"Who sent you to kill me?" Shu Yan asked, pointing his sword at their chests.

The two of them just stared at each other, but did not speak for a long time. Xiao Mo said: "Asking is also asking in vain, they are not the mastermind, they must have been instructed by others, people like them are the most concerned about the rules of the rivers and lakes, and they would rather die than say the mastermind behind the scenes, it is better to kill them." So saying, he was going to kill them with his sword.

Shu Yan hurriedly stopped and said: "Wait, don't kill people indiscriminately, I have no grievances with them, since they are not the mastermind, why take their lives." ”

Xiao Mo was late and said, "That's right, but even if you don't kill them." Even if they have been hit by my fatal ecstasy, they won't live long. ”

"Fatal Ecstasy Needle?" The two killers' eyes widened.

"That's right, the Death Needle. This is my secret weapon for walking the rivers and lakes. Xiao Mo said proudly.

"Is it a deadly poison needle?" The two killers were already stunned, "Is there a cure?" ”

"Where is the antidote."

When the two killers heard that they had been hit by the "fatal ecstasy needle", and there was no antidote, they immediately turned pale with fright, kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"There is no antidote, but if you want to live, you can only cut off the arm of your poisoning needle while the poison has not spread. If you can't do it, you can help each other, we don't want to help you! Xiao Mo smiled and said, "Also, the person who used the sword to hold my big brother Shu's neck is afraid that the poison is deep, and you two should try to hurry up, otherwise if it is too late, the needle poison will spread, but you will not be able to save it." ”

The two killers looked at each other, and then looked at their poisoned arm, which was already black, purple, black and purple, so they gritted their teeth and were ruthless, only listening to "Ah! "Ahh Two screams, each of them had cut off one of the other's arms, bandaged himself, and went to see the third killer.

Xiao Mo didn't care how the three of them cooked, and was sure that they were no longer a threat, so he took the horse with Shu Yan, rode together, and headed for Luoyang. Xiao Mo asked Shu Yan: "Brother Shu, this time you know that these two killers are coming at you!" ”

Shu Yan was sullen and sighed: "Listening to the accents of these three people, they look like people from my hometown Ruyin. Alas, I didn't expect that I had done so many things for the people of my hometown, and in the end, someone would actually kill me! ”

Xiao Mo smiled: "The more you do a lot of things, the more you will offend people." If you fight for the interests of some people, you will inevitably harm the interests of other people, and there is no perfect thing in the world, which is inevitable. ”

"I can't complain that so many people in the world are held up as filial piety and honesty, and they don't want to be officials, it turns out that they all have their hardships, and I have just entered the official career......"

"It's okay, Brother Shu, don't be discouraged, I dare to guarantee that you will not be in danger in the future."

"Oh, what do you mean by that?"

"In my opinion, the people who want to kill you must have their own aims, one may be revenge; The second may be to seal your mouth, so it prevents you from going to Luoyang. In my opinion, no matter what the reason is, they can only intercept you halfway before you reach Luoyang, and after you actually reach Luoyang, they will not kill you again. Because Luoyang is so big, their sphere of influence can't reach there, and besides, it is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, so they will never dare to act rashly. Also, if they really want to silence you, now that you are in Luoyang, it will be useless to kill you again. ”

Shu Yan smiled bitterly: "With just these two points, you dare to guarantee that I will not be in danger again?" ”

"Of course not, the most important thing is ...... Don't you feel safer with me by your side? ”

……

The two men rode their horses and talked all the way, all the way. Shu Yan originally wanted Xiao Mo to sit in front, because Xiao Mo's horseback riding skills were better than him, but Xiao Mo insisted on refusing and had to sit in the back, and the two were far away. After walking for half a day, I climbed a high slope and looked forward, and a large city appeared at the end of my eyes.

Xiao Mo shouted: "Luoyang! Brother Shu, we have arrived. ”

Shu Yan also said happily: "Is that Luoyang?" The feet of the Son of Heaven are really extraordinary, this big city is much bigger than our Ruyin. ”

"Cut, I really haven't seen the world, how can you Ruyin compare with Jingshi!"

