Looking at this posture, it is not difficult to guess that Peng Xiao must have been combing through the forbidden army to find out if there were any suspicious people in the road guide who entered the city a few days ago, so he did not think of sending additional people to guard the people who went out of the city for the time being.

The opportunity must not be lost and the time will not come again, where will a few people hesitate at the moment?

They each adjusted their breathing pace and headed towards the gate of the northern city.

If it had been placed half a year ago, Ling He and Han Changsheng, two honest children, might have been a little suspicious because of their lack of experience in the rivers and lakes.

But obviously, after the experience of the past few months, they have also gained a lot of knowledge.

Today, let alone fooling a few city gate guards guarding the city gate, even when the border guard General Peng Xiaopeng arrived, they still looked at Xie Zhao with the same face as usual and flickered him.

"What do you do? Why do you want to go out of the city at this time? ”

Seeing a few young people who were obviously dressed as Jianghu people, entering and leaving the city gate in the first month, the city gate guards would inevitably take a second look and interrogate more.

Xie Zhao blinked with a smile, and took over the conversation without seeing it:

"Uncle, the hometown of our four brothers and sisters is in the Gejia Village in the mountain col more than seventy miles outside Lanling City. I thought that I missed the time this year and couldn't go back to the village to worship my ancestors and worship my ancestors.

Who knew that when I heard that the princess was married, the Son of Heaven forgave the city gate and could not enter. So a few of us thought about taking the opportunity to rush back to our hometown and go to the ancestral hall to burn incense and kowtow to the relatives who died early, and continue the incense. ”

The gatekeeper who questioned him was an older man who looked like he was in his forties.

He blew the wind at the gate of the city all morning, and his face was full of wind and frost at this time, and when he heard this, he first frowned and looked at the clothes of several people, and then his eyes paused slightly on the weapons and swords held in the palms of several people.

Although Han Changsheng and Bo Xuan carried martial weapons with them, they had never hidden their heads and tails after all, so it was okay.

However, in the hands and waists of Ling He and Xie Zhao, they each wore heavy swords and double swords that were half-concealed and half-concealed, and it was really difficult not to be suspicious.

The city gate guard frowned in a deep voice and said: "Since you are from Gejia Village, you want to worship your ancestors, why don't you return home before the first month?"

Looking at your appearance, you don't look like a child in the village, you are obviously a person from the rivers and lakes, why are you lying? ”

Xie Zhao didn't panic when he heard this.

She was wrapped in hemp rope and mud, and the unrecognizable famous sword "Golden Table" was casually on the ground, and she sighed with a lonely face, and said:

"Uncle, you don't know, I'm not lying. In the first few years, there was a drought in Gyeonggi Province, and our village was empty, and several of our parents were gone.

The clan relatives in the village couldn't afford to support us so much, so we thought that we could only starve to death, but suddenly I heard that there was a new 'support department' opened by the imperial court in Beijing.

It is rumored that this 'maintenance department' not only takes care of the food and lodging of the refugees, but also allows the children to study for free!

So as soon as the village elders summed it up, they decided to send us children who couldn't work and lost their parents to Zhaoge—the four of us brothers and sisters joined Zhaoge together at that time. ”

Xie Zhao looked reminiscing, and he acted really like that.

She said half-truthfully: "Later, because of our young age and some martial arts roots, we were sent to the largest dart game in Beijing, the 'Dragon Hunting Stack', and the chief martial arts master was accepted as a disciple to teach literature and martial arts, and it has been more than ten years."

Xie Zhao's authentic Zhaogejing tone dispelled the vigilance of the city gatekeepers, not to mention that the "story" she said was also true.

Many years ago, Gyeonggi Province was hit by a drought, and many villages were devastated.

The "Maintenance Division" was established around the time of that incident, and it also helped many refugees in the vicinity at that time.

However, at the beginning of the establishment of the "Support Division", the manpower was very limited, and most of them were seconded from the Shentai Palace and the household department, so it was not possible to coordinate the placement of too many people for a while.

Therefore, in that year, some of the martial arts in Beijing or the famous families and innocent families in the vicinity of Gyeonggi Province also volunteered to help the country under the appeal of the imperial court, accepting and sheltering some refugees who were also beneficial to them - Zhaoge's first dart game "Dragon Hunt" was one of them.

