Thirty-one years of Jingguo.

Jingguo has unified the melee situation of the three kingdoms on the Kyushu mainland, and set the capital in Yanzhou and the capital Yanjing.

Five years ago, under a conspiracy deal, the seven-year war between Jingguo and Loulan has also ended.

In this peace where there was no foreign invasion, the emperor of Jingguo had been in that position for twenty-seven years.

This spring, it seems to have been raining a lot.

The continuous spring rain sprinkled on the bluestone rubble buildings of the capital of Jingguo, damp the cracks of the majestic ancient city wall, and the moss slowly showed its tenacious vitality from the bottom of the wall.

Li Xiangru has a slender figure, wearing a light white ordinary student linen shirt with white silk on his head. There is no full spirit, there is only the tiredness of the journey that hangs on the already pale face. He didn't sigh and praise for this majestic ancient city that stood for thousands of years, but just stood stupidly on the edge of the entrance to the city and watched these green weeds fascinated.

Beside him, a handsome black horse was holding a bamboo basket bookcase on one side, and on the other side was a change of clothes and miscellaneous items. The big black horse was looking for the fresh grass at the entrance, but because it was not delicious enough, he stomped on the ground a few times, and the grass that came out was trampled into the dirt. A few heavy breaths came out of his nose, and with a turn of his head, the dissatisfied copper bell glanced at the young student.

Li Xiangru rolled his eyes a few times at the big black horse that was playing with his temper when he heard the sound, stretched out his hand to grab the reins that were buckled on the edge of the horse sleeve, and stubbornly pulled it to let it go.

The big black horse was playing and lying in place, he had to pat the horse's head helplessly and mutter, as if coaxing it and promising it certain benefits, the big black horse was satisfied, and followed him proudly.

Walking to the gate of the city to join the team that inspected the entrance to the city, Li Xiangru looked down at the mud on his boots stained with the journey, and then looked at the various colors of dirt that fell from the shoes or carriage wheels on the road under the team, and finally fell his eyes on the clean black hooves of the big black horse, and frowned, as if something made him very dissatisfied.

When he was stunned, the big black horse arched his body with his head in dissatisfaction, as if urging him to hurry into the city. The student turned his head and glared at it fiercely, and the big black horse held its head high again, squinting at the tiny human who was a few heads shorter than it.

Li Xiangru was defeated again in the battle of eyes, muttering dissatisfaction and slowly following the team entering the city.

Students are always sentimental, especially after the rain. After the peace, hundreds of schools of thought contended like bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest, and they emerged one after another, competing for this place of survival. Confucianism gradually gained the upper hand, taking the lead among many schools of thought, and was adopted by the imperial family, forming a unique situation.

The status of scholars, students, and literati seems to have risen. The Poetry and Rhyme Society has held a poetry contest for three consecutive days, and a few poems about spring and chanting about the peaceful and prosperous land of Jingguo are still slowly spreading in the capital.

When the entrance inspection is boring, groups of three or five report each other's sources, discuss poetry and literature with each other, or laugh loudly and sing a few lines of poetry, there are a few applause, and there are also a few people who are soothing and quarreling because of disagreement. On the whole, it is still the gentleman who can't see the harmony of his hands. After all, there are many inconveniences at this entrance to the city, and verbal quarrels between scholars are commonplace.

Li Xiangru led the big dark horse The student waited quietly on the side, and did not talk to other students, looking particularly independent, a few of them noticed him, seeing that he did not have a sage book in his hand, his temperament was ordinary and ordinary, and he was dressed in coarse linen clothes, so he guessed that he might have read a few years in the mountains and fields, and there was a lot of disdain in his eyes, and no one had accosted him. Li Xiangru didn't care, but listened with great interest to the two old farmers next to him dressed up and talking softly about last year's harvest in the field, how to plan to do some small business this year, and so on. He felt that this was life, living and living.

The handsome big black horse still attracted the attention of a thin lieutenant who was overseer at the city gate, and he also noticed Li Xiangru next to the big black horse.

The lieutenant watched the big dark horse and the student from afar. After looking at it for a long time, he frowned deeply, thought for a long time, and then a look of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Li Xiangru seemed to be aware of it, and turned his gaze from the team entering the city to the captain who was looking at him.