Shu Yan looked into the distance, and saw two extremely long and beautiful ribbons from the field along both sides of the road, winding to the Luoyang City Gate, both forty or fifty miles long, the slightly shorter one is purple and blue, and the slightly longer one is colorful, more dazzling.

"Brother Xiao Moxian, you said that I haven't seen the world, so let me ask you, what are the two long ribbons in front of?"

Xiao Mo has already seen it, although he is a Qiang person, but he has been in the Central Plains for a long time, and he has naturally seen much more of the world than Shu Yan. "If I'm not mistaken, it's a barrier for the rich to travel. When the wealthy families travel, especially the relatives in the house, they will set up this kind of barrier along the road, which can be used to shelter the wind and sand, and the other can also prevent others from prying eyes. ”

"Footsteps? I haven't seen it, but I've heard of it, but I didn't know that the barrier was so long. ”

Xiao Mo smiled: "Where, do you think everyone's walking barriers are so long?" Ha, let me tell you, even if it is a wealthy family, the general step barrier is only a few hundred zhang long, and there are not many steps like this dozens of miles long in the whole world, which must be the very rich and expensive people in Beijing. ”

Looking at it, Shu Yan suddenly turned into anger, "Hmph, these wealthy nobles rely on money to bully others, and they are arrogant and domineering. This road belongs to the government, and they set up this kind of barrier on the road, so will the travel of ordinary people not be affected? ”

"What do you care about so much, it's not too early now, presumably the owner of this barrier should also go back to the city, after they return to the city, these barriers will be taken back, let's catch up with them as soon as possible, see who is good at these two steps, in addition, if you are lucky, you may be able to meet a beautiful wealthy girl!"

After Xiao Mo finished speaking, he squinted and smiled at Shu Yan, but Shu Yan just shook his head. The two of them hurried up, dusty all the way, and after a while, they came to the front of the barrier. It turned out that these two barriers were divided into two, and in the middle was a line of vehicles and people, and it was really going to pack up and enter the city. The rest of the pedestrians were shouted and driven off the main road, far away. Shu Yan and Xiao Mo rode their horses and were just about to get closer, but they were stopped by drinking.

"Brother Shu, which of the two families do you say is richer?"

"Both of these are such huge car battles, and both have such luxurious barriers, it's hard to tell who is richer."

"Look at this style, these two should be the best super luxury families in Beijing, it is indeed difficult to tell who is better, but in terms of this step barrier, it should be better than this purple one."

Shu Yan asked, "How can you see it?" ”

Xiao Mo smiled: "Look at the purple barrier, although it is woven from expensive purple silk cloth and green silk, it is dozens of miles long, but the colorful barrier is made of more expensive brocade, and it is longer, so in terms of the barrier alone, the one of the brocade barrier is better than the one of the purple silk barrier." ”

"Winning or not winning, they are all the same hill, and we are two levels of people. The average poor people have never worn a silk dress in their lives, even if it is a very ordinary linen cloth, they have to be sewn and mended and worn again and again, which does not guarantee that there are no people who freeze to death in winter! But these rich people use these fine silk satin for what so-called walking barriers! If these silk silks were given to the poor to make clothes, thousands of people would not have to worry about running out of clothes to wear! ”

"No wonder you are held up as filial piety, worrying about the country and the people all day long!" Seeing that Shu Yan was depressed and indignant, Xiao Mo suddenly pointed forward, "Brother Shu, have you seen the last few carriages in the convoy in the Jinbu barrier?" ”

"See, aren't they just those black-covered cars?"

"Yes, if I'm right, there must be a rich girl sitting there! Let's go, let's see! ”

"Hey, what about the wealthy woman, what does it have to do with me, why bother to look at her!"

Xiao Mo didn't answer, turned his horse's head and ran in that direction. They didn't dare to walk inside the barrier, but went around to the outside of the barrier and caught up with the cars, Xiao Mo stood tall on the horse, and could see the situation inside the barrier, so he kept whistling at the cars. Xu Yi attracted dozens of house slaves in Nafu to chase after him with horse whips, Xiao Mo didn't wait for them to catch up, and ran away.

