31 Feather Wait
Shuzhou and Langzhou are separated by a heavy sea of vain, Mu Congyun and his entourage took a boat from Shuzhou, and it took five days to arrive in Langzhou.
The main city of Langzhou is Chonglang, which is a very prosperous city.
The group drove a puppet carriage from Langzhoudu, watched as they walked, and it took three days to enter the city.
Compared with Shuzhou City, Dongzhou City and other cities, Chonglang is much more prosperous, even the city gate is one zhang higher than usual, and the gate is guarded by two columns of soldiers with heavy armor and halberds. Pedestrians come and go in the city, shoulder to shoulder. Most of them were ordinary people, but there were also many monks wearing weapons walking in the middle, and the two groups of people were mixed together, blurring the boundaries and revealing a strong atmosphere of the human market.
"It is worthy of the world, I heard that the Liyang royal family spared no expense to recruit capable people, and Chonglang gathered nearly half of the scattered cultivators in Kyushu in the west. Even the elders of many sects were guests of the Liyang royal family. Jin Yi turned his head to look around, dizzying.
Xiao Guanyin glanced at him, pouted and said to his careful thoughts: "Don't you want to try it too?" ”
Jin Yi raised his chin, quite proud: "As long as you give more, why not?" My cultivation is at the bottom of Wufu Peak, but I also want to be respected as an immortal master outside. ”
Xiao Guanyin rolled his eyes, not wanting to talk to a person who had lost his money, so he turned his head and asked Mu Congyun: "Senior brother, should we go directly to the Xuegong to report, or wait for the second senior sister to converge first?" ”
"There are still a few days left in the reporting time, find an inn to settle down in, and then go together when Senior Sister Lingyue arrives." Mu Congyun replied, his voice a little unnaturally stiff.
Xiao Guanyin didn't think for any reason, but he felt that today's senior brother looked colder than usual, like snow falling again in the snow-capped mountains in the far north.
She pondered for a long time, and kicked the joyful Jin Qi in the face.
Jin Yi almost hit the ground with his face on the ground, and turned back angrily: "Why are you kicking me?" ”
Xiao Guanyin walked two steps quickly to walk with him, and when he saw him bending down to look down at him, he bumped him with his elbow again: "You lower a little." ”
Jin Yi bent down reluctantly: "If there is a fart, let it go." ”
"Senior brother has a bad heart today, but it's too embarrassing that you haven't seen the world, and it makes Senior Brother unhappy." Xiao Guanyin straightened his waist and looked at him with contempt: "You don't look like a disciple of Xuanling, but like a countryman who has just entered the city, and you don't have the slightest demeanor without delusion." ”
Jin Yi straightened up and muttered to himself: "The demeanor of Wu Yu Peak? Really? ”
Xiao Guanyin choked for a moment, looked back at Mu Congyun who was walking behind, and said with a solemn face: "Naturally, it's like a senior brother!" ”
Jin Yi followed and glanced back, and saw that the senior brother and Shen Qi were walking together, their faces were like crowned jade, and the white clothes were better than immortals. It's obviously a hot summer, but when I look at it twice, my heart seems to be cold.
Honestly and quietly, he said, "Then I can't learn it." ”
However, he saw that the senior brother was extremely cold today, and he suddenly didn't dare to jump too far, straightened his waist, and walked with Xiao Guanyin in front of him.
Shen Qi listened to the two of them chattering and biting their ears and pursing their lips in disdain.
It's just that fools can't see through the disguise.
He turned his face to look at Mu Congyun, and took the initiative to reach out and hold the hand under his sleeve.
The sudden touch made Mu Congyun startled, and he was about to withdraw his hand, but after he realized that he had abandoned it, he relaxed a little: "What's wrong?" ”
Shen Qi "touched" the thin sweat in his palm.
Looking at Zhou Xi's bustling crowd, and then at Mu Congyun, he suddenly understood in his heart, lowered his eyes and said with some embarrassment: "There are too many people, I'm a little scared." ”
He leaned closer to Mu Congyun, almost arm-to-arm with him, and looked at the crowd in fear at Zhou: "I've never seen so many people. ”
Mu Congyun looked at his timid face and secretly exhaled, why shouldn't he?
It's okay like Shuzhou Poison Gate, and you only need to deal with a few people. After a lifetime of tempering, although he doesn't like to deal with people, he can still overcome it by talking about the scene when necessary.
But Chong Lang was different, their group was too conspicuous, and from the beginning of entering the city, there were constantly pedestrians secretly watching, and some monks hiding in the shadows also cast their eyes.
Not to mention that there are too many pedestrians, the streets are crowded, and from time to time they will be crowded by passers-by. He didn't want to show it too obviously, so he had to endure it.
...
Jing called him to recall the feeling of stepping into the mountain behind Nanhuai Town, and his scalp was about to explode.
But now that he was looking at Shen Qi pitifully, the discomfort faded, and Mu Congyun clenched his hand: "Chonglang is Liyang, and there will naturally be more people than elsewhere." You follow me and get to the inn. ”
Shen Qi pursed his lips and smiled: "Well, I'm not afraid of getting lost if I hold my senior brother." ”
Mu Congyun let out a soft "um".
It was about that there was another person around him who needed to be appeased, and his attention shifted to Shen Qi's body, and Mu Congyun's stiff and tense body gradually relaxed.
The people walked along the main street, and before they could find the inn, they saw the crowd panicking and getting out of the way on both sides, and a horse galloped through the street
The hooves almost rubbed Mu Congyun and his party and ran out of the city.
"Riding horses on the street, who are you?"
