Li Sanqi and Minglian left the inn, and a few more shops in front of them were Showa Avenue, the largest main road in the imperial capital.

Both sides of the main road are full of traffic, people come and go, and there are many shops, all around the freight dock and various shops established in this feng shui treasure. The cargo terminal here is strategically located and is close to the moat Bianliang River. Surrounded by streets, it was a hub for transportation to all parts of the imperial capital. It connects the central part of the four directions, where guards are constantly guarded, patrolling people everywhere.

To the south, close to the deep-water harbor, several ships under the command of the guards can only anchor in the harbor to load and unload cargo in turn. A boat near the dock was unloading, and several dock workers kept carrying sacks containing things like grain off the boat. Someone in the cabin was turning over the warehouse and loading the goods, and it seemed that the unique labor horn of the dock workers could be faintly heard from the cabin.

Ships waiting to be unloaded and loaded are moored next to the dock of the warehouse, and they only wait for the boss to board the ship before eating and sailing. The boat boss in front of the warehouse had just finished settling the bill and was about to get on the boat, but he happened to meet an old friend on the way. I have in mind that I am in a hurry to sail, but I can't wait for my old friend. In a hurry, I chatted with him about some family matters, and finally hugged my fists and saluted to leave. At this time, the footsteps had already turned, and they hurried to the boat.

Li Sanqi couldn't help but sigh as he walked. It is not the imperial capital, and it is more prosperous than the previous districts.

"Minglian, you see, all the way! There is no place that can compare to the prosperity of the imperial capital!" Li Sanqi looked at the bustling streets and sighed!

"Yes! The imperial capital is the center of the Westster continent, where the economy, politics, and culture all multiply, take root, and grow here! This is the ideology of the imperial capital!" Minglian shook her head and sighed as she walked!

Li Sanqi looked at Ming Lian in surprise, very strange why she knew about the situation in the imperial capital! However, Li Sanqi didn't ask, everyone has their own secrets!

Li Sanqi and the two walked forward, and the flow of people gradually increased, and all kinds of shouts also increased. Li Sanqi looked up and turned out to be at the location of the commercial center.

For two weeks, the tall castle tower is the center, and the houses on both sides are lined up one after another. There are tea shops, wine shops, inns, butcher shops, public houses and so on. There are silk and satin, jewelry and spices in the store, all walks of life, everything, the front of the big store also set up "Cai Lou Welcome", hang the market banner, solicit business.

The pedestrians in the market are shoulder to shoulder, and the river is endless. There are businessmen, gentry watching the street scene, officials riding horses, hawkers, family members in sedan chairs, tourists from other places asking for directions, children of wealthy families drinking in inns, disabled old people begging on the edge of the city, and down-and-out walkers. Men, women and children, farmers and businessmen, three religions and nine streams, everything.

Li Sanqi was dazzled, he had never seen such prosperity, and he had never seen such a flow of people. There is a poem as proof:

The palace was opened in nine days, and all the nations were crowned with crowns. Hundreds of thousands of houses are like a game of Go, and the 12th street is like a vegetable garden. Bianliang Avenue is even narrow and evil, and the green cow and white horse are seven incense cars.

As I walked forward, there were fewer shops and fewer people, but there were more mansions. The height is staggered, and the rows are stacked one after another. Under the clear blue sky, the top of the mansion with its golden glazed tiles and heavy eaves looks extraordinarily brilliant, just like the gold used by people!

At this time, a group of people appeared around the corner and returned to their respective mansions in twos and threes. It turns out that they are all masters here, and they hold half of the power and half of the wealth in the world. Wen does not ride a horse, and Wu does not sit in a sedan chair.

The horses are graceful and luxurious, and the sedan chairs are extravagant and generous. These dignitaries and nobles are gorgeously dressed, and the clothes of the servants are much better than ordinary people. When they encountered obstacles, they all pushed others viciously, and even Li Sanqi was innocently implicated. Li Sanqi was angry, so Minglian stopped her, and finally took a deep breath, but she endured it.

Li Sanqi passed through here and had a very bad impression of this place. Up and down, what kind of servant there is, what kind of master there is. It can be seen that the dignitaries here only care about their own enjoyment and forget to fulfill their obligations.

When Li Sanqi and the two walked here, the faces of the two of them became more and more ugly. Most people are ragged and have yellow skin. The house was dilapidated, short and dirty.

