When the firecrackers burned out and the smoke and dust dispersed, several people walked into the old and old city tower, and the smell of sulfur from the firecrackers reduced the smell of stinky fish and rotten crabs in the old city...... A few people couldn't help but take a few more breaths of spicy air.

As soon as you enter the city gate, it is still the first time you see it, full of decay, dilapidation, and poverty....... On the earth-gray city wall, the group of firecrackers watched expressionlessly as several people entered the city, their thin sunken cheeks blackened by the sea breeze and the scorching sun.

The wind that swept the sand from the city blew on the faces of several people in a row, a little more chilling than the last time, and still carried a sour smell of pickled fish and salted shrimp.

On both sides of the main street leading to the city tower, there are those pavilions that were once majestic and now mottled and even destroyed, and in the middle of many ruins and broken walls, they are occupied by water birds such as water storks to make nests.

Lian Duel's words suddenly came to his mind-

Nantang Old Port is the southern Xinjiang of the Holy River Basin, which used to be prosperous, but then it suddenly declined for unknown reasons, so Nantang Old Port was called "the chess piece abandoned by the Holy River".

Even when the Shiva ghost was in the show, there were huge monsters and towering forests, all of which gave people a feeling of being overwhelmed by Mount Tai, even if they came back from that place, the old port of Nantang still made people feel depressed.......

The tall buildings that can pick up the stars are gray, full of sand and dust, and the palaces that are towering and hugging are dilapidated, and almost every palace has collapsed in half, revealing the ruins and broken pillars, and the ancient temples that hover step by step........

Even the road has been cut off, and the white flowers on the ancient temple are like snow, which is actually the feces of animals such as water birds for many years.

The main street extending from the castle tower was originally a bluestone pavement, but the bluestone slabs broke and became a dirt road of stones and sand, and there were still stacks of firewood made of broken ships on both sides of the road.

Those dark, thin, silent people of Nantang Old Port shrank in the dilapidated tents on the side of the road, opened a trace of curtains, and looked at several people with curious and terrified eyes.......

Crossing the main road into the city, the situation gradually improved, and there were many stalls in the middle of the street, drying dried fish, water cabbage and other salted food, and some half-used clothes and shoes.

The stall owners guarded the stalls, and they didn't shout, but just shook their handkerchiefs and fanned the flies.

Seeing a few people in a row, the eyes of some stall owners lit up, and they shouted from afar: "Handsome guys and beauties, what are you going to buy? The freshly fried crab is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, so you don't need to spit out the shell!"

Lian Jue knew the rules of bartering here, flipped his palm slightly, took out a ninety percent new grate from the treasure of Darong, walked up, and asked, "Oh, take this for it, okay?"

The stall owner was a tall black man, so he looked at the grate in his hand, received it in his pocket, and said contentedly, "Take five!

Lian Jue took the crab and asked kindly: "Big brother, let me ask you, someone set off firecrackers on the city tower, is it who is holding a happy event?"

The stall owner smiled and said: "Young man, you know the rules of exchanging things, I thought you were a regular customer, as soon as you asked this, it seemed to be a layman, our place is full of poor people, weddings, funerals and weddings are all improvised, who still makes a big fuss? Except for Houmen, there is no second one!"

Sure enough, it was Hou Men, and the stall owner's answer was not unexpected, and Lian Du continued to ask: "Big brother, what is Hou Men doing? ”

The stall owner shook his head and said, "Forget it, you can't get over, Houmen married his daughter today, and all the guests who came were distinguished guests, and we only had to listen to the sound of firecrackers, and we couldn't step into the threshold." ”

The stall owner said, looked at a few people in a row, showed some evil smiles, and said: "You guys are so well dressed, you don't look like some simple people, maybe you can go, as long as you have your own residence in the Holy River Valley, it's not impossible to go and join in the fun." ”

Lian Jue asked: "We are on an errand in the Longkou Dart Bureau and live in the recruit village, do we count?"

The stall owner laughed and said, "It's just a working boy, what kind of serious place to live, cough! Seeing that you are dressed brightly, I didn't expect you to be a down-and-out person, forget it, I won't tell you, you won't be able to go." ”

Lian Du nodded, said hello to the stall owner, and the three of them carried a string of fried crabs and walked towards the Houmen in their memory.

The fried crab was fragrant, Lei Shunyun couldn't help it anymore, and gnawed on it while walking, but he didn't expect the crab shell to be really crispy and crispy as the stall owner said, and he didn't have to spit it out at all.

The three of them simply walked, holding fried crabs skewered with thin bamboo skewers, slowly gnawing on the small street with a slight sea breeze, and a child on the side of the road drooled when he saw it, and Yun Geyao gave the remaining two fried crabs to the child.

The closer you get to Houmen, as in the past, there are more vendors, homeless tents and pedestrians on the street, and there are more sturdy wooden huts on both sides of the road, and even a few low houses made entirely of sand and shells.

However, there were a circle of black-clothed guards near the Hou Gate, and from a long distance, they couldn't see the scene in the Hou Gate at all.

Nearby, a sparse sapling was planted, and behind the sapling, twenty fishing boats were neatly parked, the fishing boats had no canopies and no eaves, and the hull was also old, patched, and trapped on the reef next to the tree with ropes.

Behind the fishing boats, there is a half-dried pond, the pond is very wide as a whole, but most of it has dried up, revealing cracked wetlands, and a small half of the water is floating with scattered water chestnut leaves and lotus leaves.

There is a wide open space on one side of the pond, and there are a few high-ranking carriages parked in the clearing, and the number is not much, but it is very richly decorated, and at first glance there is a generous master.

Lian Du thought, there is a sky mirror in this place in the Holy River Valley, it is very convenient to go back and forth, it is not convenient to take a carriage, presumably there are many guests who come, but there are few people who take a carriage.

Seeing Lian Du slowly walking towards the Hou Gate, Lei Shunyun walked a few steps quickly to follow, and said, "Lian Duel, why are you going?"

Lian Du looked at Lei Shunyun with a confused expression: "Let's go and join in the fun!"

"How to go?" Lei Shunyun chewed on the crispy fried crab legs and said, "Didn't that big brother just say that we are not qualified to be on an errand." ”

Lian Jue smiled and said: "Shunyun, have you forgotten that you are now the young owner of the Hanging River Post Station? There is an edict from the Holy Monarch, you can't forget about this just because we are not guarding the Hanging River Station!"