Meng Xiang walked into a very simple shop and ordered very simple dishes, a plate of beef sauce, a plate of salted duck, a plate of leek scrambled eggs, and a pot of ordinary soju.

While eating, Yan Shi found that Meng Xiang was a little absent-minded, ate very little vegetables and almost never drank wine. He turned his eyes to the opposite side of the street from time to time, and his eyes were very strange, at least he had never seen it in his eyes.

What attracted his attention? Yan Shi followed Meng Xiang's gaze. He quickly saw it clearly, but he quickly shook his head and denied his own guess.

Meng Xiang looked at a small noodle restaurant that was more simple than the restaurant they were in. The main body of the noodle restaurant was only half of the house. If it weren't for a shed outside, I wouldn't even be able to set up two tables.

The noodle shop is not only small in size, but also has a very simple staff. There is only one person inside and outside, a girl about 18 or 19 years old. Her figure and face shape are pretty good, and she can also attract some people's attention. But God is not fair to her, and she has added a birthmark to her pretty cheek.

The birthmark was purple and slightly black, and it was very large, covering almost half of her right cheek, so she couldn't do it even if she wanted to cover it with her hair. I don't know if it was because the birthmark on her cheek was too scary, and there were many people walking through the narrow streets, but not many people went to her to eat noodles.

When he first saw the girl with a birthmark on his face, Yan Shi once thought that it was her who attracted Meng Xiang's attention because he found that Meng Xiang's eyes were following her. But he quickly denied this idea.

In the more than three years in Fengshu Town, Meng Xiang won the first place in the Fengshu Town Hunting Competition and the once-in-a-decade hunting competition between villages and towns, the beautiful girl and daughter-in-law in the town shone with their eyes and their faces flushed when they saw him. He believed that as long as he was willing, even if he just hooked his fingers or turned a wink to make a hint, they would give him a hint.

However, for more than three years, he never saw him showing even a slight interest in any woman. Not to mention, this girl who opened the noodle restaurant has an ugly birthmark. Even if she does not have a birthmark, she may not be as beautiful as the women who admire Meng Xiang in Fengshu Town, so no matter from any aspect, she cannot be so attractive to Meng Xiang.

Soon, he noticed that Meng Xiang retracted his gaze and stopped looking at the girl. He finally confirmed that his guess was not the girl who attracted his attention, but something else he had not noticed. But he could not see Meng Xiang's heart, otherwise he would be shocked.

The girl who opened a small noodle restaurant was named Zhao Xuezhu. She was one of the two most important people to Meng Xiang in her previous life. One was the old man who saved him from Nu Longjiang and raised him, and he gave him life; the other was Zhao Xuezhu, who made him understand the meaning of living.

The encounter between Meng Xiang and Zhao Xuezhu was actually quite accidental. In his previous life, he had no identity certificate and was troubled by the guard when he entered Tiemu City. Specifically, it was the yellow-eyed officer who was angry with him with a trick not long ago, and he crushed his wrist bones and broke many bones on the city wall. His name was Huang Shulang.

In his previous life, he naturally did not have the strength he is now. Not to mention attacking Huang Shulang, he didn't dare to say even a complaint. The only thing he could do was to beg. But Huang Shulang's heart seemed to be made of iron stone, and no matter how he begs, he was not moved at all.

About half an hour later, he realized the real reason why Huang Shulang made things difficult for him. He fell in love with the silver he carried. At that time, he had neither storage bracelet nor silver notes. Although the five hundred silver was not much, and he hid it in his clothes, he could not hide under the poisonous eyes of Huang Shulang who had seen countless people.

According to regulations, it was also to find some cheap labor to do some dirty and tiring work. People who came to Tiemu City could enter the city even without an identity certificate. They only needed to pay ten taels of silver to enter the city.

If they can make significant contributions to Tiemu City during their lifetime and be licensed by the city lord, they can obtain the status of Tiemu City, become residents of Tiemu City, and enjoy the same treatment as the indigenous residents of Tiemu City.

Of course, there are very few people who can make significant contributions to Tiemu City and obtain the city lord's franchise, but this extremely small probability has attracted countless people to Tiemu City.

Meng Xiang did his homework before coming to Tiemu City. He asked the caravan he followed about Tiemu City a lot, so he also learned about the greed of the officers guarding the city.

After knowing Huang Shulang's true intention, Meng Xiang was reluctant to leave, but he still took out another fifty taels of silver, hoping that he would give him some convenience. However, he underestimated Huang Shulang's greed, and after getting sixty taels of silver, he was still not satisfied, just holding him out of letting him go.

