"Long life is boundless, the Son of Heaven is ten thousand years!"

"The emperor is sage, there is no one in a thousand years!"

"The Great Qing Purple Qi is incomparable!"

At the Xinjiekou entrance of Yanjing City, the scholars who dragged the tail of the rat and wore the colorful green and auspicious dress were shouting slogans while walking northward, and under their feet was a road like colorful clouds, extending to the front and back, seemingly endless.

Colorful sheds, colored walls, color corridors, color platforms, everywhere colorful, every few miles there is a throne, around the throne, the actors in colorful costumes are uh-huh, with sonorous gongs and drums, singing the blessing and longevity greetings. There is also an endless stream of people carrying all kinds of flowers and silk people through the streets, making this earthly world like heaven.

In three days, the 60th birthday celebration of the current Renjun Tianzi will kick off in Changchun Garden, where a birthday banquet of three generations of Mobi will be held, which is also known as the "Thousand Suo Banquet". The imperial court issued an order that all the elderly who had reached the age of 65, regardless of the government and the people, could enter Beijing to participate in this unprecedented birthday banquet. 【1】

Emperor Ren Kangxi himself said, "Since the Qin and Han dynasties, there are three hundred and ninety emperors, and they enjoy a long time, and they are not as long as me", so this longevity festival must be done well, and it will be done greatly, and his face will be bright, and the Qing Dynasty will be able to conquer the sea and subdue the Quartet.

From March 25 to 28, because the emperor was going to hold three big banquets, no weddings and funerals were allowed among the people, and everyone rushed to catch this wedding train before the 25th.

Sitting in the sedan chair, wrapped in heavy auspicious clothes, and pressed by the heavy phoenix crown, Yan Sanniang only felt that it was difficult to breathe, and the suona gongs and gongs before and after were blowing and beating, which made her want to shout loudly.

For a moment, she was about to turn this thought into action, and Dantian lifted her breath slightly, but was stopped by a strange feeling. It was a heavy thing, wrapped in her close-fitting coat, and it seemed to carry the cold and damp air that had just been dug out of the soil, which made her shiver involuntarily.

"Why...... Why did I dig it up, even pack it with a good bullet and carry it with me, what the hell was I thinking? ”

Yan Sanniang's mind became a mess of porridge, and it took her a long time to sort out a line, and she looked for it along the line, and the whole person suddenly seemed to be pressed in a steamer, and the blood was boiling.

"Damn thief...... I must have fallen for his poison! How could I ...... Will you think ...... Those things! ”

A delicate face with a slight smile jumped in her mind, she subconsciously gritted her teeth and was angry, and the chaotic thoughts in her heart were also shattered by this countenance.

That was yesterday, the family is busy preparing for her marriage, it is said that there are big people like the chief inspector of the salt road to come to cheer, so the original groom directly to pick up people The process should also be changed, the groom will wait for the chief inspector at the Liangjia Zhuangzi first, and then wait for the bride to come to the door, and enter the county town together.

From Nacai to the door, this time was too tight, and it was not until yesterday that my sister-in-law came to give her a women's training, in addition to the education of three from four virtues, the more important thing is the matter of the boudoir. Flipping through the colorful picture book, even Yan Sanniang, who has been displaced since childhood and has an open-minded surname, is too ashamed to look up.

By this morning, Yan Sanniang has turned from shame to sadness, last night she had a night of "strange dreams", in the dream, someone in the dream, did all kinds of unspeakable shame in the picture book, hateful is that she still feels happy, even more hateful and terrible, that person is not the person she wants to marry, but the ...... Thieves.

When he woke up, the residual heat of the dream seemed to be still circulating on his body, and the back of his hands, waist, and the top of his head were all trembling with unspeakable tremors, which were not from a dream, but the feeling that he had really touched himself. The warmth of the moment before seemed to be deeply seared into the girl's heart, and it was difficult to erase it.

Until she got on the sedan chair, she didn't understand why she was like a walking corpse, digging out the things she had buried before, preparing them properly, and carrying them with her.

"If my sister-in-law is right, I'm ...... Out of touch. ”

From this thread, I found my sister-in-law's sacred and solemn look and tone when she talked about women's training yesterday, Yan Sanniang's heart sank into the abyss, and she understood her intention to bring this thing.

"At that time, it is better to die, I can't stand the torment of that day."

The face in her mind gradually disappeared into darkness, Yan Sanniang also calmed down, she knew that she was wrong, she couldn't break free from that dream, let alone her father, sister-in-law, family, and the big net woven by the faces of the Liang family.

