Ulzhou City officials greeted Xiao Yi and set up a banquet here, the whole street has long been heavily guarded, today this drum tower was also chartered by the official family early, there is not a single guest inside, many shops and inns in this area have been cleared, this is all to welcome Xiao Yi. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Xiao Yi rode his horse to this expensive rice shop in the eyes of everyone, but he was surprised to find that this expensive rice shop had changed a lot compared to the last time he came.

This change has not become bigger and better, Xiao also found that the front door here looks deserted, and the noble and noble font is barely hanging on it.

The messy sacks, flat poles and other things in front of the door were piled together, and there were also a lot of rice grains scattered everywhere, Xiao Yi was a little surprised in his heart.

If it is the reason for the officers and soldiers to clear the field, it will not be deserted like this, although it was a small shop when I came last time, it was also lively, especially the clean and tidy in front of the house, there is no mess of ordinary rice shops, what is wrong?

Seeing Xiao Yi moving forward, Zheng Wenju's eyes were fixed on his direction, until Xiao Yi stopped in front of a rice shop, and he also wondered in his heart, what was Xiao Yi doing there in this rice shop that was unknown in the state city?

Seeing that Xiao Yi had stopped, although the generals were full of doubts in their hearts, they still hurriedly followed to the door of the rice shop, and the civil officials glanced at Wang Zhan, and when they saw that he didn't mean to move at all, they all stood in front of the drum tower and waited, even if they wanted to follow the past, they didn't dare to move.

Last time, he suffered a loss from Zhou Ding, this time Yuan Shaogong ran the fastest, and before Li Erniu helped Xiao Yi off the horse, he hurriedly trotted to the other side, and the speed was beyond Zhou Cheng's reach.

When he got to the other side, he glanced at Zhou Cheng defiantly, and then he looked at the rice shop in front of him, and felt a little familiar at that time: "Huh? This is not a few days ago, Lord Zheng... Hmm.."

Before he finished speaking, he was hurriedly dragged by Zhou Ding behind him to cover his mouth, at this time Xiao Yi had already walked in with Shi Gang and others, Shi Gang and Xiao Yi kept mentioning Lifang on the way to come, speaking of which Lifang had not come to Peach Blossom Fort for a few days, Shi Gang missed it tightly, and he kept chattering along the way.

This time he rushed in front of Li Erniu, although Li Erniu was dissatisfied, but Shi Gang saw that he was Xiao Yi's absolute confidant, so he had to hold his breath and follow Shi Gang into the Guihe rice shop.

After Xiao Yi entered, Yuan Shaogong broke free of Zhou Ding's hand and said dissatisfiedly: "What are you doing, don't think I dare not do it!" ”

Zhou Ding called out a fool and whispered a few words to him, Yuan Shaogong suddenly widened his eyes after hearing this, glanced at Zheng Wenju's back, and said with palpitations: "This old guy doesn't know yet, this time thanks to you, Lao Zhou, you will come to my house after the banquet." ”

Zhou nodded fixedly, and the two followed in like good brothers.

After just a few steps, Shi Gang couldn't wait to shout: "Lifang, Lifang, it's my old Shi, what about you?" ”

Everyone walked into the rice shop, but they found that the store was empty, the outside of the store was cluttered, and the inside was deserted and lonely.

Xiao Yi frowned, it seems that something happened here, Shi Gang roared a few times and didn't hear anyone reply, and said in wonder: "Niang Xipi, in the past, Lifang would have come out early." ”

But as soon as he stepped into the store, he froze, and even a fool knew something was wrong when he saw such a sight, and he rushed into the back room desperately, shouting as he went.

"Lifang, Lifang, where are you?!"

He rushed into one room and another, and when he was done on the first floor, he went back to the second floor.

"This...?"

Li Erniu was about to stop it, Yuan Shaogong saw some clues, this family member of the adult should have something to do with the female shopkeeper here, he and Zhou Ding looked at the mouth, the mouth and the heart, just lowered their heads and said nothing.

The subsequent generals all had some objections to this, what was this Shi Gang doing?

Although he was dissatisfied, Xiao Yidu frowned and had no intention of stopping, and after hearing Li Erniu's words, Xiao Yi just waved his hand, and everyone was at a loss for what to do when they looked at this scene.

