It's raining in Kyoto, and it's raining heavily, and even the elderly rarely see it in Kyoto.

The rain was extremely strong, like a thick silver needle slammed on the city wall of Yuhuashi, and the still Yanzi flags on the battlements shook everywhere, and the rain poured down the city wall into the moat under the city.

The water rose overnight and was almost close to the embankment.

It's already night, and even though it's a rainy night, every household in Kyoto is still alive and crowded, but this rare rainstorm doesn't bring much change to the people of Kyoto. Although water has accumulated in many places, Zhijinwu has gradually solved the problem of several streets with serious water accumulation under the recruitment of the Ministry of Industry.

Just after the ugly hour, the Xuanwu Gate in the west of the city suddenly opened, and more than a dozen horsemen took advantage of the night to quickly pour into the darkness on the official road.

The dozen or so people were all dressed in black nocturnal short suits, and the first one was tall and thin, with a delicate black gauze and black feather hat. This man was obviously the leader of this group of men in black, and like the three horsemen behind him, a dark gray crescent scarf covered his face, and a pair of eyes that were exposed seemed to be calm, but the occasional light shot out was breathtaking. Unlike the dozen or so riders behind him, this person was not a horse, but a white night moon unicorn with a glowing body and a size far larger than a tiger.

Not far behind him, there were two horses, one far and one near, the first one was extremely tall, he just sat there leisurely, and then pressed the Shanxi nightshade horse, which was far higher than the adult man's shoulders, to the mourning. The man had a large quiver pinned to his right waist, and a huge bow the size of a door on his back.

On the stone bridge a little farther behind the giant man, a short figure was curled up on a tall black horse, gently swaying with the ups and downs of the horse's back. The corners of his eyes were wrinkled and adorned with snow-white silver threads, and he looked like he was no longer young, but his figure looked as comically thin as a child of twelve or thirteen.

If you get closer, you can see a long silver horn whip hanging from his waist, and a pair of flowered cloth shoes on his feet. Occasionally, he shook his ankle lightly and kicked the horse in the belly with his cloth shoes, and the black horse under him was startled to pull away so that he would not fall too far from the two horses in front of him.

The speed of the three of them was extremely fast, and the scattered smoke and dust drew a long straight line on the field, and the remaining dozen or so horsemen behind them faintly maintained a triangular scattered formation and tried to follow, and a group of more than a dozen people quickly left the city and ran straight in the direction of Beishan Road.

In the early hours of the next morning

On a trail in the direction of Taiyuan on Beishan Road, the Zhenbei Tea Shop opened early, the boss Wu Guizheng and his mother-in-law were preparing to eat at this time, and there were occasional pedestrians passing by on the road, so the two had to step up their work.

At this moment, Wu Gui was carefully putting the noodles he had just sorted into the boiling water along the large iron pot under him. The mother-in-law next to her was chopping the meat whistle in her hand on the desk, and the husband and wife were probably in a good mood last night, while discussing the amount of green onion preparation today, while humming a small song.

Not far from the store, on the stone ridge near the official road, a swaying dog's tail grass raised its head and silently stared at the official road in the distance.

A tall figure suddenly covered the dog's tail grass.

This man came here, and his whole body looked extremely neat and simple, covered with a simple gray cloth robe, with a wooden hat with a broken mouth on his head, and a worn-out purple package hanging from his back.

The man walked to the dog's tail grass and paused, lowered his head and gently stroked the bottom of the dog's tail grass, then got up and walked into the Zhenbei morning tea shop not far away without saying a word.

After entering the shop, he didn't speak, stretched out his finger and pointed to the noodle pot in front of Wu Guizheng, and then chose a position in the back and sat down.

People come and go in this realm, and there is an endless stream of people from three religions and nine streams, so Wu Guizheng has still practiced some eyesight for so many years. He saw that the man still fastened the hat tightly on his head even after he sat down, so he went up and smiled, and after making tea for the guests, he hurried back to the side of the table to prepare his best beef and green onion noodles.

About half a pillar of incense had passed, and the man was already eating the noodles that Wu Guizhong had given him with his head buried, and under the fragrant soup, the heat condensed beautiful beads of sweat on his nose. He ate very carefully, the noodles and beef were clearly divided, each chopstick was clamped very steadily, and the frequency was extremely consistent, as if just eating noodles also brought some indescribable beauty.

The man was eating noodles, but at this moment, there was a group of officers and cavalry of about forty or fifty people galloping past on the official road to the east.

Wu Guizheng was a little puzzled, judging from the standard armor on his body, this team of people should be the elite guards of Jinjiang City, but for some reason, this team of guards who originally belonged to the heavy armored cavalry is equipped with very simple equipment today, and even the red wool behind the helmets of many knights is powerless to hang on the shoulders of the knights.

Looking at it like that, they should be going in the direction of Taiyuan, but these people looked tense one by one, and their lips were clenched, afraid that something had happened on the official road to Taiyuan.

After the cavalry had gone, there was a group of lightly armored infantry, numbering in the hundreds, and the procession dragged on for a long time, and they even pulled a huge flint cannon at the end of the line with four or five horses.

At this time, the sky was already white, and there were many merchants and peasants walking around, and the crowd hurriedly leaned to the side of the road to get out of the way, and at the same time straightened their feet, trying desperately to look out of it.

Wu Guizheng looked at it for a while, and glanced at the man who had already eaten half of the noodles and was still wearing a hat and was silent, he still wanted to look more carefully, but four or five more guests came in, he quickly straightened his clothes and went up to greet others.

......

The hat-man picked up the last strand of beef noodles from the bowl and put it on the tip of his nose to smell it, then opened his mouth and sucked it in.

At this time, a team of wind and thunder came in the distance, and the knights of more than ten people quickly swept across the official road and galloped over.

The first ride was extremely powerful, and the white jade night unicorn under him roared as it ran, letting out a roar like a fierce tiger. frightened the pedestrians and horses who had just stepped onto the official road to make way for them.

The man in gray stood up, and he walked over to settle the bill. As he walked, he raised the corner of his hat slightly, revealing half of his mouth with a smile on it. He seriously took out a money bag from his arms, carefully selected dozens of clean and undamaged copper plates from it and gave them to Wu Guizhong.

Wu Guizhong watched as the man put away the money bag, and then hugged the purple cloth bag on his back in his hand.

The man pushed open the chai door and walked seriously to the center of the official road, and began to carefully untie the tie of the old purple package in his hand.

The new customers in the shop immediately stood up and walked towards the strange man in gray in the middle of the road.

The tall knight led by him looked at the man who suddenly came out not far away and was in a trance for a moment, but the white night unicorn under him did not stop, and even raised its front hooves.

"Who are you?" the giant knight took his bow from behind his back and pointed at the man in gray.

"My name is Huang Chao," the road-block man pressed his hat down.

"The yellow of the Yellow Nest. ”

"Yellow Nest's nest. ”

The white jade night qilin let out a frightened hiss.

Almost all of the knights in the group had their weapons in their hands in an instant.

There was a man standing in the middle of the road with a knife in his hand, and he was here to stop people.

His knife is strong.

"The three courtiers stayed. ”