Chapter II

Shanbei

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A carriage pulling hay was slowly approaching the northern castle of Chiyama, the first castle on the territory of Toho Province.

There was a young man lying on the hay of the wagon, and he was lying on the hay and sleeping soundly.

On the side is a seven or eight-year-old doll looking at the book in her hand seriously......

In front of the carriage, the coachman who commanded the carriage was an old man in his fifties, looked at the long line in front of him, and said, "Dolls, we will arrive at Shanbei City in front...... When I enter the city, old man, I'll go to the East Market, what about you?"

Jiang Heng opened his eyes and looked up at the city gate in front of him.

Jiang Heng and Jiang Liu'er jumped out of the carriage one after another, and took out a little silver tael from their pockets, but the coachman postponed it, but Jiang Heng forced it into his hand.

The two of them then walked to the front of the line without saying a word.

At the gate of the city, porters, carriages, and merchants who entered and exited were lining up in an orderly manner to be inspected.

Passers-by waiting for inspection are whispering:

"Why is it being strictly investigated again?"

"Eighty percent is what kind of chaos is going on in the city!"

"I heard that there are rebels in the mountains and forests outside the city, and the ordinances issued in the city say it!"

"It's the rebels again.....!

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Jiang Heng ignored the pointing and pointing of the people around him, and squeezed directly to the front of the line.

Just when someone accused Jiang Heng of this bad behavior of cutting in line.

The officers and soldiers in charge of the strict investigation glanced at Jiang Heng and Jiang Liu'er, who were carrying baskets on their backs, especially after noticing the silver taels in their hands and bringing them with them, they signaled for permission.

The two of them continued to walk forward without saying a word.

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I didn't stop until I reached an inn in the East Market.

"Is this it?"

Jiang Liu'er took out a letter from his pocket, looked at it again, and nodded: "It's here!

When the two of them entered the inn, Xiao Er, who had already prepared, had already come out to greet him: "The two sons, please, an uncle in your room has already prepared for you!"

Jiang Heng said to the little er: "Take us to the uncle's room first." ”

Xiao Er obeyed, and then led the two to find the door of the so-called uncle's upper room.

After giving Xiao Er some reward, the two pushed the door open.

The so-called uncle waiting for them inside is Pu Yuan.

The three of them left Qingyan Country together, but on the way, Pu Yuan really disliked Jiang Heng and Jiang Liu'er pretending to be scholars and walking at the same snail-like speed as civilians.

So I went here first and waited.

Ten and a half days and a half have passed, and the two of them are late.

Pu Yuan said with a complaining face: "I'm afraid there are not many cultivators who can walk in the world like you like mortals......."

Jiang Heng smiled: "It's because no one does this that we are more special!"

Although Pu Yuan is a refiner, he is also a person who can enjoy it.

As can be seen from the room he chose, he chose the best room for himself, where in addition to the best treatment, he could also sit by the window and watch the best view outside.

It's just that the scenery outside is obviously not as stable as it seems at the moment.

"What's going on lately that makes people panic?"

Jiang Heng asked, and Jiang Liu'er, who was packing his luggage on the side, added: "And outside the city, we also met a group of black-robed people who are chasing and killing some officers and soldiers!"

Na Pu Yuan has been here for a while, so he should naturally know some inside information.

Pu Yuan replied: "It's some rebels!"

"Rebels"

These two words had already been heard when they entered the city, but wasn't Nanqi Prefecture quite good under the rule of Nanqi Wang Zhurong?

In particular, Toho Province can be said to be close to the boundary of Nanqizhou Prefecture.

The presence of rebels at such a close distance is obviously not a good thing!

Pu Yuan replied, "The devil knows why they rebelled?"

In these years, the world of commoners is far more complicated than the world of cultivators.

From time to time, some rebels appear or something, and in Pu Yuan's opinion, it should also be a thing.

Merely......

Jiang Heng's intuition is still - these rebels are not as simple as they seem.

In particular, it is even more difficult to dare to hunt down officers and soldiers in broad daylight.

In Pu Yuan's opinion, Jiang Heng, who has been a month ahead, is most likely idle.

This nosy mistake has been done again.

Therefore, he had to open his mouth and remind: "You still have to think about entering the Nanqizhou Mansion as Jiang Heng first, or Jiang Hengyan's identity! After Shanbei City, let's walk for a while, but we will arrive at the Nanqizhou Mansion." ”

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Looking at Shanbei City in front of him, Jiang Heng was silent.

Soon we will be in the capital of Nanqi Prefecture.

Is the girl waiting for her there okay?

She should be fine, after all, she is from the Nangong family.

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It was late at night.

It's just that this night, but people can't close their eyes peacefully.

On the roof, the figure of a doll stood there.

He frowned and stared at Shanbei City at night.

"Evil!"

He stood motionless in the darkness of the night, as if he were a stone statue.

Even the few dark shadows that passed by him didn't tell that it was a person.

Until the statue reappeared in front of them.

The stone statue spoke: "A few people, jumping around on the roofs of other people's houses at night, it's not good!"

The shadows didn't have time to be surprised, and they felt as if something was missing in their hands

When I looked down, a bundle of quilts in their arms was gone.

Looking again, the bundle of quilts had already reached Jiang Liuer's hands, and he tore open the quilt, and saw a woman who had been stripped naked and wrapped in the quilt unconscious.

"Flower thief!"

Several black shadows immediately stepped forward and pounced towards Jiang Liu'er.

I saw a black rod sweeping past.

The black shadows instantly lost consciousness and fell to the ground.

After Jiang Liu'er woke up the woman, she tried her best to calm her fears, and then asked her to leave her residence and send her back. took the flower thieves who were knocked unconscious by him to the city lord's mansion in Shanbei City.

Being woken up in the middle of the night, the city lord of Shanbei didn't have such a good temper, but when he saw that the doll who came to report to the official turned out to be a true martial arts realm cultivator.

Immediately lifted his mind.

Nodding respectfully, Jiang Liu'er handed over the flower thief to the city lord to deal with, and then left.

After a hasty trial of several flower thieves, he was put in prison.

And Jiang Liu'er, who was secretly observing inside, also retreated, but the City Lord's Mansion where he had just left found a group of sneaky black shadows fleeing towards the outside of the city with a bundle of quilts.

"Is it a flower thief again?"

Jiang Liu'er waved the black rod of Fantie, and was about to catch up and stop those flower thieves.

Jiang Heng's emerald bamboo stick had already stopped him:

"Capture the thief and capture the king, follow them, and see where they go outside the city!"