A small city appeared in front of her, Yuan Qi'er grabbed the reins of the horse, and squinted at Yang Muyun behind her, "How about it, are we going to enter the city now?" ”

Yang Muyun hesitated for a moment and did not speak. His waist card of the brocade guard thousand households has been stolen, and he needs to be identified when he enters the city, although he does not issue a road guide like ordinary people, but he does not have a tooth tag and a warning body, and the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate do not listen to you just use your mouth to say that you are a member of the military department or a member of the brocade guard Qianhu.

At this time, an old man and a young man walked over on the road, and it seemed that they had entered the city to visit their relatives.

Yang Muyun dismounted and arched his hand forward and asked, "This old man, where is the front?" ”

The old man looked Yang Muyun up and down, and said: "The front is Huairou County, my grandson and I are going to join our relatives, this son, where are you going?" ”

"Oh, my friends and I want to go back to the capital, I don't want to get lost, thank you for telling me."

"To go to the capital, then you have to go south," the old man stretched out his hand and pointed to the south, "and go further and further." ”

......

Looking at the backs of the old and the young gradually moving away, Yang Muyun shook his head helplessly.

"Let's go!" Yuan Qi'er glanced forward, but did not turn the horse's head.

"Where to go?" Yang Muyun asked.

"Don't you want to go into town?" The corners of Yuan Qi'er's lips curled slightly, "Just let me go." He shook the reins.

"Do you have a way to get into town?" Yang Muyun glanced at her in disbelief.

"You don't believe it?" Yuan Qi'er rolled her eyes and raised her eyes to look at the sky, "Hurry up and get on the horse, the city gate will be closed if it's too late." ”

"But ......" Yang Muyun hesitated, "I don't have anything on me to prove my identity, how can I enter the city?" ”

"I have," Yuan Qi'er smiled slightly, "I guarantee that you can enter the city in a dignified manner." ”

......

Horses and antlers were set up in front of the gate of Huairou City, and a group of heavily armed officers and soldiers stood in front of the city gate with spears and knives, as if facing a great enemy. The people lined up to enter the city, and the line moved slowly forward, and it seemed that the officers and soldiers were much more searched than usual.

"Do you really have a way to get into the city?" Yang Muyun asked Yuan Qi'er worriedly.

Yuan Qi'er nodded calmly.

"This girl is so bold," Yang Muyun was secretly worried in his heart: "Don't be arrested by the officers and soldiers as soon as you arrive at the city gate, and you will be trapped with me." So he whispered in her ear, "Let's not go into the city, and we will find a place to stay outside the city." Saying that, he turned around and wanted to leave, but was stopped by Yuan Qi'er, "Where else can I go at this time, haven't you seen so many eyes staring?" He glanced at him and comforted him in a low voice: "If we turn around and leave now, the officers and soldiers will definitely catch up, why don't we go up calmly now, maybe we can really enter the city safely?" ”

Yang Muyun glanced at the solemn eyes of the rows of officers and soldiers on both sides of the city gate, his heart tightened, and he turned around and stood side by side with Yuan Qi'er.

"Why are there so many officers and soldiers today, is this going to war?" A middle-aged man in front of him asked an old man.

"You don't know yet," the old man said in a low voice, "Yesterday, a cavalry of the Tartars rushed to the city of Jingshi, and almost failed to attack the city gate. ”

"The Tartars have entered the customs, and they have also hit the capital?" The middle-aged man said in surprise: "What about my border army of the Ming Dynasty?" Have they all been defeated? ”

"I don't know," the old man shook his head like a gourd, "I heard that the Tartars have retreated, and all places have entered a state of combat readiness. ”

......

"Next," shouted the officer guarding the gates.

"Official...... Yuan Qi'er stepped forward with a normal face, took out a scroll from his sleeve and handed it over.

"Where did you come from?" The officer opened the scroll as he spoke.

"Outside the gates." Yuan Qi'er said calmly.

The officer's brow furrowed, and his eyes narrowed slightly: the scroll was opened, and inside was made of bright yellow silk silk, and the edge was decorated with a golden dragon pattern. The officer was taken aback, his arrogant eyes flickered, and he couldn't stop looking at Yuan Qi'er.

"You're from the capital?" The officer asked.

