Since descending the mountain, they have taken a shortcut all the way to the north, taking a range of rugged mountain roads and flat avenues.

Dabai followed all the way, no longer running excitedly like when he first came out of the mountains and forests, but sometimes jumped on Luobei's shoulder, sometimes walked back and forth, and sometimes jumped into Toadyue's arms.

Along the way, even Luo Bei felt very strange when did this guy start to get acquainted with Toad Yue.

I don't know why, this guy has always been very unkind to Yun Cang, and he wants to grin when he sees him, even Yun Cang doesn't dare to provoke it too much.

In the blink of an eye, five days later, another blazing sun has passed

It wasn't until the scorching sun fell into the distant clouds that the three of them saw an incomparably huge city lying between heaven and earth on the vast ancient road, under the setting sun.

At dusk.

Looking at the straight ancient road from afar, it seems to be connected with the confused world in the distance, which makes people feel in it, but they feel extremely insignificant.

In front of an ancient city, everything seemed to become slim, and the afterglow of the setting sun dyed the backs of the three of them into a dark yellow, and behind them were long shadows.

Yun Cang gently touched the fine beads of sweat on his forehead, only to find that his throat was already thirsty and about to crack.

At this time, not far away is a simple pergola tea house.

In front of people who are about to die of thirst, this is simply a gift from God, who cares what the environment is, even if the water is not so clean, drink two large cups of it first.

Yun Cang looked at Toad Yue behind him, and said with some prays and some complaints: "It's been walking for more than half a day, shouldn't you also take a break?

Da Bai kept his eyes closed in Toad Yue's arms, and when he heard Yun Cang's voice, he didn't care so much, and the moment he opened his eyes, he screamed a few times with an angry "roar".

It's as if Yuncang has disturbed its dreams.

Yun Cang was naturally not to be outdone, staring at it, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner for a while.

Toad Moon lowered her head and stroked its soft fur, and said angrily: "You see that Dabai thinks that you have too many words"

"It's... It's such a small ...... What do you know?" he was about to say "little brute," but when he saw Dabai's angry look, he swallowed it back alive.

"It's not just any cat, is it?"

Da Bai screamed twice, as if agreeing with Toad's words.

When they were talking and laughing back and forth, Luo Bei glanced at Toad Yue and said a little embarrassedly: "Why don't we take a break in the teahouse in front, after a few days of traveling, Brother Yun must be tired."

Hearing him say this, Yun Cang's face darkened, and he secretly thought: If I knew this was the case, why didn't anyone do it for me.

Toad Yue nodded and said: "The front is Kaifeng City, and the Zhuxian Town we are going to is more than thirty miles away from Kaifeng, then we will rest in front, but we must enter the city before dark, stay in the city for one night tonight, and then go out of the city tomorrow morning."

I don't know why, the three of them plus a cat came down all the way, and they could only reach an agreement when Toad Yue spoke.

It is said to be a tea house, but it is actually a very simple tea shed.

It's just a cool place set up with a wooden shelf, and the boss is also a middle-aged man who is a buddy, and he is very diligent, making tea while preparing snacks, and delivering things to each table in a timely manner with small steps, so that these people who are tired and irritable from the journey can't find anything wrong.

As soon as he saw that they were carrying a patient, the boss quickly let them into the innermost table, and not far from the table was a temporary soft collapse, which should be a place for the boss to rest after being busy.

After carefully putting Zhuo Xiaochan down, Yun Cang carefully examined it, and fed her a pill again, and then sat down with confidence.

The three of them ordered a pot of tea and a few plates of snacks, and as soon as Da Bai and Yun Cang sat down, they began to get busy, adding things to their mouths like a game, and they were simply happy to eat.

To say that Luo Bei originally didn't know anything about Yuncang, because he had shared hardships with Toad Yue, he had an unspeakable trust, so he indirectly trusted him.

Along the way, he found that although Yun Cang usually has nothing serious in his mouth, and even has been unable to get along with Da Bai, as long as he sees a doctor, he becomes extremely serious.

