At the mention of Longdu City, Gu Ruoxi suddenly came to her senses, and was about to start speaking, when a cold wind blew on the grassland, and she couldn't help but sneeze a few times. Zhang Xiaowu asked Zhao Suo to fetch two pieces of Dayu, Gu Ruoxi said that he looked rough, but his heart was very delicate. The two came to the sand dunes on the side of the camp, Zhang Xiaowu sat directly on the sand dunes, and Gu Ruoxi sat beside him without scruples.

Longdu City is the capital of the Shenghan Kingdom, located in the center of the empire, with a population of nearly one million households, divided into the imperial city, the inner city and the outer city.

The imperial city includes the imperial palace and the yamen of various ministries, the royal family lives in the imperial palace, there are the left prime minister's mansion and six courtyards outside the palace (too hospital, too college, too history institute, domain court, inspector's court, Wentian courtyard), the right prime minister's mansion and eight yamen (military department, official department, household department, criminal department, ministry of industry, ritual department, river department, agricultural department), the office space of each ministry in the imperial city accounts for one-third, the imperial palace accounts for two-thirds, the imperial city is protected by the army of the Son of Heaven and the army of Zilong, ordinary people can not enter the imperial city.

Outside the imperial city is the inner city, the area of the inner city is ten times that of the imperial city, the Yamen of Longdu Mansion, which is responsible for the management of the inner city and the outer city, is located in the inner city, and the yamen of each ministry has its own offices, as well as the family gardens of the envoys of the state, loyal ministers of the imperial court, famous nobles, and gate valve families are also mostly in the inner city. In addition, the inner city includes all the prosperous places, such as green houses, theaters, taverns, restaurants, pawnshops, money houses, casinos, dart shops, flower shops, flower houses, decoration shops, garment shops, shoe shops, car dealers, vegetable markets, silk villages, pharmacies, lacquerware shops, etc., which can be said to be the most flowery place in the world.

Guarding the inner city are the Longdu Mansion Yamen, the Dragon Guard, the Silver Guards and the Forbidden Army, of which the Longdu Yamen is under the jurisdiction of the Longdu Mansion Yamen, mainly responsible for hearing cases and arresting civilian criminals; The Long Weijun is subordinate to the Inspectorate, responsible for rehabilitating the rebellion and arresting important criminals in the imperial court, and its usual work often overlaps with the officials of the Longdu Mansion; The Yinyi Guards were subordinate to the Prince's Mansion and were responsible for the security of the city, unlike the Jinyi Guards who supervised the military generals of the imperial court, they were only in charge of the Longdu Mansion, patrolling the streets at night, and sometimes assisting the officials and the Dragon Guards in arresting criminals; The Forbidden Army was responsible for protecting the gates and walls of the city and was subordinate to the Ministry of War.

Compared with the imperial city and the inner city, the outer city is much larger, it is built around the inner city of Longdu, because there is no city wall, where the people build their houses, the boundary of the outer city will be. The area of the outer city is ten times that of the inner city, and its role was originally to serve the inner city, but with the four legions of the forbidden army stationed in the four directions of the southeast, northwest and northwest of the dragon capital, and with the increasing number of people who go to live in the dragon capital, the outer city of the dragon capital is now also extremely prosperous, and everything is not inferior to the inner city. Especially in the outer city, there are many casinos, martial arts arenas, dart games, and sects, and because the four forbidden army legions guard the surrounding area, the rich people feel safe here, and they have moved their own industries and families here, resulting in the same busy traffic and rows of people in the outer city of Longdu City.

The second lady and the county lord's favorite place to go is some martial arts arenas in the outer city, because dragons are not allowed to carry blades to fight privately, so there are mostly sumo wrestlers in the martial arts arena. Spectators can place bets on the players, and the rules of sumo wrestling are also very simple, no eye kicks, no bites and throats, and the opponent is won by knocking the opponent out of the ring, and all martial arts can be used.

The Gu family is naturally located in the inner city, but there are more than 30 shops in the outer city, and there are seven granges outside the city of Longdu, which can be said to be extremely wealthy. Gu Yong is the third son of the Gu family, known as the third son of the Gu family, the first champion of the Gu family, and the military advisor of His Royal Highness the Prince, so his status in the Gu family is extremely high, second only to the old lady. But Gu Junshi only has two daughters and no sons, so the future patriarch can only choose someone else.

Zhang Xiaowu thought of Wu Song's advice and asked, "I heard that your Gu family is a relative of the emperor?" ”

"The late Concubine Liang, the crown prince's biological mother, was my grandfather's cousin, and we call her aunt. My eldest aunt is the daughter of my eldest uncle and likes us the most. Gu Ruoxi held her chin and recalled, and said slowly, "My aunt is the best beauty in the world, and everyone says I'm good-looking, but I'm not as good as my aunt." Because of the great aunt's extremely beautiful appearance, she was selected by the emperor to be a good concubine, and later the eldest aunt gave birth to a prince. It's just that my eldest aunt once had a daughter who died at the age of two, so my eldest aunt regarded me and my sister as her own daughters. ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "In this way, the prince is your cousin, so isn't the military advisor Gu the prince's uncle?" But isn't he the young master of the crown prince? This uncle is a teacher, which is very interesting. ”

Gu Ruoxi pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "So the prince is very good to us, and he trusts my grandfather even more." ”

"You are lucky because you are a member of the Gu family." Zhang Xiaowu said, "But you are unfortunate again, because you are a member of the Gu family." ”

Although Gu Ruoxi was still young, she could understand his words, and her heart was shocked, yes, her luck and misfortune came from the Gu family. Although Longdu City has a good talk about the three county lords, saying that as long as you can marry any of these six people, you will live a lifetime. But when she talked with her sister in private, she knew that the women of the Gu family had the right to pursue their own wishful husbandry.

