Zhao Keman Hu Ying, Wu Hook Shuang Xueming. The silver saddle shines on the white horse, like a shooting star.

A group of dozens of horses galloped on the northwest land of Zhao State, they slept in the open air, encountered a place where there were people, they borrowed from the local residents, such as the high mountains and Daze, it was dozens of people gathered together, set up some simple tents on the spot to rest, fifty people took turns to keep vigil, the road was smooth, and did not encounter any trouble.

In 300 B.C., King Wuling of Zhao took advantage of the defeat of the Zhongshan Kingdom to open up the northern territory and drove the Linhu, Loufu and other minorities who originally lived in the northern Jin Dynasty and the Central Commerce Department of Inner Mongolia to the Ordos Plateau west of the Yellow River. The forces of Zhao advanced westward along the southern foothills of Daqing Mountain and Wula Mountain, expanding their territory to the edge of the Hetao. As a result, Yunzhong, Yanmen and Daijun were set up on this newly opened land.

The Yunzhong County set up by King Wuling of Zhao, the county is governed in the Yunzhong City, the Yunzhong City is located on the Tumut Plain, the terrain is flat, there are barren dry water (now the big black river), Wuquan water (now the small black river), the white canal water (now the baby river) flows through, the land is fertile, the water and grass are abundant, it is a good place suitable for agriculture and animal husbandry. Zhao carried out large-scale development here, grazing horses on a large scale, training cavalry, and also moved a large number of inland residents, set up villages, and developed agriculture, making it an important cavalry training base and grain producing area of Zhao State.

Trekking all the way through mountains and rivers, in the twelfth day after Zhao Fan and others left Xuzhuang, they finally came to a large plain, with a flat river in front of them, and a huge and brand-new city in the distance appeared in front of everyone.

Looking at the city that appeared in front of them, everyone breathed a long sigh in their hearts, after such a long journey, they finally came to Cloud City, and their hearts were also a lot more relaxed.

The group felt the vastness and beauty of the prairie in place, and after a while, they rode their horses and headed for the direction of Cloud City. The closer we got to Cloudsdale, the number of residents in the vicinity grew, these people were grazing on the grass in short jackets, shorts and leather boots, and cattle and horses and sheep were grazing on the grass comfortably.

These herdsmen saw Zhao Fan and dozens of others approaching Cloud City on horseback, and immediately turned their eyes to the past, these people were naturally quite surprised when they saw a group of strangers suddenly appear, but they were not too nervous when they saw that Zhao Fan was from the land of Zhao and was not from Linhu.

Zhao Fan and his party slowed down, and when they were about to reach Cloud City, everyone dismounted one after another, so as not to be mistaken for an enemy by the defenders of the city.

The walls of Yunzhong City are much taller and stronger than those of the Bairen City, because it is often attacked by the Linhu people, so the city is also built extremely strongly, and there are dozens of soldiers wearing armor and holding weapons on the city.

When these soldiers saw Zhao Fan and the others approaching, someone immediately shouted: "Who is coming?" ”

Hearing this, Xu Jia walked out of the crowd, he first arched his hand at the soldiers above, and then pointed to Li Mu, Li Bingbing and Zhao Fan: "These three are the sons, daughters and sons-in-law of Li Feng's county guard, and we came to Cloud City according to Li Feng's intentions." ”

Hearing him say this, one of those soldiers suddenly walked out, this person was slender, with a hooked nose, a gloomy complexion, and slender lips looked quite mean, and the armor on his body looked much more gorgeous and noble than the other soldiers around him, and at a glance he knew that he was an officer in Cloud City, as for how big an official it was, Zhao Fan didn't know.

This person walked up to the city, glanced at everyone condescendingly, and his sharp eyes swept over everyone else, except for Zhao Fan and Li Bingbing, who paused when he saw Li Bingbing, a touch of amazement suddenly flashed in the person's eyes.