The lieutenant didn't dodge, and looked straight at him.

Li Xiangru glanced at it and pulled his gaze back, after all, it was very impolite to always stare at a person without saying hello. He lowered his head and thought for a moment before gradually shifting his gaze to the long queue and silently moving a few steps forward.

Later, many people with different identities entered the city one after another.

The lieutenant looked at the figure that had disappeared into the crowd, clenched his fists unnaturally, and only after a long time did he look away, but his heart was very excited: he is back! He is back!

"It's not been peaceful lately, you guys have carefully checked it for me, don't let the thieves get in!" A voice interrupted the thin lieutenant's musings, and he turned around and glanced back at the source of the sound.

A chubby lieutenant commanded a few pawns at the gate of the city sternly, and when he turned his head, he seemed to find that the thin lieutenant had taken three steps and two steps, and came to the slender lieutenant with a smile on his face, and said affectionately: "Lieutenant Liu, thank you for your hard work! The county lieutenant summoned me, and I will leave for a while." Look, bother you to stare here for a while?"

The words are polite, but with a sense of just talking to you, not discussing.

The thin man who was replaced by Captain Liu was expressionless, nodded lightly and passed by, his attitude was obviously unwilling to intersect too much with the fat man.

There was no embarrassment on the fat lieutenant's face, and he still smiled at Lieutenant Liu's indifferent attitude.

The fat lieutenant's name is He Da, and he was just an ordinary butcher in the West City before, with a tall stature. His sister-in-law has a few postures, and happened to be included in the family as the fifth concubine by Wu County Lieutenant, but his sister was very favored after marrying Wu Xiaowei, Wu Xiaowei couldn't help but the concubine arranged He Da into the ranks of the city guards, the tall He Da put on the city patrol uniform, but also a little look, at the beginning because of the rustiness and fear and conscientious, in two years he transformed from the role of ordinary people into an old fritter in the soldiers, sleek, with the help of the relationship also began to gag nonsense and lazy.

He Da is also a wonderful person, although he will take the opportunity to be greedy when guarding the city gate, but he is never insatiable to step on the bottom line. In the past two or three years, He Da has lived a better and better life, and he has become much lazier, and his body has slowly begun to bless. said that He Da Miao is also a wonderful person who is very good-looking, and he will never provoke a person who can't be provoked. For example, Liu Qing, Liu Qing is a real soldier, and he is also a person who has crawled in and out of the pile of dead people on the battlefield countless times, and he can feel the smell of blood that Liu Qing can't escape. Just as he has always felt that he once left an inexhaustible smell of blood when he killed pigs, but the smell of blood on his body is naturally incomparable to Liu Qing's. What scared him the most was that Liu Qing was still alone! After many years of wandering in the market, he understood how terrible it was for those people who had no home and no roots and disregarded human life like a mustard to go crazy. Therefore, although his position is one level higher than Liu Qing, he will never go too far in front of Liu Qing.

"Then, it's going to trouble Captain Liu here, I'll go first. He laughed and said to Liu Qing's departing back. Then he moved his somewhat blessed body and hurried towards the city. He didn't have the extra mind to think about why Liu Qing, who was meticulous in performing his duties on weekdays, was in a daze here for so long. Because the little peach of Cuihualou made him linger, it was the most beautiful existence in the world. Thinking of Xiao Peach's graceful figure, he couldn't help but speed up his pace.

"Stop, where are you from, what are you doing here, this horse, yes! The horses are coming into town......"

At the same time that Liu Qing turned his head to look at He Da's departing figure in a daze, he heard the loud interrogation of the guards on duty and turned over.

The most important thing for the city gate guards is to have eyesight, be able to observe words and colors, and analyze whether the people entering and leaving the city are big people and whether there is a big backstage. There won't be many dignitaries who go in and out of the city to play in disguise, but as long as you offend them once, your end will be miserable. However, it was clear that no one had taught him to the new soldier who was on the roast.

He stopped the investigation of the pawn and walked in front of Li Xiangru, who was being interrogated.

At this time, I could see the student's face clearly, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, slightly melancholy eyes, a high nose bridge, well-defined facial features, and a handsome face. It's just that his face is slightly pale, and there is a sickly tiredness in his eyes.

