Chapter 32 Nanyang

Xianying and Cao Ying are close to Xinye, and Nanyang is more than 100 miles north of Xinye. The news has long since spread.

The Nanyang City Gate was also regulated. The gates were opened only at two o'clock in the afternoon, and the rest of the time they were closed.

Even so, not everyone could enter or leave, and two messengers like wolves and tigers stood at the gate of the city, sealed the gate with spears, and checked them one by one, saying that they were checking the meticulous work of the rogue.

Zhang Xuan and Cao Zongyu rode two horses. Zhang Xuan was also shaking a folding fan in his hand. Coupled with his appearance strengthened by the golden finger, anyone who looks at it will feel that he is a turbid son. And Cao Zongyu has an eyepatch on his eye, which blocks his right eye, and the blindfold is slightly larger, blocking half of his face, Cao Zongyu's hair is deliberately not tied well, leaving a few strands of hair in his ears to cover both sides, and his chin is a large beard, plus Cao Zongyu exudes a fierce aura when he goes to the battlefield, so a fierce god and evil, which makes people dare not look directly.

All the soldiers who watch the city gate may not be able to work hard, or they may not be able to do anything else, but their eyesight must be passable, otherwise they will offend people who should not be offended, and they will not know how to die. As soon as they looked at Zhang Xuan's appearance, and then looked at Cao Zongyu's appearance, they automatically made up their brains, Zhang Xuan was definitely not an ordinary person.

Without him, in this era, ordinary people can't even eat enough, where do they have time to dress up, all such people are from prominent families, otherwise please look at the so-called gentlemen of the Restoration Society, which one is not a prominent family.

Zhang Xuan didn't talk to them at all, Cao Zongyu stepped forward and threw out a piece of broken silver, and said, "Get out of the way quickly, let my son-in-law come over." ”

The two soldiers didn't dare to stop it at all, and immediately let Zhang Xuan in.

Nanyang Mansion is a relatively large prefecture and county in Henan Province in the past or in modern times, and a more important prefecture and county, if it is placed in Chinese history, it is a strategic place for the north-south confrontation, and Nanyang City is not only the jurisdiction of Nanyang County, but also the location of Nanyang Mansion, and the Tang King of the Ming Dynasty is also sealed in Nanyang.

However, the scale and structure of Nanyang City are too far from Xiangyang Mansion, because Nanyang City is due to the city wall of the Yuan Dynasty, and Xiangyang Mansion was built when Tang He ran Xiangyang when the Ming Dynasty opened the country, and Xiangyang City in the Song Dynasty has long been demolished by the Mongols. However, Tang He attacked the old site, and the scale was grand, which was not comparable to Nanyang City.

In other words, the Tang Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty was in the lineage, and there was a figure who made a difference in later generations, that is, Emperor Longwu. Although Emperor Longwu was defeated and died, among the emperors of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he was still a relatively accomplished person.

However, after Zhang Xuan entered Nanyang City, he was unexpected, and he inevitably felt disappointed in his heart.

How to say, Nanyang and Xiangyang have only thought about two or three hundred miles, but the situation in Nanyang is much more cruel than Zhang Xuan thought, there is hardly a single open shop on the entire street, there are lifeless everywhere, and there are not even a few people walking on the street.

It seems to be a dead city, even if someone walks, it is several people together, and it seems that there are countless hidden beasts in this Nanyang City.

Zhang Xuan also saw that someone fell to the ground, and no one paid attention. Zhang Xuan took a closer look, but he was already dead.

This is called the road down.

"Childe, this Nanyang Mansion has changed a lot in the past few years, and I can't recognize it at all." Cao Zongyu said.

Cao Zongyu felt an inexplicable sadness in his heart.

Even though he came here to break Nanyang Mansion, he felt unbearable when he saw the current situation in Nanyang Mansion.

Since the years of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has begun to decline, and the most obvious of them is Henan. Especially outside the counties and towns of Henan, it has become a place outside the law, where officers and soldiers kill thieves, thieves kill thieves, and officers and soldiers kill people, just like a Gu breeding field, killing each other endlessly.

Originally, the homeless people gathered outside the city and waited for the government to help, but now no homeless people are allowed to stay outside every county seat, lest they become the help of the rogues, but there is no one outside the county, which does not mean that these rogues do not exist.