Chan Yue and Luo Bei couldn't help but be a little amused when they looked at the two of them, and then thought about it, along the way, everyone was still too heavy because they were worried about Zhuo Xiaochan, especially Luo Bei.

At a table beside them sat four men, one dressed as a scribe, and the other three in coarse cloth and lean.

The scribe wore a crown of his head, his eyebrows were delicate, his face was slightly pale, a wisp of beard fell on his chest, his eyes were deep, and his eyes were bright.

Several people drank turbid wine while commenting on the world's major events.

One of the rough-clothed men sighed and said: "What do you say about this world, why is the dignified Song Dynasty so unbeaten, since Jingkang suffered a defeat in the first year, now even this prosperous Tokyo city has become a Jin country."

Another man laughed dryly and said: "What is not prosperous, you haven't entered the city to see, today's Kaifeng has long been the same as it was after a few wars, not to mention dilapidated, it's not a few points away, and those who should have escaped have escaped......"

The third court scribe asked, "Mr. Liu, you are the most knowledgeable among us, do you think that the Great Song Dynasty can still return to Kaifeng?"

The scribe was drinking tea with his head bowed, but when he saw someone asking him, he put down the teacup lightly, retracted his hands into his sleeves and said: "Brothers, the current Great Song Dynasty is weak, and the traitorous ministers are in charge, and they were even occupied by the Jin State and captured the second emperor, but have you heard?"

The other three all leaned over and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Now there is a Marshal Yue, and his fierce generals are like clouds, not only recovering the counties occupied by the Jin State, but also defeating the grass Kou from all walks of life, and even Yang Mi, who has occupied Dongting Lake for many years, has been recovered by Marshal Yue, so he has made great contributions, crowned the Duke of the country, and also made a recruitment. ”

When several people heard it, they all praised "Yue Fei" very much.

At this time, the scribe surnamed Liu straightened out the long placket in front of him and said: "Everyone, now that my family and country are suffering, the world is in danger, I was determined to gain fame, but when there is chaos today, the world is difficult, and the literature is not as good as martial arts, not to mention that I and other men can let others bully the women and children of my Great Song Dynasty and ignore them, so I will go south to find Marshal Yue after today, if you are willing, it is better to follow me on the same road?

The rough-clothed man said excitedly: "Several of us survived the war, and our families are gone, and we have nowhere to go, and we hate the Tartars to the core, but unfortunately there is no way to serve the country, since Mr. Liu has said so, it can be regarded as worthy of us, presumably that Marshal Yue must be a hero, what else do we have to think about, what do you say?"

"Okay, I'll just be with my husband," several of them nodded in agreement.

So, the four of them finished eating and drinking, sprinkled the money for the meal, and agreed to go on the road together.

The scribe walked at the end of the four, and when he passed by Luo Bei and the others, his eyes moved slightly, and he smiled intentionally or unintentionally, and a light flashed in his deep eyes.

Luo Bei saw the scribe looking at him, nodded and smiled politely at the scribe, and watched a few people go away.

Toad Yue glanced at the scribe surnamed Liu, saw that several people had already walked away, and then said, "This person is not simple!"

After he finished speaking, he looked at Yun Cang.

Luo Bei saw that several people were impassioned when they spoke, and they had some heroic feelings, so they didn't think about it so much, but they didn't expect Toad Yue to talk about it like this.

Yun Cang put down the teacup in his hand and said with a smile: "This person looks like a scholar, but I don't think he is a scholar at all...... It's a ...... Master of poison!"

Luo Bei was stunned, it seemed that his understanding of Yun Cang was still too short-sighted, but he didn't expect that he almost didn't even look at the other party, and he could know that the other party was a master of using drugs.

It seems that there is really a sky outside the sky in the rivers and lakes, I don't know how Yuncang compares to Master Qin Muchuan?

Yun Cang continued: "You see that he walks lightly, and his cultivation must not be weak, and then look at his deep eyes, and the tips of his fingers are slightly dark purple, which can only be expressed by perennial immersion in highly poisonous things, but it is a pity that his realm is still a little lacking in heat, and he has not reached the realm of retracting qi and releasing freely!"

