Inn
After entering the city, led by the man, they stopped in front of a three-story wooden inn. The Pegasus in their hands were taken away by the waiter.
Li Ping'an looked at the words written above the inn for a long time, but he didn't recognize them.
"Hey, what's written on it?" Li Ping'an came up to Zhao Jingyan and asked.
Zhao Jingyan glanced at it and said, "Zuijiulou."
"Why can't you read?" Zhao Jingyan accidentally said what was in his mind.
Li Pingan chuckled twice and shook his head. He couldn't say, "I don't recognize the characters here."
Seeing Li Ping'an smiling foolishly and shaking her head, Zhao Jingyan felt an extra layer of pity for her. Although their families had also suffered a huge change, he still had a younger sister, but her brothers and sisters had all turned into ghosts and were now kidnapped, their whereabouts unknown. Although he was not extremely smart, at least he had been educated and could recognize words, but she couldn't even recognize a single word, so she must have been completely deceived.
"You have to learn to read." Zhao Jingyan advised, "Otherwise you will suffer a great loss in the future."
Li Ping'an nodded when she heard that. Zhao Jingyan could see through her perfunctory attitude. Seeing her like this, Zhao Jingyan could only sigh and thought, forget it, if she can't persuade him, then just learn it directly. She has nothing to do in the evening, so she can go and teach Anquan to recognize words.
Li Ping'an doesn't know yet that Zhao Jingyan has unilaterally arranged study tasks for her, and is looking around.
From the outside, the inn looked ordinary, but once you entered, you would find a different world inside. There was a spring of water coming from nowhere, and in the mist, several beautiful women in cool clothes were dancing on the stage to the music. There were several bells hanging around the stage.
The characters sitting in the inn also have their own characteristics. There are pale-faced scholars, muscular roughnecks with bare upper bodies, knights wearing bamboo hats, and drunkards lying on the table, not knowing what day it is.
"Look, that man's money is about to be stolen." Li Ping'an saw a thin man with shifty eyes approaching the drunk and reaching his hand into his arms.
Zhao Jingyan and Zhao Ziyu looked over at Li Ping'an's signal. For a moment, the three of them stood still. The leading man seemed to have noticed it, stopped and looked over.
While Li Ping'an was still debating whether to stand up for justice and whether he had no right to do so, the shifty-eyed man hugged his arm and wailed. Li Ping'an could only see his bloody right hand and the blood splattered on the ground.
A red rat-like creature emerged from the drunk's arms, baring its teeth.
The commotion here attracted the attention of the waiter, who walked over with a sword on his waist.
Li Ping'an had no idea about the rest, because the leading man told the three to follow.
"What's that in his arms?"
"The red-haired hamster is not rare, but the difficulty lies in that it is difficult to raise it." This is the first time that Zhao Jingyan has seen a red-haired hamster protected in this way.
The four of them turned a corner and were about to go upstairs, but Li Ping'an slowed down because she saw a familiar person.
No, she shouldn't be here.
Li Pingan hesitated for a long time at the stairs. Just as he was about to go over and say hello, Zhao Jingyan's voice came from above, "Come on, Pingan."
Never mind, maybe they just look alike.
A middle-aged woman was sitting at the table next to the stairs. After Li Ping'an turned around and went upstairs, she raised her head and followed her back for a long time, tapping the table with her fingertips, thinking about something.
Li Ping'an didn't expect that the employer would be so generous this time. He gave each person a room upstairs, with the window facing the street and a panoramic view of the scenery.
Li Ping'an leaned his hands on the window, looked out and sighed. If Annie and the others were there, they would definitely scream with excitement.
Just when Li Ping'an was feeling sad alone, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." Li Ping'an shouted.
I thought it was the waiter, but it turned out to be Zhao Jingyan and his sister. Zhao Jingyan spoke as soon as he entered the door, "This employer is so generous! Not only did they give us Pegasus to ride, but they also let us stay in the upper room. I don't know who is so rich."
"Don't you know who the employer is?" Li Ping'an suddenly remembered that the employer's information was erased when the task was released.
Zhao Jingyan shook his head. "I don't know. I didn't want to accept it at first."
"Why?"
Zhao Jingyan took two steps closer to Li Ping'an, lowered his voice, and answered embarrassedly, "Did you see the waiter downstairs just now?"
Li Ping'an didn't know why she suddenly brought up the waiter, but she nodded anyway. After all, she really didn't know that the waiters in this place had to carry knives on duty.
"I can't even beat him." After saying that, Zhao Jingyan chuckled twice, "Within three moves, he can knock me out."
Li Pingan couldn't understand why she was still having sex. This wasn't a very honorable thing to do.
"So, I said I couldn't do it. I couldn't take it."
"That person tried his best to persuade me, saying that we didn't need to do anything. In the end, I gave in. There was no other way. The commission was too high."
Hearing what Zhao Jingyan said, Li Ping'an frowned. He was eager to give money, which might be a trap.
