are you looking at me like this? Is there something on my face?" Song Yunxi couldn't help but raise her hand to touch her cheek and asked with some confusion.

"It's nothing, it's just that I haven't seen someone as troubled as the guest officer for a long time. Or maybe I didn't explain it clearly enough to the shopkeeper."

(End of this chapter)