Maybe it was because the previous wind and waves were too big and too urgent, after arriving in the territory of Beiyang Mansion, it seemed a little unfazed, along the way, there were no high-ranking people, and there were no more accidents, and the group arrived at Beiyang Mansion City smoothly and properly.

Entering Beiyang Mansion is equivalent to entering the south gate of Zhongzhou.

For the people of Jianghu, what is Zhongzhou? That is the Central Plains. Going forward for more than a thousand years, whether it is Jiangnan, Jiangbei, the East China Sea, the South China Sea, Liaodong, or Northwest, they are all barbarian lands, and this is the orthodoxy of the world. Although after several changes, Zhongzhou, as the Central Plains, is no longer as prosperous as it used to be, the literati and merchants have gone to Jiangnan, and the warriors and officials have gone to Jiangbei, but the people in the rivers and lakes still stayed, and it is still the center of the rivers and lakes.

Because of this, there are many people who have opened a sect here, and the ancestral Ting Jing Zen sect of Buddhism is standing here, and the soap pavilion sect that once dominated the rivers and lakes is also in Zhongzhou. In addition, there are also Tianle Sect and Faxiang Sect have also migrated here.

For both good and evil, Zhongzhou was once the main battlefield for the two sides, and the two factions fought more than once here, and countless people died in the battle, from the head of one faction to the bottom disciples. It is only in the last hundred years that there has been a lull. In Zhongzhou, it is common to see people of the good and evil factions who have a clear distinction between the well water and do not interfere with the river water, and they are hostile to each other and coexist with each other, which is very rare in other state capitals.

The group walked on the street of Beiyang Mansion City, Li Xuandu said: "This Beiyang Mansion, I haven't been here for many years, the last time I came, I still rushed to the imperial capital from the northwest, passing by here, I met the demon maiden palace official here, and also offended a great monk of the Jing Zen sect." ”

The little girl remembered the "hero saving beauty" incident that Li Xuandu told her, and secretly covered her mouth and snickered.

Li Xuandu stretched out his hand and tapped lightly on her little head, "If you don't learn well at a young age, how can there be some ups and downs in your mind?

The little girl immediately restrained her smile, looked at her nose and her nose at her heart.

When Li Xuandu faced the little girl, he often unconsciously said and nagged, and at this time, he couldn't stop: "Also, how did I teach you to practice 'Embroidered Spring Boxing'? Have you ever practiced boxing style? Can you have a good voice? With your qualifications, after opening your muscles and bones, if you are willing to practice hard, people in the rivers and lakes often say that 'it is difficult to buy a sound', and it is difficult for you." Practicing boxing, I am most afraid of having no master and no opponent, there is a master, you know the measure, there is an opponent, you know the high and low, now I am half of your master, after arriving at the Xuannu Sect, the sect master of the Xuannu Sect is your true master, don't be embarrassed, you have nothing to ask the master for advice, you can also learn from the same sect, but you must know the proportion, don't be too showy, so as not to be hated. ”

The little girl raised her head and looked at Li Xuandu with admiration.

Li Xuandu flexed his finger and flicked it lightly on her smooth forehead, and said solemnly: "Don't take it seriously, this is all my brother's experience, and I didn't suffer a lot because of this kind of bullshit back then." ”

"Yes, I memorized it. The little girl looked at him fixedly, and emphasized it again: "I will never forget it." ”

Li Xuandu said "um", his tone turned calm, and he smiled: "Don't think I'm nagging, in a few days, you just want to listen to my nagging, I'm afraid you won't be able to hear it." ”

The little girl suddenly stretched out her hand, Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, and then stretched out her hand and covered the little girl's palm.

The little girl whispered: "Sister Shen, Uncle Tianliang, and brother, and ...... Senior Brother Yan, you have to be good. ”

Li Xuandu smiled, then nodded slightly.

The group walked unhurriedly, and came to an inn in the city to rest as usual.

The inn also serves meals, although it can't be compared with the restaurant, and it can't buy a big banquet, but it can still satisfy hunger. The boss is a middle-aged man, looking at the appearance of Li Xuandu and his party, not like those who lack money, he cheekily said how authentic his food is, it just happened that he just received a cow a few days ago, and now there is still half of it left, and the braised beef in the store is a signature dish, ask a few people if they want to taste it, Li Xuandu smiled and agreed.

