Nothing was said all night.

When I opened my eyes again, I saw Pei Yuanxiu sitting on the edge of the bed looking down at us, I squinted my eyes slightly, thinking that it was the sun dazzling, but when I looked closely, it turned out that it was just the candlestick on the table shining on my face, and outside the window, it was still a dark night.

The candlelight shone on his face, and the orange light revealed a gentle aura that made me tremble for a moment.

After a while, he said softly, "Wake up." ”

“…… Well. I nodded, and my mind cleared up a little: "When?" ”

"Three o'clock."

"So early?"

"We discussed that it would be better to enter the city earlier. Those thieves were not caught, and they didn't know where they came from, but it could be seen that there should be no such paragraph. We don't know each other well, so don't encounter them again. ”

He had a point.

Last night, those thieves were able to quietly touch in, and there were people outside to answer, obviously prepared, and very familiar with the neighborhood, we have a lot of manpower, but the strong dragon is difficult to suppress the head snake, in the end we still have to be cautious.

So I hurriedly got up, and also woke up Li'er, and immediately Su Su brought a few maids to serve us to freshen up, although on the road should be a little simple, but considering that I am going to enter Chengdu today, my dress is still not so sloppy, and even asked Su Su to dress up a little for Li'er.

When she was combing her hair, I went out to take a look.

Last night's frightening scene made the owner of this inn still a little frightened, the big hole in the wall was not blocked, probably sent someone to patrol all night, and several shopkeepers did not dare to come out of the corridor to wait.

I paced back to the room where I had left last night, and saw a few attendants cleaning up inside.

As soon as they saw me, they hurried over to salute, and I just waved my hand and walked in and looked around. I didn't see it clearly last night, but I realized that not only the quilt on the bed, but also some clothes were thrown to the ground, and the cabinet was opened, and the contents were turned into a mess.

I frowned.

When one of the attendants saw me like this, he immediately said cautiously: "Madam, this is what those thieves have messed up before, and we will clean it up immediately." ”

I didn't speak, just nodded, turned and walked out.

After a while, Li'er was already dressed. She was wearing a pink skirt, delicate ruffles embroidered with fine flowers, with a lively double bun, she looked particularly delicate and lovely, I took her and Pei Yuanxiu out together, I heard that Liu Qinghan and they were already waiting in the carriage to set off, we didn't say much, got in the carriage and galloped towards Chengdu.

The fog was thick and the sky was dark.

In Shudi, such cloudy days are very common, all the way to the carriage hanging the two lanterns, fortunately the road here is wide without much obstacles, but it is also relatively smooth, just after Mao, we entered the city of Chengdu.

At this time, Chengdu City also woke up.

It seems that I already know that there is news that the "big man" is coming today, and all the people are solemn, and when they enter the city, they don't even check, I only slightly open some curtains, and I see the city gate in front of me, which is a little majestic under the dark sky, but more of a depressing feeling.

Fortunately, at this time, the sun rose.

After entering the city, the carriage sped all the way, the sun slowly rose, and the sun shone little by little, as if chasing our carriage.

It's as if our carriage is chasing time.

Li'er was originally because she didn't sleep well, all the way, at this time she also woke up, lying on the window of the car and looked out in surprise, that is as spacious as the capital, enough to pass the avenue of guò eight or two carriages, but it is completely different from the pavilions and pavilions in the capital, with a variety of exotic buildings, so that she is dizzying, especially after the Hongyan Building, into the main city, the surrounding scenery is even more unique.

"Mother, look at those are so strange."

I sat behind her and looked at that side as well.

Those landscapes that have become a little unfamiliar, but are deeply engraved in the depths of my memory.

Chengdu, or the prosperity of Shu has lasted for thousands of years, and it is rumored that even the war of the first emperor to unify the world through the ages, almost all of the material support behind it came from the results of the conquest of Shu. When the royal family entered the customs, Shu was not included in its territory, which also gave it great development and living space, and the wealth here far exceeded that of the capital and even the south of the Yangtze River.

However, it is also a little different from the prosperity of the capital.

The former dynasty moved the capital from the hinterland of the Central Plains to the north, and the capital of the current capital is a pattern of "the Son of Heaven guarding the frontier", and because of its role as a military fortress, most of the buildings in the capital tend to be low except for the imperial city, not exceeding the height of the surrounding city walls; But Chengdu is different, although it is a large flat plain, but the buildings here are towering, on both sides of the wide road, from time to time you will see some carved stone pillars, wrapped in colorful ribbons fluttering in the wind, but also give people the illusion of a dense forest.

This is also a scenery that cannot be seen in the capital or in the south of the Yangtze River.

I lowered my head and whispered softly in Li'er's ear, "Is it beautiful?" ”

"Beautiful!"

