Chapter Seventy-One: The Noble and Young of Chuzhou
Leng Zhuo and his entourage rushed to the northeast of the Prison Dragon at noon the next day, trapped in Niucheng, like Meridian City, this city was set up to block the three cities, and there was a large military camp outside the city, but during the day, it was rare to see the soldiers of the Prison Dragon Army, because at this time, most of the soldiers of the Prison Dragon Legion who went out at night were resting.
When passing through the trapped cow city, Leng Zhuo was still a little weak-hearted, for fear that the guards in charge of guarding the city gate would find out that there was a prisoner from the city of forgiveness beside him, no way, these three major cities, lost, forgive, and terminated The people in the three cities are not only extremely evil, but also the rebellious people who want to shake the foundation of the Tianlong Empire, and hundreds of years of captivity, the hatred between the two sides has almost penetrated into the bone marrow, although the Tianlong Empire cannot slaughter tens of millions of people at once, but from the hunting of the soldiers of the Dragon Legion last night and the information learned from Li Xun'er's mouth, Leng Zhuo knows that in the past hundred years, the Tianlong Empire has begun an organized and purposeful reduction of this group of trapped prisoners。
Compared with Leng Zhuo, who was still pretending to be calm, Li Xun'er was obviously trembling all over her body when she was looking at the soldiers of the Tianlong Empire, obviously she was terrified, but thinking about it, this girl was not too old, but she grew up in that environment, and was even hunted down and killed before, so it is strange that there is no shadow in her heart.
The carriage passed through the gate of Trapped Cow City very smoothly, and the signboard of Leng Zhuo, a noble son, was still very useful in many cases, at least when entering and exiting the city gate, few soldiers would carefully come forward to check it, at most glance at it.
Retracting her gaze from the window, Leng Zhuo turned her head and looked at Li Xun'er who was looking at the world outside the window with her big curious eyes, this girl was really scared just now, but this time she was like a curious kitten, and her eyes almost popped out.
"Xun'er, when I entered the city gate, I thought that you look like you are no different from people from the outside world, that doesn't mean that as long as you escape from there, no one will be able to identify whether you are a fugitive slave or not, and no one will be tracking you!"
Li Xun'er shook her head and said: "The people of the three cities are planted with slave marks, this kind of slave marks will be planted from birth, until death, the general slave marks will be planted on the forehead, and some will be engraved on the chest, vest, slave seal is a unique magic circle, the seed of the slave seal will grow with the growth of the human body, forming a slave seal pattern that only the people of the three cities have, and when it comes to adulthood, this slave seal pattern cannot be covered up at all, and it is easy to be found!"
"Oh, Seed of the Slave Seal, does this thing do anything?" Leng Zhuo asked with some curiosity.
"The seed of the slave seal, there is nothing special, the only function is to make it easier for us to distinguish from ordinary people!" Li Xun'er obviously showed a little jealousy when he mentioned this seed of the slave seal, although Leng Zhuo saw it in his eyes, he didn't care, the Heavenly Dragon Empire kept this group of people in captivity like pigs, for this group of people, this heaviness was a hundred times more painful than being directly cut off their heads.
"Oh, what does your slave seal seed look like, can you show me!" Leng Zhuo also asked curiously.
When Li Xun'er heard Leng Zhuo's words, she squirmed, her pink little face flew red, and she lowered her head and said, "Xun'er's slave print is ...... on the vest." ”
"Then I didn't say it!" Leng Zhuo said with a wave of his hand.
After having lunch in Sleepy Cow City, Leng Zhuo and his party did not continue to go south, but continued to walk in the southeast direction, after all, it is always a little uneasy to walk on the edge of the entry, the carriage went all the way to the southeast, and the time passed quickly for several days.
On April 23, it took more than a month to go all the way around the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range in Yunzhou, and this day, Leng Zhuo and his party finally entered the inland of Chuzhou.
Chuzhou is one of the three major states in the south of Kyushu of the Tianlong Empire, connecting Zhongzhou in the north, Yangzhou in the east, Yizhou in the west, and the wild rainforest of 100,000 mountains and rivers in the south.
Leng Zhuo into Chuzhou, not a dry road, but a waterway, from the south of Zhongzhou through the Tianhe River countless large tributaries from the south of Chuzhou through the mountains and rainforests originate, one route from south to north into the Tianhe, the most important one is the Chu River.
