The ancient city of Linqiong is six miles around, and the city wall is a circle, which is very different from what Shu Hui saw in later generations.

In other words, the ancient city will be destroyed and rebuilt in the past.

In fact, in the Western Han Dynasty, this place was still the border with the ethnic minority Qiong people, so it was called Linqiong. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty's male favorite Deng Tong was awarded the title of Tongguan Mountain and enjoyed the right to mint coins. After Emperor Jing succeeded to the throne, Deng Tong was withdrawn because of the coinage right, so he entered the territory of Qiongren to mint coins privately, so he was confiscated and died of starvation.

Tongguan Mountain was the ancestral land of the Qiong people before, and after Deng Tong lost power, Zhuo Wang Sun bought Tongguan Mountain and used it to burn pottery and smelt iron. Its site is about the current Guanshanzi, Tutao Village, and Sunshan Village, and is close to the Shifangtang kiln site.

What Shu Hui sees now has been repeatedly damaged in subsequent battles with the rebels of Tubo, Nanzhao and Wu Sangui. The city walls collapsed, the canals were rerouted, and almost no tiles remained.

Lying in the bathtub more than a meter deep, Shu Hui could only see a narrow and blurred roof in the hazy candlelight under the hot steam. This round bath bucket is like a city wall, which restricts the vision of all beings in the pool, but keeps it warm and peaceful.

"Young master, do you really want a slave to rub your back for you?" Behind the screen came the voice of the red fish still unrelenting.

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Tonight, the moon and stars are scarce, and the ancient city is like a layer of silver veil in the autumn sky.

At this moment, the time is leaked, and when the husband reports "the weather is dry and dry, be careful of the fire candle", it marks that the time has come, and the street should be cleaned and closed. However, in Linqiong City, among the oil flowers, the most lively time of the day has just begun.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there was no strict curfew. In the tenth year of Zhenguan, the servant Shi Ma Zhou asked the streets to set drums, and Li Shimin adopted it and implemented a curfew in Beijing. The end of the unitary settlement and the beginning of the opening of the city have been recorded in the Tang Dynasty since then.

After all, it was six years later in Chang'an City. Although the Linqiong City Gate was temporarily closed at night due to the visit of officials from various counties under the jurisdiction of the state, there are still pedestrians walking around the streets and alleys inside and outside the oil flower shop at this moment.

Guy is therefore a rare nightlife spot for the Tang people.

The oil flower workshop is close to the east city gate, and there is only a Wenchang temple in the middle. The square is full of hook fence tile houses, casino pawn shops, wine shops and song houses. In addition, a few scattered houses are also used as secret prostitution private houses, specially receiving some lowly and vulgar people who do not enter the stage.

And the most elegant and luxurious song building in the workshop, "Cloud Sleeve Building", not only occupies nearly one-third of the space in the entire southwest of the oil flower workshop, the beauties in the building are all virtuous and artistic, singing and dancing every night, it is said that from time to time there are official prostitutes of the official prostitute music department on stage. attracted literati and rioters, high-ranking officials and wealthy people were dazzled and happy.

The thin black man with single eyelids carefully avoided the beautiful light that came out of the open door of the Cloud Sleeve Tower, as if he was afraid that his humble figure would be seen through by the people in this fairyland-like place. When he stood at the mouth of an alley deep opposite the song tower, he couldn't help but look up at the three-story building with ethereal bamboo and colorful lights, and there seemed to be a fire flashing in his eyes.

"It's up to this vote! After this ticket, even if it is the most expensive red man in Yunsleeve Building, I can sleep casually for ten days and half a month. ”

With a heavy focus, the single-eyelid man turned to a private house in the depths of the alley. A dustpan is buckled upside down under the door of the house, which is the sign that the secret prostitute in the oil flower shop has received the guest. After all, in the name of secret prostitution, they live here as husband and wife, and they can only pick up one guest at a time, and if they have daughters, they will put a smaller dustpan on it.

But what others don't know is that the house here is also a meeting hall of a gang of hooligans in Qiongzhou. Tonight, there is a radish head on the other side of the door, and at this time there are more than a dozen short bamboo sticks of different thicknesses inserted on it.

In the white night, the man with one eyelid noticed that a yellow bone pick was inserted in the middle of the radish head, his breathing was slightly tight, and his heart was beating uncontrollably. He took a deep breath, took out a sharpened bamboo stick from his belt, blackened the other, inserted it into a layer that was tightly clinging to the bone pick, and began to knock on the door in a special rhythm.

