Chapter 4 Late Spring and April in Luzhou
Why did the city lord of Daxi climb the city wall in the middle of the night with a naked woman on his back?
Some people say that the city lord of Daxi sits in the city lord's mansion during the day, and turns into a flower thief every night, flying away from the sky and the earth, and capturing beautiful women;
Some people say that the lord of Daxi City is actually just suffering from sleepwalking, and that the woman is a mysterious physician who is treating him with a long-lost miraculous healing technique;
Some people say that this is a kind of immortal magic skill of the Daxi family, which needs to be practiced by combining yin and yang with women on the shore of the river on the night of the full moon 9981 times.
Others said......
I don't know if it's because the truth has been revealed or if the peachy breath is too strong, what these people said, along with their people, disappeared. [This chapter was first published-love-have-sound-,Please remember the URL ()]
Missing with them was Zheng Dabao, a garrison sergeant who had never spoken since that night.
But the mouths of the people are like a great river, reluctant to flow day and night.
Compared with these two news, the news that the mansion of Sun Weiqing, the deputy general of Jiangyang County, was attacked, and that Sun Weiqing himself disappeared inexplicably, was like a small wave in the river, and soon disappeared in the surging river.
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Luzhou City, located along the river less than 200 miles away from the south mouth of the Senchuan Gorge, is the first city along the river after the river passes through the Senchuan Gorge and enters the southern foot of the Yudai Mountains.
Before the appearance of Yunqi City at the north entrance of the Morikawa Gorge, at the confluence of the Jade Belt Mountains and the Great River, it was the first line of defense for the human race against the attack of the demons for thousands of years, and of course, it had also fallen to the enemy countless times and became the logistics and supply base on the road of the demons' southern invasion. After the completion of Yunqi City, which guards the throat of the Jade Belt Mountain Range and is unparalleled in the world, the footsteps of the demon army have never set foot on this land again.
The army of the two tribes of man and demon has been here for a long time, so that the city has a perfect wharf and building system, at the same time, the river suddenly opens up after passing through the hundreds of miles long Senchuan Canyon, only three or four miles in the narrowest part of the Senchuan Canyon, and when it arrives near Luzhou, the width of the river has reached sixteen or seventeen miles, and the water flow is gentle, which is very suitable for shipping. Many merchants who went south from Yunqi City unloaded their goods from small boats here, and then several or dozens of people assembled their respective goods onto flat-bottomed large ships dozens of zhang long to continue southward to save freight.
Therefore, when the clouds of war receded, it was only natural for the city to develop into a populous and flower-filled riverside town.
Strictly speaking, Luzhou is not a city, but consists of two towns, Jiangyang County on the left side of the river, Luchuan County on the right side of the river, and Jiangxin Island in the center of the river. Jiangyang and Luchuan developed from the left and right camps of the human race, and now each has hundreds of thousands of residents.
Jiangxin Island is located in the middle of the big river, about four miles wide, eleven or twelve miles long, and there is a small island of more than ten zhang above the water surface at the highest point. Except for a few manors of the gentry's family on the hillside in the center of the island for bringing their families to take refuge in the summer, the rest of the place is a large area of gravel tidal flats and reeds, which are not inhabited, except for some simple shacks near the shore for fishermen to rest and shelter from the rain.
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A month ago.
A young man dressed plainly, with a delicate face, a bronze ring on his left index finger, and a large indigo package on his back, and a strong young man like an iron tower, had just passed through the city gate of Luchuan County, and was curiously looking at everything in the city. Behind them, a half-old and half-new city wall seems to tell the history and rebirth of the city.
This plainly dressed young man is Shi Zhiyi, the young city lord of Yunqi City who has hidden his identity and traveled south to experience, his father is the nineteenth city lord of Yunqi City today, Shi Huaichuan, a descendant of Shi Xuanlai, the Marshal of Great Qin, who killed the Demon Emperor thousands of years ago.
The tower-like sturdy young man was met by Shi Zhiyi on the ship heading south. At that time, he was attacked by the Black Jiao Gang disguised as a passenger, and the young man kindly reminded Shi Zhiyi to avoid a difficulty, and the two met.
This young man's name is Helian Mingzhi, 22 years old this year, from an ethnic group called Fengqiang at the junction of the Yueyin Grassland and the Moyun Plateau. The number of this group is not large, only about 70,000 or 80,000 people, and because of the remoteness of the area, many people have never even heard of the name.
However, the Fengqiang clan are natural masters of smelting and forging, and the weapons and armor they forge are all the best of the best. A thousand years ago, when the Demon Clan was powerful, they were attached to the Demon Clan, and they were responsible for the weapon forging of the Demon Clan's senior officers, and many Demon Commanders were proud to have a weapon made by the Fengqiang Clan.
