Shangqiu City,

The largest capital city in Xingyang Mansion has four squares, namely: East Market Square, West Market Square, Qingping Square, and Poor Head Square.

The first governor of Xingyang Governor's Mansion is from Liangdu, he has spent one hundred and eight squares in this Liangdu from birth to entry, so when the governor took office, he immediately followed the four squares that impressed him the most in Liangdu, and built the most representative four squares in this Shangqiu City according to the gourd painting, and many people came and went behind their backs to call this Shangqiu City Xiaoliangdu, and called these four squares small four squares.

The streets in Shangqiu City are lined up in order. The boxy city plan also imprints hierarchy and order on the street layout.

In the center of Shangqiu City is a bell tower, which is said to be a sacred object in ancient times when Buddhist monks worshiped the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty to suppress the dragon vein. Later, after the war, after the new emperor ascended the throne, the bell tower from Fanbang disappeared, and now hanging in it is the beam woven by the previous Emperor Liang who ordered people to cast the sea bronze mother.

With this road as the core, divide the entire Shangqiu City, go to the top of the city, and on the left is Dongshifang.

There is a market in Dongshifang, and there is a dazzling array of goods in it. Several governors of Xingyang Mansion have the ability, after nearly a thousand years of breeding, now Shangqiu City, Dongshi Fang can buy Di Huang's animal skins, Yinghuang furniture, Rong Huang ore.

The corresponding residential prices near Dongshifang are also quite expensive, and they are all rich and powerful people living around Shangqiu City.

After leaving the East Market Place, go down to the West Market Square.

The things in Xishifang are mainly groceries, vegetables and fruits, and most of the common people who have been rooted in Shangqiu for hundreds of years and generations of petty officials live here.

Go back to the bell tower, go north from Xin, and you will arrive at Qingpingfang on the right.

Qingpingfang is the biggest place to have fun in the whole Wubei County, there are famous prostitutes who let the merry and talented people linger.

There are delicious dishes that are full of praise from diners from both the north and the south.

There is a grandeur of spending.

There is also the injury of a singer.

Finally, on the right side of the quiet and pretty, rich in the breath of life, under the Qingping Fang, which is drunk and drunk across a few streets, in the lower right corner of the entire city is the poor head fang.

There are homeless people, peasants, homeless prostitutes, blowers, homeless people...... A shelter for all poor occupations.

There is only one in the whole city, and there is a curfew every day.

......

The goods on the carriage were carefully inspected, and the soldiers outside Shangqiu City waved their hands, and the four people who had been galloping for two days entered the city.

"Don't say it! The guards of Shangqiu City still have some brushes, and they all have a fierce spirit. The scholar carried the oilcloth bookcase on his back and wore a gray robe, and walked beside Mr. Wei step by step, his mouth full of surprise.

Raising his head and looking back around as if sighing, Mr. Wei turned his head with a smile and said, "The emperor of our dynasty is wise and virtuous, and the disasters of all sizes have been handled properly. ”

The scholar nodded beside him, raised his eyes to look at the customs and customs in this Shangqiu City, and continued to praise, and several people slowly walked towards the inn located in Qingpingfang.

Those who do not have a list of official positions in the city, and those who do not have urgent official duties, are not allowed to ride horses or gallop cars. This is the rule set by the first Shangqiu City.

A hundred years have passed since today, and although some aspects are loose, the general constraints on ordinary people have not changed.

After walking for about half an hour, several people walked along the central axis to the bell tower and stopped.

Four tall trees that reach the sky, sealed with a spire, and a large bell that can cover two or three people is hung in the middle, and a long rope is dragged to the ground under the bell, and someone will pull the rope to pull the core of the bell to hit the bell wall.

Bang!

Every hour, the high hanging girder in the bell tower will ring once, just at the hour, a few people just arrived at the bottom of the bell tower, and the sound of bells rang from above.

Listening to the bell, several people moved to a small archway under the bell tower, which was a stone tablet, which engraved the history of the bell tower and the big bell inside, and by the way, it was preaching the martial arts of the old Liang Emperor.

Near the bell tower is a square, surrounded by several stone benches, like a few travelers like four people just look at the bell tower, look at the history, sit on the stone chairs, spend an afternoon unhurriedly.

