In the carriage, Nan Huaijin opened the curtain, she looked at the frightened appearance of the vendor, and stopped Zhu Qiu at the exit: "After all, it's a blue day, don't forget the rules on Qingyun Mountain." Then he looked at the merchant, but at this moment the merchant was frightened, and he watched the woman who looked fierce and drew her sword to cut him.

"If you are asked to kill again, do you dare to kill?"

This sentence was asked by the vendor, Nan Huaijin her voice was ethereal, her face was covered with a veil, and the vendor said repeatedly: "I regret it, I regret it, I will never dare to do this next time, I beg the woman to spare my life." ”

"Do you dare to have a next time?" Zhu Qiu frowned, and made a gesture to slash him, the sword shone with cold light, and the vendor's crotch was wet in fright.

The merchant sweated a few more drops, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Never do it again! ”

"Zhuqiu, let him go. ”

Zhu Qiu nodded, waved his horsewhip, and shouted, "What are you still kneeling for?"

The sword in Kwon Shou's hand came down from the vendor's neck and kicked the vendor down: "Get out." ”

The slaves hurriedly came up to help the traders, and Lu San on the side still grabbed the belly of the horse, stopped a few people and said, "These things are left, a few cows are left, let's go." ”

A few servants grabbed the merchant and fled in a hurry, these people were armed with swords, and they looked like people who practiced martial arts, and they did not dare to say more, but ran away.

"Uncle. Quan Shou helped the old beggar to get up from the ground, the old beggar had many broken places on his face and body, Quan Shou took out a small bottle of gold sore medicine from his pocket and sprinkled some on the wound.

The old beggar and a few fellow beggars supported each other, gathered together and thanked the group, the old beggar broke a corner of his head, knelt on the ground and shouted: "The old man has thanked several young men for their life-saving grace, and the old beggar will never forget the kindness of saving each other." ”

The beggars were all members of the old beggar's family, with distant relatives and children and grandchildren, the eldest fifty or sixty years old, and three or two younger ones, who were still in the woman's arms. There were fourteen or fifteen beggars, all but three or two younger women, all of whom were old people.

"Old man, there are so many of you, what is this?" asked Quan Shou puzzled, the road taken by these beggars was the road to the south.

The old beggar said: "If you return to your benefactor, the officials in Bianjing City have made a decree that they will surround Bianjing City for fifty miles, and we and other beggars are not allowed to step in, otherwise we will go to prison and be punished with a cane for thirty years." ”

"How can this be reasonable, this world is so difficult, and it is still so pressing?"

"The nobles in the city love to eat fruit and plum, the wild fruits on the mountain are all picked, a pound can be sold for four or five hundred Wen, we beggars to pick some for some coils, want to go to Fuzhou, and it is too far. The old beggar said, and some tears welled up in his eyes.

Zhu Qiu said indignantly: "The beggar is just going with the flow, having nothing to rely on, and making things difficult in every way. ”

The beggars couldn't cry, the little one hugged his mother, they didn't understand, they just looked at them crying, and Nan Huaijin in the carriage also said angrily: "No wonder the master always says that the emperor said that the Zhao family is a boy, and often tells me how the official family is, it turns out to be true." ”

The old beggar smiled and said, "What dynasty and generation of emperors would like to have in their capital a stinky beggar like ours who are dressed in tatters and kneeling down to beg everywhere?" I heard that some Tangut people entered the city, and the officials were afraid of losing the face of the court, so they let those soldiers drive away the beggars in the city. ”

The old beggar didn't say anything, he walked slowly, and was helped by the beggars to leave, but was stopped by Zhuqiu: "Old man, take these silver taels and go to Jiangnan to find a living." ”

However, more than 20 taels of broken silver, ordinary families eat and drink for a month is only four or five taels, 20 taels is really not much for so many people, but the old man shirked it during the day: "How can this work, the benefactor saved the life of the old beggar, and he wants to give silver, this." ”

"Take it, Jiangnan Road is far away, old man, maybe you can use it. Nan Huai Jin Lu came out and said. The beggars looked at the men, knelt on the ground and bowed, their heads slamming on the cracked dirt road.

