From seeing the towering city wall to actually coming to the city tower, after the last few dozen miles of small bumps, they finally stood in front of the first city in the world. Looking up at this majestic city, I was amazed and felt my own insignificance.

The tall city walls, the towering towers, the magnificent arrow towers, the corner towers, the soldiers wearing armor, and the moat that is tens of meters wide, this place is definitely as safe as Mount Tai.

The carriage entered from the Yongding Gate, and the streets were very wide on both sides, and there were many shops, as if you had come to heaven. This central axis points to the far side, where is the Forbidden City.

After turning around, the carriage stopped in front of the Guizhou Lao Pavilion, the old Guizhou Pavilion (also known as the Middle Pavilion in the early years), located outside the front gate of the cherry Xiejie Road north, its history is later than the East Pavilion, but the earliest Guizhou Hall was created for the Qing Dynasty. In the 54th year of Kangxi, Guiyang Zhou Qiwei (Yu Huang) to Hanlin as Zhan Shifu Zhan Shi, died of illness in Beijing, his father Guozhu (word jade) into Beijing when he returned to the coffin, rewarded his son's will, sole proprietorship to build this museum, when Guozhu wrote a stele, said: ..... Wuqian is 7,000 miles away from the imperial capital, and whoever is with the plan ..... Those who depend on the clan are more urgent than those in other provinces. Although the old man has escaped to the rock, he has been stealing for a long time. The appropriate elder male from Weijia Shu became a jinshi, stayed in the history museum, and read the secretary.... In charge of the palace Zhan, after Jiuqing, he accumulated 800 gold, and placed a hall, which was spacious and tidy, and Yu Zhizhi was fortunate to have completed it...."This shows the process of building the museum. The Guizhou Folklore Hall is a bookstore that Qiwei won by betting with the bookstore owner to endorse the book, which seems to be not credible. Later, the hall was renovated many times. The guild hall stipulates that when all Guizhou people are elected to be officials, they must donate funds to the guild hall according to the grade of the officials, and this money will be handed over to the ministry Cao to collect when they are registered with the officials, which is called "seal knot". After Xiantong, the number of officials who donated money increased, and the association received a lot of seal money, all of which were controlled and used by the association for the year.

Living in the capital is not easy!

Originally, the price of the Beijing inn was not cheap, and now it is in the test period, and the price of the inn in the city is soaring. Therefore, the guild hall was born and became the first choice for many people.

Guild halls are generally built by donations or fund-raising by Beijing officials of the same origin, and there are guild halls in various provinces and some large prefectures, and the offices in Beijing in later generations have the same effect, and it is said that there are 200 guild halls at the peak.

The guild hall is usually operated like an inn, and the service objects are mainly compatriots in Beijing, so as to achieve self-sufficiency management. However, in the year of Dabi, the hall will be emptied of the idle people, etc., and specially provided for these lifters and their attachés to live, basically free of board.

Wu Yunlin came to the Guizhou Hall and was about to knock on the door, but the door had already opened.

"I'm the shopkeeper of this hall, I don't know what Childe is doing?" A middle-aged man in a thick cotton coat opened the door and asked him.

"Under the surname Wu, and Mei Jiding behind him are both going to take the exam, I just arrived in the capital today, I don't know if there is a place to live inside?" Wu Yunlin endured his aching fingers and asked with a smile.

"Are you a lifter for the exam? Why is it only here now? "The shopkeeper didn't expect that there would be people in Beijing now

"We were the lifters of Enke last year, and we left for Beijing to participate in the examination soon after the list was released, but the distance is far away, and we just arrived, and the others have already arrived in Beijing, right?" Wu Yunlin chose to come here, naturally because he wanted to take care of his fellow villagers.

Wu Yunlin and the others followed the shopkeeper into the backyard of the hall and arranged a room for him. The room was very simple, with only a table, chairs and a bed, and an oil lamp on the table.

"Master Wu, Master Mei, the rooms here are all like this, please don't dislike it!" The shopkeeper smiled authentically.

As soon as he checked into the inn, Wu Yunlin saw two people sneakily probing his brain outside the window, his eyebrows furrowed, he got up and walked to the window, and looked behind the two people.

I saw a man wearing shabby linen clothes, his face was covered with mud and blood, and there were a few pus-like big bumps, and the whole thing was extremely ugly.

The other is a young man dressed in tatters, although he doesn't look very good, but at least he is not as ugly as this person!

"Brother Wu, who are they?"

Mei Jiding asked in a low voice, a pair of eyes looking out the window vigilantly.

Wu Yunlin frowned and thought for a while before saying, "I don't know, I don't know them, but the sneaky ones shouldn't be good people." "

When the man called Master outside the window heard this, he immediately turned to Wu Yunlin and said, "Don't be afraid, Son, we are all good people, definitely not bad people, we are also going to Beijing to take the exam, and we were entangled on the road and stolen to the point where we are today."

When Wu Yunlin heard this, the corners of his mouth twitched, "I am also a landlord, and there is no surplus grain in the family!" "

After Wu Yunlin finished speaking, he turned around and walked away.

The middle-aged man was stunned for a long time, and finally sighed.

Hey, since I came to the capital, everything I have done has been regarded as a prank.

At this time, he heard the door creak twice, and then there was a sound of footsteps, and the young man pushed the door open, walked out, and said, "It's freezing outside, come in and talk." "

The shopkeeper will give the two of them some food, Wu Yunlin said

"Okay, guest officer, wait a moment," the shopkeeper said, turning and going to the kitchen, where two large plates of steaming food were served.

Although the food was not as delicious as in the city, the greens were also rich and full of portions, and the two of them chewed violently, and after eating the meal, they did not forget to pick up the kettle on the table and take a few sips.

Because there were too many people during the examination, the inn room was not rich, and Wu Yunlin and his party of more than ten people were divided into two rooms, so most of them were familiar with each other and crowded in one room, anyway, everyone came to the exam and not to enjoy, but no one complained.

Wu Yunlin looked at more than a dozen people sitting in the lobby downstairs, listening to the familiar local accent, and felt a little warm in his heart. The two torches burned in a secluded manner, blown by the wind, and the flames swung around, reflecting the figures of all the people in the hall. Wu Yunlin knows that it is easier to communicate between strangers, everyone gathers here and now, he farewells, and goes in all directions, merging into the vast sea of people, this may be fate, although it is so short.

I saw a man in a green shirt not far away, and he pulled his throat and said, "I came from Annan, and it was really 108,000 miles along the way." Speaking of this, the big man picked up a porcelain bowl next to him, drank a few large sips of wine, and then smashed his mouth, as if he was reminiscing.

Wu Yunlin asked: That's really far enough, brother Tai has worked hard

The big man put down the wine bowl and said, "It seems that the little brother is coming to the capital for the first time."

The big man nodded and sighed, "Actually, it's better to be at home." Especially for those of us in remote places, the gold and silver nests are not as good as our own kennels. Speaking of this, he looked around and said, "I can't say it anymore, I can't say it anymore." Ay. ”

Everyone booed, and an old man suddenly spoke: "Liu San Mazi, don't you sell Guanzi, don't you just want to drink." Come on, come on, little two, bring a bowl of wine to the third master. ”

When the big man heard this, he was stunned, hurriedly looked at the old man, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Second Master Xu, hey, I didn't expect us to get together again."