There is a big river with no head and no tail in the vast world, named Tianxiang River, which is said to flow in the world 10,000 years ago.

About 16 years ago, there was a dynasty named Beiyan in the north of Tianxiang River, from a vassal small country, the sparrow turned into a phoenix and became a big dynasty today.

Tianxiang Jiangnan also has a dynasty name Jiangnan, the scenery is pleasant, the land is far away and the mountains are dangerous, it was a dream country that everyone yearns for at that time, but such a gentle township, after all, did not escape the ruthless crushing of the Beiyan Iron Horse.

Now Jiangbei is still called Beiyan, but it has changed its nature and become the national capital, but Jiangnan is no longer Jiangnan, it has been renamed Nanzhou, and it has been degraded to a continent of the Shengchang Dynasty.

Hua Wenxiang and they came to Tu Yuelian's side, the girl was leaning against the city wall to eat pancakes, and after handing Hei Qiu'er a thick pancake, Tu Yuelian smiled: "Take care of it in the future." ”

Hua Wenxiang smiled and nodded.

Heiqiu, who was eating pancakes, muttered: "No problem, in the future, if I have a bite of Heiqiu, you will be indispensable." ”

Seeing that Sister Yuelian finally mustered up the courage to leave the town, Xiong Hengye had no worries about joining the army this time, he and Tu Yuelian looked at each other and smiled, and the latter said: "As soon as the city opens tomorrow, we will hurry to go shopping, don't delay your time to join the army." ”

Everyone had no objections, sitting around eating the dry food brought by Tu Yuelian, and soon after, many people who failed to enter the city came one after another, listening to them, in the past month, Fengcheng was closed more than two hours earlier than other cities, and they often couldn't catch up with the time to enter the city.

On the second day, before the city gate opened, Hua Wenxiang had woken up, and he saw two soldiers whispering on the city wall, because it was too far away, even if the blood and soul qi were condensed in his ears, he still couldn't hear it really, and he only heard that the city gate would be opened later, so as to prevent cats and dogs from entering the city in advance, disgusting to the city lord.

As a result, the opening time of the city gate was really delayed by an hour, and the people at the city gate seemed to have long been accustomed to it, and no one came out to complain, and Tu Yuelian and others also woke up one after another.

Hua Wenxiang, who longed for the prosperous city of the human race, stood up, stepped the package and said, "Let's go, let's enter the city." ”

There are two bronze characters above the city gate, "Fengcheng" As soon as they entered the city, the feeling of Hua Wenxiang and the black ball was a new look, although the prosperity was far from enough compared to some places in the forest, but the style of the house, the stalls and shops were still very different, the houses were lined up one after another, and the messy layout of the beast houses was much neater, and there were many new things that the forest did not have, for example, there were vendors on stilts to buy baked cakes on the street not far from the city gate, and the old people with hundreds of strings of sugar gourds and wooden trees on their shoulders, hot buns, and freshly killed pigs, cattle and sheep......

These things have been seen in the forest, but the seller has changed from a fierce beast to a person, and Hua Wenxiang and the black ball are a little uncomfortable for a while.

Tu Yuelian and Xiong Hengye have been to Fengcheng several times, and they are not surprised by these scenes.

The city gate was wide open, it was the time of the morning market, Xiong Hengye, who liked to be lively, shuttled through the crowd with black balls, and Hua Wenxiang and Tu Yuelian walked side by side.

The street stretched a mile away, walked back and forth twice, and several people almost ate all the snacks, all of which were invited by Hua Wenxiang, Hua Wenxiang asked Xiong Hengye whether to choose a dagger here, or go to Sword City, Xiong Hengye said without hesitation that of course he would go to Sword City, and the things there were ten thousand times better than this, all of which were made of a blacksmith shop with fine kung fu.