Leng Zhuo and his entourage boarded the boat at the Tianhe ferry in Bowangfu, Zhongzhou, and went down the river all the way, upstream along the confluence of the Tianhe River and the Chu River, and entered the largest lake between Zhongzhou and Chuzhou, Poyang Sea, a huge freshwater lake with 800 pearls and a reputation of 3,000 miles of Poyang Sea.
Poyang Sea, the water surface is 3,000 miles wide, the water and the sky are handsome, and you can't see the end of the lake at a glance, and according to the boatman, there are countless large and small lakes around this Poyang Sea, as if a string of pearls surrounds this most dazzling jewel.
Poyang Mansion, the largest prefecture in the northwest of the eight prefectures outside Chuzhou, covers almost half of the Poyang Sea, the boats hired by Leng Zhuo went all the way into the Poyang Sea, and finally went south along the lake, and finally the boats docked at the junction of Poyang Mansion and Xiaoxiang Mansion in the south, Linhai Town.
The location of Linhai Town is very ingenious, originally this town is a town in Xianghe County, Xiaoshui County, under the jurisdiction of Xiaoxiang Prefecture, but due to the developed waterway, Linhai Town has been expanded for many years, forming today's water market town, and this water surface is mostly under the jurisdiction of Qicai County, Orange Yang County, under the jurisdiction of Poyang Prefecture, so this Linhai Town has a very rare situation, one town has two yamen, and the lion opens the door.
"This should be the one town and two yamen mentioned in the mouth of the boatman, and the two county yamen opened by the lion to the door, tsk, it's really open to the door!" Leng Zhuo and his party got off the boat, walked onto the wharf, and entered the town along the wharf street, and before they went far, they saw the edge of the wharf and the intersection of the town, two tall and powerful county yamen stood opposite each other, but this position is really a bit of that, how can it look like a watchdog.
Li Xun'er blinked and looked at the two tall yamen with big eyes, and couldn't help but spit out her lilac tongue, it was really interesting, after a few glances, Leng Zhuo passed between the two yamen and entered the main street of the town.
"Lord, just go to this place to eat, it looks very good!" Li Yuanba pointed to a shop with a huge fish head signboard, turned his head to Leng Zhuo and said.
Leng Zhuo smiled, glanced at the three-story and four-corner restaurant, there was an indescribable luxury on the façade alone, obviously this is not a place for ordinary people to enter, but the huge fish skull is very reminiscent: "Let's go, that's it!"
"Shop guy, there's a place upstairs!" This restaurant faces the Poyang Sea Lake, high and far away, while eating, while enjoying the scenery is a special atmosphere.
The guys in the big restaurant are dressed differently, although they are not wearing silk, they are also sewn from muslin, even if they are ordinary people, there are only two or three pieces to wear as face: "This young master, I'm really sorry, the seats on the second floor are full, and there is a table on the third floor, but that position is to add money!"
"Add money, how much!" Leng Zhuo sighed and asked casually.
"The location on the third floor is on the street plus three gold, the lake will be doubled, the third floor is not much, there are now two tables on the street, and there is a table on the lake, but the location is the best, you are also in a hurry, is meeting the guest at the table near the lake just left, if it is a while, I am afraid that there will be someone!"
"Then the place on the third floor near the lake, it's only ten gold!" Leng Zhuo groaned slightly, and said to the shopkeeper, although it is said that eating is the same anywhere, but there is a good view, which can always make people have an appetite, especially these are said to be tired of boating and driving, spending some money, and it is not a loss to buy a good mood.
"Okay, this young master, please go to the third floor!" The guy in the store beckoned Leng Zhuo and his party upstairs, and a group of people walked in from outside, but there were three men and two women, and as soon as one of them was a slightly short and fat young man stepped into the door, he shouted loudly: "Man, come out for me!"
"Yo, isn't this Young Master Mu, what do you command!"
"Go, prepare a good position, Young Master Ben is here for a treat today!"
"Yo, it's really unfortunate Young Master Mu, but the location of the lake on the third floor is gone, and there are two more on the street!"
"It's gone, why is it gone, when I entered the door just now, I met Hou Wen's people leaving, but they said they had just come down!"
"Look at what you said, it's really gone, you see, these people have just settled on that spot and have already paid for the table!" said the shopkeeper.
The fat man looked at Leng Zhuo and his party, and couldn't help but show a trace of disdain in his nasal voice, turned his head and said, "Then return the money to them, the position is too much!"