"This place lives up to its name!"

Lu Weimang pressed his hat tightly and looked at the rolling yellow sand outside the Yumen Pass.

They stopped and turned around at random all the way, and finally arrived at Yumen Pass in the west of Yongzhou more than a month later.

It is a simple small city, and the low city wall makes Lu Weimang feel as if he can jump on the city wall.

The famous Yumen Pass is just a half-high earthen pass, and it is even much shabby than the bluestone pass hastily built by Chengyang in Hanzhong. Only the richly dressed merchants who pass by from time to time show the extraordinary nature of this pass.

Lu Weimang and his entourage were outside the Yumen Pass, looking at the four fields of the Yumen Pass with emotion.

"The verses that have been handed down since ancient times have given this pass a different temperament. Although it looks simple, it can clearly feel extraordinary. ”

Huo Jing also looked at the four fields of Yumen Pass, all outside the pass was occupied by yellow sand, only camels could pass, and only poplars could survive. The reason why the eyes are yellow and sandy, this is the jade gate.

Of course, Huo Jing, as the military and political chief guarding Yongzhou, His Majesty's closest and trusted person, looking at Yumen Pass and his own borders, of course, what he thinks and feels in his heart is not the same as Lu Weimang, the chief civil officer.

"I don't know if it's difficult to drink water here, if there is enough food to eat?"

Lu Weimang muttered.

Hearing Lu Weimang's muttering, Huo Jing hooked his lips and smiled, "What a qualified chief officer." ”

Huo Jing and Lu Weimang didn't bother each other like this, and looked at Yumen Pass with each other tacitly. But the pedestrians and merchants around were a little in awe, not glancing at this group of people.

The clothing and momentum of this group of people are the only ones they have seen in their lives, and some locals, with all their heads, can't think of the identities of Huo Jing and Lu Weimang and their party, but they can't touch their intuition, "Could it be the royal family of a big tribe?" But they are obviously all Han Chinese? Could it be from Tiandu? No, it's too far away, it shouldn't be possible. ”

Just as the people who came and went were looking at each other privately, the chief official of the Jade Gate, a dry old man, "rushed" out of the city gate at a speed that did not match his size.

"Huo Hou! Lord Lu! You're finally here! ”

As he spoke, he even threw himself under Huo Jing's horse because he didn't brake the car.

Huo Jing took a step back from the horses and asked lightly, "But the chief officer of the Jade Gate?" ”

Lao Sue got up excitedly and patted the sand on his body, which was raised so that it could almost hide his thin body.

"It's Lao Suo!"

After sloppy patting the sand on his body, the thin old man looked up and said.

Lu Weimang and Huo Jing glanced at each other, turned over and dismounted.

"How did you know it was ours?"

Lu Weimang asked curiously.

Although Lao Suo is thin and thin, he is not shrunk, nor is he sluggish as an ordinary old man, except for the sand and dust on his body, the whole person gives Lu Weimang a clean and energetic feeling.

If it weren't for the wrinkles and gray hair on the old man's face, as well as the thin and thin arms that were different from the thin young people, Lu Weimang even felt that what she was in front of was not an old man, but a young man in his teens who had a strong curiosity and vitality about everything.

"Last year, His Majesty summoned the order to arrive at Yumen, and Lao Suo knew that one day he would be able to wait for Huo Hou and Lord Lu, you see, but for more than half a year, we will wait!"

Lao Suo said excitedly, and explained to Lu Weimang with great interest, "The imperial decree is conveyed slowly, Lao Suo only got the decree last winter, and you two want to govern Yongzhou, no, presumably as soon as the weather warms up this year, you two will come to inspect, right?" The road here in Yumen is not easy to walk, and the road is delayed, isn't it now? ”

Listening to Lao Suo's words and looking at Lao Suo's warm eyes, Lu Weimang was slightly uncomfortable. They traveled all the way to the mountains and rivers, and arrived very late, but they didn't expect Lao Suo to think they were coming in a hurry.

Huo Jing also got off the horse, and stood beside Lu Weimang, seeing that she was said by Lao Suo as soon as she looked at her, she laughed secretly in her heart, the gentleman deceived her, Lu Weimang just couldn't stand the warm and sincere treatment of others. The old man in front of him was looking forward to them coming, but what he said just now was definitely exaggerated, so that Lu Weimangjue felt guilty, and then he just put forward the conditions.

Huo Jing had insight into Lao Suo's heart, and he didn't say anything, only swept his sharp eyes over Lao Suo.

Lao Suo's eyes shrank, his expression froze, knowing that Huo Hou was not as pure-minded as Lord Lu, so he immediately softened his tone and looked at Lu Weimang.

"Lord Lu, let's hurry into the city! This jade gate can't compare to the prosperity of the Jincheng directly under you, and it is a little dilapidated, don't dislike it! ”

Lao Suo's words are full of flaws, and his words are obviously clear about the changes in Jincheng in the past year, so he can say that Jincheng was prosperous when he was poor.

But Lu Weimang has never been wary of sincere people, her five senses are sensitive, and a person's attitude towards her can be distinguished by a face-to-face.

Some people are smiling and grinning, and their mouths are sweet words that seem to be smeared with honey, but Lu Weimang first feels that this person is wrong, and will instinctively resist contact with this person.

But some people are sincere to her, so Lu Weimang will filter out the occasional inappropriateness in this person's mouth and treat each other with sincerity.

For example, the queen and the old man in front of her.

The old man looked at her gaze, so sincere and enthusiastic that it almost overflowed, making Lu Weimang unconsciously polite.

"You're welcome, old man, let's go into the city!"

Huo Jing knew that this old man was probably asking Lu Weimang for something, but he had a clear eye and no distractions, and a person with such a gaze must not be for personal gain, so Huo Jing also let him be careful.

The black armor guard followed Huo Jing and Lu Weimang to dismount and enter the city, and the old man who led the way in front Yu Guang saw that the Huo family was so respectful and respectful, and the smile on his face deepened.

With the dilapidated Yumen Pass, not many people will deliberately dismount and enter the city at this dilapidated pass.

Although the courtesy rules of dismounting and entering the city were first implemented in Yumen Pass, which spread all over the world.

The mighty Huo family and his entourage entered the solemn Yumen County Ya.

"This is when General Fei was guarding Yumen, he led his soldiers and collected materials in the vast grassland and desert to build such a magnificent Yahe Pass in Yumen County! But time has passed, the Yumen Pass has been broken several times, and now the city gate has long lost its original majestic appearance, only this official office, rare preservation. Hehe, that's right, no matter who breaks the city, there must be a place to stay. So it's perfectly preserved here, and it's normal! ”

With Lao Suo's explanation, the group entered the county office.

Different from the solemnity outside, there is a bleak atmosphere inside, and Lu Weimang even feels that it is not as popular as the temple of the master on the Immortal Cliff.

"Coarse tea and light rice, Lord Lu and Huo Hou, don't dislike it!"

Lao Su led everyone to the Ming Hall.

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(End of chapter)