Chapter 782: Yuanshi County
Saying goodbye to everyone, Liu Lan, Zhang Fei and Xu Chu stayed overnight all the way, and headed west. The three of them didn't plan to enter the city, but at this time, the news of Gongsun Zhan's desire to invade Jizhou in the south had already been known, and the people of Jizhou were panicked, and there were no sheds selling wine and food outside the city.
Leading the horse into the city, the three of them stopped at the first restaurant in the market, went in to ask for some food, drink, rest and rest, and then planned to continue to hurry, after all, to Yuanshi County, and then to the north, is Brother Yun's hometown 'Zhending County'.
Due to the limitations of cooking technology, the Three Kingdoms period only used steaming and roasting, and some local snacks naturally could not enter the eyes of modern Liu Lan. Although Yuanshi County is the seat of Changshan, it can not be compared with the metropolises of Luoyang and Chang'an, and even the Yecheng of Jizhou, and China at this time is richer in food culture than ever before due to Emperor Wu's expansion of the Silk Road.
At this time, some large cities with high population density in the Central Plains not only local snacks were popular, but also local flavors gradually began to prevail in the Central Plains. There are famous foods introduced from the Western Regions: Hu soup, Hu rice, Hu cannon, barbecue, shabu and other flavor preparation methods; There are preparation methods such as barbecued pork and cured meat imported from the southeast; the preparation method of roast goose and sashimi introduced from the southern coastal areas; There are also foods such as red oil and fish fragrance introduced from southwest Yunnan and Shu.
Feel free to order some food and drink, one of the pots of Xindu rice wine made the three of them praise again and again, compared to the turbid wine at this time, Xindu rice wine is not only clear and transparent, but also mellow and elegant, sweet and plump, take a sip, long aftertaste, with Liu Lan's guess, this wine is likely to be the predecessor of Hengshui Lao Baigan in the later generations.
I eat in the room. In front of the store, a tight-fitting man in white led a snow-white horse to the front of the store, handed over the reins to the small second-hand middle, and said, "Give it the best forage!" And he entered the shop with his head held high.
Liu Lan was eating by himself, only to feel the fragrant wind coming, but when he squinted his eyes, he could only see a long sword pinned to his waist, and he walked lightly. But it was his toes that hit the ground first, and he didn't make any noise as he walked. Looking up from the next road, a pair of slender legs, thin, but not too skinny, long, but the proportions are extremely coordinated. Continue to move up, when it is flat, how can there be the shadow of the undulating mountains, and then look up, Nana's is a man with a bundle of hair.
The man sat down in front of the opposite seat, and Liu Lan squinted his eyes to see his appearance clearly, weak and young. Haotooth moth eyebrows, a pair of sheared water and double pupils are as pretty as they are. At this moment, the man seemed to notice something, and looking at him, Liu Lan hurriedly lowered his head. If this person is really a man, then he is really the most handsome beautiful man he has ever seen, even the legendary Song Yu and Pan An decades later may not be comparable. Even Zhen Jiang, who is dressed as a man, is not too much, but how can there be such a handsome man in the world, just at a glance, she can see that this is a handsome girl dressed as a man, at this time she gently put the long sword on the low table, but also has a bit of feminine temperament.
After a while. The food and drink that the woman asked for were brought up one after another, and she was about to eat and drink, when she suddenly heard the shouting sound outside the door, but it was a group of big men who entered the store. One of them had a rough face, and shouted at the shopkeeper with a fierce look: "If there is anything delicious to eat and drink, quickly prepare it for the masters, the uncles still have important matters." "The big man looked around the shop, and one of them bumped his elbow against his companion as if he had discovered a new world, and pointed at the white-clothed man.
Although his action was extremely fast, Liu Lan, who was all focused on them, saw the small movements of several people clearly from the corner of his eye.
There were more than ten people in the group, mostly wearing coarse linen clothes, looking for an unmanned low plane, gathered together, and turned their eyes to look at the woman in white at the door, her face was full of obscenity and lust, obviously they saw the mystery like Liu Lan.
The more than ten men whispered, and they didn't pay attention to Liu Lan and the three people beside him at all, and although Liu Lan was eating in makeup at this time, his attention was on these reckless men, and he stretched out his ears to listen carefully, only listening to one person: "That woman is really good, if I can take the opportunity to dedicate her to the eldest prince, wouldn't it be ......" said but laughed lewdly.
Liu Lan listened carefully, but he was still vague and unclear, but he could still hear some general information. I only heard another person: "Yes, yes, that little beauty is the most handsome woman I have ever seen in my life, if we ...... These few of us here are guaranteed to get the eldest prince......"
It seems that the leader of them said: "Since the brothers have this idea, then it is so, but there are many people here, and if it spreads, it will ...... You wait for the ear to come over: "......"
