Chapter 12: Try
The moon outside the tent is bright and the stars are scarce, and the city is full of lights, outlining a different kind of prosperous beauty that can only be seen in foreign places outside the border.
Two old musicians with an elegant temperament play the three strings and snare drums on the side of the tent.
Ding Dong Dong ~~
Six beauties with veils on their faces danced on the golden and red carpets, and the tulle fluttered and the water sleeves swayed gently, making the brightly lit tent show a bit of fantasy and extravagance.
Fan Qinghe changed into a 'high priest's uniform', covered with red gauze with a light gold lining, his hair was coiled into a very solemn style, and two golden hairpins were obliquely inserted behind his head, sitting in front of the main case, his expression was much more serious than usual.
Night Terror Hall sat behind the small table on the right, with exquisite dishes and porcelain wine jugs in front of him, and watched the singing and dancing in the tent carefully.
And the bird didn't have the heart to see the beauty dancing, poked out the round head from behind the small case, and took a piece of meat to eat secretly while people were unprepared.
Xuanji Zhenren was pushed down to sleep by Fan Qinghe, so naturally he would not agree, and he consciously followed the Night Terror Hall, and at this time he also sat in front of the Night Terror Hall, and from time to time he also helped to fill the wine and put it in the hands of the Night Terror Hall - this move is not virtuous, but the Night Terror Hall is not hungry for wine, Xuanji Zhenren is not dignified to drink alone in the public holding the wine jug after all, so she urged the Night Terror Hall to raise a toast, and she followed it naturally.
So the sound of pushing the cup and changing the lamp in the big tent did not stop, but after a while, the old man of the Winter Hades tribe who was sitting on the left and right gradually showed surprise and secretly thought:
I didn't see it, such a handsome boy is still a drunkard......
also let the girl around him drink with him, this is to get people drunk......
There were eight people sitting in the big tent, all of whom were old people from the Winter Underworld tribe.
Although they are from the same tribe, these people are not of the same origin, but people who have the same identity and are formed by huddling together for warmth.
Take the Winter Hades as an example, the ancestors were tribal sorcerers in ancient times, responsible for sacrifices, divination, curing diseases and exorcisms; Later, after the first emperor ruled the world, these sorcerers had the official position of 'Zhuzong'.
Even today, this kind of official position still exists, Taoism originated from the ancient witch and ghost Taoism, for which the national teacher Lu Taiqing is actually holding a similar official position, but the contemporary theory of strange power and chaos is not so superstitious, and it has lost the influence of ancient times
Later, the river was diverted, and these people did not migrate and stayed in the local area, becoming small tribes, and later people joined one after another, and slowly evolved into major tribes.
Whenever someone is called the king, the major departments are the Northwest Wangting Gate Lords; When no one is in charge, they go their own way, and this division and integration has been going on for thousands of years, and the last time it was broken up was just a few decades ago.
For these historical reasons, the Winter Hades is certainly not a barbarian, but an ancient relic, with gorgeous clothing and accessories, and high artistic attainments.
The night terror hall sat behind the case, and after three rounds of drinking, the singing and dancing in the tent stopped, and the sound of footsteps and bells came from outside the door.
Jingle bell~
The clan elders who were talking and laughing in the tent saw that their sitting posture was a little more upright.
Night Terror put down his wine glass and turned to look outside the big tent, only to see a group of people walking in from outside.
Behind are four women dressed in the winter underworld, and in front is an old woman, wearing a black skirt with a string of bells hanging from her waist, looking older, with her waist bent and a cane in her hand.
"Granny Gui."
Seeing this, Fan Qinghe got up from behind the main case, came to the door and grabbed the old woman's arm, and signaled to the night terror hall who had already gotten up:
"This is what I said about the night boy, take a look."
The night terror hall was still a little confused, so after getting up and looking at the old woman, he asked:
"Who is this?"
Fan Qinghe looked a little nervous, and raised his hand slightly to signal the Night Terror Hall not to speak, so that the old woman could take a closer look.
Naturally, the night terror hall didn't say much, but some of them stood behind the case awkwardly and let the old woman examine it.
The old woman in black, after carefully studying the cane for a while, looked at Xuanji Zhenren who was beside her, and said:
"I've seen this girl, ten years ago to steal snow lake flowers in the Winter Styx Mountain, was discovered by Lao Zhuzong, chased for dozens of miles and didn't catch up with ......"
??
As soon as these words came out, the already quiet hall turned into dead silence.
The corner of Night Terror's eyes twitched, and the afterglow was aimed at the water that seemed harmless to humans and animals.
And Fan Qinghe is face was dark, and the meaning of his eyes was estimated - I didn't see it, you demon girl is still a habitual offender, and you beat me ten years ago with the idea of Winter Hades......