After a few knocks, the voice of a man with double eyelids came from inside, asking, "Who?" Knocking on the door in the middle of the night. ”

The man with one eyelid didn't speak, but continued to knock in a different rhythm, and asked again in the room, before he replied, "It's me, open the door quickly." ”

"It turned out to be a fat chicken, did you fall into the pit or what, it took you so long to come over?" Gou Qian complained while opening the door: "The hall master has been here for a while, and I will tell you if there is anything missing." ”

The thin black and short "fat chicken" wanted to laugh with him, but he pretended to laugh a little reluctantly, but fortunately, although the moonlight was good tonight, no one noticed this detail.

He glanced at the dozen crooked melons and cracked dates in the courtyard, bent down to the only "hall master" who sat in the shadows under the eaves and didn't see it very clearly, and asked the dog in a low voice: "Xiao San'er hasn't come back yet?" ”

The dog lowered his voice and said, "The city gate is closed, and the baby won't be able to come back tonight." ”

The hall master coughed, and the two of them quickly quieted down and listened quietly to the next arrangement......

About a quarter of an hour after the fat chicken went to the entrance of the hall, a head poked out in front of the side door of Wenchang Temple. Looking left and right, I saw that no one around me carefully closed the side door, as if I was afraid of making a sound.

A middle-aged Taoist in a black robe walked lightly and quickly approached the oil flower shop across the street, and followed the cover of the foot of the wall to the White Lotus Temple in the north of the city.

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Tonight, the moon and stars are scarce, and the night of Chang'an City is as clear as the sky above Linqiong.

Tang Dynasty Shixingfang city system. Fang is restructured from Li, and Fang Zheng is the former Lizheng. Between the squares, the functions are relatively independent and complete, just like a modern community with shops.

The fangs at the foot of the Son of Heaven are different from other places, each fang is surrounded by earthen walls, and there are portals on the walls to open uniformly, as if the outer country is divided into one hundred and ten cities within a city.

Xingdaofang is facing the south of the imperial city, between the main gate of the Vermilion Bird Gate and the right gate of the door, which is led by Wannian County, and the first square of the east of the Vermilion Bird Street. Although its scale is only ordinary in Chang'an, it is also five miles around, which is not much smaller than Linqiong City.

Excluding the shops, there are a total of six mansions in Xingdao Fang. At this time, the candlelight is dim between the carved buildings and paintings of the middle house on the east side, and there is only a sheepskin felt tent in the middle of the three courtyards, and a few vague human silhouettes are reflected in the orange-red thin light faintly through the tent under the fire of the roaring hall.

"Mother, what is this black crunchy, the child has never eaten it on the grassland before." An eleven or twelve-year-old naïve boy with brown hair and a high nose asked a beautiful woman in leather with a slightly stiff accent, and gave her chopsticks a delicacy that she was reluctant to eat.

The young woman smiled and returned the bowl to his child, a hint of pampering on her slightly tired face: "This is the fungus rewarded by the Tang Emperor." It is said that three years ago, a god thanked the Tang people for their hunger and gave them a magic weapon that could turn plants and trees into food. ”

"The Tang people studied its principle, comprehended half of the heavenly machine, and knew the trick of igniting the rotten wood fungus, so they could only rely on the natural creation between heaven and earth, and the output of the fungus that was only enough for the emperor to enjoy was increased by many times."

"However, even if someone ignites, it will take three years for the fungus to grow and condense the sun and moon dew, and this year just happens to be the first batch of Xingong fungus, and tonight's table is produced in Dengzhou, under Daba Mountain."

The child listened to his mother in ignorance, but he didn't understand many words and sentences, only knowing that this was a peerless delicacy that belonged to the Tang Emperor in the past.

"Mother, eat more, you will have a spiritual ......"

"Dieluozhi, my child, this is the ...... that the Tang Emperor rewarded you"

He put down the leg of mutton in his hand and poured a sip of milk wine in annoyance, the sourness and bitterness of the lactose fermentation and the depression in his chest suddenly collided, and the entanglement made him feel like a fish in his throat.

Now there were only the two women and children left in the vault besides him, but he did not love them. This mother and son can share the account with him, everything is just forced by the power of the Tang Emperor!

A year ago, the Dubi army was defeated and retreated, his wife and children were abandoned, and he was finally captured by the Tang army. And his favorite, his stepmother, the wife of his two brothers, and finally his wife, Princess Yicheng of the Sui Dynasty, was also killed by the Tang general Li Jing.

It was precisely because this woman gave up her own son that he was able to enter the Eastern Turkic Khan's tent and become the Jieli Khan who galloped the steppe! He only loves her.