"The daughter and son-in-law of the county keeper?" The man's gaze paused at the hands of Zhao Fan and Li Bingbing, and then his gaze turned to Zhao Fan, he smiled coldly, and said, "I did listen to the orders of Lord County Shou some time ago, and Mr. Li Mu will come to Cloud City in the next few days. However, it was not said that his daughter and son-in-law would also come. ”

Zhao Fan walked up at this time, he looked at the person at the head of the city, a cold light crossed the corner of his mouth, but on the surface, he was still quite humble and said: "We also temporarily decided to come to Cloud City with our brother-in-law, so the lady doesn't know, if the general is worried, you can ask the lady to come out, and you will know when the time comes." ”

When the man heard this, he didn't speak, his eyes glanced at Zhao Fan gloomily, and he muttered for a long time, then waved his hand to the soldiers beside him, and then left the city.

Not long after the man left, the city gate slowly opened, and Zhao Fan looked at the man's back thoughtfully, and a gleam passed through the depths of his eyes. It seems that coming to Cloud City this time will not go well. At least the man just now had an indescribable hostility towards them.

Entering the city, rows of scattered houses appeared in front of Zhao Fan and others, which is located in Biansai, so it is not as prosperous as Bairen City, but there are many people, and on both sides of the street, there is a sound of merchants selling from time to time.

Two soldiers wearing red and purple robes walked down from the city wall, as mentioned above, during the Warring States period, the theory of yin and yang prevailed, and the colors of the flags and the main colors of clothing of major countries were very particular and well-founded.

Zhao Guo came from the Jin State, but he was a prince of the royal family, and he could have inherited the fire virtue of Zhou, but he deduced a more special fire wood virtue of "fire virtue is the mainstay, wood virtue is supplemented, wood helps the fire surname, and fire virtue is more intense", and the banner has become seven points red and three points blue red and purple.

These two soldiers were not as indifferent as the man just now, the two of them led Zhao Fan and others through the streets, and after a while, they stopped in front of a mansion that looked quite magnificent, and said: "Gentlemen, this is the mansion of the county guard, wait for you to go in, we will go to patrol the city first." ”

After saying that, the two of them explained a few words to the guards on both sides of the mansion and left here.

Zhao Fan and the others were divided into three rows and stood in front of this mansion. The guards have already gone in to report it, and they just have to wait here. Zhao Fan, Li Mu and Li Bingbing stood at the front, and they were all silent at the moment.

Li Bingbing's sister and brother hadn't seen their father for a long time, so they naturally felt quite excited in their hearts, but Zhao Fan was thinking about why the person in the city just now didn't seem to like them. Although the man didn't get too entangled and let them into the city, Zhao Fan knew that it was just that he knew that it was meaningless to entangle them like this, and it would make Li Feng unhappy when the time came.

Although there were some doubts in his heart, Zhao Fan didn't really want to concentrate on this aspect at the moment, and the problem at the moment was that he didn't know what Li Feng would arrange after seeing him and the others.

After a while, there were more than a dozen footsteps in the mansion, and the sound of boots stepping on the stone slab also woke up the pensive Zhao Fan.

This is Li Feng coming, Zhao Fan quickly straightened his chest, his waist was straight, his tall and slender body was matched with a handsome face, and he looked heroic. I haven't seen Li Feng for a long time, why does Zhao Fan want to leave a good impression on his wife, isn't it?

Out of the mansion came a tall middle-aged man, this man was quite heroic, with a wisp of black beard under his chin, and in his majesty, he looked a little more elegant.

Li Bingbing and Li Mu were familiar with their father, but the two of them saw Li Feng and hurriedly knelt on the ground, and Zhao Fan saw this, and also knelt down, the three of them raised their hands and eyebrows, knelt down on their knees, bowed four times, and said, "Meet my father (woman)." ”

During the Warring States period, it was usually the parents who knelt down and bowed eight times, but it was only on very formal occasions, such as confession and wedding, and the same was true of heaven and earth. In normal times, like other elders, four bows are enough, and Zhao Fan, as Li Feng's son-in-law, is originally four bows.

And Xu Jia and the others behind Zhao Fan were standing upright, their arms were folded and stretched forward, their right hands were slightly bent, their left hands were attached to them, their arms were moved down from their foreheads to their chests, and their upper bodies bowed forty-five degrees to Li Feng at the same time.

This is a wave of hands, and this is the kind of salutation for those who are higher than their own status.