Chapter 39: The Fat Brother Is Crazy
The sarcophagus connected by the subway, without any misery, drove out of the tunnel. When I got out of the tunnel, I still leaned on both sides according to the tracks on the ground, arranged in a horizontal row, and then stopped moving.
There was a big full moon in the sky, emitting a tender yellow moonlight, reflecting the whole earth, but there was not a single wood, farmland, or village that we were looking forward to.
We are still nostalgic for the process of taking the subway, and we are reluctant to step out of the sarcophagus.
Looking up, not far from us is a river, surrounded by a city wall with no end on both sides, the city wall is more than 20 meters high, the wall is beveled, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top. The upper part of the castle wall has many plum-like holes, which seem to be defensive archery holes. Directly above the river facing the city gate, there is a stone bridge.
We walked to see that the railing of the stone bridge was not high, and it was as high as an adult's leg. The bridge is arched across the river, with a total length of about 10 meters. On the first pillar of the railing on the right side of the stone bridge, two characters are engraved on us: "εΏ (gΔ) ε― (yΓ)".
I really didn't know these two words, so I asked the others, "Hehe, which of you knows these two words?" I have been a Chinese person for decades, and I really don't know these two words. β
Everyone shook their heads, no one knew, only Sister Hua smiled vigorously, with an unfathomable expression.
As soon as I looked at her, I knew that I gave Lu Shan a look.
Lu Shan began to grind Sister Hua delicately.
Before Lu Shan touched Sister Hua's arm, Sister Hua immediately scolded: "Stay away from me, it's most annoying to you, little sticky worm." Sue sΓΉ you, these two words are pronounced εΏε―, εΏ means praise, ε― means bridge, to put it bluntly is to praise this bridge is good. β
I looked at Sister Hua happily and said, "Oh, my sister, how many things have you learned behind our backs?" β
Sister Hua glanced at me and said, "What, I've seen a person's name before, it's these two words, and I also went to check the dictionary and remembered it." β
I began to show off to Zhao Tiesuo and Yan Qiu: "My Sister Hua is naturally smart, but I will never forget it......" was interrupted by Sister Hua's slap.
After crossing the bridge, I saw the high city gate wide open, and the city gate was written with three words "Yingchun Gate" in a font similar to seal script and could be understood.
Yan Qiu hurriedly unfolded the sheepskin diagram in his hand.
Before she could open it, Sister Hua said, "Don't look at it, this is the east gate of Yecheng." β
Yan Qiu finally believed that Sister Hua had never forgotten it, and opened the picture again to confirm it, as Sister Hua said.
Now we are confused, I don't know if this is a mysterious ruin, or if we have crossed over? I took a subway and walked for more than 1,700 years.
I immediately decided to go back the way I came, and go further, waiting for us to be incomprehensible. But when I turned around, I found that in this moment's effort, those sarcophagi had long disappeared, leaving only a black tunnel.
Now I understood that the first twelve forks led to twelve places to take the sarcophagus, and then there were six forks in the road, and only one of the six forks was correct, and I could get here by sitting on the sarcophagus, so there were a total of twelve sarcophagus. These sarcophagi are like railway transportation lines, they are infinitely circulating, the length of the cycle is unknown, but there will definitely be another one.
The fat brother was anxious: "How long do you have to wait?" Why don't we go into the city and take a look, because the city can't stop us anyway. No, let's come out again. So he went to the gate of the city on his own.
Everyone didn't think this city was terrible, and they all acquiesced to the fat brother's statement and followed him inside.
I reluctantly obeyed the will of the people and followed in the end.
Who knows, after stepping through this hurdle, we will never be able to return the same way from this gate.
Entering the city, it is a wide stone road, and the right side is the north, which is very quiet, and there are all kinds of high-end mansions, like Boss Zhou's house. On the left is the southern half of Yecheng, with rows of private houses, which are also exceptionally neatly built.
Although it was night, the city was very lively, and the streets with slightly wider houses were lined with various shops, all of which had not yet closed. Ordinary people dressed in period costumes walked through the streets, buying applications in front of the shops, and haggling with the vendors, a scene of prosperity.
Yan Qiu was naturally ecstatic, seeing the real scene was far more valuable than what was described in the book, and the crowd that walked in quickly watched left and right with great interest, and others followed curiously.
I don't have such a good mood as her, after more than a thousand years, they don't have any sense of crisis. I don't know why, I always feel that the people and things in this city are a little grotesque, and the atmosphere is very weird, but I can't say what's wrong. However, looking at their excitement, I can't interrupt it, so let's enjoy the pleasure of having fun with the people first, and then think about the substantive issues.
The inhabitants of the city did not have the slightest curiosity about our attire, but when we were transparent, no one paid attention to us, but just went about their own business.
The three girls, this time, completely satisfied their desire to shop, picked up all kinds of gadgets in various grocery stalls, picked up this and put it down, looked at that and put it back, they were overjoyed.
The fat brother was also behind them, helping to choose, and he enjoyed dancing very much.
I shouted at the fat brother: "Don't patronize and play, ask about business." β
When the fat brother heard this, he nodded at me, walked to a stall made of wooden frames, and said to a vendor: "Little brother, inquire, what year and month is it in the past and now, and what is here?" β
As soon as I heard it, I snickered in the back, he dragged it up, and I don't know if people can understand it.
Sister Hua glanced at the fat brother and said, "Can you talk well, and then scare others." Then he looked down and admired the ornaments on the stall.
The fat brother said confidently: "What do you know, I learned this from TV dramas, and the ancients must have said so." β
Then Sister Hua picked up another silver hairpin inlaid with a few small rubies, and said to the fat brother: "By the way, what can I exchange for this." β
The fat brother said to the vendor again, "Little brother, have you ever heard my question?" Piggyback ask, how many taels of silver is this hairpin? We don't just ask for directions, we also buy goods. β
From just now, the vendor looked at the few people in front of the stall with a smile, and the fat brother had two questions, as if he hadn't heard them, still with a smiling expression, while looking at the fat brother and them, while fiddling with the goods in front of him.
The fat brother was anxious and shouted to the vendor: "Brother, how can you sell this hairpin?" β
The peddler still ignored him, as if he were deaf, and kept his way.
The fat brother stared at the vendor carefully for a while, and then gently scratched a hand in the air above the vendor's head. Just look at the fat brother's hand, as if it was pricked by something, and quickly retracted. Then the fat brother didn't give up, and shook his palm in front of the vendor again.
The peddler didn't react at all. Are we transparent people? This thought grew and spread rapidly in my mind like a vine. I have experienced it before, in the city of Jinzhou, I witnessed the ambush of Dolgon's army, and I was transparent at the time. Have we been tricked before we know it? In a transparent form, stored in this city? Now the real body, maybe has passed out? It's not necessarily poisoned by spiders.
The fat brother first glanced back at me with blood-red eyes, and then rushed out like crazy, and on the street, grabbed a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, pressed it on the ground and began to pick the girl's clothes.
A few of us were stupid, and the three girls were also frightened and ran to me and Zhao Tiesuo.
Fat brother's move first proves that we are not transparent.
Look at the girl who didn't resist, lying on the ground and letting the fat guy tear her clothes.
After a while, the girl's upper body was all naked in front of the fat brother, and on the ground next to her, there were torn clothes and an embroidered belly pocket. The fat brother didn't stop it, and went to untie the girl's waist rope again.
Sister Hua was in a hurry, grabbed my arm and stomped my feet and cried: "Zhanxiao, take a look, is your fat brother crazy?" β
I was just about to step forward to stop the fat brother, but Zhao Tiesuo grabbed me, and his gun was already loaded at this time.