Chapter 6 Luoyang Night Street
"If the military master is not dirty, the villain will open the lid of the barrel and ask the military master to check it!" Although Tang Ji was hidden in the barrel, Liu Wei still put on a calm appearance, he responded while walking to the car, holding the wheel with both hands, not caring about the stench, and reaching out to open the lid of the night incense barrel on the side of the wheel.
Seeing him act like this, the officer hurriedly pinched his nose with one hand, and the hand holding the waist card swung straight towards him, and said angrily: "You are really a person, although Lao Zhangtou is old, he is also smart on weekdays, how can you have such a stupid grandson?" I'm just asking a random question, and you'll take it seriously. You better get out of the spurs, and don't leave any filth here. ”
After getting this sentence, Liu Wei suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but there was no unusual performance on his face, he just bowed slightly, made a sincere and frightened appearance, and thanked the officers and the guards guarding the palace gate: "Thank you military master, the villain will pull the car out of the chariot, so as not to smoke all the military masters." ”
Thanked the officer, took the waist card from the officer's hand, Liu Wei first tied the waist card, and then gently shook the whip, the whip "crackled", drove the three donkeys pulling the cart, and walked out of the palace unhurriedly under the eyes of a whole team of palace guards.
Out of the palace, according to the information he got from the coachman, Liu Wei drove the donkey cart and walked straight towards the West Market along the official road in the city.
As the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Luoyang is the political and cultural center of the country, as well as a commercial metropolis. On weekdays, merchants from all over the country come and go, the city is also full of shops, a faction of prosperity, the whole Luoyang market is divided into two cities, east and west, and there are a number of shops, the layout is in good order.
As one of the largest commercial trading venues in the city, the scale of the West Market is very grand. Although it is late at night and there are no pedestrians on the streets, only from the flags waving in front of the shops on both sides of the road, you can also see how noisy and prosperous it is during the day.
The wooden wheels rolled on the bluestone-paved road, making a "cluck" sound, and on the silent long street, with the "bang" sound of the flags at the door of the shops on both sides of the road fluttering in the wind, the sound of the wheels rolling on the road surface came far away.
Turning a street, looking back behind him, and seeing that the palace had been tightly blocked by a shop, Liu Wei stopped the donkey pulling the cart, jumped into the car with both hands on the wheel, opened the lid of the wooden barrel where Tang Ji was hiding, and whispered to Tang Ji who was curled up inside: "Come out and breathe." ”
Hiding in the night incense barrel, Tang Ji was about to be smoked, and when she heard Liu Wei call her, she put down the sleeves covering her nose, supported the bottom of the barrel with both hands, and struggled to stand up.
Maybe she was a little dizzy from the smoke, Tang Ji struggled twice, but she couldn't stand up, she raised her head, and looked at Liu Wei pitifully with a pair of eyes asking for help.
Seeing that Tang Ji couldn't stand up, Liu Wei bent down, stretched out a hand, grabbed Tang Ji's arm and pulled it up, and after pulling her up a little, the other hand stuffed her under her armpit, supported her with both hands, and helped her stand up.
Standing up with the help of Liu Wei, Tang Ji took a breath of air with a not-so-rich smell in the night breeze, coughed violently a few times, and her pretty face turned a little red.
"Let's get down and take a walk!" Liu Wei stretched out his hand to pull Tang Ji out, pulled her out of the night incense bucket, jumped off the donkey cart with her, and after standing firmly on his feet, he reached out and gently stroked her little head and said: "It's really hard for you, in order to survive, I actually let you suffer so many grievances." ”
"The concubine is filthy, don't dirty your majesty's hands." Tang Ji pursed his lips and shook his head vigorously, the fear in the palace earlier had faded a lot, and he said to Liu Wei with a resolute face: "Your Majesty could have left your concubine and left alone, but you were willing to take the risk of taking your concubine with you. Your Majesty has this kind of affection, even if the concubine dies hundreds of times and thousands of times, she is willing! Being able to leave with His Majesty, even if he wanders the world from now on, is also a blessing for his concubines. ”
Liu Wei sighed softly, and did not remove the hand that was stroking Tang Ji's hair, but said to her softly: "We haven't left Luoyang City yet, and we haven't escaped from Dong Zhuo's clutches yet, and we will be wronged to hide you in the bucket later." ”
"Concubines are not aggrieved." Tang Ji looked up at Liu Wei, shook his head very resolutely, and then lowered his little head, and said softly with tears: "Your Majesty is not disgusted with filth, personally drive the frame of the car, and take the concubine to escape from the deep palace, the concubine dare to dislike the filth?" ”
Looking at Tang Ji's somewhat pale face that was smoked by the night incense, Liu Wei really wanted to hold her in his arms, who was still a little short of breath, but when he thought that she was only twelve or thirteen years old now, he couldn't do it.