The mood stabilized, the movement outside the sedan chair was clear to the ears, and there seemed to be a trace of extremely discordant tone outside the festive sound.

Unveiled the headscarf and scooped up the corner of the sedan curtain, Yan Sanniang looked out, and suddenly stared at her.

I saw a couple and a little girl, like a poor family of three, kneeling on the ground with each other, begging for someone, and there was a basket on the ground, and white flowers were sprinkled all over the ground, which was not like rice, but salt.

"Official salt!? You are also the official salt of Quanzhou! It is a sin to turn back to Yongchun! ”【2】

"Quanzhou salt is cheaper than Yongchun salt, you carry so much back, isn't it selling or what!?"

Following the sound, it was a few salt inspectors who were scolding and kicking and beating the man in the house.

Yan Sanniang only felt that her heart was unbearable, but when she thought of her father, she gritted her teeth and was about to put down the sedan curtain, such things can be seen every day, and she really can't do anything.

As soon as his wrist moved, he saw Yan Xun kick the man to the ground, and the leather whip was also pumped away, and the woman and the little girl pounced on the man to block it, and the leather whip was whipped on the woman and the little girl, and the mournful and crisp wails sounded at the same time.

This whip also seemed to be drawn on Yan Sanniang's heart, shattering the faces that bound her, and her heart suddenly became abrupt.

Kara...... The sedan chair man only felt that the sedan chair sank suddenly, and almost fell into a pile, and then the sedan curtain was lifted, and Yan Sanniang, who was wearing a big red auspicious suit and a hairpin swaying on the phoenix crown, suddenly appeared, and the headcloth had been torn off.

"Let them go!"

Yan Sanniang scolded in a deep voice, and the family sending team was suddenly in chaos.

"Yo...... Which bride is this, sitting in a sedan chair and still meddling? ”

The guy who seemed to be the little leader of the salt patrol said with crooked eyes, and the Liang family in the team hurriedly greeted him and explained in a low voice, still touching things around his waist. And the people of the Yan family also came up to stop Yan Sanniang, and persuaded her to hurry back to the sedan chair with a bitter face.

Yan Sanniang waved her hand, and the sister-in-law of the Yan family suddenly turned away like a spinning top, and the others couldn't see it clearly, and the big red figure jumped in front of Yan Xun in a few steps, separating them from the family.

"You guys get out of here!"

Yan Sanniang commanded, the family of three was stunned, and they didn't care about the back basket on the ground, the man held the woman with his left hand, and pulled his daughter with his right hand, and ran into the distance, to be thrown into prison by the salt patrol for the crime of selling illicit salt, it would be more than the end of the separation of his wife.

"How daring! Even if she is the daughter-in-law of the Liang family, she can't break the rules on our salt road! Catch those three! ”

The leader of the salt patrol was annoyed, and with an order, the seven or eight salt cha around him rushed out, but saw Yan Sanniang's big red figure waving the skirt sleeves, and there was a crackling sound, and the salt cha fell back one by one, lying on the ground and moaning.

"You, you, you......"

Looking at Yan Sanniang, who was dressed in a big red auspicious suit, lightly applied rouge, painted with red lips, and phoenix eyes flying, only half of the soul of the leader of the salt patrol was left, and the other half also lost his heart, stammering, and couldn't even shake off the words of scolding and scolding.

Seeing that the family of three ran out for dozens of steps, it seemed that they could escape this catastrophe, Yan Sanniang breathed a sigh of relief. secretly said that they had escaped the net, but they were still in the net. Just a little stunned, the sound of rumbling horses' hooves sounded, and a horse team rushed over from the rear road, seeing that many people were also wearing patrol clothes, and the leader was dressed in bright colors, and he was looking forward to it.

"That family steals and sells official salt, hurry up and stop it!"

The little leader of the salt patrol here returned to his place and shouted loudly, it seems that those people are also salt patrols.

Yan Sanniang turned her head to look, and her heart shook violently.

As soon as the little leader spoke, several horsemen and horses chased after him.

"No!"

Yan Sanniang exclaimed in surprise, the man had already been knocked down by a horse, and he could vaguely hear a crisp sound, and he didn't know if he was trampled by the horse's hooves and broke a few bones on his body.

"Run, ......"

The man waved his hand and spurted out a mouthful of blood, asking his wife and children to continue to flee for their lives.

"The men can't do it, and the women and the little ones can still be sold to atone for their crimes."