Xuanji Zhenren is quite strong-minded, and in the face of everyone's strange eyes, he didn't blush and be embarrassed at all, but responded with a smile:
"Back then, there was an emergency, but I just went to see it, and I didn't take anything. If you offend, I hope your wife will forgive me. ”
Fan Qinghe had already experienced the cheekiness of this demon girl, and there was nothing she could do about it, and she didn't want to bother with these old things, so she helped the old woman to sit down behind the main case, and introduced to the Night Terror Hall:
"The various tribes of the West Sea will intermarry, and Granny Gui is the princess who married into the Winter Hades more than sixty years ago, and her father is the second King of Tianlang."
"Oh...... Disrespectful. ”
When Night Terror Hall heard this, he was also quite surprised, bowed his hand, and secretly looked at Granny Gui's appearance, but unfortunately he was a little old and couldn't see anything at all.
Granny Gui sat down behind the desk, put her crutches on her lap, and looked at the Night Terrors:
"Since your surname is Ye, and you can use Tianlang Pearl, nine times out of ten, you are the descendant of my Qi Chi Department. However, I was young when I got married, and when the last Tianlang King succeeded to the throne, the Northwest Royal Court was almost dispersed, and it was difficult for me to seek a way for the survival of the tribe everywhere. ”
Night Terror didn't really care where he came from, but it didn't hurt to know it, so he asked:
"How did the ministry fall back then? It is only said that the Northwest Royal Court was a vassal to the Northern Liang, and then the rebellion was exterminated, and there is not much historical data to circulate. ”
Granny Gui was silent for a moment, then shook her head and sighed, and talked about the past:
"It's old. More than a hundred years ago, the Yechi tribe was just a small tribe at the end of the world, with only a few thousand people in the clan, and they were excluded by all major tribes all year round. Later, a clansman ran to the Winter Underworld to learn art, proficient in pharmacology, and when the snow lake flowers bloomed, he was lucky enough to grab two catties of snow lake flowers, and then fled back to the clan and studied the Tianlang Pearl.
"At that time, the patriarch's martial arts were originally high, and after quenching his muscles and forging his bones through Tianlang Zhu, he directly became a great grandmaster, and it took more than ten years to strengthen the Qi Chi Department, and formed an alliance with the four major ministries to re-establish the Northwest Royal Court, and when he was the strongest, he had 30,000 Tianlang horses, and he could force the truce between the north and the south to deal with the pressure of the northwest.
"But it's a pity that when the Northwest Royal Court was passed to my father, he was too aggressive, and took advantage of the chaotic situation in the last years of Dayan to form an alliance with Northern Liang, wanting to take over the Southern Dynasty together.
"Northern Liang is very scheming, knowing that he can't swallow the Southern Dynasty, after his father sent troops, he directly broke the contract, turned his head and killed the Xihai Tribes, severely damaged the empty major departments in the rear, and directly knocked out the accumulation of decades, resulting in the Northwest Royal Court no longer having the power to fight against the Northern and Southern Dynasties."
When Granny Gui said this, she sighed again and looked at the people seated:
"If that's all the case, the Northwest Royal Court will still be able to hold on and survive. However, the Northern Liang was very poisonous, and sent many masters to the rear, almost killing the pharmacists of the Qi Chi Department, and the Tianlang beads, prescriptions, etc., prepared for the next King of Tianlang, were all robbed by the Northern Liang court.
"The people of Tianlangzhu Beiliang couldn't use it, so they used this as a threat to let my father surrender; My father did not agree, but he died of illness not long after, due to his advanced age and the wounds left on the battlefield. The last Tianlang King succeeded to the throne, there was no Tianlang bead quenching and forging body, and the national strength of the Northwest Royal Court was not as good as before.
"About 30 years ago, the Northern Liang completely turned his face, slandered the last king of Tianlang for rebellion, and sent a large army to attack the Xihai tribes again; The last king of Tianlang asked for help from the Southern Dynasty to no avail, so he could only gather the remaining soldiers and horses and fight on the shore of Tianlang Lake.
"But at that time, the hearts of the people of the Xihai tribes have been scattered, as soon as the battle began, the various departments ran and ran, and the last Tianlang King could only retreat with his own soldiers in the clan, and later it was said that he was caught up by Li Gong, the king of Zuoxian, and more than 1,000 clansmen were in Liaoyuan alone to block the Northern Liang army, and fought for a day and a night, and no one in the clan defected, but until the whole clan was wiped out, none of the tribes in the West Sea came to help."
When Granny Gui said this, she was obviously a little angry.
