Chapter 53: The First Arrival in Xi'an

Winter snow has long been known as snow in the world, and it is said that the thicker the snow accumulates in the winter, the better the harvest will be in the coming year. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

But this is really just a rumor, because of the scene of this year, many people who have been killed no longer agree with this statement.

These many people are ordinary people in the northwest region who have just experienced the extraordinarily generous gift of the first winter of heaven.

Gansu and Shaanxi provinces and seven provinces are particularly white disasters, which is a book played by Zhou Wenyu of the Northwest Provincial Governor to the imperial court after the year.

It's a pity that this straightforward account of the disaster is obviously submerged or completely ignored, and the death of the first emperor and the succession of the new emperor are obviously much more important than the disaster in the northwest.

This is the current situation in the northwest, the disaster is extremely heavy, but the imperial court has no explanation at all. The people in the disaster area were left to fend for themselves.

When Liu Shuangli came to Shaanxi, he saw such a situation.

It is the beginning of spring, but there is no spring in the northwest. As far as the eye could see, the snow and ice were still pressing against the earth, and there was not a trace of green grass to be seen.

When the snow falls heavily, it becomes a disaster, and when it is said, it becomes a debt. This is a joke that Liu Shuangli heard after entering Shaanxi. Because the person who said this to her said it with a smile, but in Liu Shuangli's opinion, his laughter was more heart-wrenching than crying.

"Young man, you are really strange, you have a good life in the prosperous temple in the east, but you have to go to our northwest desert to suffer, what are you doing? The uncle who spoke pushed back like this.

"I'm not here to play, I'm here to find someone. Liu Shuangli replied. But in my heart, I thought: Today, everywhere is almost everywhere. Turmoil, poverty, except for the people in Jiangnan, whose life is better, the rest of the world is almost the same!

"Looking for someone, what kind of person, it's really pitiful, you have been brought to us, what a miserable life!"

"Uncle, do you know who is in this area who is recruiting girls around the age of ten?" asked Liu Shuangli.

"Recruit girls about ten years old?" the poor and hungry man shook his head, "No, unless someone degrades it and sells it." ”

"People are depreciated, and they are used to sell?" Liu Shuangli turned pale in shock.

"Yes, now there is nothing else to sell except to sell people. ”

"How can this work. ”

The hungry man smiled, and smiled very reasonably: "Why can't this work?" ”

"This-" Liu Shuangli was stunned, recalling the expression on his face and the words she said when she finally saw Lian'er's father, Ye Jinxin, the fifth hall master of the Zhengbei League, before she set off here, under the arrangement of Han Ergongzi.

Liu Shuangxuan sighed, it turned out that the Ye Wutang Master at that time, with such a painful expression, he was already thinking and worrying about this.

But Liu Shuangli didn't believe that Yan Luodian had worked hard to catch people, and he would just send them here to sell.

However, there is no guarantee, what if there is an accident?

The people here are so poor that they are left to sell people!

couldn't inquire about the situation, Liu Shuangli could only say goodbye to the hungry man and move forward. When she came to Shaanxi, there was actually no specific destination, because there were not many clues provided to her by Hanfu.

It's just that Liu Shuangli can't resist her own temperament, even if she knows that the hope of coming here to find someone is very slim, she still has to come, and she has to do all the last effort.

In this way, after the New Year, Liu Shuangli went all the way aimlessly in Shaanxi Prefect Prefecture for more than two months, and she still didn't find any clues about Lian'er.

Looking at the days, it is late March, and Qin Siyang's fourteenth birthday is also in these few days. But there was no news from the capital. Liu Shuangli couldn't help but worry about the situation in the capital again.

The new emperor boarded the plane, the ninety-five, but he had no intention of sitting in this position, but now he was finally forced to sit up, can he, can he sit firmly?

I really want to go back to the capital to see how he is doing? Can he suppress the people around him, is his health good, and is his life unstable?

But Liu Shuangli forcibly suppressed this idea again, because she knew that it would be useless for her to go back.

Although, Sister Ling Xue told her, and the two sons of the Han Mansion also told her: She doesn't have to do anything, she just needs to ensure that she is safe.

The thoughts and worries in my heart cannot stop the passage of time. The days went by, and the time finally entered April.

Liu Shuangli stood on a barren hillside, looking ahead. In front of her is the ancient city of Chang'an, the ancient capital of the old times, now known as Xi'an.

After wandering in Shaanxi for more than two months, Liu Shuangli walked through Weishui, climbed through the Qinling Mountains, waded through Lingshui, climbed Taibai, went around this big circle, and at the last moment, finally stepped into the ancient city of Xi'an, which was once a prosperous place in the northwest.

When he first stepped into Xi'an, Liu Shuangli only felt that it was really worthy of being an ancient city, even if Shaanxi was affected by the big white disaster, it would not have much impact on its provincial capital Xi'an.