The leader of the horse team said coldly.

"Stop!"

Yan Sanniang shouted, she stretched out her arm, as if she wanted to pull the centaur who was gradually approaching the mother and daughter, but it was too late, she was not a flying immortal outside the sky, and she could only watch from a distance of dozens of steps.

Disheveled...... The horse could not be restrained, and the bodies of the mother and daughter were knocked out, like broken wooden sandbags, rolling on the ground weakly.

"No ......"

Yan Sanniang only felt that her heart was also shattered by this impact, no, it was the layers of shackles that bound her heart that were shattered, and her eyes were in a trance, and her mind suddenly jumped into another world, a familiar world.

"Damn, you're fainting before you drink? What's the use of getting killed? ”

The man who looked like a big boss cursed angrily.

"It doesn't seem to be dead, but it's still angry."

"Didn't you die? A few more steps! It's just resisting arrest and resisting poorly, and he deserves to die! ”

After the big leader shouted, he could hear the familiar screeching sound again, low, but so clear.

Yan Sanniang's mind was already floating in the air, as if she was separated from herself, and she quietly watched all this around her.

"Sanniang, you said it, heaven is free, and people can't be bullied."

"You also said that whether you can do it or not, and whether you want to do it, are fundamentally two different things."

"I don't just care about the people around me, I care about everyone......"

"Let everyone live a good life......"

That familiar face appeared in front of Yan Sanniang's eyes, and said words that made her tremble.

"Sanniang, I'm not an ordinary thief, I'm a thief!"

Li Shi's contemplative words filled her heart like a torrent.

"Why rebel? You know, you know. ”

His words were always so powerful, but there were many words and many things that she hadn't fully understood before.

She couldn't understand why she was so focused and discarded when she was teaching spear art, practicing musket shooting. She couldn't figure out why she couldn't even erase that face, which was always looking in one direction, contemplative and cautious.

She still didn't understand why her heartstrings fluttered at that time before leaving Li Zhuang, the guards shouted to her in unison, "Master, goodbye". It was not just reluctant to part with these apprentices who had only been with them for more than two months, but more like a separation from something she was born to do.

Now, she understood.

Heart, she can't deceive her heart after all, her heart has followed him, stepped on his footsteps, and embarked on another avenue, a road with a big "anti" word written on it.

"Thief, take your life!"

When his consciousness returned to his place, Yan Sanniang's red figure moved, and he rushed towards the big leader.

"This ...... Who's this!? Stop her! ”

Subconsciously feeling bad, the big boss asked in a loud voice.

"The daughter-in-law of the Liang family wants to pass through the door!? Mother's ...... I'm just going to meet the Liang family kid and follow him to pick up this daughter-in-law, what's wrong with her? Crazy! ”

The scene was chaotic, the salt patrol in front and back chased and blocked, trying to block Yan Sanniang, but the sleeves of her big red skirt flew like a butterfly shadow, and the salt patrol was like dust, and was fanned by the light dance of the butterfly shadow.

"I'm the Salt Road Inspector here! It's your Liang family's honored guest, let's ...... We're family! ”

The salt inspectors behind her dismounted one after another and stopped in front of the chief inspector, and the people around her also chased after her, and dozens of people immediately surrounded her.

Yan Sanniang stopped, and the phoenix eyes looked at him coldly, but the pupils of his eyes seemed to be rolling up angry waves that rushed to the sky.

"Never!"

No one understood what she said, and then neither did anyone understand her actions, when she took out a strange thing from her waist and pointed it straight at the chief inspector.

"I will never be with you!"

Yan Sanniang said in a deep voice, her fingers were clasped, the sound of the puff sounded, and the head of the chief inspector sitting on the horse snorted, and two balls of blood exploded at the same time on the back of his forehead.

Silence...... There was silence without even breathing, and the scene seemed to be covered by heavy dust, which lasted for a while before the sound of the corpse of the chief inspector falling to the ground was stirred up.

"Catch ...... Get her! ”

There was a sound of drawing knives, and the faces of the surrounding Yan Xun were blue and white, and the eyes of the Qiu Dahong figure seemed to be looking at a devil, a devil who was so beautiful that it made people's hearts palpitate.

Reluctantly stroked the short gun in her hand, Yan Sanniang gritted her teeth, and with a twist, she twisted the gun and twisted it.

"I did it, don't forget me."

More than a dozen blades pressed against her neck, and she looked to the west, her expression extremely calm, and she only whispered to herself.

(To be continued)