Chapter 349: Encountering the Dead

The holy decree was sent to Kouqing Palace, and the decree said that Shi Yao'er, the chief of the criminal department, Li Zhouang, the governor of Langzhong, and the superintendent of the imperial Shi Man, were to inspect the Liuren, Yao'er was the governor's ambassador, and Li Zhouang and Man's first appearance were appointed as the governor's deputy envoys, and Yao'er was also allowed to transfer the division of the first brigade to Longwuwei with the holy decree.

Li Zhouang and Man Yixiang are both opponents of the cool officials of Yushitai, and letting these two people be deputies will definitely not pull Yao'er back. And with these two people by their side, Yao'er's every move is witnessed, and it is not easy for others to accuse Yao'er of being a rogue and traitor to the party.

As soon as Yao'er saw the holy decree, she knew that this was Jiang Dexu's care for herself, regardless of whether Jiang Dexu had argued in front of the queen about recalling the cool officials. With Jiang Dexu's always stubborn and mean personality and domineering personality, being able to do these things is already a great care for her.

Kou Qing's palace division has always been in charge of Cui Langzhong's daily affairs, Cui Langzhong has a desire for power, but also has a sense of ambition, after he found that Yao'er not only did not deprive him of his power, but made him like a fish in water, easier to play his strengths, he was determined to get on Yao'er's thief ship, and formed an unbreakable alliance with Yao'er.

At the same time, Shen Ren's drunkenness had already gotten the news, and when he saw Yao'er packing up his things, he followed with a blank eye, looking at Yao'er with a pair of big eyes flickering.

Yao'er and she followed behind her buttocks, not only lost her usual liveliness, but also behaved like a child who was about to go out of the house, and couldn't help but look at him strangely and said, "Drunk, what are you following me, why don't you go and clean up your things?" ”

Shen Ren was drunk and overjoyed, and said happily: "Do you want to take me there?" I thought you were going to keep me in Kyori! ”

Shen Rendrunk cheered and ran behind the screen. Shen Ren usually pretends to be a servant when he is drunk, and he stays in Kouqing Palace at night, and the couch behind the screen in Yao'er's official room is his bed at night.

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The city was built on the north shore of the Qionghai Sea. On the south side of the North Mountain, the city is not big, square, and each city wall in the east, west, north and south has a length of about 600 zhang. The rammed-earth trapezoidal walls are more than five feet high, and the weeds and blooming wildflowers that grow from the walls sway in the wind, telling people about the ancient city of the city.

Coincidentally. Similar to Lin'an, Bright Dao City is also divided into two by a river, but Luoshui runs through the city. The whole city was divided into two parts, north and south, and the Lulin River, which originated in Zhaojue, meandered into the city, which also divided the city into two halves. It's just that the river came from the north and divided the city into two parts, east and west.

Qionghai is open. The distant mountains and jungles are lush. The reeds on the bank of the Lulin River are like clouds and mist, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the bright road city in the middle of it is like a famous pearl inlaid here. In the city, Xicheng is the most prosperous place, the governor's mansion, the assassin's mansion, and the county government club are all concentrated here, as well as countless merchants, Buddhist temples, Taoist temples, as well as the mansions built here by merchants and some tribal leaders and leaders.

Hedong is a different scene, a smooth and cut countryside. Graceful willows, winding paths. The quaint and elegant alleys are full of pastoral style.

However, Hedong is not all farmhouses, such as Tonghai Lane is a very prosperous wharf, and you must pass through here to go to Qionghai; Fish Market Street is the most prosperous aquatic product wholesale market, and all kinds of aquatic products are used; Yingchun Lane is the concentration of Flower Street and Willow Lane, where the green building concentrates women from various places and races, with different styles, beautiful and generous, it is the favorite place for literati and scholars, officials and businessmen to stay in the gold cave.

Connecting the east and west of the river are three wooden bridges, the middle one is the most wide, from which most of the city's residents travel between the east and west cities, so that many vendors came into being on both sides of the bridge, and various stalls and sheds squeezed the wide and flat road on both sides into a laneway, and the road was full of such stalls on both sides.

There are many stalls and miscellaneous, some sell all kinds of snacks, some sell handicrafts of various tribes, and some sell jewelry heads and satin fabrics transported from the Central Plains. If you have a leisurely mood, you might as well go around the stalls selling small handicrafts, and within three stalls, you can find a beautiful girl who is as handsome as a flower and pure as the water of the Lulin River.

