Seeing the horseback riding action of the passing Shun soldiers, Li Tiancai knew that he wanted to put the soles of his feet into the horses, and after doing so for a while, he was able to ride completely by himself without communicating with the horses.

He felt that the feeling of riding a horse was very good, and it was another sense of speed that was different from driving a sports car and an airplane, and walking on the stone streets of the capital made it feel like going back in time.

It's just that there are very few pedestrians on the streets, and many shops are closed.

After walking a few streets, a woman's voice suddenly came from the carriage, "You stop here first, I'm going to buy something." ”

Li Tian was a little irritated in his heart, he was still in a hurry to go back to Li's mansion, this woman had so many things.

He kept a smile and said, "That's not good, ma'am, General Liu wants me to protect you until you return home, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up if something unexpected happens." ”

The woman in the carriage said resolutely, "You only listen to the general's orders, and don't listen to the orders of the lady, don't want me to be angry, stop quickly, and call you when you finish shopping." ”

Li Tiancai was too lazy to be a loyal subordinate of a brutal warlord, so he immediately took advantage of the situation and tried to stop the white horse, but saw that the carriage was still moving, and it did not stop until the end of the street.

The woman was helped out of the carriage by a maid and entered a shop, where he looked and saw that it was a bookstore.

After a while, the woman walked out of the store, and the girl was holding a stack of books and white paper scrolls, and the two got into the carriage and walked forward for a while, and then stopped and entered another brush and ink inkstone shop.

As if everything to be bought was in order, the woman beckoned to her, and then, with the help of Yahuan, got into the carriage, and then started again.

Li Tian rode a horse and trotted towards the carriage, only to see that the shopkeepers along the way saw him, and they were so frightened that they closed their stalls and hid, and the shopkeeper was so frightened that his face was pale.

He kind of understood why the woman had to stop by herself, looking at the military uniform on her body, it was really annoying.

Li Tian carefully followed the carriage. But I didn't get too close, and I thought it would be better.

He drove the carriage to a mansion on a street and stopped, only to see a plaque of Wu Mansion hanging on the gate of the mansion, and two fierce soldiers of the Shun Army standing at the door.

The woman was helped out of the carriage by Yahuan, and the two guards at the door knelt down and saluted, "Welcome Madame back to the house." ”

She didn't say anything and went straight into the mansion, and she didn't look back at Li Tian, as if she had forgotten him.

Li Tian saw the carriage detouring towards the backyard of the Wu Mansion, and felt that today's intelligence had been collected enough, and it was time to end the identity of the Shun Soldier and return to the Li Mansion to study the next action plan.

He rode a few horses. It suddenly occurred to me that I already had a horse, and I should go around the city and find the best route to escape.

Li Tian thought of it, and trotted towards the city gate on horseback, startling countless vendors and shops along the way, and he could only apologize in his heart.

However, there were obviously more soldiers on the streets of the capital, one by one disheveled and drunk, and what was even more strange was that when they returned to the residential area, they dispersed, and then walked into the houses as if they were their own homes.

He deliberately slowed down his horse. I only heard that there was no sound of beating, scolding, smashing and looting in the private houses, as if it was really a soldier arriving home, but this was obviously impossible.

Instead, some residents walked out of the door, gathering in twos and threes to mutter. His expression became more and more excited, and the eyes that occasionally cast him were also cold.

Li Tianjian did not have the bloodshed as he imagined, but there was a strange atmosphere of dead silence around him, and the Jingshi of Nuoda could no longer hear the laughter of the children. There was a dull feeling everywhere.

Suddenly, a kind of fear arose in his heart for no reason, so he had to let his horse run fast amid the countless malicious gazes cast at him, and in a short time he came to the gate of the city.

I saw that the brigade on the city wall was no longer there. But there were several tables beside the gates, piled high with wine, meat, chickens, ducks, and other food.

Hundreds of soldiers sat at the table to eat and drink, and they were very happy to drink and guess boxing, but the civilians who wanted to enter and exit the city gate were a little hesitant, with a look of embarrassment on their faces.