There was a rancid smell everywhere, and shabby clothes hung on the side of the road. The river next to it has long been muddy, and in some places it has been clogged with black silt, and these people are washing and cooking here. The scene can be seen everywhere and stretches for an unknown distance.

Passers-by saw Li Sanqi and the two coming, and they stretched out their hands to beg. A low-grade source stone makes their eyes shine, and for them, a low-grade source stone is a food for several days. It turns out that all the prosperity of the imperial capital is an illusion, and this is the real imperial capital.

"Here?" Li Sanqi was puzzled?

"I don't know, what's going on here?" Minglian looked at this, shook her head, and sighed!

Li Sanqi took a deep breath, calmed down, and said, "Okay, since that's the case, let's go!"

"Hmm!" Minglian responded, and the two gradually drifted apart, seeing everything made Li Sanqi extremely angry. But what could he do? he couldn't sit on anything, he was just an ordinary man!

Just when Li Sanqi left this area and went to Yijing Garden, a middle-aged man looked at Li Sanqi's back and looked a little familiar. shouted to the young lady who was still giving alms to the side: "Miss, come and see, is he Li Sanqi?"

When the young lady heard the middle-aged man's words, she put down the steamed buns in her hand and smiled at the people who rushed up: "Everyone come one by one, don't worry, there are a lot of them here." Then he said, "You come and send it, be polite." The young lady ran over, squinted her eyes, and affirmed: "It's him, I didn't expect him to be missing for a year, but he still came to the imperial capital!" and instructed the middle-aged man: "The direction he is going, nine times out of ten, is to go to Yijingyuan, looking for a chance to meet in Yijingyuan." The middle-aged man nodded in agreement, and then the young lady went to help distribute the food again!

It was getting late, the sun had completely set, and the whole area was shrouded in darkness.

At this time, Li Sanqi saw that the lights of a family in front of him were flickering slightly, and he thought that it would be better to spend the night somewhere.

Li Sanqi said to Minglian: "Minglian, it's so late, why don't you go to the front for a night?"

Minglian also looked up at the sky, the sky has darkened! After several days of hurrying, sleeping outside every day, it is possible to sleep in a warm bed tonight, of course Minglian hurriedly agreed!

Li Sanqi and Minglian trotted over, this is a small grass house, and outside is a courtyard barried by a wooden fence.

Li Sanqi stood outside and shouted, "Is there anyone?" After a while, the door opened, and an old man came over tremblingly with a lamp, and illuminated Li Sanqi and Minglian with the light.

The old man asked, "Little boy, what's the matter?" ”

Li Sanqi respectfully returned: "Old man, it's getting late, we want to spend the night." ”

The old man looked at Li Sanqi carefully, and then opened the door and said, "The old man's house is dirty, please son, don't dislike it." After speaking, he welcomed Li Sanqi and the two into his room, Li Sanqi and Minglian walked in, and a musty smell came to their faces. Li Sanqi's expression was as usual, while Minglian frowned and endured?

It was littered with dirty laundry and scraps. The old man wiped the chair and table vigorously several times before the two of them sat down. The old man said: "Little boy, has the young lady eaten, if I don't have some rice here, I will make it for you." ”

The two of them had the heart to refuse, but they couldn't bear to be hungry, so they had to agree, "I'm tired of your old man." ”

After a while, the rice came over. Li Sanqi saw that it was just porridge with coarse grains, and some vegetable leaves were added to it, and there was a nest head made of rough bran on it.

Li Sanqi took a bite, it was difficult to swallow, and he forcibly spit it out. While eating, he asked, "The old man usually eats this?"

The old man sighed and returned: "How can I usually have such good food, this is the son here, I put some rice in this porridge, and this nest usually doesn't dare to eat at all, so it can only be used by guests." ”

Li Sanqi and Minglian looked at the old man, not like a panicked person, their hearts were shaken, and they couldn't calm down for a long time.

The two glanced at each other, ate it in a big gulp, and quickly ate the porridge and wowotou, put down the dishes and chopsticks, got up and bowed, "Thank you for the old man's meal." ”

The old man directly pulled the two of them to sit down, and hurriedly said: "You have tormented the old man, son, it is a great honor for the young lady to come." ”

The two sat down and chatted with the old man about family life, and asked, "The old man is usually at home alone?"

