The kicking of horses' hooves, mixed with the sound of shouting people, whistled through the curtain, and the carriage swayed from side to side for a while before finally coming to a stop. Qin Nanxi was just frightened, and before he could remove his hand holding the car wall, he heard the driver outside the curtain apologize.

Mama Cheng hurriedly sat down again, and just as she raised her shoulders and was about to have a seizure, she was stopped by Qin Nanxi's fierce eyes: "This is not the car in the house, how can you not dodge when you see the official driver?" Neither of us was hurt at all, so why bother to embarrass a handlebar style for life? ”

Seeing the obvious displeasure on Qin Nanxi's face, Mama Cheng had no choice but to smile awkwardly, quickly reined in the habits she had developed in the past, leaned over to Qin Nanxi's side to flatteringly, and meekly tidied up the loose beads on her bun.

Xiao Fei gasped and just settled down, she couldn't wait to lift the curtain of the car, she wanted to see who drove the car regardless of the life or death of others?

I saw that on the road ahead, the dust and smoke were filled, and in the sand and fog, the backs of the two fast horses could be vaguely discerned. Under the curtain, the handlebar type was bowing down and kneeling on the ground, kowtowing and pleading, so frightened that his shoulders were trembling faintly, in the distance, in the sand and fog was the magnificent Jingyao Gate, and at the city gate, there was a piece of knife light breaking through the dust and smoke flickering.

Qin Nanxi glanced at the coachman, motioned to Xiaofei to help him up, and personally comforted him, then pointed to the city gate and asked him: "Does the coachman's eldest brother know what's wrong at the city gate?" ”

The coachman was accustomed to seeing the nobles of the family who did not treat people like themselves as human beings, and suddenly met Qin Nanxi, the peaceful and kind daughter of everyone, but he was stupid in place.

"What's wrong with you?" Xiao Fei shook his hand in front of the coachman's eyes, and looked at him with a blank expression.

The coachman slowed down, wiped the fine sweat from his forehead, and thanked Ende again and again. He is just the lowest laborer in Chang'an City, and when he encounters such a rich and harmonious daughter, he feels that he has hit the heavens, and he feels sincerely grateful to Qin Nanxi in his heart.

Qin Nanxi smiled silently, shook his head to stop him, and then asked about the strangeness at the city gate.

When the coachman heard the question, he hurriedly turned around, stretched his neck and looked at it for a long time, and hesitated: "If you go back to the eldest lady, the one at the city gate looks like a soldier!" But when we left the city yesterday, we hadn't seen so many soldiers! What's going on here? ”

"Soldier?" When Qin Nanxi heard this, his clenched hands tightened their consciousness, and their nails were deeply embedded in their palms.

Gyeongyomun Gate is not far from Miyagi, and the only soldiers who can openly hold weapons at the Gyeongyomun Gate Gate can only be the Praetorian Guards or Gyeonggi Provincial Guards. The leader of the Forbidden Army of the Inner Guard is Situ Kun, and the Gyeonggi Provincial Garrison has always been the power in the hands of Xiao Guo's uncle. There are so many more soldiers on Jingyao Gate, do they have to act in advance?

Before Qin Nanxi could come up with a clue, he saw the coachman shake his head, turned around with a blank expression, bowed a big salute, and jumped onto the wheel. The green cloth carriage also swayed, and the Jingyao Gate in the distance was dissipated in sight for a moment.

Qin Nanxi retracted his thoughts, glanced at the coachman keenly, tried his best to stabilize his body and mind and asked, "It's just a soldier, why is the coachman's eldest brother sighing?" ”

When the coachman saw Qin Nanxi asking, he sincerely replied: "The eldest lady doesn't know the hardships of our people. At present, in the past three days of conscription, no one is afraid! In fact, who is willing to send a good child to the barracks to die! But what can be done? Who made us cold, Miss Don't tell me that there are not a few able-bodied men left in the small village at the moment. ”

"Conscription?" Qin Nanxi was shocked in her heart, her body subconsciously leaned forward, and she was about to open her mouth to ask a detailed question, but was interrupted by Xiao Fei on the side with a smile: "You said that there are no sound men in your village, why are you the only one left?" ”

The coachman was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but he did not dodge, and struggled to put his right foot on the wheel. The three people in the carriage saw that his right leg was not a leg at all, and below his knee was actually just a smooth stake.

"This, this~" Xiao Fei scratched his head and said, "I didn't expect this big brother to be injured like this, and it is not easy to make such a hard living!" ”

"Thank you for your kindness, and for being kind to us. It's just that the small family has five or six mouths, all of them are screaming, if the small ones don't do this hard work, how can they make a living? As he spoke, the coachman smacked his lips and shook his head bitterly, and Xiaofei's question brought him to the deepest sorrow in his heart.

Qin Nanxi hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "How did the eldest brother hurt his leg?" With her experience and intelligence, she can see that such injuries should not be born, nor can they be injured every day.

"Hey, that's why it's hard to conscript! The little one is the one who understands the pain best! If there is a way to live, who wants to send their own children to death! It's like the little one, twelve years ago, the poor family really couldn't open the pot, and the father and mother had no choice, so they sent the little one to the army. I thought that I could beg for a stutter and get some silver, but I didn't think that the small life was not good, and I hurt my leg in Jizhou. In order to save his life, he had to chop up the injured foot! In this way, it was a good person, but it was abolished. The coachman let out a long sigh, and suppressed all the bitterness into two cloudy tears that almost burst out of his eyes.

