From the Kushan Mountains to the north.

People walk in the mountain road, the steep mountain and the iron-gray ridge stone bones make the eyes also a dense blue-gray cloud. Occasionally, the sparse greenery dotted between the mountains and the thin streams flowing between the two peaks can suddenly lift the spirit of pedestrians. But such a color, falling in a predominant color of iron gray, will soon be oblivion. The Creator is like an apprentice painter who has only been apprenticed for a long time, and has poured all the unmixed black lead and chalk on this piece of land.

Such a majestic scenery is certainly shocking at first glance, but it can make people visually tired after a long time. When I looked up, I saw that the mountain wall was reaching the sky, and although the blue cloud sky was against the iron-gray ridge, there was a hint of depression for no reason.

Eventually, the mountain path gradually narrowed, and it was difficult for the daylight to cross the increasingly cramped canyon and fall onto the mountain road. It's like a long song, and finally at the moment when the drum solo and the piano and flute are silent, the dense drum beat seems to pave the way for the later sonata.

Walking forward, the sky suddenly brightened, and a dazzling five colors fell from the sky. The green grass stretches on the hills, the clear stream turns, and it is the season when the cauliflower blooms and is undefeated, and there is a scorching yellow everywhere. If someone approaches and asks for a bowl of water from the old man in Baitou Township, you can see the green and white mulberries covering the fat and tender mulberry leaves.

There are also village herdsmen, driving livestock, accompanied by yellow dogs, walking on the path, such as between the green felt and yellow carpet. Such as Si Sanqin scenery, straight into the poem, into the painting, for the chaos of the last touch of peace afterglow to make a footnote.

A pallet car slowly traveled on this post road.

It can be seen that the donkey's satin-like fur has been mixed with a lot of white hair, but looking at the appearance of this donkey pulling the cart, it has a flexible energy that has just been put on the road. On the chest and neck of the green donkey, the chest strap hanging is extraordinarily chic, not the belt that others are accustomed to, nor is there a silk knot, but a white iron circle with a copper bell pendant, and belts are tied on both sides to fix the wheel.

If the monks who were born in the Western Regions and have profound knowledge look carefully, they can see that the string of carved flowers on the white iron circle is actually the Sanskrit alphabet of the Devanagari used by the Tianzhu Brahmins, which is translated into a Buddhist verse: "Nanwu Dawang Bodhisattva".

This special harness was originally a common attachment accessory to the Astral Gate, the Hercules Bodhisattva bracelet, which can increase the strength attribute of at least two energy levels for the wearer, that is, increase the strength value equivalent to two adult males. Among the warriors, this kind of power-enhancing attachment jewelry is very popular, but taking such a strong king bodhisattva bracelet used by a giant warrior as a donkey and horse chest belt like this is really too nouveau riche in taste. Even if you don't know where the Hercules Bodhisattva bracelet comes from, when you see such a delicate harness, you also know that the net worth of the car is really not thin.

The donkey carts were not driven by those merchants who had been running for years, and merchants like that, whether they were twenty years old or thirty or forty old merchants, were all rough men. All year round, these people are always dusty, their faces are so thick that they can plant wheat with a little water, and they can set up a sand formation with a knock on their jackets. There is no other reason, at this time there is always a lack of oil, butter, cream with spices and skin cream, can only be used in the noble family, in order to avoid the skin drying and cracking, ordinary small merchants can only not wash their hair and face.

The driver was a girl in a white shirt and a red dress with a double bun, and a young man in Tsing Yi was substituted on the side. No matter how you look at it, it looks like a child of a family travels by car, and the appearance of a maid and scholar temporarily substitutes for the coachman. Not to mention, when today's son doesn't like to ride a horse, he prefers to ride a donkey, and often rides a donkey in the palace for fun. The emperor in this era, is the vane of the popular tide in the upper class society, the rich and noble people ride with donkeys without horses, from Luoyang all the way to the old capital of Chang'an, the price of donkeys in the world is more expensive than the price of horses. No matter how you look at this donkey cart, the price is not something that ordinary small families can ask about.

Since the car is like this, the passengers can also be known whether they are rich or expensive. Such a character, a fraction of the casual expenses leaked out, is worth the cost of a night in the ranks of those merchants.

In winter, business travel is cut off, and those wild shops and tea sheds on both sides of the post road have to be closed and returned to eat their own. Now taking advantage of the good time of the late spring and early summer, all the passing guests to enjoy the food, meet such a customer, how can there be a reason not to double the flattery? Looking at the front is Xin'an, it is the famous city built by Emperor Taizu Gao to comfort Liu Taigong's thoughts of chicken, and it is also the gateway to the old capital of Chang'an.

However, the Han Dynasty had no vitality in an industrial society, such a standard classical agrarian empire with clear hierarchies and even all kinds of discrimination written into the law. These shopkeepers will only bow down and control their backs, saying some old tunes of delaying customers:

"The nobles are invited, and we don't talk about how to arrange the guest house, but it is always clean and quiet. There are stables at home to take care of donkeys and horses, all of which are learned from Xin'anyi, and the night feed is also mixed with wheat and eggs, so that the cattle will never lose fat! Please also enjoy the light!"

"Other small shops don't dare to talk about it, but the millet and rice and wheat in the store are all new grains, and the soybean sauce and plum vinegar are also newly made. The master of the family, the meat soup is well blended, the mutton is steamed well, and the best salted plum chicken is the most recommended wine. I don't dare to boast about the taste, but it always makes the nobles tired along the way!"

The girl who was driving the car smiled sweetly, turned her head to the car and asked, "Uncle, do you want to take care of their business?"

Wei Ye's voice came low, but with a tiredness that could not be concealed: "Let these solicitors spread out, this kind of roadside shop is not clean, and the accommodation at night is extremely cold and lonely, which makes people unconsciously think of ghost places such as Sun Erniang on the cross slope." Don't stay, just rush into Xin'an. ”

The fairy warlock commanded like this, but unexpectedly, among the shopkeepers, a girl in green clothes came out, looking smaller than Sima Ling, wearing a light green skirt, and bowed to the car: "Your nobleman, my lady was originally a eunuch, and now I see that the nobleman is here, and the wild shop is not enough to serve customers, so I would like to ask the nobleman to stay in my villa." The kitchen service at home, the best Western Regions wine wine, the good fish and good meat bream, are all the legal recipes in the palace in the past, and the houses are even more clean, and there are also silk and bamboo preparations to entertain the eyes and ears of the nobles. The villa is built near the water, under the front bar of Xuan, can send the fisherman's feelings, enough to be open, and hope that the nobles will temporarily stay in the jade toes, so as not to live up to the sincerity of my lady. ”

The girl in Tsing Yi said this, and the chuckle of the fairy warlock was already heard in the car: "Although the words of this guest are elegant and tame, how can they be the same as these wild shops to attract guests? Let this little girl lead the way. ”

Wei Ye opened his mouth, and Sima Ling had already smiled sweetly at the shopkeepers around him: "Big brother and uncle, I'm really sorry, my uncle has already made up his mind, please give way!"

The girl in Tsing Yi bowed and led the donkey cart forward. The group of shopkeepers who were left looking at each other looked at each other, and the last old shopkeeper spoke: "Our family has been running a shop here for 20 years, why haven't we heard of such a big family villa nearby?"