In the next few days, after packing up the luggage and arranging the first qiē, it came to September 18, and after breakfast, Cui Jian had already rushed over with three carriages. Xiao Yiran and Qingwen Musk Yue, as well as Liu Xia, Chutian, Cui Steward and Julian. The three carriages left Yingtianfu and headed straight for Beiping Mansion in the far north.

The three carriages traveled all the way north, because they went to Beiping to plan the Yanwang Mansion, although it was important, it was not urgent, so the group did not need to hurry up. At noon on the first day, the housekeeper Cui Jian asked:

"Miss, sir, are you staying in a post house or a guest house along the way to Beiping?"

Xiao Yiran looked at Mr. Chu Tian, neither of them was a person who liked to be lively, post houses were generally built outside the city, and they were relatively quiet, so he replied:

"Let's stay at the guest house, be clean."

As the family of Yan Wangfu, it is very convenient to live in a post house, and from then on, almost every day after lunch, Cui Jian will send Julian to rush to the post station on the road ahead in advance and arrange a qiē.

It was August 18 when I left the capital Yingtianfu, which was the late autumn season. The seasons are more pronounced in the north, and by late autumn the trees are already dead, and the trail is full of bare trees, withered grass, and bare yellow earth. Even the cottages on the side of the road are gray and less vibrant. Xiao Yiran doesn't like this scenery very much, in the late autumn in the north, the only thing worth seeing is the high blue sky. The geese have long since flown south, occasionally crossing the sky, just a few local birds.

Through Xuzhou, through Yanzhou, then Jinan Fu, Dezhou Fu. From Yingtianfu to Dezhou Mansion, the group walked for 12 days, it was already October, and the season had also entered winter. Winters in the north are particularly cold, especially this year. After leaving the Texas Mansion and entering the boundary of Hejian Mansion, the sky was full of snowflakes. The snowflakes like cotton wool add a lot of fun to the northern winter land. Especially Qingwen and Musk Yue, who grew up in Yingtianfu, have hardly seen much snow. When the two of them were interested, they jumped out of the carriage and ran wildly in the snow.

Xiao Yiran was not so idle. She has been thinking about how to assist Mr. Chu Tian in planning the Yanwang Mansion after arriving in Beiping. The memory of his previous life told him that since Zhu Di became emperor, Peking until his university life was the center of national politics and culture, that is, the capital. In that life, Xiao Yiran had been to the Forbidden City a lot, so he was very clear about the structure of the capital, whether it was the imperial city, or the inner and outer cities. It's just that you should reveal the things in these memories? If it is not revealed, what if the Yanwang Mansion planned by Mr. Chu does not conform to history? If so, in what way? Moreover, if this matter spreads, the idea of wanting to live a quiet life will be completely hopeless.

Along the way, Xiao Yiran was struggling with this matter. From time to time, the city of Beijing comes to mind.

Beijing is divided into two cities, the inner city and the imperial city, and the imperial city is the palace city, commonly known as the Forbidden City. There are a total of seven city gates in the east, west, north and south of the inner city, which are the Desheng Gate and Anding Gate in the north, and the altar of earth is outside the Anding Gate; The east side is Dongzhi Gate, Chaoyang Gate, and there is the Temple of the Sun outside Chaoyang Gate; The west is the Xizhi Gate, the Fucheng Gate, and the Moon Temple is outside the Fucheng Gate; There are three city gates in the south gate, namely the Zhengyang Gate in the middle, the Chongwen Gate in the east, and the Xuanwu Gate in the west.

There are five city gates in the outer city, namely the east gate Guangqu Gate, the west gate Guang'an Gate, and the three city gates in the south, the middle is the Yongding Gate, and the Yongding Gate is the Temple of Heaven in the middle. There is a left gate on the left, and a right gate on the right. As for the convenient doors in the east and west, Xiao Yiran had only seen it in the history books, and it had already been demolished in reality.

Then there is the moat that surrounds the city, and the scale is also very grand.

If the Yan Palace, if it is built according to the size of the palace regulations on the imperial court issued by the imperial court, I am afraid that it can only be built as a part of the core buildings in the Forbidden City.

Xiao Yiran also knew that during the Yuan Dadu period, the four cities inside and outside Beiping City had begun to take shape, but it was not very clear what kind of construction had been completed. After thinking about it, Xiao Yiran finally thought that he would put it aside for the time being, and then make a decision after arriving in Beiping and conducting a field trip.

No one expected that the heavy snow that began to fall from Hejian Mansion would fall for seven consecutive days, and when it entered the boundary of Jizhou Mansion, the snow was already three feet deep, and even the carriage was already very difficult to walk. The group had to stay in a post station outside Jizhou City. After eight days, the snow on the official road melted a little, and it was enough to drive a horse-drawn carriage, and then he set off on the road again.

Even if it is the distance, from Jizhou to Beiping, there is only Baoding Mansion in the middle, and it is only less than four days away. It's just that the four-day journey has not yet arrived after eight days. The reason is that after leaving Baoding Mansion, walking out of the Jizhou Plain, on the first day of entering the mountainous area, the road was blocked by two groups of people fighting on the road.

