Volume 1 The Guest Star Comes to the East Chapter 46 The Guest Follows the Lord (2)
There are 10 large islands in the city, not because they are very large, but because all but these 10 islands are too small.
Among the ten islands, only Fang Sheng Island can really be called a "big island", and its size is almost equivalent to the entire Xuanchen Kingdom plus the two roads of Jihu Lake in the empire. There are only four realms and ten islands in Shizhou, but there are twenty-eight countries, of which seven countries are on this Fangsheng Island, and Fangsheng is only the largest of them.
And this Changxing Port is located on Yuhu Island, although it is also ranked among the ten islands, the size can only be ranked at the bottom, and there is only one country on the entire island. It is precisely because of this that Yu Hu attaches more importance to foreign affairs, and its strength and scale are among the best among the twenty-eight countries, from coastal defense to maritime business.
Kuncheng, the main city of the Hu Kingdom, is in the center of the island, and the current giant is called the Gaomen clan, which is only in charge of this country, so he stays in the mansion of Kuncheng all the year round and does not move his nest.
Changxing Port lies on the northern edge of Hu, according to the coachman's statement, there are two days and one night to Kuncheng. Yang Huanfeng and Cai Huan were the last caravan to catch at dusk, and if it went well, they would be able to get to Kuncheng at sunrise the day after tomorrow.
Caravans are the most common way for people in the city to travel by land, from two horses to eight horses. The one that Yang Huanfeng and Cai Huan were riding in was a medium-sized six-horse caravan, and in addition to the two of them, there were more than ten people in the canopy.
It was already night when the caravan departed, and except for Yang Huanfeng and Cai Huan, the rest of the people in the car chatted and chatted, and then lowered their heads and fell asleep.
Cai Huan just dozed off for a while when he was tired of reading in the afternoon, and he didn't want to sleep very much at the moment, but he was not as energetic as Yang Huanfeng, who had slept all day. The caravan swayed gently on the slightly undulating official road, and she was also a little sleepy.
She yawned and lazily raised her hand to block it, and Yang Huanfeng, who was sitting opposite, saw it, and there was some fear of a long night and no one in her heart.
His eyes were dry and astringent, and his brain was as active as if he had smoked a white stone, and he couldn't feel a trace of sleepiness no matter how comfortable and comfortable the caravan swayed.
"Miss Cai......" he said tentatively, wanting her to be awake and accompany him.
"Shhhhh
There were sleeping people on the left and right, and the loud sound of the car couldn't wake them up, so what's wrong with whispering and chatting? Yang Huanfeng was unwilling, so he was about to speak again-
On the other side, Cai Huan simply closed his eyes and tilted his head to one shoulder. After a while, her breathing became calm, and the eyes under her eyelids stopped moving.
At this time, Yang Huanfeng was really the only one in the car, and his eyes were still wide open and sober.
The sound of frogs and insects at night covered the sound of wheels and horses' hooves...... Oh yes, and the coachman and the horse with me.
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At dawn, the caravan stopped at a post on the side of the road, with a row of well-fed and sleeping horses, and behind the post station was a town that had just started to smoke.
A middle-aged man in a hood sat on the side of the road, and under his ass was a wooden chair with red paint that was about to fade away, and there was a square table and three other chairs in the inn, but only this one was worn and old, and it was almost impossible to see its original color.
When the man saw that the caravan was coming and stopped, he pouted irritably and spat out the leaves of his cigarette, and at last he stood up with great reluctance, reached out and took the driver of the car, and helped him get off the front panel.
Inside the canopy, the sleeping passengers woke up one after another, a few of them rubbed their sleepy eyes, opened the curtain and saw the town outside the car, their faces smiled excitedly, hurriedly shrunk back to arrange their luggage, and apologized to the left and right, while getting up and stepping over the legs and feet of other passengers, and jumped off the back of the car.
There was a hut in the inn for the coachman to rest, and the coachman, who had been driving all night, hastily patted his companion on the shoulder, counted it as a handover, and dragged his tired body into the house.
The changing coachman unloaded the bridle of the horses that had been on the road all night, and led them into the stable, from which he brought out the new, well-fed and well-slept horses.
The hooded coachman was very procrastinating, and he had to change about two cups of tea for six horses. The passengers on the caravan went down and on, and his foreign work was not finished.
Cai Huan woke up when the car just stopped, and until now, after getting off and on, the coachman has finally changed all six horses, and Yang Huanfeng opposite her is still in that hard-won sleep and refuses to wake up.
Yang Huanfeng sat next to a faint old man, Yang Huanfeng's head rested on his shoulder, saliva soaked the clothes, and the old man sitting there didn't notice it.
Cai Huan looked around, except for a few children with adults, the rest were awake. The caravan was served by two benches attached to the sides, and the two rows of passengers sat opposite each other, and most of the time they could only stare at each other, except for the occasional turn to look at the scenery outside the car.
Cai Huan estimated that the passengers sitting on her side saw Yang Huanfeng leaning on the old man's shoulder and dripping with saliva, and only hoped that others would not see that he was in the same group as him.
So she no longer stared at the other side, but lowered her head and took out the book of "Fang Sheng's Travels" that she hadn't finished reading last afternoon from her baggage, and studied it word by word.
