As the sergeant stationed at the Golden Light Gate shouted, the other Jinwu guards immediately divided to the left and right, using their weapons to stop the onlookers from moving forward, and opened a wide road in the middle.

The first to step into Jinguangmen Avenue was a tall and mighty general. The armor he wore was the most popular Mingguang armor in the Tang Dynasty, the neck guard and the missing robe on the shin armor were embroidered with Tengyun's pattern, and his feet were decorated with cloud-headed black leather boots.

The Mingguang armor he wore was not much different from the style of the Mingguang armor of the Tang Dynasty, except that the tiger head shoulder pads on his shoulders were more ornate. And the hood he wore made Gu Yuanxi feel a strong style of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Yes, the headpiece worn by this military general is the kind of helmet worn by Xiliang Ma Chao, one of the five tiger generals of Shu described in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms - the Fierce Dou. The body of this general's hood is one of the nine sons of the dragon born in mythology, resembling a lion's cunning. In the middle of the beast, a saw-shaped hood protrudes straight from the top.

The entire hood looks to be made of brass, and the fierce beast on the helmet, the shiny bright light armor on the body, and the scarlet cloak on the back make the warrior look even more imposing.

"This outfit is really compelling." Gu Yuanxi sneered.

The general slowly rode forward, and behind him the Pinglu cavalry guarded two sedan chairs with silk curtains. In the front and back of the sedan chair, there are four girls respectively lifting the big silk embroidered with red fire patterns, and on both sides of the sedan chair, there are young bearded women in white clothes holding flat flags embroidered with sun, moon, water, fire, wood, and earth patterns.

Seeing this, many Hu people on both sides of the street knelt down and prayed, and their faces showed a pious look. Although many Han people didn't know what it was, they also knelt down and followed suit. After all, although most Han Chinese do not believe in Zoroastrianism, a heretical religion from the West, they are still full of reverence for the gods.

"It's a pity that I can't see the true face of the Zoroastrian saint." Gu Yuanxi sighed.

"Could it be that Brother Gu still wants to get the Zoroastrian saint to be his wife at home?" Nan Jiyun smiled dumbly.

"Brother Nan misunderstood me." Nan Jiyun explained with a straight face: "I am a pure person, how could I come up with such a shameless thing? The younger brother just admires the saint and wants to have the opportunity to see the saint's true face. Hey—I'm so religious! ”

Nan Jiyun was embarrassed, you heard the Zoroastrian saintess for the first time today, where did you come from to admire for a long time. He didn't break it at the moment, but just smiled and said, "You see that the Pinglu Army and the Holy Maiden of the Jacket Sect have come to our side." Look at it, the mighty general in the scarlet robe is Shi Siming. ”

Gu Yuanxi followed Nan Jiyun's finger and looked ahead, only to see that the military general was still slowly riding his horse along the Jinguangmen Chunmingmen Avenue towards the Hanguangmen Gate of the Imperial City. As the team advanced, the positions of him and Gu Yuanxi became closer and closer, and Gu Yuanxi also took this opportunity to see the true face of this mighty general.

This is a middle-aged man in his forties, with a small contour on his face, a strong nose, and slender eyebrows containing sharp black eyes, which looks very gloomy. His eyes flickered and moved, like an eagle finding its prey in the night, exuding a powerful momentum that was proud of all beings.

"I didn't expect Shi Siming, who is famous all over the world, to be like this!" Nan Jiyun, who saw Shi Siming for the first time, said with emotion: "Although he is tall and strong, his appearance is not good, if it weren't for today's scene and the big silk behind him that reads 'From the Five Grades of Cavalry General Pinglu Soldiers and Horses', there is really no way to think that he is the powerful Youzhou, Hebei unparalleled arrow general Shi Siming!" ”

"I think that Cao Mengde, the king of Wei, is not also not good-looking, and in the end, he is not the same as Liu Xuande, who has long hands and big ears, and Sun Zhong, who has blue eyes and purple hair." Gu Yuanxi was also secretly surprised.

