Volume 1: Twilight Wants to Fall Chapter 29: Guests from the North and South into Chang'an (I)
Chang'an, Daning Gyeonggi, the world's best city.
This thousand-year-old ancient city is undoubtedly the most important heart for Daning, and every ups and downs of this heart affects the harmony of government decrees and counties in Kyushu, and is related to the life and destiny of people all over the world.
Chang'an is divided into outer walls and inner walls, the city looks around, since it is recorded in the history books, it is called the city that never falls, the outer wall is as long as 100 miles, and there are eight zhang high. The foundation is made of large blocks of stone, stone bricks are used as walls, cast molten iron, and the outermost layer is wrapped in clods of earth.
After the opening of Daning, it is to repair the inner and outer walls of Chang'an several times, just from the Nanguang Gate of Chang'an to the drum tower in front of the forbidden palace, there are more than 20 arrow towers, worthy of the name of the unbreakable.
The city wall is long, there are many natural city gates, and the layout of Chang'an City is called as a jade dragon spitting pearls in feng shui, and the back is against the Qinling Mountains to reach the North River; South through the Qinchuan East to the Central Plains, at first glance in the Kanyu map, Chang'an City is like a giant dragon swallowing the pearl, the seventy-two gates of Chang'an City is the outline of the dragon's body, and the place where this jewel points is the forbidden palace where the Daning royal family has lived for generations.
As soon as the sky is bright, as soon as the spring equinox passes, the spring cold is not as chilling as the previous days. A carriage came from outside the Beitongmen Gate that crossed the Beihe River in the north of Chang'an and drove slowly on the avenue.
There is nothing strange about this, after all, Chang'an City has a population of one million, and every day there are outsiders with good hopes who look up at the magnificent walls of Chang'an City with trembling, and there are also people who can't live in Chang'an City for various reasons, and they don't dare to look back before leaving.
This ancient city accommodates too many people and too many things, both the pride of the sea and the rivers, and the pickled dirt and dirt, some people say that they have been to Chang'an, even if they have seen the various states of life, there are too many people of all kinds in this city, and any strange things are here, it will not be too unusual.
The carriage was driven by a sturdy man, shirtless and wearing a leather waistcoat, with strong arms and a tall figure, with a beard full of chin, and he did not look very easy to mess with.
However, looking at his expression, he seemed to be a little depressed, and he kept muttering some gossip in his mouth, and his Jizhou accent made people's ears hurt when he listened.
The curtain in front of the carriage was suddenly opened, and Humafu immediately closed his mouth as if nothing had happened.
The carriage showed a gray and messy head, and his beard was even more unkempt than that of the driving groom, like a bad old man who had fled from his homeland, this old man was extraordinary, and he could still see between his eyebrows that he should be an extremely heroic person when he was young, but unfortunately his eyes were cloudy and sloppy now, and no one would look at it more.
The old man couldn't allow the groom to be like a long-tongued woman who kept nagging, but as soon as his chatterbox was opened, he couldn't stop talking.
"Ten miles of flower street, hundred miles of Chang'an; This flower street is talking about the famous Luoshentai in Yecheng, Jizhou, and as for the hundred miles of Chang'an in the latter sentence, it is talking about the central axis avenue that runs through the overall layout of Chang'an City. Do you know that the drum tower gate of the forbidden palace is consistent with the pattern of the north pass gate and the south shun gate at the north and south ends of Chang'an, and even the location is exactly the same. ”
The groom is a reckless man, and he doesn't know a few big characters, how can he understand these?
The old man lifted the curtain from time to time and said something that made him sound like a fog, at the beginning he was quite willing to take a stubble, after all, from Jizhou Yecheng all the way south to Chang'an is not far away, there is a companion on the road who can talk and relieve boredom is also very good for him, but this old man has a very strange temperament, he listens, but he is not allowed to speak, which can make him aggrieved along the way, a few times the old man blows his beard and stares to make him want to get angry, but think about the car hire fee that is enough for his family to spend a year, I had to swallow my anger, just hoping to reach my destination as soon as possible and get rid of this old man as soon as possible.
A penny can stump a hero, and he has grieved his ears for fifty taels of white silver, which is not considered to be a wretched life, right?
The groom nodded with a smile, indicating that he heard it, which made the old man very useful, the old man stroked his beard like a weed, and his mouth still didn't say a lot of things: "The seventy-two gates of Chang'an, except for the north gate in the early years, I walked through, this city sounds atmospheric; I saw the magnificence, but I really want to stay in it for more than ten or twenty years, and my eyes are full of bad luck, and it is not a good place to stay for a long time. ”
The groom rolled his eyes with the old man behind his back, he could understand this passage, and he didn't take it too seriously with a sigh in his mouth, who doesn't know the whole world in Chang'an City? I don't know how many people break their heads and want to drill into it, whether they are officials, business, even if they ask for food in Chang'an City, they are a grade higher than beggars in other places, why is Chang'an so unbearable in the mouth of an old man?
Although this old man is not likable, but the shot is really generous, originally the groom just tentatively made a price, there is a bid has its own counteroffer, who thought that the old man did not hesitate for a moment and nodded directly, and consciously paid a part of the fixed money first, which made the groom who had been driving for half his life very surprised.
When I arrived at the Beitong Gate, even if I entered the Chang'an territory, I checked the guards and the post, and the carriage passed through the Beitong Gate unimpeded, and the guards were not embarrassed, I guess they felt that an old man didn't have much oil and water to squeeze them dry, so he simply let them go, which made the horseman breathe a sigh of relief.
The old man looked at the pedestrians and the street scene all the way silently, his cloudy eyes were even more hazy, the groom glanced at it with his spare eyes, and found that the old man was staring at the Egret Tower in the east of the city in a daze, because he was in a much better mood when he entered the city, he dared to say: "Old man, do you want to go to the Egret Tower?" That's in the east of Chang'an, but if you want to go, it's only three hours, you decide that we'll go, and wait for the intersection in front of you to have to take a big detour! ”
The groom raised his whip and pointed the way, and after waiting for a long time to hear the old man reply, he turned his head angrily and was stunned.
The old man didn't give him a face this time, but just sat in the carriage and hugged his head and whimpered in a low voice.
Is this crying?
The groom was a little overwhelmed.
"Go here."
The old man lifted his patched cuffs and wiped his face, handing the groom a thorn made of gold leaf.
The groom took it and glanced at it, although he didn't know much, but he also recognized the words on it that were not cumbersome, and after reading it, his hand shook, and even his heartbeat stopped for a moment.
He lifted his eyelids to look at the old man, only to find that the curtain had been drawn.