Chapter Twenty-Four: Arriving at the Prison City
The two of them got into the car and continued to set off slowly and leisurely towards the town of Prison.
After passing the tea shop, there are obviously more people on the road, there is no one on the road before, occasionally you can see a large convoy passing by, and some people are riding horses galloping by, and there are people with bags on the side of the road walking slowly and leisurely.
The road is also much better than before, the previous road is obviously a road formed by more people walking, and this side can be seen at a glance that it was built by man.
From the moment she saw the first person passing by, Zifeng hid herself in Qingfenglan's clothes, and never showed her head, but just observed the people and things around her through the gaps in her clothes.
Qingfeng Lan looked at this situation, shook his head helplessly, remembering that he left the temple for the first time when he was a child, and he fought everywhere to cause trouble, and his sister couldn't always move with herself, thinking about the ridiculous things she did in those years, there were really a lot.
Thinking of this, I suddenly remembered that I had met a person when I traveled before, she said that her family lived in Zhenjiao City, maybe I could borrow some money from her, and I thought that I was going to do it, a technique appeared in my hand, and then a small bird slowly appeared, and the bird waved its wings and flew away. Zifeng's jaw was about to fall to the ground in surprise when she saw the little bird fly away, but the people nearby just glanced over here slightly, and they weren't surprised at all.
Qingfeng Lan looked back at Zifeng and said, "I like to see you like to see you who have never seen the world, hahaha." ”
Zifeng knew that she was mocking herself, so she directly covered herself in her clothes and ignored the wind.
When night fell, there was still no tall city gate, and the breeze was not in a hurry, and he occasionally waved his whip in front of the chariot to let the horses keep going, but they were not in a hurry to go fast, and they swayed slowly and leisurely.
After night fell completely, there were obviously fewer people on the road, and it should be said that not many people were in a hurry, and they all set up camp on the side of the road, waiting until dawn before setting off. So Zifeng also released herself from under her clothes. Cautiously looking at the tents around him, he pricked up his ears and listened to the sound of laughter not far away.
Qingfeng Lan held a piece of bread in his mouth, half lying in the car and looking at the sky, and suddenly said, "If I were to leave you for a while, would you be very scared?"
Zifeng was listening carefully to the surrounding voices, but when Qingfeng Lan suddenly said this, the originally happy mood became not so good, and he whispered, "Do you dislike me?"
"It's not that I dislike you, it's just that you don't want to know who your parents really are? Don't you want to know why they haven't come to you for so long?"
Zifeng put on her clothes and shrunk into a ball without speaking.
Qingfeng Lan continued: "Actually, my sister and master don't know your parents, but every time they talk about these things, they cover up the past vaguely on the grounds that I am still young, and I know that they are worried that I will do something stupid. But what about you? Do you really want to know why they did this to you?"
After waiting for a while, Zifeng came from a small voice "Think"
"Originally, I was going to send you to your father, after which I could go back to the temple and live a carefree life until a hundred years later, I would choose a good cemetery for myself and lay down in peace. However, I think it's up to you to decide your own affairs, if you don't want to go back to your father, I'll take you back to the temple, where the food is much better than the tea shed we just ate, that is, when you eat meat, you have to quietly go down the mountain to eat, and the accommodation is also very good, and the people are very good. But if you want to go back and ask about you, I won't stop you, but if you don't want to stay anywhere, I can take you away at any time. So give me an answer before you enter the city. After that, there was no more sound.
Zifeng wrapped herself in her clothes and didn't move, and she didn't sleep that night, she kept looking at the stars in the sky, not knowing what she was thinking.
The next morning, Qingfeng looked at the mountain in the distance and said, "We're almost there." ”
Zifeng behind him trembled.
After seeing it, Qingfeng Lan said: "If you can't make a choice, you can also choose to be like now, pull me, I'll take you, we go to places we haven't been to before, we go to eat food that we haven't eaten, watch the sunrise, watch the sunset, see the prosperity of the world, see the silence of the mountains and forests." ”
After a while, Zifeng suddenly threw away her clothes, and said with red eyes: "I'm going to see him, I want to know why they did this to me." When I ask clearly, can I go to you?"
Qingfeng Lan touched Zifeng's head and said: "Okay, I said, you can do whatever you want, if you don't want to do something, you don't want to see someone, I can take you away at any time, you can go wherever you go, I will accompany you." ”
Zifeng covered herself in her clothes again and said loudly: "No repentance!"
Qingfeng laughed and said, "Whoever regrets it is a puppy!!"
Zifeng got out of her clothes after a while, and she didn't mention what happened just now, but her red and swollen eyes could be seen that this little girl must be uncomfortable. I just escaped from the bandits' den and met my first friend, but I didn't expect that within a few days, the two would be separated.