"Autumn equinox, let's fly up to the beam and look at the patterns on the clock wall!"

Seeing that Mr. Wei was leaning on the carriage and drinking water while chatting happily with the "horn, horn" smoking pouch Wang Huozi, the scholar scratched his ears, approached the autumn equinox with a thief's smile, and whispered.

"Huh?" Han Qiufen, who was holding his hands and watching the bell ringer keep ringing the bell, couldn't help frowning and questioning after hearing the scholar's words.

The arm turned around Han Qiu beside him, and the scholar raised his hand to cover his mouth obliquely, "It's okay, one person pulls a piece of cloth, let's jump up, look at the pattern, and come down." ”

Looking at Han Qiufen's slightly moving ears, but there was no expression on his face, the scholar struck while the iron was hot, "That pattern was personally engraved by our emperor and the master craftsman, you can't say it's a little weird? Even the materials are made of sea copper!"

Han Qiufen turned his head and looked at the scholar seriously.

Raising his thick eyebrows, the joy in the scholar's eyes was about to flow out, he nodded lightly, his mouth was crooked, and he snuggled at the bell tower.

......

A man in cattails was sitting on a stone chair by the square of the bell tower.

There was a stack of yellowish vegetables at his feet, a small sickle was placed on the side of the basket containing vegetables, his feet were densely calloused, there was mud between his fingers, he was wearing a straw hat, he looked at the bell tower in front of him in a daze, and looked at the big clock that showed a simple and solemn taste after being bathed in the sun, and he began to be motionless and began to be in a daze.

His name is He Yi, a vegetable farmer, no one cares what his name is, most people call him Lao He.

This year, first the plague and then the flood, the crops and vegetables and fruits in the field were not harvested well, and even if they were harvested, they were not as good as in previous years.

Lao He went to Xishifang with a basket full of vegetables, and in the afternoon, there was still such a large basket.

He looked at the bell in front of him, which was constantly shaking slightly and vibrating, and he felt that he was slowly swinging along with the sound of the bell.

You don't have to face the mouth of the family to eat, you don't have to face the withered vegetables on the ground, you don't have to care about the basket under you.......

"Hey, hey, I'll bet you!I'll bet you!" a strange man dressed in colorful clothes and wearing a mask appeared on the edge of Lao He's seat at some point, speaking excitedly and quickly, but with the same sense of madness.

"What...... What bet?"

Lao He was suddenly called back to his senses, and the whole person was still in a trance, and asked back in a daze.

"Bet! bet! if the bell will fall!!"

The masked man's eyes were bloodshot, and his mouth was muttering quickly and uncomfortably several times, and his entire body shrouded in robes was constantly shaking.

"Then I bet it won't fall. Lao He was idle and bored, he felt that he had also met a madman, looking at the bell that had been hanging for thousands of years, he put his hands back and said in a relaxed tone.

"No, you can't bet, you can't bet, you won't fall, you, you bet that it will fall!"

"Why!"

"If!if!, you win, I'll give you this!" The masked man flipped his palm and pulled out a small silver ingot, weighing about twenty taels.

"Then what if I lose?" Looking at the money in the masked man's hand, Lao He couldn't help but feel a little hot in his heart, these twenty taels were enough for his family to eat and drink for three years.

"I, I, I'm going to take your food away!"

The redness in his eyes grew, and the masked man's voice became more and more excited, and it seemed that he was looking forward to this gamble.

"Okay!" Lao He didn't hesitate, and readily agreed, anyway, if he can't sell it, it will be rotten, so it's better to play with this madman.

The bell doesn't ring very often, but it's almost over.

The game has begun, and it's time to end......

", autumn equinox! Look at this bird and beast carving!" After seeing the clock face up close, the scholar's eyes instantly lit up, and he couldn't wait to buckle a piece down.

"Tsk!" The autumn equinox changed his footsteps and followed the scholar together, and praised the beams in front of him that were constantly shaking.

"Look ......"

At the same time as the beginning of this gambling game that no one knows,

No one saw two figures scurrying up the beams of the bell tower like lightning.

"I'll touch it!"

"Hmm...... Tap. ”