After another twenty miles, the towering city wall of Bianjing in the distance finally appeared in their eyes, and the four of them cheered for a while, speeding up their horses. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

They soon came to a crossroads, Tang Huai tightened the reins of the horse and said to everyone: "Go forward and then is the forbidden army camp, after passing through the barracks is not far from the north gate, although it is a little closer, but there are three checkpoints, we have to be detained with weapons first, and only after verifying our identities will the weapons be returned to us, it is very troublesome, I suggest not to go north." ”

Wang Gui asked impatiently, "Then where do you say it's more convenient to go?" ”

"I suggest going to the west, although there is a little farther away there is no checkpoint, and most merchants enter the city through the west gate!"

Tang Huai consulted everyone's opinions, and Li Yanqing smiled: "Then do you still need to ask?" Of course, take the west gate into the city! ”

The four of them unanimously decided to take a detour into the city from the west, and they turned their horses and ran to the west of the crossroads.

At this time, they are still 20 miles away from the capital, on both sides of the official road are endless vegetable fields, the fields are already green, and there are shelves in many fields, such as carrots, turnips, burdock, cabbage, dwarf yellow, wead, mustard, rape, poleng, lettuce, chrysanthemum, camellia, garlic seedlings, etc., there are as many as fifty or sixty kinds, but the capital rarely grows grain, and the grain is basically transported from other places.

After walking for about ten miles, the houses on both sides gradually became denser, and the thatched houses and grass huts were hidden among the tall locust trees and willow trees, it was early spring, the locust trees and willow trees spit out new shoots, and the air was filled with a trace of warm and fragrant earthy smell, and the pastoral scenery was particularly quiet under the bath of the sunset.

At this time, out of the oblique thorn ran out of a group of people and horses, there are horsebackers, can ride sedan chairs, there are also burden-bearing, there are as many as twenty or thirty people, the middle-aged man riding the horse is brightly dressed, wearing a gauze hat, three sedan chairs are female dependents, through the thin light veil, it can be seen that they are full of pearls, and most of the people on foot are wearing the clothes of the family, this should be a family who came out to go out, seeing the dusk, everyone hurried back to the city.

After following this team for a while, a large river appeared in front of him, the river water had thawed, and the blue-yellow river water was wrapped in a thin piece of ice floes, slowly flowing eastward, and in the distance a flotilla composed of more than twenty large ships was heading eastward along the water.

"This is the Bianhe!"

Tang Huai excitedly pointed to the river with a fan and said to everyone: "When you get here, you will officially enter the capital, I am familiar with the road ahead, everyone come with me!" ”

The people walked slowly along the north and south banks of the Bianhe River, where there were dense shops and houses, restaurants, foot shops, snack shops and teahouses, as well as all kinds of shops, all kinds of goods were piled up inside and outside the shops, and the streets were full of people, and all kinds of caravans full of goods could be seen everywhere, speaking with accents from all over the world, rushing to the direction of the city gate in a hurry.

"Guys, shall we find a place to eat first?" Wang Gui touched his stomach and shouted.

The three of them unanimously objected, "Let's go ahead and settle down in the city!" ”

They trekked all the way, seeing that they were going to enter the capital, no one wanted to delay any longer, and the snack bar here was too low-grade, mainly to meet the needs of porters, boatmen, slender men, sedan chair drivers, coachmen, hawkers, homeless and other lower-class people, they were eating these things all the way, and they were really a little tired of eating.

Walking slowly for three miles on the lively shop street, a curved arch bridge appeared in front of him, Li Yanqing looked at this extremely familiar bridge, and he actually had a shock and trance that traveled through time and space.

This is the Hongqiao in the "Qingming Riverside Picture", it is exactly the same as the Hongqiao in the painting, the same dense flow of people on the bridge, the same turbulent water flow under the bridge, and a big boat is slowly passing through the bridge hole.

I wonder if I can meet Zhang Zeduan holding a paintbrush by the bridge? Will he also draw himself into the "Qingming Riverside Picture", for a while, Li Yanqing's eyes were a little moist.

"Lao Li, what's wrong with you?"