Fan Qinghe said to this: "Back then, the soldiers and horses of the Northern Liang Dynasty had already arrived near the Winter Underworld Mountain, and if Lao Zhuzong sent troops to help, the Winter Underworld would also end up in the same way, and he could only focus on self-preservation. ”
Granny Gui raised her hand: "The situation is like this, and no one is to blame." But if all the ministries were willing to work together to fight to the death, why did they end up with the end of not having enough food and clothing for Nagong every year? The Winter Ministry dug ten catties of medicinal herbs in the mountains, and the Northern Liang Imperial Court dared to take away nine catties, and if there was a famine, they would send some old grain, and we had to be grateful to Dade ......"
Xuanji Zhenren heard these on the side, and naturally sympathized in his heart, but in fact, it was also the case for the Great Wei, after all, it has been written in the history books that the Xihai tribes consider themselves to be the orthodox inheritance of the Great Liang Dynasty, and they want to recover the 'lost territory' of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in their bones, as long as they become strong, it will be a complete nightmare for the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
When Night Terror Hall heard this, he also sighed in his heart, and after thinking about it for a while, he still asked about the business first:
"The imprisoned dragon miasma was also studied by the pharmacist of the Qi Chi Department back then? Who else would now? ”
Granny Gui recalled: "The imprisoned dragon miasma was studied after the Tianlang Pearl, because it was used in the attack, it would make this thing, and the pharmacist generally went out with the army, and avoided the sneak attack in front of Jiazi. If there are still people who can make this medicine, it can only be that after the fall of the Northwest Royal Court, the remaining pharmacists were exiled to some tribes or Northern Liang. There is no medicine man in the Winter Hades who can be equipped with a dragon miasma, so if you want to check this, you have to ask other tribes. ”
Fan Qinghe said to this: "Don't worry, Yegongzi, I have already instructed someone to investigate, as long as the imprisoned dragon miasma comes from the West Sea Tribes, there will definitely be news, just wait patiently for two days." ”
When the Night Terror Hall heard this, he didn't ask any more questions, chatted a few more words, and after eating, he got up with Xuanji Zhenren and left the big tent first.
And after the Night Terror Hall left, Fan Qinghe frowned, turned his head and asked:
"Granny Gui, can't you be sure if the Night Terror Hall is the son of King Tianlang?"
Granny Gui sighed softly: "If you can use Tianlang Pearl, it can only be a clansman of the Qichi tribe, and the strong man of my Qichi tribe is the king, what is the difference between the side line and the descendant?"
"Even if you don't know the night terror, even if you are a descendant of my Qianchi department, I grew up in the Great Wei since I was a child, and I am a Great Wei person in my bones, you pull him out now, and let the chiefs of the tribes bow down and recognize him as the king of Tianlang, why should the various ministries obey him? And he became the king of Tianlang, what should he do if he turned around and took his soldiers and horses to join the Great Wei? ”
“……”
When Fan Qinghe heard this, he thought about it and felt that it was also - no one in the West Sea was convinced, and he wanted to be the leader, the bloodline was just a name, and the most important thing was the ability to make people surrender; And what the Xihai tribes want is independence, Night Terror Hall is the favored minister of the Empress of the Great Wei, and it seems that he is loyal, if he becomes the king of Tianlang, he is in the West Sea and his heart is in Wei, and he wants to give the empress a big gift as a dowry, and she doesn't lose all her pants.
"So what now?"
"First talk to the major ministries, let him get in touch with the various ministries, and see how capable he is in dealing with the world and whether he has the ambition to dominate the world. If he has neither the ability nor the courage, choosing him as the co-leader of the ten thousand ministries to form the royal court will only bring a catastrophe to the various ministries. ”
Fan Qinghe nodded slightly......
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"Authentic hump meat, come and see it when you pass by, it's fat but not greasy......"
Langxuan City is in an arid area, even if it is autumn, the sun during the day is relatively poisonous, so most of the people who come here to participate in the rally are active at night, and the streets are still crowded near eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening.
After the Night Terror Hall finished eating at the station of the Winter Hades, because it was the first time he came to Guanwai, he did not go back to the arranged tent to rest, but took the birds out to visit the night market with Xuanji Zhenren.
As the saying goes, people take food as the sky, nearly 100,000 people gather in Langxuan City, and there must be no shortage of food streets, although the environment is relatively simple, far less than the small streets in the towns in Guannei, but all kinds of food are really dazzling.
Not only the delicacies of all the major parts of the West Sea, but also the specialties of Dawei and Beiliang can basically be found, and even a stall where you buy roasted insects, not only the night terrors, but even the birds and birds look at it and shake their heads.
Xuanji Zhenren wore a hat, and he had just drunk a lot and looked a little drunk, walking beside the Night Terror Hall, seeing the disgusted look in the birds' eyes, he teased:
"Aren't you a bird? Still don't like to eat bugs? ”
"Twitter ......"
