On the masonry walls, the symbols of the eyes are equal to each other and spaced at the same intervals, and this mark is left in the model of the masonry firing.

"What's that weird eye symbol?"

Gu Chuan was puzzled and asked in the carriage.

Who knew that the concave-faced merchant suddenly became excited for some reason, and said to Gu Chuan sharply:

"Be respectful, kid!"

Gu Chuan was taken aback, and immediately lowered his head, but saw the gesture indicated by the concave-faced merchant. He followed the gesture and looked into the distance, and saw the heavily armed guards gazing at the caravan.

"That's the ruler of Sunset City, the winner of six Dusk Wars, and the coat of arms under the crown that never sets."

The concave-faced merchant said solemnly, almost reverently.

But Gu Chuan soon discovered that these people in the city only called the crown, but never revealed the surname and name of the "crown", and they didn't even know the existence of the heir of the "crown" and the family to which they belonged, as if it was a taboo that could not be called directly.

At the request of the guards, the caravan and the people on board the caravan, including the children, got off the bus one after another and were questioned by the guards at the checkpoint of the outer city wall.

The so-called outer city and outer city walls, in the ancient words of Gu Chuan's previous motherland, are relative to the "Guo" of the inner city.

Sunset City's façade is still under construction, and large swaths of the site are still piled up with piles of materials, with several trampled paths winding between the inside and outside of the façade. As far as Gu Chuan could see, he could see that the laborers were tiredly pulling carts to transport gray bricks and stones carved with heraldic coats of arms, running from one end of the city to the other. These laborers were slow to move, most of them were young but hunched over, and their sweaty faces were covered with fine wrinkles, which made Gu Chuan unbearable to see them for a while.

When he turned his head, he saw in the eyes of the young men of his age, for the visitors of the village had never seen such a magnificent work, and even the cast-iron tools they used so much amazed them.

The captain of the guard who examined them was heavily armoured, with a square helmet on his face, revealing only the gaps between his eyes and mouth. He seems to be very familiar with the concave face merchant, but he looks down on the concave face merchant very much.

He heard what the concave-faced businessman said to Gu Chuan before, and said coldly: "I am afraid that you businessmen do not respect the queen as much as they respect money. On the surface, if you are pretentious, who knows? ”

The concave-faced merchant let out a flattering smile.

"It is also the duty of us merchants to develop the prosperity of Sunset City! Whatever business leaves Sunset City, it's absolutely not okay. We will certainly cooperate with the order that His Majesty has established in the beginning. This is a letter sent to you by Xishui Village, take a look. The concave merchant said as he handed a "letter" wrapped in silk cloth to the captain of the guard.

The captain of the guard weighed his weight. So from the crack in the captain's helmet, Gu Chuan could see that this guy's cold face had turned into a smiling face.

"I hope you will never forget the glory of your birth in Sunset City, and the protection that Sunset City has given you, and remember the kindness that Sunset City has given you."

"Yes, yes."

The concave-faced merchant said, and turned his head away, his face gloomy.

The young people from Rizhao Village didn't care about these details, they just looked up and observed.

For the first time, a man from a narrow village stood on the edge of a city and looked down on the size of the world. As far as the eye can see, you can see the barracks where the soldiers of the border militia are located, as well as the casinos and taverns that are not found in the village. Outside the buildings, where they did not know why people were coming in and out, the ruined and dejected begging people on the well-groomed roadside made them feel sympathy, and in the deep alleys there were people who were very little dressed and kept waving to the people outside, making them feel sorry. There are also smiling merchants selling small pieces of paper with numbers on them, and the pieces of paper marked with the selected number can be exchanged for a large amount of money from the merchants, which makes the young people eager to try it.

"This is Meng Cai......"

Gu Chuan stretched out his hand to stop everyone.

After only observing and being stunned for a while, this team from Rizhao Village was like a small stone washed by the waves of human flow, drowning in this endless city.

"There are so many people!"

At that time, the river bank opened his eyes wide and said in surprise.

Gu Chuan didn't make a sound, and when he looked around, he saw that this person was bustling, and people were bustling. Dozens, hundreds, much more than the tiny village of Rizhao, so many that half of the people who swarmed like ants walked in a hurry, talking loudly. The former is muddled, the latter is full of longing for status. Along the side of the road, Gu Chuan heard pedestrians who liked to talk about strange things, or where new strange things were dug up, or what construction was going to be done in Sunset City, and where there was an opportunity.