Xiao Guanyin stepped back and subconsciously 'touched' the bamboo tube on his waist, but thinking that he couldn't cause trouble for his senior brother, he let go of his hand again, but he was not very happy.
"The people of the flower family." Jin Qi next to him looked at the city gate and muttered.
"The Flower Family?" Xiao Guanyin has never heard of it: "How do you recognize it?" ”
Jin Yi was stunned for a moment, and then said, "You didn't see the clothes that person was wearing?" There is the emblem of the flower family on the face. ”
Xiao Guanyin recalled that those people were riding their horses too fast, and she didn't notice the emblem. But that's not the point: "Which sect is the Hua family?" Why haven't you heard of it? Isn't it forbidden to ride horses in Chonglang City? ”
Although the monks are powerful, they are in the minority. The vast majority of people in the West are just ordinary people. Therefore, each city has a clear rule, and if a monk enters the city, he must follow the rules of the mortal world.
Otherwise, when they entered the city, they would not have abandoned the puppet carriage because there were too many people and walked into the city, and went directly to Edgeworth.
"It's not a sect, the successive heads of the Hua family are the teachers of the Liyang Dynasty, and they are sealed with feather clothes. Now the first feather coat of the Liyang Dynasty is called Hua Qianzhong, but it seems that he has been missing for a long time. Mu Congyun replied.
"Is the Hua family very powerful? More powerful than the big sects? Shen Qi asked.
"It can't be compared." The stunned Jin Yi came back and explained: "In the early years, the cultivation realm was very prosperous, and in addition to the major sects, there were also many secular families. Unlike the Xiuzhen Sect, they are far away from the world, but rooted in the mundane world and have close contacts with the royal family. The children with good qualifications in the family will be sent to the major sects for training, and after completing their studies, they will be the family's dependence. Those with ordinary qualifications stay in the family to take care of mundane affairs, or do business, or become officials, and their strength is intertwined. The flower family is so. In the 'fog erosion catastrophe', the Hua family has become the gate valve of the eastern border, and has supported several generations of dynasties. Later, the eastern border was destroyed, the territory moved westward, and the various forces competed for resources and power for a period of time, and the mortal dynasty also changed. Therefore, after the emperor at that time ascended the throne, he respected the head of the Hua family at that time as a teacher, sealed the feather coat, and made a promise, and the descendants will be like this, hereditary replacement. ”
"But over the years, the Liyang royal family has become stronger and stronger, and by recruiting and cultivating the children of the clan, there are also many powerhouses of the Heavenless Realm. On the contrary, the Hua family is self-contained, and one generation is not as good as the next, and there is a decline in the sunset. But the promise made by Emperor Kai cannot be changed, so the Hua family still holds the master's position. But one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, and there has been a lot of friction between the royal family and the Hua family over the years. ”
"Especially since the disappearance of the feather coat, the contradiction between the two has become bigger and bigger, and there have been rumors in the market that the disappearance of the feather coat is the work of the royal family." Jin Yi spread his hands and said: "In order to clear up the relationship, in recent years, the royal family has not only sent a large number of people to find the whereabouts of Yu Yihou, but also made a special case for the Hua family, such as riding horses on the street, if you are in a hurry to go to Yu Yihou, you will not be held accountable." ”
"You're connected?" Xiao Guanyin clasped his hands in his arms: "It seems that you are not purely lazy when you are asking around all day." ”
"What nonsense are you talking about! I've never been lazy! Jin Yi glanced at Mu Congyun nervously, and began to squeeze into the crowd again: "I'll go and inquire about what it's for today." ”
He burrowed into the crowd like a swimming fish, and after a while, he squeezed out again, with a look that was not what I expected: "I'm really not wrong, I said that there is news of Yu Yi waiting again, and the Hua family is in a hurry to send someone to find it." Without waiting for the others to answer, he sneered again: "But the lady who sells buns over there said, a...
On the day of three hundred and sixty-five, the people of the Hua family rode horses in the market for three hundred days, and the reason for returning was that there was news of feather clothes, but no one was found. ”
"It's just under the guise of looking for someone." Jin Yi rolled his eyes unceremoniously.
A few people stopped to watch the excitement for a while, and continued to look for the inn.
There are many people coming and going, and I asked the two inns in a row if they were full, and when I arrived at the three inns, I finally had a vacant room. It's just that there aren't many vacant rooms, and there are only two left.
Xiao Guanyin lives in one room, and the remaining room is crowded by three people.
Fortunately, the inn room is not small, and the shopkeeper added a smaller bed in the outer room, and the three of them also slept.
After seven or eight days of tiring travel all the way, Jin Yi couldn't wait to lie down in the collapse outside as soon as he entered the house, and patted the vacant seat next to him to greet Shen Qi: "You sleep with me, rest and wait for the evening senior brother to take you out to see the beautiful scenery and find food. ”
Shen Qi didn't respond, looked at him coldly, and twisted his fingers unhappily.
With his eyes closed, Jin Qi is unaware of the danger and is already recuperating for the night play.
Shen Qi tugged on Mu Congyun's sleeve and shouted "Senior Brother" in a low voice.
Mu Congyun raised his lower lip imperceptibly, led him inside, and replied to Jin Yi's proposal on his behalf: "The bed inside is big, Shen Qi and I can squeeze it." ”
Shen Qi immediately followed him like a small tail.
Hearing this, Jin Qi sat up, looked behind the screen, and saw that Shen Qi had already made the bed diligently.
He blinked slowly, thinking suspiciously: The second time in the poison gate, Shen Qi and his senior brother are in the same room, won't they also sleep together?