The smoke and dust are faint, and Hangu Pass is in front of you.

There are no magnificent arrow towers, no neat stacks of bricks and stones, and only a yellow-colored city wall stretching between narrow mountain passes.

According to the plateau in the west, it is bordered by the Jiejian in the east, the Qinling Mountains in the south, and the Yellow River in the north.

Closed in the valley, the deep danger is like a letter, so the name is Han Valley Pass.

From afar, the flow of chariots, horses, and people through Guò Hangu Pass is like a streamer, hanging down from the wooded mountain road to the deep valley.

Behind the barrier, the mountains are heavy and undulating, forming a towering platform and a natural lookout.

Whether it is "the car is not square, the horse is not parallel", or "one man is the pass, ten thousand people are not open", it is not enough to describe the steep terrain here, and the pass here is indeed the so-called "place where soldiers must fight".

To the north of Hangu Pass, Yan Zhao can be taken, there is Chu Wei in the south, and the land of Qilu is more east, such a dangerous place that can control the world, Qin went through seventeen monarchs since Mu Gong, and finally seized control of Hangu Pass after the Battle of Yin.

There was an endless stream of chariots and horses passing through Hangu Pass, and the war in Zhao did not seem to have much impact on Qin.

Qili Ju, Ju Lian, and Xie Wei walked with the crowd into the city gate under the pass.

The Qin State had the Hangu Pass, a natural barrier, and the laws and regulations in and out of the country were much stricter than those of other vassal states.

There were no less than 20 halberd-wielding guards on duty and patrolling on both sides of the pass.

Xie Wei hid beside the drama company, quietly looking at the crowd and traffic waiting in the long queue to pass through the Guò pass.

Most of the people are business travelers, but there are exceptions, such as a few horizontal and long ges that suddenly appear in the crowd.

The group of soldiers who insisted on Changge passed through the road, and as a matter of course, they intervened in the crowd waiting for the pass to Guò.

But none of them looked embarrassed, but spontaneously retreated a full thirty feet.

Xie Wei was carried by the crowd and involuntarily stepped back, and finally stopped, and asked Qiliju in a low voice: "What's the matter?" ”

Qi Liju shook his head, his eyes falling on the few people escorted by the guards.

Those people did not wear prison clothes, nor did they wear any wooden weapons, shin pliers or other torture instruments to prevent escape, but only used simple straw ropes to connect the dozen or so people in a string, and the leader of the team led them to walk, and it seemed that the escort was not a vicious criminal.

Xie was not answered, and could only continue to observe the strange queue.

It was indescribably strange - almost all of the people who were escorted were limp and unkempt, their faces covered by their messy hair, and the soldiers in charge of the escort were hiding far away, obviously a little unscrupulous.

Ji Lian didn't speak, only frowned slightly.

Most of the others are also the same look.

Xie Wei bit his lip and blinked, this shouldn't be an illusion, right? She seems to be the only one in the dark.

The soldiers guarding the pass only glanced at those people, and then took the initiative to get out of the way and teach them to enter the pass.

Xie Wei became more and more curious, as far as she knew, it was impossible for Hangu Pass to enter and exit so casually, even if it was a military member.

There are many stories about Hangu Pass, in addition to Lao Tzu's "purple gas coming from the east" of the green ox, there are also the story of Meng Weijun's "chicken and dog thief" and the allusion of Gongsun Long's "white horse is not a horse".

One is that you have to wait for the rooster to crow when you go out, and the other is that the horses of Zhao Di can't pass through Guò Hangu Pass, one is difficult to get out of the pass, and the other is difficult to enter the pass, all in all, this Hangu Pass is by no means a place where you can pass guò casually.

There was no reason for this team of people not to even check the runes, so they passed easily.

After the strange procession had passed, the soldiers guarding the customs and the people waiting to enter the customs exchanged words and talked with each other for a while, and then began to check the symbols and documents again, and then let the entry work be carried out.

Xie Wei saw a faint trace of fear and disgust on their faces, that kind of expression...... It's like talking about evil ghosts, and I despise them and have a lot of scruples.

Both hate and fear, everyone looks sideways, probably this feeling.

After half an hour, it was their turn to enter the customs.

Kiri Ju took out the paperwork and handed it to the guards on the side to examine.

Seeing that he was a scholar and that his father was the current doctor's officer, his lazy demeanor due to the same work was swept away, he bowed his head respectfully and handed the paperwork back to Qi Liju, "Doctor, please enter the customs." ”

Facing Shang Jie's surprised gaze, Qi Liju smiled embarrassedly, "The grace of the ancestors is also nothing to boast of." ”

He has no military merits, nor is he a person of high morality, and he can become a doctor, naturally because of the shadow of his ancestors, which is not worth boasting about.

When they met in Yang Zhai's house, Qi Liju made himself look like a wolf again, and naturally he didn't have the face to mention that he still held an idle official position in the country.

A group of gossip and a line walked into the tall wall of Hangu Pass, only to see that the guard of the customs document hurriedly chased after him, blocking in front of the three people, "The doctor forgives the sin, the war is urgent, the king is afraid that the spies will be mixed into the country, and he will beg to see the documents of the two people." ”

"These two people, Ju is also a fellow traveler." Qi Liju looked sideways at the drama Lian and Xie Worry, Xie Worry changed his appearance as a man's clothes today, his eyebrows were very tough, and he looked like a polite young man, "Yi Qili family ministers, even for guards, worry for scholars, meet in the suburbs, no papers." ”

Xie Wei smiled and said indifferently: "The river is shining and the sun is shining, the shadows of the trees are scattered and the wind is long, the key point of eternity, there are endless comings and goings, there are dead souls in battle, no one counts the success or failure, and the clouds come from the west." ”

The voice was deliberately low, with a hint of hoarseness, and the ancient rhyme was particularly thick.

The guard couldn't understand what she was saying, but felt that the young man's leisurely and leisurely demeanor when he chanted poetry made people feel like a breeze, and he couldn't help but relax his vigilance, and there was a messenger from afar galloping at the other end of the pass, and he had to retreat to take care of it.

Xie Wei breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his eyes and quickly followed Qi Liju.

She escaped from the pile of dead people in the first place, not to mention any documents to enter and exit the customs, even to prove her identity, if she really wanted to check, then she would definitely not be able to fool around.

But before walking in the area of Zhao and Chu, the two countries were very loose in the management of household registration, and she was a young girl without identity proof, and she never encountered any trouble.

When I arrived in Qindi, I had to check all kinds of documents and symbols when I entered the customs, which suddenly gave people the illusion of entering and exiting the inspection visa in the past.

The strictness of the laws of the Qin State is like an extremely fine net, and after only a few steps into Hangu Pass, he will scatter his head and wrap people tightly in it.

"Xianyang is still far away, let's go to the guest house first." Qi Liju also breathed a sigh of relief, the entry and exit management of Hangu Pass has been particularly strict recently, if a common person brings people from other countries into the customs without permission, it will be punished.

"Respectfully." Xie Wei rolled up his sleeves and made a move, since he wanted to pretend to be Qiliju's retainer, he naturally had to be more dedicated.

The moment he raised his eyes, the wind swept over the person who went out.

The man was well-dressed, his face was rich, but his eyes were extremely evasive, and the moment he raised his hand to show the documents out of the customs, he took the documents back into his sleeve and disappeared outside the customs in a hurry, as if a ghost was chasing him.

Relieve worries and raise eyebrows, so dodge, this person shouldn't have escaped from the customs without permission, right?