Chapter Seventy-Nine: Under the Pingliang City
In the early morning of late autumn, the cold wind is steep and the river is frozen, but the bitter fisherman gets up early and casts his net on the Heishui River.
The water quality of the Heishui River is turbid, there is no fatty river fresh, there is only one kind of black water silver carp, although the meat is rough, but every late autumn season, the belly is full of fish roe, whether it is barbecue or soup, it is sweet and delicious, the fishermen here wait for this season's business all year round, so the morning glow has just hung up the hill, and the Heishui River is very lively.
Wu Ye squatted on the bow of a small boat, and a two-pound silver carp was stewed in the red clay casserole next to him, and the tempting aroma had already wafted out of the cracks in the casserole, making his mouth water.
He wore a set of tattered coarse cloth clothes, but there were strong leather patches on his elbows, chest, waist, and knees, and leggings on his feet, and a large hat to cover his entire face, which was the most common dress of travelers on the northwestern grounds.
When the fish soup was boiled, Wu Ye rubbed his hands and lifted the hat, revealing an extremely ugly face, with a dark face, swollen eye bubbles, wrinkled wrinkles, and unkempt hair.
This is only the most crude technique in the transfiguration, under the guidance of Ma Boguang, he found a lot of very useful plants in the forest, there is a vermilion fruit, eating it will make the face black, there is a kind of pulp secreted from the tree, when applied to the face, the whole face will be swollen, and another colorful poisonous mushroom, mashed and mixed with the venom on the toad's back, applied to the face, will make the facial muscles contract suddenly, if applied to the lips, it can cause the effect of large teeth!
Wu Ye looked at the stream for a long time, convinced that even if Xiao Han stood in front of him, he shouldn't be able to recognize his appearance, let alone Qi Gongzi, who only had a few faces.
Only then did he dare to be brave and single-handedly kill Pingliang City.
A lonely boat carried him in the Heishui River for a long time, and the water in front of him was turbulent, but he reached the mouth of the river.
The Heishui River merges into the Tiesha River here, and the Tiesha River is turbulent and turbulent, and it is not suitable for small boats to shuttle, so he abandoned the small boat here, mixed with a group of passengers, and replaced it with a sheepskin raft.
The sheepskin raft is a boat unique to the Tiesha River, which is made of whole cow and sheepskin, sewn into a skin bag that is blown up, tied firmly, and covered with wooden planks.
The large-scale sheepskin raft can use seven or eight hundred skin bags, can carry tens of thousands of catties of goods, and can be put straight downstream, which can be carried for 300 miles.
It is a large sheepskin raft carrying people, and there are also one or two hundred skin bags, which drift with the current, as if walking on the ground, which is much more comfortable than ordinary ships.
Sitting on the bow of the boat, blowing the river breeze with a slight rusty smell on the Tiesha River, watching the raft guests use a long penny to mess around in the water like a trick, and from time to time also roar a few high-pitched boat ballads, unconsciously, the light boat has passed the ten thousand mountains, after noon, faintly see the towering and heavy city wall of Pingliang City, shining golden yellow in the sun.
It is said that when this Pingliang City was built, 50,000 laborers and 50,000 slaves were levied, mixed with glutinous rice and boy urine with sticky yellow clay, and tamped hard, and the sharpest spear could not penetrate three inches, and every time it was built, hundreds of fierce beasts had to be slaughtered to sacrifice to the heavens, and-
The traveler paused, and said mysteriously, when this Pingliang City was being built, it also specially hired a cultivator from the Heavenly Jin Kingdom to guide it, and the entire city itself was an extremely powerful rune array, which was enough to resist the attack of the demon beasts.
Although these legends are imaginary, the solidity of Pingliang City is also a number in Western Qinzhou, and there is a team of elite Pingliang warriors stationed, which has never been broken by the beast tide for hundreds of years.
The residents on the ground of Pingliang City, the biggest wish is to move to live in Pingliang City, but every inch of land in Pingliang City is gold, and it has long been divided up by the rich, this wish is almost a fool's dream, so they have to retreat to the second, and build a low shack outside Pingliang City, forming several large markets, gathering the goods on the ground of Pingliang City, trading here, earning the difference, but also very lively.
