Liu Zhiqing was obedient and honest all the way. In fact, this was the only thing on the ship, and she had no place to hang around.

After a long journey, the fleet was also replaced by a motorcade. The motorcade stopped moving after arriving in Qinzhou. Zhao Yuan took all the transportation and set off straight to Dunhuang with Liu Zhiqing.

Hangzhou belongs to the Jiangnan area. It is green and full of vitality everywhere you look. But when you enter the northwest, it seems that the vitality suddenly disappears from the ground without a trace. Everywhere you look is yellow.

, the wind blew, rolling up the yellow sand all over the sky, as if you could fill a mouthful of yellow sand with your mouth.

"What the hell is this place? Where is the place for people?"

Liu Zhiqing complained that it was already a bit cold in this place now. Liu Zhiqing had been wrapped up in three layers of clothes, covering her mouth and nose, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.

It is a girl's nature to love beauty, but there is no trace of beauty in what she wears. Moreover, she was fine on the boat before, but now she is riding alone, and at the end of the day, her body feels like it will be shaken to pieces.

Zhao Yuan was a bit gloating: "I tried to persuade you not to follow, but you insist on following. You are completely asking for trouble."

Now the Northwest is not like in the past. Many places are almost deserted. After the imperial court abandoned Jiayuguan, the original Silk Road was also interrupted, and the number of business travel here also dropped sharply. Some inns and restaurants that originally relied on business travel to survive had to

collapse.

Zhao Yuan and the two walked on the official road, but even so, they could occasionally see one or two passing tourists, and occasionally one or two earth-yellow adobe houses on the roadside, as well as shepherds driving their sheep.

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But Liu Zhiqing retorted: "Don't think of me as some fragile young lady, I have been in the world, so what does this mean?"

Zhao Yuan smiled, looked at the sky, and said: "It seems that we have to find a place to stay, otherwise we will have to sleep in the wilderness tonight!"

The nights in the northwest are extremely cold at the moment. If you are not well prepared, you will easily freeze to death. The sun has already set in the west, and it is not far from dark. It is obvious that you can't wait to find an inn.

Fortunately, not long after the two of them left, they finally saw a wine flag flying in the distance under the dark sky. For the two people who were already a little tired, it was like a drowning person who found a life-saving straw and could finally have a good rest.

one time.

"Sir, do you two want to stay in a hotel?"

The waiter at the front door greeted me unusually warmly.

Zhao Yuan glanced at the store and saw that it was already full of people. He didn't expect that there were so many people in such a remote store, so he asked: "Is there any room left?"

The waiter said: "To be fair to the guest, there are many people today, and there is only one room left."

"How about one room?"

Liu Zhiqing said immediately, "I also plan to take a bath."

The waiter said: "Sir, taking a bath is a bit troublesome. Water here is more expensive than gold. You two should think about it. If you don't want to stay in a hotel, there is another store thirty miles ahead."

Zhao Yuandao: "Okay, we need the room. Help us sign the horse and feed it, and get some food by the way."

The waiter immediately called someone to take away the horse, and the two of them also stepped into the store. The moment they entered the store, countless eyes were focused on them, but after a moment, these eyes were all different, drinking and talking, as if they were talking about something.

Nothing happened as before.

Zhao Yuan also took a look at the people in front of him. They were basically martial arts people, carrying various weapons. Among them were white-haired old men, pretty women, and some vicious-looking villains. They were like Jianghu.

All three religions and nine streams are concentrated here.

The two found an empty seat and sat down, and the food was quickly served, including mutton, wine, white membrane and mutton soup. For the material-poor Northwest, mutton was the main meat.

Liu Zhiqing took off her face towel and looked at the meat in front of her. She frowned and said, "How can you eat this? Is there nothing else?"

Zhao Yuan grabbed a piece of mutton without politeness and took a deep bite.

There are no other seasonings for the mutton. It seems to just add salt. It is an extremely simple method. However, this method can maintain the deliciousness of the mutton. The mutton soup directly stews the hot mutton.