Liu Qing's heart is surging, even if he has not seen him for three years, his temperament and appearance have changed a little, he is still firmly sure that the person in front of him is that person.

He took a faint breath, calmed down, took the student Lu Guide in front of him from the soldier's hand, opened it and looked at it.

"Qingzhou Qiuchi Mountain, student of Goose Lake Academy, Li Xiangru ......" Liu Qing read softly, then looked up at Li Xiangru and asked, "What are you doing in Yanjing?"

"First, I have admired the prosperity of the capital for a long time, and I have come to appreciate the style of the capital. The second is to visit old friends. Li Xiangru's voice was slightly tired, and he calmly looked at the captain in front of him, who was about the same height as himself, and replied lightly.

"Visiting old friends?" Liu Qing repeated these two words in a low voice.

Li Xiangru nodded calmly.

Liu Qingrao glanced at Li Xiangru a few more meaningfully, and after a little silence, he nodded and said, "Well, the city has not been peaceful recently, so Ning'an Town should try not to get close." ”

Liu Qing handed the guide back to Li Xiangru, and then waved his hand to let his subordinates go.

Li Xiangru bowed his hand, nodded with a smile at the kind reminder of the middle-aged lieutenant in front of him, and led the horse towards the city.

"Head, that one looks like a down-and-out scholar, and he doesn't have an entourage when he looks sick, why don't you check it? That horse, it's very handsome when you look at it!" The pawn who was interrogated just now came over and said greedily beside Liu Qing.

Liu Qing glanced at him coldly, and said: "The scholar is dressed up, calm and calm, a famous horse, just these three, do you dare to beat him to pay attention? With a sick face, in the face of you, has he ever shown the slightest cowardice? With a sick face, there can be a horse coming from Qingzhou, can you provoke this kind of person? Besides, he is also a student of Goose Lake Academy, the head of the four major academies of Jingguo, next time, his eyes are bright, and no one else's idea will be hit!"

This little soldier saw that Li Xiangru was just a down-and-out scholar in plain clothes, but he was a little dissatisfied with Captain Liu's words, like this kind of stinky poor scholar who can only shake his head and have no power to restrain his hands, he doesn't know how many he has seen in a year. And then he hit the scholar's horse idea, what about the academy? Are there still few students who are thrown out of the city gate every year?

Liu Qing saw the expressions of several of them in his eyes, knowing that it didn't matter if they didn't listen. He was disdainful of these people, and although guarding the city gate was said to be a hard job, he generally ignored the occasional attempt to take advantage of some merchants, especially foreign merchants. He doesn't do that clear stream, and occasionally takes some silver and two benefits that He Da picked up from the merchants. However, he will never take the initiative to oppress those people. Even if the soldiers were searching for some good-looking peasant women, they would reprimand them to stop them.

Liu Qing's force is very high. When some wanted people in the imperial court were about to break out of the city, it was he who stood at the gate of the city gate with a simple knife, killing the enemy and intimidating the enemy!

Murderous aura, when Liu Qing was angry, they could also feel it. They always felt that with Liu Qing's skills, guarding the city gate was too much of a luxury, but Liu Qing still refused the opportunity to be promoted and silently guarded the city gate. No one knows if there is any big background behind Liu Qing, what they know is that even Captain He, who is flying and domineering on weekdays, does not dare to apply color to Liu Qing, of course they don't dare.

Liu Qing didn't pay attention to the inner thoughts of the pawns, and he didn't care about their thoughts, and quietly watched Li Xiangru's departing back.

After seeing the name, it became more certain. People who have been in the pile of dead people all year round have a strong sixth sense. He was very sure in his heart that this person named Li Xiangru had the smell of blood on the battlefield, and no matter how he hid it, he still felt it.

With hatred in their hearts, it is difficult to sleep at night, in many corners of this Yanjing, there are these people, these people have a common title, called "remnant sins", living superfluous, and unwilling to die.

The capital of Jingguo will become more lively.

Liu Qing narrowed his eyes, stopped for a moment, and then watched the city guards make things difficult for several merchants like a martial artist, and a sneer gently raised at the corner of his mouth.

This Yanjing, it's time to get up in the wind.