Wu Ye mixed in the brigade of travelers, through the market, was about to enter the city, but was driven to the side of the road by a group of guards, there was a noise of gongs and drums in his ears, when he looked back, a dozen knights in fresh clothes and angry horses led, followed by a dozen ox carts, each of which was filled with heavy wooden boxes, dragging the big bull sweating like rain, panting.
A young man dressed gorgeously and looking like a rich kid said with some unconvincing: "Who is this, why do you want us to give way?"
Just hearing the "snap", a thick and red whip mark suddenly arched on this young hot face, and even the back molars spit out two.
A guard held a leather whip, glared and shouted: "This is the convoy of the Western Qin Marquis Mansion, you kid is not afraid of death, just go to the road and try it!"
The young man was about to scream, and when he heard the words "Xiqin Marquis Mansion", he almost didn't scare out his eyes, covered his cheeks, and didn't dare to let go of half a fart.
Wu Ye was also stunned, and looked at these knights a few times.
The Marquis of Western Qin is not only the actual ruler of the 1,800 miles of mountains and rivers in the Western Qin Prefecture, but also has the reputation of "the first fierce general of the Wuwei Kingdom".
Sure enough, these Western Qin iron horsemen wore a chain of soft armor inside, covered with a thick layer of rhinoceros leather armor, exuding a black luster, it seemed that they were all made of the thickest black rhinoceros skin, each soldier wore a bronze mask, carved into a hideous and terrifying appearance, the whole face was covered, only from the hole of the two black holes, revealing a pair of indifferent and ruthless eyes.
Although he couldn't see their faces clearly, judging from their even breathing, they were definitely first-class masters, Wu Ye estimated that without using the fox Gu incense, the mist phantom knife, and the Fu ghost, he could only barely defeat one against two, and if there were more than five, it would be difficult to even escape.
When he was secretly smacking his tongue, he saw that at the end of this group of knights, on top of a particularly majestic dark cloud war horse, a short and fat boy of seventeen or eighteen years old sat crookedly, with a crooked mouth and eyes, a face full of meat, on his neck, waist, fingers, and earlobes...... But wherever you can hang gems, they are full of colorful jewelry, looking like a colorful rooster, but I feel very good about myself, from time to time stop and scratch my head, at a glance it is the best among the gentlemen.
As the convoy slowly entered the city, there were whispers from the crowd, and Wu Ye pricked up his ears and listened for a long time before he figured out that the arrival of this convoy had nothing to do with him.
The convoy of the Marquis of Western Qin Mansion came for the prince of Qi.
Ten days ago, under the charge of Qi Gongzi's "leading soldiers", "fighting hard", and "not afraid of death", it took less than three days and three nights for the beast tide that was raging in Heishui County to be beaten and almost completely annihilated.
In the war of the Western Qin people against the beast tide, this kind of painful annihilation war is very rare, especially in order to kill the wolf king who has mutated into a demon beast, Qi Gongzi was also seriously injured and his life was in danger - after hearing about this, the fathers and villagers of the entire Heishui County couldn't help but feel sad and tears fell like rain.
If this alone is not enough to attract the attention of the Marquis of Western Qin, then the impassioned song "How Can You Say No Clothes" makes people completely impressed by Qi Gongzi.
It is said that even the first fierce general of Wuwei Kingdom, Xi Qinhou, who has experienced a hundred battles, couldn't help but draw his sword and sing when he heard this song "How Can You Say No Clothes".
After singing a song, the Marquis of Western Qin was still unsatisfied, and with a wave of his hand, he loaded a large number of gold and silver, weapons, armor, cloth and grain and grass, and loaded a full seventeen or eighteen carts, and transported them to Pingliang City to reward the young hero of Qi Gongzi!
"It's a pity that this young hero will soon become a dead corpse!"
Wu Ye sneered in his heart, and waited for the convoy of the Western Qin Marquis Mansion to pass over, and then calmly dusted off his clothes and walked through the city tower in a hurry.
As soon as he entered Pingliang City, there was a roar like thunder in his ears: "All the new people who enter the city come here to pay the entrance fee, and then take a closer look at this hero list!"