Youth and old age, vitality and twilight, exist in this city at the same time.

Some are striving for a higher and higher status, while others seem to have given up altogether and are just running their lives listlessly and uneventfully.

And Gu Chuan, they are like a young fish struggling to swim in this flow of people.

At that time, no one knew them, and they didn't know anyone here.

The people of Rizhao Village also have friends from the border people who are living in Sunset City, but they may not be able to find them if they have not been in touch for a long time during the war. Therefore, the carpenter decides, according to the concave face merchant, to go to a shop that resembles an intermediary or labor agency. These shops usually collect money with one hand, provide information with the other, and help house the villagers who have come from the villages near Sunset City.

The "intermediary" has a Sima face.

At first glance, Gu Chuan felt that this person was not very friendly to the "border people".

After hearing the non-standard dialect of Rizhao Village, he was even more discriminatory.

The carpenter was also unhappy when he met this Sima-faced intermediary, but he hadn't entered the city for a long time, and he was not familiar with the place, so he had to pay the money while smiling.

"Everything in the city seems to be getting more expensive."

The children heard the carpenter whispering to himself.

Sima-faced intermediary gave the carpenter's money to his apprentice. The carpenter kept an eye on his money to prevent the transfer of the contract, and saw that the apprentice had struck a few times, probably estimating the composition of the discolored stone coin, and after a while said to the intermediary:

"It's official money, teacher."

Sima's face intermediary's complexion softened, and his attitude became better.

After working for most of the day, the talents of Rizhao Village, under the leadership of an intermediary, collected an empty house in the densely packed slum streets of the out-of-city border areas.

The vacant room was on the second floor, and there was a wooden ladder up and down that creaked and made people suspect that it would break at any moment. It can be seen that the cast-iron houses that the concave face merchant said did not benefit a border area in the outer city.

This room is only about 20 square meters, and it is necessary to squeeze all ten people, but it is already the limit of Rizhao Village's budget. Gu Chuan raised his eyes and saw a cockroach-like insect the size of his finger crawling in the corner of the wall. Fortunately, when the insect found out about the arrival of the man, it seemed to be frightened, and drilled into the corner of the wall, and immediately disappeared.

There are only two windows in the house, one facing the gray house in front of the house and the other facing the gray house behind the house. Huge shadows drowned all space in darkness, and dust and smoke swirled in the darkness.

Later, Gu Chuan learned that this kind of house is generally not seen in the border area for a long time, so it is regarded as his own house by the neighbor next door, and then he finds these intermediaries to sell it, but in fact, it doesn't cost money at all. There is no strong government agency in the border areas to maintain property rights, only basic peace and order.

But the people of Rizhao Village didn't know it at that time.

In this scene, some people couldn't help it.

"Dad, are we going to live here?"

The carpenter's son, whose name roughly translates to pebbles. As the name suggests, the people of Rizhao Village are named after various terms related to the Rizhao River. Pebbles are also stones on the banks of the river.

Most of the children are still immersed in the dazzle of the big city and are embarrassed. Only Pebble suddenly spoke in a dull voice.

It's not for his own enjoyment, it's just that his father, as the leader of the team pushed out of the village, found such a house, which made Pebble feel that he couldn't hold his head up in front of his friends.

The furniture left by the previous generation of residents in this room was also left behind, which saved a lot of storage costs, which surprised the carpenter. Of course, the carpenter was never prepared to use the money to buy things in the first place. The traditional virtue of Rizhao Village is that there is something that is better than doing it yourself. With the ability of a carpenter, it is not a problem to find some work, get some wood, and make furniture yourself.

As soon as Pebble asked, the joy in his heart suddenly disappeared, and he immediately knocked the slender young man with his fist:

"It's inevitable that you're going to have to suffer a little now, do you understand? What did I tell you before I went into town? If you don't want to, wait until I find a master for you, and you can live with your master yourself, don't bother me! ”

In master-apprentice education, it is common for apprentices to live with their masters. This is also a possible place that the young people of Rizhao Village knew in advance.

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts! I see! ”

Pebble held his head and began to jump to his feet, accidentally hitting the wood on the side. A few of the children laughed heartlessly. Gu Chuan couldn't laugh at it. You must know that the clouds outside are already dense, and it is not early, and you have to tidy up the room, but it is troublesome!

