Chapter Fifty-Three: The Capital City
Starting from the Yumen Inn, and then going all the way north, you will arrive 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." ”
Sima Jingling didn't want to use the Night Raven and the Night Weng to do something extra, even if it was just to lend them some of the properties that the Night Ravens and the Night Weng had used to hide their identities or make connections.
After all, Night Raven and Night Weng are here in Beiao, and they exist as spies for their Southern Imperial Kingdom, and they have been hidden in Beiao for many years, so they can be less involved with others, and they will be less involved.
But the current situation is indeed something that Sima Jingling did not expect.
Just when Sima Jingling and the others were in a dilemma, someone suddenly looked for them.
The man smiled and said to Sima Jingling, "Dare to ask if this is Miss Wei, right?" Before leaving home, my master told me that if he saw Miss Wei in the city in the future, he would invite her to come to his house as a guest.
So, Miss Wei, please come with the little one, right? ”
The night owl and the others instantly became vigilant against this person and protected Sima Jingling in front of him.
But Sima Jingling's expression did not change at all, and after looking up and down a few times at the smiling and very sincere person in front of her, she suddenly laughed,
"Then bother."
Qiulan and they didn't agree with Sima Jingling's decision. Qiulan immediately grabbed Ah Pu and asked him to persuade Sima Jingling so that she could change her mind.
But Ah Pu shook his head, signaled Qiulan to believe in Sima Jingling's decision, and then boarded the carriage brought by the man with Sima Jingling.
Seeing this, Qiulan, the night owl, and the night sparrow could only sit in front of the carriage and let the man take them with them to the house that he didn't know who it was.
The man was very talkative, and along the way, he chattered with Sima Jingling a lot of things in the capital of Beiao Kingdom, and by the way, he explained the rules in the capital to Sima Jingling.
It was at this time that Sima Jingling and their hearts had a more detailed understanding of Dajing City and Wei Jing.