She nodded, looked outside without even blinking her eyes, and suddenly, a white light flashed in those big watery eyes, and she stretched out her hand and pointed outside: "Mother, look." ”

What did she see?

Even Pei Yuanxiu moved over, only to see that on both sides of the avenue behind our convoy, two teams of people suddenly appeared, shuttling quickly between the houses, although there were many people around, they were very flexible, and they didn't even cause a little panic along the way, and some people saw them and applauded loudly.

Pei Yuanxiu couldn't help but praise: "Good! ”

It was eighteen horsemen, all dressed in white, and the horses that sat on them were tall and mighty, with snow-white fur, and extremely fast, as if two lightning bolts were striking from them.

With the sound of neat horses' hooves, those knights said loudly: "Anyang Eighteen Riders, welcome the eldest lady!" ”

Li'er clapped her hands and said loudly: "What a beautiful horse! ”

As we spoke, the eighteen horsemen had gathered around our convoy, but they did not approach any further, but kept a certain distance and escorted our carriage all the way forward.

I glanced out, only hooked the corners of my lips, and when I retracted my gaze, I saw Pei Yuanxiu looking at me with a smile, and said, "What a big show." ”

I smiled faintly: "It's just a group of horses." ”

"These horses are not ordinary."

As we spoke, our carriage traveled a long distance into the heart of Chengdu.

Li'er was originally staring at the horses outside in a daze, but at this time, she suddenly saw something, and stretched out her hand to point ahead: "Look! ”

Eight thick stone pillars were erected on both sides of the avenue in front, four on one side, and a spacious road was vacant in the middle of the rest, like a heavenly gate, but this heavenly gate had another style compared to other places. Moreover, although all the way before, you can see all kinds of stone pillars, but these eight are extremely huge, almost four people can hug each other, carved with strange shapes of human faces, high nose and huge eyes, wide mouth and big ears, revealing a strange atmosphere, and the ordinary carving seen in the Central Plains is very different.

While they were marveling at the sight of these strange stone sculptures, there was another buzzing sound in the sky.

When I looked up, I saw eight dark shadows passing overhead.

At first glance, it seems to be eight birds, but the birds will never have such a strange sound when they fly, nor will they have such a fast speed.

Pei Yuanxiu said suspiciously: "What is this?" ”

"The Tang family's mecha."

"Mecha?" He was stunned, looked out with a look of surprise, and sighed for a while: "I once heard that the birds made by mecha masters can fly in the sky, and it turns out to be true!" ”

"A lot of old books have been destroyed, but luckily there are still some of them here."

"They made it from ancient books?"

"Hmm." I smiled faintly: "It's just that when I left, I didn't do as well as I do now." ”

As we spoke, the eight birds had already followed our carriage for some distance, and by this time they had overtaken us, rushing straight towards the eight huge stone pillars.

Just hear the bang!

Li'er's eyes widened in surprise.

But I saw that the top of the eight stone pillars suddenly exploded, and with a few explosions, countless shattered objects rose up, and were blown by the wind, and suddenly scattered in all directions.

It was a myriad of colorful petals and satin!

Our carriage kept galloping past, and soon entered the dense rain of flowers, fluttering and falling, and even flew into our carriage, and then looked at the Anyang eighteen horses around us who escorted us, the snow-white horses galloped in the colorful petals, and the strength and beauty were vividly displayed at this moment!

Li'er was stunned by the scene just now, and at this time he looked at the scenery outside, and he didn't seem to know whether it should be surprise or joy, and after a while, he let out a stupid exclamation-

"Wow!"

And with an exclamation, the carriage stopped.

The eighteen horsemen of Anyang, who escorted us all the way, also stopped at this time, and their movements were as uniform as if they were a person, and at the same time turned the horse's head and walked to the right side of the carriage, lined up.

Pei Yuan said: "I have long heard that the people of Shu are outstanding spirits, and when I see them today, I live up to my reputation." ”

I smiled faintly, and before I could answer this, the curtain of the carriage had been lifted by the attendants who came immediately, and they stood outside, and said respectfully, "Welcome to the eldest lady." ”

A few of us got out of the carriage.

As soon as I stood still, I saw that Liu Qinghan and Wen Fengxi in front of me also came down, and the expressions of the two people were not easier than mine, especially Wen Fengxi looked at Anyang Eighteen Horsemen, and lowered his head and said something in Liu Qinghan's ear, Liu Qinghan raised his head and looked at me, didn't say anything, turned his head to look at the left side of the carriage.

In front of me, a grand and well-organized palace complex.

The sun shuttled through the clouds, sprinkling a brilliant crown of light shining on the towering and tall building, the gilded tiles were illuminated by the sun, reflecting the red color, and the clouds and mist condensed overhead, like a temple in the clouds, finally broke through the layers of fog, and appeared in front of our eyes.