Chapter Seventy-Three: Two Streets
"Yes, a person from the rivers and lakes, Mr. Qi'an, the rivers and lakes are far away, will you regret setting foot in the quagmire?" Xu Changshan asked her rhetorically.
"The change of the high hall may not touch the rivers and lakes, and the rivers and lakes are not so far from the court. If the war is about to start, maybe my stall in the west city of Chang'an will not be able to be saved. ”
"If the disaster of war breaks out, everyone is in danger!" Xu Changshan sighed with emotion, and suddenly said, "The people who can enter my Qionglin night banquet are all people who are full of poetry and books, I will take you as a guest and put you in front of everyone's eyes, do you know what will happen?" ”
"It's difficult." The young man laughed, "Since ancient times, literati have been arrogant, and no one has accepted anyone, and the so-called literati are contemptuous of each other. ”
"What should you do if someone makes things difficult?" Xu Changshan asked again.
"Since you are studying with knowledge, what else can convince literati other than real talent and real learning?" The young man stood up and bowed his head, his movements were humble and polite, but the words he said were a little rare arrogance, "Mr. has a lot of talk and laughter, and there is no vain exchange." How dare you go to the banquet without a little ink on your chest? Mr. thinks so highly of Qi'an, that is, he does not make a name for Mr., and he cannot fall into Mr.'s name. ”
In the hidden study, the voice came faintly.
"Then I'll teach you a lesson or two."
"Sir, please."
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"I'm a little curious now, and I don't know who you taught you so well......
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"Oh, the young man is crazy, but he has a little confidence."
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The sudden laughter made the slaves who were cleaning outside look at each other, and Mr. Xu really hadn't laughed so freely for a long time.
"Good, good, good!" Xu Changshan stroked his palms and laughed, "Mr. Qi'an is really an interesting person. Look up to the sky and laugh and go out, how can my generation be a Penghao person! If Mr. Qi'an is a Confucian genius like us, he must also be a peerless national warrior! ”
Wei Yaoqing sighed, and the smile on her face was a little more genuine: "The kid doesn't deserve to be so high-minded, just Mr. Yin and Yang in the middle of the city!" ”
Xu Changshan said with a smile, "If Mr. Yin and Yang are like this, do you still have a place for me and other Confucian students?" It's a pity, if the old man has a daughter, he doesn't mind having such a virtuous son-in-law. ”
Wei Yaoqing lowered her head and sighed: Yes, it's a pity that she is not a man, even if Mr. Xu Changshan really has a daughter, I am afraid that she will not be able to marry.
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Zhang Zhilin pinched his nose and looked around curiously and painfully: "This mule and horse market is fun, but this smell is really ......."
"It's good to smell it." Li Huan glanced at him, "You're not a woman, why are you so squeamish?" ”
"But it's so uncomfortable!" Zhang Zhilin took the two strips of cloth handed over by the little guy behind him and stuffed them into his nostrils, and took a breath, "It's comfortable." ”
"Look at you like this, take it down!" Sheng Minghui on the side couldn't help but laugh at his funny appearance, "Stupid or not, weird!" ”
"What's strange." Zhang Zhilin pointed to a passing bearded man with curly hair, high nose and deep eyes, the man's face was painted with paint from east to west, looking nondescript, "It's not strange like this, I'm not weird." ”
"This is a painting to learn to sing a big opera, but I didn't paint it!" Zhu He vigilantly covered the snacks in the bookbag next to him, afraid of being hit, "Look at the red, green, and green he wears, and he only has one sleeve." ”
"Good!" A burst of applause suddenly sounded, which immediately aroused the interest of the teenagers, and everyone pulled away from the crowd and looked inside, only to see several men and women in bearded clothes playing tricks.
The man walked around in front of the crowd with a torch in hand, and threw the torch on top of the pile of firewood, which immediately burned, and several planks were lifted up to surround the bonfire, and the people could only see the flames coming out of the planks.
"Look, the fire is fierce!" Zhu He watched while eating, and glanced at Cui Yan, who was sullen behind him, "What's wrong, unhappy?" Let's take a look at this trick, it's fun! ”
Cui Yanqiang raised his head with spirit, and answered, the starling didn't come out today, he was the only one who followed Li Huan and them out, seeing that he was in a bad mood, a few people took the initiative to take him out to play, and as soon as they walked around, they went to the mule and horse market.
The man with the torch spun around in front of the crowd with his arms outstretched, and then walked in.