"Thank you, people"

Twenty or so beggars, none of them were young and strong, and the old and weak women and children were sick and hungry, and they must have asked for some silver, and they supported each other, and watched these young knights go away.

After a few days, they finally arrived in Bianjing.

The city is more than ten zhang high, there are officers and soldiers wrapped in iron armor standing on the wall, countless Song flags are flying, the city gate comes and goes in an orderly manner, this is the outer city, there is an inner city inside, in which is the palace city.

Nan Huai Jin poked his head out of the window of the carriage to look at the people and animals coming and going outside the city, and the general guarding the gate stopped the people who entered the customs one by one, looked at their faces carefully, and interrogated the cadastre.

"This is Bianjing City?" Nan Huai Jin muttered, the city of Bianjing City is really big, and the officers and soldiers guarding the city are also tall and mighty, and the iron armor on their bodies is also shining.

This street is full of pedestrians in the daytime, and some people in the market can arouse Nan Huaijin's saliva when they boil pot broth, and the soup in the pot is floating with round fragrant grains, and the vegetables in the wok are also sprinkled with green salt, which is delicious to look at.

There are teahouses everywhere, there are storytellers who stand to comment on stories, and many people in the neighborhood stand around, some rich people will buy some melon seeds, and some people will take their children or female companions to listen to a short paragraph.

It was not only the neighbors who drank tea and listened to books, but also those merchants who dragged ox carts, and the merchants instructed their subordinates to carry down the tea leaves and other items on the ox carts.

"With care, these things are worth hundreds of taels of silver. ”

"There are several restaurants closed, and the plaques on them are engraved with what Yixiangyuan, Manhualou, and Spring Festival Pavilion. These are brothels that occupy a small alley, do not take customers during the day, and are only bustling at night. Wu Changfeng and Nan Huaijin said, there were girls washing clothes on the bamboo poles upstairs, and the carriage passed from below, which was indeed fragrant, and it was the smell of rouge body fragrance.

Zhu Qiu frowned, patted Changfeng's shoulder and said, "Don't tell Senior Sister about this, she is still young and doesn't understand." ”

Yu Changfeng nodded in agreement, and a few people crossed the long bridge of the official road, and then inside was the inner city, where the forbidden army was heavily guarded, and they had to dismount.

"This is Bianjing City. ”

Nan Huaijin got out of the carriage, her white outfit still made many people look over, a few young generals looked over, the woman stood and looked at the tower of the imperial city, her figure was slender, and her face was not covered and she was also very moving.

She was dressed in white, with a white beaded veil on her face, and two swords behind her back.

"Let's go. "It's better to meet the eighth senior brother earlier, the eighth senior brother is the only disciple she has never met in the division, and the rivers and lakes all say that he is the eighth senior brother flying star hand, strong in martial arts, and serves as the master of the Imperial City Division, but she has not seen the eighth senior brother, and she doesn't know, it is different from what is said in the rivers and lakes.

In the city here, it is the imperial capital palace city, the gate of the palace city is there, and there are more than 20 powerful silver-armored warriors standing at several palace gates, each of them has eyes like eagles, a pair of palms holding knives are covered with calluses, and there are some scars on their bodies, it can be seen that they are all veterans who have gone through the battlefield.

Imperial City Division, the emperor eagle dog in Bianjing City, they are undoubtedly the most elite army in the hands of the Emperor Zhao family, it is rumored that some of them are all over the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and some have gone to Western Xia and Liao, not only the chivalrous warriors on the rivers and lakes are afraid of them, but also the Liao people are very jealous, the imperial city envoys of the past dynasties are the emperor's cronies, and the imperial city envoy He Xiao is in charge of the entire Imperial City Division, controlling the big and small things in Tokyo Bianliang City.