The thin-skinned Tu Yuelian said: "I will pay you back the money I spent in the future when I have money, plus the money you gave to the town, I will pay it back." ”

Hua Wenxiang looked at this girl with strong self-esteem, "Okay, when you have the money and when you pay it back, I'm not in a hurry, and you don't have to be in a hurry." ”

Tu Yuelian seemed to realize that she had said something outside again, and pretended to be unpolite: "Okay, then pay it back slowly in the future." ”

Hei Qiu'er, who was sitting on top of Xiong Hengye's head, proposed: "Why don't we go to the restaurant for tea, just take a break and go to Sword City." ”

Hua Wenxiang looked at the people around her, and found that no one paid attention to the existence of the black ball, so she hugged it into her arms and whispered: "I forgot to tell you, I will go outside in the future, try to talk as little as possible, your identity as a beast seems to be very sensitive in the world of the human race, and the previous Zhou Hu was planning to arrest you and sell it for money, although I don't know what money the beast can sell, but I still be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years, these days in front of the crowd, you can not speak without talking." ”

Hei Qiu'er looked at Hua Wenxiang with a serious expression and didn't seem to be playing tricks on herself, "Listen to what you mean, I've become a baby." ”

Hua Wenxiang put him back on Xiong Hengye's shoulder, and said softly: "Almost, it's right to listen to me anyway." ”

Heiqiu, who was afraid of trouble, quickly entered the state and whispered, "Okay." ”

Tu Yuelian looked at this fleshy fat cat, and couldn't help but hug it from Xiong Hengye and rubbed its little belly.

Xiong Hengye, who was not pressed by the black ball, suddenly became light.

Black Ball looked at her with strange eyes, "What are you going to do?"

Tu Yuelian, who has a girl's heart, realized her gaffe at this time, and hurriedly said: "If you don't do anything, I just want to carry you for a while." ”

After speaking, Tu Yuelian put the black ball on her shoulder, and the black ball didn't care, it was the same on anyone's shoulder.

Hua Wenxiang smiled: "This dead cat is sinking, let it come down and walk by itself when it is tired." ”

Tu Yuelian looked at Hei Qiu'er and smiled slightly, it was indeed a little heavy.

Hua Wenxiang has been curious since she was a child, and when she bought those snacks just now, she asked why the city gate didn't open and close on time, but the result was the same as those people outside the city before, they all said that they didn't know.

Xiong Hengye told Hua Wenxiang that if she wanted to inquire about the news, she would have to go to the restaurant, and the shopkeeper over there would know everything as long as she gave more money.

So a few people found a very large restaurant on the side of the street, there are still a lot of customers in the restaurant in the morning market, Hua Wenxiang and his party found a position close to the window to sit down, just to see the lively scene in the market through the window.

The second junior of the restaurant, who knows how to observe words and feelings, hurriedly came to greet him, "What does the guest officer need?"

Hua Wenxiang took out a tael of silver exchanged in Watermelon Town and put it in the small second-hand restaurant, "Come to the pot of tea, and the rest is yours." ”

Except for this boy in white, everyone else is dressed shabby, the girl looks pretty good, why is there a black cat wearing clothes next to her?

The second junior of the restaurant quickly glanced at everyone and then withdrew his gaze, otherwise it would be rude, and said with a smile: "Thank you for the reward." ”

After speaking, the restaurant junior did not leave, and they often received this kind of reward money, knowing that this was the money to buy news.

Hua Wenxiang asked in a low voice, "Why is our city gate always not open and close on time?"

The second child of the restaurant stood in place, and there was no sign of speaking.

Hua Wenxiang took out two taels of silver and stuffed them into the little two sleeves.

After receiving the money, the second child of the restaurant bent down and whispered along Hua Wenxiang's ear: " I also hope that the guest officer will forgive the sins, I know a little bit about this matter, it seems that there is a big man in the city, this matter of opening and closing the city gate, he ordered the city lord Xu Yuan to do, if I guess right, they are cooperating to do the beast business, because these days, Fengcheng and Sword City have a large number of beasts sold in the black market, if this kind of headless trick is to let the above know, but it is a capital crime, the reason why the city gate is closed early every day is probably to prevent leakage, and when someone from above investigates, it is good to hurry up and clean up the mess......"