"Is this a trick to roast the living?" Li Huan and the others seemed to have seen such a trick, and pointed and said, "When it comes out, that person is still fine, he can't be burned at all, it's very powerful!" ”
Cui Yan looked at this place with wide eyes, before, he had never been to such a messy place in the mule and horse market, and he had never seen this trick of roasting living people. The teenager who had a trick to watch put his previous troubles behind him for the time being, and applauded along.
"It's so realistic!" Cui Yan sighed, "I smell and smell burnt!" ”
"yes, don't you say I haven't noticed it yet, but I'm still a little hungry!" Zhu He touched his stomach with a smile, "Let's go eat roast whole sheep in a while!" ”
"Good trick!" The teenagers applauded.
Thunderous applause.
"I can still see that person standing, but now what about his people?" Someone pointed to the inside of the plank, very puzzled, "Did you squat down?" ”
At this moment, one of the four planks that had been propped up was knocked over, and then the black, charred body fell down.
Cui Yan's eyes were sharp, and he saw it at a glance, and he was even more surprised: "It's so realistic, even the corpse ......" Before he finished speaking, his eyes widened, and the corpse ...... Corpse?
A scream rang out, and panic spread rapidly along with one scream after another.
"The Five Cities Terracotta Division is here!" In the panic, someone screamed, chickens flew and dogs jumped, cows hit horses and ran, human voices mixed with the neighing of cows and horses, and it was chaotic.
Lin Liyang, the general of the city guard, shouted with his saber: "Don't move, don't move, don't move if you move!" ”
"This group of people is fat! Dare to gather to see the roasted living people, take them away, take them all away for me! Lin Liyang climbed to a high place and waved the saber in his hand, "It doesn't matter who he is, take it back, anyway, the prison in Dali Temple is empty, and I will take it all away." ”
Sure enough, it is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and the Diao people here are much bolder than the Diao people elsewhere, and even the roasted people dare to look at it! Lin Liyang slandered: I don't dare to look at it, this city protector general is getting more and more difficult to do, if it goes on like this, this time it's just to see, next time these Chang'an Diao people have to kill someone seriously!
"Why arrest us!" Someone shouted, "We don't know anything." ”
"Go back and tell Di Fangxing, torture and torture, give me all torture!"
"This reckless man is unreasonable, I heard that before enlisting in the army, he was a bandit who occupied the mountain as the king, and later was recruited by the imperial court, and he became the current general of the city after making military achievements, no wonder he is so unreasonable!" The young people's faces were like dirt, and they remembered Lin Liyang's life, "If you really make trouble with him, he will really kill someone!" ”
"Take it away, take it away!" Lin Liyang drove the men, women and children on the street to the direction of Dali Temple.
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The Yellow Sky Road is also just as lively, with the sound of firecrackers. The gongs and drums were noisy, and the people stood on both sides.
"The top three are paraded in the streets!" Someone shouted, and everyone hurriedly looked at the end of the street, and the top three white horses paraded through the street.
The young man is handsome and proud, attracting almost everyone's attention.
"This year's top three students are so good-looking!"
"You're so young, I don't know if you're married?"
"It's a pity that it's not my family's virtuous son-in-law."
"The best-looking thing is Tanhualang, and Bangyan and Zhuangyuanlang are also good-looking!"
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Flowers, plants, melons and fruits were smashed one after another.
"Zhuangyuanlang Liuzhou Wenhan is a commoner's son, but Bangyan and Tanhualang are the sons of a high-ranking family, Bangyan is Wang Xu of Langya Wang's family, and Tanhualang is Cui Jing of Boling Cui's family."
A young and merry genius parades the streets.
"Look at the horseshoe of the flower!" Someone exclaimed, pointing to Tanhualang who rode a white horse around the street, and the most flowers and fruits fell on him, and two thin butterflies were surrounded by the hooves of the white horse that Tanhualang was riding.
"Sure enough, it's a tanhualang who walks on the flowers! No wonder everyone is proud of their lives," some people sighed, looking at the street parade that attracted people to stop and watch, and was envious.
Two long streets, a few steps apart, one lively and festive, the other chaotic, worlds apart.
"Urgent, urgent!" There was a young man who came to make the fast horse and the parade staggered by, standing on the side of the street and watching the parade, holding a piece of Mr. Yin and Yang banner, looking at the back of the envoy who came to leave, and couldn't help frowning.