The deep mountains breed handsome birds, and the firewood houses are beautiful. In this land of mixed tribes, there are handsome men and beautiful women, and some are beautiful, don't look at her wearing a patched shabby dress. There is no hairpin ornament on her black and shiny hair, but when her big black and white, innocent eyes look at you, you will feel that the fairy in the sky is no different.

Is such a place like heaven on earth? This is heaven, but hell is also with it, and under the tranquility and serenity of this small city, there is also violence and sin.

There is no city order with a whip in the market, and there is no city man with a stick to maintain order, and the order of the small town depends on the customs and habits that have been passed down for thousands of years and the spontaneous force of the people to maintain its balance.

The sky is high and the queen is far away, so it has become a paradise for the outlaws, many criminals who are wanted for crimes in the Central Plains have fled here, gangs and gangs, such as wolves foraging in the wilderness, but the fierce folk customs here have suppressed their fierce flames, although they do evil, but they dare not be blatant, and the main way to make money is smuggling, try not to compete with the local people for food or against them.

In the face of such simple and fierce people and ubiquitous outlaws, the most clever means for local officials is to adopt the method of ruling by vertical arches and doing nothing, and allowing the localities to develop according to the rules and norms formed spontaneously over thousands of years.

The officials only need to make friends with the heads of the ministries and maintain a good relationship with them, which is enough to ensure that they leave Jiang Anjing in their own places, because even if there is any conflict between the ministries, or even a large-scale tragic weapon fight, hundreds or thousands of people die, the leaders will also use their own rules of survival to solve it.

No one wants to be an official, they are the king of the land here, and no matter how big the trouble is, they will solve it by themselves, relying on the government? Not only is it incompetence, it is the initiative to hand over one's own power!

Most of the officials stationed here by the imperial court did not want to make trouble, and the most common thing they did was to collude with the chieftains, scheming, and plundering property. Form a party and bring up your children, who is willing to ask for trouble. As a result, the local population has become even more ignorant of their existence.

Yao'er led the horse and walked slowly through the bustling crowd.

She had been in the Northern Regions for more than half a year, and had even been to Dongwang City, which had enriched his experience, and although there were many strange costumes and people here, they were not as strange as what he had seen in the South Seas, so she was not too surprised. It didn't take long to get used to the atmosphere.

The ethnic composition of the people here is extremely complex, and in order to communicate, most of the people of various nationalities speak the official dialect of the Great Zhou. Although it is inevitable to have a strong country accent, Yao'er can still understand that she is chasing Hong Seyan all the way.

Yao'er had just arrived in the city, and she had already inquired about a few officers and soldiers of the garrison who had come to the city to drink and eat fish. Chincha Hong Seyan has already arrived here. The local officials and chieftains were holding a banquet for him, and Yao'er was so determined that he wanted to find a place to live in Xicheng first.

She didn't bring anyone, but when Shen Ren was drunk, she carried the holy decree appointing her as the ambassador of the governors of all provinces, and chased after her.

As long as Hong Seyan has not revealed his bloody mouth, devouring the lives of those innocent exiles, and using their blood to stain his splendid future. There is no need for Yao'er to reveal her identity.

A beautiful girl walked in the crowd, looking at the dazzling array of goods on the stall with great interest. Those handsome little village girls who are naturally beautiful and don't know it will also feel jealous when they see her, their beauty may have their own merits, but their temperament is different.

If those beautiful little village girls are like the clear stream under the bridge, this girl is like a bright white cloud in the sky, if those beautiful little village girls are the fairy daughters in the sky, then this beautiful girl is Chang'e in the Moon Palace.

The girl was about fifteen or sixteen years old, fair-skinned, wearing a snow-white smock and beard skirt, an emerald green tie around the waist, and a pair of black satin short-waisted leather boots at her feet, which looked playful and lovely.

There were three or four silver rings around her neck, and there were bells of all sizes on the silver rings, and all kinds of silver ornaments on her hair ornaments, and there was always a pleasant jingle when she walked.

Especially her long legs, which make people impressed at first sight. Her legs are slender and long, accounting for more than half the length of her body, and they are as slender and graceful as the legendary merman, and when they shake, they naturally have a very seductive sense of rhythm.

Shen Renzui saw her beautiful and lovely appearance, and her eyes suddenly lit up, beautiful women will always attract the attention of men. Of course, this beautiful girl attracted more than one gaze, and several men in the crowd also stared at her at the same time.