Speaking of this, the second junior of the restaurant realized that he had talked too much, so he stopped talking.

Hua Wenxiang is not difficult for this little er, who is just a miscellaneous worker in a restaurant, so he let him leave to make tea.

Seeing Xiao Er leaving, Tu Yuelian asked, "Finally know?"

Hua Wenxiang, who chose to wait and see, did not treat each other honestly, because this matter does not sound simple, and he will not intervene or not, in short, he can't pull the Yuelian girls into it first, "I have been making trouble for a long time because there have been many thieves recently, and the city lord ordered the city gate to be closed in advance every day for the stability of the city lord's people. ”

Xiong Hengye, who had almost never been to the restaurant, looked around, and saw several other drunkards at the table talking and toasting each other, Xiong Hengye felt that this atmosphere was particularly appetizing to him, "Brother Hua, your curiosity is too heavy, just such a little thing, you have been asked by one person since you entered the city, and the result is that there are thieves in the city, which is a normal result." By the way, Brother Hua, have you ever tasted wine, why don't we have a pot?"

Tu Yuelian glared at Xiong Hengye fiercely, and the latter was dumbfounded, "Forget it, let's drink tea, I heard that the wine is spicy and unpleasant." ”

Hua Wenxiang, who used to not stick to the wine, said: "It's true, the wine is unpleasant." ”

A pot of tea soon came up, and several people poured a cup each.

After taking a sip of tea, Xiong Hengye watched the drunkards at the tables next to him play the game of pouring wine.

Tu Yuelian has been rubbing this and that for the black ball.

Only the flowers are warm and fragrant, and they are absent-minded.

It was really the first time I had heard of this kind of ridiculous trade, the beasts and the human race did not allow him to know, but it was really worse to use the beast as a domestic animal to auction, and he had never heard of a beast auctioning the human race on the other side of the forest, so this matter, Hua Wenxiang decided that he had to take care of it.

I still remember that when he was a child, he had a dream, a very unrealistic dream, he hoped that one day, the whole world, the human race and the beast race could live in harmony and inhabit this vast world together.

In the restaurant, life is noisy, and before you know it, it is full of people, and the men use the strength of the wine to talk about the biggest topic of the day.

"I heard that the prince of Daqi is about to ascend the throne as the emperor, and the emperor of Daqi finally accepted his fate and handed over his country to his son, I guess if he doesn't do it again, even Yang Ziyang will have to give up Daqi completely. ”

"Alas, according to what I said, it's all useless, this time Daqi sent 300,000 troops, and it was Yuan Qinghe's 'Thunder Flower' who led the troops, among which there were 60,000 Xingchen Heavy Cavalry cultivated by the Star Hall in the 300,000 army, no matter how hard Ren Daqi struggled, it was still difficult to escape death, it was better to surrender as soon as possible and die less. ”

"The Yang family of Daqi has been loyal to martyrs for generations, and they should not ignore Daqi, not to mention that according to rumors, the crown prince Li Xiang is also a closed disciple of Yang Ziyang, and when Li Xiang becomes the emperor, then Yang Ziyang's identity as the prince will be promoted to the emperor. ”

"It's all bullshit, Daqi can still count on the Yang family, other civil officials and military generals are waste, the emperor is mediocre, how many loyal ministers have been cold, and now Daqi's combat talent is pitiful, to say that 300,000 troops are sent to attack Daqi, I think the emperor Lao'er is too cautious, if the dragon general is willing to go out with Yuan Qinghe, I estimate that the two Shengchang generals, plus 100,000 iron cavalry, can easily win Daqi. ”

......

The drunken men at the wine table were righteous and awe-inspiring, and their words were unscrupulous.

In the territory of today's Shengchang Dynasty, those who dare to make such nonsense in broad daylight and have no monarch are the current Nanzhou people.

(End of chapter)