Liu Lan was shocked in his heart, he thought that these people were the enemies of women, but he didn't expect that instead of doing it, they did it when they saw it, but they said it very quietly, but they didn't know how to do it to the girl who was dressed as a man! But he already knew that these people had bad intentions for women, so naturally they couldn't ignore them, so they didn't move at the moment, just buried their heads in eating with Xu Chu and Zhang Fei, and pretended not to know anything.
"We came out this time, and we didn't catch any of them, if the 'Zhending' person can't be caught back, Li Shichang will definitely not be able to explain in front of the general."
I only heard one of those people say again: "As long as I find Zhao Yun's house in advance, and then add this beautiful girl, I want to come to Li Shichang and ascend to the top just around the corner, and the brothers are ......."
Although they talked in a low voice, they were still heard clearly by Liu Lan and the three of them, and when they heard that the general was with Zhending and Zhao Yun, they were even more shocked, listening to their conversation, it seemed that these people should be the personal soldiers of which general under Yuan Shao's account, and they were sent out to arrest the fleeing soldiers, and Zhao Yun, who broke away from Yuan's camp, was among them. Liu Lan and Zhang Fei glanced at each other, revealing meaningful eyes, and Zhang Fei made a gesture of killing his head in private.
Liu Lan nodded lightly, but he couldn't start in the city, don't forget that Yuanshi County is Yuan Shao's territory, and they don't want to go out of the city if there is a disturbance, so wait and follow these people, and when they make a move on the woman, there will be a yellow finch behind. I remembered it properly, and suddenly I heard those people not far away talking again: "Zhang Shichang has been captured a lot, I heard that he has gone to Zhending, if he catches Zhao Yun in front of us, we will catch the beautiful girl in front of us and send it to him, I'm afraid it will be ......."
Liu Lan's heart was terrified, there was actually another team of men and horses to capture the deserters, and there were even several teams of people and horses arresting the deserters. It seems that Zhao Yun, who is waiting in Zhending, is extremely dangerous now, and he can't delay it any longer, and he must rush to Zhending as soon as possible after killing these people. But after thinking about it, with Zilong's martial arts, there shouldn't be any problem in dealing with dozens of soldiers here, right?
Although I thought so in my heart, I didn't dare to be careless. Since these people can be entrusted with important tasks, they must have extraordinary skills, if there is a chance for a while, it is best to grab some mouths and ask, make up their minds in their hearts, and continue to eavesdrop on the chatter in the past few days, and the few people who have been talking in a low voice do not know that the content of the conversation has already been heard clearly by Liu Lan, let alone that Liu Lan and the three of them have the intention to kill them, and they still eat a lot of meat. Drinking in a big bowl, he discussed in a low voice for a while, and only heard one of them say: "Alas, alas, brothers, you see, that chick actually wears a sword, can't she also know some martial arts?" ”
"What are you afraid of?" One of them scoffed. said: "What can a little girl do even if she knows martial arts?" How could we have escaped with the siege of more than a dozen of our brothers? ”
At this moment, Liu Lan, who was listening carefully to everyone's conversation, suddenly saw that the beautiful woman opposite had eaten and drunk enough to stand up. He took out a few five-baht coins from the money bag, paid the meal, walked out of the store, took the white horse by the hand, and left in the direction of the north of the city.
As soon as the beautiful man in white left, dozens of big men hurriedly took out a few five-baht coins and put them on top of the Eji, and followed the 'man' to follow. Although the two groups of people left one after another, Liu Lan did not act immediately. He just asked in a low voice, "Yide, what do you think of the martial arts of these people?" Will Zilong be in danger? ”
Zhang Fei was disdainful and said, "With these few wastes, it is estimated that even that woman is not as good!" Lord, don't worry, Zilong will be fine. Just rest assured. ”
The mediocre martial arts of these people naturally did not surprise Liu Lan, but what really surprised him was the sentence behind that even the woman was not as good, and he asked puzzledly: "That woman is also a master?" Although I saw him holding a sword, I didn't think that this woman would be a master, and when I heard Zhang Fei say that she was a master, I would inevitably be suspicious in my heart!
But he heard Xu Chu explain: "That woman walked without a sound, if she is not a master, how can she have such ability!" Thinking that these people not only did not pose a threat to Zhao Yun, but were not the woman's opponents, his heart fell like a big stone, and he immediately handed over the food and followed those people.
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After leaving the city, the 'man in white' walked along the official road to the north, and he was not good at all the way, completely unaware of the approaching danger, and suddenly the ropes around him flew sideways to shoot at him, trying to bind him. It is also her high and courageous, the moment when the rope in front of her is wrapped around him is to tap the saddle and flip in the air, not only out of the attack range of the rope, but also dashing to the ground, a standard gymnast diver, can score a full score.
