Chapter 20: Entering the Imperial City
Half a month later, a wide carriage pulled by a double dragon horse slowly drove towards Binh Duong City.
The carriage carriage is wide, antique, and the carving is particularly exquisite, but the brilliance is not there because it is stained with a lot of dust.
Pulling the carriage were two tall and beautiful dragon foals. The dragon foal resembles a horse, but it has two horns and is much taller than a normal horse. She has a strong physique, long and powerful legs, a beautiful red pattern on her body, and a black and shiny mane on her neck, especially like a woman's long hair. The most important thing is that the dragon foal is a rather rare spirit beast, although the rank is not high, but it is extremely expensive, and ordinary aristocratic families can't afford to buy even one. Many of the domesticated dragon foals were collected by the nobles or bought by the generals as war horses.
However, this carriage was directly pulled by two dragon horses, which shows its status as the owner.
The carriage moved smoothly along the road without a single bump. Two men sat in the front of the carriage, and two men with knives guarded the back of the carriage. Look at the clothes of the four people, all dressed as guards.
There were three people sitting in the spacious carriage of the carriage, two bright girls of sixteen or seventeen years old and a handsome young man of twelve or thirteen years old.
When Li Xuanji and Jin Ning saw these two dragon foals for the first time, they were a little shocked.
Although the two of them have been practicing in the Qingzhu Gate, it is not that they have not heard of the value of the dragon horse. Although Jin Ning's father also has two dragon foals, he usually holds them and pets them, let alone pulling a cart, and even rarely rides them.
When the four of them brought over the carriage in Wolong Mountain, Long Da and the other four people were actually pulled by two ordinary horses. Two horses pulling such a large carriage and seven people are particularly difficult. Li Xuanji also raised questions, not to mention that the two horse-drawn carriages arrived in Pingyang City as soon as possible, and they were already lucky if they didn't die of exhaustion halfway.
But only one day later, when the group passed through a forest, Long Da took out a horn from his bosom and blew it into the depths of the forest, and after a short time he saw two dragon foals running out as fast as the wind neighed! It turned out that these two dragon foals were the real owners of this carriage.
With the dragon horse pulling the car, the speed has been raised, no less than the two BMWs I bought at the beginning, and it is much more comfortable than that. It took three months for an ordinary carriage to travel, but it only took them half a month to complete. Moreover, when you should enter the city halfway, you will enter the city when you should stay in the hotel, and it will not affect your rest in the slightest.
Seeing that Pingyang City was in front of him, the carriage finally stopped.
"Miss Jin, Brother Xuanji, Pingyang City is right in front of you. However, there are many people in Pingyang City, so we can only go here together. It's been a pleasure to get along with the two of you for half a month, and I'm lucky that I went out to Dead Dragon City, although I returned empty-handed in the ancient tomb, but I made two of these two friends, and it can be said that I don't lose at all. I've got a gold medal here, and I'm going to give it to you. If you two encounter any trouble in Pingyang City, you can take it to Ziwei Villa in the south of the city to find me. Although I don't know how long the two of you will stay in Binh Duong City, we will definitely meet again if we are fated. Then leave it at that!"
Long Youwei groped out a two-finger-wide gold medal from her waist and handed it to Li Xuanji. The gold medal is engraved with two vigorous and powerful fonts 'dragon figures', and the back is a crape myrtle flower. This is the gold medal that Snake Wing caught from Long Youwei in the first place!
Long Da and the other four looked at the gold medal in Li Xuanji's hand and looked at each other, but they didn't say anything. After getting along with this teenager for so long, it is not surprising that all four of them feel that this teenager is worthy of this gold medal.
"Miss Long, take care! Again, the emperor pays off, I believe that Miss Long's efforts will definitely be able to achieve her long-cherished wish and find what you are looking for." Jin Ning said goodbye to Long Youwei and blessed her. It's completely gone, and the unpleasant look I saw when we first met.
"Looking at Miss Long's face, she is also a blessed person, and she will definitely meet again in the future. I hope that when I see Miss Long again, she will be a beautiful woman with a smile on her face. Li Xuanji took the gold medal into his arms and said goodbye to Long Youwei.
"I said Brother Xuanji, you have called Miss Long all the way, and now when you are leaving, can't you call me Sister Long?" Long Youwei complained, staring at Li Xuanji with resentful eyes.
Li Xuanji: "......"
Long Youwei's resentful eyes turned into smiling eyes in the blink of an eye, and she covered her mouth and chuckled.
Long Youwei felt that she had never been able to see through the teenager in front of her, obviously he was just a teenager, but he always pretended to be old-fashioned, and the skills on his body were endless, and his understanding was extremely high. There is also a sense of familiarity that makes me want to do something.
Long Youwei, who was about to turn around, suddenly turned around again, hugged the stunned Li Xuanji directly into her arms, and rubbed Li Xuanji's smooth long hair vigorously with her hands.
Li Xuanji only felt that his face was pressed into the middle of two soft things, and he couldn't breathe anymore. Just as she was about to resist, Long Youwei had already quickly let go of Li Xuanji, leaving a string of silver bell-like laughter into the carriage.