Xie Zhao's combination of true and false punches was defeated, not to mention the city gate guards in their forties, who were simple-minded, even Ling He, Han Changsheng and the others all had a wooden face, and they didn't squeak at all.

The heart is even more neat and emotional. Xie Zhao, this guy is really deceitful and not negotiable!

Just open your mouth! It's like the real thing!

When the old city gatekeeper heard this, he believed it, and not only did his eyes warm, but even the eyes that looked at them were full of pity and sympathy.

"Ahh I remember the drought, and it was a terrible year! At that time, thanks to Her Royal Highness the eldest princess Tianchen's advice to His Majesty the First Emperor, she organized the priests of Shentai Palace to set up a 'support department' as soon as possible, and saved many old and weak women and children who should have died. ”

In fact, at the beginning of the establishment of the "Support Division", in addition to the Shentai Palace, the first scholar clan of the Southern Dynasty headed by Xunyang Xie contributed the most.

It's just that Xunyang Xie and Shangzhuguo Xie Lin have always kept a low profile, and they are worried that it is not a good thing for their reputation to be too prominent, so they are reluctant to make a statement.

Therefore, there are not many people who know about it, and most of them think that it is the "Shentai Palace" and the imperial court that started under the advice of the eldest princess of Tianchen.

The old gatekeeper looked them up and down for a moment when he said this, and sighed:

"Although your life was bitter when you were young, you also met great nobles. Look, after all these years, how good have you been?

Now all of them have grown into good children with talents, and they have not wasted the hard work of the nobles in the past! If the eldest princess of Tianchen sees you now, she will definitely be happy for you. ”

He nodded with great relief, and instructed:

"It's a big deal to go back to worship your ancestors, but you can't forget your roots, and don't forget to kowtow to your nobles in front of the ever-bright lamp that is enshrined to the eldest princess in the ancestral hall."

Most of the villages in Gyeonggi Province that were affected by the disaster were rescued by the "Support Division", and later almost every village ancestral hall spontaneously set up a lantern for the eldest princess of Tianchen.

Every year when worshipping ancestors, it is also necessary to renew the lantern for the eldest princess of Tianchen, which has long been a common practice in the villages near Gyeonggi Province that have suffered.

Xie Zhao scratched his chin with a rare heart.

She let out a hesitant "hmm" and laughed a little reluctantly.

What the uncle said is, it must be knocked, it must be knocked."

Let her kowtow to herself?

Pull it down!

Ling He and the others glanced at her with a smile in their eyes, and they couldn't help but laugh.

At this time, the city gate guards also checked the road guidance of the four of them one by one, and after confirming that it was correct, he handed the road guidance back to them, and raised his hand to urge:

"Okay, okay, Hou Shengzi, after a while, the steward of Princess Anning's mansion will finish counting the convoy and will leave the city. Make haste and go, and don't stand in the way at the gates. ”

Ling He's Lu Yin is really a genuine product that can't be real, while Xie Zhao, Han Changsheng and Bo Xuan are fakes that are even more real than the real ones, and the old city guards really didn't see anything famous.

In addition, he had just let his guard down by the story Xie Zhao had told earlier, so he allowed them to pass without any qualification.

"Hey!"

Xie Zhao hurriedly nodded briskly and obediently.

"Thank you, uncle, I wish you a happy New Year, a happy family, and there will be a period in the future."

The old city gatekeeper is old, and naturally he also likes the sweet-mouthed juniors, and he laughed with a wrinkled face when he heard this.

"Let's go!"

Several people were busy preparing to leave, but suddenly far away, a footstep was rapidly approaching!

Xie Zhaoren didn't turn around, but when he heard the sound behind him, his face immediately changed!

She urged in a low voice with a cold face:

"Let's go!"

Ling He, Han Changsheng, and Bo Xuan's faces also changed, knowing that the situation was different, but this was not the time to ask more, so they hurriedly lifted their breath and left!

The man behind him saw that a few people were about to slip away, and immediately said in a deep voice:

"I am the priest of Shentai Palace, the city gate guard, close the city gate!"