Yuan Qi'er bowed her head slightly, and said indifferently: "Lang Jun and I have the emperor's order, and I also ask the official to make it convenient." As he spoke, he glanced at Yang Muyun beside him and felt it out of his cuffs

A small package, which jingled inside, was quietly stuffed into the officer.

"Good to say, good to say," the officer took the small package, closed the scroll, handed it back to Yuan Qi'er, and saw that his soldiers wanted to come forward to search, so he waved his hand, "They don't need to search, let them into the city." ”

"Lord Banner," a sergeant next to the officer looked at the figures of the two walking away, and said a little grumbling, "What's the matter today?" Just sent away the two brocade guards, and a pair of imperial envoys came, and there are several big people in our small county. ”

"When it is extraordinary, there are more extraordinary people." The officer said disapprovingly, "What's so strange about this? ”

"This pair of imperial envoys is okay, but the two brocade clothes are too strange, one is as big as a mountain, and the other is as thin as a monkey, how do you look like they are from Beizhen Fusi." The soldier said.

"But the sign of the brocade-clothed Wei Qianhu is not fake," the officer glared at him, "If you have any doubts, you might as well go to the Beizhen Fusi in the capital to investigate." ”

"How dare the villain?" The soldier waved his hand again and again and said with a smile: "That Senluo Hall will cause bad luck even if you look at it, and you dare to go there to investigate?" The villain is not enough to lose three lives. ”

"Then do your errand obediently, and don't be noisy," the officer shouted coldly at the crowd lined up like a long line, "Next ......"

......

"Qi'er, what did you take out just now, why did the officer guarding the door let us in when he saw it respectfully?" Yang Muyun asked puzzled.

"Want to know?" Yuan Qi'er glanced at him mischievously, "You call me a good lady, a good lady, and I'll tell you." ”

"You...... Here you go again. Yang Muyun turned his head to the side.

"Hee-hee, teasing you, why are you so serious?" Yuan Qi'er whispered in his ear: "This is just an edict from your emperor for inquest and trade. ”

"Oh?" Yang Muyun said curiously: "It's just an edict for inquest and trade, why can it scare that officer like that?" ”

"Because that edict is a yellow silk wrapped in a golden dragon incense note," Yuan Qi'er said with a smile: "It's the highest rank in the edict, if the guard of the door is a civil official, it won't be easy for us to get through so easily." ”

"You mean, the officer is illiterate?" Yang Muyun said in surprise.

"What's so strange about this," Yuan Qi'er glanced at him, "There are not many literate generals and soldiers in your Ming Dynasty border army, and when they look at the imperial things, they are already timid in their hearts, and they can't think of a few unfathomable words in the clouds, mountains and fogs." He raised his chin triumphantly.

"I see you gave him a small package, what's in it?" Yang Muyun asked again.

"It's something that helps ghosts grind," Yuan Qi'er covered her mouth and smiled, and gave him a blank look, "What about you or the fifth-grade official in the Ming officialdom?" I don't even understand this. ”

"They blatantly took money to let them go?" Yang Muyun's face changed, "I simply regard the military rules and discipline of the imperial court as nothing." ”

"Isn't that weird?" Yuan Qi'er looked at Yang Muyun again as if she was looking at a monster, "Your Ming Dynasty can't even pay the military salaries of the border army, do you still expect the soldiers below to be loyal to the country?" I think it's good not to throw down the knife and gun and scatter in a hurry. ”

"After this temptation, are you preparing for the next big attack?" Yang Muyun's face tightened, and he glared at her and asked.

"I don't know," Yuan Qi'er smiled leisurely, "I'm not the supreme Khan of the grassland, how can I know what to do next?" His eyes turned to Yang Muyun, "But if the Ming army is really vulnerable, it will only be a matter of time before our grassland warriors cross the Great Wall and go straight to the capital." Yang Muyun's heart trembled when he said this, and he was full of excitement.

Seeing that Yang Muyun was silent, Yuan Qi'er smiled in his ear: "What, do you regret saving me?" Seeing him snort coldly, he said: "You can shout on this street now, and I can only obediently wait for you to bring troops to arrest me...... I promise not to resist, how? ”

Yang Muyun ignored Yuan Qi'er and walked forward quickly with a gloomy face.

