Pingsha has been a well-known big city since the time when the Great Sui Kingdom had not yet adopted it as a national land, and it has become even more famous since the Shaobao Temple stood on the top of Linghe Mountain 500 years ago.

The children of many rich families in Yangzhou, the literati of Suzhou Duoyashi, and the monks of Pingsha are many Taoists, and these words have been passed down from hundreds of years ago to the present, and there seems to be no flaw.

It's just that unlike other cities and regions, Pingsha hated the Western Chu people, even to the point of fighting as soon as they met.

In fact, many people can't figure out this truth, they are all the land of the Great Sui, why do people in these two places look at each other inconspicuously?

It is worth mentioning that 60 years ago, Pingsha and Xichu actually had a very good relationship. At that time, Western Chu was still just a remote area, and the Pingsha people who were immersed in Buddhism were happy to help the Western Chu people who were in some embarrassment, willing to spend a lot of money to buy the most famous Huangsha Lie Horse in Western Chu, willing to sell expensive silk to the Western Chu people at a low price, and willing to send their children to Western Chu for training, in exchange for the children of Western Chu to study in Pingsha. The two places have been intersecting for a long time. In this way, it is even more puzzling, how could two places that have a good relationship suddenly become this field?

Sixty years ago, the two places changed.

Sixty years ago, the abbot of Pingsha traveled far away, sixty years ago the Western Chu blocked the horse trade, sixty years ago none of the children from Pingsha who went to Western Chu returned, and the children of Western Chu who came to Pingsha to study sixty years ago seemed to have disappeared overnight.

Sixty years ago, Pei Shan led 500 fierce horses and strong soldiers out of Western Chu.

Everything was only due to the fact that the Western Chu people, who were originally divided into An'an, rushed to the battlefield carrying the banner of the Pei family.

Western Chu no longer sells horses, nor does it need the silk of Pingsha, but only swords and halberds.

The two places were finally separated by an invisible wall.

But this is just the fuse, the real outbreak was after the abbot of Shaobao Temple persuaded Pei Shan twenty years ago, Pei Shan still killed 600,000 Xianhan soldiers.

The people of Pingsha, who have been impregnated by Buddhism, have always had compassion, and have always believed in the saying that saving people's lives is better than building a seventh-level floating slaughter, and what Pei Shan did was not only for their original intentions, but also for Pingsha, who had always helped Xichu, in the face.

Pingsha has been peaceful for too long, and I don't know what war is, and more than 2 million people in the city spontaneously impeached Pei Shan. But Xichu has always regarded Pei Shan as the destiny of Xichu, and in the face of Pingsha, which has already broken out, he only feels that the people of Pingsha are burned by Buddhism, and some hot-blooded young people who see Pei Shan as a god rushed to the Shaobao Temple and scolded the abbot of the Shaobao Temple for being an old bald donkey who can only chant scriptures, and scolded the Pingsha people for being obedient people who can only knock on wooden fish, and scolding Buddhism is the cancer of the Great Sui Kingdom!

As a result, the Pingxi Rebellion broke out.

The people of Pingsha don't know what war is, but doesn't the Great Sui Emperor know?

The rebellion in Pingxi became more and more intense, but the royal family only sent an army to suppress it, and there was no intention to persuade the two places to reconcile.

Why?

The whole court knows it, the old host knows it, and Pei Shan also knows it.

So the old host never left Linghe Mountain after returning to Shaobao Temple, and Pei Shan led 800,000 Western Chu troops back to Xichu after destroying the last country in the north, Xisu, and never left Hongcheng again.

In fact, everyone doesn't know that in fact, after capturing 600,000 Xianhan soldiers twenty years ago, Pei Shan happened to meet the old host, and the two talked like this.

Pei Shan: "Do you say that these 600,000 people will be killed?"

Old host: "What do you think?"

Pei Shan: "Don't kill it, our army really doesn't have so much surplus food and not so many people to take care of it, not to mention that now we are in the hinterland of South Korea, with these 600,000 burdens, maybe when someone will be copied and there is no defense." Let's kill again, so many people, all of them are the sons of other people's families for nothing... “

The old host: "But these Western Chu soldiers are all your sons, and they are all the sons of Da Sui." ”

So he killed.

No one would have thought that in fact, Pei Shankeng's killing of 600,000 Xianhan soldiers was Mo Xu from the old host, and everyone would not think that the old host would say such a thing, and everyone would only think that Pei Shan was cold-blooded.