Qin Nanxi bit the corner of his lip, and continued to ask: "Since the eldest brother retired from the Youzhou War, it stands to reason that he should have been allocated some fertile fields, why don't you live by guarding the fields, but instead do this hard work?" ”

Qin Nanxi clearly knew that when the old Yasukuni led troops to quell the war in Youzhou, there were no remnants of Qianqi in the territory of the Great Chu State. Therefore, all those who retreated from the battlefield alive in the first battle were given by the first emperor, and even the most ordinary soldiers were also given several acres of fertile fields outside Chang'an City. The coachman talked about the war twelve years ago, and Qin Nanxi immediately understood that he was also a soldier who participated in the war that year. Reasoning, when he came back alive, he should have been sealed with a few acres of fertile land, and the fields were all outside Chang'an City, so that he would not be unable to support five or six people, but he said that he had to work hard to make a living, so Qin Nanxi asked.

"Hey, the eldest lady is a good person, and she can still talk kindly to those of us who are naturally low! But our destiny is not good after all! Who can complain about being thrown into this untouchable womb? The high-ranking family wants to buy our land, do we dare to say a word? ”

"Big brother's land was bought by a big family?" Qin Nanxi's eyebrows tightened more and more, and he suddenly remembered that two years ago, his father had written a letter accusing the Hexi clan of annexing land and harming the people's livelihood.

It's just that at that time, the so-called people's hardships were just words in his father's compromise. And now, the hard work of the common people has really turned into the broken leg of the coachman in front of him, and has become his bitter sigh and struggle. Looking at the rickety back of the coachman, Qin Nanxi suddenly understood that his father would rather disobey the holy will than fight for reason, not only because it was a requirement in the sage's book, but also a blood and tears accusation on the ground! If the Hexi clan is not broken, I am afraid that there will be no gaps in the world!

The coachman didn't know the complicated thoughts of Qin Nanxi in the car, and only mourned the land that once belonged to him for a short time, and almost cried: "My land! Even a stubble of yellow rice didn't have time to ripen, so it was bought by General Xiao's family to make a grange! Hey, such a good three acres of land, only gave me five taels of silver! ”

"Five taels!" Xiao Fei and Mama Cheng's surprised eyes were almost hanging out of their sockets. Only Qin Nanxi bit the corner of her lip secretly, silently looking at the wrinkles in the corners of the coachman's eyes.

In the shaking of the body, Jingyao Gate was slowly approaching.

At the gate of the city, there stood two tall horses, and immediately sat two men in splendid clothes. The two of them were laughing and laughing on the one hand, and on the other hand, their eyes were lowered, and they were coldly watching the new men lined up on the ground, who were ordered to supervise the conscription.

Qin Nanxi glanced at it from the curtain and immediately recognized one of the two, it was Jiang Yushi's only son, Jiang Kui, who was currently the prince's personal guard, and the other was a close confidant of the quasi-prince Changning County King.

The newcomers in front of the two of them lined up in a clerk's office one by one, and after receiving their names and cards, they went to the other side to wait. There are a lot of newcomers in the group, and the group is also fat and thin, old and strong, but all of them are standing with a sad and helpless face. In the flickering sword array surrounded by cold light, none of them dared to talk nonsense.

Qin Nanxi hid in the car, and Ren Cheng Mama and the coachman coped with the interrogation of the soldiers guarding the city. The carriage was coiled for a long time, and it was only after listening to Mama Cheng and the coachman who were arguing, arguing and pleading outside the carriage for a long time that the soldiers were almost lifted from the interrogation.

"I don't know if there is a royal law! The carriages and horses of Qinfu's daughters must be checked! Mama Cheng turned around and returned to the carriage and said angrily. She has long been accustomed to the unimpeded carriages and horses of the Yasukuni Mansion and the Changping Palace, and she is very resentful of the unreasonableness of the soldiers guarding the city.

"Mama is confused again, what we are riding today is not the car in the house at all, and the guard check is also reasonable, what is there to complain about?" Qin Nanxi stopped Mama Cheng on her lips, but she didn't think so in her heart.

In the past, the rented carriages and horses passed through the gates of Chang'an, and there was never a special check. Today's soldiers guarding the city, if they hadn't heard that the person in the car was the daughter of Qin Shangshufu, they would have raised the curtain.

The strict investigation outside the city may show that Situ Kun's strength is already waiting. As for the illegal expansion of the prince's personal guard, it is naturally a louse on the bald head, and it is a matter that cannot be understood.

Qin Nanxi secretly calculated that the total strength of the Gyeonggi Provincial garrison was about 90,000, and the prince's personal guard was about 2,000, and the strength of Wudafu outside the city could really come in handy, but it was only more than 1,000 troops, and the 100,000 Shuofang troops that the king of Changning County had barely collected in recent years, the total number of troops in their hands was about 200,000. And this number will form a balance between the general and Situ Yi's northern army.

Are they trying to balance the power, just improvised patchwork teams, really useful? Thinking of this, Qin Nanxi's eyebrows, which had been tightly twisted, stretched out little by little, and the solemnity at the corners of his lips slowly melted into the slightly hooked lips.

It turned out that they were still afraid of Brother Yi! Even if he was in their hands, they were still afraid of the Northern Frontier Army, who were loyal to Brother Yi.

Outside the curtain, horse-drawn carriages staggered by from time to time. Qin Nanxi was suspicious, and saw several family members of the Qin Mansion coming up to her from afar with anxious expressions.