When the housekeeper Cui Jian saw the side in the fight, he let out a soft "huh" in his mouth, and then jumped out of the carriage and walked towards the battlefield. Before Cui Jian walked over, a person got out and ran towards him. Xiao Yiran also immediately recognized this person, it turned out to be Shi Yuan, who had visited the Sun Moon Boat twice before the release of the list last autumn.

Shi Yuan and Cui Jian muttered in the distance for a while, then turned around and threw themselves into the battle circle, Cui Jian immediately turned around and walked back to the carriage, and said to Xiao Yiran and Chu Tian:

"It was the people of the Rongchang Commercial House in Beiping who were stopped by a group of bandits who occupied the mountain as the king."

Xiao Yiran was not so surprised, the Ming Dynasty was founded so far, but it has only been eleven years, and the bandits and bandits in many places have not yet had time to be cleared, especially on the ground far away from the capital Yingtianfu, especially strict.

"Looking at the scenario on both sides, it seems that the bandits have the upper hand."

Chu Tian looked at it for a while, then turned his head and said to Cui Jian.

"Wait a minute, Shi Yuan told me just now, their follow-up caravan should also arrive, as long as you hold on until the follow-up caravan catches up, you won't be afraid of those bandits."

"These are so bold that even the palace dares to rob them."

Qingwen only knew that in Yingtianfu, no one dared to provoke the palace when it came to the palace, but she didn't know the scene outside. Bandits want money, he doesn't care what the palace is or not. Maybe it was precisely because they were the caravan of the palace that they would go down the mountain to rob it, after all, the caravan of the palace was more oily and watery.

"How can there be so many people in a caravan?"

Musk Moon asked puzzled.

"Don't you see the flag of Zhenwei Dart?"

Qingwen and Musk Yue, who have never left Ying Tianfu, have heard of the dart game, but it is the first time they have encountered it.

Xiao Yiran saw that due to the large number of bandits, the dart master of the dart bureau and the men of the caravan were all tightly in front of the carriage that hauled the goods, and used the carriage as a barrier to resist the attack of the bandits. It is clear that it is stalling for time, waiting for the power of backup.

There was no one in Xiao Yiran's group who could help, so they could only watch from afar. If the follow-up caravan can't come in time, Cui Jian can only abandon the time in front of him and lead Xiao Yiran and the others to run away. After making a plan, he commanded the three carriages to retreat some distance. Even so, it attracted the attention of the bandits, and suddenly twelve or thirteen bandits rushed towards their three carriages.

The bandits are all on horseback, even if Xiao Yiran and the others want to escape now, the carriage can't outrun the cavalry, not to mention that there is a thick layer of snow on the road.

"Quick, circle the three carriages in a circle, and the horses will follow. Julian and I stopped them in a moment, and Miss and Mr. Chu rode their horses first. ”

Butler Cui Jian was not flustered at this time, but he was already prepared for the worst.

It was only a little more than a mile from the battlefield to their carriage, and the bandits came quickly. Almost in the blink of an eye, the three carriages were fenced off, and even if Xiao Yiran and the others wanted to escape on horseback, they didn't have enough time.

Qingwen and Musk Yue, who had never seen this formation, had already shrunk into a ball of fright, but they hadn't forgotten Miss Jì in their hearts, and the two of them trembled and stood in front of Xiao Yiran. Originally, it was just to go to Beiping Mansion, let alone guards, and I didn't even bring weapons. After the bandits rushed over, they did not attack immediately, but circled around the carriage. Obviously, the other party had already seen what Cui Jian and Shi Yuan were together, so he shouted and asked:

"What is your relationship with the caravan? Or what is the relationship with Yanwangfu? ”

"It doesn't matter, I just happen to know Shi Yuan in the caravan."

Cui Jian knew that now was not the time for the prince's mansion to be a shield.

More than a dozen bandits looked at Cui Jian suspiciously, and then asked:

"What's in the wagon?"

"We went to Beiping Mansion to join our relatives, just some simple luggage, and there are no valuable goods."

"Less nonsense, open the car door and let's see."

It seems that these bandits are not planning to hurt people, just for money.

There was no way, Cui Jian could only ask Julian to lift the curtain of the carriage one by one and let the other party watch. Seeing that as Cui Jian said, there were really no valuable items, and the bandits suddenly lost interest. Because it couldn't be attacked for a long time, and it also needed manpower, a few bandits discussed, leaving four people to watch Xiao Yiran and his party, and the rest of the people turned around and threw themselves into the battle of besieging Shiyuan. Even if there were only four bandits, the housekeeper Cui Jian did not dare to act rashly, after all, he was unarmed, but the other party was holding a saber and a longbow on his shoulder, and the arrow box hanging on the horse was full of carved arrows.

Xiao Yiran was not nervous, remembering that in the first life of the ancient era, such battles had been seen a lot. Especially when the northern tribes attacked Wangshan City, I don't know how many times more thrilling than in front of them. Xiao Yiran even wanted to try the power of the changes that occurred in his body when he condensed his soul on the night of a thunderstorm some time ago.

"Miss, what should I do?"

Seeing that the other party didn't move, Qingwen and Musk Yue relaxed a little, turned their heads to look at Xiao Yiran behind them and asked.