Chapter 54: Meet Again
The residence of the owner of the carriage does not seem to be far from the center of the city.
Their carriage passed through several streets that were supposed to be downtown and turned into a quiet residential area.
At this moment, Sima Jingling and the others felt as if they had entered another isolated place, and they couldn't hear any sound.
Only the sound of the carriage rollers, scratching the bluestone floor, the sound of "gurgling", at this time, actually seemed a little harsh.
Qiulan was still a little uncomfortable with this situation.
Although she followed Sima Jingling, she could be regarded as having seen a lot of the world, and Sima Jingling also sent her to help King Han do things many times, but what she saw and heard along the way in the city still greatly exceeded all of Qiulan's cognition.
Sima Jingling seems to be at ease.
Ever since she sat in the carriage, her whole body relaxed, and with her usual little carelessness and confidence, two seemingly contradictory, but actually complementary expressions, she looked out from the little gap in the carriage.
In fact, whether it is the city gate or the many houses and shops you see after entering the city, they all have their own very distinctive characteristics.
Sima Jingling didn't know if Dajing was like this before, but what she saw in her eyes now revealed a message from these architectural styles, that is, arrogance and suppression.
Sima Jingling bent the corners of her mouth slightly, and asked Ah Pu, who was sitting next to her with a complicated complexion:
"How does it feel? Dajing, is it still the way you remember? ”
Ah Pu shook his head, took a deep breath, and pretended to be relaxed and said to Sima Jingling: "It's been so long, I've long forgotten what Dajing is like. Besides, even if I still remember Dajing, it is not a good memory in my memory, and all that is left is dark and bloody red. ”
Sima Jingling nodded approvingly when she heard this.
Although she couldn't empathize with Apu, she set off from the Yumen Inn, and then walked all the way north, and arrived at Dajing, the capital of the Northern Proud Kingdom.
There are similarities between Dajing and the imperial city of the Southern Imperial Kingdom, but it also embodies the fierce style of the Northern Proud Kingdom everywhere.
For example, the unruly city gate that catches your eye at first glance.
It is not like the tower and gate of the Imperial City of the Southern Imperial Kingdom, which reveals the nobility in the neatness, and the simple red is inlaid with gold edges, low-key and introverted, but it is brilliant enough.
It is like an ordinary gate, with a thick dark color in a silver-gray city wall, showing a sense of oppression, which makes people fear Dajing rise in their hearts from the moment they have not yet entered the city.
Sima Jingling and the five of them arrived in Dajing the morning before.
They left a good letter for Liu Ru that day and left the Yumen Inn after doing a series of aftermath work, and the Yumen Inn also announced the news that the "Desert Gangzang" had been obtained three days after they left.
Sure enough, the people who heard the news, whether it was the nobles of Beiao, the common people, or even the horse thieves who traveled around the country and specialized in robbery, all went out one after another, and found out who the person who took the "treasure" was and where he was now.
And Sima Jingling and they had already made preparations, leading the clues all the way directly to Han Li, and after some people gave up unwillingly, a large number of people were secretly planning how to replace them while taking Han Li's identity into account.
Especially above the court of the Northern Proud Kingdom, the intertwined aristocratic relationship.
In this way, Sima Jingling was not disturbed too much along the way, even if there were some people who did not have long eyes to see that they were few and seemed to be profitable, and those who wanted to make some oil and water on them were quietly solved by night owls and night sparrows.
They traveled on the road for ten days, and after seeing a series of customs and customs of Beiaoguo, they finally arrived at the capital of Beiao, Dajing.
After looking at the gate of this Dajing at that time, Ah Pu immediately seemed to sigh and mockingly and said: "Heh, this Bei Ao, not everything has changed. ”
Sima Jingling didn't ask Ah Pu what he meant by this, because they had already understood it when they entered the city.
The guards guarding the city looked very arrogant, looking like they were on top, looking at those who had come from the outside and were about to enter the city, as if they were looking at some dirty thing, as if they would defile their great capital after entering the city.
They did not want to cause trouble at the city gate and thus attract unnecessary attention, so they took out a little extra money and were reluctantly let in.
And after the guards let them into the city, they began to oppress the people behind them again.
The few people who followed them, who looked like ordinary people from the surrounding villages, should have come to deliver food to the city.
Sima Jingling and the others just glanced behind them slightly, and saw the guards who had just been arrogant to them, and their arrogance at the moment was even more arrogant, and they exploited a lot of things from those vegetable farmers before letting them go.
The night owl and the night sparrow were all a little angry about this, but looking at Sima Jingling and Ah Pu, who were very calm, they still pretended not to see anything after all, and suppressed the resentment in their hearts.
And their bad experience at the city gate also seems to indicate that their life in Dajing will not be particularly smooth.
In the capital, it looks very prosperous, and the shops and stalls on both sides of the street can also be said to be everywhere.
But if you really look closely, it doesn't seem to be the case in this bustling.
The people who wandered the streets, or those who wandered among the restaurant merchants, had no sense of relaxation on their faces, all of them hurried by with their heads down, without the slightest sense of relaxation.
Sima Jingling and the others were a little strange about this situation, but after a while, Sima Jingling and the others also understood the reason.
The hierarchical class system in this great capital is really too strict.
The night owl and the night sparrow separately inquired about several restaurants, but they couldn't find a suitable place to stay.
When asked about the reason, it is nothing more than a question of identity.
In this big capital, the rooms with better environmental conditions are reserved for the nobles or famous people of Beiao.
If you come from other places or are just ordinary people, you can only live in the lowest kind of Chase Shop, even if you give more money.
And Sima Jingling, how can she live in such a place?
Even if Sima Jingling herself didn't mind, Ah Pu and Qiu Lan wouldn't agree.
Faced with this situation, Qiulan and their hearts were very angry, but they had unspeakable grievances.
They really didn't expect that the capital of the Northern Proud Country would be like this, and it didn't look like a person at all.
The night owl thought for a while, and said to Sima Jingling: "Master, in this situation, the restaurant can't live, so it's better to contact the night crow and the night wolf, they should have a few residences in Beiao." ”