Yue Fei and the three of them discovered Li Yanqing's abnormality, and Wang Gui pushed Li Yanqing hard, "Is Lao Li blinded by the wind and sand?" ”

Li Yanqing finally returned to reality from the shock, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, of course he would not meet Zhang Zeduan, Zhang Zeduan's painting of "Qingming Riverside Picture" was just emerging when the Yuanyou Party case was just emerging, and now more than ten years have passed.

"There was a piece of sand in my eye just now." Li Yanqing casually found a reason.

Wang Gui grinned and said, "I'm not wrong!" ”

Li Yanqing wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and urged the horse to go to the Hongqiao, there were too many people on the Hongqiao, half of the passage was occupied by various stalls and vendors, leaving only a very narrow bridge deck for pedestrians, they had to turn over and dismount, and lead the horse slowly.

Occupation of the road is a major cancer in Bianjing, the small stalls and hawkers occupy the road at will has reached the level of unscrupulousness, lively and lively, but the streets are crowded, although the government has set up a 'table wood' to stipulate the scope of business, but it can only control the fixed vendors, and there is no meaning to the guerrillas.

Getting closer and closer to the city gate, a tall and majestic city gate appeared in front of them in a short time, here is Wansheng Gate, Wansheng Gate is one of the west dry gates of the outer city, and it is the main city gate that enters Bianjing from the west.

Bianjing is divided into the outer city and the inner city, the outer city wall is fifty miles in circumference, and the inner city wall is also twenty li, and most of the people live in the outer city.

But there is no hierarchy in the inner and outer cities, many Shengdou small people also live in the inner city, and the powerful and commoners live next to each other and get along harmoniously, just because there is no vacant land in the inner city, so many high-ranking officials' mansions are also in the outer city, such as Gao Yu Mansion, Cai Jing Mansion, Tong Guan Mansion and so on.

As soon as the four of them reached the moat bridge, a soldier ran over, waved them and stopped them, shouting, "Who are you, and why do you carry weapons?" ”

Yue Fei stepped forward and arched his hand: "We are from Xiangzhou Wuju, and we have come to Beijing to learn martial arts, and according to the regulations, we can carry weapons!" ”

"Is there a text?"

Yue Fei hurriedly handed over the three of them's martial arts to the soldiers, and the soldiers looked at a few people, and their eyes fell on Li Yanqing, "Where is your martial arts?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "I'm here to study in Taixue, and I didn't carry any weapons!" ”

Li Yanqing's bronze bow and short sword were handed over to Wang Gui, he really didn't have any weapons on him, the soldier stepped forward and touched his horse bag, and then ran back, and after a while, he ran back quickly.

"Verify that it is correct, please come in!"

The soldier returned the text to Yue Fei, and said to Li Yanqing: "Tai students can wear swords and bows, but they don't have to be so restrained!" ”

"Thank you for the advice!"

The four of them urged their horses into Bianliang City, Tokyo, and as soon as they entered the city gate, a noisy and lively atmosphere rushed towards them, and they immediately merged into a large and prosperous metropolis.

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Although the emperor was mediocre at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the court politics were corrupt, the local government increased the exploitation and oppression of the common people, and the taxes were extremely heavy, but the capital Bianliang at this time was breathtakingly prosperous, and it was also the most prosperous period in Chinese history.

With more than one million long-term residents in Tokyo alone, and an even larger number of floating populations, a picture of the Qingming Riverside vividly presents the prosperity of Bianjing: the streets are crisscrossed, the houses are lined up one after another, the shops are scattered, the restaurants and song houses are all over the place, the streets are full of signboards, and the business travelers are gathered, and the traffic is busy.

To give a simple example, Bianjing's entertainment and commercial center is called Washe, also known as Wazi, which is the originator of the complex in later generations, where there is all kinds of eating, drinking and entertainment, shops are dense, all kinds of items are available, and even pet stores and cat food stores are not uncommon.

There are more than 50 hook fences in a tile house, each of which is a catering center, or a department store center, or a performance center, or a competition court, and there is a shed on the top of the hook fence, which is not invaded by wind and rain, and is not afraid of cold and heat.

