Volume 1 A Guest Star Comes to the East Chapter 43 Riding a Donkey and Looking for a Horse (2)
The two lay side by side on the grass for half an hour, until the sun was about to set and the glow of the sun warmed the heavens and the earth.
The two of them did not speak, but watched as the sun grew redder and lower......
Zhuang Zuo's nose was no longer bleeding, and the blood on his face had not been wiped off, and now it had dried black and staggered on his face. The dignified face of the great master of the cliff, anyone who sees it can't help but laugh.
The sky is getting darker and darker, and the things that have been thrown back to my heart one by one - Yan Yan still has ambitions that are about to move, Rong Shi still has unfinished business, Longqiao still has unclear conspiracy, and his predecessors still have the lives he has exchanged for him......
When the last bit of freedom also sank with the setting sun, Zhuang Zuo sat up, untied the rope tied to the tree, and led the gray-skinned donkey back to the road.
"Gone. He greeted Chen Jiebing.
Backlight, Chen Jiebing couldn't see the expression on the face of the great master, but she heard that there was less fun and more helplessness in this "gone" - what can the dignified great teacher feel helpless about.
Cutting Bing walked to the donkey in silence, was lifted up by the national teacher, put it on the donkey's back, and then he rode up himself.
The gray-skinned donkey had eaten enough grass and chewed the boundless hair of the great master of the Inch Cliff, and he ran all the way with full strength, and when it was time, he carried the two to the city gate.
The two didn't say anything on the back of the donkey, Zhuang Zuo was because of his heart, and he cut the ice because he was a little scared and a little angry.
At this time, the city gate was closed, Zhuang Zuo turned down the donkey, approached the city gate, clenched his fist and knocked it hard a few times.
The knock was barely audible from one side, and piercing through the thick gates, but on the other side it was surprisingly loud.
If it is a real national teacher, what will be used at this time is not such a vulgar means as knocking on the door vigorously, Zhuang Zuo remembered that he loved to show off his favorite skill of transmitting sound into the secret - that skill was newly learned by him in recent years, maybe because the freshness has not passed, whether it is needed or not, he will use this trick to send a message to Zhuang Zuo and Qi Zhilai whenever he has the opportunity.
At this time, if there is that method, I don't have to spend all the strength of my body to knock my fists hurt.
In a short time, two sharp arrows on the strings stretched out from between the battlements above, and aimed at the uninvited guest who knocked on the door of the city and knocked like a bell—
"Who's coming?"
After the battlements, only the sound of the city was heard, but no one was seen.
"The military master doesn't have to be so vigilant, it's just a pedestrian who is late. Zhuang Zuo raised his head and shouted to the city,
"The gates of the city are closed, and you will come back tomorrow morning when you enter the city!" his head poked out a little from behind the battlements, and when he saw that the man was unarmed and only a good-faced young man, he immediately put down his bow and arrows, stood up straight, and shouted to the city.
Zhuang hooked his hand at Chen Bingbing on the left side, and the latter fiddled with the reins with difficulty, and the donkey opened its hooves as if it could read and walked over to this side.
"The villain doesn't want to trouble the military master, but I still have a child, and the little girl's family is afraid of the wind and cold, so I ask the military master to be accommodating. As he spoke, he raised his hand to the side of his head and twisted his thumb and index fingers to mean the meaning.
I don't know if the guards in the city feel sorry for the girl or are greedy, so they poked out a little more, and saw a flash in Zhuang Zuo's arms, and they took out a silver ingot.
"You ......" The guard hesitated a little, and before he could speak—
"Give me the money, I'll open it for you!" the other guard roared quickly, and then ran up to open the gates.
The one who hesitated reacted and chased down to the city.
Zhuang Zuo withdrew his gaze, clasped his hands, and waited in front of the door. After a while, the heavy city gate slowly pushed open a crack, and the two guards squeezed me and I squeezed you, and came out of the crack in the door.
"Hurry!" one of them beckoned to Zhuang Zuo.
Zhuang Zuo nodded in response, waved sideways to cut the ice, approached a handful of ropes, and pulled the donkey to the crack in the door.
The two guards blocked the doorway, and neither of them allowed anyone to take a step closer, so they became entangled, and finally only the palms of their hands stretched out in unison.
Zhuang Zuo shook his head, broke the silver ingot in half with his bare hands, put half of the palm of one person's hand, and then led the donkey into the door.
Cutting Ice rode on the back of a donkey, and his eyes couldn't help but be attracted by the two people who were scuffling. Until they could no longer see the outside scene through the crack in the door, the two were still entangled, and each felt that the other half of the silver ingot should also be their own.
Cutting Ice burst out laughing, turned his head to look ahead, and his eyes widened in surprise at this glance—
The inside and outside of the city are completely two worlds, which is what it should look like in the unitary time.
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Taiwei is divided into countries by astronomy and geography, the latter is divided into 28 roads of Shenzhou, and the former is arranged into 180 countries under heaven.
Yuanzhen Boguo, in the field of Yuanchen and Lian Zhen, sealed eight hundred yi, and Lingshan and Zeyuan have two roads.
At the time of the Dragon Chan, the new emperor gave the military power and the commander of Wusui, the religious power and the great teacher of the Cunya, and the feudal monarchs of the countries only had to enjoy the food, clothing, rent and tax, and the real jurisdiction was limited to their own city.
And this Zhushun city is the city of Yuan Zhenbo in the past dynasties.