This book was placed at random on the couch by the window in Yang Huanfeng's room, and Cai Huan was really bored waiting in his room yesterday, so he picked it up to pass the time.
She was originally a native girl from the village, but when she was young, she couldn't read a few big characters. It was only after arriving at the Inch Cliff and arriving at Qi Zuo's side that she accepted the church word by word.
So Cai Huan knew this word, but she didn't have half a natural interest in the article where the word was grouped together. Yesterday afternoon, I was just holding a book by the window and reading a few paragraphs, and the sleepiness spread over her eyebrows like quicksand and quietly drowned her.
To be honest, dancing knives and guns are more suitable for Cai Huan, if it weren't for the inconvenience in the room and store, she would rather spend an afternoon practicing knives.
It's just that Yang Huanfeng saw that Cai Huan was asleep and still holding this "Fang Sheng's Travels", and thought she liked it, so he said that he would give her the middle and second volumes he brought in his baggage.
Cai Huan didn't move on his face, but he was very afraid that this guy found out that he was a rough person who couldn't read books, so he was busy pampering and humiliating, saying that he would keep him to read it carefully.
However, the pros and cons are chewing wax, and Cai Huan hopes that Yang Huanfeng can take out this "Three Lives" or "Pen Flower Dream". Qi Zuo's envoy often lived in the same room with Cai Huan when he went out, and he had inadvertently dropped these two books out of his bag, Cai Huan only remembered that she was messing up at the time, and hurriedly took back the two books, and didn't say much.
Cai Huan only felt that the names of these two books did not look like scriptures and historical books, nor did they look like exercises and sword books, but Qi Zuo didn't say it, so she didn't ask, but such doubts and curiosity have always remained in the bottom of her heart.
When the caravan started driving again, the curtains rolled up at both ends of the car were shaken down, and the light in the canopy suddenly dimmed a lot. Although Cai Huan's eyes were on the book, his spirit didn't know where he had gone, so he didn't notice the change of light and shadow, and he was still reading in the dim canopy.
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I don't know how long it has passed, and people doze and wake up and doze and wake up on the way...... Wake up, sleep, sleep, muddy.
Occasionally, someone lifted the curtain to look at the sky outside, and more often than not, the stomach reminded people what time it was. At lunchtime, some people enthusiastically took out their own dry food and distributed it to the people around them, but by dinner, no one did the same—everyone was worn out by the long journey, dry food is dry food, and no one is the same.
With this intermittent drowsiness of the day, on the second night of the trip, everyone slept badly, often in a daze, as if they were not asleep, as if they were asleep, and still sleepy at dawn.
The six horses that had been replaced stepped into the morning light and walked into the wide, smooth, grassless suburban official road. The people in the canopy vaguely felt their surroundings light up, and opened their eyes one after another.
The four people sitting at the end of the canopy rolled up the curtains at each end. The bright light shone in, and the people in the car couldn't adapt for a while, and they raised their hands to cover their eyes.
But one hand can cover the scorching sun on that end, but it can't cover the longing gaze on this end—
At the end of the wide, white-like stone and brick road was a high wall like a white wall, and behind the high wall there was a higher high city, and above the high city there was a higher tower. At the top of the tower was a rooster-shaped weather vane of pure gold, surrounded by a circle of fish mouths, from which spat out thin streams of water, splashing foam that sparkled in the sunlight.
It's the first time Cai Huan has seen such a gorgeous city, even if she is a stranger who has lived in Taiwei since she was a child, and is accustomed to Biwa Zhuyong and heavy eaves and arches, she also feels that the city in front of her is dazzlingly beautiful.
“...... This is Kuncheng. ”
Yang Huanfeng, who was sitting opposite, stretched out a hand and introduced.
The caravan got closer and closer, and gradually, looking out from the front of the car, all I could see was the tall white wall. Cai Huan retracted his gaze at this time, and looked at Yang Huanfeng for a moment on the way.
"Kuncheng's Golden Rooster White Pagoda and Thousand Carp Playing in the Water are on the books," Yang Huanfeng pointed to the book "Fang Sheng's Travels" in Cai Huan's hand, and said with a smile.
When Cai Huan heard this, he remembered that he still had a book in his hand, and he hadn't moved it for a long time when he turned that page. She was a little weak in her heart, but on the surface, she hung her head calmly, and her eyes were quietly reading line by line-
She looked at Yang Huanfeng's actions and thought that the eight characters "Golden Rooster White Tower, Thousand Carp Playing in the Water" were on this page.
"Haha," Cai Huan was still looking for it word by word, but Yang Huanfeng suddenly smiled, "Of course it's not in that book, this is Yu Huguo, and the one you are holding in your hand is "Fang Sheng's Travels". ”
Cai Huan stiffened when he heard this, and his face couldn't hold back, so he had to bury his head and hide the blush of shame.
Yang Huanfeng noticed her small movements, but smiled even more, and said with a smile: "The customs and customs of this city, I also learned some fur in the national library three days ago, and I am now learning to sell, and now I am learning to sell, and I am learning to sell now, Miss Cai can ...... Don't be ashamed. ”
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to Cai Huan's slightly buried head, as if the winner and his defeated general shook hands and made peace.
Cai Huan opened his hand behind the back of one hand, and threw back the "Fang Sheng's Travels" in his hand to him by the way.