Chapter Eighty-Four: Illusion Thank you to the 'useless' for a glass of wine!
"Brother has something to say, don't carry a gun with a stick"
"What's wrong with the gun and stick? Did Lao Tzu stab you or you?"
After the two mercenaries quarreled, they began to push each other, some laughed and some argued, and the queue to enter the city became chaotic.
"What are you arguing about?" the soldiers defending the city shouted loudly, and approached them angrily with spears in hand. "If you want to fight and go to the arena, you want to line up to enter the city, and if you don't want to enter, don't interfere with the order of entering the city"
"Pretty sideways, brother," one of the mercenaries stopped pushing and turned his head to stare at the soldier in front of him, a look of disdain in his eyes. "Uncle, I'm a sword-level mercenary, just a small soldier dares to ......"
The soldier interrupted him and glared: "Just because I am a disciple of the Qin Sect, what's wrong with scolding you, do you have an opinion?"
"......" The mercenary was choked so badly that his face turned red, and he snorted indignantly and lined up honestly.
The soldier lowered his spear and shouted as he pushed at the crowd: "Don't be crooked, it's all lined up, you don't want to waste time, we don't want to waste time, who the is trying to cause trouble in the dungeon again"
The people lining up to enter the city waited for the soldiers to leave, and then they whispered.
"The strength of the Qin Sect is really great, even the disciples of the sect are so ......" a mercenary from outside the city sighed with emotion, and turned to ask the mercenary in front of him. "Eh, this brother, I heard that the dungeon of the Qin Kingdom doesn't care about food, right?"
The mercenary said: "Yes, if you want to eat, you have to pay for it yourself, and if you don't have money, you can catch rats to eat, saying that rats are a sought-after dish in the cell, and you can't even eat rats without any skills, but you can manage enough feces and urine." ”
"Brother, you're so familiar with it, have you ever been there?" someone interjected and asked with a smile.
"I also listen to what others say"
The focus of everyone's discussion shifted from the homeless people to other trivial chores, and the team moved forward slowly and orderly in an orderly manner.
Qin Zheng frowned, always very concerned about that sentence. Hearing that the Lang Kingdom was destroyed by the mercenary group, he subconsciously thought of the greedy wolf, could it be that the greedy wolf already had the strength to destroy the country? Is it possible? In his memory, the matter of the destruction of the Lang Kingdom had become the talk of the mercenaries in Qin and Xia, and no one cared about the reason for the destruction of the country.
Langguo, located in the mountainous area west of Qin, the capital of Langcheng, is rich in beautiful jade, of which green jade is the most, and half of the green jade used in the mercenary union is produced in Langguo.
There are only three cities in Langguo, including the capital, the territory is mountainous, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Qin State has tried to press the territory several times but has been blocked by the terrain.
To say that there is also a monk sect in Langguo, called Peiqingmen, which is a small sect of more than 100 people, unlike Qinmen, who blends into the world, but lives in the mountains for a long time like a hermit, and rarely cares about the world. I don't know if the Lang Kingdom was destroyed, but Pei Qingmen could have participated? It is expected that whether the Lang Kingdom exists or is destroyed is of little significance to Pei Qingmen.
Ruling out the rebellion of the monk sect, there is also the possibility of chaos within the sect.
No matter how small the Lang country is, it is also a country, and there is no prince born in the clan, and there is no one who does not aspire to a position above ten thousand people under one person, but no matter how much civil strife there is, the ultimate goal is impossible to mess up the country.
I haven't heard of any major wars lately, and the mercenaries are the most well-informed, and if something big happens, they will never escape their clever ears and eyes.
Qin Zheng ruled out all kinds of possibilities, and finally turned back, always suspicious of the greedy wolf mercenary group, believing that there must be traces of greedy wolves in the territory of Lang Kingdom, if the greedy wolf really has the strength to destroy the country, his plan will be changed.
The team moved forward little by little, Qin Zheng looked ahead, and saw the mercenary who had just revealed the news, and was taking the green jade from the soldier's hands and preparing to enter the city, did he guess or did he see it with his own eyes?
After a while, Qin Zheng changed to the front of the team, and the soldiers defending the city cast a few curious glances, took the green jade and mercenary badges from Qin Zheng's hands, and checked that there was no abnormality before letting them go.
"Brother in front, wait" Qin Zheng chased after him and shouted.
The mercenary didn't care at first, but then he noticed that a strange young man was on his shoulder, and when he turned around, he saw that he was handsome and had an extraordinary temperament, and his expression couldn't help but be a little kinder. "You are?"
"I was behind you before, and as soon as I heard you talk about the destruction of the Lang Kingdom, my words were interrupted," Qin Zheng said, making up a lie without changing his face. "I have relatives in Langguo, and I haven't returned for several months, and I don't know anything about the destruction of the country, look brother, you seem to know some inside story, I don't know if you can tell me?"
The young man has a handsome and white face, his temperament is not idle, and the clothes he wears are also of high quality, unlike ordinary people, he is a rich money owner at first glance, and it is really unreasonable not to take the opportunity to slaughter it. The young man's eyes rolled, and he muttered: "I know a little bit of the inside story, but how can I tell you such a thing as intelligence in vain...... So, how about selling you for a gold ingot?"
