Chapter 744: Outside the City of Xudu
"Let's go and have a look!" Li Hao was really annoyed with me, so he just took this opportunity to stay away from me. But he forgot that there were Nian Chu and the old man beside him, when these two people heard the three words of Xudu City, they both trembled, it is not easy to say whether they are afraid or excited, it should be regarded as having all five flavors.
Since the captain of the ghost pawn was responsible for escorting Nian Chu, he didn't care about Li Hao's behavior at all, and still stood beside Nian Chu, staring at the other party, for fear that if one of them didn't pay attention, he would let Nian Chu run away.
I silently came to Nian Chu's side and whispered in the other party's ear: "It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided." We'll have to go in sooner or later, so let's stop here and let's go over and have a look. Nian Chu looked at me with her helpless little eyes, then nodded, and headed towards the capital city with me behind me.
Not long after our group walked out, we saw the majestic capital city towering in front of us: the shocking feeling is really indescribable. Although there are no clouds in the sky, the city wall is towering into the clouds, and when you look up, there is no sun, moon or stars, but a wall that separates the inside of the city from the outside of the city. It has the feeling of "The Siege" of the old man Zhongshu, but the people in the city can't get out, and the people outside the city can't get out after they go in.
In the center of the high wall, two huge gates open against the wall. Looking at it from afar, it was like the mouth of a train tunnel, and it was pitch black inside, and there was nothing to see. I don't understand, how can the huge capital city not even light a lamp, and there is no need to save so much thrift.
Just as he was thinking about it, he heard a commotion beside him, and the captain of the ghost pawn turned the steel fork in his hand into a rope and put it on Nian Chu's body. "What are you doing here?" I grabbed the other party's rope and asked sharply.
"Jia Shu, don't be difficult for us who are on errands, you have also seen it, there is the capital city in front, there are many people, everything has to be in accordance with the rules inside, you can forgive me." After that, the captain of the ghost pawn shook the rope and flicked my hands away, and then the remaining ghost pawns stood beside Nian Chu back and forth, left and right, escorted Nian Chu and walked towards the gate of the capital city. I was afraid that Nian Chu would suffer a loss, so I hurriedly followed behind the ghost pawns and also headed towards the capital city.
Before he arrived at the gate of the city, he heard someone behind him knocking on the gong and shouting: "The judge has returned, and everyone has avoided it!" ”
After hearing the voice, the captain of the ghost pawn immediately led Nian Chu to stand on the outside of the city gate, leaving me standing at the door alone, not knowing where to go.
"Looking for death, get out of the way." The captain of the ghost pawn noticed that I didn't follow me in time, so he dropped the rope holding Nian Chu, and quickly rushed to my side, pulling me and the old man to the side, "Bow your head, don't look up." "When he came, he didn't forget to tell me how to behave.
Li Hao and I had just lowered our heads when we heard the sound of a gong ringing in our ears, accompanied by the footsteps of a large group of pedestrians. It is said that everyone has curiosity, so I quietly released my spiritual power and sensed everything around me.
I found that on the road facing the gate of the capital city, there was a middle-aged man in ragged clothes and unkempt hair riding a donkey towards the city gate. Beside the middle-aged man, there are imps holding oil-paper umbrellas full of holes, imps playing two signs of "idler, avoid" behind the donkey, and imps fanning the middle-aged man on the side, and a taller imp in front of him is holding a gong and shouting while knocking: "The judge returns, everyone avoids!" ”
Wow, what a big show! I thought to myself, but then I found that in the hands of the middle-aged man riding a donkey, he was actually dragging a rope, and looking along the rope, there were countless lonely ghosts tied behind it. At this moment, these lonely souls and wild ghosts honestly walked forward, one by one with their heads down, like a defeated rooster, thinking that they would suffer a lot.
When I concentrated my spiritual power on the middle-aged man riding the donkey again, I found that the other party actually turned his head and stared at the position where I was standing, so frightened that I quickly took my spiritual power back, for fear of making the other party unhappy, and then caught me in the team of lonely souls and wild ghosts behind.
Although the spiritual power was taken back, I still secretly looked at the middle-aged man out of the corner of my eye. After seeing that the other party came to the gate of the city, he first jumped off the donkey, and then limped to the ghost guard guarding the city gate, pulled out a ruler-like thing from his waist, and handed it to the ghost guard guarding the city. It's just that this ruler is a little curved, and it's wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, so it's not a token for customs clearance. It wasn't until later that I learned that the thing was called Wat (pronounced: HU four sounds), which was a kind of ritual weapon held in the hands of ancient ministers when they went to court, but at that time I really thought it was a token for customs clearance.
After the ghost guard of the city took the wat, he bowed very respectfully to the middle-aged man, and then returned the wat to him. Then the middle-aged man took out a book in his arms and handed it to the ghost guards guarding the city, and after the other party took the book, he turned the pages of the book and began to shout at the lonely ghosts who were tied up behind him.
Every time I called nine names, I counted them silently in my heart. I saw that the lonely ghosts who were called came to the city gate one after another, and the remaining ghost guards who were in charge of guarding the city gate approached and examined them according to the physical characteristics described in the book. After checking that everything was correct, the nine lonely ghosts rushed to the inner city under the escort of the ghost guards.
It's just that there are too many lonely souls and wild ghosts brought by the other party, and I have stood for more than an hour, and I don't see how many lonely souls and wild ghosts over there have entered. Coupled with the fact that I still had an old man on my back, I was starting to lose some of my feet.
"Hey." I whispered to the ghost pawn captain next to me, causing the other party to look at me sideways, "Can we sit down and rest for a while?" I asked the other person bitterly.
I saw the captain of the ghost pawn shake his head slightly, and he looked terrified. "But I can't carry it?" The little master is telling the truth, after all, I have to bow my head and bow my waist with a person on my back, this matter has lasted for a long time, and no one can stand it.
Li Hao turned his head at this time and threw a gloating look at me, and his lips moved, but he didn't make a sound. But the little lady was very close to Ya, and analyzed Li Hao's words with lip reading, and there was only one word: "Yes!" ”
Your sister, when did this grandson become so bad? Anyway, I can't carry it, so how can I love it. After thinking about it, I turned back to the old man behind me and said, "Uncle, can you come down and rest for a while?" "Tired, aren't you? Then let me down quickly, and save it for you. The uncle replied understandingly.
"Gotcha." The little master didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, first squatted down slowly, letting the uncle's uninjured foot fall to the ground, and then sat down by himself, provoking the ghosts around who bowed with us, all turned their heads to look over. Just as the little master was returning the salute to those ghost soldiers, the little ghost who struck the gong actually jumped in front of my eyes, struck the gong dangling, and then asked me: "Who are you, dare to be disrespectful to the judge?" ”
to be continued