How big the world is, you can never imagine if you haven't seen it in person.

When I ran on the flower-filled fields of Zheng Guo, when I drank unbridled in the amorous gaze of Wei Nu, when I drank the Yellow River in the western mountains at dusk, I forgot all my troubles, and my heart was completely intoxicated by the beautiful scenery along the way. Starting from Xinjiang, through Zheng Wei and the two countries, when I crossed the Great Wall of Qi and arrived at Linzi, the capital of Qi, a whole month and a half had passed.

Linzi City, a city that gathers giants from all over the world and attracts visitors from all over the world. A city that allows the children of the world to enjoy its customs, love its wealth, and live for a long time without thinking of returning.

Si'er looked at Linzi City in the twilight in the distance, and there was irrepressible excitement on his face: "Ah Shi, we have finally arrived!" ”

"The courtyard of the shirtless is next to Zishui outside the east gate, we can enter through the west gate first, take a walk around and then go out of the city through the east gate." I touched the innocent who was dozing off beside me, and said softly, "After walking for so many days, are you tired?" Go in and lie down for a while, and I'll call you later." ”

Innocent had never had a good impression of stranger places, so he happily handed me the reins of the horse, and got into the carriage himself.

I drove the car along the wide avenue outside Linzi City, and soon left the fiery sunset far behind. The sky was getting darker and darker, and when our carriage came to the towering walls of Linzi City, the first bright star had risen on the gray-purple canopy.

Linzi City is surrounded by water on all sides, and it is divided into two cities. Ayutthaya is a place where officials, merchants, and Li Shu live, and it is nine miles long from north to south. To the southwest of the big city is the small city, where the palatial palace of the Marquis of Qi is located.

Our carriage slowly passed through the west gate, and a bustling and noisy city appeared in front of me.

At night, the wide streets are lined with shops and are brightly lit. People, horses, oxen, and carts come and go, shuttling through what should be a peaceful market. Nobles in ice silk and ordinary people in straw shoes were crowded together in the same shop; The high-nosed and deep-eyed Di people shouted loudly in wolf skins and fox skins with excellent fur colors; Groups of children passed by our carriage barefoot, carrying buckets, and in a blink of an eye ran into a two-story restaurant along the street.

"The freshest silver-noodle fish has arrived—" The yellow-clothed servant standing at the door of the restaurant raised his voice and sang.

"There are two tables for four people on the second floor, and Dr. Qiu by the window at the door wants one......" The restaurant was full of people for a while.

At the entrance of the alley, less than five steps away from the restaurant, a group of rangers were neighing and shouting around two roosters pecking at each other. Qi people are good at fighting cocks, lackeys, and Liubo, and the two roosters are flying around and making a group of men roar red-faced.

There is no night in Linzi City. I looked at the brightly lit streets and the endless stream of people in front of me, and finally believed this sentence that had been circulated among the merchants of the Jin Kingdom.

"Look, everyone, the car from Qingle Fang is here—Miss Qingge is here—" Someone suddenly shouted in the restaurant.

"Where? Where is the car in Qingle Fang? Several rangers gathered around a cockfight rushed out into the street. Six men with swords on their shoulders and wide open plackets stood in front of my carriage.

"A few big brothers, can you let me go?" I tightened the reins and shouted at them.

"Brother upstairs, can you see clearly? Don't fool our brothers! A ranger with a big beard and a wicker in his bun yelled at the people in the restaurant, and the rest of the people looked up at the restaurant, as if they hadn't heard me at all.

"It's coming, it's coming!" As soon as the man on the second floor spoke, countless heads suddenly poked out in the restaurants and restaurants along the street. The vendors carrying their burdens and carts on the side of the street also stopped, and all of them craned their necks and stood on tiptoe to look at them with great interest.

"Look at it! If you don't have money, you can't eat it! Something that doesn't make a difference......" A peasant woman in an indigo turban spat at the man next to her, who was not annoyed, wiped the saliva from her neck with her hand, and still looked at the end of the street with a confused face.

Jingle bells, jingle bells, there was a melodious sound of bells in the wind, and the whole street suddenly fell silent.

All the sounds seemed to have stopped for these few o'clock.

"Handsome little brother, move the car to the side, don't get in the way!" A businessman-like man tugged at my sleeve with a stiff tone.

"Ah Shi, what's wrong?" Si'er rubbed his eyes and climbed out of the car.

"I don't know, it's said that some car is coming, let's move to the side." I turned around and stopped in a clearing on the right side of the street.

At this time, the ringing in my ears became clearer and clearer, and a fragrant sweet fragrance wafted in the air. At the corner of the street appeared a white ox with no variegated body and a brass bell around its neck, and behind the white bull pulled a cart covered with emerald light gauze and colorful brocade curtains.

"Qingge Girl-Qingge Girl-Let's Stroke a Song!" I don't know who shouted first, and the crowd, which had been quiet for a long time, suddenly boiled again.

"It's a guy from Linzi City sitting in the car, right? So there will be such a big pomp? Si'er leaned into my ear and said in surprise.