The Liukou did not gather near the county seat, but defected to the various rebel armies led by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

Li Zicheng is only more than a thousand people in Shangluo Mountain, and once he enters Henan, he is known as a million, where these people come from, you can imagine.

However, the current Cao Zongyu didn't think about it.

Even in the county seat, every house is closed, and every house is closed. There weren't even a few shops open. The whole street was empty. Cao Zongyu didn't have to worry about who would recognize him, because no one dared to go out at all.

Cao Zongyu even looked for several inns, but they were all closed, and obviously heard movement inside, but no one dared to come out and open the door. For a while, Zhang Xuan didn't even have a place to stay.

Cao Zongyu said: "Childe, let's go to the City God Temple to rest for a day." After you settle down at the City God Temple, I'll go down to business. ”

The so-called business is to find manpower and open the city to welcome Luo Rucai.

However, Cao Zongyu is also a little uneasy when he looks at this situation now, and when he thinks about it, I am afraid that it will not be easy to find suitable people.

Zhang Xuan said, "Okay. ”

After walking in Nanyang City for a long time, Zhang Xuan was also a little tired. Zhang Xuan looked at the current situation in his heart, so he couldn't put his mind at ease, in such a situation, Zhang Xuan couldn't help but think about a question, that is, even if he really stayed in the county, would he really be safe?

The City God Temple is a temple in the city of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu set up the City God, Nanyang City, naturally there. However, Zhang Xuan had not yet come to the City God Temple before he ran into trouble.

More than a dozen people surrounded Zhang Xuan and the two in the alley. Each had a wooden stick in his hand, and the leader held a long knife in his hand.

They didn't speak at all, they just surrounded Zhang Xuan to death.

Cao Zongyu slowly pulled out the long knife in his hand and said, "Be careful, they are all people who have eaten people." ”

"Eaten people?" Zhang Xuan was taken aback, but when he saw these big men, the gaze that looked at him was not like looking at people at all, but like seeing cattle and sheep, Zhang Xuan suddenly felt a chill in his heart.

Zhang Xuan's courage was weak, and the person opposite immediately felt it.

"Kill." More than a dozen people rushed over together.

Cao Zongyu raised his arms to protect Zhang Xuan behind him, and with a flick of the long knife, the person who rushed to the front, from the lower abdomen to the chest, was forcibly split. For a moment, blood sprayed away. Drenched Zhang Xuan's face.

Zhang Xuan was drenched in this blood. Suddenly calmed down.

"I want to live, I don't want to die, be dismantled by the people, and stew." Zhang Xuan's eyes suddenly turned red.

Zhang Xuan thought about many of his own ways to die, but he never thought that he was going to die so miserably that he couldn't even be cremated when he died, but was buried in someone else's stomach. He couldn't accept it.

Zhang Xuan shouted: "Ah." He rushed out, slashing with the long sword in his hand, and he felt as if he had hit someone, and as if he hadn't hit anyone. By the time he had calmed down, the men had already fled with several corpses in tow.

"Alright." Cao Zongyu said: "They are gone. ”

Zhang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "How can you tell that they have eaten people." ”

Cao Zongyu said: "The eyes of people who have eaten are green, you just have to observe carefully." ”

Zhang Xuan thought about it carefully, and he didn't think about whether these people's eyes were green or not.

"Two good guys." A man dressed in a scribe's robe, followed by four or five officials, slowly surrounded him.

Cao Zongyu suddenly became nervous, and his hand slowly rested on the long knife.

Zhang Xuan was also very nervous, but the more this was the case, the less nervous he could not show. Zhang Xuan could also see that these servants had big shoulders and round waists, and their hands were all held on top of the long knives. is ready to shoot at any time, although Cao Zongyu is very skilled, in such a situation, it is better to be cautious.

Zhang Xuan waved his hand and said, "Stand down." ”

Zhang Xuan tidied up his clothes, stepped forward and saluted: "I have seen my predecessors in such an embarrassment, but it is extremely rude, but I don't know what to call my friends?" ”

Seniors and friends are all called scholars, predecessors and juniors are based on the number of years of the imperial examination, and friends are the mutual names of Confucian scholars at that time.

"It's useless in Xia Chu, it's the master of this county, but I don't know that you are the son?"