It looks like there is still a constant flow of people, the market is still thriving, and people's lives, on the surface, are still doing well. Most of the ragged and homeless people are concentrated in the southwest of the city. On the street in the southwest corner of the city, unlike other markets, the most conspicuous place there is a number of high platforms, on which people can not bear to be bored with human trafficking.

Just as the hungry uncle said when he first entered Shaanxi, after the disaster, people have nothing to sell except to sell their sons and daughters. Not only that, but in the end, they will even sell themselves.

Liu Shuangli walked back and forth in the southwest for most of the day, but did not find any information she wanted to get. Seeing that it was already dark, I had no choice but to give up, and casually found an inn on the north corner of the street to settle down temporarily.

I didn't say anything all night, and when I got up the next day, after a simple meal, I checked in the city for another day, but I still found nothing. On the third day, on the fourth day, it was still like this, and there was nothing to be gained.

Early in the morning of the fifth day, before dawn and there were not a few pedestrians on the street, Liu Shuangli had breakfast and went out. She thought that if there was still nothing to gain on this day, then she would have no choice but to give up, leave the ancient city of Chang'an, and then make the next step.

The morning of the fifth day was the same as the first four days.

In the early afternoon, it was very bright and a warm wind was blowing from the south. There were few pedestrians in the market, and most of the vendors who stood by the stalls were lazily lying in front of the stalls, napping.

Liu Shuangli had just eaten something in front of a small stall and filled his stomach at noon. At this time, he stood in the corner of the market, with his back against a long alley behind him, looking up at the blue sky.

The street market with no pedestrians is quiet.

Liu Shuangli lowered his head, turned around and looked at the alley that looked like he could see the bottom.

At the other end of the alley, there is also a street, but there is not a single shop. I heard that many years ago, it was the location of the imperial city of Xi'an. Since I don't know how many years ago, after this place was no longer used as a capital, the imperial city began to fall into ruins.

After Taizu ruled the world, he divided the world, and his three sons were sealed in this ancient city of Xi'an, known as the king of Chang. Although King Chang is known as Chang, he is the shortest-lived of all kings. In the tenth year of Taizu, he was stripped of the throne because of a false idiom. Since then, the Changwang Mansion built by King Chang in the old imperial city in the city has been abandoned.

The street where King Chang's Mansion is located has also been abandoned.

However, in the next few generations, the bell tower, the City God Temple, and the offices of government officials at all levels have been built on this street. The street also flourished, and the bricks and stones of the street were replaced with new hard bricks. But for some reason, the shops didn't follow into this street. This street has become a veritable street of government offices.

Therefore, this street was first named Wang Street, and then it was named Guan Street. Although it is not the official name of this street, the people in Xi'an City have called it so.

Since Liu Shuangli came to Xi'an City, he has heard a lot of the glorious past of this street. Now, she has been in the city for five days, but she has only been to this official street once, and that time she has only walked a small half street. Because there are very few pedestrians who have nothing to do. It's so out of place for her to walk up there if she's fine.

It's just that today, since I've decided to leave here, let's go for a final walk.

Liu Shuangli thought so, looked at the sky one last time, no longer hesitated, stepped into the alley, and walked towards Xi'an Guanjie.

At the end of the alley, within five steps of Guanjie, I suddenly saw a richly decorated two-horse carriage galloping from the other corner of the street.

The carriage galloped by, the dust was blowing, Liu Shuangli stretched out his hand to cover his nostrils, and looked over curiously.

I saw that the curtain on the carriage was half-hung, and a young man with a dark face but a good temperament was half-leaning in front of the window, his eyes wandering, and he didn't know where to look.

Liu Shuangli strode up the official street with some curiosity, and followed behind the luxurious two-horse carriage from a distance. But he saw that the carriage had not gone far, and had passed the alley, and had only gone less than a hundred paces before stopping.

As soon as the carriage stopped, a man walked out of front of the gate where it stopped, an old man dressed as a white-haired and purple-clothed butler.

The old man smiled and greeted the carriage, and the people in the carriage also got off one after another. The dark-faced young man Liu Shuangli had seen earlier was obviously the owner of the carriage. Seeing him get out of the car, he also bowed back to the old man with a smile on his face. And the servant who followed the owner of the car was a handsome young man with a white face and no more than sixteen or seventeen years old. Standing upright, holding a big red cloth bag behind him, he didn't know what was inside.

After greeting the old man who came out and the dark-faced car owner, he welcomed the two masters and servants with a good temperament into the house. Liu Shuangli watched the two carriages turn around and went away, and then walked slowly to the front and looked up, only to see that the big red letters on the door of this mansion were written in the political secretary's mansion.

Liu Shuangli was stunned for a moment, and just as he wanted to get closer to look at it, the guards at the door glared and shouted to drive people away. Liu Shuangli stuck out his tongue when he saw this, didn't dare to lean forward again, and hurriedly put on a smile and stepped back. (To be continued.) )