The course of the Peacock River is wide, passing through the middle of Loulan City, the two banks are dense poplar forests, the boats in the water come and go frequently, the merchants from all over the country come and go, the Persians, the Romans, the Shule people, the Qiuzi people sit in the Loulan City.

Yunru and Zu Ti buried the wooden kite in the sand, and planned to enter the city, just a few steps away, a group of Loulan soldiers in front of them stopped several merchants, led by one of the four guards who had gone to Luoyang to catch Yunru, Zu Ti and Yunru did not know the situation of Loulan, and instinctively hid behind the tree.

He checked on a few of the merchants and asked, "Where are you from?" ”

"We are Wusun people, and we plan to take a boat from here to Shule to sell furs."

"Well, have you ever seen this person on the road? The guard took out a portrait, and Zu Li saw that the portrait was painted with Yunru.

"I haven't seen it, I haven't seen it."

The guards didn't ask anything, but they didn't mean to let them go, and a few merchants said, "Can we go?" ”

"Slow, you have to pay some taxes when you turn from Loulan to the waterway."

"Master Jun, the rules of Loulan, if there is no transaction, no tax will be collected, how can we pay taxes if we don't trade in Loulan City now?"

"That was the rule before, now as long as you enter the territory of Loulan, you have to pay taxes, otherwise you will go back to your Wusun, don't think about our Loulan realm!"

"This, this, this...... Master Jun, we went to Shule to do business, the way back and forth is far away, I don't know how much money we can earn, we have to pay taxes now, I'm afraid it will ......"

"Less nonsense! Just hand it over, if you don't pay it, go back! But to leave the goods, come people, detain the goods! ”

When the merchant saw it, he immediately said: "Master Jun, we pay taxes, we pay taxes......

"That's just like the words, seeing that your batch of goods is not small, just pay fifty taels of silver."

"Ahh Fifty taels, military master, we may not be able to make such money this trip. ”

"I don't care, either hand it over or deduct the goods!" The guards did not give up.

The merchant had no choice but to give all the money he had with him to the guards, and there were only thirty taels, and the guards ordered someone to detain a few pieces of leather goods before letting them go.

The guard smiled and shook the silver to the soldiers: "Take it and drink." ”

"General Xie." The soldiers took the money and said happily.

"Don't call me a general yet, after all, I haven't been rewarded yet, only when I catch the third princess, the national teacher will invite our four guards to be the four generals."

"Isn't this a matter of time or later, if you catch the third princess, you will be able to ascend the throne if you get the second highness of the golden seal, and then, not to mention the four generals, even the four great protector generals will not be a problem."

The guard said beautifully: "That's that, His Royal Highness is only one golden seal away from ascending the throne, and now that the national teacher and the princess have controlled the government, the overall situation has long been decided, don't look at the old king sitting on the throne, in fact, it has long been just an ornament." ”

"General, do you think the third princess will come back?"

"Of course she will come back, how can she rest assured that her father and brother Wang, besides, we also got a tip, the third princess has already rushed to Loulan, so I took you out for a walk."

"General, as long as the third princess dares to come, we can catch her, and your position as a general is not far away."

"Well, do a good job, of course I won't treat you badly as a general, do it well."

"General Xie."

When Yunru and Zu Ti heard this, they didn't dare to move forward, and retreated to the dense forest, Yunru said: "Big brother, the situation is not good, the four guards are looking for me everywhere, what should I do?" ”

"You can't appear as the third princess, you should have a disguise."

"But when I was in the Central Plains, I also saw my men's clothes."

"It's okay, I have not only learned martial arts with the people of Dilongmen, but also learned a lot of disguise techniques, although I can't say that I am good at this, but it's no problem to deceive the eyes of ordinary people with fake and real, Yunru, you see what identity is appropriate, I will change your appearance for you."

"Big brother, it's extremely dangerous for us to go to Loulan City, and it won't be effective to get rid of the national teacher in a short time, so we have to find a place to stay, and the inn is not a safe place, so where do we go to settle down? ……”

“……”

"Big brother, I thought about it, I know that there is a safe place in Loulan City."

"Where is it?"

"It's Loulan Academy."

"Loulan Academy?"

"Loulan Academy was proposed by Zhang Qian, the Marquis of Bowang in the Han Dynasty, so that the children of the Western Regions could learn Han culture, so I studied there for three years."

"Then you're going to be a student again?"

"yes."

"What about me?"

"My companion student."

"Scholar? Clerk? Zu Ti couldn't help but laugh as he spoke.

"Isn't it good, big brother, don't you want to help me?"

"No, I'll transfigure you right now."

Zu Ti learned the art of disguise from Jin Ziyan, and after a while, he dressed Yun Ru as a handsome scholar, and Zu Ti dressed himself up as a scholar, but the sword on his body was still worn, Yun Ru smiled and said: "Big brother, my student is really the first to pull the style, and there is a scholar with a sword by his side." ”

"Scholars can't bring swords, you don't have this rule in Loulan Academy."

"Of course not, okay big brother, let's sign up now."

Zu Ti remembered another thing and said, "The four guards know that I saved you, and my appearance must also change." ”

"yes, yes."

Zu Ti said and changed his appearance slightly, looking very different from the original, Yunru couldn't help but sigh: "Big brother is a good method." ”

The two of them were ready to stop, and watched the guards and soldiers leave before walking out of the dense forest and towards Loulan City.

When I came to the city gate, I saw a lot of people coming in and out, Zu Ti and Yun Ru mixed in the crowd and entered the city, just entered the city gate, a person came in front of him and said: "Stop!" ”

It turned out that this man was another of the four guards, and he was patrolling around with a few soldiers, and when he saw that the two did not look like merchants or locals, he stopped them.

"What for?" The guards stared at Yunru Dao.

Zu Ti stepped forward and said: "Master Jun, we are the people of Gaochang Kingdom, this is our son-in-law, and he wants to come to Loulan Academy to study Han culture, and I am his scholar." ”

"Students? Clerk? The guard looked at Yunru suspiciously, took out Yunru's portrait again, and put Yunru's face next to it for comparison, but after Zu Li's disguise, Yunru's appearance was incompatible with the portrait, and the guard put away the portrait.

Zu Ti was afraid that the guards would ask Yun Ru again, and Yun Ru's voice was not quite the same, and the guards were people who had seen Yun Ru, Zu Ti was afraid that there would be a mistake, so he hurriedly took out a few taels of silver and stuffed them into the guard's hand, and the guard immediately smiled and said: "This scholar of yours is really sensible, okay, let it go." ”

Zu Li and the two got out and came directly to Loulan Academy.

The building of Loulan Academy is magnificent, the four big characters of "Loulan Academy" on the main gate are strong and powerful, it is written by Zhang Qian, the Marquis of Bowang, when he went to the Western Regions for the last time, this academy is also built by him asking the court to allocate funds.

Entering the academy, I found the dean in a room, the dean was still the dean when Yunru was studying, a middle-aged man in his fifties, with a fat head and big ears, who was lying on the table taking a nap, and was woken up. ”

"Which class am I assigned to?" Yunru tried to ask.

"What? Class? ”

"yes."

The dean rubbed his eyes, looked at Yun carefully, and stretched out his hand.

Zu Ti and Yun Ru glanced at each other, not understanding what the dean was going to do.

"Dean'......"

The dean shook his hand impatiently and said, "Hurry up and bring it......"

Zu Ti and Yun Ru asked at the same time, "Dean, what ......do you want?" ”