Chapter 37 Arrived at the city of Suzhou
There is a proverb in the Great Xia Dynasty that there is heaven above, and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below.
Suzhou City is very famous in the Great Xia Dynasty, the scenery is picturesque, the hometown of treasured silk, and nearly three-thirds of the various tributes of the imperial palace are produced in Suzhou every year.
Before evening, Gu Qingchu and his party rushed to Suzhou City. In four or five days, you will be able to reach Shengjing.
There are a lot of people in Suzhou City on weekdays, and everyone has a lot of rich businessmen, but at most they are dozens of small people, or hire some dart masters to accompany them to protect their safety.
Gu Qingchu's two hundred or so people were wearing black and dark red clothes, with knives hanging from their waists, and stood in line in an orderly manner, attracting everyone's attention.
There were about a dozen people in front of him who were entering the city, and Gu Qingchu could pass quickly by taking out the token, but this would inevitably make the people who were originally lined up in front of him disrupt and re-queue.
After a while, Gu Qingchu ordered everyone to shoot behind the team and enter the city in order.
As soon as they stood in the place, the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate came over, and they noticed this pair of people from a long distance, and they seemed to calmly continue to let the people into the city, but in fact, they were a little uncertain.
If this group of people is going to suddenly fight with knives, these dozens of them are not opponents.
Thinking about it, Suzhou City is located in the heart of Great Xia, if this group of people has a problem, they should not come to Suzhou with such fanfare, Cangzhou in front of them should be stopped.
The soldiers kept an eye on this group of people, and found that they were honestly queuing up and had no intention of making trouble, and their hearts were relieved. Send a soldier to see what this group is all about.
Anything is wrong, the soldiers upstairs are ready to shoot at any moment.
The appearance of Gu Qingchu and his party put great pressure on the soldiers guarding the city gate, the aura on these people was not an ordinary little guy, they had never seen any kind of businessman guarding the city gate.
These look more like well-trained soldiers.
It's just that I don't know if it's a good soldier or a bandit.
"Please show me the clearance documents." The soldier's voice was a little stiff.
Who would raise so many people in a normal businessman's family, and each of them brought knives, and saw that the material used for the handle was even better than theirs! The soldier was sweating profusely on his forehead.
He suspected that this group of people had bad intentions, but he was so blatantly confused by the other party's behavior, and he knew who was checking the customs clearance documents.
Wang Sandou took out a token and a paperwork, and handed it over without saying anything.
He was reorganized by General Wu before, and he once guarded the city gate, so he knew that it was not easy to do this job, and he could better understand their psychology at the moment.
The soldier first looked at the token, his eyes widened, he opened the paper to see what was written on it, swallowed his saliva and glanced at the sedan chair with some excitement and said, "Brother, is Ning Lianghou in there, in there?!" ”
Some people look down on Ning Lianghou as a woman, and some people are grateful for what Ning Lianghou has done for the Xia Dynasty, and this soldier is the latter.
"You, you don't have to stand in line, this ......," the soldier stammered.
Wang Sandou patted the soldier's shoulder and said, "The lord ordered, line up to enter the city, and you continue to work normally." ”
It is inevitable that Gu Qingchu will show her identity when she enters every town, otherwise the soldiers around her will become the key objects of the government's care, and the management of the little emperor entering the city after he ascended the throne has been relaxed.
In Cangzhou, where he had stayed before, Gu Qingchu had changed into new clothes and knives, and everyone was overjoyed when they touched the new clothes and knives, Wang Sandou was moved to tears, saying that he had the feeling of Gu Jiajun back then.
People rely on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, and when they change into uniform clothes, they are immediately different, and even yesterday when they were resting in the wilderness, the bandits quietly walked away when they saw it.
The soldiers listened to Wang Sandou's words and returned to the city gate, and after whispering with the rest of the soldiers, those people looked at Gu Qingchu's sedan chair and was no longer vigilant, and their excitement was overflowing.
Finally, the front walked to the end, and when he arrived at Gu Qingchu's side, the soldiers did not search the luggage cart, and stood up straight in various military postures.
"I've seen Ning Lianghou, please come in." The front salute to Gu Qing Chu, and the latter sentence is a friend fist salute to Gu Jiajun.
Wang Sandou arched his hand back, and the group entered the city.
Suzhou City attracts a large flow of people, and there are many inns in it, so I quickly found a place to stay. As the sun sets, the light of dusk dots every street in Suzhou, and the golden light is beautiful.
After settling down in the inn, Gu Qingchu went out with the jade bracelet and two maids.
There are two shops of the Gu family in Suzhou City, and I learned from Gu Changfeng that the two shopkeepers of Suzhou City colluded with Suzhou Taishou to occupy the shop, and he let it go without a way to complain, and the account book in Suzhou was empty.
In the room, Yuan Jinpei made himself tea, and Ying Wu reported on the side.
"My lord, Ning Lianghou has just gone out, and Shadow Thirteen is with him." Gu Qingchu took one of the two maids, and it was the shadow thirteen who changed his appearance.
"Is there any news from the Southern Barbarian National Division?"
"The other party's whereabouts are very hidden, and they are walking on mountain and forest trails, even if they carefully sweep the traces of their passing, it is not difficult to judge by the trajectory of their movements, these people should be heading in the direction of Shengjing."
"How is Shengjing over there?" Yuan Jinpei then asked, he sat in a carriage with Gu Qingchu before, and many things were reported separately after arriving at the inn where he was resting.
"The Qin mission group has returned to Shengjing yesterday, "you" are sick and do not go out, the rest of the people do not suspect it, there is no storm for the time being, everything is as usual in Shengjing. ”
Why is it said that the civil and military officials are arrogant and domineering, because he doesn't want to go to the court, so he casually holds his illness and doesn't go out, but the emperor also lets it go, and sometimes they will meet Yuan Jinpei who goes out from the restaurant after eating on the way to the court.
The other party didn't feel weak when he bumped into them, but said that he wanted to eat some dishes made by the chef of the restaurant when he was sick.
They believe in ghosts! The chef of King Jing's Mansion is one of the three great chefs, the emperor left him in the palace as the head chef of the imperial dining room, and finally stayed in King Jing's Mansion because of his gratitude, and the chef of the restaurant was not famous in front of him at all! Obviously I didn't pretend to be sick and came out to play!
The official had played several times, but all of them were rejected by the emperor, and he was given a lecture, asking him to care more about other things and not to catch the trivial things.
Of course, the little emperor is a double standard, this kind of thing is a trivial matter on Yuan Jinpei, but in other ministers, it is a matter of character and must be punished.
The official saw the emperor's intention to protect it, so he stopped playing, in general, it was not a big problem, and the impact was not much, since the saint could tolerate it, he would no longer hold it.
Everyone also let Yuan Jinpei's "special" go, there is no way, who let him have someone on top.
Yuan Jinpei has a perverse temperament, and often hides in King Jing's Mansion for a few days without seeing anyone, this situation is too normal, so Yuan Jinpei did not return to Beijing, and no one in Shengjing found out.
After the matter was reported, Ying Wu's face was tangled, and he stopped talking.
Yuan Jin skimmed off the tea foam, glanced at Ying Wudao: "Tell me something directly." ”
"My lord, the Taishou of Suzhou is Guo Zijun."
"Oh? That's going to be a while. A dark light of unknown meaning flashed in Yuan Jinpei's eyes.