Chapter 153: Shuangqing Mansion
The closest city to the White Emperor City is Shuangqing Mansion, this city has a slightly special status, nominally still under the jurisdiction of the Great Wei Imperial Court, but because of the extreme proximity to Shuzhou, it has to go to eye with the Great Zhou Mei, secretly communicate with the Song, and then with the Qingyang Sect forces and the snake, making this city at the junction of the three parties into a de facto neutral city, in which the fish and dragons are mixed, in the words of the people in the rivers and lakes, this city is not a good place, has its own rules.
The snake family in the city, which has been rooted here for several generations, not only raises dead soldiers, but also raises private soldiers, equipped with iron-armored bows and arrows, and even has a formed cavalry, which is difficult to imagine in the Central Plains, because according to the law system of the Great Wei, the private possession of the above things and other complicity and rebellion, and only in such a remote place where the emperor is far away can see such a scene. However, these families are not as good as the Qin family, the Qian family and other wealthy families, and their influence is only limited to the land of one prefecture, while the Qin family, the Qian family, the Li family and other big clans, through commerce, mergers and acquisitions of land, control of gangs, absorption of local gentry dependence, funding court officials and other means, the influence is at least in one state, or even up to several states.
In addition to these families who already have a slight family atmosphere, there are also a large number of outlaws in Shuangqing Mansion, everyone is doing all kinds of shady things, or they can't get along in other places, they are hunted down by the enemy, hiding here, with shady identities, all kinds of things.
For ordinary people in the rivers and lakes, if they go to Shuangqing Mansion, they naturally have to be careful everywhere and abide by the rules. or was targeted by gangsters and died in a battle without sudden Jianghu. However, for the big people in the rivers and lakes, there is no such worry, although the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, but it does not mean that the head snake can turn around and bully the dragon of the river, it is nothing more than the harmony between the two sides, maybe they can also take some incense.
So at Yan Feiqing's suggestion, Li Xuandu and his entourage decided to go to Shuangqing Mansion, where they waited for Su Yuncheng and others to deal with the follow-up matters, and when they were here, they could return to Wuzhou and go to the Dazhen Mansion in Shangqing Mansion to attend the wedding of Yan Feiqing and Su Yuncheng.
For the matter of watching the ceremony, Li Xuandu and Qin Su both agreed, but Li Xuandu agreed to Yan Feiqing, but Qin Su agreed to Su Yuncheng, when the time comes, Li Xuandu is considered a guest on the man's side, but Qin Su accidentally became a guest on the woman's side, if he can't sit at the same table when he enters the table, Li Xuandu sits with a group of Zhengyi Taoist priests, maybe there are former enemies among them, Qin Su sits with the Cihangzong woman she doesn't like, maybe she will see Bai Xiuyi, then it's a joke.
The group hired two carriages to go to Shuangqing Mansion, the coachman is a person who is used to Shuangqing Mansion, it is estimated that he sent a lot of guests, seeing that Li Xuandu and his party are not like the people in the rivers and lakes who are dressed in short clothes in his impression, and they are young men and women, and they are all wide robes and big sleeves, but they are like young ladies who came out to play in the mountains and rivers, so they kindly told Li Xuandu and others about the rules of Shuangqing Mansion, and also looked at the two sons and two young ladies during the period. The two women, the older one, seem to have inconvenient legs and feet, a soft and weak ignorant appearance, at first glance they are the kind of innocent people who do not go through the world; As for the two sons, each has its own merits, one is like the kind of character in the book, handsome, with a fairy spirit, which makes people forget the vulgar, and the other son seems to be a pair with the bookish lady, and is also a reader, the two often whisper, and occasionally the chuckle of a young woman makes the coachman's heart itch.
As for the second carriage, his younger brother was in charge of driving the carriage, and among them were the retinue of these young ladies and young ladies, including maids and old servants.