The old man said: "My wife and I were originally a happy family with two sons, but one day, the front line was tight, and my eldest son, who was not an adult, was forcibly conscripted by the government. My wife was in tears all day long, worried. Sure enough, three months later, the government announced a waiver for the fallen soldiers, which was for me and my child. ”

Speaking of this, the old man's eyes were already filled with tears, the old man wiped his eyes, eased his mood and continued to speak: "When my wife learned the news, I was paralyzed in bed and didn't get up, I spent all the family's savings to save my wife, but it hasn't gotten better. One day, someone told me that the government's pension was down, but I only received one low-grade source stone, and you must know that the government pension has ten medium-grade source stones. I had no choice but to go to the government office to file a complaint, but I didn't expect them to collude and beat me out with a stick. Speaking of this, the old man's heart calmed down, and he seemed to talk about other people's affairs.

The old man continued: "But I didn't expect that the house dew happened to rain overnight, and the big family next door in order to expand the ancestral village, my eldest son was here before, and he was strong and didn't dare to come over. But as soon as my eldest son died, he came directly to intimidate and threaten, and I had to move here for the sake of my young son and my wife who was paralyzed in bed. When Li Sanqi heard this, his fists clenched tightly, the government was dark, the officials did not act, and the rich man was rich and unkind, what kind of world is this.

The old man continued, but he became excited: "Maybe God has mercy on me, a miserable man, and my wife miraculously got better after lying in bed for a month. Now she's washing clothes for a great benevolent family here, and she's coming back almost once a month. I went to the dock every day to move some freight, and the days went by. My child is getting older, and one day, a person passed by here and said that my child has a talent for cultivation, and just last year the child was successfully recruited by Yijing Yuan as a guard. Speaking of his youngest son, the old man was full of energy and boasted vigorously.

The old man calmed down, looked at the sky, and saw that it was completely dark, and the old man said, "I've been bothering my son for a long time, son, young lady, please rest." ”

The old man welcomed Li Sanqi and the two into the only big bed in the room.

Li Sanqi saw that there was only one big bed, and said, "Old man, where do you sleep?"

The old man smiled and said, "I'll just sleep on the table." Li Sanqi still wanted to speak, but the old man pressed him directly on the bed and said: "It's not so much, my body is tough and ruthless, and I will be fine for one night." The old man didn't let him speak, and went out directly.

Li Sanqi looked at the only big bed and said to Minglian: "You sleep on it! I'll just sleep on the ground!"

Minglian lowered her head and said with a red face: "Otherwise, you can come up too!"

"What?" Li Sanqi was shocked!

Minglian ignored him, came to the bed with a red face, and leaned close inside. After Li Sanqi reacted, his face turned extremely red, and he came to the bed slowly!

When Minglian heard the squeak of Li Sanqi pressing the bed, she couldn't help but tighten the life around her, and her face turned even redder!

Li Sanqi gasped roughly, and the hot breath sprayed on the back of Minglian's neck, and Minglian felt a temperature like a volcano, hitting herself, making her body crispy!

"Good night!" Li Sanqi said softly!

Li Sanqi gently held Minglian in his arms, and as soon as he first came into contact with Minglian, Minglian's body stiffened obviously! Then, he softened, snuggled in Li Sanqi's arms, and fell asleep soundly!

The two soon fell asleep!

The next day, the two were woken up by a noise, and when they opened their eyes, they saw that the sky was only revealing a glimmer of light, and the old man had already gotten up to cook on the fire.

When the old man saw Li Sanqi and the two wake up, he said embarrassedly: "I didn't expect to wake up my son, I'm used to getting up at this time of day." Li Sanqi and Minglian said that it was okay, so they sat down with the old man and chatted.

Soon, the rice was out of the pot, and Li Sanqi and the old man ate it.

After eating, Li Sanqi glanced out, and the sky was dark. He got up and said goodbye to the old man: "Thank you, old man, for staying overnight last night, and two delicious meals, now that the sky is bright, I need to continue on the road now." ”

The old man said: "Don't get in the way, Childe, Miss is leaving, be careful all the way!"

Li Sanqi and the two nodded, and just walked outside the door and remembered something and asked, "Old man, what is your son's name?"

When the old man heard about his son, he said proudly: "My son's name is Fu Ping'an." Li Sanqi nodded, and the moment he walked forward, several bright lights fell steadily on the table, and after he stopped, golden light lit up on it.

After walking for most of the day, I finally saw the three big words "Yijing Yuan" written on it.

Finally, after two years of trekking, I came here and stepped into this place in great stride.