Long Da and the other four were so shocked that their eyes were about to pop out, and after hearing Long Youwei's call, they drove the carriage towards the south of the city with a wooden expression.
Jin Ning crossed her arms, raised her eyebrows slightly, touched Li Xuanji, who had been stunned next to her, and whispered:
"Uncle Xiao, she actually teased you!"
Li Xuanji came back to his senses, remembering the soft feeling he felt, and his face turned red all of a sudden.
"I want you to talk more!"
Li Xuanji was annoyed and embarrassed, and walked towards the tall gate of Pingyang City in the distance with a small face.
"Cut, you're not sure what you've become. ”
Jin Ning muttered quietly, secretly looked at his chest, and then raised his head to chase Li Xuanji.
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Pingyang City is worthy of being the imperial city of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Just by looking at the endless tall city walls outside the city, you can know how vast the area of Binh Duong City is and how many people there are inside. When you enter the city, you will find that the previous estimate is wrong, and the residents inside are about to crush the walls of Pingyang City!
It was the first time to come to such a big city and see so many people, Li Xuanji and Jin Ning couldn't help but have a feeling that they were very small, and even a little bit of dense fear.
Everywhere there are tall buildings, and the scales are side by side. Countless businesses and shops are open on the bustling streets, and the stalls on the streets are constantly shouting for sales. Countless tourists fill the streets, shoulder to shoulder, bustling.
Ordinary people dressed in ordinary coarse linen clothes are busy doing their work, merchants covered in brocade and lavish satin are drinking tea and calculating their profits, girls dressed in red and willow green accompany their boudoirs to choose rouge gouache, sons and brothers with folding fans chant crooked poems while looking for new objects, and many nobles riding exotic beasts or luxurious carriages hurriedly follow their families through the market.
The dazzling Li Xuanji and Jin Ning are really eye-opening, and they are sincerely amazed, what an imperial city atmosphere!
However, what makes the two of them a little headache at the moment is that the task assigned by the head of the family is to go to the Ling family in Pingyang City to treat the injuries of the eldest lady of the Ling family, but Pingyang City is so big as the imperial city of the Great Zhou, and the population may have already exceeded one million. How to find this Ling family in Pingyang City?
"Jin Ning, I'm afraid it will be difficult for such a big city to find the Ling family. The senior brother in charge did not say where the Ling family was. ”
"If you don't know, just ask for directions!"
"Are you kidding? Looking for a small Ling family in the vast sea of people, unless you ask the land lord, only the land lord knows!"
Li Xuanji scoffed at Jin Ning's words. knew that she shouldn't be asked, and she didn't want to use her brain for anything except sword practice.
"Hey, let me ask you, do you know where the Ling family lives?" Jin Ning didn't listen to Li Xuanji's words, but directly reached out and pulled a small guy driving a carriage in front of him over and asked domineeringly.
Li Xuanji said angrily, "He is just a common man, if you ask him, where does he know! ”
The little guy driving the carriage was rudely dragged over, and he was about to get angry, but when he saw that it was a beautiful and beautiful girl, the anger in his heart immediately disappeared.
"The girl wants to find the Ling family, the Ling family lives in Tianzi No. 1 Mansion on Changsheng Avenue!"
"......" Li Xuanji was speechless, and couldn't help asking: "The Ling family we are looking for is the Ling family that has a young lady who is a genius cultivator in the family, and that young lady was injured last month. ”
"That's right, that's what you said about the Ling family!" replied.
"How could it be so coincidental? Just grab someone and ask about it, and the other party will know. The young lady of the Ling family was injured, how could you know about this kind of secret? You are lying, right?"
"What kind of panic am I messing about? Miss Ling is injured, and everyone in Pingyang City knows about it!"
Li Xuanji: "......"
"You don't believe me, I can take you. But well, I'm going to charge some guide fees!" The little guy confirmed that the two people in front of him were outsiders, and couldn't help but think carefully.
"Okay, as long as the Ling family you said is the Ling family we are looking for, I will give you as much guide fee as you want!" Li Xuanji replied.
"Hehe, okay, the small one is very fair, because the Ling family is far away, so I'll charge ten taels of silver." Hearing Li Xuanji's words, the little guy almost went crazy with joy. The other party is really still a child and doesn't understand the world.
Sure enough, it's dark enough! It costs ten taels of silver to lead the way! Li Xuanji scolded in his heart. However, if you can really find the Ling family, it is very cost-effective to spend ten cars.
Li Xuanji and Jin Ning got into the carriage of the little maid and walked towards the city, all the way through the civilian area, and through the bustling merchants, directly into the inner city. The inner city is much smaller than the outer city, there are no more lively shops and tourists, the streets and houses are much more neat and beautiful, and the people who live in the inner city are the nobles of Binh Duong City.
After passing through a few streets, I finally came to a road that the little guy said was Changsheng. I came to the end of Changsheng Avenue and saw a majestic and spacious mansion. The high eaves are flying, the vermilion doorposts are vermilion, the vermilion gates, and the two spirit beast stone carving town gates.
Li Xuanji covered the sun with his hands, looking at a huge plaque hanging above the porch, his face full of surprise.
General's Palace!