"I dare to ask, but the inn shopkeeper?"

Liu Ruiying bowed and asked.

The clothes she was wearing were almost exactly the same as those she took off from the corners of the wall, both in texture and in style.

I think it is undoubtedly the shopkeeper who can be so casual in the inn.

But her eyes were still confused. After walking the stairs dullly under her feet, she even looked out the door, thinking that besides the three of them, there should be someone else.

Unfortunately, she didn't see anyone else, so Wuxia could only nod at Liu Ruiying.

"I came from Zhongdu City and wanted to go to Xiajian. I heard from my friends that you have passed by, that this is the last inn, and you have to come in and show your face no matter what, so I had to bother you in the early morning."

Liu Ruiying said this very politely.

Of course, those who open inns and do business welcome customers from all directions. The more people the shopkeepers earn, the more money they earn, and of course they are happier.

Due to money, the shopkeepers in the store attach great importance to popularity. There are many people in the store and they are very neat and energetic. If the store is empty, even if there is money in the pocket, there will be no smile on their faces.

But after hearing Liu Ruiying's words, the female shopkeeper looked cold and had no expression. Instead, she walked straight to the backyard.

This extremely abnormal attitude instantly distinguished her from other shopkeepers. Her appearance seemed to be watching the store for others. No matter how many things are, whether the customers come or not, it has nothing to do with her.

Since there is no woman in the lobby, what she should do cannot be delayed. The female shopkeeper looked up at the sun. At most, it was an hour, or less, the children of the aristocratic families who were sleeping upstairs, and the rich men in the martial arts world should get up.

Within this hour, she had to cook the meat porridge so that she could catch up. Otherwise, she would smash the inn's signboard and would not be easy to explain to the Ou family in the city.

The wild dogs next to the wellhead immediately ran away as soon as they saw the female shopkeeper's figure. Whenever each wild dog walked, they would turn back and stare at the female shopkeeper's feet, for fear that the foot would wave it again.

These wild dogs are different from domestic ones. They remember things that suffer losses very firmly once. They were almost kicked by the female shopkeeper's feet, so how could they dare to challenge again?

The female shopkeeper ignored it. These wild dogs were like those gangsters who drank too much and wanted to take advantage of the situation. They were like eating and drinking in the inn and spending money. They were just the old man, and they could do whatever they wanted.

For people, it is not just about kicking their stomachs. They have to smash the jar full of wine on their heads to make it useful.

Turning the wheels, he lifted the wooden barrel from the well. The beef inside was cold and fresh. The female shopkeeper reached out and patted it a few times. He carried the wooden barrel back to the lobby with satisfaction.

She originally wanted to go directly to the kitchen, but Liu Ruiying and the other two were guests after all, so she had to greet him first.

"You guys wait a moment."

The female shopkeeper gave Liu Ruiying a message, but decided to go to the kitchen to process the beef first.

Today is a bit delayed. For the taste of the meat porridge, the beef has to be blanched first, otherwise it will lose its meaning without that bite of softness and rottenness.

While on someone else's territory, Liu Ruiying had no choice but to agree to wait.

However, there is no one in such a big store, and it is really not easy to rely on her to manage it alone.

Fortunately, the female shopkeeper was quick to work, so she quickly put the beef into boiling water, put the lid on the pot, wiped the apron with both hands a few times, then walked out of the kitchen, stood behind the counter, spreading the account book, and fiddling with the abacus.

"A friend told you to come here, but you all know the rules?"

The female shopkeeper asked.

"Of course I understand this, but my friend is not a recent incident. Has the rules changed?"

Liu Ruiying asked with a smile.

In fact, he didn't know any rules at all... The barbarian Zhiji was just lying on the table and dozing off, and didn't tell Liu Ruiying anything. He asked this just because he wanted to trap the female shopkeeper.

Not only can you seem to be an idiot, you will be easily deceived, but you also show that you are an honest person. Apart from wanting to enter the dangerous city, you will not cause trouble.

He learned such a genre in the northwest.

However, it is obviously not enough to see the female shopkeeper.

"Where did your friend come from?"

The female shopkeeper asked casually.

"As I do, come from it."

Liu Ruiying said.

"Then there must be someone lying between him and you."

The female shopkeeper looked at Liu Ruiying and said, while flicking her left hand to clear the abacus. She closed the account book, took out a teapot and three tea cups from the cabinet behind her and walked over.

"Why did the shopkeeper say this?"

Liu Ruiying asked, but glanced at the barbarian Zhiji with his own eyes.

But he was also confused. Although he had walked through it once, he still didn't know much about the tricks.

"Because the rules have never changed, or there are no rules. I ask you the rules, but since you follow my words, you either lie to me or your friends have lied to you!"

The female shopkeeper slowly filled three cups of tea, pushed the cup in front of the three of them at once, and sat down and said.

"That must be my friend who lied to me..."

Liu Ruiying thought she could just do something about her, but she didn't expect that the first sentence she dug for herself and said secretly, just waiting for herself to get in...

"I hope so."

The female shopkeeper said, then took out a notice from her sleeve and spread it flat on the table.

"There are two major events in the city, one is the auction of the Hu family and the other is the "Recruitment Order" of the Ou family. I don't know when the three came."

Liu Ruiying glanced at the content of the notice, and the four large gold-plated characters on the first topic: You Fenglaiyi.