A few green chopped green onions are sprinkled on it, and the steamed buns are grilled. The pasta in the north is stronger and chewier than in the south. The baked steamed bun noodles are full of fragrance, and when dipped in mutton soup, the gaps in the steamed buns will appear.

It will be filled with broth.

Zhao Yuan had long been accustomed to this rough way of eating, eating mutton and drinking wine. However, Liu Zhiqing frowned at the dinner where the table was full of meat and there were no vegetables at all, and said: "Is it just that?

Nothing else?"

Zhao Yuandao: "What do you think this place can offer? Eat something quickly, otherwise we will be hungry at night, and we will have to rush tomorrow morning!"

Liu Zhiqing frowned and carefully picked up a piece of meat, with a vicious expression on her face, as if the piece of meat in front of her was her enemy.

After hesitating for a while, she put the small piece of meat into her mouth. She was about to put it in her mouth when she heard a thud, a wine jar was placed on the table, and then someone shouted loudly:

: "Little girl, come and have a drink with me!"

After being frightened, Liu Zhiqing finally plucked up the courage and almost put the meat into her mouth, but her hands shook and the meat fell on the table with a clatter.

Liu Zhiqing turned her head in anger and said angrily: "What are you doing?"

Liu Zhiqing's appearance is not bad to begin with. Although she has been running around outside every day and has not put any makeup on her face, her natural beauty cannot be concealed.

And Zhao Yuan looked weak, so some people had evil thoughts.

The big man laughed, stretched out his hand to touch Liu Zhiqing's face, and said with a smile: "You can look so good even when you are angry."

Seeing that his hand was about to touch Liu Zhiqing's face, suddenly he couldn't move any further. There was a cold voice next to him: "Take your stinky hand back!"

The big man was stunned and found that his wrist was being pinched by the young man sitting next to him, and said angrily: "You..."

Before I could say this, I felt like I was spinning all day long, and my whole body fell hard to the ground with a bang.

The big man's fall was not light, and he was so shocked that he didn't even know how the other party made the move.

Seeing that he had suffered a secret loss, several of his companions stood up and rushed over with their weapons, shouting: "Boy, you are looking for death!"

Zhao Yuan didn't want to cause trouble, but if someone was looking for trouble, that would be a different matter. He immediately stood up and grabbed his own weapon, which was an ordinary-looking knife.

"Everyone, we don't allow fighting in this store. If we do, I'm going to shoot them!"

Just when the two sides were about to get into trouble, a faint, yet somewhat enchanting voice came, and then the sound of thumping footsteps came from the wooden stairs.

Everyone couldn't help but look towards the source of the sound, and saw that the speaker was a woman in red clothes, about thirty years old, but the years did not seem to leave the slightest trace on her face, but compared to

Liu Zhiqing has a bit more mature charm.

The entire store seemed to have frozen in time, it was unusually quiet, and all eyes were focused on that enchanting body.

The shop owner slowly walked to the middle corner platform of the steps, leaned a little lazily on the railing, and said: "Zhenxi Five Evils, I can't control what you are doing outside, but in this shop

, you’d better be honest, otherwise, I’ll have to kick them out myself!”

After that, he looked at Zhao Yuan again and said: "This little brother seems to be here for the first time. Let me tell you the rules of the store, that is, no matter how big the hatred is, you must resolve it when you go to the store."

Outside, please don’t do anything in the store!”

Zhao Yuan clapped his hands and said: "The shop owner misunderstood, I had no intention of doing anything, but this brother did something to the female companion next to me. This is not something I can tolerate. Now it is just a small punishment but a big warning.

If there is a next time, I will ask for his hand!"

The shop owner chuckled and said, "It seems that I am still very confident in my skills."

Zhao Yuandao: "Confidence can't be mentioned, but I am still confident in dealing with these people. I have to say, shopkeeper, you saved them!"

The big man who fell to the ground was stunned for a moment, then stood up and said angrily: "What did you say?"

The shop owner said faintly: "He is right. You are no match for him. Just sit back and drink and eat meat."

All eyes were focused on Zhao Yuan at this moment. They never expected that this young man had such skill?

"snort!"

The big man snorted angrily and slowly sat back in his seat.

"Papa..."
Chapter completed!