Chapter 0766: Enter the city
Su Qi and the others had eaten grilled fish, and it was late at night when they re-embarked on the road, for some reason, the closer they got to Nanjiang City, the clearer the weather became, the heavy clouds and mist along the way gradually dissipated, the sky in the distance was full of stars, and the mountains and forests under their feet became clear, and even the weather was much brighter, sweeping away the previous hot and humid, as if they had come to a completely different region.
The seventy-mile journey was only a small half-pillar of incense in front of the monk, and the three of them rested enough, so they flew fast and fast, and it didn't take long to see the brightly lit Nanjiang City, especially the seven tall buildings erected in the south of the city were the most conspicuous, and the sheng song crossed the long Nanjiang River, and it was already weak when it fell into the ears of Su Qi and others, but the monk's outstanding senses still captured these melodious music.
"It's worthy of the Nanling City you mentioned, there are people having fun at such a late hour, and the so-called Night Shengge is like this. ”
Zhao Ziqi exclaimed, this kind of scene is very rare on the boundary road, the boundary road resources are poor, there are many forces, the city is a rare thing, almost all in the hands of the monks, mortals are just their vassals, in order to survive, the monks have to fight often, almost everyone is tense on a string, most of the time is busy practicing, there are very few such day and night singing, drinking and having fun, it is difficult to see a whole city lit with bright lights, like the scene of mortal stars.
The three of them landed on the bank of the Nanjiang River, and Su Qi looked at the lanterns floating several feet above the river, and he was also a little surprised.
Nanling is remote, far away from the battlefield, and it is normal to have no breath of war, Su Qi had expected this, but he didn't expect that it would still be a luxurious scene here.
These 10,000 lanterns, plus 10,000 hanging talismans, I'm afraid it will cost 100,000 taels of silver.
Dongfang Jiyue frowned suddenly, she raised her head, looked at the high hill on the other side of the river, her gaze moved slowly, and finally landed on the tallest and brightest building, and said slowly, "The building on the opposite side has Tian Yuan overhaul. ”
"Huh?" Su Qi was stunned for a moment, "Nanjiang City is the important place of the Dayue Dynasty...... It is not surprising that there are monks in the town, and I remember that there must have been a large army stationed nearby, probably more than 100,000 men. ”
"More than one Tian Yuan," Dongfang Jiyue was a little puzzled, "They seem to be on guard against something, and the divine sense has been sweeping around. ”
"I seem to be aware of it, it should be three people?" Zhao Zi muttered, "But you are too careful, such a large city, a few major repairs are not normal? And even if there is a problem, it has nothing to do with us, they will never make a move on passers-by." ”
"That's right. Dongfang Jiyue nodded.
"Then hurry up and cross the river?" Zhao Zi licked the corners of his mouth, eager to try, "Since the lights are still bright at such a late hour, it must be very easy to find a restaurant in this city, right?" I have been here for several days, and I haven't seen the wine and food of the human race!"
The three of them flew up, although they did not deliberately show their strength, but the three rainbow lights were still quite conspicuous, and they were quickly noticed by the people in the Tianshu Pavilion.
"That's ....... Monk?" a singer was the first to notice, covering her mouth and patting the nobleman sitting beside her.
"Isn't there often monks coming and going in our Nanjiang City, what is it worth all the fuss about?" The noble man was drunk and smoked, and he didn't take Su Qi and the others seriously at all.
The same is true of the king of Nanjiang, although this Nanjiang city is remote, but after all, it is also one of the best cities, and this kind of monks passing by do not know how many ordinary people every day, it has long been commonplace.
Wei Zhengyang was a little interested, he turned sideways slightly, while staring at the three rainbow lights on the river, while listening to something, after a while, he turned around and continued to laugh.
The arrival of Su Qi and the three of them did not alarm too many people, when they landed at the south city gate, the guards were also very polite, did not interrogate, just asked for a little entrance fee, and respectfully invited them to enter the city, but also mentioned a few words, telling them not to disturb the distinguished guests of Tianshu Pavilion, and also secretly pointed out that the people there were from Tianji Pavilion and the Wei family.
Su Qi knew very well about the soldiers' careful thoughts, he was afraid that the three of them would act recklessly and offend the distinguished guests of the Tianshu Pavilion by relying on their status as monks, but if there was a quarrel, there would be monks on both sides, and the scene would be extremely ugly.
Su Qi smiled and thanked him, saying that the three of them just wanted to go to the city to find a home inn for the night, and inquired about which restaurant in the city was famous.
Zhao Zi was already impatient to wait, and when Su Qi and the soldiers finished chatting, he hurriedly pulled the two into the city.
After the south city gate, there is a spacious main road, more than a hundred zhang wide, directly connected with the north city gate, only in the middle stands a tall statue of the goddess, the main road is lined with shops, most of them have closed, but there are still a small part of the lights, almost all of them are carriages and horses, the merchants who are in a hurry to the night road sparsely enter the city, with a tired face into these shops.
There is no curfew in the Dayue Dynasty, so the nightlife of Nanjiang City is extremely rich, and the main street is not magnificent, but the deep alleys on both sides are the real treasures, especially the Xiangyangfang and Anle Fang in the east city, which are lit up in the building, and the families are singing, Su Qi and others picked Xiangyangfang, there are many restaurants and inns here, and Anle Fang is a multi-Qinglou theater, which is not suitable for three people to go together.
There are also military shops in front of Xiangyang Fang, there are more than ten soldiers guarding inside, but they are not responsible for checking pedestrians, just stationed here in order to deal with disputes, the first one in the square is a seven-story restaurant, the sign has been hanging from the top of the building to the ground, there are customers inside, it seems that the business is very hot.
"What's going on?" Zhao Zi was dumbfounded, he looked at several other restaurants nearby, and there were also many guests inside, "Do you mortals of the human race like to eat in the middle of the night so much?"
"Not quite right," although Su Qi was coming to Nanjiang City for the first time, this kind of scene was too strange, if it was said that there were many people in the Qinglou Theater at night, it would be understandable, but how could there be so many people eating at midnight? Especially the Chunfu Restaurant on their right, the table was almost full, Su Qi scratched his head and guessed, "Maybe it's a certain festival?"
Just as the three of them were standing at the entrance of the square in confusion, a group of cavalry suddenly galloped through the street, all of them were fully armed, dressed in black armor, covered with purple cloth on their shoulders, carrying swords cross-body, carrying longbows, and the barrels of quivers were filled with arrows with red tails.
Su Qi's eyes flickered, and he recognized this arrow.
Fire pattern arrows, Nanling's specialty arrows, the material is only produced in Nanling's fire pattern wood, will be carved on the arrow shaft, the price is not low, even in Nanling, only a few troops can match, and the most important thing is that this kind of arrow is generally only used to deal with the demon clan.
Could it be that near Nanjiang City, there are demon clans?
But that doesn't explain why the people of Nanjiang City are so excited and gather in the restaurant in the middle of the night?
Su Qi was puzzled, so he had to give up and pick a restaurant with not too many customers to enter, intending to ask the shopkeeper if he knew some inside information.