One of the most famous ones is called the Elephant Shed, which can accommodate thousands of people, but it is only one of more than 50 in one tile house, and there are at least a dozen such ones in Bianjing.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion from behind, and a soldier shouted: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has entered the city, please let the villagers give way, thank you!" ”

Pedestrians gave way, Li Yanqing and the four of them also let aside, and after a while, dozens of cavalry lined up into the city, and then more than a dozen young men on horseback entered, followed by a carriage, and hundreds of soldiers lined up on both sides to protect.

The leader was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old man, I saw him wearing a golden crown, a white robe, a jade belt around his waist, a gauze hat, a long square face, thick eyebrows and deep eyes, and very fair skin. ”

"Lao Li!"

Someone in the team suddenly shouted, Li Yanqing couldn't help but be stunned, this voice is a little familiar, is he calling himself?

At this time, the carriage stopped, the curtain opened, and I saw a fat hand stretched out from inside waving at Li Yanqing, Li Yanqing saw a fat face like a pumpkin, Li Yanqing immediately laughed, it turned out to be the big fat man Zheng Rongtai.

Li Yanqing urged him to step forward, hugged his fists and smiled: "It's a coincidence!" As soon as I arrived in the capital, I met Brother Zheng. ”

Zheng Rongtai smiled and said: "I was bored at home in the New Year, so I wanted to go to Tangyin to play with you, just when my father was going to enter Beijing, he brought me into Beijing, and I also played blindly in the capital, it was dark, Lao Li, why did you enter Beijing now?" ”

"Huh! Like you, I'm bored at home, so I come to Beijing to have fun. ”

"Great, I'll take you to play in the tiles another day, and you will listen to my arrangement when you get to the capital."

At this time, a young man in his early twenties rode up on horseback, "San Lang, why don't you leave, the prince is in a hurry." ”

He looked at Li Yanqing again, "This is—"

Zheng Rongtai hurriedly said: "Let me introduce you, this is my good friend Li Yanqing in Xiangzhou, last year Xiangzhou sent a solution to the test and was about to go to Taixue to study." ”

The young man was not interested in Xie Yuan, but the other party was Zheng Rongtai's friend, and for Zheng Rongtai's sake, he nodded coldly to Li Yanqing,

Zheng Rongtai introduced Li Yanqing again: "This is Gao Taiwei's Yanei, our eldest brother!" ”

Li Yanqing suddenly had a strong interest, is this young man in front of him the famous Gao Yanei?

I saw that this person was wearing a purple robe, a leather belt around his waist, and the leather belt was full of all kinds of gadgets, and a large folding fan was inserted in the back of his neck, just like the sign inserted behind the murderer, with a pig's head and a round face, and a pair of small triangular eyes under the sparse eyebrows.

Of course, Gao Yanei's flirting with Lin Chong's wife is just the plot of a novel, but Gao Yanei's son must be a fact, and it is likely that there is more than one, so I don't know what kind of temperament this Gao Yanei has?

However, Li Yanqing could also see that this Gao Yanei was covered in empty flesh, his face was pale, his eyelids were swollen and blue, and he was typical of excessive wine.

Gao Yanei just looked at Zheng Rongtai's face and nodded to Li Yanqing, he didn't have any interest in Li Yanqing, he urged extremely impatiently: "Are you going or not?" ”

"Let's go! Walk! Walk! That's it. ”

Zheng Rongtai hurriedly asked Li Yanqing, "Where do you live?" I'll go back and play with you! ”

"I'm staying at the Tang Kee Inn for the time being, and you can inquire about me there."

"Then I'll go first, see you later!"

Zheng Fatzi waved his hand to Li Yanqing, and the carriage started and quickly followed the team in front.

At this time, the crown prince Zhao Huan had already waited for Zheng Rongtai for a while, and when the carriage stepped forward, he asked, "San Lang, who was that person just now?" ”

"It's Li Yanqing I told you last time, Xiangzhou Xie Yuan, and his martial arts are also very strong."

"Oh!"

Zhao Huan glanced at Li Yanqing lightly, there are fourteen prefectures and two hundred and forty states in the world, and each state has Xie Yuan, which may be a treasure in the local area, but it is just a grass in the capital, Zhao Huan has no interest, so he turned his horse's head and ran in the direction of Da Nei.

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