Chapter 13: The Spy

Su Zizhong asked Ziluo to stare at the drunk guy downstairs, and he slipped out from behind first, put on a carriage and horse, took a straw hat, a coarse cloth robe, and a long whip, dressed up as a coachman in the market, and went around to pick up the four girls.

If you show your true face and make people recognize it, you won't have to go on an outing, and you will be blocked by those daughters and ladies on the road as monkeys. Luoling women are open and informal, and Su Zizhong is famous in Luoling for "handsome and talented", and when he goes out, he often meets some girls who ask for advice on poetry. If it's really a matter of asking for poetry, it's just a matter of asking left, right, and right about "what do a few people in Gongzi Guigeng's Mansion like to eat, what hobbies do they like, and what kind of women do they like". In his eyebrows, he wanted to swallow Su Zizhong in one gulp. Luoling women have the tradition of sending their favorite men's silk handkerchiefs, when they are separated, they send a silk handkerchief, write their names, and talented women will also embroider a lovesick poem, which has a unique charm. Su Zizhong often couldn't hold his hands when he came back from a trip, and when he met someone who was bolder, he secretly stuffed Su Zizhong's intimate clothes and belly pockets, and whispered to Su Zizhong where to wait at night, which made Su Zizhong's face flushed. The girls have a friendship, and the things they send can't be thrown around, but they can't always be on the street with dirty clothes in one hand and belly pocket in the other hand to swagger through the market.

Su Zizhong's happy troubles are not something that everyone can understand, so he usually covers his face when he goes out, and goes out from the backyard of the wind and rain building.

After only two or three moments of travel, Qingfeng Ferry came into view.

Qingfengdu is the starting point of Luoling waterway travel, along the Luohe River can reach Fengguo in the north, down to Jingguo and Chongqing in the south. The Luo River widens at the junction of Jingguo, and is divided into two by a "watershed mountain", which flows to Jingguo on one side and connects with the Mingyun River. One side enters the Chongqing realm, and the Jiahe River flowing out of the 80,000 mountains, circling and flowing to the unexplored barren land, which is called "Mu River" by the people of Chongqing, which means the mother river.

Qingfeng crosses the arc-shaped bridge into the river for nearly two miles, this covered bridge witnesses the division and merger of the Luoling people, life and death, the pavilions along the coast are scattered, and the inscription wall of the predecessors can be seen everywhere on the wall. There are sighs at the majesty and magnificence of Luoling, there is a strong longing for saying goodbye to friends, there is a beautiful expectation of coming to Luoling for the first time, there is the reluctance to travel thousands of miles to Luoling, and there is also a description of the anxiety of waiting for the safe return of the lover at the ferry every day.

Qingfengdu is the best place for Luoling people to go on an outing, the surrounding shrewd people, businessmen, opened up a small street in this vicinity, according to the different seasons to sell some food, paper kites, windmills, charcoal, tents, umbrellas, many craftsmen will also come here to sell some small objects made by themselves, and there are juggling, fortune telling, carrying the burden of the merchant during the walk, lively and extraordinary. The big families have a lot of cars and horses, and there are many servants, and the things are well prepared, and they don't look down on these roadside stalls, and most of the people who come to this small street are ordinary people, so this street is like the small streets and alleys in Luoling City, full of fireworks in the market.

It is the various states of all living beings and different ways of living that make the world more real and amiable.

If you want to go to Qingfeng, go up to Mingyue Embankment first. The Luohe River was not so obedient before, every rainy season, the water level of the Luohe River soared, the rushing river with the upstream sediment is unstoppable, and the people who live outside the city of Luoling may be buried in this ruthless Luohe River with their lives, houses, livestock, and grass overnight. Many years ago, there was a magistrate surnamed Su, who could not bear the suffering of the people, and spent decades mobilizing the people to build a long Mingyue embankment along both sides of the Luohe River outside Luoling City, built hundreds of sluices, and opened many small openings along the way to discharge sediment, in order to prevent the river from scouring, a lot of weeping willows were planted on and under the embankment. In the following dynasties, the Mingyue embankment was strengthened and desilted on the original basis, and the Luohe River had today's weather. The people can live and work in peace and contentment outside the city, and they are very grateful for the merits of the officials surnamed Su, and call this Mingyue Embankment "Sugong Embankment". Qingfeng Ferry spreads out from the Mingyue Embankment to the Luo River, standing on the Mingyue Embankment, the willow branches are swaying lightly, looking at the Luohe soup soup in the distance, the ferry is like a shuttle, sometimes there are singers who use the lyrics of the song like chime rhyme and quiet, the dancers rotate the stars and shake, it is really refreshing and pleasant to linger.

Su Zizhong parked the carriage and horses near the small street, and the four little maids knew the child's temperament, so they didn't care about him, so they first rented a big umbrella, set up cushions, tea sets, and bamboo chips for drinking orders, and went to buy fresh gadgets hand in hand. Su Zizhong took a book, first went to the inscription wall to take a look, waited until his head was sore, turned back to Mingyue Embankment, found a secluded place where the grass was flourishing, took off his hat, covered his face with a book and lay on the grass, loosened his belt, his stomach was facing the sun, and he fell asleep.

It turned out to be a book in the belly......

Su Zizhong was sleeping soundly, and someone touched his calf in a daze, thinking that it was the fourth girl calling him to play, but he didn't open his eyes, turned over lazily and said, "Don't make trouble, Son, my book has just been exposed to one side, and I will sleep again, and then I will dry the other side and drink with you." ”

Suddenly felt a pain in his calf, Su Zizhong secretly thought that the four girls would not be so light and heavy, turned over again, tied the belt, and raised his eyes to see who woke him up.

