Lin Ji never thought that the capital city of a state would be like this.
After entering the city for only a moment, he had already seen four or five gambling houses and countless prostitutes.
The naked girl was standing by the roadside, showing off to the fiery eyes around her.
"How...how could this happen?" Han Li had already finished solving the matter at the city gate and chased Lin Ji.
"I'm also surprised how this could happen." Lin Ji felt a little depressed.
Before coming, he knew about the chaos in Qingzhou and Yanzhou.
But I never thought it would be so chaotic.
Although these two states are remote, they are also nine states in the Central Plains.
"A place outside the law." Lin Ji thought of this word for no reason.
These four words are perfect to describe Licheng and even Qingzhou as a whole.
As for Yanzhou, it is even more remote than Qingzhou, probably even more remote.
"Sir, do you want to come in and have a rest?" A girl called to Lin Ji.
Looking in the direction where the sound came from, I saw the white skin under the long skirt, the beautiful face, and the graceful figure.
Lin Ji got off the carriage and came to the girl.
"How old are you this year?" Lin Ji asked.
"Seventeen."
"Where are the parents?" Lin Ji asked again.
The girl was silent and shook her head.
Lin Ji understood.
"How many years have you been doing this?"
"You... do you want to come in and have a rest? If you don't come, just leave." The girl's expression changed a little.
Lin Ji realized something, turned around, and saw several guys with cold eyes staring at him not far behind him.
"Is that a snake head?" Lin Ji continued to ask.
The girl's eyes were filled with fear and she didn't dare to speak again.
And the sound of footsteps also sounded behind Lin Ji.
After a moment, a somewhat threatening voice sounded.
"Boy, if you want to play, you can play or get out. There's so much nonsense! Do you think you're a figure just because you killed those trash at the city gate? Let me tell you..."
Uh-huh.
The sword flashed and his head fell to the ground.
"Ahhh!" The girl screamed, but as soon as she made a little sound, she was so frightened that she suddenly became silent and just looked at Lin Ji with her whole body trembling.
Lin Ji gave her a reassuring look, his thoughts moved slightly, and the aura of a Japanese monk swept around.
In just an instant, all the gazes focused on him, both overt and covert, disappeared.
"How many years have you been doing this?" Lin Ji repeated the previous question.
The girl was trembling, lowered her head and said, "Six...six years."
"Only seventeen years old, six years." Lin Ji sighed.
His eyes swept around and finally landed on the headless body behind him.
This unlucky guy was probably a local snake or something like that. He would just kill such a small person, but Lin Ji knew that after he left, the fate of the girl in front of him might not be too good.
After thinking about it, Lin Ji sighed: "I still need a maid, so get in the car."
After saying that, Lin Ji sat back on the carriage and looked at the girl who was standing there at a loss.
"The smuggler is dead. What do you think will happen to you after I leave?"
As soon as these words came out, the girl trembled all over and did not hesitate again.
She cautiously came to the carriage.
"Come up." Lin Ji held the sleeping fat cat in his arms and threw the mouse underneath him behind the carriage.
The girl got into the car carefully.
At the same time, the fat cat, who was sleeping soundly, was woken up by Lin Ji grabbing the back of his neck.
"Meow...why are you disturbing my sleep?"
"You walked all the way and fell asleep all the way. Are you a pig?" Lin Ji said while petting the cat.
Aling wanted to retaliate, but thought of being held by Lin Ji in his arms, so he chose to stop talking and wait for another day.
She looked at the little girl occupying her position beside her, raised her little paw and asked, "Who is this?"
"The new maid is called...what is your name?"
"Lianyu." Lianyu replied cautiously.
"It's called Lianyu." Lin Ji's movements of petting the cat were a little slower.
Aling obviously didn't care about this. Lin Ji's big hands followed the fur, and soon she was so sleepy that she closed her eyes again.
Seeing this, Lin Ji did not disturb her, but looked at Lianyu.
"This kitten can talk, aren't you afraid?"
"A little bit, but there are also monsters in the city. I've seen them before." Lianyu said.
"Ha, that's it." Lin Ji laughed dumbly.
Also, people who can live outside the city have never seen anything like this.
The few who died at the city gate just now were monks in the second realm, and the snake head beheaded by his sword had the cultivation level of the fourth realm.
Even Lianyu in front of him seemed to have reached the peak of body tempering and was about to recuperate his energy.
"Who taught you how to practice?"
"The tiger head...is the one you just killed." Lianyu whispered.
"Why teach you to practice?"
There was a bit of pain in Lianyu's eyes, but she was not familiar with Lin Ji. Even though she thought of painful memories, she did not dare to refuse Lin Ji's inquiry.
"He said... that after training, I can withstand the torture better."
"That's it."
Lin Ji nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
In this world, there should be many such things. Even the prosperous civilized world in the previous life has not eliminated them, let alone today's Great Qin Jiuzhou?
But he still felt irritated in his heart, because he had seen and heard it with his own eyes and ears.
He couldn't change anything, so he tried to escape. If you can't control it, don't care. If you can't stand it, don't watch it.
He was just afraid that the morality in his heart would get in his way and make him upset.
"If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have come to Qingzhou. If I had taken a detour from Xiangzhou, I wouldn't have had all these troubles." Lin Ji thought to himself.
Even Han Li, who kept chattering along the way, became inexplicably silent at this time.
Just like when you come to Licheng, you have to do as the locals do and adapt to the environment here.
There are obviously people on the street, but it gives people a feeling of lifelessness.
It makes people unable to even laugh.
After a while, the carriage stopped in front of an inn.
The waiter from the inn trotted out to greet him.
"Three guests, what do you say?"
"Let someone take care of the carriage, give the old horse good feed, and then go to the three rooms." Lin Ji said as he led Han Li and Lianyu into the inn.
The cat was still in his arms, while the mouse got into Han Li's clothes.
The waiter greeted quickly, and soon someone towed the carriage away.
Then the waiter poured tea again.
"Bring over whatever specialties you have. I've been traveling for a long time and haven't even had a hot meal." Lin Ji added.
As he spoke, he handed over ten taels of silver.
Even in Beijing, this money is enough for three people to stay in a hotel and have banquets, and what they want is not dragon liver and phoenix gallbladder.
But the waiter didn't answer.
"Sir, this money is not enough."
"What?" Lin Ji raised his eyebrows, a little surprised.
"Not long after you came to Licheng, you killed several people, right?" the waiter asked with a smile.
"Oh, are foreign faces so eye-catching?" Lin Ji shook his head.
The waiter continued: "Our inn is called Fengyu, which means shelter from wind and rain."
"How to explain?"
"You come to the inn to stay overnight. What's going on outside has nothing to do with you. The inn is here to keep you safe."
The smile on the waiter's face became even bigger.
"The snakehead you killed earlier was a subordinate of Mr. Qing from the north of the city."