Li Ping'an looked at Zhao Ziyu. Logically speaking, Zhao Jingyan was easily fooled, but Zhao Ziyu was obviously not someone who could be easily fooled.
Noticing Li Ping'an's gaze, Zhao Ziyu's eyes flashed. She felt that she was not familiar enough with Li Ping'an to tell him everything, but she still forgot about her sister's mouth.
"Oh, Tzuyu is trying to persuade me, but I have to go. I owe them a huge sum of money. If I don't pay them back, they're going to sell us sisters to a brothel."
"Oh, the world, oh, poverty." Zhao Jingyan sighed.
Although Li Ping'an didn't know why they owed so much money, he understood it after thinking about Zhao Jingyan.
After Zhao Ziyu heard Zhao Jingyan tell her everything at once, she covered her head with her hands, as if she had a headache. She could only comfort herself in her heart that fortunately she did not tell him how the two of them owed money.
"When we first came out, we weren't that poor. It's our fault for being inexperienced and falling for a trap."
Seeing Zhao Ziyu take two steps towards Zhao Jingyan, Li Pingan hurriedly walked between the two of them to stop Zhao Ziyu from getting any closer to her sister. She wanted to hear how these two people owed so much money.
Seeing Li Ping'an's actions, Zhao Ziyu sat down on Li's chair in despair. Forget it, it's not just one or two days that he has been embarrassed.
"Do you know where you can make money the fastest?" Zhao Jingyan suddenly hooked Li Ping'an's neck, forcing Li Ping'an to look her in the eye.
Li Pingan was struck by the sudden beauty that approached him and blurted out, "Casino."
"Yeah, I asked other people and they said the same thing."
"After entering the casino, I won the first three rounds, and I won a lot. I wanted to quit while I was ahead, but the group of people wouldn't let us leave, so we had to keep playing."
“Then, the more you lose, the more you lose.”
By the time the two of them came out of the casino, they were already in huge debt.
Li Pingan frowned. It was obvious that the two of them had been set up. "Didn't you ever think of running away?"
Anyway, this place is so big, why not just live in another city?
Zhao Jingyan shook his head. "No, if we give them the blood from our fingertips, it will be easy for them to find us."
"But fortunately, before this mission, that person returned the blood from his fingertips to us, hehe." Zhao Jingyan felt that his luck was still pretty good.
Li Pingan felt that this sounded even more wrong. Why was she still laughing foolishly?
"Didn't you try to persuade her?" Li Ping'an knew that she shouldn't ask so much of a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child, but it was obvious that her sister's brain only had so much, and as a younger sister, she must worry more.
Zhao Ziyu knew all this, but she couldn't persuade Zhao Jingyan at all. Instead, she was often led astray by him.
"At the moment, there is no problem." Whether it is catching the Thousand Spider Cicada or the itinerary, there is no problem.
"Don't worry, Tzuyu and I are so broke, what else can they gain by deceiving us?"
"At most, they're just after our bodies," Zhao Jingyan patted his chest and said proudly.
These words shocked Li Pingan. "Your body is in danger, okay? Can you not be so careless?"
"At worst, I can just work for him for two more years for free." As soon as these words came out, Li Ping'an knew that she had wrong ideas. But it was not her fault. It was Zhao Jingyan's fault for having a face that would bring disaster to the country and the people.
"Your sister is so beautiful, doesn't she have any suitors?" Li Ping'an was puzzled.
Zhao Ziyu shook her head upon hearing this, pulled Zhao Jingyan over, and pulled her right sleeve up to the top, revealing a lifelike, colorful mantis. "My sister is one of the rare people who has a companion spirit pet. Her companion spirit pet is a mantis, so those people are afraid."
It took Li Ping'an a while to realize why those people were scared. A mantis will eat the other party after biting it.
"Then your sister is afraid of being sold to a brothel." Even if she was sold to a brothel, no one would dare to look for her.
Zhao Ziyu lowered her head when she heard this. "She's afraid I'll be sold in."
Li Ping'an was silent. Suddenly, a small mantis jumped onto her hand. Li Ping'an subconsciously wanted to throw it away, but stopped abruptly.
"Look, isn't it cute?" Zhao Jingyan lay in front of Li Ping'an's hand and looked at the small colorful cockroach.
The little guy seemed to be unafraid of people. He crawled around in Li Ping'an's hands, waving two small sickles. The colorful light on his body was looming. "It's really beautiful." Li Ping'an was fascinated by it.
"But he's so small, how could he have any attack power?" Li Ping'an felt that he could knock it out with just one finger.
"No," Zhao Jingyan touched the little mantis, and it jumped onto her hand. "I don't dare to kill anyone, so it has never grown up and has always been small."
Li Ping'an wanted to touch the little mantis again, but saw it suddenly jump into Zhao Jingyan's arms and disappeared. Then, there was a knock on the door.
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