Four soldiers dressed in the costumes of Captain Luo Ling stood in front of him, one of them dragged his spear backwards, thinking that he was stabbing his own person with the hilt of the gun, and the other was dressed in a green robe and wearing a rich crown with both ears, and his son and brother, who was about twenty years old, turned his back to him, and he didn't know what he looked like for the time being, but he only heard this person's voice. "In this Luoling City, there are not many people who dare to call themselves sons in front of me Yang Linfeng."

Turning around in a chic way, a folding fan opened and closed between turns, closed and opened again, a slight fan, even Su Zizhong felt that this action was really indescribable. It's just that this guy looks too shabby, which scared Su Zizhong a lot.

Broad forehead pointed face, small eyes and nose, high cheekbones, mandibular teeth cover the upper teeth, folk commonly known as "earth wrapping sky", also called "drawer mouth", the head of the ears rich crown, but unfortunately the normal hat really can't cover the wide and big forehead, indescribably funny. Fortunately, it was daytime, and when he met Su Zizhong at night, he didn't dare to guarantee that he would not think he was a ghost.

"This son, I don't know where to offend the officials when he sleeps here." Su Zizhong didn't get up, and said coldly, being woken up for no reason, the Bodhisattva is still angry to get up.

"Offended? Hmph, there is no one here, look at you lying here sneakily, do you want to destroy the Mingyue Embankment? This official is ordered by his father to patrol the Bright Moon Embankment, and he must check anyone as suspicious as you. ”

Su Zizhong is not a fool, garrisons are not allowed around the imperial city, and the nearest garrison from Luoling City is more than 60 miles, and the daily patrol of Mingyue Causeway is organized by Luoling Mansion to check for leaks, and the village chiefs along the line are all responsible for summarizing the situation of the embankment and reporting it, and have never heard that there is a special patrol officer on the Moon Embankment.

"Does this official think that he has to use his hands to collapse this bright moon embankment? Or do you collapse the moon embankment while sleeping? Su Zizhong is not only angry but also funny.

"If you dare to keep your mouth shut, come to someone, arrest this person, send him to the lieutenant's prison, and the official will interrogate him carefully." Yang Linfeng knew that he was ugly, and he was the most unsightly man, and he didn't go out much on weekdays, so he was powerful in the house. Seeing that Su Zizhong was handsome and extraordinary, although he was dressed ordinary, it was difficult to hide his heroic spirit, so he folded the fan, slapped it in his palm with a snap, and ordered the accompanying lieutenants to arrest Su Zizhong.

An old and serious lieutenant hurriedly persuaded Yang Linfeng, "Childe, Lord Wei Cheng said, Childe can inspect, don't cause trouble." In my opinion, this person is just tired of walking and lying here to sleep, and he doesn't have any tools for committing the crime with him, so it's better to scold him and drive him away. If it is caught rashly, Wei Cheng blames us for the crime, and please don't make it difficult for me to wait. ”

Luo Ling Wei is in charge of Luoling City and the surrounding ordinary criminal names, anti-theft, public security, and detailed things, there is no need to wear military armor in the Taiping period, but there are wars between the six countries, and some homeless people are no different from the Liukou, plus the capital is important, other countries are incapable of guarding against it, and public security is also the primary matter, so this Luoling Captain is managed according to the military system, only a small number of light horses, and most of them are foot soldiers. The commander who controlled Luo Lingwei was called Wei Cheng, from the fourth grade, don't look at the last court, he was about to line up at the door of the main hall, but he really had real power.

Who can be an errand in Luolingwei is not a human spirit. Luoling City is full of high-ranking officials and giants, and the relationship is complicated, maybe a pedestrian walking on the street can't be easily offended, who knows what the origin of the person is. If those stunned youths in the Captain's Mansion thought that they could show off their might by wearing the uniform of Captain Luoling, they would have been eaten to the ground.

"What, you think you're smarter than Ben Gongzi? This son felt that this person must be a spy sent by the enemy country, and Luo Lingwei had the authority to rule the spy without trial, so he didn't want to take this person down quickly. If something goes wrong, I will plead guilty to my father. "Don't look at Yang Linfeng's bad looks, but his brain is spinning very fast, and he is labeled as a spy of an enemy country, and it doesn't matter if the evidence is not evidence.

"Do you say I'm a spy, I'm a spy? Okay, I confess, this Qingfeng Ferry and the thousands of tourists in Mingyue Causeway are all my comrades, why don't you take them together. Su Zizhong felt that this surnamed Yang had a hole in his brain.

"You see, this person has already admitted that he is a spy, and he still doesn't take it!" Yang Linfeng gave another order.

Several lieutenants knew about Yang Linfeng's virtue, so they reluctantly stepped forward and dragged Su Zizhong up and surrounded him, and the old and dignified lieutenant cha whispered to Su Zizhong, "A good man doesn't suffer a loss in front of him, you will say something good to Yang Gongzi later, and be careful, this matter will pass, Lord Yu Cheng is old and has a son, Yang Gongzi is spoiled, and there is no great evil." I'll persuade you later, and I'll go with us for the time being. ”

Confined by family rules, Su Zizhong can't reveal that he is a martial artist, otherwise according to Su Zizhong's skills, more than a dozen ordinary lieutenants will not be enough. I had no choice but to be embraced by Wei Cha and follow Yang Linfeng forward. Suddenly, not far away, a few of his little maids were flying kites on the grass, their eyes rolling, and they were thinking about it.