"There are thousands of kabuki and maiko in Linzi City, and this Qingge girl is so famous, she must be a leader."

The incense car was about to come to us, and the little maid who was driving was an eight or nine-year-old girl, with her horns combed, her cheeks flushed with pink, and her eyebrows and eyes were already visible in the future of her stunning posture. Si'er and I were biting our ears and whispering, and the girl who was driving suddenly turned her head to look at me, although it was only for a moment, but I clearly felt her surprise and inexplicable hostility.

"Little jujube don't whip, white ox cart is delayed...... a few boys who have just finished delivering fresh fish hold wet wooden barrels and follow the car while knocking and singing.

The girl driving the car pouted at them and whipped them violently, and the white cow mooed twice and sped up.

The night breeze blows the colorful curtain, and behind the curtain sits a woman holding a yaoqin. She wears a veil, which makes people invisible in appearance, but her intuition will be a rare beauty in the world.

"Si'er, let's go to Qingle Fang tomorrow."

"Don't worry about visiting the workshop to see the girl, there are people waiting for you by the water at this time!" Si'er pinched my cheek and quipped.

"Dead girl, I'll see Yu An in two days, see how I laugh at you!" I thought of the shirtless, my face was hot, and I didn't care about any beautiful musicians, so I drove quickly towards the east of the city.

Before leaving, Wuxian told me that when he was learning swords in Linzi City, he lived in a courtyard next to Zishui. Outside the courtyard, there are two large locust trees that need to be hugged by three people. It was late at the moment, but by the bright moonlight we quickly found the two locust trees he was talking about.

"Ah Shi, the door is not locked." Innocent kicked open the door of the small courtyard with a large bag on his back.

"Is it unlocked or did you kick it?" Si'er jumped out of the carriage with a big burden and followed Wuxian into the door.

I bolted the carriage and walked into the dark hut. Obviously, Shirtless isn't at home at this moment.

"Ah Shi, there's no one in the house, we won't be in the wrong place, right?" Si'er took out a bean lamp from his baggage, put some fish paste, squatted on the ground and lit the candle with flint.

Wuxian walked up to me with a grin and said, "Ah Shi, Zhao Wuxian is not at home at this time, won't he go to the teaching workshop to drink and play with women?" ”

"What nonsense!" Si'er knocked on the innocent head fiercely, "The son of the Zhao family is not that kind of person, you wolf cub don't understand anything, don't talk nonsense." ”

Looking at the empty room, if I am not the slightest disappointed at the moment, it is certainly not true. But if I say that I don't return late at night because I linger in the church, I don't believe it. This time, Wu Xian was ordered by Zhao Ying, taking advantage of the civil strife in Qi when Chen Heng had no time to take care of it, to assassinate the clansmen of the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan. In the dead of night, when he acts, all I can do is wait here and pray for his safe return.

"Innocent, go and see if there is a place in the back where you can cook and boil water? If so, let's cook a pot of porridge and try the dried fish we bought the day before yesterday. ”

Although Xinjiang City is adjacent to Fenshui and Hushui, fresh fish is still a precious ingredient. If the fish is burned in the family, the average scholar must save two days of eating, and finally wipe the plate clean with the fish soup dipped in the dumplings. But Qi is different, the rivers in the country of Qi are longitudinal and horizontal, the lakes are all over, and a string of dried small fish is no more than the price of a knife coin. When Si'er and I passed by the previous fishing village, we bought a large bag of more than 100 dried fish in one go.

"Eating porridge with dried fish, it's great! I've been hungry for a long time. Innocent threw all the baggage into the house, and jumped onto the roof himself, "Yes, there is a cook behind the house, and vegetables are grown in the field." ”

"Alright, come down." I carried the oil lamp into the inner room, which was a courtyard with two compartments and one hall, and in the east wing, I found a robe embroidered with purple dark cloud patterns on the ink background that I loved to wear on a shirtless basis and a few other deep-clothed Confucian clothes, but the easy-to-move strong clothes and trousers were all gone.

"What did you find? It's this yard, right? Si'er went back and forth several times, and finally moved everything in the car.

"Yes, that's right. Let's put things down first, let's go cook something to eat, I'm hungry too. ”

By the time we had eaten our fill, it was already the middle of the moon outside the house. The shirt has not returned for a long time, and Si'er is afraid that I will be cranky, so he proposes to go back to the house to try the newly bought dresses along the way.

The ice silk produced by the Qi country is famous all over the world, and the clothes and shoes of the Zhou kings of the past dynasties are all out of the land. In the Jin Kingdom, the widows and nobles of the public office and the Qing family were proud to wear the dresses made by Qi Xuan. If there are still a few female workers from Qi in anyone's family, then they can have a good time at the gathering of the female dependents. In the dowry prepared by Bo Huan this time, eighty percent of the fabrics came from the Qi country. Her wedding dress was made by the world-famous rainbow weaving workshop in Qi State, and it cost a lot of money.

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