They followed them for only a while, and then gave up their plans to take them captive. The girl looked playfully around, seemingly alone. But about ten steps behind her, she was always followed by four white-robed men who were not smiling and had serious expressions, all of whom were wearing a Yu knife.

Seeing the Yu knife they were wearing, the outlaws who were stunned noticed that the girl's charming gourd had a crank short sword hanging from her waist, and the short sword was as delicate and graceful as the girl's body, which was clearly a sheath.

As a result, a few desperate evil thoughts disappeared without a trace as if a snow lion had encountered a fire.

This girl, they can't afford to mess with her, whether it's beautiful or rich, it's better to live than to live, they fled here from the Central Plains, isn't it just to live, there's no reason to crash into the ghost door by themselves.

It was nothing that the girl was dressed in white, but it was obvious that the four strong men who were her entourage not far behind her were also wearing white robes, it was no coincidence, they must be white barbarians.

The white barbarians and the Wumanians are the two largest ethnic groups in the southwest region, the Wuman, dressed in black, the length of the clothes covers the knees, and they live by herding and do not know how to farm. Bai Man likes to wear white clothes, no longer than his knees, ploughing and weaving agricultural mulberry, which is similar to the Han people.

Don't offend the locals, especially the local clans, this is the first rule of the Central Plains outlaws to save their lives here. Moreover, judging from the decorative weapon worn by this girl, it was clear that she was not an ordinary white barbarian, let alone someone they could provoke.

Because the short sword she wears is a "sheath", which is a sword that only barbarian kings can enjoy!

The sheath is the first of the three most famous weapons in the Southwest. The shape of the sheath is like the blade of a halberd, the handle is decorated with gold, and its blade is extremely sharp, don't look at it small and slender like a toy ornament, but it can sharpen iron like mud, blow hair and break hair, and pierce the thorns, which is a precious weapon worn by the king of the southwest tribe.

The four white-clothed men who followed behind were equipped with Yu Dao at their waists, which was second only to the Duo Sheath in terms of nobility, and the same as the Duo Sheath, the casting method of the Yu Dao was also secret, and only the senior craftsmen of the barbarians knew its casting method. The blade of the Yu knife was quenched with strange poison, and the throat was sealed with blood.

These two weapons are not something that ordinary barbarians can wear, and ordinary barbarians wear at most one: "Ronin Sword", so just from the weapons worn by these people, those experienced Central Plains outlaws can guess that this girl is extremely noble, and it is not something they can afford to provoke.

A few outlaws quietly retreated, and the girl in white didn't know that there were a few blind guys just now, planning to kidnap her and sell her to those fat-headed and big-eared salt merchant giants in Yangzhou as concubines.

She looked around, looking at everything interestingly, bouncing and jumping like a little sparrow foraging, and in a short time she bought a mess of knick-knacks, and held them in her arms.

As she walked, she saw a stall selling all kinds of ornaments made of horns, it seemed that she was tempted again, she stood still, holding a bunch of useless things that she might not not look at all after she bought them back, tilted her head, a pair of beautiful big eyes flickered and did not know what she was thinking, and then suddenly a joyful voice shouted: "Sister Yan'er!" Sister Yan'er! ”

On the road ahead, a little girl suddenly saw her, and immediately ran over with a cry of joy, and threw away the old family who was following her.

"Hah! Little Snow Lotus, I was just going to find you! ”

The girl in white saw the little girl who ran towards her, and she smiled brightly, she hurried up to meet her, and handed the things in her arms to the little girl, so panicked that the little girl hurriedly picked up her skirt and grabbed it, and the girl in white who came out of her free hand pinched the little girl's pink face affectionately, and said with a smile: "Yo! I've grown taller again, look at this, I will soon be my sister-in-law! ”

When the little girl heard her teasing, her face turned into a lovely red apple. The little girl is picturesque, happy and angry, although she is only twelve or thirteen years old, she is already a beautiful embryo, it seems that a few years older, she will really become a beautiful big girl.

Yao'er and Shen Rendrunk led the horses, and were about to pass by them, but when they heard their laughter, Shen Rendrunk glanced at them curiously, and immediately stopped, and his eyes widened in shock.

If it weren't for the girl in white who called "Snow Lotus", he might not be able to recognize it even if he walked opposite the little girl, but he had already heard the name Snow Lotus, and then looked at her appearance, although the female college had changed eighteen, but the little girl Snow Lotus had not grown up after all, so she vaguely saw a little familiar charm.

Surprised: "Why did this little girl appear here?" (To be continued......)