Before arriving at Shuangqing Mansion, the coachman explained a lot of recent situations in the city, the city can be divided into three major forces, one is the Gongsun family that has taken root in the city for the longest time, it is said that it is the descendant of the former King of Shu and the lord of the White Emperor City, Gongsun Clan, not only recruited a large number of outlaws, but also trained many dead killers, and its family master is also a good cultivator. The second is the largest wealthy merchant in the city, the Ximen family, which controls half of the business in the city, and even has a street that is the Ximen family, which shows the size of his family business, and at the same time, the Ximen family relies on huge financial resources to raise private soldiers up to thousands of people, unlike ordinary officials and soldiers, these private soldiers are equipped with iron-armored crossbows, among which there are 800 cavalry, which are called Jiading by the Ximen family. Finally, there is the Shingon Sect's lower sect of the Four Truths Temple, which is an outlier in this city, it is precisely because of the existence of these monks that the Shuangqing Mansion will not be completely out of control, and many battles that affect the entire city are mediated by the Four Truths Temple, and the minds of both sides are also making a covenant in the Four Truths Temple, so the status of the Garan Temple is extremely transcendent.
Li Xuandu smiled and asked the coachman, why the leading people in this city are all compound surnames, the coachman was speechless, he could only say that the compound surname is probably more noble, Qin Su answered another sentence Why is the Great Wei Emperor a single surname? The coachman was completely speechless, and did not know how to answer.
Just when the coachman was a little annoyed, Qin Su gave him a silver ingot and asked him to go directly to the largest Taiping Inn in the city. The coachman's anger suddenly disappeared, and he secretly laughed in his heart that these young ladies don't understand the truth that wealth is not exposed, and sooner or later they will be unlucky, but they don't know that for Miss Qin, a small silver ingot of less than three taels is really too small to be smaller.
Of course, there are Taiping Inns opened by the Taiping Sect in this city, but compared with the Taiping Inns in other places, the Taiping Inn fees here are very exaggerated, just staying in the most advanced guest room for one or two silver, and the first-class room is ten taels of silver a night, as for the kind of detached courtyard, one day a Taiping coin. It's just that it's also worthy of this money, because the Taiping Inn, as its name suggests, is to keep peace, and the Taiping Sect and the Shingon Sect have reached an agreement that the Temple of the Four Truths is responsible for taking care of the Taiping Inn here, so the Taiping Inn is also a pure land in this city.
The carriage stopped in front of the inn's gate, and a man had already come out to greet him. This time, there is no need for Li Xuandu to Zhang Luo, Qin Busi came forward and directly chartered a single courtyard, and then Li Xuandu sent a message to Su Yuncheng, waiting for them to come here to meet.
Li Xuandu, Yan Feiqing, and Qin Su came to the main hall of the small courtyard here and sat down separately.
Although Li Xuandu and others are all young and proud, and they also have a good status in the rivers and lakes, they are not so bad as not eating the fireworks of the world, in addition to practicing martial arts and cultivating the Tao, in their spare time, they are not all discussing the general trend of the rivers and lakes, and occasionally they will talk about some gossip, such as when Li Xuandu and Qin Su are alone, they rarely talk about serious things, and they are mostly flirting. At this time, the dust of the White Emperor City has settled, and it can be regarded as letting go of a matter of concern, Li Xuandu and the others do not need to continue to study the general trend of the rivers and lakes with bitterness and hatred, but it is like a friend coming to the door, and the host and the hostess are talking to the guests together, so that Yan Feiqing secretly sighed in his heart, Li Xuandu and Qin Su have known each other for a short time, but they have some old husbands and wives, if there is no accident, he and Su Yuncheng will go to participate in the marriage of the two soon.
After the three of them chatted for a while about the marriage of Yan and Su, Qin Su suddenly said: "Recently, I often dreamed when I was taking a nap, and I dreamed of several vague scenes, which seemed to be Yunjin Mountain, and the dark clouds were closed, which was very terrifying. ”
"Yunjin Mountain?" Yan Feiqing was slightly stunned: "This is another name for Tianshi Mountain, and later because the first Heavenly Master established a Zhengyi Sect here, it was renamed Tianshi Mountain, could it be that Miss Qin has ever been to Yunjin Mountain?"
Qin Su smiled slightly: "I once went there as an ordinary pilgrim, but I didn't go to the Dazhen Mansion, I just glanced at it from a distance." ”
"Then this time, Miss Qin and Brother Zifu are guests of the Dazhen Mansion, and the poor road will definitely fulfill the friendship of the landlord. Yan Feiqing said politely, and then asked, "I don't know why Miss Qin has such a dream?"
Qin Su hesitated for a moment and said, "I think, maybe it's because I recently learned the 'Fate Pass'. ”