And the two in front of him are just loved by Li Shimin because they know a little about Tang etiquette. He was his child, but he was only born to the daughter of the chief of the small tribe, and at this time, the supply in the palace was second only to him, the general of the right guard.

"The Great General of the Right Guard? Hahaha, he Li Shimin really dares me to be his right guard general? He thought to himself with self-deprecation, especially when he saw the daughter of the chieftain of the small tribe he had conquered, Karma, who was captured by Li Jing at Shuntianmen and taken to the temple for surrender for two months before being returned by Li Shimin.

Whenever he heard Li Shimin praise Dieluozhi for his filial piety in front of him, he seemed to see another Li Shimin smiling evilly and whispering in his ear: "Your wife is very good!" ”

Thinking of the concubine Yang of the Sui Dynasty, who was favored by Li Shimin and killed his younger brother, he only felt that his crown Wu Ben [biàn], which was a three-grade product, was not black, but dark green like ink.

"And the god! He is the god of the Tang Dynasty, but he is the demon of our Turks! ”

It was that year that the gods of the Tang people gave their people purple sauce, and the Turks suffered a heavy snow that had not been seen in a century. Countless livestock froze to death, and the various departments were divided, and the Tang army took advantage of the situation to enter.

And at the end of last year, when the fighting between the Turks and the Tang army was at its most intense, there was a sudden outbreak of plague in the country. The north of the Great Wall is full of bones, black, swollen and festering, as the Tang people said, when the "crape myrtle star sauce" is lit, it is the same.

"All things rule the Eternal Heavens, please grant me wisdom and courage. I will slay the evil god in my hand, and sacrifice its head to you. ”

(Shu Hui: Do you blame me too?) ）

There was a hint of gloom and hatred in his eyes, and he opened the curtain of the dome door and bathed in the frosty moonlight. Suddenly out of the fire, exposed to the damp, cool, fresh air, but even more stunned.

Behind him is the vault that has just left; All the wives and children in the palace were abandoned by him, and now they are all provided by the Tang Emperor, no longer relying on his aggressive protection, and there is no longer a "special service" position on behalf of the candidate khan.

He turned to the left, where the former Empress Xiao of Sui lived, and he himself was her fifth husband. Ten years ago, he was only forty-three years old, and he followed the Turkic tradition of "brother dies and wife and sister-in-law", and married Princess Yicheng, who brought him everything, and Empress Xiao, who was fifty-three years old at the time, as his concubine.

Of course, this is not Empress Xiao's wish, but a weak female stream has both a noble identity and a fairy-like beauty, how can it be her turn to call the shots?

"It is also the royal family of the previous dynasty, Princess Yicheng and her daughter have been killed, and Yang Zhengdao, the grandson of Yang Guang, who was raised by Queen Xiao, was awarded the title of Wai Wai Riding Squire, it is really ...... to kill me."

"Committing to me must be a humiliation that she can't wash away in her life, and I don't know how much she will hate me." I don't want to look in the direction of Empress Xiao anymore, she is now sixty-three years old anyway.

But he was even more reluctant to look at the mansion opposite, which was the residence of Shi Shanying, the governor of Northern Fuzhou. Dubi and Shi Shanying were both Sha Bolu Khan, but he had a feud with Shi Shanying, who first descended to the Sui and then to the Tang Dynasty.

Before, Shi Shanying was just a lost dog in front of him. At this moment, the Turks perished, and he became a prisoner of the Tang Emperor, and Shi Shanying, as the Eagle Dog of the Tang Emperor, was the governor of Northern Fuzhou and was in charge of all the Turks who surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.

"Alas, it can really be said that this time, that time, thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi." Desolate and desolate at some specious sentences in Middle-earth culture, he could only finally look to the north.

"I don't know who owns this mansion, do you also have an old grudge against yourself?" Thinking that Li Shimin arranged himself here just to suffer these humiliations, the owner of the north mansion must also be an old acquaintance with himself, right?

It's just that it's been a short time since I've been here, and although there are slaves and maids in the north mansion who sweep dust and prune flower beds, I have never seen the main gate open, and I have no dealings with other people.

Shaking his head, no matter who it is, he is not friend or foe. At this moment, he was bathed in the desolate moonlight, looking up at the few stars in the night sky, only to feel that although the sky was high and the earth was wide, there was no place for him to stand.

He felt a dizziness in his head, and he reached out to hold something, but he couldn't grasp anything. In the end, I had to sit on the ground abruptly, the night was cool and the dew was heavy, and the wet bluestone floor stained the snow-white fox fur with a little mud spots.