But why don't the two of them pick it out?

Pingsha needs faith, Xichu also needs faith, and the royal family needs Xichu and Pingsha to turn against each other.

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Pingsha is next to Xichu, and there is actually another city in the middle of the two, called Yicheng. It was a post station when Western Chu and Pingsha were trading 60 years ago, and finally slowly developed into a separate city.

"Selling steamed buns, steaming steamed buns!"

"Green onion cake, green onion cake just out of the pot, no money if it is not fragrant!"

It's only early in the morning, and the streets and alleys are bustling. It is said that the early bird eats insects, but the king butcher does not believe this truth.

Butcher Wang runs a butcher shop, gets up early every day, buys pigs, kills pigs and sells meat, basically he is all round, and he has to rely on his five big and three thick body to last for more than ten years.

The butcher of the Heavenly King stood at the door of his butcher's shop as usual, looking at the butcher's shop that had not yet opened on the other side.

Every day, the butcher shop opposite the bar head can be opened, and by that time, the king butcher has almost sold half of the meat, and then there is a single period of buying and selling in the middle of the day, but the butcher shop opposite doesn't seem to care.

Butcher Wang only remembers that Najia's butcher shop opened about ten years ago, and it originally seemed to be a grocery store, and it was still somewhat famous.

Somehow, the grocery store that looked like it was in full swing at the king's butcher suddenly closed, and after a dozen or so days, it reopened as a butcher's shop.

At that time, the butcher was still very nervous, for fear that the butcher shop opposite would rob his business, but he found that the butcher shop opened very late every day, and he didn't care after closing very early.

But the butcher didn't expect that it would take ten years for the butcher shop opposite to open.

"Okay, uncle, take it!" After selling the last piece of meat on the cutting board to an old man, the shopkeeper Wang took a breath and said in his heart, why is the market so good today, if you can be like today every day, then you can also have a lot of spare money to eat and drink!

Thinking about it like this, the shopkeeper Wang was a little puzzled, the owner of the butcher shop opposite got up later than him, and closed the stall earlier than himself, why did he have so much money to eat and drink every day?

Just as he was puzzled, the butcher shop opposite finally opened, as before, the owner of the butcher shop yawned and pushed the door open with two dark circles under his eyes, and the dust inside the door was extremely conspicuous in the sun.

The man was roughly in his thirties, with a very high nose bridge, deep eyes, and a sloppy appearance all day long, and unlike other butchers, this man was thin and thin, far inferior to the strength of the king's butcher.

The butcher didn't know what the man's name was, but he only knew that the man's surname seemed to be Wang, and he was from his own family five hundred years ago.

The middle-aged man surnamed Wang began to sit at the door and eat after putting the meat on the cutting board as before, looking at the sparse pedestrians, as if he did not have the slightest worry that his meat could not be sold.

Butcher Wang coughed and said a rare hello to the family, "Brother Wang is good!"

The man realized it later, and it was estimated that the whole person was still a little confused, and only after hearing these words did he come back to his senses and greeted the other side, "Morning." ”

It's not early, and in another hour it's time for families to have lunch.

Butcher Wang smiled, although his face was full of flesh, he didn't even feel ugly, but naturally he knew the truth of the same act as an enemy, and Butcher Wang only thought that this person didn't treat him very well, so he didn't speak again.

Looking at the remaining pork rinds on the cutting board, I thought that I would take it back and beg my daughter-in-law to pickle it to make a snack for a snack, and I didn't wait for the guests anymore, and was ready to close the door and go home.

It's just that when I was just packing up, I suddenly remembered that I didn't mention half of the pig in the cold cellar last night, so I didn't have to prepare Ming'er's pork, and I finally had half a day of leisure.

It's just that I suddenly have a free time at this time, and I don't know what to do, if I secretly buy alcohol and drink, I don't know how to clean up when I go home.

Then he turned his eyes to look at the companion surnamed Wang, who didn't seem to be in a hurry, and the butcher Wang thought to himself, why don't you see how his meat is sold?

With this idea, Butcher Wang was not in a hurry, closed the door, packed his luggage, went home, and after eating, he came over with a small half piece of pork. Looking at the man again, Butcher Wang frowned, why hasn't the meat in that butcher's shop decreased after so long?

