With Dong Xian's team, Yao Ping and his entourage turned south from Tiantang County and came to Cangyue City in Yuheng Prefecture.

Cangyue City is located in the central part of Yuhengzhou, located on the river network, the river in the city is dense, there are many bridges, and the buildings in the city are more pink walls and tiles, exquisite and elegant, very local characteristics. Yao Ping, who was accustomed to seeing the thick walls of the Western Regions and the rough dwellings with a single color, was immediately attracted by the fresh and graceful urban temperament revealed here as soon as he entered the city.

"Bottle, looks like we're going to stay in this city for a while?" Qu Shun walked on the bluestone paved streets of Cangyue City, and asked Yao Ping while looking around at the crowd of pedestrians.

"Perhaps." Yao Ping said.

"How long are we going to stay?" Qu Shun asked again.

Yao Ping looked at Zhanye, who was walking not far in front of him, and then said, "I don't know either. Everything is subject to the arrangements of Brother Zhan and Master Dong. ”

"Hmm." Qu complied. Then he looked around and saw a small food stall on the side of the road. His eyes were fixed on the food on the stall, and he suddenly said loudly, "Bottle, look there!" There's fried meatballs there! Shall we try it?! ”

After Qu Shun said this, and saw the fresh meatballs being fished out of the oil pot by the vendor, Yao Ping suddenly felt a little hungry.

Just as Yao Ping was asking if Li Jun and Chen Dahua also wanted to eat meatballs, Zhan Ye suddenly turned back from the front of the team and said to them, "In the past few days in Cangyue City, all the food and lodging Brother Dong has been arranged for us, so we don't have to spend our own silver taels anymore." ”

Hearing Zhan Ye say this, Qu Shun was stunned for a moment and then asked, "Brother Zhan, what you said is true?!" ”

"Can't I lie to you?" Zhanye said, "Maybe we will be invited to the Governor's Mansion for a banquet tomorrow night." ”

"Feast?!" Qu Shun glared at him and asked in surprise, "Brother Zhan, you said we would be called to the governor's mansion for dinner?" ”

Zhan Ye nodded lightly and then said, "With the light of Brother Dong on this trip, all of us should be invited to the Governor's Mansion." ”

"Oh my God, I was called to a banquet by the governor?!" Qu Shun was so excited that he almost jumped up, he turned around excitedly and grabbed Yao Ping and shook his arm vigorously and said, "Bottle, did you hear it, we have to go to the governor's mansion for dinner tomorrow night!" ”

Yao Ping patted Qu Shun excitedly and then asked Zhanye, "Brother Zhan, we didn't come from the Luochuan Imperial Court with Lord Dong, and we also went to the banquet together... Is that okay? ”

"Absolutely." Zhan Ye looked at Yao Ping and paused, then smiled and continued, "Are you still worried about the wanted thing?" Don't worry, since Brother Dong promised to help us, he naturally knows it. Here, both you and Miss Li will be safe. I think that after Brother Dong explained our situation to the governor in person, everything should be very smooth in the future. ”

Yao Ping nodded at Zhanye, and then smiled at Qu Shun.

Continuing to move forward, the group originally wanted to enter the Cangyue City Post House with Dong Xian's men and horses, but because most of the post inns in the city were temporarily rented by the newly moved officials of Yuheng Prefecture, Yao Ping and the others, together with more than a dozen Linjian soldiers who were loyal to Zhanye's subordinates, had to find another place. Just when everyone was in trouble about this matter, Dong Xian, who learned of this situation, specially arranged for the Dong family to stay in a special house in Cangyue City for relatives and friends to visit and live, so that Zhanye Yao and others could temporarily live.

Dong's house is located in the prosperous area of the city, its courtyard falls into the deep five roads, the house is carved exquisitely and chic, the courtyard is a rockery pool, the corridor waist is back, luxurious and elegant. Entering the mansion, Qu Shun and Chen Dahua, who saw a house of this specification for the first time, took two steps and one stop, and looked around for three steps and two turns, Yao Ping and Li Jun couldn't help but admire the exquisite carving and delicate manufacturing of this mansion.

Walking into the accommodation room, Yao Ping looked at the bed carved from emu wood, the ornaments made of bronze and jade, and the embroidered bedding made of ancient satin, and couldn't help but be stunned for a quarter of an hour.

