The capital of Yelang is actually a relatively large village, at most it is a walled city with a stone wall and a relatively strong look. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThis so-called national capital, in addition to its population, is not even as prosperous as a lower county in the Han Dynasty. In fact, Yelang was a county under the rule of the Han Dynasty.

As an "autonomous county", there are hardly a few Han people in the Yelang Walled City - if there is, it is also from Bashu to do business.

These Han merchants brought cloth, porcelain, jade, etc., and of course, the favorite of the Yelang people, wolfberry sauce.

Ju Ji is such a Hanja who is very popular with the Yelang people.

Ju Ji is a native of Longxi, a young man who entered Shu, and later entered Yelang because of Yelang's wealth, and entered Yelang to do business. He deals in almost everything, from cattle and horse trafficking to needles and threads, and is a "department store dealer" in the Han Dynasty. In Yelang, Ju Ji's popularity is no worse than that of King Yelang. Even after Yelang Lao Wang Xing was killed, some remote cottage people didn't know who the new king was, but none of them knew about the bowing season.

As a businessman of Yelang Country, Ju Ji naturally has a lot of mansions, although the gorgeous and exquisite are not comparable to his mansions in Shu County, but they are vast. For example, he is in the Ju family courtyard in the Qianjiling area of Yelang Xiguan, which covers an area of 40 acres, with more than 10 attics and hundreds of tile houses. Surrounded by green mountains and green water in front of the house, it can be called the best cool summer resort.

On weekdays, many Yelang nobles, officials, and even the Yelang King have come here to cool off. However, it is late autumn now, and the scene of busy traffic is no longer seen, and the Ju Villa has returned to calm, and even a little deserted.

However, if someone enters the small courtyard in the southwest of the Ju Villa at this time, they will find that the situation here is completely different.

In the small courtyard, there were more than 30 dark-skinned young men and women, combing the spine hair and braids of Nanxiyi, and all wearing short clothes and trousers. But on closer inspection, it is not difficult to find that the facial features of these young men and women are obviously different from those of Yiren. They're more like ...... Tanned Central Plains people.

When the young man at the head turned around and lectured the young men and women, his face was like the deputy of the Fuping Marquis Guard, Yu Xi.

The group of young men and women below, needless to say, are Zhang Fang's young guards. It turned out that they actually sneaked into Yelang early, no wonder there was no one around Zhang Fang......

Although the number of people is large, it is quiet and calm, and the men and women are separated, from tall to short, standing neatly and neatly. If you wear a military uniform, you are no different from a soldier.

Yu Xi glanced at the guards and said loudly: "I received the news, the master's honor guard entered the city today, and all the clan elders and officials below King Yelang went out of the city thirty miles to greet them. The palace was empty, the walled city was empty, and the defense was lax. Act now, when it's time too! ”

The teenagers below responded with excitement.

How could they not be excited? Since I came here in August, I have been in this small courtyard every day, learning the local Yi language, understanding the customs of the Yi people, getting used to the local unpalatable food, and even learning from the Yi people, applying various paints similar to tattoos on the face......

In October, the weather turned cooler, and the Ju Villa slowly became deserted. At this time, the young guards came out of the hidden courtyard, and began to enter the Yelang Walled City in batches as servants of the Ju family, leaving early and returning late, familiarizing themselves with the terrain and guard conditions of the walled city, and feeling and integrating into the life of the Yiren little by little.

In November, more than 30 young guards were divided into six groups, and each team issued a topographical map of the Yelang Palace, which marked the names of each building, the number of guards, the time of the patrol shifts, and the various passages in and out.

But until this time, the young guards had no idea what mission they were about to undertake. Assassination? Pounce? Beheading? Whatever it is, they just have to do what they are told. Until then, it is forbidden to ask questions.

After holding back for more than two months, making all kinds of preparations, and finally waiting for the time to act. It is not difficult to understand the excitement of the young guards when they heard Yu Xi announce the start of the operation.

The young guards waited eagerly, waiting for Yuki to announce their specific mission. However, all they could wait for was one sentence: "Go, work!" ”

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When the Hu Guards took action, the Yelang people were not idle.

The Yelang Bamboo Palace's Mansion was built on a piece of artificially paved flat land at the height of the walled city, which is enough to overlook the whole city. However, this is not the tallest building in the Yelang Walled City, the real tallest is the Bamboo King Shrine behind the side of the Bamboo King Mansion.

The Bamboo King Shrine is naturally indispensable to bamboo, and the two rows of bamboo pillars carved in front of the shrine are like people, beasts and ghosts. There is still a huge ox head bone hanging on the top of the bamboo pillar, and the hollow eye sockets are chilling, and it looks terrible in broad daylight.

The one who presides over the shrine is Jelangon.

Everyone who sees Weng Zhi for the first time will be attracted by its peculiar appearance. The man could not tell how old he was, only that he was old, and that his beard was as long as his hair, fluffy and curly, and gray. There are long strings of various colors hanging around his neck. All year round, spring, autumn, winter and summer, he wore only a pair of wide trousers, exposing his limbs as thin as wood, and his upper body was barely visible, all covered by a beard several feet long. Most of his face was covered by a beard and messy hair, and the only bright spot of the whole person was the deep sunken eye sockets, and a pair of small eyes were not at all cloudy and godless like the elderly, but were unusually bright.

is such a dry, thin old man, who sounds like an ascetic at good times and a beggar when he says it is bad, but he is the agent of the Bamboo King gods enshrined by the southwestern Zhuyi, including Yelang, in the world.

The whole shrine was pitch black, only a circle of oil lamps was lit on the high platform where Weng Zhi was sitting, which was bright and dazzling. From a distance, under the skull and horns of the ox hanging crosswise on the shrine behind him, this thin and obscene old man is doubly mysterious at this moment.

"The Han envoy has entered the city?" Weng pointed to a mouth, and his voice was hoarse and indistinct, and it didn't feel like it was coming from the throat, but from the belly.

"Yes, yes." The one who replied was a middle-aged man, very dark and thin, but unlike Weng Zhi, this person was thin and powerful, and he looked very lean. Because the people are dark and the house is dark, it is difficult for him to notice that someone exists for a while if he does not speak.

"It's finally here. Very good, very good. Weng Zhi's small eyes rolled, flashing and dimming in the firelight, "There is no news from Nongxi and Gongzang over there?" ”

"Yes, there has been no news from Yuzo. His last news was that after Nong Xi entered the Taishou Mansion, he never came out again, and all the people and strongholds who had contact with him before were also uprooted by the Han officials. ”

"From this point of view, this group of people who are hidden by the bow are more auspicious and less auspicious." Weng Zhi's voice became erratic and elusive, "Nongxi is your brother, what do you think he will do?" ”

The middle-aged man was originally kneeling on the ground, but at this time, he slowly lay on his stomach, prostrate on the ground in a posture similar to a five-body throw, and said deferentially: "Nongxi is deeply favored by Yelang, he can die for Yelang at any time, and he will not reveal the slightest information that is unfavorable to Yelang...... It is believed that at this time, his soul has returned to the ancestral spirit. ”

"It's better to be like this." Weng Zhi's tone was indifferent, as if he was talking about a stranger, "Since the Han envoy is here, our plan is about to begin." ”

"Yes, I'll go get ready."

Weng pointed to the small eyes reflecting the dancing flames of the oil lamp, stared directly at the two rows of strange-shaped bamboo pillars outside the shrine, crossed his hands in front of his chest, and muttered: "Yelang, it's really going back to the hands of the Yelang people......