The access control of the Northern Song Dynasty has its rules, once the city gate is closed, it is not easy for people outside the city to enter the city. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

If you want to shout to open the city gate, you must either have an eight-hundred-mile urgent post horse with a military report, or the official family will come in person, or you will follow the will of the official family.

When Yang Huairen shouted out the two things of "obeying the order" and "losing his head" together, the soldiers guarding the gate on the city gate began to move, stretched his neck to look at the people shouting under the city wall, and then turned around in disbelief to report to the gate official on duty.

After a while, a man dressed as an official stood on the city wall, looked at the bottom of the city wall, and saw that there were only seven people and a car under the city wall, and then began to shout: "This official is the governor of the city gate on duty, dare to ask who is shouting below?" ”

Yang Huairen saw that the person in charge had come, and replied loudly: "I am Yang Huairen, the five-flavor viscount of the official family, and I am ordered to enter the city to investigate the case, and I will open the city gate as soon as possible!" ”

The city gate official was a little hesitant, he had heard of the name of the Viscount of Wuwei, and the hottest topic in the city some time ago was Yang Huairen, the proprietor of Suiyuan.

This person first returned to Yanlou to defeat Wei Cai, who was the first chef in the Wei family's main restaurant, and then tried his cooking skills in the main hall to defeat the first chef in the country, and the official family personally awarded him the title of Viscount of Five Flavors, so he became famous.

But no matter how famous Yang Huairen is, he is still a cook, and as for the title of viscount, he is also the last rank among the nobles, he said that he was ordered to investigate the case, which doesn't sound reasonable.

There are many yamen in the city of Tokyo, and there are many yamen who can investigate cases and arrest thieves, and there is no reason for the official family to assign a cook who can only cook to investigate the case, so the city gate official has some doubts about the statement of "investigating the case by order".

But although he is only a small city gate counselor, he is in charge of the Xinzheng Gate in the west of the city, ringing the bell in the morning to open the door, and closing the door at night with the sound of drums, according to his duties, his power is not small.

However, the low-end petty officials of the eighth grade dare not offend people, since there is a viscount below, and they said that they were ordered, so it doesn't hurt to ask more.

"Officials under the city, you said that you were ordered to investigate the case, do you have any evidence?"

Yang Huairen shook the jade plate of the chrysanthemum inner guard in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Just rely on this brand!" ”

Although the lights on the tower of the city gate are very bright, they can't see clearly a jade plaque that is only the size of a thumb ten zhang away.

The gate official didn't dare to be careless, so he called his subordinate soldiers to get a long rope out, tied a bamboo basket at one end, and slowly put the bamboo basket down from the city.

"Please put the jade plaque in the basket, the official needs to verify it."

Lin Chong, Li Heiniu and Lu Jinyi were anxious, but Yang Huairen suddenly shouted such words, and they were also nervous, thinking that Yang Huairen was eager to go into the city to save people, so they made up such a set of rhetoric.

The three brothers of Lianzi are worried that the envoy will be known to the Empress Dowager sooner or later, and such a pampered and arrogant behavior will not be good.

Lu Jinyi was the calmest, he came up and persuaded: "Brother Huairen, if you have this heart, our senior brother will appreciate it very much, but if you are implicated again, how can we go?" ”

Yang Huairen patted his arm and smiled: "Don't worry, I know in my heart, I will save this person." ”

Yang Huairen put the jade plate of the inner guard into the bamboo basket, and gestured to the city tower, and the bamboo basket was slowly put back again.

The city gate official took out the jade plaque from the bamboo basket and looked at it carefully by the light, but still didn't see any doorway.

The chrysanthemum pattern on one side is very ordinary and does not represent anything, and on the other side is the words "chrysanthemum inner guard", which he has never seen.

He tilted his head and couldn't figure it out, and he didn't dare to let them into the city easily, but if it was really as the Viscount of Wuwei under the city said, he was acting on orders, and he couldn't escape it.

A squad leader of the city gate guard beside him interjected: "My lord, this internal guard can't be the abbreviation of the Ouchi guard, right?" Xiao Di heard that the big internal guards in the palace all have similar brands for entering and exiting the palace gate.

If the people below are also the guards of the Ouchi, the doors of the palace will enter and exit at will, and we can't stop people from watching the city gates, right? ”

The city gate official heard this and felt that this was reasonable, there were only seven people in total, and the one who shouted seemed to be dressed as a scholar, and the other few were wearing the regular clothes of the forbidden army, and the other few were dressed like soldiers, and it was very likely that they were really Ouchi's guards.

Yang Huairen saw from a distance that a few people on the tower of the city gate were muttering something around the city gate official, and he was also worried that they would have new suspicions after a long time, and shouted at them: "What? Isn't the jade plate given by the Empress Dowager worth mentioning in your eyes?

Okay, well, when I enter the city tomorrow, if the Empress Dowager asks why Benjue is delayed, Benjue will tell you truthfully, you wait to prepare for the future! ”

Everyone on the tower of the city gate shuddered when they heard this, the words of the empress dowager are now better than the official family, delaying the affairs of her old man's family, so isn't it shell Langzi wandering around and looking for ""?

The city gate official panicked, and several small soldiers around him also began to persuade their chief to open the door for the people downstairs, "My lord, it's better to open the door for them and let them into the city, in case something happens, we can't afford to eat these small fish and shrimp!" ”

Everyone, you said with one tongue and one mouth, the doorman was upset, I didn't know what to do, and then I heard the young man below say loudly to the people around him: "We won't enter this city, anyway, someone will carry the black pot for our brother, and if he wants to die, he will die first, we are afraid of a ball!" ”

"Wait!"

The city gate officer shouted to the city gate tower, and then ordered his subordinates behind him: "Open the door quickly and let them enter the city." ”

In a blink of an eye, there was a "woo" sound of the big iron door being slowly opened, Yang Huairen smiled at a few people behind him, and quickly dragged Lin Chong, who had folded his mount, to get into the car from the new car.

After entering the city gate, the city gate official had already stood inside the gate, handed back the jade plate, and repeatedly reiterated respectfully that he was just doing things according to the rules, and asked Viscount Wuwei to forgive him.

Yang Huairen was in a hurry, took back the jade plate, threw him a silver cake casually, and galloped away again.

The Northern Song Dynasty has canceled the curfew since the Chunhua year of Taizong, but this does not mean that the people can ride horses or drive in the city at night, out of the need to set fire to prevent theft, the patrol team of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division will still patrol the main roads in the city at night, and check suspicious characters from time to time.

Soon after Yang Huairen entered the city, he was stopped by a city patrol team and asked to stop for inspection.

However, with the experience of entering the city gate, Yang Huairen only needs to draw a scoop according to the gourd, who is not fooling?

When they asked, "What are the credentials?", Yang Huairen only needed to show the jade plate of the chrysanthemum internal guard and shouted:

"Just this sign!"