In late March, Jiangnan may already be in the twilight of spring when the grass grows and kites fly, but it is early spring in Zhongjing Dadingfu.

When the mission entered the city, it was past noon, and under the sun, it felt very warm, but when the sun set, it was biting cold.

Yang Huairen's delegation lived in the Wanguo Temple in the west of Dadingfu, which was not a temple, but a yamen of the Liao court that specialized in receiving foreign missions, somewhat similar to the Honglu Temple in the Great Song Dynasty.

The place of Wanguo Temple is very large, there is a large courtyard of nearly 200 acres, and Yang Huairen's delegation of more than 500 people only uses one-third of the place of Wanguo Temple.

This coincides with the characteristics of the city of Dadingfu, the city is built in imitation of the Great Song Dynasty Tokyo City, except that there is no moat, the general structure, the division of the streets, almost the same as the Tokyo City.

It's a pity that Dading Mansion doesn't have so many permanent people, and there is no prosperous business, so in addition to the center of the city, which is quite prosperous and lively, there are more places, and the buildings are only sparse, and there is no difference from an ordinary county town in Liao.

Even, there is a small royal pasture in the city, I heard that the old emperor Yelu Hongji because of his age, even if he has the habit of returning to Beijing Linhuang Mansion every summer to celebrate the bowl festival, but now he is already unable to do it.

Therefore, on a wasteland in the northwest of the palace, he created such a grassland, which was used as his exclusive territory, and set up a round tent here in imitation of the grassland, so as to reminisce about the grassland life.

Yang Huairen thought this incident was very interesting and very funny, and it was almost the same as Yelu Bawotai building a tent on the vacant land of the Great King's Mansion in the South Courtyard of Xijin Mansion.

The only thing that may make the old emperor Yelu feel unhappy is that when he woke up in the morning and walked out of the tent, he raised his eyes to look at the city wall not far away, and he didn't know what kind of state of mind he would have.

Another difference between Dading Mansion and Xijin Mansion is that it is not like Xijin Mansion to go out on the street, full of all kinds of Han people, there are still Han people in Dading Mansion, but more are Khitan people with shaved heads and pigtails, and of course there are many other people of various nationalities in strange costumes.

Although Yang Huairen had already entered the Liao realm before, when he was in Nanjing Road, perhaps in terms of architectural style and living customs, he still maintained the traditions of this Han place, and he really didn't feel too deeply that he was in Liao, but when he arrived in Dading Mansion, he really felt that he had come to a foreign country.

The buildings and houses made of civil structures and bricks and tiles are more or less based on the Han architectural style and incorporate some characteristics of Khitan semicircular tents.

It's just that these characteristics are forcibly added a bit too stiffly, giving people the feeling of being anticlimactic, nondescript, and adding snakes, completely distorting the beauty of the building into a kind of stew-like appearance, which makes Yang Huairen feel very awkward.

Many other countries or some tribes in the Liao State have already come to the Wanguo Temple to meet the representatives of Yelu Hongji, Yang Huairen, the Song envoy, is the latest, because a few days later, it is the traditional Khitan bowl festival, Yelu Hongji will hold a great court meeting on this day, and at the same time meet with the envoys of various countries.

Yelu Bawotai has his own mansion in Dading Mansion, so after sending Yang Huairen to Wanguo Temple, he politely invited Yang Huairen to take time to visit the mansion, and then said goodbye and returned to the mansion, so Yang Huairen couldn't talk to the ghost sister again, and he didn't know how to contact each other in the future.

Yang Huairen pondered, in a place like Dading Mansion, there must be a blue-shirted army, and if Sister Ghost has any information to convey, she should not be afraid that no one will do it.

Fengshenwei also has its own contact point in Dading Mansion, and there is more than one. As soon as Yang Huairen lived in the Wanguo Temple, he was contacted by someone who had been reorganized into Fengshenwei.

It was the two people who came to the secret foothold of the two largest Fengshenwei, and Yang Huairen was taken aback when he saw them.

The first contact person turned out to be a Khitan man in his thirties, he was wearing Khitan clothes, and even his head was the same as the bald and pigtailed head style, with a length of five big and three thick, which was very different from the image of Feng Shenwei in Yang Huairen's impression before.

"You...... What's going on? Yang Huairen was a little confused.

This man dressed in Khitan clothes opened his mouth and explained, "Grandpa, it's not strange, my name is Cui Qing, but I wore such a Khitan dog outfit in order to hide my identity, but in fact, I am an authentic Qizhou person." ”

Yang Huairen was stunned at first, and as soon as Cui Qing spoke, Yang Huairen put his mind at ease, because he did hear that Cui Qinghan spoke fluently, and it was indeed an authentic Qizhou accent, so Cui Qing was still Yang Huairen's hometown.

It is said that the fellow saw the fellow countryman, and his eyes were full of tears, but Yang Huairen was not so hypocritical, after all, this is Dading Mansion, and the identities of the two are also very different, although Yang Huairen determined Cui Qing's Han identity, but he still can't understand why he turned himself into a complete Khitan.

Seeing that Yang Huairen was still a little suspicious in his eyes, Cui Qing hurriedly continued to explain, "Grandpa, I am really from Qizhou, and my hometown is Cuijiazhuang, Shibalihezi, Linyi County, Qizhou. Originally, when he was still an internal guard, he was stationed in Bazhou as an internal guard outpost.

At that time, the internal guard was still under the command of Mr. Ye, and we were not allowed to start a family like us, but I met a good little lady in Bazhou, and I have been getting along for several years.

I also know in my heart that I am seriously violating the rules of the internal guard by doing this, so I have always been afraid in my heart, afraid that I will be severely punished after being known by the people above.

At that time, I was in turmoil, I couldn't eat or sleep all day, I really had a way, and finally I had to flee to Liao with my mother-in-law. ”

Yang Huairen said in his heart that this Cui Qing is really speaking, the original internal guard is indeed not very humane in the system, and it is too strict, if you really meet someone like Cui Qing who violates the rules, to put it seriously, it is not surprising to kill him.

It is not surprising that he fled to Liao with his daughter-in-law, but Yang Huairen felt that it was a kind of irony that these cruel rules of the former internal guards could force a Song person to flee to a place where Han people had no status in Liao.

"And what about later? You can't become a Khitan when you arrive in Liao, right? ”

Cui Qing then explained, "I took my daughter-in-law to Liaojing, one has no relatives Liuren, and the other has no identity, so I can only wander around, on the one hand, I am worried that the internal guards will chase and kill the two of me, and on the other hand, I am afraid that the Khitans will bully us, so I can only pretend to ask Huazi to ask for food everywhere......