Suddenly, the sound of hurried steps came from upstairs, and Shi Gang stomped a few steps downstairs, his face was full of anxiety, and he was panting heavily.

Xiao Yi asked, "I found Lifang without an old stone." ”

As soon as they heard this title, the rest of the people looked at each other, this person could be called like this by Xiao Yi, it seemed that he was the absolute confidant brought by Xiao Yi, and he had no intention of stopping it.

Shi Gang said: "No, nothing, even Lifang's room is clean, did Lifang move away?" Impossible! ”

Xiao Yi nodded to indicate that he understood, and saw Shi Gang with an anxious face who was about to rush out to look for it.

He stopped: "Old stone! Let's go to the feast first. ”

Seeing that Shi Gang still had something to say, Xiao Yi glanced around at everyone around him and comforted: "Don't worry, I will definitely give you an explanation for Lifang's affairs!" ”

Shi Gang naturally believed in Xiao Yi unconditionally, and after hearing Xiao Yi's firm words, he sighed loudly and walked out of the rice shop, wondering, why didn't Yuan Shaogong and Zhou Ding, the two flamboyant guys, say a word this time.

After leaving the rice shop, Xiao Yi said to the Yong'an Army soldiers standing solemnly outside: "Once, I ordered you to bring a class of people to block Gui and the rice shop, and no one is allowed to enter or leave from this moment on." ”

Once heard the order, he immediately answered the order loudly, and stood solemnly outside the Guihe rice shop with the soldiers of the first armor, and the momentum exuded by them made the surrounding people stay away from here.

After this episode, it did not affect the Yaxing of these officials' banquet in the slightest, especially those civil officials, few of them followed them to the store, and most of them were waiting for Xiao Yi in front of the drum tower with Wang Zhan of Zhizhou.

Xiao Yi also went to a rice shop, or Guihe rice shop, and there was an incident here not long ago, some of whom had heard about it.

There are also many people who have never heard of it, just like Wang Zhan, Zheng Wenju, Zhou Youcheng and other senior civil officials who don't know anything about it, and they don't have the heart to care about the existence of a millet shop.

If it is a well-known rice shop in the state city, such as Yuantai, Baohe and other brands, they will often interact with their proprietors, and at this moment they are mostly thinking about their own careful thoughts.

Everyone welcomed Xiao Yi into the drum tower, where everything had already been prepared for Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi walked step by step, watching carefully every time he passed, and Li Erniu's identity changed quickly, and he diligently explained various origins and titles for him.

Xiao Yi only then knew that this drum tower was built by Zhou Fang, the then commander of the guard, and was built in the 14th year of Hongwu, and was named Zhenyuan Tower, which Xiao Yi liked very much.

Zhenyuan Building is a triple eaves multi-angle mountain cloth tile glazed edge cutting building, 178 meters high, nine rooms wide, five rooms deep, the south side of the floor is inlaid with the four characters of "Chu Zai Shouji", meaning "the first state in western Beijing", is an important symbol of Ulzhou City.

The carvings on the Zhenyuan floor are also full of traditional Chinese style, the wooden fence is carved with colorful patterns of flowers and birds, and the eaves are covered with glazed simple tiles.

In the ridge head of each ridge respectively set up 28 star glazed statues and three-color glazed spine beasts, the corners of each layer of eaves are warped, and the bucket arches under the eaves are overlapped, like clouds clustered, giving people the feeling of wanting to fly in the air, and the exquisite craftsmanship of the craft makes Xiao also breathtaking.

Each wing corner beam is equipped with a dragon head set of beasts again, the lower part hangs the wind chimes, the wind blows the bells and moves, crisp and pleasant, the two ends of the main ridge of the roof of the Zhenyuan building are provided with the glazed owl kiss, its shape is fierce and vivid, equipped with the horseback warriors with different expressions, it appears vivid and vivid.

Xiao Yi was on the second floor at this time, looking out of the window, the entire Ulju City came into view, looking east, you could vaguely see a plain and a little green, beautiful.

While climbing the tower and looking into the distance, Xiao also admired the unique charm of the Han architecture, and he also went to the drum tower in later generations, but it was mostly imitation, and it was much inferior to the fine construction of the time, and the details were too different.

Xiao Yi took a deep breath and suddenly opened his arms, as if embracing the entire Ulju in his arms, looking at the layers of houses and various shops in front of him, he was full of pride and ambition. (To be continued.) )