After the Terrans entered the north of the Jade Belt Mountains, the Fengqiang Clan also freed themselves from the rule of the Demon Clan, and gradually developed in the process of trade with the Terrans with their superb forging skills.
Helian Mingzhi went south this time, first, to visit the elders, secondly, to get some things lent by the Hui clan, and the last purpose was to go to Kyoto to participate in the Spring Festival Conference two years later, just like Shi Zhiyi.
Since the Great Qin Dynasty, every ten years, the imperial court will hold a spring banquet at the Chunfeng Terrace of Cuijingshan in Kyoto, in which the descendants of the princes and generals will participate in it, learning martial arts, and also enhancing exchanges between the children of the family.
Six hundred years ago, the Yu family, one of the eight great families, replaced the Great Qin and established the Great Jin Dynasty. The Great Jin Dynasty continued this tradition and carried it forward, renaming it the Lanchun Conference. In addition to the attention and solicitation of the palace, various families, and the army, the top 30 will be rewarded with divine weapons or rare skills.
For hundreds of years, the Lanchun Conference has become the best stage for young warriors who are unwilling to be mediocre to get ahead and become famous.
Shi Zhiyi and Helian Mingzhi have a similar temperament, and when they learned that he was also going to participate in the Spring Festival, they made an appointment to go together. Although Shi Zhiyi came out to practice, there were still more than two years before the Spring Conference, and he didn't have a clear destination, so he went ashore in Luzhou with Helian Mingzhi.
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In front of a house on the main street of Shuangjingfang Mansion in Luchuan County, Helian Mingzhi and Shi Zhiyi looked at each other.
The gate of the house is locked, the courtyard wall is mottled, and the New Year's painting on the gate has been beaten by wind and rain, leaving only a gray-white imprint, and it seems that no one has lived in it for a long time.
"Are you sure it's here?"
"That's right, my grandfather gave me the address. Helian Mingzhi unfolded a piece of parchment in his hand and said suspiciously: "No. 3, Zheng Street, Shuangjingfang, opposite the Rejuvenation Hall Pharmacy. ”
Shi Zhiyi glanced at it, confirmed that the street and house number were correct, and asked, "Who is this elder you are talking about?"
"My aunt, my aunt. ”
"How long has it been since you've seen each other?"
"Twenty years, it is said that she hugged me when I was a child, but I don't remember it anymore. ”
"And when was this address given to you?"
"After my aunt came to Luzhou, she wrote several letters to the clan. But the last communication was 10 years ago. ”
"It looks like we've already moved, so let's ask the neighbors and see if anyone knows. Shi Zhiyi said as he walked towards the Rejuvenation Hall Pharmacy. "If you move in the future, you must remember to remove the house number and take it with you, so that I don't find you. ”
In the early summer afternoon, the air is already a little hot. There is only one guy and an account office on duty in the Rejuvenation Hall. That guy is estimated to be about the same age as Shi Zhiyi, and he has only been here for a few years, so naturally he doesn't know anything.
And after Shi Zhiyi took out three taels of silver, the elderly accountant "just happened" to remember that the family had moved to Jiangyang County ten years ago. But as for the specific place he moved, Mr. Bookkeeper was powerless.
"Who is Chief Sun that the account room is talking about?"
"If I'm not mistaken, it's my uncle. When I came to Luzhou this time, in addition to visiting my aunt, another thing was to ask him to retrieve a Zhen clan holy sword of the Fengqiang clan. ”
"The surname is Sun, I served in the army, and I moved to Jiangyang County ten years ago, with this information, it shouldn't be too difficult to find, let's go." ”
The two went out of the city to find a boat to cross the river, and Shi Zhiyi also learned more information about Aunt Helian Mingzhi by the way.
It turned out that twenty years ago, Helian Mingzhi's aunt rescued a young man who was hunted down by the enemy near the tribe, and then, as written in countless romances, fell in love with him, this young man was Helian Mingzhi's uncle Sun Weiqing.
Sun Weiqing is a native of Luzhou and has a wealthy family, and when he accompanied his father and another family north to the Yueyin Grassland to do business, he accidentally obtained a small piece of purple yang jade. His father died on the spot, but he won a glimmer of life for Sun Weiqing, escaped, and then met Helian Mingzhi's aunt Helian Jieya.
Helian Jieya's father, that is, Helian Mingzhi's grandfather, is the patriarch of the Fengqiang tribe, Sun Weiqing borrowed the Tianpu Sword, one of the holy swords of the Fengqiang tribe, through Helian Jieya, and returned to Luzhou with Helian Jieya to avenge his father. Later, after a battle and revenge, Helian Jieya also settled in Luzhou with her lover. [This chapter was first published.love.have.sound.,Please remember the URL ()]