"Hey, you wait for me," Yuan Qi'er led the horse and chased after her, "You, where did you leave your daughter-in-law alone?" ”

Huairou County is not far to the north is the Mutianyu Pass on the Great Wall, out of Mutianyu, it is the world of Mongolians outside the Guanwai. Therefore, it is known as the key of Beiguan, with convenient transportation and developed commerce, although it is only a small county town, but the business name, pawnshop, oil

There are shops, tea shops, restaurants, and inns.

Seeing that it was getting late, Yang Muyun came to the door of a rather magnificent inn in the west of the city, and the banner was written with the four big characters "Yuelong Inn".

"Yo, guest officer, do you want to stay in the hotel?" As soon as he saw someone stopping, the shopkeeper with bright eyes hurriedly stepped forward, "It just so happens that we have an upper room here, why don't you come and take a look?" ”

Yang Muyun nodded, and was about to enter with him, only to hear the sound of horses' hooves, and a horse galloped in front of them.

The shopkeeper looked up and saw that it was immediately a beautiful girl, and he couldn't help but be stunned, "Auntie...... Girl, do you want to stay in a hotel too? This boy has just asked for the only upper room in the store, and there is only one firewood room left......"

The girl didn't listen to him, jumped off the horse, came to Yang Muyun and said angrily: "You person, how can you say that you will turn your face, leave me alone, have you forgotten who helped you enter the city?" ”

Yang Muyun looked at Yuan Qi'er, who came to Xingshi to ask for guilt, and sighed helplessly, "It's not that I left you, but that you walked too slowly." ”

"Okay, good," Yuan Qi'er didn't argue with him, and turned to the guy with a pretty face, "Little Er, stay in the hotel." ”

"Yes...... But ......" the shopkeeper glanced at Yang Muyun.

Without waiting for him to speak, Yuan Qi'er said: "There is also an upper room, I am with him, you just lead the way." ”

The shopkeeper's eyes widened in surprise, "May I ask if the girl is this son's ......?"

"We are husband and wife." Yuan Qi'er replied crisply.

......

Yuelong Inn is a big inn, there are three floors high, the bottom is the lobby, is a place for guests to eat, now to the time of the lamp, the guests have come down to eat one after another, the lobby has sat more than a dozen tables of guests.

Yang Muyun glanced at the guests in the lobby, his eyes were fixed, and he stared at a table in the corner, and the table was sitting on the thin young man who stole his waist card, and the strong man with a huge body was sitting next to him, and the eyes of the two looked at a table in the middle.

There was only one person sitting at that table, a strange person. He wore a hat on his head, and under the hat was a grim face with features like a knife and an axe, and a long scar on the left cheek, like a centipede climbing on it, making his cold face particularly hideous. There was no wine on the table, and he was eating, eating a bite of food, with a mouthful of food, eating very slowly, ensuring that every bite of food he ate would be converted into his own energy, because he could only eat with one hand. In his left hand he held the knife, a knife of a very strange shape, with a black scabbard and a black hilt, which he never let go of no matter what he was doing. The clothes on his body were as black as ink, coupled with the pitch-black knife and pitch-black eyes, the whole person looked black and shiny.

Although the place where he sat was far from the gate, it was easy to attract everyone's attention, whether it was his person or the knife in his hand.

Yang Muyun felt a trace of strangeness in his heart, seeing this person, he could easily think of Leng Yifei, but Leng Yifei exuded a cold aura from his body, but this person controlled the cold in his body and did not easily emit it.

At this time, he felt a gaze secretly swept over him, it was the thin young man who stole his waist card, and when he saw Yang Muyun, a look of surprise appeared on his face. It seems that Yang Muyun did not expect to appear in this place.

Yang Muyun smiled slightly at his gaze, and then walked upstairs with the shopkeeper.

"This is the room," the shopkeeper led them to the door of the second room on the third floor, stopped, stretched out his hand and pushed, the door "creaked" open, turned around and said with a smile, "Please come in, two of you." ”

The room was small but very clean and there was only one bed in it.

Yang Muyun frowned, "Why is there only one bed?" ”

"Guest officer," the shopkeeper said with some surprise, "this bed is not small, it is more than enough for two people......

"Alright, you go down." Yuan Qi'er glanced at Yang Muyun and said to the shopkeeper, "We'll stay here at night." ”

"Okay," the shopkeeper grinned, "the little one won't delay the two of them to rest, and the little one will retire." "Don't forget to close the door when you leave the room.