A delicate palace ban card, looking for the Imperial City Envoy, the young general of the Imperial City Division took the token, and saw this line of seven people, the leader was the youngest, and the figure was a good girl, but the face was covered with beads, and he couldn't see clearly, he approached and wanted to take a closer look, but he touched the token in his hand, or dispelled the idea.

The young general glanced at it a few times, touched it carefully in his hand, and handed it back after confirming that it was correct: "Several, the Imperial City envoy went out three days ago, and when he left, he said that he was going to pick up people at the gate of Bianjing Outer City. ”

Putting away the token, Nan Huaijin arched his hand and said: "The little general will take a few of us to meet your Imperial City Envoy, me and him, now it seems that we should have missed it before." ”

The young general nodded, explained a few words to the soldiers standing on the side, and came back and said, "Let's go, you just follow me." ”

When the younger sister arrived at the palace gate, He Xiao was holding a big bowl to eat meat, which contained a big pork knuckle, fat and soft and glutinous, poured with thick soup, the meat skin melted in the mouth, fat but not greasy, and the thin place was very flavorful, several accompanying soldiers swallowed saliva, and looked at the big elbow in the big bowl in their eyes.

"My lord's elbow is fragrant, I don't know which craft?" a young general approached his colleague next to him and said, he was hungry, the aroma of the thick soup overflowed, this imperial city made Lord He eat pork elbow, his mouth was full of oil, the sound was not small, he grabbed the bone stick with both hands and gnawed the skin of the meat on it, and bit off the meat in large pieces, chewing in his mouth.

"Liu Qingqing in the West Chamber, just that girl sent it, Miss Liu's craftsmanship is really good, look at Lord He's eating, his mouth is really full of oil, and the worms in my stomach are hooked, it must be very fragrant. The young general said, swallowed his saliva, his mouth was dry, and thought to himself, when he went back, he had to let the wife of the family also stew a pot of fat and big pork knuckle for himself to taste.

He Xiao ate only bones left, stained with some greasy skin and oily meat, threw it on the ground and clapped his hands, picked up the handkerchief held by the young general next to him and wiped it, a yellow dog came out of the alley, and picked up a big stick bone in his mouth, He Xiao patted the yellow dog's head, the dog didn't bark, he turned around and ran away, and no one paid attention to it from the passers-by in the alley, only a few puppies ran over from a distance and made up a ball.

A young general is really impatient to wait, it's been three days, and the person who is waiting for the adults still hasn't appeared, and the forbidden army brothers also come up to ask a few words when they pass by every day, and they don't know what these lords of the Imperial City Division are doing outside the city.

The young general turned his head to look at He Xiao, and saw that He Xiao was wiping the grease off his lips, turned his head and complained to a few young generals, chatting and saying: "I don't know who it is, this Lord He has stayed in the Imperial City Division for so many years, and I haven't seen him take care of anyone like this, staying in a place like the city gate where flies and insects fly around, there is no bench, just sit on this broken stone that responds to people, three days and three nights, and there is no shadow of people." ”

"What kind of old man is Xu, right? I remember some people saying that Master He's teacher seems to have a deep background. The young general guessed, and the Pu knife on his waist shook as he stretched out, and several passing children hid in the corner and watched them.

"You guessed it. ”

Someone on the side made a noise, softly, not daring to say it loudly, it was a young general who guarded the door: "It's Lord He's master who is here, I saw with my own eyes, Lord He and Master Li Chun Li of the forbidden army chatted, and he personally said that one of his junior sisters in the division who had never met before was going to come to Tokyo to find him and help him do that." ”

"What about it?"

Several young generals of the Imperial City Division looked at each other, and a young general trembled and said: "Could it be that the official family has passed on the decree and asked Lord He to do it?"

The young general smiled, and didn't say much, He Xiao looked over, as if he saw someone, with a smile on his face, the sword he was holding was hanging on his waist, and he walked quickly, and everyone also got up one after another, looking at He Xiao.