After leaving the small border city, Duan Qingcheng rushed to the imperial capital non-stop. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It's not because of how eager she is, but because she saved someone from the hands of the Demon Sect's disciples that day, it is inevitable that she will be targeted by the Demon Sect, and with the cleverness of his son Xuan, he will soon suspect her.

She thinks so, and she doesn't know much about Gongzi Xuan's personality, but now he is the only person in this world who clearly knows that she is still alive. But he is also an extremely troublesome character, in order not to meet this troublesome person, she can only do but try to avoid it, there is no other way......

When she was outside the imperial capital, it was already three days later.

This city, which has only been absent for half a year, now gives her an extremely strange feeling, it is still the same city, the same city gate, the same road, everything is so familiar, but she can't find the slightest sense of belonging.

It was getting late, and she sat on horseback and looked at the city gate for a long time, and only when the people who had entered the city were almost gone did she turn over and get off the horse. I don't know what happened in the city, the city gate was fortified, the number of officers and soldiers guarding the city increased a lot, and the pedestrians had to be checked one by one, which was very strict.

She led her horse and stepped forward, but the officers and soldiers suddenly stopped her. She remained silent, stopping there and waiting for the following.

A general, different from the small soldier, glanced at her and then looked at the mask on her face, with obvious suspicion and indifference.

"Why are you wearing a mask and taking it off?" The general spoke, his voice menacing.

"This ......" She was a little embarrassed, but she was still calm, she just raised her hand with a knife and hugged her fist and said: "My face is injured, and I can't see anyone, so I ask the official to open up." ”

As she saluted, the general's gaze naturally fell on the knife in her hand, and a little different color crossed her eyes.

"Look at your outfit, right?" He asked.

"Yes." She nodded and replied humbly: "There is a war going on in the border area, and there is no way to make a living, so I want to go to Beijing to find an errand." ”

"Then you've come at the right time." The general looked at her knife again, and smiled mysteriously at her, "Look at you with a knife, you should also be a martial arts student, now that the martial arts exam is imminent, the imperial court is the time to be thirsty for talent, if you are lucky enough to win the title of a martial champion, why worry about not having a good errand to make a living?" ”

"This ......" She was a little confused, she never thought that this official stopped her for this, which was too kind. However, since the other party had good intentions, she couldn't refuse in person, so she had to pretend to be happy and grateful, and give another salute, "Thank you for mentioning it, but what you will know in the next place is nothing more than some fancy fists and embroidered legs, how can you get on such a big scene?" The official is really too high. ”

Seeing her retort, the man was not annoyed. just casually took a sign from the plate held by the little soldier behind him, and threw it to her casually, "On the ninth day of August, the big ring outside the east gate of the imperial city, as for whether to go or not, that's your business, anyway, the opportunity has been given to you......"

The man ignored her and turned his attention to the others who had come into the city.

Only Duan Chengcheng looked at the wooden card in his hand, and after a moment of stalemate in place, he had no choice but to put away the wooden card and lead the horse towards the city. In any case, it is a good thing that she did not continue to be questioned about her identity.

As for what kind of martial arts scientific examination, she really didn't understand what it meant, she had never seen the imperial court so enthusiastic to recruit people, and it was also a martial arts department, in the past, the selection of martial arts has never been taken seriously, and it has always been based on literature and supplemented by martial arts.

But what's going on this time, is it because the border is in an emergency? She wondered in her heart if there was something else going on in the court......

She casually found a remote inn to settle in, but when she entered the door, she saw a group of seemingly fierce and vicious martial artists gathered in the lobby of the inn, boasting to each other and drinking, so as not to make noise.

Probably because the scientific examination is imminent, a large number of people who went to Beijing to take the examination have poured into the imperial capital, and the inns everywhere are overcrowded, and even in this remote and simple place, there are many people gathered.

In addition, this year, the saint attaches great importance to the martial arts examination, and the border war is tight, so he has to recruit a large number of talents, so there are not a few people who have poured into the capital to win fame.

A small inn, where the three religions and nine streams gather, presents an unprecedented mixed trend.

Ever since she entered the inn gate, there were many pairs of eyes staring at her and the knife in her hand, but all those who had entered Beijing with weapons had come to participate in this martial arts examination.

Everyone wants to get the only first, and one more person comes to mean another opponent, so every time someone comes in, there will be countless pairs of eyes in the inn lobby looking at the person, and guessing the identity and skills of the person who came by the way. Some people use clever words to please each other, and some deliberately come to talk and intersect, in order to be able to know themselves and each other.

She seemed to smell the full provocation from the drunken atmosphere, but she didn't show up, paid for the room on the counter, and went upstairs with a knife. Seeing that she ignored everyone's gaze, some people wanted to test her abilities.

"Wait!" Just a few steps away, a reckless man stopped in front of her, holding a wine bowl in his hand, staring at her with a drunken smell, "You are also here to fight for this martial champion, right?" ”

She raised her head and looked fearlessly at the burly man in front of her, quite helpless.

"I'm just here to pitch, and I don't plan to compete for any champions." She said.

"You have to coax people, how many martial arts people who came to the emperor at this time are not for the martial arts exam?" The man obviously didn't believe her words, and his expression was even more disdainful, this person hadn't looked at him from the beginning, was he looking down on people?

"Even if I'm going to take the martial arts exam, what do you mean by stopping me now?" She raised her eyes to the man with her little patience, "Instead of thinking about reducing the opponent for yourself before the ring, why don't you take advantage of the rest of the time to practice more, what's the matter with embarrassing a passerby here?" ”

The man was stunned, and when he heard what she said, it seemed to make sense, and he smiled drunkenly. He really didn't seem to have any reason to embarrass others, but he couldn't react for a while, and he kept clubbing at the intersection and forgot to give way.

"Do you have anything else to ask?" Seeing that the man was still not moving, she asked patiently.

The man came back to his senses, consciously took the loss, but he didn't want to admit defeat, just looked at her suspiciously and got out of the way, turned around suddenly, and returned to the crowd to continue drinking.

When the reckless man had gone, no one stopped her way, and she went straight upstairs. But she was afraid that she would encounter more unreasonable people and cause more trouble, so she had not gone downstairs since she entered the room.

Before resting, she counted the few coins she had left. This trip from the Netherworld Valley was almost empty-handed, and the only bit of entanglement was given by the old man, and after the valley bought horses and a change of clothes, there was not much left.

It seems that she has to solve her livelihood problem before she can figure out the situation of the Martial Arts Alliance Lord's Mansion and Situ Yuntian. (To be continued.) )