If he held Tang Ji in his arms like a couple, Liu Wei would definitely have a sense of guilt for molesting underage girls, after all, he who had accepted the ethical ideas of more than 2,000 years later, could not accept the reality of a woman marrying in her teens during the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The Luoyang City in front of him was completely different from the Luoyang City that Liu Wei had visited in his previous life, and when he walked on the street, he couldn't find the slightest familiar feeling. Let Tang Ji walk on the side a little farther away from the night fragrance car, Liu Wei put one hand around her waist, supported her body whose legs were already a little fluttering when she walked, and rushed along the street in the direction of Yongmen with the small amount of information obtained from the coachman.
The streets were quiet, except for the sound of wheels crashing on the ground, except for the whistling of the wind passing past the two of them through the street.
Driving the donkey cart, Liu Wei did not walk very quickly, he walked forward with Tang Ji in his arms, while listening carefully to the movements around him.
The sound of "whooshing" footboards stepping on the ground reached Liu Wei's ears, and he hurriedly dragged Tang Ji to the side of the road, let Tang Ji hide in a dark corner, and raised a finger at her to make a silent gesture.
After hiding Tang Ji, Liu Wei ran back to the donkey cart and drove the cart forward for more than ten steps before squatting down on the side of the wheel, holding the wheel with both hands and shaking it vigorously a few times.
As he shook his wheels, the sound of uniform footsteps drew closer, and a patrol of more than a dozen men appeared in the street in the darkness of night and walked towards him.
Unlike the guards patrolling the palace, the helmets of this patrol did not have long red feathers stuck in them, and the armor on their bodies was not as bright as the armor of the palace guards.
Squatting on the ground, holding the wheel with both hands and shaking it a few more times, Liu Wei looked sideways at the patrol that was coming towards him, and when he saw that the group was approaching, he stood up, turned his back to the donkey cart, bowed slightly, and waited for the patrol to pass in front of him.
"Why stop here?" Walking in front of Liu Wei, the officer on patrol covered his nose with one hand, frowned and looked him from head to toe, and said angrily: "Leave quickly, don't stay on the street." ”
"Back to the military master, the wheels are a little loose." Liu Wei bowed and said to the officer with a frightened expression: "The villain has been repaired, let's go." ”
"Let's go!" The officer waved his hand at him in annoyance, pinched his nose, and headed straight forward with the patrol.
As he walked, the officer turned his head from time to time to look left and right. When the patrol team walked past Tang Ji's hiding place, Liu Wei, who was standing next to the donkey cart, only felt that his heart was hanging in his throat, and he was not relieved until the team walked over.
"Oooh!" The patrol went a little farther away, and Liu Wei shouted twice, flicked his whip, and made a gesture to drive the donkey cart on.
Driving the donkey cart and walking a few steps forward, Liu Wei turned his head to look behind him, and saw that the team of guards turned out of the street, and his back disappeared into another street, so he hurriedly turned around and ran towards the place where Tang Ji was hiding.
Running to Tang Ji's hiding place, Liu Wei found that she had collapsed on the ground, still trembling all over.
"They're gone!" Squatting down and holding Tang Ji's shoulders with both hands, Liu Wei said to her softly: "There are also patrolling teams in the city, and you are still a little ostentatious when you walk on the street in this eunuch's clothes." I will wronged you first, then hide it in a bucket for a while, and when I get out of the city, everything will be fine. ”
Sitting on the ground, Tang Ji didn't seem to hear what Liu Wei said at all, but just trembled all over.
Reaching out and stroking her hair twice, Liu Wei didn't say anything more, stretched out two arms **** under her armpits, and lifted her up.
Holding up Tang Ji, Liu Wei put one hand around her waist, and the other hand took her arm, wrapped it around his neck, carried her, and walked towards the night fragrance car parked on the road.
When he arrived at the car, Liu Wei first let go of his hand to let Tang Ji stand up, then held her shoulders with both hands and whispered to her: "I know that you are very scared, but the more scared you are now, the easier it is to be caught." If you grieve a little more, stay in the bucket for a while, and I'll get you out of the bucket soon, understand? ”
After walking more than ten steps with Liu Wei's support, Tang Ji's mood had calmed down a little, she pursed her lips tightly, lowered her head and said "um" gently.
With both hands pressed on the wheels and arms facing down, Liu Wei jumped into the donkey cart. With one foot on the board between the two nightshade barrels, and the other foot on the wheel, after standing firm, he bent down and stretched out a hand to Tang Ji.
Tang Ji, who was standing next to the car, looked up at Liu Wei in the car, and put a small hand on his palm with some hesitation.
Holding Tang Ji's hand, Liu Wei used a little strength on his arm to pull her onto the donkey cart.
Holding Tang Ji's waist with one hand, hugging her and helping her stand firmly on the board, Liu Wei used the other hand to uncover the lid of the night incense bucket she had hidden earlier, turned her face, and nodded at her.
Tang Ji still had some palpitations about the stench in the bucket, and when the lid was opened, she turned her head to look at Liu Bian, and when she saw Liu Bian's face full of solemnity, she gritted her teeth as if she had made a lot of determination, and crawled towards the bucket with Liu Bian's support.