"Really? If it's like what my brother said, that would be great! Come on, let's go and ask!" Miffin became happy again and said jumping up and down.
"Lone Star City?" When he came to the city gate, he looked at the three vigorous and time-honored characters above the city gate and read softly.
"Huh? How could someone give this city such an unlucky name?" Mi Fen looked puzzled.
Qin Dong was stunned for a moment, and then he came to his senses. No wonder he felt weird when he saw these three words. 'Lone Star' is indeed not very auspicious. However, there is only such a lonely city within a thousand miles, so calling it Lone Star City is very appropriate. [
"You two, stop!" Qin Dong and Mi Fen were about to go into the city to take a look when they were suddenly stopped by a rough voice.
Qin Dong turned around and saw a stocky middle-aged man, dressed like a soldier, striding towards them with an impatient look on his face.
Qin Dong was just taking advantage of the situation and didn't want to cause trouble. Although the middle-aged man's tone and expression made him feel unhappy, he still held back and stopped.
"You two are blind! Can you leave here?" The middle-aged man came over, looked at Qin Dong and Mi Fen up and down, and then scolded them with a look of disdain.
Mi Fen'e frowned. What she couldn't stand the most was this kind of villain's behavior of taking advantage of others' power and looking down on others. She was about to explode, but was stopped by Qin Dong's eyes.
Qin Dong pointed to the city gate and said with a smile, "I want to enter the city. If not here, where should I go?"
The middle-aged man pointed to the left side of the city gate and said with a cruel smile, "There!"
Only then did Qin Dong and Mi Fen discover that a small door had been cut on the left side of the city gate, which could only accommodate one person passing sideways.
"Why?" Qin Dong was puzzled. He left the large door open to prevent people from walking through, but let people go through the small door, which was not much bigger than a dog hole. Why was this
"Why do we have to go through that small door? Aren't those people all going through the main door?" Miffin pointed dissatisfied at the pedestrians who were going in and out of the main door.
"Ha! It's so funny. How can you refugees from the north enjoy the same treatment as us residents of Lone Star City?"
"Refugee? You...who do you call a refugee?!" Mifen had never been belittled like this before, and her face turned red with anger.
"Of course it's you two, is it me?"
Qin Dong looked down at himself, then turned to look at Mi Fen. The two of them had been trekking in the wilderness for the past five or six days, and they had not taken care of their appearance seriously at all. There are only two people, Qin Dong and Mi Fen. Black pigs don't think crows are black, so it doesn't matter. But now compared with the city gate official in front of him, he really looks a bit like a refugee.
After comforting Mi Fen, Qin Dong asked the city gate official, "Why are there so many refugees in the north?"
"You don't know? There is a war in the north. The army of Beiyan Kingdom has almost wiped out six or seven small countries in the north."
"But why did they come here instead of taking refuge in the Central Plains, such as Longyuan Kingdom, Feitian Kingdom, and Jinxia Kingdom?"
Sure enough, it was because of the unification war launched by the Northern Yan Kingdom that it was inevitable that so many people would come from the north. War has always been cruel, and Qin Dong did not expect this result. So I didn't feel anything strange. What really makes him wonder is, why don't people from the north go directly to the Central Plains? It's richer there, more suitable for survival, and it should be much closer than here.
"I heard that the reason why the Beiyan Kingdom launched the war was entirely under the instruction of a man named Qin Dong. I don't know where the man named Qin Dong came from, but he was very powerful! I heard that all three empires were under his control . If those refugees fled to the three major empires, wouldn’t they be falling into a trap?"[
Qin Dong was really surprised by the city gate official's words. Unexpectedly, his instructions to the Emperor of Beiyan to unify the north would be made known to everyone.
It's not that Qin Dong pities his own reputation. Since he initiated this war, he will naturally admit it frankly. But what he couldn't figure out was that he always kept a low profile, and the matter of instructing the Emperor of Beiyan to unify the north by force was extremely confidential. Only the emperor of Beiyan Kingdom and a few people in Biyou Palace knew.
There is absolutely no need for them to make this known to everyone, if they are not too stupid. Now that Qin Dong's reputation has spread throughout the far west, there must be something not simple behind this.
"Fern'er, let's go!" Qin Dong said to Mi Fen calmly.
"Where to go?" Mifen was stunned for a moment.
Qin Dong looked at the city gate official with a smile and said, "Didn't this official say that refugees should use the small gate? We can't make it difficult for the official to enter the city through the small gate!"
"Brother!" Fen'er was holding back her anger and wanted to repair the city gate officer, but she didn't expect Qin Dong to swallow his anger and was greatly disappointed.
"Stop talking and be obedient!" Qin Dong's expression became serious.
Mi Fen turned around and glared at the city gate officer fiercely. Just as he and Qin Dong were about to enter the city from the small gate, they didn't expect the city gate officer to stand in front of them again.
"Hey, what else do you want to do?" Mi Fen pinched her waist with both hands, looking angry.
The city gate officer snorted coldly and said, "Since you have just arrived in Lone Star City and don't understand the rules, I won't argue with you. Refugees must enter the city through a small gate, but they have to pay a 'passing fee'!"
"Since we are refugees, where can I have the money to pay you the 'passing fee'? You are deliberately making things difficult!" Mi Fen yelled angrily.
"Little girl, you can eat food indiscriminately, but you can't say anything indiscriminately. Of course our city lord knows that the refugees have no money, so we don't charge money."
"Then what do you want?" Mifen opened her eyes curiously.
The city gate officer crossed his index fingers together, waved them in front of Mi Fen's eyes, and said, "Ten gems!"
Mifen burst out laughing after hearing this and said, "It's so funny. You don't even have money. Where did you get the gems?"
"It doesn't matter! Fifty miles north from here, there is a mine there, which is rich in gems. You can go pick it yourself! If you have collected ten pieces, you can enter the city!"
"You... you are clearly 'forcing' the refugees to do hard work for you!" Mi Fen said in an angry tone.
"You don't have to do it? No one is 'forcing' you. But you can't enter this Lone Star City." The city gate officer's face was filled with a gloomy and indifferent smile.
"You... Okay! If you ask me to pick ten gems, I will pick a hundred or a thousand gems. I will completely mine your mine and make you cry without tears!" Mi Fen yelled in a fierce voice.
The city gate officer seemed to have heard some big joke and laughed loudly.
"What are you laughing at!?" Mifen yelled. [