During the Taizong period, the Tang Dynasty promulgated a curfew, from night to the early morning of the next day, people were forbidden to go out, and only the guards who beat the bangzi and the soldiers of the night guard could walk on the streets. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, at the end of Taizong's rule, the government decree was clear, the people were harmonious, and there were few chickens and dogs and thieves, although they did not reach the state of peach blossom paradise where the road was not left behind, and the people who did not close the door at night were very few, and the rules of the curfew were inevitably gradually forgotten by people, intentionally or unintentionally, and taverns and gambling houses began to be open all night on the streets. I got drunk at a friend's house, and the number of drunks who returned home in the middle of the night gradually increased, and people could be seen wandering around the streets all night long, but the people did not hold officials accountable.

Li Hao also knew that he had stolen the things of Bi Tian and others, and maybe he would be pursued, and he ran around the alleys as if he was fleeing for his life, and finally hid in the cabin of a canopy boat, leaned on a pile of rotten vegetable leaves and slept for half a night, and slipped out at dawn.

I have money on my body, and I don't panic. Li Hao found a shop near the river on the left, asked for a bowl of hot haggis noodles, and after devouring it, he rolled his eyes to look at all kinds of people passing by at the door of the store. When an ox cart full of dung buckets passed by, Li Hao jumped on the wheel while people were unprepared, but he was taken aback by the handlebar.

Li Hao casually stuffed a few copper coins into the handlebar, and lied that he had flashed his legs while walking, and wanted to take an ox cart out of the city. The handlebar-style beard is gray, and he is already a little old, and he can see that Li Hao is talking in a hurry, and his origin is a little embarrassing, but for the sake of money, he still reluctantly agreed to Li Hao's request.

Before leaving the city gate, Li Hao jumped out of the ox cart, hid the package in the crack of the dung bucket, pretended to help push the cart, bowed his head and bent down to push the back edge of the ox cart with both hands, in case Bi Tian sent someone to guard the city gate to intercept it.

Because the dung carts went out of the city at this hour every day, the smell was so strong that no one dared to walk within a radius of five feet, and the soldiers defending the city did not come to interrogate them. In addition, Bi Tian didn't plan to intercept Li Hao at all, so Li Hao went out of the city without any danger, tied the package back to his back, and thanked the handlebar endlessly: "Dare to ask this father, I want to go on a long trip, I don't know where there is a carriage to hire?" ”

The handlebar pointed to a crowded place not far from the north of the city: "I see that there is no there, it is the nearest market in the outer city, where those who make iron, trade livestock, and sell large quantities of goods are all gathered." I've heard that some long-distance vehicles are waiting there, but if you have to gather enough people to go, you can ask for yourself. ”

"After getting all the guests and leaving, isn't it a long-distance bus that departs when the tickets are full!"

Li Hao found it interesting, staggered over and asked one by one, but there was no vehicle that could go straight to Yangzhou, at most to the county town 100 miles away from Gusu City, which was already a great distance.

Li Hao was so discouraged that he had to sit down in a tea room with a pergola, ordered a pot of Kuding tea and a few snacks, and thought about finding someone to ask for a route to Yangzhou City first. The owner of the teahouse is a short and stout man, and just now he saw Li Hao inquiring about the carriage going directly to Yangzhou, so he took the initiative to ask: "The guest is going to Yangzhou?" ”

Li Hao didn't raise his head and said, "How do you know." ”

The man smiled dryly: "What the villain heard when he was soliciting business at the door just now, do you know how many towns and counties you have to pass through from Gusu to Yangzhou?" How many miles have you traveled? What is the geometry of the waterway? What is the geometry of dry roads? How many mountains to bypass? How many streams and rivers have you waded? ”

Li Hao saw that this man seemed to be very familiar with the road, rolled his eyes and said, "Have you been to Yangzhou?" ”

The man grinned and said, "Although I haven't been there, my two brothers often go there, selling some horses from Yangzhou and coming back to this Gusu city, and the business is very good." ”

Li Hao's eyes lit up: "When will your two relatives go?" ”

The man smiled: "I just met the two of them last night, and said that I was going to leave at noon today, and then I went to Yangzhou to buy a batch of goods and come back." The villain is greedy, if the guest is willing to reward the villain for a day or two of food money, the villain will make a face, begging the brother of the family to take the guest with him, as for the cost of this way, the guest may wish to calculate it carefully with the villain's family. ”

This man is a "villain" and a "guest", and he also dizzy Li Hao's head. However, Li Hao heard that he could go directly to Yangzhou with a businessman who was familiar with the road, and he didn't have to inquire about the twists and turns of the road, so he was still very happy, and immediately took out a string of small money worn by hemp rope from his coat, and threw it on the tea table with a clanging sound: "Hurry up and help me ask your own brother, if you are willing to take me with you, you can give this money to you as you like." ”

The man stared at the bulging blanket and package on Li Hao's body, and flew away with a smile.

Li Hao did not doubt him, drank two bowls of bitter and fragrant bitter tea, chewed and ate a plate of winter slices, and relieved the greasy haggis noodles, feeling very useful.

The owner of the tea stall introduced it, and his two families urged Li Hao to leave, saying that there was a fixed accommodation along the way, and it was inevitable that he would suffer from sleeping in the wilderness if he left late. Li Hao saw that these two men looked vicious and did not look like good people, so he hesitated a little in his heart, but the two men immediately led a large carriage with a double horse-drawn carriage that could accommodate seven or eight people, and showed Li Hao the road guide that needed to be checked along the way.

Only one of the two men drove the car, and the other followed behind on a red horse. As soon as the three of them left the market, the coachmen waiting for their guests in the market gathered to talk.

"Zhao Long and Zhao Hu, the two mourning stars, are going to do that shady thing again, and the special mother is not afraid of losing her life!"

"It's not, last time they brought back six or seven flower-like sisters, and they insisted that they were guilty of being convicted in their official registration and were trained in the fireworks willow lane, but you look at the timid appearance of those sisters, where is the Yangzhou thin horse that is used to seeing the scene, it is obviously bought from the poor people in the township."

"That's it, I've heard, Zhao Long and Zhao Hu bullied the villagers to be illiterate, and coaxed the parents of those little girls to sign a deed of sale, but the poor villagers thought that their daughters were sent to a big family in the city to be a maid, but they never thought about it...... Oh, what iniquity! ”

"Don't say it, the bastard who was sold tea heard it, if you tell those two big worms to go, you don't have to make a fuss, and ruin our clothes and food, who can fight against such nonsense rangers, it's better to be silent quickly, find a few guests as soon as possible, and get some money to buy rice!"