Ye Fan turned around and walked slowly towards the tavern.
Akatsuki followed closely behind.
Pa! Pa! Pa!
After arriving in front of the tavern, Ye Fan knocked on the door.
There was a rustling sound from inside, but no one opened the door for Ye Fan.
"Shopkeeper, I'm a merchant passing by. I'm just passing by and would like to ask for a drink." Ye Fan spoke into the tavern.
A low sobbing sound came from inside the tavern.
It was the voice of a middle-aged woman.
Ye Fan frowned and exerted some force on his hand.
He was worried that the person inside would be in danger.
Pa! The tightly shut wooden door opened in response.
As the wooden door opened, Ye Fan saw the situation inside.
In the corner of the mud hut, a family of three was hugging tightly and looking at him in horror.
It was a middle-aged couple and a little girl who looked to be seven or eight years old.
It was this little girl who had been secretly observing Ye Fan through the crack in the door.
"Ah …" When she saw the masked Ye Fan and Akatsuki, the little girl screamed and turned around, throwing herself into the arms of the middle-aged woman.
The middle-aged woman's face was full of tears. She hugged the little girl tightly and cried softly.
Seeing Ye Fan and Akatsuki standing at the door, the middle-aged man immediately shielded his wife and daughter behind him. He knelt at the door and kowtowed repeatedly.
"Great Immortals, Great Immortals." The middle-aged man kowtowed heavily to Ye Fan and Akatsuki while crying and begging, "I beg you, let my daughter go. She's only seven years old, she's still a child!"
In the blink of an eye, the middle-aged man had kowtowed several times and his forehead was bleeding.
Great Immortals? Ye Fan and Akatsuki looked at each other, not understanding what was going on.
"Great Immortals, Great Immortals." The middle-aged man continued kowtowing and said, "If you want to eat, eat me. Let my wife and children go. I beg you, Great Immortals, I beg you!"
"Father …"
"Father of the child …"
After hearing the middle-aged man's words, the middle-aged woman and the little girl immediately cried and ran to the man's side. They hugged the man tightly and refused to let go.
The three of them cried again.
"I'm just asking for water. Who said I'm going to eat you?" Ye Fan frowned and said loudly.
Ye Fan was baffled by their cries.
The three of them who were hugging and crying were immediately stunned by Ye Fan's words.
The three of them stopped crying and looked up at Ye Fan.
"You … You two …" The middle-aged man looked at Ye Fan and Akatsuki in shock. "You two aren't … Great … Great Immortals?"
"We are humans, not Great Immortals," Ye Fan said, reaching out with his hand to help the kneeling man up.
Akatsuki also came over to help the middle-aged woman and the little girl up.
"You two … Aren't Great Immortals?" The middle-aged man said in shock. "Then … Then you two are …"
"We are merchants passing by. We encountered a sandstorm on the way and got lost," Ye Fan said to the middle-aged man. "We happened to pass by Fire Dragon Town, so we came in to take a rest. We aren't Great Immortals."
"You … Are you really merchants?" The middle-aged woman who was helped up by Akatsuki asked Akatsuki timidly.
"Big sister, we really aren't Great Immortals," Akatsuki comforted the middle-aged woman.
"God bless us! God bless us! "The middle-aged woman put her hands together and murmured with her head lowered.
"It's good that you're not Great Immortals. It's good that you're not Great Immortals!" The middle-aged man said as he quickly closed the door again. Then, he took out a wooden stick and blocked the door from the inside.
"Mother of the child, quickly, quickly pour water for the guests," the middle-aged man said to the middle-aged woman as he gestured for Ye Fan and Akatsuki to sit down.
"Yes … Yes …" The middle-aged woman replied while wiping her tears. She led the little girl who was still sobbing to the kitchen to pour water.
"Brother, what's going on?" After the three of them sat down at a wooden table, Ye Fan asked.
"Sir, you don't know. A demon has come to Fire Dragon Town. No, no, no, a Great Immortal has come …" The man realized that he had said something wrong and quickly corrected himself.
It was obvious that he was very scared.
"Great Immortal?" Ye Fan and Akatsuki looked at each other and asked, "What Great Immortal?"
"Sigh, it's a long story." The middle-aged man sighed and told Ye Fan and Little Immortal the whole story from beginning to end.
Fire Dragon Town was named after the legend that a fire dragon had appeared in this place.
Although this town was not big and only had a few hundred families, it was the only way to go to the Western Region. Every year when spring came, a large number of merchants would gather here to trade. Usually, some merchants would pass by here. They shuttled back and forth between the Great Ming Dynasty and the Western Region to do business between the two places. Silk, porcelain, antiques, horses, medicine, and everything else.
The people in the town made a living by entertaining these merchants. Almost every family had a shop.
As the saying goes, although a sparrow is small, it has all the vital organs. Although Fire Dragon Town was not big, there was nothing lacking in sensual pleasures.
Restaurants, taverns, inns, brothels, gambling houses, horse ranches, and so on. As long as it was a place to squander and enjoy, it could be said that this place had everything.
The owner of the small tavern that Ye Fan was in was surnamed Du. His wife was a local. The two of them had opened this tavern in Fire Dragon Town for more than ten years. Although their business could not be compared with those big restaurants, they lived a good life.
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