"Let's clean up together, soon, it's going to trouble my uncle."

"Okay!"

Riverbank was the first to answer, and took out the coarse cloth he had prepared earlier from his carry-on luggage. So the ten children were busy. At night, this small room actually looks like it. I don't have the ability to make any wooden beds, but wouldn't it be nice to spread the futon on the ground before going to sleep and spread it out in one piece?

The carpenter likes to snore, and the sound of snoring is like thunder. And Sunset City seems to have no night, and the sound of people coming and going outside is still endless.

In the darkness, through the dim light shining from nowhere, several children who were so noisy that they couldn't sleep saw each other, and they could see each other's apprehension. A few people were chatting quietly and startled about what they had seen in the city. The riverbank turned around for a week, and for some reason, I counted the number of people, and when I counted to eleven, I was very relieved. It's just that he looked at Gu Chuan and suddenly laughed.

"What are you laughing at? Riverbank. ”

At the end of the day, Gu Chuan was also tired and wanted to sleep, but when he heard the laughter on the riverbank, he felt inexplicable.

"You are the cleanest and most beautiful in the village...... But now your face is so dirty! ”

Riverbank said solemnly.

When Gu Chuan heard this, he wiped his left hand on his face, and then shone it on himself in the light, it was indeed full of dust. So he laughed too:

"You're right...... There's no way around it! Besides, aren't you too? ”

The riverbank also wiped his face.

"yes, I'm so dirty!"

The riverbank suddenly became uncomfortable.

It's just that it's strange outside, and they're tired from afar, and the dialect is difficult to understand, and they don't know where to fetch water or where to wash, which makes it uncomfortable.

Among the ten people, there were three girls, who slept together in the corner, very separate from the boys. Only the girls' faces were still clean. It's not that they don't work less, but they wipe it carefully.

There is a lively girl inside called Yamamo, which is the folk name for a flower that grows on the banks of the Rizhao River.

At that time, Shan Tao said with a smile:

"Let's find a place to fetch water together tomorrow, wouldn't it be better for everyone to wash together?"

But by that time, the young men on the other side of the house had fallen asleep. When I slept, I was still muttering unfinished words.

"Everybody's tired."

Yuhua whispered.

"Let's go to bed early, Yuhua."

The children rolled themselves up in the quilt, and in this strange city, they tossed and turned by the wall for a long time, and they didn't know when they dreamed of dawn.

For the next few days, the carpenter led the boys in search of a place to stay, as their parents had requested.

There is a lot of work in the city, and there is a shortage of labor everywhere, and the two biggest projects in the outer city are the construction of the outer walls and the renovation of the drainage system, which is the place to absorb labor. But the people of Rizhao Village are not interested in this, they are more inclined to recruit apprentices from doctors, early lawyers, or merchants and restaurants. The carpenter frequently went in and out of the restaurant to find out the news. And Gu Chuan also saw that in the big restaurants and small taverns, there were people who were recruiting teams to dig out strange things, and there were also people holding boards who were seeking everyone's joining and support.

The former is where the rich hire the unpaid. The latter is the support of those who have no money to pursue those who have money.

Convoys on the road can collide and be congested at all times. This told Gu Chuan to be cautious when he walked.

Gu Chuan has a clear place to go. It was Chuan's mother who wrote a letter to her former master. On the night of convincing Gu Chuan, Chuan's mother told Gu Chuan that the teacher who taught her medicine was also a physicist.

But Mother Sichuan told Gu Chuan not to open the letter herself. Gu Chuan didn't know much about the content of the letter, so he was suspicious of Chuan's mother's words.

"Maybe my mother is still lying to me about studying medicine."

He thought.

But they're all in, and they always have to go.

But what he thought would be the easiest place to get the resettlement result soon encountered unexpected difficulties.

"The address on the letter is almost a generation away, and it is long since it could not be counted."

This is what the carpenter learned.

However, after the carpenter showed his hand-copied old address information, one of the idle people in the restaurant showed a subtle expression.

"This, this...... I've heard her name. ”

After several twists and turns, the carpenter and Gu Chuan finally locked the current residence of Teacher Chuanmu.

The residence is located on the corner of a civic area close to the inner city.