The bird quickly shook his head, poked out his big claws from his furry belly, signaled that he was a bird of prey, and then looked at the hump meat stall in the distance.
Just now, the bird was eating and drinking in the big tent, and they were all round, and the night terror hall was afraid that the bird would not be able to fly, so naturally he didn't give it a pot of hump meat, but just hung out with Xuanji real people to eat.
After walking for about two quarters of an hour, the two of them came to the south side of Langxuan City.
Although there is no building in Langxuan City, the former pattern is not much different from the contemporary city, and the center of the southern city was originally the location of the imperial city.
Although there is no building now, you can still see a platform on the ground that is a cut above the ground, and from the layout, it should be the foundation of the former palace.
Some temporary houses were built above the pedestal, and a large camp was set up nearby, in which more than 1,000 people wearing leather armor and carrying knives and guns rested, and in one house, there were many merchants lining up outside, registering and paying money.
Night Terror Hall thought that this was a place of lawlessness, but it was a little unexpected to see this scene:
"There's still an official mansion here?"
Xuanji Zhenren glanced at the flag hanging outside the camp and explained:
"Wanbu Ji is an important occasion for the trade of the West China Sea, hundreds of thousands of people who have never known each other gather here, if there are no rules, it will have become a pot of porridge. That is the station of the Gouchen Department, and the security and garbage removal in the city are all in charge of the Gouchen Department; The merchants who come here to set up stalls also have to pay them silver. ”
The last time I heard Fan Qinghe say that King Gou Chen was a little cowardly, he saw this and asked:
"This is not a small amount of money, the Gou Chen Department can monopolize it, is it relatively powerful?"
After Xuanji Zhenren took his hands on his shoulders, he made the appearance of a master outside the world:
"Gou Chen is a god, alias Qilin, located in the center of heaven and earth, fierce and vicious, likes to kill, is in charge of soldiers, the great Sima in ancient times, is responsible for fighting, so he believes in this god.
"After the fall of the Great Liang Dynasty, the generals and the army who did not migrate came together to form the Gouchen tribe, and the clan were all warriors passed down from generation to generation.
"It's like the Winter Underworld, famous for medicine and witchcraft, no matter how big the anti-heart is, it can't set off too much storm, and the Gou Chen Department and the Wu Ma Department are different, the two of them together are a fine cavalry, and for this reason, they may have been sow discord, it is said that a patriarch of the Gou Chen Department killed the patriarch of the Wu Ma Department, and the people of the Wu Ma Department killed them back, making the two families a thousand-year feud, and if they want to integrate the West Sea Tribes, the biggest problem is to rub the two together......
After listening to these explanations, Night Terror nodded thoughtfully:
"I see...... It means that the Gou Chen Department is the most capable of fighting among the West Sea Divisions? ”
Xuanji Zhenren nodded: "Gou Chen King Sima Yue ranks sixth among the top ten grandmasters of Northern Liang, and I am also the sixth in Great Wei, so my strength should be about the same as mine." People just can't beat Zuo Xianwang Li Kai, so it's easy to clean up if you want to. ”
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When Night Terror heard this, he was a little dissatisfied:
"I'm healed now, why don't we find a place to compare and let me try the depth of Fairy Lu?"
“……”
Xuanji Zhenren, who was pacing leisurely, blinked when he heard this, paused and picked up his hat, revealing peach blossom eyes that seemed to be drunk but not drunk, and looked at the night terror:
"Nightboy, where do you want to try my depth?"
"I ...... Well? ”
Night Terror Hall was stunned by these words, and after reacting, he was stunned.
"Heh~"
Xuanji Zhenren put down the curtain of her hat, took the bird and put it on her shoulder, and continued to wander around the brightly lit side street as if nothing had happened.
Night Terror Hall was a little speechless by a meat joke from Xuanji Zhenren, and after thinking about it, he chased after it:
"Fairy Lu, you are the master of King Jing, you still have to be more steady in your words and deeds......"
"It's just a joke after drinking, and you can't afford to make jokes? I have drunk and flesh through my intestines, and the Buddha has left a ...... in his heart."
"You're a Taoist!"
"It's not all the same thing, anyway, the mouth is flowery, and the heart is like water. You don't look like a decent gentleman on the surface, but in private you sleep with two girls in your arms, and your heart is very flowery, I'm just joking, your face is red, and you don't know what you're thinking in your head......"
Night Terror Hall raised his hand and touched his cheek, frowned and said:
"Is there one?"
"Tsk."
"I guess it's the ...... from drinking just now"
"Cut~......"
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(End of chapter)