The gossip he said when he was chatting with people just now, the price rose to one gold ingot at this time, and Qin Zheng turned around and left, he was also anxious, the destruction of the Lang Kingdom was such a big thing, it was impossible for the deacons of the Twilight Moon Holy See not to know, they knew far more than the mercenaries, and it was more credible.
The young man was in a hurry. "Hey, don't go, how about the five silver ingots...... Three silver ingots...... A silver ingot can't be missing, eh...... "Seeing the young man disappear into the crowd, his intestines are about to regret it, and he will open a low price if he knows it, maybe he can mix up the money for a meal."
Li Yuanhua and his party had just entered Ludu City, ready to find someone, Xizi saw Qin Zheng standing not far away waiting for them, and immediately grabbed Li Yuanhua, he looked happy, hurried a few steps forward and asked, "Chief, why are you in such a hurry?"
"It's okay, I recognized the wrong person. Qin Zheng casually prevaricated.
Hearing Qin Zheng say this, Li Yuanhua didn't ask any more questions, and followed closely behind Qin Zheng with Xizi Jamas and walked towards the south city gate.
The four of them crossed several long streets, turned left and right, and saw the city gate at the end of the street in the distance.
The closer you get to the city gate, the more people come and go, and the more dung on the ground, the east and the west are the same, and the smell of sweat in the air is very pungent and unpleasant.
Tanned men followed the ox cart in sweat with heavy loads, sweat on their heads, trousers rolled up to their knees, their feet covered in mud, and straw sandals and toes as if welded together. The overseer chattered with a whip in hand, and the well-dressed employer did not forget to shout at them, emphasizing the high value of the goods and the imminent delivery time.
Qin Zheng and the others carefully avoided the cow dung on the ground, and stepped out of the city gate and rushed to the river, the turbid river water could not be seen at a glance.
In the afternoon, the wharf was especially busy, with mercenaries, merchants, porters, and civilians coming and going, and the cargo ships were constantly flowing back and forth, and the passenger ships carrying people were soon full.
Fortunately, there are a lot of passenger ships, both long-distance and short-distance, Qin Zheng and the four of them boarded a short-distance passenger boat bound for Danyan City, and came to the bow to look at the river view.
"I haven't been to Danyan City yet, and Xiao Jia hasn't been to either, right?" Li Yuanhua stabbed Jarmans with his elbow.
"I've been and I've been further afield. ”
Jarmans's words made Li Yuanhua stunned, and he said suspiciously: "You are a Guran, you are not a merchant or a mercenary, why did you run so far?"
Xizi smiled lightly behind the two of them, although Jarmans was a doctor, he was also a probationary deacon of the Twilight Moon Holy See, and followed Elder Bai's car to the north and south, where had he never been?
"Have you ever seen the sea?" Jarmans asked Li Yuanhua.
"The sea, I know it's bigger than this river. ”
"Compared to the river and the sea, it's like the gap between this ship and the river, which is too big for you to imagine. ”
Li Yuanhua gasped, although he couldn't imagine how big the sea was, he could see the gap between the boat and the river, his face gradually turned blue, and his legs and feet trembled a little. As Huowu, most of them are naturally afraid of water, especially the water surface that is too big to imagine as far as the eye can see, and the feeling of having nowhere to put their feet is far more terrifying than directly facing the fierce demon beasts, and the bottomless fear suddenly rises an indescribable sense of suffocation.
boom
A drum beat startled Li Yuanhua to jump on the spot, and then two more drums sounded, signaling that the passenger ship was about to set sail when it was full. As soon as the hull moved, Li Yuanhua's face turned from blue to white, looking farther and farther away from the land, and subconsciously swallowed a few mouthfuls of spit.
"Are you okay? Jarmans quickly thought of a possibility and asked, "Are you seasick?"
Li Yuanhua was worried about being teased by Jarmans, so he quickly shook his head and denied: "How come, I don't get seasick"
"Don't look at the water, look at me. I'll tell you my story by the sea, it's funny, I'm sure you'll like it. ”
Li Yuanhua didn't want to hear the word sea at all, but Jammans looked sincere, and he was embarrassed to refuse, so he had to nod helplessly.
"I met a beautiful girl on a small island in southern Xinjiang, her name was Rhea, she saved me when I fell into the water, and she taught me to swim. Rhea's legs were fishtails, beautiful and powerful, her scales glittered in the sun, and her hair was blue, as blue as the sea. Rhea is often seen sitting on the reef singing, her beautiful singing is blown far away by the sea breeze, and the fishermen in the neighborhood like her very much, but Rhea is a little shy, and if anyone wants to approach her, she will plunge into the water to avoid her. ”
"Wait, are you talking about Rhea a a human or a fish?" Li Yuanhua was a little confused.
"People say she's a mermaid, but I don't think a mermaid is as good as a mermaid, and Rhea is a mermaid. In Jarmans' mind, a shark is no different from a fish.
"Mermaid ......"
Li Yuanhua began to think about it. I thought to myself, the mermaid sounds fierce, how can a mermaid sound good, and I can't help but deeply identify with Jarmans.
Qin Zheng was attracted by Jarmans's story and became interested in the mermaid, and when he turned his head, he didn't pay attention to Xizi who was playing with the little black cat, and looked at her in a daze, and saw that she was also staring at him in a daze.
It seems that his lips touched her just now? Qin Zheng said in his heart. The touch is slight, perhaps an illusion caused by the wind.
His lips seemed to touch just now?, Xizi thought to herself. It felt like the wind was blowing.
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