Chapter 3: Behind Closed Doors

It stands to reason that the gate of a city should be extremely wide, at least enough for two carriages to enter and exit at the same time, but Songmen Castle is different.

Because of its geographical location, Songmen Castle is often invaded by some scattered deserters on the Dragon's Tongue Border, and even wanted criminals who intend to flee across the border, so the outer city of Songmen Castle as a whole is like a border fortress, and the location of the city gate has neither a wide and smooth official road, nor a majestic gate. No matter where the people who come to Songmen City walk into the Blood Pine Forest, the place they will face when they finally walk out of the Blood Pine Forest will only be the city wall of Songmen City, and if you want to go to the city gate, you can only follow the city wall to touch it, and if you are unlucky, you can only find the city gate by walking around the city wall.

Bai Xiaosheng and the Lu family brothers followed the root of the city wall to find the gate of Songmen City, but fortunately, they were lucky, and soon saw the gate of Songmen City, but it was just ......

"What's going on?" Along the walls of Songmen Castle, there were many people standing or squatting, all of whom were disgraced, in tattered clothes, and some were even seriously injured. As far as the eye can see, all these people are old and weak, women and children, and not a single young or middle-aged person can be seen. These people blocked the city gates, and the gates of Songmen Castle were also closed.

Seeing this, the boss of the Lu family glanced at the third elder of the Lu family beside him, and Lu San comprehended, turned over and dismounted and walked towards these people. Bai Xiaosheng knew that this was for the third child of the Lu family to collect intelligence.

At first, Bai Xiaosheng had just gotten acquainted with the Lu family brothers, and at that time he thought that the six brothers of the Lu family were all the same character, but after being together for a long time, Bai Xiaosheng found that these six people had their own characteristics: the boss seemed to be rough, and at first contact he felt like a bold person, but in fact, he was cautious and the speaker of the team's external communication.

The second child has a simple personality, and if he says it sounds good, he is simple, and if he doesn't sound good, he has no brains, but he is obedient, and he will do whatever the boss of the Lu family wants him to do, and he can't see any special strengths for the time being.

The third child of the Lu family is a broken urge, and a broken mouth can speak well, so the boss of the Lu family gave a gag order, and the third child of the Lu family will consciously shut up when he meets outsiders, perhaps because the boss of the Lu family acquiesced to Bai Xiaosheng's harmlessness, and the broken mouth of the third child of the Lu family was liberated along the way, coupled with the innate self-familiar character, he said more than anyone else along the way, but thanks to the third child of the Lu family, Bai Xiaosheng learned a lot of interesting things.

The fourth child of the Lu family is a taciturn man, in stark contrast to the third child of the Lu family, Lu Si is responsible for the rations and food of the group, Bai Xiaosheng saw with his own eyes picking and picking in the field, no matter what he picked up, he could make it into dry food cakes and store it, along the way, several people passed by small towns and villages and almost did not supply food, the fourth brother of the Lu family was surprised to see Bai Xiaosheng.

The fifth elder of the Lu family is proficient in recognizing the road in the wilderness, no matter how complicated the terrain is, he can find the right road.

The sixth child of the Lu family is a pharmacist, and the pharmacist has a very high status in the rivers and lakes, but everyone dare not say that he has not been sick or harmed in his life, but I don't know if it is because the Lu family brothers are always running horses in the Western Regions, the sixth brother of the Lu family always has some Western Regions style in his medicine, snakes, insects, rats, ants and the like, and the practice of drying and grinding into powder is also quite popular in the hands of some wild doctors on the rivers and lakes, but Bai Xiaosheng, who said that he is absolutely unacceptable, said that he is absolutely unacceptable.

Soon the third child of the Lu family returned.

......

"What? Songmen Castle is closed?"

"Not only is the city closed, but the people who have recently entered the city are driven out of the city. The third elder of the Lu family said: "This Songmen City will regularly accept some old and weak women and children who have lost their homes due to war or conscription around the Dragon Tongue Border, and these people outside the city gate are refugees who have been admitted to the city in the past month. ”

Bai Xiaosheng frowned: "I also know a little about the city lord of Songmen City, this person's name is Song Qingfeng, and he also ordered him to accept refugees regularly, this city lord is well-known among the city lords of the twelve cities, and his reputation in the rivers and lakes has always been good, and the mood of these refugees is quite stable, and there are no complaints, it seems that he has become accustomed to it." It's just that I can't figure out why these poor people are being driven out of the city now that they have taken in these poor people?" Although he said so, Bai Xiaosheng's eyes flickered, obviously guessing something, this appearance was seen by the boss of the Lu family, but he did not say anything. The reporter will always know some information that others do not know, and the reporter will always be the doubter standing in the front row until the truth of the matter is revealed.

The third child of the Lu family looked around, lowered his body slightly, and everyone immediately understood when they saw this, and quietly found a corner away from the city gate.

Several people found a remote corner and gathered in a circle, and the third elder of the Lu family whispered: "It is said that it is an order passed by two deacons in the city." As soon as these words came out, the six brothers of the Lu family looked at each other and remained silent.

It's no wonder that the third child of the Lu family looks like this, the deacon's order must be the handiwork of the royal family, although I don't know why the royal family interferes with the city lord in this matter, but no matter what, the matter involving the royal family will definitely not be simple. And the affairs of the royal family are not impossible to discuss, but if you have the courage to talk about it, you must be mentally prepared to be investigated, and the half-black and half-white people who do their job are very muddy, and they are the most unscrupulous business.

"What should I do now? What should we do if we can't enter the city?" Lu Er scratched his head: "Why don't I knock on the door?" "You don't want to die?" The boss of the Lu family shook his hand and knocked on Lu Er's head with a violent shudder: "This is an order from the royal family, you don't want to die?" Didn't you see so many people waiting outside? Although Songmen City is well defended, it is still close to the border of the dragon's tongue, and these ordinary refugees are not stupid, since they are waiting here, there must be hope of entering the city, otherwise they would have scattered to find a place to hide, and waiting here to enter the city means that this order is only for these few days, we just wait patiently. Mr. Xiaobai, you ...... What about people?"

Only then did everyone realize that Bai Xiaosheng, who was still there, had disappeared.

The second elder of the Lu family was anxious: "I just said it, Mr. Xiaobai won't really knock on the city gate, right?" said that he was about to run to the city gate, but was stopped by the boss of the Lu family again: "People are the recorders, maybe they know what secret secrets or something, where this kind of thing is put is a secret of great value, not to mention the secret passage of Songmen City, one of the twelve main cities, how can it be easy for others to know, people must have their own things to do, so we won't make trouble." ”