Chapter Seventy-Seven: Yongdu

Zi Yanran was woken up by Meng Tian in a daze, got dressed under Meng Tian's urging, and then got out of bed to wash, and when she went out, it was already past the hour. The two packed their luggage and walked to the gate of the county guard's mansion, Meng Yi was already waiting at the door, and there were Han Jin, Zi Mingdu and Abra to see them off. Seeing the two of them coming out of the gate together, everyone laughed again, Zi Yanran said goodbye to her father and second uncle Abra, and then the three of them rode on horses and galloped towards the gate of Beijun.

Out of the northern county town, the three of them rode fast horses all the way to the south. Beijun is almost ten days away from Xianyang, passing through several cities on the way, and finally crossing Weishui to almost reach the boundary of Xianyang. Meng Tian calculated the speed, he should arrive in Xianyang about a day later than the army led by his father, because his father led tens of thousands of troops, and the speed along the way was naturally not much faster than himself, and he set off four days later than his father, but according to the strength of the feet on both sides, the time to arrive in Xianyang should be about the same. Therefore, Meng Tian did not deliberately speed up along the way, so he took Zi Yanran and his second brother Meng Yi to travel along the way to relax.

After walking for a few days in a row, the three people traveled along the way, but they were happy. Meng Tian and Zi Yanran were together when they were fine, which made Meng Yi very uncomfortable beside them, and after a few days of walking with the two, Meng Yi first said goodbye to his eldest brother and future sister-in-law, and rode back to Xianyang to report to his family.

After separating from Meng Yi, Meng Tian and Zi Yanran rode a horse together during the day and lived in the same room at night, as if they were a loving couple.

The two rode the black wind, galloped along the official road, and arrived at Yongdu, the old capital of the Qin State, in a few days. Yongdu was the capital of Qin during the Warring States Period, when Qin was still a relatively weak vassal state, just founded by the country, with few land and sparsely populated people, and its strength was very weak. At that time, the most powerful vassal state was the Jin state, which occupied the territory of today's Han, Zhao, and Wei, and was already the most powerful vassal state in the Zhou dynasty. The national strength of the Zhou Dynasty declined, and the Jin State, as the most powerful vassal state, naturally did not accept the control of Zhou Tianzi, and began to suppress and occupy the surrounding small vassal states. At that time, the Qin State was also in the vicinity of the Jin State, but because the land of Guanxi was relatively high, and the geographical location was barren, the Jin State did not attack the Qin State. Until the Qin Mugong period, Yongdu was chosen as the capital of Qin, firstly, because Yongdu was close to Guanzhong, and secondly, Yongdu was not easy to be attacked, Yongdu was located in the Hexi Corridor, if you want to attack Yongdu, you must stretch the battle line, but this is to give the Qin people a chance, so Qin can survive under the strength of the neighboring Jin State.

"Then why is the capital of Qin now Xianyang?" Zi Yanran and Meng Tian asked while riding on the back of Hei Feng's horse and leaning on Meng Tian's arms.

Meng Tian sniffed Zi Yanran's hair, and then said: "In fact, before the capital Xianyang, the first king also made Liyang the national capital. It's just that Liyang at that time faced the Wei State that had been carved up the Jin State, and after Han, Zhao, and Wei carved up the land of the Jin State, the Wei State was still relatively strong, and the first king Xiaogong at that time was determined to reform, so he moved the capital to Xianyang, so that the capital of my Great Qin was truly stable. ”

Zi Yanran nodded, after listening to what Meng Tian said, it turned out that the history of the Qin State was not as strong as the current Qin State. Today's Qin State is already the most powerful in front of the princes of the world, not to mention that Wu Anjun killed the 400,000 troops of Zhao State in the past, and then knocked out half of the most powerful Chu State.

When the two of them were talking, they had already ridden into Yongdu. Yongdu is not far from Xianyang, and it only takes about a day to reach it by riding a fast horse, of course, if you are riding a black wind, it is not a problem to run back and forth a day, but Meng Tian doesn't want to run back and forth, just want to play outside happily with Zi Yanran for a few days.

After entering the city and finding a place to live, Meng Tian put his luggage in the house, and took Zi Yanran out to have a good look in Yongdu. Yongdu is more lively and prosperous than the current Beijun, after all, it was once the capital of the Qin State, and now it is still the capital of Xianyang City, and there is a royal palace built in the city. It can be said that most of the people living in Xianyang City were civil and military officials of the current dynasty, while Yongdu was full of princes and nobles of the Qin State. When you go out, you may be able to see a prince with an entourage who may be the brother of His Royal Highness the King of Qin today, and princes and nobles are so common.

But it is precisely because of these royal nobles that Yongdu has always been a heart disease of the King of Qin, because Yongdu is too chaotic, there was once a rich businessman and a royal child because of a dancing girl had a quarrel, and finally this royal child took a large team of people to raid the rich merchant's home, not to mention the confiscation of property, and also sent the rich merchant into the Qin army, I heard that it didn't take long to hear that the rich merchant died tragically in the barracks, and finally even the bones were not found.

Meng Tian walked down the street with Zi Yanran, and it was already close to evening, so there were a lot of people on Yongdu Street. On the street, there are those who sell some bronze drinking utensils, or sell their own coarse cloth clothes, and some things that are not seen in Beijun or are rare can be found everywhere here. Zi Yanran even saw people dressed as Yiqu herdsmen selling sheepskin and wool here.