Wang Shizhen, a great genius of the Ming Dynasty in later generations, once commented: "Shi Siming is also fierce, and his talent is far beyond Lushan." "Objectively speaking, Shi Siming is far inferior to the big fat man An Lushan in terms of employing people and grasping the overall situation, but in terms of military talent, he is far behind An Fatman, who commanded the soldiers and horses of the three towns to attack the Khitan and returned in defeat!

In the second year of the reign of Emperor Su of the Tang Dynasty, he rescued Yecheng An Qingxu, which was besieged by 200,000 Tang troops in the Nine Great Festivals, with 50,000 elite soldiers, and broke it. In addition to Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, Shi Siming almost maintained a record of complete victories against other Tang army generals in the Anshi Rebellion. In the middle and late stages of the Anshi Rebellion, the military talent he showed was probably only slightly stronger than Li Guangbi of the Tang Army.

When he saw this "Emperor Yan Yingtian" who pushed the great Tang Dynasty into the road of no return, the strongest general of the Yan army, Gu Yuanxi was also a crossover for a while.

Seeing that Gu Yuanxi was deep in thought again, Nan Jiyun couldn't help but be very depressed and said, "Why is my little brother thinking hard at every turn, with a bitter face. He gently pushed Gu Yuanxi with his body and said, "Just now I said that Shi Siming is not good-looking, but if you take a closer look, don't you think the aura exuded by this person is very powerful?" ”

"Brother Nan thinks so too?" Gu Yuanxi was surprised: "I also think that although Shi Siming is not obvious, the murderous aura exuded from his body is extremely strong. ”

Nan Jiyun was surprised: "I didn't expect Brother Gu to feel it too." This kind of aura is generally only felt by people who are also martial artists, and Brother Gu looks polite, and he can't imagine that he can see through it. It's amazing! ”

"When I was a kid, I used to compete against people." Gu Yuanxi said unashamedly: "Fights in elementary and junior high schools have never been less than me. Like tearing my hair, gritting my teeth and other martial arts skills, I have also practiced perfectly, the so-called expert watchman, the younger brother can naturally see it. ”

Nan Jiyun didn't seem to understand when he heard it, and he didn't refute it, he pointed at Shi Siming and whispered: "You see that this Shi Siming's nose is very pointed, like an eagle's beak, I heard the physiognomy and said, 'People with this kind of nose are insatiable, unscrupulous in order to obtain financial gains, ruthless in nature, and forgetful of profit. 'It's not easy—"

"Does Big Brother Nan also look at his face?" Gu Yuanxi only knew that Nan Jiyun in history was a heroic general who valued love and righteousness, but he didn't expect that he also had this kind of skill, he asked curiously: "Then Brother Nan, look at me, do you have the appearance of a king?" ”

Nan Jiyun was shocked, and hurriedly covered his mouth and said: "Silence, say such a rebellious thing, be careful of being beheaded, is this kind of thing you can say?" ”

He let go of the hand that was covering Gu Yuanxi, and said with a speechless smile: "The qi of the king overlord, I think it is the qi of the king Ba. I don't know how to read physiognomy, but some of Shi Siming's characteristics are more obvious. You see that his cheekbones are too prominent, it should be insincere, and he belongs to a person who is very scheming and has a deep city. ”

Gu Yuanxi was amazed. As a young man in the 21st century, this physiognomy theory is naturally not credible, but recalling Shi Siming's character in history, I have to say that what Nan Jiyun said is really true.

Nan Jiyun said with palpitations: "No! It's not that this person is not good-looking, it's just that his appearance does not match the appearance of the kind of immortal warrior that people worship in their minds. This person's facial features are extremely obvious, it seems that my junior sister is right. This Shi Siming is really not an easy person. ”

"Your junior sister? Who is your sister? Gu Yuanxi couldn't help but ask when he heard the last sentence.

Nan Jiyun realized that he had lost his mouth, he coughed lightly, and said with a dry smile: "I think my brother heard it wrong." ”

Gu Yuanxi was a little suspicious, and Nan Jiyun happened to see a horse galloping in the dust in the distance, so he pointed in that direction and opened the topic: "Look, the person riding the horse is the envoy sent by the imperial court." ”

The envoy is the envoy sent by the palace, and generally refers to the eunuch. Gu Yuanxi also understood that aside from the Pinglu Army and Shi Siming, the palace would not ignore the situation of the Zoroastrian saintess entering Beijing.