Shu Yan was angry and funny, "Xiao Mo, don't mess around anymore." Otherwise, others still think we are prodigals. ”

The noise alarmed a maiden and two maidservants sitting in the carriage. The girl was full of pearls and clothes, and she asked a maidservant girl on her right, "Chunlan, who is making noise outside?" ”

The maidservant girl named Chunlan lifted the curtain and looked at it, and replied: "It's two teenagers on horseback, dressed quite Sven, but I didn't expect it to be two frivolous children, one of whom was wearing a butterfly white robe. ”

"Prodigal!"

"Rest assured, girl, the house slaves have driven them away."

"Really?" When the girl heard this, she opened the curtain of the carriage lightly, looked out, and sure enough, she saw a red horse galloping towards the city.

A maidservant girl on the left smiled: "Girl, listening to that person's accent, it doesn't look like a local, but like the accent you had when you first came to Luoyang." ”

"Peony, you're talking nonsense again, the housemother said that you are not allowed to mention the girl's previous affairs, you just don't remember, be careful that the housewife tears your mouth." Chunlan immediately reminded her.

Listening to the two maidservants, the girl was neither angry nor angry, her face was calm, and she did not blame the maidservant. But the maid named Peony was uncomfortable, her face turned red, and she smiled: "I'm sorry girl, I had a good time today, I was dizzy, I forgot for a while, and I said that I left ......, fortunately there are no outsiders here." ”

"It's okay, I'm like a sister to you, I know you didn't mean to. I've been stuffy in that deep house compound for so long, it's rare to come out and have fun today! ”

Chunlan said: "The girl is right, now is a good time for spring flowers to bloom, you look at these all kinds of obstacles outside, you know that the families of the major scholars in Luoyang City have also gone out of the city." ”

The woman Ming Chunlan opened the curtain a little, glanced out, and said: "These obstacles, with different lengths, colors, and materials, are varied, which can be described as a special and beautiful scenery in Beijing." ”

Peony smiled: "Although there are all kinds of things, but the only thing that can be compared with our family is the purple silk barrier." It was from the family of Wang Kai, the general of the rear army. ”

"It's the Wang Kai who has been fighting with our family to get rich, right?" The girl asked, "A rear army general is not a high-ranking official, how can there be such a big pomp?" ”

"The girl doesn't know." Chunlan lowered the curtain and said, "Although the general of the rear army is nothing, this Wang Kai is the uncle of the current emperor, the younger brother of the former emperor Sima Zhao, the queen of the king, the emperor for generations, and the family for generations, but it is terrible, he can walk sideways in Luoyang, and even the emperor has to give him some face." However, the Shi family doesn't care about that. Although General Wang often receives funding from the emperor, every time he fights with our family to get rich, our prince always makes him lose so much that he has no face at all. No, in order to show off, General Wang made a forty-mile-long barrier with purple silk, which made the wealthy families of Luoyang City surprised and envied, thinking that this must be the longest and most extravagant barrier in the world, and there could never be anything comparable to it. General Wang was very complacent, thinking that he would suppress our Shi family by virtue of this. But after our prince heard about it, he immediately ordered someone to make a fifty-mile-long brocade step barrier, so that both the material and the length exceeded the Wang family's ......."

The woman was silent after hearing this, and secretly thought: No wonder the old lady is often worried about the Shi family, as the saying goes, "the tree is a big wind", and the Shi family has been in the past, and it is difficult to ensure that they will not get into trouble in the future.

"Hey." Peony smiled and sighed, "Our girl, it's really a blessing to fly here, and the old lady is favored, and you can enjoy the boundless wealth of the Shi family." ”

"The old lady loves your daughter much more than her own son!"

……

The remnant sun shone in the west, and the three girls talked and laughed all the way in the car, followed the group into the city, and the two extremely long and beautiful ribbons were slowly taken away.