The man in white who landed in a chic manner was knocked off by the rope at some point, and his head was covered with black silk waterfalls, which was extremely delicate, but it was a pity that a pair of phoenix eyes had a rolling evil spirit, like a Rakshasa in the middle of the woman, so that people did not dare to look directly. The frightened female Rakshasa swept her hair casually while scanning the location of the flying rope with evil eyes, and in a moment, more than a dozen rugged men came out of the forest, surrounding her in front and back, left and right.
The woman's expression changed instantly, and she recognized these people as diners she had just seen in the tavern in the county, although their martial arts were mediocre, but she was in a hurry at the moment, and she didn't want to entangle with them too much, so she pressed the anger in her heart, and reluctantly bowed her hand to everyone, and said: "The little girl has no grudges with the heroes on weekdays, please get out of the way." This sound is like a yellow warbler coming out of the valley, and it is indescribably beautiful.
The woman showed weakness, and more than a dozen people immediately showed obscene laughter, and one of them even said in a lustful voice: "What is the girl afraid of?" My brothers won't eat you, as long as you are obedient and obedient, then my master will love you well. ”
The woman was laughed at by his words, and she could no longer hold back the anger in her heart, and with a coquettish sound, the long sword with her was immediately unsheathed, and the moment everyone saw her draw the sword and wanted to make a move, the person led by the leader immediately shouted angrily: "Since you don't know how to lift, don't blame our brother for destroying flowers with hot hands!" After speaking, he also pulled out the ring knife on his waist, but the moment he was about to make a move, he didn't want to be far away, but suddenly a Lang laugh sounded: "If you want to destroy the flowers, you have to ask our brother if you agree!" ”
The leader was startled, and when he suddenly turned to look for a sound, he didn't know when three tall men had come in the distance, they were wearing cloth scarves, and they couldn't see their faces clearly, but he still saw clearly that one of them had big ears and long arms, and it was a pair of eagle eyes, and the other two were all strong people: he immediately sneered: "It's just a young man who doesn't even dare to show his true face, and the brothers killed them." ”
Just as these people divided several people to prepare to deal with these three people, they did not want to raise their whips and dance their swords to kill them. The eagle-eyed man took the lead, holding a dark sword in his hand, and the moment they fought, one of his brothers was killed, and the other two were also killed by the brothers, and although the crowd was scattered, in the blink of an eye, the chief saw with his own eyes that the three brothers who had been eating meat and drinking wine together were killed.
All masters! Shi Chang's heart suddenly burst and shouted: "Everyone has no grievances, we just have a fancy for a girl to dedicate to the general!" Hurriedly shouted: "Heroes, we are soldiers under Yuan Tan, the eldest son of Yuan Zhou, what do you have to say!" If you don't know what to do, I'm afraid you won't regret it! ”
I thought that after raising the names of Lord Yuan and Yuan Gongzi, these people would have some scruples, but I didn't want the three of them to not keep their hands, but instead took advantage of this gap to kill even more fiercely, seeing that the more than ten people who came out with him became two in a blink of an eye, and hurriedly shouted 'Withdraw', and the person who was still alive immediately hurriedly turned over and got on his horse with him, galloped on the horse, and fled separately.
Shi Chang frequently looked back to observe while fleeing, but fortunately no one chased after him, and he ran for an hour before he dared to stop on the side of the road and rest his horse, but this tone in his heart at this time was extremely unsmooth, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, especially when he thought of the eagle-eyed man with long arms, he felt a little familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
After thinking about it for a long time, he didn't have a clue, but he didn't think about it anymore, but he thought about how to go back and explain, and suddenly he was blessed to his heart, and he made up his mind and went back to the camp.
The woman was about to make a move, but was stopped by Liu Lan and the three who came from the rear to kill the horse, and then canceled the plan to shoot. Just as he was about to leave, Liu Lan hit his horse and came to his side and said, "The girl is frightened!" ”
"It's a big deal." Instead of appreciating the affection, the woman's expression was cold, and after an unceremonious cold snort, she galloped off her horse into the distance.
Liu Lan, who had eaten the closed door, looked at the background of the dust and smiled awkwardly, and after a moment, Zhang Fei came back with a depressed face, and Xu Chu also grinned with joy in the second hand, holding the reins of the horse in one hand, and galloping towards the two of them with a fleeing Yuan Shaojun in the other.
After some interrogation, it was exactly the same as his guess, and he didn't dare to continue to stay here when he thought of escaping a person, so he easily ended up with that person's Liu Lan said: "Since they are arresting the fugitives, and they are going to reach Zhending to capture Zilong, but at this moment, no matter whether he is in any danger, we can't delay any longer, if these people use some poisonous tricks, it is expected that Zilong will not be able to deal with it." After saying that, the three of them hurried towards Zhending. (To be continued......)