Not long after, a plate of hot braised beef was served on the table, Li Xuan sandwiched a chopstick, no accident, it was a domesticated yellow beef, just because the ploughing cow could not be slaughtered at will, this ploughing cow should be old and dead, so the meat quality was slightly dry and hard, but the innkeeper was a little witty, and made part of the beef into sauce beef, and sent it together with the braised beef, which was full of weight, but it also made people feel that they did not spend money in vain.

Li Xuandu simply took out a pot of high-grade flower carvings from the "eighteenth floor" and filled them for Yan Feiqing and Hu Liang respectively. Yan Feiqing, as a Taoist priest of Zhengyi, is different from the Quanzhen Dao, which is extremely strict in adhering to the precepts, and also pays attention to living in the temple, but he can marry a wife and set up a room, and pass on the ancestry, although there is a fast, but on the day of fasting, you can drink wine and taste meat, but you don't eat the meat of cows, dogs, wild geese, and mullets, so he has no chance with the beef in front of him, he can only drink, and the little girl can't snack too much, so this large plate of beef is mostly cheap Li Xuandu and Hu Liang, the two eat meat and drink, and this meal is very comfortable.

Just when he was full of wine and food, Li Xuandu saw a woman wearing a hat also walk into the inn.

The so-called hat, originally belonged to the beard, the first style is called "Mi Li", generally made of soap yarn or white yarn, there is a wide brim around, there is a drooping silk mesh or thin silk under the eaves, which is long to the neck, in order to cover the face, the longest can even reach the foot surface, and to later generations, and the surrounding vertical net is shortened, can slightly expose a small half of the chin, also known as "shallow exposure", can be regarded as a necessary thing for women to go out.

The style of the hat worn by this woman is quite retro, and the white gauze hanging down the brim to the neck is not the same as the "shallow exposure" that is highly respected by women today.

The innkeeper greeted and sent him all day long, and had already trained a pair of fiery eyes to see people, and saw that the woman's clothes and hat were of the best materials, the edge of the hat was embedded with gold wire, and the belt, cuffs, and corners of the clothes were trimmed with gold thread, so he knew that this was a rare guest, and hurriedly greeted and served.

The woman looked around the inn through the light white gauze hanging from her hat, her eyes fell on Li Xuandu's table, she seemed to be a little curious, stretched out her finger, and asked, "What is this?"

The boss looked in the direction of the woman's finger, and saw that Li Xuandu had already eaten the braised beef, leaving only the last sauce beef, and couldn't help but be stunned, and secretly said in his heart, Could this be the daughter of the adult's mansion? Ten fingers don't touch the spring water, and she doesn't even recognize the sauce beef, it seems that she may be able to make a small fortune today. The innkeeper was happy in his heart, but his face was not half obvious, and he replied enthusiastically: "This is the signature sauce beef of the small shop, do you want to try it?"

The woman said "yes" and went straight to a table not far away, sat down, and reached out to throw an object.

The innkeeper subconsciously stretched out his hand to catch it, looked at it fixedly, and suddenly felt a little incredulous, because the woman threw over a piece of money, the style is similar to the ordinary copper coin, that is, it is slightly larger, the outer circle is square inside, and the square hole on the front is engraved with the words "the world is peaceful", and the square hole on the back is engraved with the words "Wan Shi Chengping".

Although he had never seen this kind of money, he had heard from the guests who stayed in the hotel that this kind of money was called red money, which was cast in full red gold, also known as Taiping money, which could be worth thirty taels of silver!

The innkeeper subconsciously put the money in his sleeve, looked around carefully, and saw that no one cared about this, so he smiled, and quickly opened his throat and asked the guy to prepare tea for the guest officer, and then he personally went to serve the sauce beef.

Li Xuandu and his entourage naturally saw this scene in their eyes, but they only entered the boundary of Zhongzhou, and most of them were people from the rivers and lakes. The people in the rivers and lakes have their own quirks, they are unstoppable, they spend a lot of money, they are gentle like a humble gentleman, they are vulgar like a peddler's pawn, they are charming, they are high, they have everything, in short, they must be different from ordinary people.

This woman in the hood, since she dares to go out alone, is definitely not an ordinary lady who can only play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and it is not strange to have such a style.

Li Xuandu got up and came to the counter, took out a piece of loose silver from the money bag, checked it in his hand, and added more than a dozen copper coins, no more, no less, just rice money and room money.