Most of the feudal lords above the earl are rich and powerful, but at the same time, they have no soldiers and no power, and they have to be constrained by Luzhou and guarded by the Jingshi. Over the years, most of the old and young masters born are rich people who have no ambitions and spend money like dirt, not the king of a country, but a wealthy gentleman.
With no army to support or territory to govern, the taxes collected in vain could not be squandered, and many feudal lords would choose to invest them in their main cities. All kinds of biwa zhuyong, all kinds of red and pink streams, those who can move and those who can't move, are all stuffed into the city of this legend.
In addition, the wealthy princes often sold land to the neighboring Luzhou, where the treasury was tight, for expansion. In the long run, many princely cities became more prosperous than the governors of neighboring Luzhou, and attracted countless beautiful talents.
This Zhushun city is one of the best vanity fairs and gold caves in the north of the empire. The so-called North Zhushun, South Jichang, East State Anlin, West State Fengzhang, in addition to Xuan Chen's national capital Anlin, the other three, are the empire's famous princes' cities.
Although Zhushun is in the north, it is better than the mountains and rivers, the north wind is separated, the west wind does not come, it is a rare treasure land. There are Qingshui Pavilion and Luxiang Building in the city, all of which are first-class elegant places, and the red people in them are better than Yanhuan and Qingqi.
If it is not an elegant thing, the Goolan Tile House, restaurants and wine shops in the city are enough to confuse their eyes, plug their ears, fill their stomachs, and get drunk their hearts.
The Chen family in the jaw mountain entered the sound and color field of red light and green wine, and the two eyes were not open for a moment, but the donkey walked, but her eyes lingered, her neck could no longer turn back, and as soon as her eyes were withdrawn, she was immediately stuck to something new.
At this point in the street, the houses on one side are broken, and the lake is replaced by a lake full of lanterns. Cutting Bing's eyes were attracted by the painting boat on the lake, on which there was a soft Hua Dan throwing sleeves, a frowning piano girl waving gold strings, the singing words and piano sounds into the ears, accompanied by the sound of gurgling water, and the noise full of heart was also washed away.
"The children's family is careful to see too many sensual dogs and horses, and they will develop a frivolous temperament in the future. ”
Zhuang Zuo stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Chen Jiebing's eyes, recovering her mind for her.
Cutting Ice stared at him with some unpleasantness, and his eyes went to the bustling and noisy direction of the street.
Zhuang Zuo shook his head with a wry smile, stopped, and the donkey he was leading behind him also stopped.
The bright flowers and dark willows in his eyes no longer flowed, and the ice cut on the donkey's back turned his head, looking at the great master who was leading the donkey in front of him suspiciously.
I saw him looking up happily into the distance, his eyes over the lake full of pleasure boat lanterns, staring at the heavy eaves of the tall buildings on the opposite bank stupidly.
"Yo, this son is also here for the blue beauty of the Qingshui Pavilion?" On Zhuang's left side, a bustard woman with a big fur on one shoulder rubbed over, and the feathers on the top of his head scratched his cheeks.
Zhuang Zuo moved a little to the side, and the bustard woman also moved a little, and whispered in his ear, "If there is no play, there is no play, if you want to exchange for a glass of wine from the blue beauty, everyone will have to wait until next year, even if you just look at it through the green gauze screen, the team will have to wait until next month......"
"Then if you want to spend the night with her, how long will it take to queue?" Zhuang Zuo turned his head to face the bustard woman, and asked lightly.
"Hahaha, Childe is really funny. The bustard woman was stunned for a moment, then pinched her throat and smiled, "It's better to go to the small shop and drink two taels of autumn dew, blue beauty or green beauty, isn't it right next to the pillow?"
Cutting Bing watched the two of them shrug their shoulders and frown, although they couldn't hear what they were fighting about, but they could also detect that it was not a serious matter, and the little brows couldn't help but wrinkle more and more tightly - you can't let me let a little girl's family sleep in the Qinglou with you-
"Dad! I'm sleepy. ”
She closed her eyes and shook her head and shouted.
The handsome young man, the gray-skinned donkey, the twelve or thirteen-year-old girl—along the way, the people all over the street looked at them more consciously or unconsciously, and secretly wondered what the mystery of this strange combination was. This "Dad" really shocked many people's jaws.
Zhuang Zuo was also shocked when he heard the sound, he quickly cleaned up his mood, scratched his head and smiled awkwardly at the pedestrians and vendors around him, and then approached Chen Dibing with a look of guilt.
Cutting Ice sat on the donkey's back, casually turning his face away from his gaze, whistling out of tune.
"Guest, guest,"
At this time, among the beautiful girls who were soliciting business all over the street, they struggled to squeeze out a shopkeeper with a cloth on his shoulder, trotted to the two, nodded and greeted-
"Our store is not dusty, and the guests are all upright gentlemen like you, the guest officer, so that the daughter must live comfortably in the small shop and not be pickled by these skin and meat goods. ”
As he spoke, he looked at the ice cut on the donkey flatteringly, and smiled ugly at her.
This man looks a little shabby. Cutting Bing quietly turned his face away, and then put on a lovely smile and pleaded like a kitten: "Daddy, let's do it-"
Cutting Bing was really afraid that he would listen to the singing next door in the Qinglou, so he had to resort to such a scoundrel method.
Zhuang Zuobai glanced at her, shook his head helplessly, and then raised his chin at Xiao Er, signaling him to lead the way.
The crowd was talking about getting out of the way, and a few of the more profligate reds sighed unabashedly, sighing that there was a pillow man who was so handsome tonight.