She looked at Zhang Xiaowu curiously slightly, a meter of sunlight came out of the clouds and shone on his face, and for a moment he seemed to come from the sky, Gu Ruoxi stared at him blankly, he couldn't speak, and his heart was pounding like a deer.

"One day, I will definitely go to see how brilliant this dragon capital is." Zhang Xiaowu said with a smile, turning his head and seeing the second lady who was looking at him infatuatedly, he suddenly thought of Wu Song's words in his heart, and hurriedly got up and patted the sand on his buttocks, and said, "Go, go, go back." ”

"Hmm." The second lady followed behind him like a small tail.

After a busy day, Gu Ruoxi went back to her car tent to rest, so as not to be scolded by the eldest sister, and the eldest lady Gu was naturally worried that the youngest sister would be foolishly deceived by a man. But she noticed that Zhang Xiaozuo was not rude, and even took the initiative to distance herself from her sister sometimes. When Gu Ruoxi fell asleep, the eldest lady whispered her guess in the ear of Lord Shi, and Lord Shi was shocked: "How can you ......?"

The eldest lady hurriedly gagged her mouth and said, "You help me watch her together, if you are simple-minded, I am afraid that she will make a big mistake." ”

Lord Shi nodded, thinking of that handsome little general, and said in his heart, could it be that he is really so attractive, even a little kid will like him? It seems that his vision is right, and only excellent men can get into his own eyes. If her heart is known by the eldest lady, she will have to be angry. It's really a husky who cares for the home, and if the house is lost, not to mention, the special husky also ran away with someone......

From the third day the convoy left Jincheng, the scouts reported that there were sand bandits following, but the scouts chased them and were thrown off by the sand bandits. Zhang Xiaowu knew that the sand bandits were not dead, and most of the journey had passed, Zhang Xiaowu judged that the ruins of the Roland Holy Capital, one hundred and fifty miles away from Mucheng, were the last place for the sand bandits to make their move.

On the afternoon of the fifth day of the trip, the sun had not completely set in the west, Zhang Xiaowu uncharacteristically asked everyone to rest, he suddenly called all the sergeants, and called Chen Boqing over, Chen Boqing was surprised to see that everyone was ready to go, and hurriedly asked what happened.

"Anti-sneak attack." Zhang Xiaowu was in high spirits and said: "If the sand bandits can sneak attack us, we can naturally attack the sand bandits." When we came earlier, we stayed in the ruins of Roland for a few more days, just to survey the terrain. Originally, there was a river in Roland City, which dries up in April and March every year, and May is dry, and the river is hard and flat. He drew a line with charcoal on the map and said with a smile: "This road cannot be called a road, because it exists for two months, is produced by the melting of snow water, and disappears due to the hot weather." But we traveled at night, and each man rode horseback, along the river, and it was only in the middle of the night to get there. ”

Chen Boqing was suddenly shocked and said: "The sand bandits are in the ruins of Roland? How did you find out? ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Since the last time I was taught a lesson by my dead soldier battalion, the sand bandits have been following us and others, they have suffered serious losses, and they have been killed by us. This is a hundred miles in circumference, and the Roland Ruins are the most special, and every time a merchant stops at the ruins, he is often attacked by sand bandits. Therefore, the ruins of Roland are also the most popular place for sand bandits, and apart from the army, very few caravans are willing to rest in the ruins. ”

Chen Boqing frowned and said, "You said that Roland Ruins is a den of bandits? We were passing by ...... last time."

Zhang Xiaowu was deeply suspicious that this hero's sense of direction was not very good, so he continued: "The bandits' den can't be called, no sand bandit really regards the Roland ruins as a lair. Our army passed through the ruins as it came, and the bandits saw us from afar, and they ran away and could not see anything. But many sand bandits would raid the merchants who passed by to rest, and we saw many corpses, and we were not surprised for a long time. The ruins were deserted on the east and pastures on the west, and the sand bandits had raided the merchants and hid in the desert. We rush to the ruins tonight, and we may be able to wipe them all out in one fell swoop. ”

When Chen Boqing heard him tell him about the sneak attack, he felt a lot more valued, and he felt a lot more comfortable, and asked, "What does the school need me to help with?" If we want to fight the bandits together, it is my duty to protect my family. ”

Zhang Xiaowu hurriedly said: "Chen Daxia forgive me, this sneak attack on the sand bandits is a secret operation, but when the army moves, those who are interested will be able to find out one or two." Whether there are sand bandits in the five convoys, you and I can't be sure. Presumably, Chen Daxia can't guarantee that his people are very reliable, so we will fight overnight tonight, and we need Chen Daxia's assistance from the side, pacify everyone, and even help the remaining generals kill the secret suits. ”

Chen Boqing frowned when he heard this, and asked: "If the sand bandits are not in the ruins, and they will kill them after you leave, how to protect the safety of the young lady?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "The world has two laws? Chen Daxia, I only brought three hundred soldiers, and the other sergeants stayed here to help Chen Daxia guard Miss Gu's family. The Gu family is the leader of the caravan, if Chen Daxia is not notified at this time, he is afraid of arousing the suspicion of the Gu family, but if he notifies too many people, he is afraid of the rumors of walking. ”

Chen Boqing clenched his fists and said: "It is incumbent." ”