There were very few guests in the afternoon, and the small half of the meat of the Wang butcher could not be sold, but looking at the leisurely look on the man's face, the Wang butcher couldn't help but be curious again, he would have to close the door in the middle of the day, but the meat at this time could not be put away for long on a hot day, and the man had not sold a piece of meat!

Seeing that the sun was about to set, the king butcher usually had to go home at this time to prepare to kill the pigs. Even if he had leisure today, he didn't want to stay here for a long time, thinking that the man was only able to buy wine and eat by relying on the help of his family, but in fact, he didn't have much business skills.

Just as he was about to close the door, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a large number of women coming to the end of the street, young and old, and thought to himself.

The group of people drilled into the butcher shop opposite, picking up the meat with all hands and feet, and after a while, the group of women walked away laughing. At a second look, there was not a single piece of meat in the butcher's shop, and even the most unpretty lower five flowers were sold cleanly. And the boss surnamed Wang actually had more than a dozen handkerchiefs on his body, and there were a few more red lip marks on his face.

The king's eyes widened.

The man threw the handkerchiefs into the trash can and began to slowly collect the money. Seeing that the king butcher looked at him in surprise, the man smiled, said goodbye, and closed the door.

Only then did the king butcher realize that the original person's appearance was indeed too handsome.

At this time, the butcher finally didn't believe that the early bird had worms to eat, and then thought about it again, one of the women in that group had a very good back image of his daughter-in-law...

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Although this post city is not as good as Xichu and Pingsha, the place of trade must have its prosperity, and there have been many rich lintels before and after.

The most famous on this street is the Zhang family.

It is said that the ancestral tomb of the Zhang family smoked, the old man of the Zhang family was admitted to the Jinshi, and then became a big official in Cheng'an, the capital of the Great Sui State, and later was demoted to Beifu as a county magistrate because of partisan disputes, but where can the southerners live a good life in the north? In Beifu did not stay for half a year, he only felt that half of his life was about to be gone, and he was ready to hold himself in one breath and strive for another half of the year to strive for a beginning and an end, but his daughter-in-law could not stand Beifu's follow-up and died of illness. In the end, with grief, he had to resign and return to his hometown to be a stable rich man.

But the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, although the old man of the Zhang family is no longer in politics, he has always been a big official, and the connections in his hands are two or three hundred years more than others. So it didn't take much difficulty to buy a house in Pingsha and open a few restaurants, which was not convincing.

Master Zhang has only one daughter, her name is Zhang Xueyi, although the name is cute, but she has been spoiled by the slaves in the family since she was a child, and because Master Zhang was an official some time ago, he didn't have any time to discipline, so he gave birth to a very unreasonable and pungent temperament, which gave Master Zhang a headache!

Seeing that his daughter is getting older and older, he feels more and more powerless, and the matter of marriage has become a problem.

Because there were no other children in the family, Old Man Zhang was afraid that the family property that he had spent half his life in exchange for would eventually fall into the hands of outsiders, so he didn't dare to let his daughter out of the cabinet, so he had to find a man to join him.

Most people think that it is a shame to be rich, and although they have spent a lot of money to ask a matchmaker to talk about matchmaking, they have not found a suitable man for half a year. Either I want the child to follow my surname, or I am secluded, if I am alive, it is fine, if I go one day, I may be forced by my son-in-law to be forced into something with my daughter's temperament!

Master Zhang is worried, his hair is getting white day by day.

However, last winter, a matchmaker finally came to the door, saying that she had found the golden beetle son-in-law and brought back a man with a simple face, also surnamed Zhang, named Zhang Fugui.

At that time, Master Zhang was shocked, for fear that this man was coveting his own family property, so he did not agree. But after about a month of observation, I found that this man was indeed honest and honest, even to the point of being a little timid and afraid.

Lieru's neighbors all knew that this Zhang Fugui was a person who wanted to be rich, and when they saw this person, they just laughed at him, but Zhang Fugui never refuted, just lowered his head and smiled and didn't dare to talk back.

Another dozen heard that this Zhang Fugui has been an orphan since he was a child, and he has been working in the blacksmith shop for about ten years, but he has not learned the ability to strike iron.

At this time, Master Zhang put his mind at ease, it doesn't matter if you don't have the ability, you don't have anything at home? As long as you are good to my daughter.