Apart from many of the previous official articles, the last sentence is the most important. "Among the talents, those who can do wonders and do miracles, are respected as guests, forge swords, and join them together."

The main reason why the Pingnan King Realm is different from the other four king realms is the existence of the Xiaweicheng family.

In other kingdoms, although there are also clans of aristocratic clans, such as Qingfu in Zhenbei kingdom and Deng family in Zhongdu City, these clans have completely changed their original family relationships.

The entire family is closely surrounded by the royal power, prospering and losing.

This family relationship was passed down thousands of years ago. In the past, when there were not enough land cultivated, and there were many beasts and robbers outside the city, people could only trust and rely on one relationship, that is, blood relationship.

Therefore, every place, or area, can maintain safety and normal operation, is a large family. Such families are very representative locally, as eye-catching as the wine tricks hanging in front of the wine shop.

Most of the people living in this land are relatives of the family. If you see strange faces, you must be foreigners from a foreign land.

In order to survive better, these families choose to unite in the most primitive and stable way.

Each generation in the Ou family has a "Sword Heart" who is married to the Hu family, using blood ties to maintain the relationship between the two great families.

The result is that major families have mixed relationships. After all, generations of marriages have created many kinship relationships, so they can advance and retreat together when competing for land, talents and other resources. Of course, they can also join hands to fight against the royal power.

After such a family alliance was formed, it naturally attracted many outsiders to join us.

It can be said that in the world of Pingnan King Realm, if you want to accomplish anything, you need to have a family background. Only when a family supports you or agrees to you can do it. Otherwise, it will be useless to lose money and spend any effort.

Once they are excluded by the aristocratic family and given up, they become worse than even wild dogs that night.

Especially the object of being rejected by top-level families like the Ou family and Hu family is that they do not have a foothold in the Pingnan King Realm. If you want to have a good meal, unless you are forgiven by the aristocratic family, you can only go far away and make a living by your own abilities.

Therefore, the entire Pingnan King Realm attaches great importance to the blood relationship and sense of belonging between this kind of aristocratic family. Some outsiders who come to join in even give up their lives in order to gain the recognition of the aristocratic family.

Under such a basis, the king's law cannot be implemented at all.

The family rules formulated by the aristocratic families are laws on the entire land.

In Zhongdu City, it is prohibited to provoke trouble and fight. As for killing people, it is even more worthwhile. However, when you go down to the siege, this situation happens every moment.

Especially the "killing" incident is a very serious crime elsewhere, but as long as the "killing" is confirmed here, the crime of murder can be written off and will not be investigated.

For example, in a certain aristocratic family, relatives and elders die for no reason, it is not against the rules for those in that clan to seek revenge for it, and even other aristocratic families will give out a sum of money and offer a joint reward. When the revenge of human life is avenged, the back of this avenge will receive a considerable reward, and it may not be necessary to become the core of the aristocratic family.

This is actually a means of self-protection, just to make the people in the aristocratic family more loyal to the entire family.

However, such revenge will definitely cause conflicts between major families. In the face of interests, blood relationships will sometimes become extremely fragile.

King Pingnan has not taken any measures for so many years. First of all, the power of the aristocratic family is too large and the power of the royal palace alone is not enough to shake it.

Even if he had a million troops, these soldiers were all locals, and their respective small families were also part of the major families. If King Pingnan ordered troops to forcibly wipe out these aristocratic forces, these tiger and wolf troops who were usually prohibited would definitely mutiny on the spot.

After all, how many people in this world can destroy their relatives for justice?

The only thing King Pingnan could do was to win over these most powerful families, write down the land and resources they originally occupied in their own tone, and re-encircle them.

In this way, they can not only protect their face as a prince and not violate the interests of these top families, but naturally they will not embarrass the prince.

"Onmyoji should read?"

The female shopkeeper saw Liu Ruiying staring at the short notice for a long time but didn't respond, so she frowned and asked again.

"Onmyoji of course knows literacy."

Liu Ruiying thought her problem was very strange. She had been reading it for a long time, but she was not entangled in the words, but was thinking about what the Ou family and the Hu family were going to do.

These two families have clearly been in-laws for generations. Logically speaking, such a big move should be staggered. Will they be put together so much? This is not forcing those small families and tourists to make a choice.

The Hu family used a jar of wine, even if it was worth tens of thousands of taels, but it could not be exchanged for an identity in the Ou family. No one who came was a fool, and it was clear which one was higher or lower.

"Then you... can you read it to me?"

The female shopkeeper said embarrassedly.

She originally planned to let the owner of the hands read it to her.

Five days ago, a clan member came to the Ou family and put down a few notices and asked her to post them in a conspicuous position in the inn. She didn't explain anything, and she didn't dare to ask more questions.

Like the small family she lives in, there are countless in the King of Pingnan, but not everyone can climb the big tree of the Ou family.

I don’t know how lucky the family had at the beginning, which made their whole family not only join the Ou family, but also assigned to the inn to manage the inn from Zhongdu to Xiawei.

To put it bluntly, today's life is just a living under someone else's roof and relying on his breath, but after all, it's much better than those poor people who have no way to go. After all, it's better to be on the big tree to enjoy the cool air.

Liu Ruiying didn't think there was anything strange about the female shopkeeper's illiteracy.
To be continued...