Without waiting for Yao Ping to recover from his surprise, Qu Shun suddenly picked up a porcelain doll from the bed in the inner room and asked him, "Bottle, look, there is still a doll on the bed, what is this for?" ”

"It's... It's a pillow. Yao Pingding looked at the porcelain doll in Qu Shun's hand and said, "It's a porcelain pillow made into a fat doll." ”

"Huh? Is this a pillow? Qu Shun fiddled with the porcelain pillow in his hand and said, "It turned out to be a pillow." Hi, scared me. ”

"Scared you?" Yao Ping asked, "What's so scary about a pillow?" ”

Qu Shun smiled and said, "I think whose child unfortunately died on that bed, and the family made a porcelain doll compared to his appearance and put it on this bed as a memorial." ”

"It's pretty crazy to hear you say that." Yao Ping said.

"Hey, hey." Qu Shun smiled awkwardly and then said, "It's really an eye-opener, the state governor's family is different." I only heard that the pillows of the big families in the city are porcelain, but I didn't expect that the pillows in the guest room of the governor's house are not only porcelain, but also doll-like porcelain. It's really extraordinary. ”

"Junko, you can hold the pillow firmly, in case you accidentally break the pillow, I don't have the money to compensate for you." Yao Ping looked at Qu Shun, who was holding a porcelain pillow, and quipped.

"Bottle, I know, you've really spent almost all the money." Qu Shun looked at the porcelain pillow in his hand and said, "Huahua and I have been able to come here all the way thanks to you, otherwise we wouldn't know where to go to ask for food." ”

"Come on, look at what you said." Yao Ping said.

"Bottle, seriously, do you have enough money to buy land?" Qu Shun approached Yao Ping and asked in a low voice.

Yao Ping lowered his head and shook it slightly, and then said, "I heard that because people in the coastal areas have gone to the inland, the price of those fertile land in the inland has also risen, and now it has reached a very alarming point. In fact, don't say that the price of land has risen now, but if the price does not rise, my money is not enough. ”

"Hey, I'm the one who caused you." Qu Shun said, "Earlier, if you went to Tianquan Prefecture alone, maybe you would have bought land and become a small landlord by now. ”

"If you say such things again, let's count it for more than ten years..."

Without waiting for Yao Ping to finish speaking, he only heard someone behind him shout, "Brother Ping." ”

"Just now, Yoo Eun-jae asked me to tell you, he has something to do when he goes out, and he doesn't know when he will come back, so you don't have to wait for him to eat and other things." Li Jun came to Yao Ping and Qu Shun at this time and said.

"Huh? Did he go out alone? Yao Ping asked, "We've just arrived here, and we haven't settled down yet." ”

Li Jun nodded lightly and said, "He went out alone, he hurried out after putting down his bags, and I happened to meet him on the porch." ”

"He doesn't know the place here, what is he doing in a hurry?" Qu Shun asked.

Li Jun shook his head slightly, "He didn't say it." ”

"Looks like he's in a hurry." Yao Ping thought for a while and said, "When I was on the road before, I didn't hear that he knew anyone in Cangyue City, or what he wanted to do. ”

"Hey, maybe he's going to eat something delicious by himself." Qu Shun said.

"Junko, what are you doing with a porcelain doll?"

The three of them turned around, but saw Chen Dahua coming from outside the gate of the side courtyard at this time, followed by two mansion maids in Tsing Yi and Luo skirts.

"It's a pillow." Qu Shun turned to look at the two maids behind Chen Dahua and asked, "Daughter-in-law, who are these two girls?" ”

Without waiting for Chen Dahua to speak, one of the maids saluted and said to everyone, "Honorable guest, we are the maids here." If you need anything to do during your stay here, you can ask us for it. ”

"Then there's Miss Lao." Yao Ping said in return.

Without waiting for Yao Ping's words to land, Qu Shun waited for his eyes to open his mouth and asked, "Little sister, if you have any needs, just tell you?!" ”

The two maids were stunned for a moment, and one of them nodded with some hesitation, and then said, "Yes, distinguished guest, I don't know you... What are the commands? ”

"I'm hungry!" Qu Shun said, "We are all hungry, can you get us something to eat?" ”

The two maids looked at each other and smiled lightly, and one of them said to Qu Shun, "Distinguished guest, today's lunch meal is being prepared in the back kitchen, if you are in a hurry, you can also move to the main hall and wait." ”

"Okay." Qu Shun responded with a smile, and then raised his feet and walked towards the main hall in the mansion.