After a long time, Huang Shulang saw that he was not tactful, so he simply started to rob. Meng Xiang naturally didn't want to, because he knew from the caravan that it was hard to move without money in Tiemu City. So he got entangled with Huang Shulang and his men.

Although he worked hard to hunt more valuable prey in Maple Town for three years, which made his body stronger, he could not be the opponent of those city guards like wolves and tigers. Seeing that the silver in the bag was about to be stolen, things suddenly turned around.

Of course, the so-called turning point was just his thoughts at that time. In fact, it was not only not a turning point, but also a pusher that allowed him to fall further into the abyss.

Li Yaoting brought his guard to the Xicheng Gate to inspect the situation. Meng Xiang took him as hope, grabbed him, and told Huang Shulang what he did, hoping that he could uphold justice for him.

At that time, Li Yaoting acted very fairly and attracted Huang Shulang to inquire about the situation with the soldiers who took action. However, before Huang Shulang finished speaking, he believed that he was attacking the soldiers guarding the city in front and then falsely accusing others.

Next, he asked him Huang Shulang and others to beat him hard, and then took away all the silver in his bag as a so-called fine. If he hadn't hid twenty broken silver in his boots, he would have been almost penniless. Fortunately, he finally entered Tiemu City and found a doctor to cure his injuries, otherwise he would have died outside Tiemu City.

It seemed that Meng Xiang's bad luck was not over yet. The doctor he found was very heartless. He just bandaged him a little, and after he took a hard and bitter pill, he took away eighteen taels of his last twenty taels of silver.

In the following time, Meng Xiang went to various places to look for job opportunities during the day, but because he did not have an identity certificate, he asked him to pay a deposit in those places, ranging from a dozen or twenty taels to a hundred taels. However, he only had less than two taels of silver on him and could not pay the deposit at all, so he naturally could not get a job opportunity.

At night, he became even worse. He had almost never slept peacefully. Sometimes he had to change several places a night. Because in order to eat, he did not want to spend the poor silver he had on his body in a hotel. Even if he was willing to stay in a hotel, others might not be willing to accept him, a person of unknown origin.

In this case, he can only find a place to sleep outside, but some good places, such as the uninhabited dilapidated house, are occupied by other homeless people, and he can't get in at all. If he squeezes hard, he will be beaten. Therefore, he can only wander around, but wandering on the street at night is also a very dangerous thing.

The troops in charge of public security in Tiemu City are called Urban Management, and they can be seen both day and night. Whether outsiders or local residents in Tiemu City see them, they are like mice seeing cats, and they are afraid of being hiding because they are cruel and ruthless, and they will often hurt and kill people during the law enforcement process.

When it comes to the people who are most afraid of urban management, there are homeless people like Meng Xiang who have no status. Especially at night, once they are caught, they will take heavy actions and beat them up. Many people will be beaten to death like this.

If you are lucky enough to not die, you don’t have to be happy, because their fate may not be better than those who died. They will be thrown outside the city mercilessly by the city management. Outside the city full of dangers and severely injured, the only fate is that they are eaten by various beasts and ferocious beasts seeking food. People who are lucky enough to not die at that time generally don’t survive for long, and the only difference is that they die early and late.

He was in a panic all day long. Although Meng Xiang had tried his best to reduce the food standard, he could not be called a food standard. He just wanted to not starve to death. However, with the price level of Tiemucheng, the less than two taels of silver was still almost spent.

At this time, he had not found a job, and losing money means he was not far from starving to death. Meng Xiang was really desperate. He had thought of leaving Tiemu City, but no one was willing to take him. With his own skills, let alone returning to Maple Town, two thousand miles away, he would probably be eaten by beasts and ferocious beasts less than twenty miles away from Tiemu City.

At that time, Meng Xiang had less than ten big money in his hand and couldn't even buy a steamed bun, but he hadn't eaten for five days. His eyes were black and his legs were shaking. If he didn't eat, he might fall and never wake up again. Finally, after some observation, he entered a small noodle restaurant, which was the small noodle restaurant opened by Zhao Xuezhu.

There was no other reason why Meng Xiang chose the small noodle restaurant opened by Zhao Xuezhu. It was entirely because Zhao Xuezhu was the only one in the noodle restaurant, and he planned to eat the King of Kings. After Zhao Xuezhu found that he had no money to pay the bill, even if he went to beat him, he would not be hurt too much.

However, Meng Xiang did not expect that it was because of that seemingly ridiculous choice that he and her had a lifelong bond.
Chapter completed!