"I don't know what his purpose is with these people?" Luo Bei said lightly.

"Hey, who knows, it's not really what he said to serve the country, right? Why bother thinking about him, it's just that he smiled at you just now, if he really had any intentions, he wouldn't be able to get out of this teahouse for a long time, right, our Miss Toad Yue?" Yun Cang said, and then fixed his eyes on Toad Yue.

Seeing him mocking herself, a slightly angry look flashed in her eyes.

Seeing Toad Yue's gaze, the smile on Yun Cang's face became a little embarrassed, and then he buried his head in teasing Da Bai.

While they were talking, they had all finished eating and drinking.

At this time, the sky was getting dark, and the scribe had long since disappeared after walking out of the teahouse with the three men, and the owner of the teahouse had already begun to pack up his things, and he should be about to close the stall.

Luo Bei sat in the crude tea house, looking at the straight ancient road in the distance, and was distracted for a long time.

He has lived in a mountain village since he was a child, and then he has lived in the mountains for several years, knowing little about the outside world.

Although Toad Yue and Yun Cang are strong in martial arts, they have never cared about this world of constant fighting, so they don't know much about everything that happens in the outside world.

Now it is the ninth year of Shaoxing in the Great Song Dynasty, and it has been a full 12 years since the Jingkang Revolution and the exile of the two emperors to the Five Kingdoms City, and even Kaifeng, which was once glorious in front of him, is no longer the prosperous scene recorded in the Taizu and Taizong periods.

Emperor Gaozong, who inherited the throne of the Great Song Dynasty, moved the capital to Lin'anfu, and most of the land in the northern part of the Great Song Dynasty fell into the ownership of the Jin State.

For example, today's strife and war continue, and many people have been displaced by the war.

In countless wars, the Great Song Dynasty was almost defeated repeatedly, and when the people of the world gradually lost confidence, there was an immortal talent Yue Fei in the army.

As the scribe said, he swept through the Liukou, often winning more with less, so that the Song Dynasty could be consolidated and not collapse too quickly from within, but even so, the Song Dynasty was still crumbling and in crisis.

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It was getting late, and the vast ancient road was bustling with people.

It was only now that they probably noticed that the further north they went, the fewer people there were.

The city in the distance has been lit up, but for some reason, this capital, which has been transformed by hundreds of years of history and several dynasties, looks like a huge black screen from a distance.

There is not a trace of imagination in the tall city walls.

The three of them were about to walk towards Kaifeng, but the owner of the tea house left a strange expression, he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't speak.

He set up a stall on this road every day, just to earn a meager amount of loose silver for his family, and he knew more about the difficulties of life and the sinister nature of people's hearts than his enthusiasm.

Sometimes, he always weighs what to say in front of strangers and when to remain silent......

In his opinion, the people who can still go north in the current situation should not be ordinary people.

Of course, how could his subtle mind escape Yun Cang's eyes.

Yun Cang smiled at him and didn't speak, but left a whole piece of loose silver behind when he left, which was enough to buy countless such teahouses.

The boss held the silver in both hands, looked at the backs of a few people in the distance, and didn't know what to say for a while.

Leaving the teahouse, not far away is a tall city tower, which is the tallest one among the several major gates of Kaifeng City.

The hundred-year-old ancient city appeared in front of them like this.

Luo Bei looked at this tall city tower and was speechless for a while, he had never felt like this in his life, in front of an ancient city, people seemed so small.

I have heard people talk about this place countless times before, the legendary people in the past, and the historical events that were once sensational, did they really all happen in this dark and high city?

Kaifeng.

Those busy markets, those streets with red lights and willows, I don't know how many stories have happened that have made people reverie endlessly.

All the stories have become the witty words and phrases of talented and beautiful people, and they have also been passed on to future generations by famous paintings, because it is not only the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, but also witnesses the rise and fall of a dynasty.

When Luobei really stood here, he realized that this place was unexpectedly magnificent, and he once thought that the town thirty miles away from Qixia Village was the largest city in the world.

But compared with the present, it is really a corner of the world, and it is a hair.

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