"Distinguished guest.." A maid looked at Qu Shun and said, "Are you going to eat like this..?" ”

"Huh?" Qu Shun was stunned for a moment, looked at the pillow in his hand, smiled awkwardly, and then said, "Of course I have to put the pillow down first." ”

"Distinguished guest, there is still some time before the meal is ready, why don't you wash and change into clean clothes first?" The other maid looked at the crowd and said.

Hearing what the maid in front of him said, Yao Ping immediately lowered his head and looked at the clothes on his body, and he saw that the coarse cotton clothes on his body, which were already a little old, were even more dirty after the wind, frost, rain and snow of these days.

Yao Ping first stretched out his hand and patted the dust on his clothes slightly, and then looked at Qu Shun, Chen Dahua, and Li Jun, and he saw that their clothes were not cleaner than his own. Especially Qu Shun, his clothes and pants have a large area of blood that has not been washed due to the injury to his leg before, which makes him even more sloppy.

Seeing this, the maid's unintentional words made Yao Ping suddenly feel a little inferior, and he felt that the few of them were extremely incompatible with this luxurious and elegant mansion in terms of dress and status.

Yao Pingzheng hesitated and didn't know how to answer, Qu Shun suddenly opened his mouth and said to the maid, "No need to change, we just have this clothes, and there are no other clothes to change." ”

Hearing Qu Shun say this, the two maids looked at each other and couldn't bear to hide their mouths and snickered. Yao Ping, who was already feeling a little embarrassed, said this, and his face was even more embarrassed at this time.

"Because of the hurry, we didn't bring a change of clothes." Yao Ping hesitated for a moment, and then said to the two maids.

Seeing that the two maids were still smiling with a trace of contempt on their faces, Yao Ping adjusted his tone and said to them seriously, "We also want to change into clean clothes, but we are helpless to be entangled in affairs, this is inconvenient to wash and change clothes, so I don't think it's better to do this, you go and get brushes and good incense, and comb and smoke the clothes for a few of us one by one." ”

Hearing Yao Ping say this, the two maids suddenly stopped laughing, and one of them asked, "Honorable guest, you said... Do you want to use incense? ”

"Yes, don't you have one here?" Yao Ping asked.

"Yes,.... I don't know what kind of incense you want to use? The maid asked.

"Dimi's patchouli." Yao Ping said.

“... patchouli .." The maid looked a little surprised.

"What's wrong?" Yao Ping asked.

"No, nothing." The maid hurriedly said, "The little girl will bring it for a few distinguished guests." ”

Following Yao Ping's instructions, the two maids quickly brought clothes brushes, incense burners, and patchouli incense materials. They first used a brush to brush off the dust on the clothes of several people one by one, and then lit the spices, holding incense burners and slowly surrounding Yao Ping and the others to smoke the incense.

"Hey, that's so good." Qu Shun stretched out his arms and sniffed the placket of his clothes. After the two maids retreated, Qu Shun then asked Yao Ping, "Bottle, I didn't think you still know how to incense?" When I saw you talking about this herb just now, the two maids were quite surprised when they heard it, what's going on? ”

"Actually, I don't know much about aromatherapy, but when I was running a business with my uncle, we would always buy some spices and sell them back to Guannai after we sold silk, tea and porcelain at your market in Khaldo. As for the two maids who were surprised by what I said, I think it was because they also knew that patchouli was the most expensive of all the incense, and it was the most popular fragrance for the dignitaries of Luochuan. ”

"The favorite aromatherapy used by the dignitaries and nobles of the imperial capital?" Qu Shun said in surprise, and raised his hand to smell the fragrance on his body.

"Bottles." Chen Dahua suddenly felt a little worried at this time and asked Yao Ping, "This incense used by dignitaries and nobles is used by us ordinary people, will this be convicted?" ”

Hearing Chen Dahua's question, Yao Ping and Qu Shun looked at each other for a moment, and then Qu Shun said to Chen Dahua, "Yes." It's going to kill your head. ”

"Huh?" Chen Dahua was shocked.

"Junko lied to you." Yao Ping smiled and said to Chen Dahua, "There is no arrogance in the incense. ”

"Junko, you stop me!"

Looking at the two people chasing and running away, Yao Ping and Li Jun smiled at each other.