Zi Yanran took Meng Tian's hand and turned it here and there, stopping there for a while, without any intention of stopping at all. Originally, Meng Tian just wanted to take Zi Yanran out to find a place to eat, but she didn't expect that as soon as she walked on the street, Zi Yanran was like a little wild horse out of the circle, her two legs never stopped, and Meng Tian had to follow her behind.

It was dark, and the moon hung high in the night sky, bright. Zi Yanran also ended her shopping trip and came to the place to eat with Meng Tian, who had a large bag on her body.

After ordering the food, Zi Yanran couldn't wait to open a package, take out the contents inside, and said, "Meng Tian, how about you give this necklace to your mother as a meeting gift?"

Meng Tian nodded and said, "Yes, I believe my mother will like it." In fact, you don't have to buy so many things, your mother has a lot of jewelry, and she will throw it aside when you give it to her. ”

Zi Yanran put the necklace back in the box, then carefully packed it and put it away, and said to Meng Tian: "I know that your mother is the aunt of the current King of Qin, and there are naturally many jewelry, but you see who I am, I am her future daughter-in-law, and the necklaces given by my daughter-in-law will definitely be different one by one, and I believe that your mother will be happier when she sees the gift I gave." ”

"That's a good idea. Meng Tian praised after listening to Zi Yanran's words.

The restaurant's work quickly brought over the meals ordered by the two, all of which were Zi Yanran's favorite dishes. Since leaving Beijun, Zi Yanran has fallen in love with the dishes of the Qin Kingdom, because the dishes of the Qin Kingdom taste much more than the barbecue on the grassland, sweet and sour, each with its own taste, and the food on the grassland is cheese made of goat's milk and mare's milk.

At this time, it was already evening, and there were more people eating in the restaurant, and the restaurant Meng Tian chose was a branch of the famous Zuixiang fish in Xianyang City. The restaurant's signature dish, spicy fish, is very famous in the entire Xianyang City, so Meng Tian saw that Yongdu also had a branch of drunken Xiangyu, so he pulled Zi Yanran in to eat and took her to taste the best fish in the world.

Sure enough, when the fish was brought up, the fragrance alone was enough to make people drool, and the fish was put down, but when he left, he was stopped by Zi Yanran, and he had to ask him what kind of fish this fish was, how to make it, and why it looked so delicious. The work was embarrassed, and told Zi Yanran that she didn't know how this fish was made so delicious, and everything was made by the master chef in the back kitchen. Meng Tian didn't expect Zi Yanran to ask this, these are the capital of other people's survival, how can they tell you? So Meng Tian interrupted Zi Yanran's words and sent a job to get himself wine.

Just as Meng Tian and Zi Yanran were tasting the food, someone in the restaurant suddenly shouted: "Job, where is Lao Tzu's fish? Why has it been delayed for so long? Don't you want to work here?"

Then I heard the voice of the worker: "Back to the uncle's words, the last fish was bought by the two people on the second floor just now, and the backup of the small store has been sold out today, if the uncle wants to eat, please come early tomorrow, the villain will definitely let the uncle eat our signature fish." ”

Then the voice came again: "I don't care, Lao Tzu invited someone to eat today, just to come here to eat your fish." Let's go, you take me to see which thing that doesn't know whether it's alive or dead is robbing my things in Yongdu. ”

Then there was a sound of smashing things, and then Meng Tian heard a sound of footsteps outside the door, could it be that the fish he ate was the last fish of today's drunken Hunan fish. When Meng Tian wanted to open the door, the door opened at this time, and before he could see who it was, he kicked at him, thinking that this person wanted to kick the door open, but found that the door was open, and this kick happened to Meng Tian who went to open the door.

The person who kicked the door didn't expect the person inside to open the door, but the leg kicked out couldn't be recovered, and the result was that he almost didn't make a fork on the ground.

The entourage that followed him pulled the master back, and also made his master not embarrassed outside.

Meng Tian saw that this person was dressed as a child of the Wang family, and he looked a little younger than himself, but his temper was much higher than his own.

"Who are you who dare to fool me?" said the prince to Meng Tian.

At this time, Zi Yanran had already stopped eating, looking at this idiot who broke in like a fool, disturbing her taste of food, so she sat on the seat and said to Meng Tian: "Who is this person, send him away quickly, don't affect my eating." ”

Meng Tian listened to Zi Yanran's words behind him, and then said to the prince who broke in: "I don't care who you are, you don't care who I am, let me out of this room now, otherwise I'm going to be unwelcome." ”

"Oh Huo, you are the first person in so many years to dare to talk to me like this, come on, call me!" That Wang Shizi saw that the other side was talking so arrogantly, even more arrogant than himself, and ordered his subordinates to go up and teach this person a lesson, although it seems that this person is burly and has a good face, but he has seen a lot of this kind of person in the land of Kansai, and he has fought a lot.

Seeing that the other party wanted to make a move, Meng Tian waved his hand, turned back to Zi Yanran and said, "Yanran, you eat here now, I'll come back after I go out for a while." ”

"Well, you pay attention, don't smash the things in other people's stores, or you will lose money. Zi Yanran looked at her lover with a smile.

Meng Tian nodded, led all the people who came in, then closed the door, turned around and looked at the royal child who wanted to teach him a lesson, and said, "Come on." ”