It's just that Zhang Xueyi is not very happy, saying that Zhang Fugui is too cowardly, not half manly, and ugly, and she is not worthy of her at all!

Zhang Fugui was not annoyed, but just smiled and said that what Miss said was true, what Miss said was true.

Master Zhang scolded Zhang Xueyi, saying that you look at how old you are? If you don't get married, you want to be a living widow, where will your family's face go? Finally, he put down his cruel words and said that if you don't get married, you will roll me up and go out in the future, I think this kid is a righteous son, and his surname is Zhang anyway!

In the end, Zhang Xueyi reluctantly agreed, so she got married in March this year.

Master Zhang is worthy of being a big official, and he can see it accurately, this rich man is the same as before and after marriage, and he rushes to do all the work at home, so that the next person is not embarrassed. It's just that Zhang Xueyi is increasingly looking at this Zhang Fugui unpleasantly, beating and scolding at every turn, and letting Zhang Fugui stay outside the house all night from time to time. As soon as Master Zhang asked, he said that he had thick skin and couldn't freeze to death!

Master Zhang scolded his daughter a lot in this place, but he really didn't want to interfere in his daughter's family affairs, and he thought that it would be great if the child was still there!

On this day, Zhang Fugui walked back happily with a big hen, and met Zhang Xueyi as soon as he entered the yard.

Zhang Xueyi looked at him coldly, "What did you do? Did I tell you to go out? Did you go outside to seduce the widow?"

Zhang Fugui was resigned, "No, no!"

"What is this?"

Zhang Fugui smiled again and lifted the chicken up, "I saved money to buy a big hen, which can make up for you!"

Zhang Xueyi was a little annoyed when she saw Zhang Fugui's groveling appearance, covered her nose and said, "Get out of the way, who told you to buy it? It stinks so badly!" At the end, she still felt puzzled, and sneered: "Look at the men of other families, which one looks like you? Don't you understand the reason that the gentleman is far away from the kitchen? The old lady really poured eight lifetimes of blood mold and actually inserted it in your lump of cow dung!"

Zhang Fugui lowered his head and didn't dare to squeak, Zhang Xueyi became more and more annoyed, grabbed the chicken and threw it out of the door, "There is no spine of a man, what a soft egg!"

"Xue Yi!" Master Zhang saw this scene and scolded his daughter fiercely.

Zhang Xueyi snorted, watched Zhang Fugui bend over and go outside the door to catch the hen with her wings tied, and sneered at Master Zhang: "What kind of man do you see you have chosen for me?"

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Although this post city is located in Pingsha and Xichu, most of the people who live in this post city are good people who used to trade in other places, and finally settled here for their own reasons. Therefore, although there is more or less friction because of the feud between Western Chu and Pingsha, it is not to the point where fighting all day long hinders life.

Also on this day, Pei Changfeng took the white cat on foot to a horse shop to see the horses, went to a small restaurant for lunch, visited several families along the street, and finally watched a man lying drunk in a haystack in a small tea shop to eat tea.

At this time, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy came over scolding, and after seeing the smile on Pei Changfeng's face, he hurriedly ran over and saluted nondescriptly.

Pei Changfeng laughed, "What's wrong with Xiaoshui?

The young man who was called Xiaoshui snorted, "There is a Pingsha man in front of him who is in the restaurant and scolds us Xichu people for being white-eyed wolves who can't be raised, and also says that our Xichu people are a group of uncivilized barbarians, so we should hide in Xichu for the rest of our lives and wait for death! I couldn't get angry, so I started a fight with that man!"

Pei Changfeng just laughed, "Have you ever been beaten?" looked at the shame on Xiao Shui's face and then sighed, "Haven't you ever been beaten?"

Xiao Shui hummed lowly, then raised his head and said, "There are many of them, there are five or six of them!"

Pei Changfeng sighed again, eating tea very slowly, "If you encounter this kind of thing in the future, don't rush up and do it with others, just scold!"

"What if you can't scold?"

"Then run away!"

"Just let him scold?"

"Otherwise, let him scold you, how many pieces of meat can you lose?"

After eating the tea, Pei Changfeng hugged the white cat and said hello to the owner of the tea shop, and got up after dropping a piece of broken silver on the table, "Xiaoshui, let's go, let's go back to Xichu." ”

Xiao Shui responded in hindsight after being in place, still feeling that he didn't agree with Pei Changfeng's words.