The foundation of the loess was covered with a thick layer of sand and gravel, which was rolled solid with a roller. The official road, which was more than three meters wide, was very spacious and easy to walk on.

It was only a distance of thirty miles. The old yellow wolf trained by Agou had very strong legs and played happily along the way. In less than a quarter of an hour, it carried Chu Tian to the city of Qizhou.

Outside the towering city gate, several patrolmen in black were mixed in with a group of state soldiers. They seemed to be sitting there lazily, but their eyes, sharper than those of thieves, were constantly patrolling among the people entering and leaving the city.

The old yellow wolf, which was a circle bigger than a big bull, stuck out its long tongue, jumped more than ten feet away with a "gulp", and landed heavily at the city gate. Several patrolmen were suddenly startled and straightened their bodies, and their sharp eyes quickly swept across Chu Tian's face.

A middle-aged patrolman with a vigorous face separated two state soldiers, walked over with a smile, and rushed to salute Chu Tian with a fist.

"Chu Dangtou, are you going into the city again? Hey, Old Huang, Old Huang, you better behave yourself. Last time you were walking on the street, you opened your mouth and swallowed the crowing rooster of Widow Li's house..."

Chu Tian smiled and took out half a silver coin from his sleeve and threw it out: "Brothers, please have some tea. It's okay, it's okay, swallow the widow's big rooster, with Ah Que here, even if all the widows in the world join forces, they can't do anything to Lao Huang. Um, is there something going on in the city?"

The middle-aged patrolman raised his hand swiftly, and half a piece of silver slipped into his sleeve.

Shaking his sleeves with a smile, the middle-aged patrolman patted the panting old yellow wolf on the head, and tiptoed to Chu Tian: "Tsk, it's nothing serious, just a routine arrest of bandits. A fleet of the Chu family transported 200,000 pieces of silk, but the group of uncles in Zhen Sanzhou forced them to collect 50% of the toll. The Chu family's silkworm manager is in the state capital, right?"

"Fifty percent? Isn't it twenty percent according to the rule?" Chu Tian widened his eyes in shock.

"Shh, isn't it? According to the rules, the toll is 20%, but the new silkworm manager of the Chu family took advantage of his position and scolded those masters. It made a big fuss and caused a lot of trouble. Is there any good in this?" The middle-aged patrolman shrank his neck and laughed dryly, "If we brothers are asked to arrest bandits, it depends on whether we can catch a few unlucky thieves to take the blame."

Spreading his hands, the middle-aged patrolman chuckled and said, "As for those uncles who guard the three mountains, Chu Dangtou is our brother, so he naturally knows that we can't deal with them."

Chu Tian waved his hand, laughed a few times, and licked the corner of his mouth: "One hundred thousand rolls of silk, wow, how many fish and shrimps can this sell for?"

The old yellow wolf calmed down, took small steps, and carried Chu Tian into the city of Qizhou.

Faintly, Chu Tian could still hear the patrolmen and soldiers behind him whispering, "Oh my god, isn't that the truth? Big scales for gold, small scales for silver, big bowls for meat, big bowls for wine, these days, officials are worse than thieves! Wearing this official uniform only gives you a good reputation, how much benefit can it bring?"

Chu Tian laughed in silence and shook his head slightly.

After passing through the twenty-zhang-long city gate, there is a two-hundred-acre urn city.

On weekdays when there was no war, the city wall was a self-formed market, with many small vendors setting up stalls here to sell trivial things. Chu Tian rode the old yellow wolf and walked slowly through the city wall. He exchanged a few words with the chief of the state soldiers stationed at the inner city gate, and invited them to have tea as usual, and then he entered the city of Qizhou in a serious manner.

Without Chu Tian's guidance, Old Yellow Wolf walked through the streets of Qizhou City with great familiarity. A greasy smell of powder wafted over from the front. On both sides of the refreshing bluestone street, two rows of exquisite small buildings were scattered in an orderly manner, and all the doors facing the street were closed.

In the broad daylight, there were not many people on the street. There were only a few idle men sitting at the tea stalls at the end of the street, looking around furtively. When they saw Chu Tian coming, they wanted to come up and say hello, but they didn't dare to. They just smiled and nodded at him from a distance.

Chu Tian nodded to them slightly, and the old yellow wolf walked to the end of the street with his long tongue hanging out and saliva dripping all the way. He then pushed hard with his huge claws at the varnished small door of a courtyard.

The old yellow wolf had strong muscles and great brute force. It pushed the gate with its claws, and the gate made a "click" sound, almost pushing the door frame down. The plaque with the words "Qingliu Xiaozhu" hanging on the lintel made a "click" sound, and a few wisps of dust fell from behind the plaque.

Suddenly, a sharp shout rang out from inside the door: "Which rotten-hearted bastard is it, coming to bother people in broad daylight? The door is about to break, the door is about to break, stop, stop, bastard!"

The door opened with a sound of "bang". A woman who looked to be over 40 years old, wearing a red dress and a green skirt, with seven or eight jade bracelets on her wrists, a two or three kilograms of gold chain around her neck, and a hair full of pearls and jade that could blind people, came in with her hands on the waist of a bucket and glared at Chu Tian fiercely.

“Chu Tian Chu Dang Tou!” The woman’s bright red lips stretched wide, and a large amount of saliva spurted out, scaring the old yellow wolf so much that he jumped back suddenly, thus avoiding the saliva in her mouth: “Our Qingliu Cottage is a decent place, you are…”

"Damn, do you really want me to come here in the middle of the night?" Chu Tianchao bulged his eyes at the woman, took out a garlic stick from his sleeve and shook it.

"It's certainly okay to come and drink tea and listen to music in broad daylight!" The woman's fierce face suddenly turned into a smile. She twisted her thick waist forcefully, jumped up like a fat penguin, and snatched the garlic strips from Chu Tian's hand with one hand incomparably.

With her right eye wide open and her left eye tightly shut, the woman stuffed the garlic stick gold into her teeth and bit it hard. She immediately smiled and said softly, "Pure gold. Hey, Chu Dangtou has made a fortune? Come in, come in, you short-lived bitches, hurry up and dress up, Chu Dangtou is coming!"

With a giggle, the woman twisted her round waist and shouted loudly: "My dear daughters, the Chu Dangtou you've been thinking about the most is here! Don't sleep anymore, what are you sleeping for? You'll have plenty of time to sleep when you die! Come here with some living people, Chu Dangtou is here!"

The woman waved the garlic stick viciously, her eyes wide open, staring fiercely at the empty and exquisite courtyard.

"Mother Xiu, just go and do your work. Haha, I just came to chat with Aunt Hong. Please bring me a pot of tea!" Chu Tian patted the old yellow wolf's neck. The old yellow wolf lightly jumped into the yard, flicked its thick and powerful tail to close the two gates tightly, and raised its hind paw to hang the bolt.

Without being called, the old yellow wolf walked along the corridor in the yard towards the backyard with great familiarity.

Mother Xiu smiled like a flower, responded to Chu Tian quickly, stuffed the garlic sticks into her sleeves, and skipped happily all the way.

Going around the large courtyard in front and walking along a cobblestone corridor for more than ten meters, there are several exquisite courtyards lined up in a row behind.

The old yellow wolf came to the first courtyard door on the right side, and then he lay heavily on the open space outside the door, sweeping the ground with his long tail. Chu Tian patted its head, straightened his clothes, gently opened the courtyard door and walked in.