Li Tian slowed down his horse, and when the guards saw that it was their own people, they beckoned, "Brother, where are you going, do you want to get off the horse and have a bowl of wine with us." ”

He smiled and shook his head, "I have something to do urgently, so I won't drink the wine." ”

As he spoke, he kept walking, and when he entered the city gate, he saw four peasants carrying stretchers, and on the stretcher lay a moaning young man, who seemed to be acutely ill.

There was a man next to him with a paper oil umbrella, covering the boy on the stretcher, with an anxious look on his face.

The guards stopped the five peasants, and the big thorn stretched out his hand and hummed, "Everyone who enters and leaves the city must pay money, ten copper at a time for individuals to pass through, fifty copper for carriage passing, and eighty copper for the rich and merchants!"

The faces of the four people carrying the stretcher were ugly, and the man with the umbrella forced a smile, "Does the military master look like we are people who can afford to pay the entrance tax, if the child is not sick and urgently seeks a doctor, we will not dare to enter the city." ”

Shun Bing scolded, "If you have the money to find a doctor, you don't have the money to pay the city tax, whether you pay the money or not, be careful to pull you and other chaotic people to compare the salary of the town!"

Several peasants hesitated, and the young man on the stretcher struggled to sit up, and said, "Dad, I feel much better, so we don't need to go to the city to see a doctor." ”

Shun Bing saw that the peasants wanted to exit the city gate, so they stepped to the city gate to block the road, and shouted: "You will enter for a while and then you will not enter, play with Lao Tzu, don't think about leaving if you don't pay the money for entering the city today, hum! Lao Tzu's big knife has not seen blood for a few days!"

The peasants complained dissatisfiedly, "Isn't the military master robbing money, isn't this not that he hasn't entered the city yet, our baby is sick, and there is no need to enter the city." ”

Shun Bing smiled and pulled out his big knife, and said coldly: "A few of you are acting strangely, I suspect that you are the enemy's spies, go!

Several peasants were so frightened that they put down their stretchers, knelt down to Shun Bing, and said, "Master Jun, spare your life, we are willing to pay the city tax." ”

Shun Bing sneered proudly, "I still know each other, now the entry tax has doubled, if you want to live, you should hand it over quickly!"

Several peasants glanced at each other, and finally had to sigh helplessly and hand over the money, and then retreated out with a stretcher in frustration.

Shun Bing proudly played with the copper coins in his hand and shouted to the peasants, "Hey, you won't go to the city to see a doctor." ”

The response of the man with the umbrella came from afar, "If you don't look at the military master, our baby is cheap, and the prince of Yama can't look down on it." ”

When Li Tian saw this scene, he became even more bored for no reason, and rode a white horse through the city gate quickly and galloped towards the outskirts of the city.

When he passed by the peasants, he was so frightened that these people thought that the Shun soldiers were in the mood to kill, and they knelt down in fright, but they were still careful not to fall the boy on the stretcher.

Li Tian noticed that the young man on the stretcher was staring at him hatefully, and he wanted to pounce on him and take a few bites, although his face was so sick that his face was yellow, his eyes were very bright.

He said in his heart, "Dashun has another potential enemy, and I don't know what these people are doing, haven't they thought about gaining the support of civilians." ”

There was a sudden drizzle in the sky, and everything on the land of spring was revived, but the outskirts of the capital were full of abandoned camps and fortifications of the Shun army, which looked extremely unsightly on the green land.

Li Tian rode a white horse and ran through the empty villages, and said in surprise, "Why is there no one outside the city, are all the soldiers of Dashun living in the city, but how can there be so many houses in the city for the army to live." ”

He suddenly recalled the Shun soldiers he saw on the street, and said with some understanding, "These Shun soldiers live in the homes of civilians, it seems that something big will happen sooner or later, so we still have to hurry back to the Li Mansion to prepare early." (To be continued......)

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