Qingfeng Lan pointed to the big mountain in front of him and said: "This mountain is called Xiping Mountain, which means the barrier to the west of the empire, there is a huge city gate in the middle of this mountain, when there was a dispute between the empire and the northwest herdsmen in the past, this was the first barrier of the empire, but later the empire was strong, and knew that the northwest herdsmen attacked the empire because of the lack of pasture, so the mutual market was opened, and enough food for the herdsmen to survive the cold winter could be bought in the mutual market, so there was no war in recent decades, and this piece was also considered peaceful." ”
Zifeng tilted her head and said, "Can you tell me more about things?"
Qingfeng smiled and said: "Zhenhell City, there was actually no such city before, but later it was because two strong men duel near here, one of them split Xiping Mountain with a sword, and the barrier that the empire could rely on was gone, so a city was built here, and this is the Zhenhell City." ”
"When there was no Hell City before, how did the empire and the herdsmen communicate?"
"In the past, when there was no town and prison city, the northwest herdsmen were uniformly called the Northern Barbarians, because only at the end of Xiping Mountain in the north there was a gap to enter the empire, and there was a warlike race there, even after the opening of the mutual market, it would still organize troops to wage war against the towns in the north every year, until Xiping Mountain was cut off The empire did not know that there were still some warlike people here. At the beginning, the city of Zhenjiao was built in order to resist the Northern Barbarians, so the city wall was high and large, which could be compared to Xiping Mountain, and after it was built, it was found that the herdsmen here were very kind, so they immediately opened the mutual market to avoid wars with the foreign tribes here, and the main purpose of the empire is to be able to sit down and talk about things, and they must not be solved without war, which is also proposed by today's kings. ”
Zifeng nodded and said, "Isn't the Northern Barbarian terrifying?"
Qingfeng shook his head frantically: "The Northern Barbarians are not terrible at all, they are actually simple belligerent, they don't grab anything, they eat enough, they just have nothing to do and like to fight, if you have the opportunity, you can go to the Imperial Frontier City in the north to see, there are now many arenas, where you can see many, many Northern Barbarians." ”
"Then why fight when you have food?"
"Uh... Just as the people of the empire like to drink tea and play chess, maybe the northern barbarians just took fighting as a hobby. ”
Zifeng nodded and continued to ask, "Have you ever been to Imperial Frontier City?"
"I've been, I've been with my master before, I've met some seniors. ”
"Then have you ever fought with the Northern Barbarians?"
"No, although I would love to fight with them, but the master is next to me, and I don't dare to make a mistake. ”
"I always hear you mention the master, what kind of person is your master?"
"My master, he is an old antique, old and stubborn, always locks me up, and has to reprimand me if there is anything to do, but every time the little master will help me intercede, so I have a better relationship with the little master. ”
"Little master, how many masters do you have?"
Qingfeng Lan touched Zifeng's head and said with a smile: "I have one master, but it can also be said that there are two masters, because the little master is the spirit of the master." ”
When Zifeng heard this, she lowered her head and muttered something, raised her head and asked in surprise, "Your master is in the Spirit Summoning Realm?"
Qingfeng Lan said with a disdainful face: "Can't you have a little imagination?"
Zifeng lowered his head and counted his fingers and muttered: "Above the spirit is to summon the spirit, call the spirit, call the spirit." ”
Suddenly, he raised his head in horror and said in disbelief: "Is it the unity of human spirits?"
Qingfeng laughed loudly and did not continue.
The two of them laughed and walked for a long time before they saw the city gate, it was really Wangshan running a dead horse, until night fell, everything fell into darkness again, Qingfeng Lan and Zifeng came to the city gate, but the city gate has been closed, it seems that they can only enter the city tomorrow.
Lying in the car and about to tell Zifeng some other stories, the city gate suddenly opened, and after walking out, a group of people and horses closed again, and this group of people did not pay attention to the people who stopped at the city gate, but patrolled separately to the sides.
After seeing these soldiers, Zifeng was frightened and hid directly behind Qing Fenglan, her eyes were full of fear, Qing Fenglan asked softly, "What's wrong? Do you know them?"
Zifeng said in a trembling voice: "I haven't seen it, but my grandmother used to say that such people are all bad people, they are all bad people who kill people without blinking, and you can see these people as long as you leave the village, so she has never dared me to stay too far from the village." ”
Qing Feng Lan was speechless for a while, and could only explain in a low voice: "Soldiers are people who protect the empire, even if they kill people, they will only kill those who invade the empire, these soldiers are still very good to the people of the empire, don't worry, and I'm here, I think who dares to do anything to you?" After speaking, Zifeng behind him was obviously not so nervous.
At this moment, a voice came from the city wall overhead: "Yo, no one dares to do it with you?" ”