"Your Majesty's Message—" As Nan Jiyun said, the man on horseback who galloped from a distance was indeed a eunuch sent by the palace. I saw him straighten his back, tilt his head slightly, and after the people on the street knelt down when they heard the words, a more shrill and piercing voice followed: "Your Majesty's command: Shi Siming went straight to Xingqing Palace along Jinguang Chunming Avenue to meet him." The generals and guards of the Pinglu Army were arranged by the Honglu Temple to temporarily go to the Pinglu Jinju Yuan to live, and wait for the prisoners to be sacrificed on a later day. ”

"Command! I wish Datang and His Majesty a long life! Shi Siming and Pinglu Jun respectfully kowtowed to the ground gently, and then there was a thunderous sound together.

The eunuch walked around, glanced at Shi Siming and Sergeant Pinglu, who had already dismounted, kneeling and listening to the order, and his eyes looked in the direction of the sedan chair of the Zoroastrian saint, and saw that the Zoroastrian saint did not come out to receive the order, he couldn't help frowning, showing displeasure, he coughed lightly and said, "What's the matter?" Why is there no sign of the Zoroastrian saints? ”

"The envoy. The saint came all the way from Hebei to Beijing, but because of the bumpy journey, the saint was busy receiving the believers on the way, so she fell ill. Please forgive the envoy—"

Shi Siming let out his deeply magnetic man's guttural voice, he paused for a moment, and then gently kowtowed to the ground and said, "A few days ago, when the advance envoy of the Pinglu Army entered Beijing, he had already written this matter down to the sage and the princes of Li Xiangguo. Fortunately, the saints and the Xiangguo are merciful and considerate of the saint's body, and now they have promised that the saint does not have to go out of the sedan chair to welcome the decree when she enters Beijing. ”

The eunuch's face turned slightly pale when he heard this, and he laughed dryly and said, "I see. Since there is the will of His Majesty and the government minister. The saint did not have to go out to greet her. ”

As soon as his words fell, there was a voice in the sedan chair, "Thank you, Your Majesty Longen." It was a very gentle and comfortable voice, so soft that even the imperfect eunuch trembled.

Gu Yuanxi said in his heart: "Listening to the voice, this holy woman is also a quiet and gentle person. Then he laughed and said softly: "I'm also stupid, since I can be a saint, how can I not be that kind of person with a quiet and graceful personality?" ”

At the same time as he lost his smile, Shi Siming, who was in front of him, frowned when he heard this, and his eyes suddenly showed a gloomy color.

"The Holy Maiden is polite." The envoy's face became extremely warm when he heard this, and he said with a sneer: "Our family's internal servants will give Cheng Yuanzhen from the five products, and he will ask questions." Hereby I would like to ask the Holy Maiden for her well-being—"

"The envoy has a heart." The woman's eloquent reply came from the sedan chair again.

Seeing this, Cheng Yuanzhen smiled milkily and said, "The holy maiden is more polite." Immediately found that the two people, Shi Siming and other Pinglu soldiers were still kneeling, and couldn't help laughing dryly and said, "You see that our family has forgotten all the business-"

"This damn eunuch is gone, that guy is still so!" Gu Yuanxi knelt so hard that his feet hurt and his back hurt, and he scolded in his heart: "Fortunately, this dead guy entered the palace and became a eunuch, otherwise he must be a restless lord who likes to harm women from good families!" "He is very shameful and despised for the flowery men other than him. And for this kind of eunuch who is powerless and spending, Gu Yuanxi unabashedly shows his contempt.

Cheng Yuanzhen coughed lightly and continued to say in a sharp voice: "As for the Zoroastrian Holy Maiden, first of all, Cheng Yuanzhen will be introduced into the Persian Pavilion after the Liquanfang Ancestral Hall, and it will be arranged by the Honglu Temple and the Sabao Mansion. The rest awaits His Majesty's will. Chin this—"