To the south of the General's Mansion, under the door of Empress Xiao's mansion in the Sui Dynasty, a middle-aged nun with black hair like a waterfall and still charming lingered again and again, but did not take that step forward after all.

With a slight sigh, he slowly paced back to the mansion in the north where there was no master, only slaves and maids on duty. The figure climbed lightly over a corner of the wall and disappeared into a dark room.

In Xingdaofang, it is quiet in the dead of night.

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Tonight, the moon is sparse, but there are wisps of mist floating in Lizhou City.

In the Lizhou Governor's Mansion, in Zihe Garden, there is a girl who is sick and bedridden. At this time, the young body alternated between cold and heat, and she was sweating profusely, which made her let out a delirious and painful moan.

"How is it, Doctor Sun, can the little girl be cured of this disease?" A handsome-looking middle-aged man in his fifties asked a question to the elegant man who was sitting on the side of the bed, taking his pulse with one hand and muttering silently. This person has good facial features and moist skin, and he looks a few years younger than the man who asked the question.

Sun Simiao pondered for a moment, and had a plan in his heart, so he was relieved: "Wudu Governor doesn't need to worry, so that Xinmu is damp, this is due to the fact that the hair is not dried after bathing, and the moisture enters the kidneys along the neck. ”

As he spoke, he opened his medicine basket and rummaged through the bottles and jars. Soon, he took out a wooden bottle stuffed with linen, poured out two pills the size of soybeans, and explained: "This is an estrogram pill, which is specially designed to treat this symptom, and the effect is quite fast." However, several stone powders used in this medicine are toxic, so they should not be taken more. ”

Hearing this, the warrior 彟 [yuē] breathed a long sigh of relief, and the relief of the divine doctor made him relax a little. Wushi Tong's wife Yang, who is also the biological mother of the little girl Wu Jue on the bed, hurriedly ran to fry the water after listening to Sun Simiao's explanation of the method of taking medicine.

"Doctor Sun, I don't know where I can help when I come to Lizhou this time. If it weren't for the miracle doctor who happened to be here, I really don't know who could cure her illness. ”

Wu Shi Tong gratefully asked Sun Simiao what he needed. Although the governor of the Tang Dynasty did not have actual military power, the previous governor of Lizhou was charged with rebellion, and Wu Shi Tong took over and cleaned up the remnants and ruled the two Zhichong Prefectures, and his influence in Lizhou should not be underestimated. What's more, what a doctor wants, how difficult can it be?

Sun Simiao said: "I entered Jiannan Road this time, but I heard that the price of realgar here is cheap, and Zeng Qing (copper sulfate) is easy to find, and I want to try to combine medicine to refine the 'Taiyi Divine Essence Pill'." Several previous attempts have ended in failure, and I need to personally visit the production area of medicinal materials to explore the joints. ”

Wu Shi Tong knew that he couldn't keep Sun Simiao, but he still wanted to fight for a few more days, so he said: "The divine doctor has a hard trip, and he has been in Shu for more than a year, why don't you rest here for a few more days, and wash the dust?" Afraid that Sun Simiao would refuse, he simply said: "And the little girl hasn't woken up yet, I'm worried that there will be some changes, and I can rest assured that there is a miracle doctor." ”

It would be a bit impersonal to refuse again. Since a year ago, after protecting the fetus for the eldest grandson and giving birth to Li Zhi smoothly, Sun Simiao refused Li Shimin's reward and went to Shu to find medicine.

After making up his mind to relax, his mind became lively: "I have tried to combine medicinal materials and water sources from all over the world before, and most of the choices are good days and auspicious days, and if I can't succeed, maybe the prescription is still missing, but it may also be that the problem lies in other aspects." ”

"I heard that there is Qiongzhou in the southwest, and there is a fire well in the state, and it is a divine fire that will not be extinguished for thousands of years.

Yang used a duckbill pot to force-feed the medicine to bring hot water, and Sun Simiao put two estroscopic peony pills in the water and gave them to Wu Jue. The hot water in her stomach made her feel better, and the little girl's eyes slowly opened, and she began to swallow with difficulty.

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Tonight, the moon and stars are scarce, and through the window lattice, it is sprinkled on the carpet of the third room of Tianzi in Shifanglou, and a layer of black and white sparse patterns is stacked.

Listening to the sound of water coming from behind the screen, Shu Hui felt that it was time to make a batch of soap.

Because it wasn't until he saw the "pancreas" provided by Shifanglou that had not been specially processed for convenience preservation, Shu Hui knew that the active ingredients of the bath beans he had used for three years were lipase and protease residues in the pancreas of pigs.

He only felt uncomfortable at the moment, as if he had been soaked in the intestines of a pig.